This election. It’s really something.

Is it just me or does it seem like every time they try to go for Catherine Connolly it backfires and people become even more staunch in their support of her?

Illuminating interview with 'A Want In Her' director Myrid Carten on Catch Up with @louisemcsharry.bsky.social Listen in now ! A Want In Her hits cinemas on Friday open.spotify.com/episode/1uUF...

Was just telling Gordon that Gabriela by Katseye is basically Jolene for 2025 and he said that he didn’t know what Jolene was about. WTAF.

Orla Comerford has won gold again for Team Ireland at the World Para Athletics Championships in India jrnl.ie/6831494

What I wouldn’t give to just be whelmed every once in a while…

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"It seems plausible that the average Irish person would have little to no idea who Maria Steen even is. They definitely don’t know who Gareth Sheridan is. They know who Conor McGregor is, of course, but for the most part they despise him." This week's Surrealing in the Years:

Oh yes because imagine the horror of CHILDREN overstaying, HOW WOULD WE MANAGE.

“I Will Return In Seven Of Your Years” Maria Steen Bids Farewell Before Entering Portal Back To 1954 https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/09/26/i-will-return-in-seven-of-your-years-maria-steen-bids-farewell-before-entering-portal-back-to-1954/

Not worried about Steen potentially winning, am worried about the amount of airtime and publicity that will be given to allow them to spout their views (largely unchecked, going by previous coverage of similar people) for the next month if they end up on the ballot

Eh, I can personally attest to the fact that you can’t actually say “whatever the fuck your want” on RTE 🤷🏼‍♀️

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, announced he is withdrawing from a town hall with the city’s ABC station to protest the network’s suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Jon Stewart and the Daily Show did a special edition last night and have put the entire thing on YouTube. It’s worth a watch. youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

This Week's Onion Magazine:

US President Donald Trump has suggested that TV networks should 'maybe' lose their licences if they air programmes critical of him jrnl.ie/6821057

yesterday, Independent Ireland were requesting a minute's silence in the Dáil for Charlie Kirk, and today they're trying to get a gig cancelled because a performer said something they don't like a fitting tribute to Kirk, who also pretended to care about free speech

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month. Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

There’s much to discuss here but threatening a student society with legal action for ghosting you is TRULY sadman behaviour.

Not just editors. Also fans.

Breaking: Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does. "RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza." about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

More than 900 people are on waitlists for addiction supports in Ireland’s prisons. The longest queue is in Dublin’s Mountjoy, where more than 240 people languish on the waitlist for counselling for substance addiction.

I humbly submit that if you or I spent 19 hours a day for 8 years harassing any group - both in general and also targetting hundreds of specific individuals - even our dearest friends would not find it unreasonable if the police got involved when one tipped into incitement. What are we doing here?

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

I've a new podcast series coming Sept 10th. Saving The City is about the issues cities are facing, and the solutions to address them. Made in Dublin, for everywhere. Trailer on Insta now, and also wherever you get your podcasts (just search Saving The City). www.instagram.com/savingthecitypodcast

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Is it just me or are the Bake Off contestants starting to feel AI generated? #gbbo

“You can’t simply proscribe Sally Rooney and be done with it. You can’t reach into the London Underground and pull her books out of the hands of commuters who want to live vicariously and cathartically through her throuples and hunks on the verge of tears.” This week’s Surrealing.

"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

Please dm me if you can help.

Transphobes used to say things like 'if you have a vagina, you're a woman, end of discussion' and now they say things like 'if your gametes are diagonally haplodidic and they fall between 0.4 and 0.9 on the Strasburger Faultline, you're a woman, and I really can't be any clearer than that'

One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”

I snorted

Do everyone else's kids walk around all day singing the same annoying line from the same annoying song over and over and over and over again or is it just mine?

"A crude form of crowd control." The authors of this piece are Patrick Kingsley and Johnatan Reiss and I look forward to the day these mouthpieces for a genocidal regime face justice.

The Press Council upheld a previous decision from the Press Ombudsman regarding the Gript articles. http://jrnl.ie/6769268

Offensive AND wrong, that’s quite a combo.

Wow. Imagine seeing that someone had been bereaved and deciding the best course of action would be to also get them fired.

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

In less than 2 weeks there will be bonfires all over the North with 'kill all taigs' on them. Along with effigies of politicians on them. No one will be prosecuted for this. I doubt Starmer will even talk about it.

I remember when 'Irish car bombs' was a popular name for a drink in English and even Canadian pubs. I also remember Ian Paisley senior and others calling for the killing of Catholics. And so much else. But, yeah, Kneecap.

Ok I genuinely LOL’d at one of the jokes in the new Naked Gun trailer, let’s go Liam Neeson.

I live just down the street from an IPAS centre and the only antisocial behaviour I've seen is from the thugs that vandalised it. These migrants don't pose a threat to my partner. A local man involved in the anti-immigrant movement however has consistently sexually harassed her.

Lowe’s Dyson Nivea Tiffany Capital One UPS Disney Door Dash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo Pepsi Nissan PWC Citi Mastercard …all pulled their support for Pride. If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability. popular.info/p/pride-and-...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...