Booker T & The MGs sounding epically dirty. Epically cool French people loving it. youtube.com/watch?v=PyfU...

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

Running out of paint is an "incident" now...?

During my only appearance in court, the Garda told the judge, "At approximately 10:30 last night, I arrested the defendant Kieran Glennon in possession of a bucket of paste."

A great thread on history, heritage and the yawning chasm between those who make both and those who "do" both

1. Even if Epstein was never born, these attacks on Iran would still have happened. This is Trump & Netanyahu doing what they always intended to do. 2. I believe that in a couple of years it'll emerge that a major Trump-donor US company yesterday offered the Iranians a cut-price deal on body bags.

Long Covid robbed her nibs of the teaching job she loved, and her health. Got infected by one of the little madams in April 2021, the first day the schools re-opened. Only in her 50s, had to take early retirement on medical grounds as she'll never be able to work again.

Pulp poetry.

Today was a good day: 6 hours in PRONI 21 files viewed 925 pages photographed 2-hour drive home cos for once, there was no Friday afternoon traffic chaos on either the Westlink or the M50 4-0 win for St Pats v Dundalk

Strummer was right: "If Adolf Hitler flew in today They'd send a limousine anyway."

"Officers responding to a snowball fight" has got to be one of the most humiliating lines anyone's ever written about any police force

You don't have to be from Cork to love this. I'm not but I did. A wonderful memoir of childhood, which is universal, but this particular childhood could only have happened in Cork - and probably only in that particular part of Cork. Creedon is a gifted DJ in many ways: disc jockey and donkey jockey!

Kindness comes from within Niceness is for public consumption

Massive difference between performative reading, as outlined here, and just reading cos you might actually enjoy the book

My all-time favourite reprimand was the one I got from an extremely south Dublin head of department: "Please stop saying 'youse' in emails, it's not a real word."

Harris: "Eircom shares? Sure I was only in short pants back then. This time will be different."

I'm not waiting at an airport I'm not waiting at a station I'm standing at a bus stop

Is this Rory O'Connor's first appearance on a newspaper front page since 1922? In any event, great to see my article in today's edition of the Irish News looking at Rory O'Connor, Joe McKelvey and the IRA's 'northern offensive' of early 1922 with mention of my new book.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

This is brilliant. There's a tendency in the southern media to see the north as a backwater that needs schooling in the ways of tolerance and modernity by people who know little beyond south Dublin. In truth, the Falls is far more outward looking.

For many, his tragic end is what defines the story of Rory O'Connor. Yet, his part in the fight for Irish freedom and how he came to this fateful moment has never been fully told. Until now. My new book 'Rory O'Connor: To Defend the Republic' is now available in bookshops everywhere.

Still reckon he's one of the greatest musical geniuses this island has produced youtube.com/watch?v=9VUV...

Labour's problem is they backed one Connolly having forgotten an older one

Nicely done by Malachy Clerkin:

Please tell me it begins on 12th July

Post a banger not in English... youtube.com/watch?v=80GM...

Who are Ireland's 11 billionaires and where's the nearest noose?

Humming to yourself while you're shaving beats all of these

When the M50 or the Westlink are rammed, drivers have no problem driving slowly, as they don't want to hit that car in front. No different skill required to drive slowly if the speed limit says so, if you don't want to hit that pedestrian or cyclist. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "You think there's a gap in the market, but I'm telling you there's no market in the gap."

D'you reckon...? You may just have become to first person ever to say Booker T wasn't cool.

Outstanding insights provided here. Paddy points to an interesting question which no-one has addressed: how come the B Specials weren't disbanded in the mid-'20s like the A and C Specials and what impact did they have between then, during "peacetime," and the start of the Troubles?

6 FEB: @msp-archive.bsky.social will be releasing over 2,580 new files in the public domain. The files relate to 1,089 individuals/veterans who served during the Irish Revolution (1916-1923). This release brings the total nominal entries on our database to 22,032. share.google/fodhyupD9nE7...

Wow. Compared to loads of anodyne-by-comparison DIB entries I've read, that is absolutely incendiary, and rightly so. Fair play to Liz Evers, who wrote it.

New blog post, about a teacher who became Michael Collins' most trusted contact in Belfast and accompanied him to the talks that led to the second Craig-Collins Pact. But the manner of his release from internment was controversial. thebelfastpogrom.com/2026/01/31/f...

If you're interested in the archaeology of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, take a look at Aidan Harte & Jo Brück's Storymap for East Limerick! Storymap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0eea... Project information: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/... @researchireland.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social

Brilliant thread. Not a lot had changed by the 1920s, or even later - and why would it? The Orange Order was successfully doing what it set out to achieve - "binding the lower orders to gentry leadership and suppressing democratic instincts."

Wee bump for this. New blog post coming this Saturday, about a man who had talents for both espionage and controversy: "The rise and fall of Frank Crummey, Intelligence Officer."

There may have been others, but on this album, Red, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare were credited as Sly Drumbar and Robbie Basspeare. So apt.

If it weren’t for a double standard, they would have no standard at all.

Minneapolis "wine moms," watch and learn...

Happy for both of them

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

But that's OK because, in terms he and millions like him have used, they went out dressed like that and they acted like that.

Athens, the Dublin of the South.

If you could go back in time, where would you go and when? Norway 1967 would definitely be up there. youtube.com/watch?v=kUk1...

Still one of the best-ever samples featuring a guest appearance by... youtube.com/watch?v=7FmP...

The last line of this Irish Times article is profoundly depressing on a couple of levels: (a) if true, (b) it smacks of the NRA line "Guns don't kill people, people do."

Shitesnake

To paraphrase Emmet Kirwan, "It wasn't blokes in hoodies who ruined the world, it was blokes in suits."