I believe that he would like to apologise to VAR for besmirching its reputation

Merry Christmas @sophiagrene.bsky.social Having a small sloe gin while finishing prepping dinner

The UK really has lost its mind, 1,881 isn't "modest" it's miniscule. The trans community are a tiny minority requiring protection. There's nowhere for floods of sex offenders making bogus claims to hide in these numbers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The solstice sunset! From tomorrow, the days will be brighter. This is the 2nd of 3 celebrations, though: the evenings started to get brighter last week, the days start brightening tomorrow, and the mornings will start on the 31st. More celebrating to look forward to! #TheGrandStretchIsBack

Worried about a war with Venezuela? This one pot pabellón criollo will make you feel like you're in Caracas.

Hi all. Are ye ready? 2 important notes: - Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset. - Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)

1 more day to the earliest sunset, 2 more days until #TheGrandStretchIsBack!

I know it's not an Irish song but Brits cannot do Willie McBride aka The Green Fields of France the way Irish people do. Saw The Men They Couldn't Hang do it tonight, not a patch on this version youtu.be/ofhao4SHXGo?...

Judge Kerr said he accepted that this was not a terrorist case but that the pipe bombs had been left to "cause fear and distress and in order to achieve a sectarian aim of stopping the GAA using public pitches". Pipe bombs not terrorism, holding signs in support of Palestine Action however, is.

Everyone mocked it at the time, but the Albania Azerbaijan peace agreement seems to be holding just fine, no border skirmishes or ongoing murders, aid restrictions or annexations

Interesting approach to recovering the bailout money he just announced for American farmers...

But how are they going to make sure they don’t accidentally give a female portion to a trans woman?

There is something glorious about making mince pies with rum in the pastry (The Ginger Pig Christmas cookery book recipe), in your pyjamas, by the light of the Christmas tree.

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this? m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

Ireland to boycott the Eurovision due to Israel’s participation in the competition Spain and The Netherlands are also withdrawing from the competition for the same reason www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Drones spotted near Zelenskiy’s flight path to Dublin, triggering major security alert www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Heaven forbid a trans woman be able to win a prize for her victoria sponge, or a trans girl be able to win one for map reading. The UK has absolutely lost the run of itself. It's horrible watching this descent into madness claiming to be dressed in "feminist" attire.

Other countries: Lapland: Come and visit Santa and his reindeer! Czech Republic: Come and visit Wenceslas Square! Ireland: We killed Santa. Would you like to see his grave?

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

Christmas tree delivery slot is 15.00 to 22.00. 13 minutes left to go.

Learning from my husband about the ongoing conspiracy against Arsenal. It seems that though usually it's apparently limited to referees and VAR, this season it also involved making them visit Anfield before Liverpool imploded.

‘The Burkes are shouting’ is a colloquial phrase that came into common usage in Ireland in the 2020s and means, ‘everything is proceeding as normal’.

Has anyone any suggestions for muting "Narf Lahndahn 4 Eva" when it's your spouse who won't stop singing it? (Hoping for suggestions less lethal than a le creuset frying pan to the head)

Grok could get addictive

“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin. And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?

I'm sure that everyone is sparing a thought for Albert Reynolds today, the poor craytur so cruelly defamed by The Times back in 1994.

Not sure why I saw the first and immediately thought of the second...

legend. we all like to think we'd do the right thing but it sounds like this guy did www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Boomer/ Gen X band seemingly oblivious that their fans would ideally like to be on their way home to their beds by 22.00. Counting Crows still not on stage.

Strongest condemnation from a local politician so far coming from Labour's Ged Nash - underlining how close we may have been to having several lives lost in Drogheda overnight as a result of this attack.

First response from the Taoiseach bsky.app/profile/mich...

This is creepier at Halloween than, say, if it happened at Easter.

I love how sometimes a picture really is a 1000 words. (Posted on IG by Cork Rebels Support, no credit given for the artist)

Many, many moons ago, on the other place, I had to tell an ill informed tweeter (with Irish parents) that Halloween is Irish, not American. It led to our first proper conversation. We got married on the Halloween Bank Holiday weekend in '23. Now I get to remind him annually.

God forbid a woman try to revive Victorian beauty standards 🙄

Under an hour now....

I've just found out that my husband uses "the lesser USB cable" for charging his phone in the car, so "the good cable" is always available for my use. A) Who says romance is dead? B) I'm not retracting the aspersions I cast on my Mother-in-Law's panadol consumption in the late '60s

From the deck I can't see Ireland, can't see Wales, just the Irish Sea. Obviously I'm now googling how that shower made it over in relatively small boats 850 years ago

08.00 ETA at the port for the 10.15 ferry btw

Tonight we'll be seeing Steve Earle, Sharon Shannon and Mundy perform The Galway Girl.

This from The Village archive is making me feel better today

The actual Soldier F judgement in case any of you want to read it. www.judiciaryni.uk/judicial-dec...

This trial has taken 53 years

Anyone know if the verdicts are being live skeeted by anyone in the court?

Is anyone else grateful Starmer was just *checks notes* a jobbing human rights lawyer when the Parades Commission was set up in Northern Ireland?

The age old problem with trying to end a genocide by appeasing the genocidal regime confirming that they can, actually, get away with committing genocide.