Jeremy Deller in Dundee ♥️

just over a week until the next budget and Independent Ireland are showing us what really matters to them: more culture war bullshit www.thejournal.ie/legal-challe...

Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.

The level of thirst evident from most of the weekend opinion writers is absolutely mortifying

I see it's 'full Steen ahead' for the Irish media this weekend. A disengaged voter might be forgiven for thinking she was in the #Áras25 race after all, she's getting as much coverage as the 3 actual candidates in some quarters

The press obviously thought a Steen nom would give them a whole month to run this tedious, scolding bullshit. Sadly, their little click factory collapsed before they could get it running, so they're dumping every post they have, stripping the building for parts before it sinks into the ground.

I see it's 'full Steen ahead' for the Irish media this weekend. A disengaged voter might be forgiven for thinking she was in the #Áras25 race after all, she's getting as much coverage as the 3 actual candidates in some quarters

There is this delusion that Maria Steen is this widely embraced public figure, when in reality she is a fringe candidate whose polling was no stronger than McGregor's, and whose views on social issues are massively at odds with most of Irish society. m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

We must stop victim blaming after road deaths - Ciaran Cannon www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Absolutely wild that this could be shown on mainstream TV three decades ago and we somehow ended up in this Emperor's New Clothes timeline where people can't call a genocide a genocide

For my sins I listened to a talk he gave a few months ago at the IIEA in which his theme was 'balancing rights'. Like e.g. the rights of an individual to privacy vs the right of a govt to surveil them. He's a right-wing ideologue and LOVES this hardman schtick 👇🏻 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Leaving a crowded bus via the rear doors and roaring thanks back up towards the driver is trying too hard to do the thing iyam #spéirgorm

'may we see your papers' used to be shorthand for oppressive authoritarian state rule so of course the current UK government thinks it's a grand idea

Yeah yeah brit card I know them it's when you're looking for one for mother's day and they all say mum

I worked with traffic wardens for many years and I'm still baffled by the sometimes horrible attitudes towards them. - They're applying the law. This shouldn't be controversial. - Getting a ticket isn't arbitrary. Wardens work to laws, bye-laws, and within those sometimes, guidelines 1/3

'may we see your papers' used to be shorthand for oppressive authoritarian state rule so of course the current UK government thinks it's a grand idea

I'm sure every signature was given without the promise of anything in return. Pro bono publico.

I worked with traffic wardens for many years and I'm still baffled by the sometimes horrible attitudes towards them. - They're applying the law. This shouldn't be controversial. - Getting a ticket isn't arbitrary. Wardens work to laws, bye-laws, and within those sometimes, guidelines 1/3

Sorry but parking "cops" are good, unarmed civil servants rightly ensuring access to public spaces remain accessible. I own a car and almost never get parking tickets because I park correctly and in consideration of other people who need curbspace.

"Business owners — who often drive themselves — consistently overestimate the share of their customer base who arrive by car, often by enormous margins." streets.mn/2025/09/24/c...

This isn't the last we'll hear of Gareth Sheridan or Maria Steen you can be sure of that. Next week they'll be back in their communities, tirelessly working to make Ireland better from the ground up, rolling up their sleeves up with local voluntary organisations, running for local election. #Áras25

People have been able to get nominated in previous elections, those tended to have a record of doing something in the community or are known. So the process works. It just doesn't work if you're an extremist or have no record of doing anything positive for the community. #aras25

Steen, Sheridan, McGregor et al had YEARS to do the work but they didn't, preferring instead to hurl from the ditch and then blame the referee. They are not serious political people. They are a bunch of staggeringly entitled pick-mes, and the system worked as it should to weed them out. #speirgorm

writing on my bullets "TELL THEM I WAS SHOOTING AT ICE" before specifically not shooting at ice

This isn't the last we'll hear of Gareth Sheridan or Maria Steen you can be sure of that. Next week they'll be back in their communities, tirelessly working to make Ireland better from the ground up, rolling up their sleeves up with local voluntary organisations, running for local election. #Áras25

"oppressive political consensus" is exactly what we had in this country for 70-80 years, and is the kind of Ireland that Maria Steen and her ilk want to return us to #Áras25

I say this as a flotilla participant: we cannot let drone attacks distract from the genocide. Israel has murdered at least 84 people in Gaza so far today, with the real number likely far higher. Governments need to sanction this rogue state, not just protect their own citizens

Remarkable document: hundreds of European politicians are calling to mobilize European resources to protect the Sumud aid flotilla as it faces escalating attacks on its way to Gaza. In other words: European politicians are trying to protect humanitarian volunteers *from Israel.*

"oppressive political consensus" is exactly what we had in this country for 70-80 years, and is the kind of Ireland that Maria Steen and her ilk want to return us to #Áras25

Some kids who cycle, and their parents, worry e-bikes are a danger to them. Design changes could improve the situation, an engineer says. But RSA statistics show the main danger to cyclists of all ages is people driving cars.

Niche bugbear: a large number of reg plates on Irish vehicles don't comply with legislation, revenue guidelines, or NCT/CVRT testing manuals, because they're made using the UK's "Charles Wright font" that renders a "1" like the second/third images. Irish legal standard on left. #spéirgorm

There we have it, he's nominated Maria Steen. Know a bit about what the fella's about now #Áras25

Change my mind all the time about 'best live album ever' but having listened to it all the way through on decent headphones earlier today I think the Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker album has to be up there. Incredible energy, amazing tunes

Niche bugbear: a large number of reg plates on Irish vehicles don't comply with legislation, revenue guidelines, or NCT/CVRT testing manuals, because they're made using the UK's "Charles Wright font" that renders a "1" like the second/third images. Irish legal standard on left. #spéirgorm

Where the hell did the phrase "rock up to" [somewhere] come out of? It seems to be ubiquitous all of a sudden #apéirgorm

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

His makeup is absolutely beyond laughable but then I guess people in the 1930s used to make fun of Hitler's little moustache and that wasn't the point either

His makeup is absolutely beyond laughable but then I guess people in the 1930s used to make fun of Hitler's little moustache and that wasn't the point either

"Now approaching 60, the former star of The Savage Eye remains a man of stark contradictions: articulate and affectionate in one breath, knowingly provocative in the next" Mad level of attempted reputation whitewashing in this article but that sentence in itself is a genuine stunner

1990s kids book: My Dad 2000s kids book: My Two Dads 2010s kids book: My Three Dads 2020s kids book: My Four Dads 2030s kids book: Hitler Goes To The Zoo

Petition to replace "dies following" with "killed in" - more direct language gets across what actually happened in these cases, especially those involving pedestrians and cyclists, many of whom are killed almost instantly.

Of course, Laois people won't be slow about letting you know that we scrapped "Queen's County" in November 1920, a year before the Treaty was signed. Although, in very Laois fashion, there was no big fuss made of it at the time, the news getting a voluminous 3 lines on page 2 of the local paper.

Interested in some anecdotal info about workplaces that provide free parking and whether this influences your or others' travel choices? Was chatting to someone y'day who commutes by car to a city centre job and feels they couldn't take the train/bus as they'd lose their 🅿️ space #spéirgorm

Three people riding bicycles were killed on Irish roads last week. The most recent, a 27 year old woman from Japan, who had just started working in Cork. The oldest was a man in his 80s. The driver did not stop. #cycling #spéirghorm #killing

Over here they call it splitting the B

Conor McGregor’s Irish presidential campaign was brief and humiliating: defector.com/conor-mcgreg...

These two paragraphs are an excellent illustration of a point that Donald Shoup often made: more parking means fewer homes. Developments with a 1:3 ratio of parking spaces to homes, as opposed to 2:1 (which many people expect) should be the norm in city locations with good transport connections

Going through Dublin Airport security and saw a mam trying to get her daughter (looked about 4) to do the 3D scanner pose which the little one seemingly interpreted as jazzhands. Absolute queen ❤️

Irish choreographer severs links with Sadlers Wells Theatre over Palestine and Barclays Michael Keegan-Dolan has cut ties with London's Sadler’s Wells Theatre because of its partnership with Barclays, and its with Israel www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

If we've learned anything from 7 seasons of Black Mirror this will inevitably end with you starving to death when you can't afford the monthly sub you pay to your fridge for a superior ad-free experience