🧵 Am I surprised they gave Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize? No. Does she deserve it? Also, no. There’s a reason she was barred from running for office in Venezuela: multiple violent coup attempts and calling of foreign governments, like Israel, to invade Venezuela.

Dinny Lowry RIP. The longest-serving @stpatsfc.com player of all time, one of our most-decorated players, one of our greatest ever keepers and an Irish senior international. A piece I put together with thanks to Donal and the Pat’s media team. 🔴⚪️🇮🇪 www.stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=...

Dinny Lowry RIP. The longest-serving @stpatsfc.com player of all time, one of our most-decorated players, one of our greatest ever keepers and an Irish senior international. A piece I put together with thanks to Donal and the Pat’s media team. 🔴⚪️🇮🇪 www.stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=...

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning." They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

Our next big action for the #Connolly4President campaign is this Saturday, 11am - we'll be leafletting, which is simply putting a leaflet into the mail slot and speaking to anyone you see out and about. A very easy-going activity for anyone who is new to the campaign!

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane. They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

Deletion of Jim Gavin ads shows we can’t rely on big tech for democratic architecture I wrote something for the paper 👇🏻 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Bhuail mé leis an gcéad Uachtarán na hÉireann eile tráthnóna inniu i gcroílár Thamhlachta. Táim lán de dhóchas do Catherine Connolly agus na fiúntaisí atá aici.

Great to show Catherine Connolly around Dublin South West today to meet and talk to people. It's clear that there's a momentum behind #Connolly4President, and we need to continue getting more people to volunteers on the campaign to keep going. Make sure you join us for our public meeting in Priory

…deireadh na hoibre.

This article hurt my brain trying to make sense of it. But good to see the libertarian right poster boy going as well as he should.

I feel more sorry for tenants ripped off by landlords and for the victims of the housing crisis created and continued by FF & FG. But on a human level I do feel sorry for Jim Gavin. He was put into a position of major scrutiny without proper consideration by FF. What on earth were they thinking?

We stopped taking on wholesale customers over a year ago. Focus now is trying to get word out on how we're run in hope a really bIg business will see it's viable and copy. This year we'll give up 4% of all our income. Need coffee, you can buy here. If not you might tell others imbibe.ie/pages/shop

A permanently relevant tweet.

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

A BLIND ELDERLY man using a mobility cane is ARRESTED for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" #PalestineAction #GazaGenocide

Leave aside the Connolly campaign. Consider all the people who go through garda vetting. That is a significant bloc of the population- volunteer parents helping kids in sports, at scouts, in charities. Will that police data leak if the Gardaí want to intervene in a political campaign in the future?

I want to know who's paying for all these bot accounts on tiktok generating racist hate? #Speirgorm #aras25

Heartening to see support from across Irish football for this EGM request from the FAI’s membership. The Irish Football Supporters Partnership (consisting of Republic of Ireland and League of Ireland national fan groups) has been active on this for some time.

@ciaraioch.bsky.social hi Ciara! Can you follow for a quick DM? GRMA

There's a sale over on www.ciaraioch.com/artprints on the spookier prints - the perfect opportunity to pick up something a little creepier for the cherished undead in your life 🧟

I was devastated to hear that my good friend Cat O’Driscoll was assaulted while simply walking along the street last week. Something is fundamentally broken in this city & it won’t be addressed without serious state intervention. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

I cannot get over how poorly-prepped JG and HH were for that debate. None of the topics or questions were a particular surprise. Who on their teams advised them to go canvassing today rather than prepare for a national debate for which they were clearly not ready?

Ireland’s nature is in a “very poor” state, with the country’s economic growth achieved at the expense of the environment, according to the EU’s State of Europe’s Environment report. We’re running out of wake-up calls! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

How very fucking Christian of her.

Yikes.

To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.

Up the SNAs!

“Searching for a ‘cause’ is to treat autism as some kind of tragedy, failure or mistake. But autism is none of those things … Autism is a way of being human. It is a natural variation that has always existed, and always will.” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

People with no record of public service wanting to be president have some nerve

People have been able to get nominated in previous elections, those tended to have a record of doing something in the community or are known. So the process works. It just doesn't work if you're an extremist or have no record of doing anything positive for the community. #aras25

What’s missing from a lot of the commentary on the failure of the hard right to get a candidate on the ticket was how utterly incompetent they were in preparing for an election we’ve known about for years. Last minute effort stinks of laziness. They didn’t even have a candidate a few weeks back!

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This company should be viewed like a horrible industrial polluter pouring waste into a river. Its leaders should not be treated as sages by media. It is unredeemable.

I wouldn’t be sure that a lot of the respondents know what 21% means.

Call this shit out immediately and shut it the fuck down. Show them that we don't operate on the US/UK rules where you can say any old bollocks without consequences. It's the only thing that will stop them getting a foothold.

Episode 14 of the History St Pat’s Pod is now in your feeds. I’m joined by guest co-host Paul M as we chat 100 years of LOI football at Richmond Park, the Rock at Richmond pop flop, the 1943/44 season and plenty more History St Pat’s! 🔴⚪️🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/0jxX...

No words.

While the Israeli president was in London, Starmer was helping them to bomb Qatar.

I’ve met Jim Gavin, I think he’s a decent person, I won’t be voting for him but he’s certainly an interesting candidate. But this is hardly a ringing endorsement for the leader’s choice against someone who only appeared as the internal FF candidate a few weeks back. Tús bocht…

Industrial action works

the rare Granny's Intentions mention.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Ireland’s first ever attempt at a rock festival was a bit of a mess. It also took place at the glorious location of Inchicore’s Richmond Park. I’ve written all about the music, the drama, the politics and not much football below - free to read. www.patreon.com/posts/rock-a...