Every Sports journalist who uses the phrase "Italian job" should be summarily executed.

Lovely letter in the paper. #AnTeanga #Gaeilge

I recently reread SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE. You should, too. (Also, pure coincidence, yesterday I saw an account here of Kilgore Trout.)

Have just discovered that Mixed Luge Relay - three words I would never have thought would appear in that order. #winterolympics

11,000 new listeners in one year, you say?!?! Hurray 🥳💃🎶🕺! And welcome to our new friends on the #FullScore, following the latest #JNLRs success. Meself, Linda McGlynn & Producer Áine Fay are delighted to have your company for the complete classical experience, 1-4pm Mon- Thurs @rte.ie lyric fm.

Forgive me, but this is such an utterly pointless "headline": every trainer does this every year. More to the point: this is what happens when newspapers no longer employ specialists. @irishtimes.com

Brian knew a thing or two about road crashes - he was in six or seven of them. Including being hit by a bus, which adds colour to the Brother's farewell: Begob, there's me bus. @flannobriensoc.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social

This is going to sound a lot "heavier" than it is, but @johncreedon.bsky.social playing a couple of songs called Julia - which was the name my birth mother used on my certificate. Everyone knew her by the Irish version. No name for the father.

Done - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

Putin has taken Newstalk off the air.

Unless I'm missing something, Ed Power seems to be dismissing a four-part series on the basis that the first episode didn't tell the entire story. I thought it was an excellent opener which promised great things. www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Extremely pleased @cluesbysam.com

I'm reading yesterday's newspaper and kinda watching the Olympics - but I just had to turn off the telly because I wouldn't want my neighbours to think I was watching the Curling. #winterolympics

Feckin pagans. Never not at it. @voxhib.bsky.social

The drone shots of the Downhill work really well. Gives a real sense of the mad speed. #winterolympics #Italia

Just making sure that @audacityofdespair.bsky.social has seen these amazing photos. Much respect to the protesters that came up with this.

Albert Finney died on this day in 2019. He had such a good time making Miller’s Crossing that he turned up on his day off to appear in drag when Gabriel Byrne bursts into the ladies room.

The Welsh scrumhalf should be dropped just for the moustache. #6nations #rugby

The top ad "for me" in the YouTube algorithm is to learn to speak English with A I.

I was lucky to see the opening run of the play Frank mentions, The Quiet Men, written and performed by Morgan Jones, who is in fact the grand-nephew of the Shields brothers. It is utterly superb. I told Morgan he really must develop it into a full-length show. @frankie49.bsky.social

Conor Hunt on @news.rte.ie saying that the suicide bombing at a mosque was "an attack that was struck without warning". Good to see a journalist put so much effort into a script.

There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis

This is unbelievable. By which I don’t mean that I don’t believe it, just that I think it’s beyond the scope of what should be considered doable.

Well, my whole neighbourhood has lost power. Mr Putin is angry.

Reading an article from 2007 by Diarmuid O Gráda about 18th Century brothels in Dublin. Particularly taken by the story of Mrs Davis of Fishamble St.

change a letter, ruin a cocktail Vodka & Woke

change a letter, ruin a cocktail Vom Collins Also: . . ., improve a cocktail Bloody Cary

As a former night sub, I approve this message.

Obviously there are many things wrong with this. But I have been beating this drum for at least a decade: private companies should not be permitted to litter space. And now - ALREADY - there are dangerously far too many satellites up there, and we have NO idea how to deal with the problem.

He's not called Mickey for nothing.

Good news: the center is getting a brand new gold-encrusted ballroom. It will be open just in time for his third inauguration.

Dunmore Ogham Stone • Kerry Perched high on Dunmore Head overlooking the Blasket Islands, this ogham stone is one of the most striking monuments on the Dingle Peninsula. It reads ERC MAQI MAQI-ERCIAṢ ṂỤ DOVIṆIẠ of Erc son of Mac-Erce descendant? of Duibne #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland

Rembrandt The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp It took place 31 Jan 1632 - these were annual events and the bodies were those of executed criminals. (Mauritshuis, The Hague) The artist was b. 15 July 1606.

Margaret Meehan: "Victor Hugo?" m.youtube.com/watch?v=TFDX...

@damiancullen.bsky.social ICYMI

The future is now. Horrific. ‘Human safari’: In Kherson, Ukraine, to step outside is to risk death by drone www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Sausage

Fields was one of my earliest heroes. He features heavily in a long forgotten but extraordinary "biography" by Gene Fowler of John Barrymore. They all hung out together in early Hollywood. It's like Anthony Cronin's Dead As Doornails.

Arghh. I hadn't heard the news. Lovely man, but also always interesting. I had many a proper chat with him. I would have met him in the late 80s - he must have started when he was 12. No more taps on the cellar door. RIP. @frankie49.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

I'm probably the last person in the world to notice this, but: SILENT is an anagram of LISTEN

I thought Chuck had retired.

I follow the Vatican Observatory because, well, because I want to. But this does look like satire.

Sea bass, roasted veg. Happy enough.

Excuse me, am I missing something here? The headline suggests TWENTY-FIVE per cent of employees are neurodivergent - but then we read the ONLY people surveyed are - neurodivergent.

CHEERS, S1 E9 Genius

Love this image from @garyhershorn.bsky.social from Manhattan today.