Women need to have more children for Matt Goodwin but if they have more than two you can't get any state help and the women can't be Jewish also we will tax the childless women.

Northside Home Care were on strike outside the Dáil today with their union the IWU. Some of them have worked for 25 years and are currently on €15.04/hour, others are on minimum wage. They're getting about 30% less than others doing the exact same work as them. #FightForYourRights #SpéirGhorm

It’s funny what battles haven’t made it over from twitter to here. One of the most rabid debates from twitter - the role of physician assistants in the UK, is nowhere to be seen here on Bluesky

This is the reason I hated house parties in my twenties. My mum (midwife) told me about how she used to have to phrase things to male Drs so they could not waste time listening to disagree - instead just order what was needed, and then I couldn’t stop noticing it

I would love men as a whole to understand that you don't have to come in with a contradiction or a correction in order to join a conversation. You can actually just say "I agree" and not be one-upping anyone

Is it possible to die from having to put away laundry? It feels like it

Poster from when Ireland played Israel in 2005

The "hanging out with fictional people in books" to "hanging out with people online you'll never meet" escapism from the real world timeline

Always amazes me when I hear Stephen Nolan’s show on somewhere, that apparent slaves to impartiality and facts, allow the jingle “the biggest show in the country” to be blasted across the airwaves ever day. What country?

Spectacular Red Dawn in rural County Clare today. 😎👍😍🇮🇪

Reverend Jesse Jackson, the US Civil rights campaigner and two-time presidential candidate, has died aged 84. In a statement today the Jackson family said Reverend Jackson died peacefully Tuesday surrounded by his family. jrnl.ie/6959323

Not wanting to tangle Jesse Jackson in with trump and let him contaminate absolutely everything - but the wrong people are dying

My little girl had a nightmare last night at 4am, got in beside her to soothe her, hugging and singing gently into her ear. She settled down and then gently whispered “ah mummy, do you forget to brush your teef?”

Why on earth is RTÉ reporting on the opinions of the British author of a discredited transphobic report? What is the value to this information being circulated?

I was a student during the pandemic and it impacted the teaching on one course and my entire dissertation. We didn't get an in-person graduation. But I didn't blame the university, I blame the pandemic which negatively impacted everyone on the planet and killed millions. I'm happy to have survived.

Great to see the Brontes’ Irish dimension explored in this well-researched piece in yesterday’s Sunday Times.

Shimon Goldwater, a partner in Asserson Solicitors, said the learning that students missed out on during Covid "was one of the great injustices to come out of the pandemic". This is insane!!!! My sister worked on Covid wards wearing a plastic apron & paper mask. Millions died!!! Bodies piled high

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

A former colleague told me she loved Vogue Williams and her podcast. I asked her if she talks about how she thinks internment camps are a necessity. She replied, "No, not mentioned that now". People that like Vogue Williams don't seem to be aware of her opinions.

Our silly fake Eurovision is back in May! Tickets on sale Friday!

It is mad, that in my lifetime the right has pivoted from being outraged and concerned about teenage pregnancies and teenage mothers (Sarah Louise in Coronation Street written to humanise, Vicki Pollard to sneer) to now being angry at the birth rate dropping. Just rage and misogyny all the way down

Imagine what kind of marriage abusive men would be in favour of? This isn’t a benign opinion she’s spouting off here, it’s so malicious and dangerous

My surname is s ‘Scots Irish’ aka a Scottish planter name. I’ve no idea why people would be proud of that lineage even less why they’d lean into identifying with it now, when nobody is asking for forcing them too. I don’t deny my lineage but I’ve zero desire to promote it as a good thing

the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

What I’m seeing in some of the Epstein revelations about well known scientists who maintained contact after his conviction, is folks who always thought they were the smartest person in any room, sure they could shrewdly navigate a route that gets them what they want without getting dirty themselves.

New security system installed by my four year old. 10/10

Why was she on at all? Some random woman is all she is. She holds no public position, doesn't seem to be involved in any community or similar organisations, has never held an elected position or even run for one. The only time she tried she couldn't get nominated.

London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/AR6zQuJzfQOS...

Allison O’Connor and Maria Steen on the radio are really helping me rage clean to be fair

Maria Streen is on RTÉ Radio 1 to lay out how she was blocked from getting the nominations needed to run, given the softest soap interview and then allowed to waffle on about that bloody handbag. She plays the media here like a dopey fiddle

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

It looks homemade but sure that’s half the point. Unicorn killer whale 4th birthday party today 🦄

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

This will be so dangerous for women. So so dangerous- I can think of so many ways

These people aggressively hate the people they hold so much power over. And voters know it. They can feel it One of her emails to Epstein:

US racists talk about 'Scotch-Irish' (code for protestant) as being different from 'Irish' - could make for an interesting discussion in the Oval Office on Paddy's Day.

The only good thing about the wild proscription (and active enforcement of that prescription) of Palestine Action has been to show in neon brightness, the hypocrisy of the British Government when it comes to ensuring police tackle armed and actively recruiting, proscribed terrorist orgs here

I share this only to help those contemplating whether to tweet "I support Palestine Action".

In advance of the 10am handing down of the judgment in the Palestine Action proscription case, here are my two posts on what is at stake. At @prospectmagazine.co.uk: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... Follow-on post at Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-proscr...

Listening to basically all of the Off Menu podcast has really opened my eyes to disordered eating attitudes of so many men.

Same here, as the media ushers in Reform

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

Oh for God’s sake, this is NOT an apology!

The older I get the more I understand on a deep, spiritual level, Ireland’s love of bungalows. My hatred of going upstairs to get or put away things doubles each day

May I never ever be as out of my depth as Pam Bondi. I would never be at peace again - my heart rate would be 145bpm permanently till I stroked out

Sir Jim Ratcliffe lives, for tax reasons, in Monaco. He also owns an estate on Lake Geneva.

Literally two months ago Van Der Beek was auctioning off Dawson's Creek memorabilia to pay for his cancer treatments. Now he's dead. This is a story about the evils of the American health care system.