Caelan Doris: ‘Therapy opened a can of worms for me. I didn’t know what I was going to find’ www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

WFH due to 'the dose' at least means receiving @ciaraioch.bsky.social's delivery in person and 'In Time For The...' :-D

December 6, 2000: Dallas’ Steve Nash with a behind-the-back dime to Dirk Nowitzki, who hits the baseline jumper. Nash had 14 PTS, Nowitzki had 12 PTS/14 REB and Michael Finley scored 21 PTS in the Mavericks’ 94-85 win over the Knicks. Marcus Camby had 18 PTS/16 REB for New York.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...

Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies

A Prime Time special about DJ Carey from reporter Paul Murphy & producer/director Sallyanne Godson will air tomorrow(Tues) at 9.35pm on @rteone.rte.ie and the RTÉ Player: www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Need a ticket for tonight's sold-out Jazz Sabbath gig at the Sugar Club? secure.ticketmaster.ie/rs/180062A68... #ticketfairy

Malachy Clerkin: All hail Pope Leo XIV, the world’s most famous sporting trash-talker www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/1...

I was talking about turnout at the 2024 general election at #PSAI25 this morn. Downward trend is clear; on average presidential election turnout is 14 points lower than general elections. If the trend holds, turnout on 24 October should be in low 40s.

Honk!

Link to a 2024 @molimuseum.bsky.social event with the late, great Manchán Magan & friends - he was a one-off who inspired a passion in many of us to rediscover the Irish language and learn how it has shaped Hiberno-English 💞 radio.moli.ie/r/remembering-…

Ní bheidh a leitheid arís ann is an overused phrase, but it could not be more apt than with Manchán Magan. He would tell you a story about the origin of the phrase, and why it's used more in certain parts of the country than others. He crammed so much into his 55 years, /1

Éanna Ní Lamhna: ‘When I went to UCD there were no points. You could study what you liked’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

Ticket available for Michael Lewis's sold-out #DalkeyBookFestival event, Sunday 6pm: www.ticketswap.com/listing/mich...

Anna is being interviewed by the excellent Sinead Moriarty in Dalkey on Saturday if you’d like to hear her talk about the brilliant Our Song and music and writing and how she definitely modelled her hunky protagonist on me dalkeybookfestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory courts the Irish market...

HSE must specify when services will be provided to children with disabilities, Supreme Court says www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Saw this at the NCH last year...strongly recommend! :-D

Ebon Moss-Bachrach is this year’s big Thing - www.ft.com/content/71bb...

Nasa Mission Control employee who instructed astronauts on how to make use of duct tape after an explosion on the the lunar module, dies aged 95

Lagging behind the field...but here now!