Gonna bring some tuna back from Spain in me check-in. Some ham, too, probs. Food has been unreal.

MFW I just realised there is an old old wooden ship docked by the river.

To me, you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny. Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby? But did you know that, when it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen?

Guns don't kill people: EU edition

Off on me holidays for a wee solo adventure. Gonna unplug. Yous all have permission to tell me to get off my phone if you see me posting. Be as rude as you like.

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TANSTAAFL

Enjoying myself at my niece's first birthday party.

Uh, yikes. The complacency displayed by official Ireland will shock no-one. youtu.be/DxTt3G5G7y0?...

Harris today: “I’m really quite shocked and taken aback by how reluctant politicians in our national parliament are to discuss migration." Holly Cairns in June last year when the government opted into the EU Migration and Asylum Pact:

This is your first and final warning, Dublin: I have been gifted a concertina - get out now while you can.

Troy story 3 📸 Attila Kisbedenek

Lookit...I'm just sayin...just doesn't feel like a coincidence is all. #COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft

The Republic of Ireland football team has killed me. Killed dead, so I am.

Traein Ghaile. Choo choo.

Cuckoo!

Had the full Irish wake experience last night. Keening. Procession with the dead. The Wakeman wouldn't give me a jam sandwich because I didn't look sad enough.

The levels of absolute filth and depravity I witnessed up on stage in The Button Factory tonight was great.

Merchy Christmas is great. Support your favourite acts directly. Bankrupt your family buying vinyl. Maybe hear a song or two. nialler9.com/merchy-chris...

Lunch of champions (or at least the lunch of someone whose paper on flooding and the cost of lending has been accepted by a journal)

Another major get for the sad dads.

Will bribe cllrs to reduce the speed limit outside my house to 30km. Call me.

What do you mean, "bandwagon"? I have always been a strong supporter of the Republic of Ireland football team. Name two players? Easy. Robbie Keane and Packie Bonner.

🩷🤍 First time seeing Perfume Genius, one of the major crushes of my life. Fellas, I swooned.

Nice overview of what is in the new housing policy. Several significant shifts in rhetoric re: home ownership and homelessness.

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RÓIS, Huartan and Dani Larkin among winners at last night’s NI Music Prize in Belfast nialler9.com/rois-huartan...

See, the reason all the other housing plans failed was because we set targets. This plan will succeed, because we won't have targets.

Would be mad if the Epstein files don't take out Trump but do take out Starmer.

Hadn't appreciated before the similarities between the videos for Perfume Genius' On The Floor and RÓIS' Did You Ever Get the Ride at the Wake-house. Exhibit A: youtu.be/ln4S83JeY2Y?...

Ireland has failed to achieve its emissions reductions target set under the first carbon budget cycle, according to the Climate Change Advisory Council. jrnl.ie/6872271

I read a book and enjoyed it! Finally! Huzzah! It wasn't really "for me" in terms of the content (it's about journalism, mostly) but the satire is great, it's sharp and funny, and full of compellingly dislikable characters.

Lost a shirt yesterday - the cuff is decoupling from the arm. I am facing into having to do a Big Clothes Shop. Sigh. Hate this for me.

TÁIN #focalanlae www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/t%c3%...

Ireland's presidential inauguration chair was made from native oak, symbolic of strength and endurance Here's some background from a beautiful book that I copy-edited in 2018 artisanhouse.ie/product/see-... #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Taking a moment to appreciate the Presidential Chair. Commissioned back in 2011 by @opwireland.bsky.social from John Lee, based in Co. Meath. She's a thing of beauty. #speirgorm #áras2025

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Love that I bought ticks to Madra Salach in Edinburgh cus they'd sold out their Irish tour (places I can get to, anyway) only for them to upgrade their Cork gig AND announce a big NYE party in Dublin. Lads. Laaaads. I have so many Madras Salach ticks rn.

Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

For more on the lives of Douglas Hyde, Sean Thomas O’Kelly, Éamon De Valera, Erskine Childers, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh and Patrick Hillery click here: linktr.ee/royalirishac...

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

In Memory of the founder of Manhattan Peanuts, "It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our founder Donal O’Neill, ‘Mr Manhattan’, who passed away today the 29th October 2025 peacefully surrounded by his family at the age of 92,".

Yeeaow!

Back on my gig bullshit this week. Perfume Genius on Thursday, RÓIS on Friday. I'm gonna be so witchy, so gay.

*Shudders*