20 years of banging out the tunes. Well done Neil.

This is excellent and helped me clarify what I have been grasping towards as I've tried to make sense of the last week in Ireland and the left's response.

I think in future they’d get a better video if they placed the microphone inside the cabin of the plane rather than out on the wing

God it’s exhausting watching any press conference or interview with Micheál Martin where any time there’s a question he doesn’t like he goes after the tone of the question or acts offended rather than answering. I assume it’s a tactic rather than he’s the most thin-skinned man in Irish history

The squeaky wheel gets the grease as long as the squeaky wheel is a small (or not-so-small) business owner. If it’s a homeless family or an old person suffering on a hospital trolley the wheel can fuck off as far as the government is concerned

We can bolt these reasons onto the existing million reasons why he's unfit for office - most of them related to his treatment of migrants.

84% of our fruit and veg is imported. 50% of the country is covered in grass for meat and dairy production. The notion that Irish farmers feed the Irish population is laughable.

A hero, an icon.

Damn, that’s as strong a rainbow as I’ve ever seen 😍🌈

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

This fella is one of the nominated representatives of the protest group. Should the government meet with him, do you think?

"The government has very little control over the price of oil, but it can control over how dependent we remain on it" This 100% this #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm

one thing that’s clear, whether you’re right or left or whatever worldview, is that Irish people want a PROACTIVE government that DOES things, that TELLS them things, that PREPARES for things. the Irish government does absolutely none of this, it does as little as it can do, and nobody likes it.

Unlimited taxpayer money to subsidise fossil fuels. Class.

Oh no, I’d be lost if my kindle couldn’t connect to the store where I legally purchase ebooks, the main way I access books to read

"who cares about Palestine etc, we need to care of the irish" first off where the fuck do you think this fucking fuel comes from. a fundamental problem of the human condition is people do not see the interdependence of life. esp, life in the 21st century. "no farms, no food" no atmosphere no farms.

The irony of Jim O’Callaghan having to announce he’s calling the army in to break up a protest filled with the people whose racism he has been assiduously courting and pandering to since taking office.

Jim O’Callaghan

Hahaha if the lads blocking O Connell St heard that you wanted to collectivise farming to ensure food sovereignty for Irish people they’d be looking to kill you in the street. But yeah, stand with “working people” (who can afford to spend a week sitting in front of their tractors doing nothing)

Love to see it

given the history of male astronauts at large, would it be too much to make being a widower a requirement

Evergreen

Actually incredible that 50% of Scottish people can look at the state of the UK and where it’s heading and not want to sprint for the doors

New Sunn O))) album is class, naturally, but now I’m even more mad they’re skipping Dublin this year

Wouldn’t you love to walk along the quays and up O Connell St keying all their trucks and tractors? Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside imagining it

Good. These things shouldn’t be allowed in the EU or anywhere else

oh my god shut up you useless deranged loser

The principled position on apartheid and genocide is to go “look, over there!” and let the atrocities continue. I’m very impressed by your moral uprightness.

if Trump nukes Iran it will be because no one powerful in america has ever been seriously punished for anything

Someone in Portmarnock has put up a 32 inch trinitron for free on facebook marketplace and I don’t have a car and I don’t have room for it and I’m sure 1000 smash bros furries have already messaged them but oooooh I want it

Oh I’ll just check in on how the game is going while I’m out- oh Jesus

lmaooooo what a delightful way to score in the 10th inning

At what point are we all going to admit that we can’t call “finding it hard to function in a sick society” something like “burnout”. Like we can’t make the root causes better but let’s throw a few infographics at it??

The early moderns yearned for Destiny 2

This might be the answer. Can’t stop thinking “which is alfo in Truth reformede,” any time I see an English Catholic

“Where she had written that “the policy of the Minister is to speed up and deport as many applicants as possible”, that was also hidden behind a black rectangle.”

"A man would shelter, if he could in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagine if that it were you" Seen in Rochester, New York

with the #ArtemisII launch imminent I feel obliged to give a shoutout to the fabulously-named estate in Coolock that draws most of its road and street names from the Apollo 11 mission #speirgorm

Hahahaha poor Tommy

Not sure if it’s the funniest but maybe the most perfect to me was “a steak pun is a rare medium well done”. Original is long deleted now it looks like

We watched Falling Skies because we’re having a very Noah Wyle time in our house. Now I’m not saying Pope was a good guy but… truly that’s the most valid crashout anyone’s ever had

The way to tackle dangerous driving is to allow Gardai unlimited licence to drive dangerously themselves? Absolutely not. Based on the case in question, he’s essentially asking for permission for guards to run down teens on scooters and kill them if they feel like it

Genuinely delighted by someone asking this question, seemingly in good faith and getting a stream of fairly polite replies that all add up to ”Vatican II might have done away with hell BUT NOT FOR CROMWELL BITCH”

What’s the application process for being an Irish Times opinion columnist? Do they hit you over the head with a hammer or is previous impairment considered sufficient?

This is a must-read for multiple reasons #speirghorm

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

Supposed to be doing my job but unfortunately someone needs to sit on my shoulders and be tall

Shout out to this Vinted seller, this made me laugh