Pluribus on Apple TV is a hell of a show. Seehorn back being the greatest actress on television and best first episode of a show I’ve seen in years

The Irish language and cultural practices have never been more accessible to people of different backgrounds and abilities and advocating for that to stop in favour of flattening and homogenising our society is butthurt wankery masquerading as progressiveness

Like sorry if it makes you uncomfortable but if Irish society lost its unique features (language, cultural practices, etc), it WOULD simply be less Irish. "I'm not less Irish because I don't speak Irish" big picture please!! It's not all about you!!

The country’s fucked but we pissed off Viktor Orbán and there’s a new Aldi opening down the road so I haven’t hit pure November despair just yet

Every time I hear this song I wish it was better known, the drop in this is a drug to me. Like I wish I could put this on at a party and have everyone go mental. Please share with me any bangers you wish were party hits in another life youtu.be/Y6DHggNoWDc?...

I think you could make a pretty convincing argument that Troy Parrott now joins Robbie Keane and Jonathan Walters in the list of players who showed up and scored massively important goals multiple times in a green jersey

My request to my old friend who’s getting married today for three separate renditions of Jackie’s Army (one for each goal and one for Ronaldo’s red) across the day has been denied for fears it will “exclude the English guests”. My brother, inclusion has nothing to do with it

“There’s a new Orange Order in town”

Header of State, is that something

They’ve discovered a breed of Cod with elbows

You really have to consider sometimes that a lot of professional footballers really really really fucking hate Ronaldo and want to make him suffer. And I for one salute our brave soldiers in this quest

So true

What the hell is the deal with roofers? Bro get down from there, be serious

I’m very concerned about these emails* *the ones i sent to Edgar Wright after Last Night in Soho telling him that his forte as a filmmaker is not “Making A Statement”, which he clearly did not read

The father has rendered his verdict

Some of those fashion roasts are standard Irish humour and then there’s an odd one that’s bizarrely intense like “my mate wore a dressing gown once and all his friends told him he should commit seppuku” like I’m not sure anyone involved wants to remember that

*average Bluesky response* “Oh wow, we’re still ‘roasting’ people? Some of y’all really need to learn to respect your fellow humans, this behaviour could retraumatise someone”

Is that good

Next Bond film should be a courtroom drama where Bond is hauled before a tribunal where British Intelligence try to pin all their war crimes on him. “You claims that you couldn’t have tortured republican prisoners because you were ‘stopping a giant laser’, is that correct?”

Anthony Horowitz, who rose to prominence writing a YA series about a 14 year old boy who becomes an MI6 agent, cannot think of a way to write a film because the lead character “died”

Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again

One of the greatest actors ever and an incredibly important acting teacher. Mentored many of the great Japanese actors of the generations after him which, when you think about it, shows a selflessness and love of the craft that’s rare for an actor of his stature. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

One of the lads from home is getting married Friday so group chat is awash with secondary school memories and was reminded of one of the legendary “one season characters” of our youth: a Hong Kong exchange student named Tim Chu who spoke no English and was known by his nickname “Tim Chu Stryder”

Love to go on a weird Catholic website and discover that they’ve given big JC a new title

oasis haters keep it moving you will never hate oasis as much or as elegantly as i, a fan of oasis, hate oasis

99% of journalism now is the polar opposite of releasing vital information to the public, it’s pure and straightforward baseless speculation and harassment in the service of the right-wing power hegemony Publishing claims made without evidence is libel and, in this case, incitement.

Every Sunday I find a new thing to cry about and this week it’s a multitude of clips from the Rock Hall of Fame inductions

If this is AI generated then congrats to the purveyors of that dumb technology for finally creating something that made me feel something

My aunt is in a book club of mostly rural, well-to-do divorcees and based on what she’s told me they would read the hell out of this

It would be great in general if supposedly “left-wing” Brits didn’t try to justify that working class members of their country’s colonial army were just blameless cogs in a machine. It didn’t stop them murdering innocent civilians in Ireland, India, South Africa, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Afghanis-

On top of this being a shitty quote from a moron, NEON really just taking quotes from vicious zionists who publicly wish that Greta Thunberg should be “eaten by cannibals”

Just off a lovely online launch for the Samhain 2 issue of Sparks Literary Journal where I got to read some of my new story, “Night of the Big Wind”, a story about a carpenter from Mayo being blown across the Atlantic by a storm and unintentionally starting an insurrection in Jamaica

Too late for this one?

This is very fun

I thought I was just being off-putting but it turns out IT WAS BLUESKY’S FAULT

Did…did the Witch King of Angmar write this?

In 2010, me and fam were on 1:30am bus to get to Dublin Airport for a 6:30am flight and the driver fell asleep at the wheel and nearly drove us off an overpass. So idk maybe instead of still overworking drivers and not providing a proper service they should make this man the Minister for Transport

Took 3 years but we’ve finally shamed ourselves before the neighbours: getting my car valeted by a mobile valet at 10am on a Saturday. “Me father left cigarette smoke smell in it when I bought it!” I cry. They ignore me. “Celtic Tiger alive and well! How’s the timeshare in Alicante!” they sneer.

John Fetterman looks like something the Flintstones would use to cut grass.

The Saipan movie is out December 27th so I’ve booked tickets for me and the auld lad to see it the week we’re home for Christmas. The week leading to New Years can be a hotbed of gripes and familial tension, so why not unite against a common enemy: John Delaney’s FAI

Today I read a Jennifer Lawrence quote that Israeli artists shouldn’t be punished for the genocide, watched Aston Villa fans say politics should be kept out of football re the Maccabi Tel Aviv game, and 2 Israeli podcasters say it’s a genocide “but we can’t do anything”.

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

Me celebrating the verdict

30 Rock is obviously superior but the hatred Parks gets is bizarre. It’s mostly well-observed humour about how the only people stupider than local politicians are their constituents. It has storylines about lobbyists & corporations being evil. Leslie wanting to fuck Biden doesn’t make the show evil

I always find this to be a particularly funny poster to be on the bathroom wall in work

About to enter my Zohran Era* *experiencing success, having a hot wife and annoying the people who have to work with me with all my socialism

The people demand to hear Zohran’s take on the new 4K of The Breakfast Club

Plugging this one again. It’s the 2nd last issue of this series that I’ve had so much fun writing. If you’ve enjoyed (or not) the films A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, One Battle After Another, A House of Dynamite or Bugonia in the last two months, please have a read. Final issue out December 30th!

This woman is constantly saying she is ready for violence when she was rendered catatonic by a sign in a car park