Football Association of Ireland EGM passes motion calling on UEFA to ban Israel from all club and international competitions. Resolution brought by Bohemian Football Club - approved by 88%. Motion cites operation by the Israeli FA of clubs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

This landed by the back door and Teidí is terrified by it. There is also, presumably, a crying child a few miles away. Sad times all round.

Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

Mouth ulcers punch way above their weight in their capacity to make your day miserable, it must be said.

LIVE, LAUGH, FASH

I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Can’t work out whether I love Lankum’s new version of Ghost Town or whether it strays into self-parody. It’s complicated by Father Ted giving the song an inherent funniness in an Irish context. Either way, always appreciate a cover in a completely different genre. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...

The sound of foxes gekkering* somewhere nearby is always unsettling before trying to sleep. Absolutely horrific noise, legend has it this is where the banshee’s wail comes from. *it’s a real word, look up the sound if you haven’t had the displeasure

Does each one have all three diseases or is it just choose a monkey to pet and see what you get?

Something I've learned is institutions treat inclusion less as a right and more as a kind of weapon, offering it where it benefits them and then subtly withdrawing it selectively, say, to punish or intimidate. In this dynamic even the acts of inclusion become a form of division and domination.

Given that Connolly got the biggest personal mandate in the history of the state AND the highest percentage of first preferences ever in a presidential election, anyone in media engaging this pereniial fuckwit for analysis is pissing in your eye and telling you it's soda water.

I need every journalist to point out that even if steen got the finger out and got on the ballot (she didn't), and even if all the spoiled votes would have gone to her (they wouldn't), she would have still come last

For overseas followers: in Ireland every seven years we vote for someone to tell the Government they are a bunch of evil clowns and every five years we vote in the evil clowns.

I’m off to vote, in a desperate attempt to impress the dangerously woke youth

Every single fucking time www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/past...

the wording is a bit cringy, but the analysis is correct, and none of what he's said actually constitutes sectarianism, and to go even further, I think that reflexively labelling any criticism like the below as "sectarianism" is actively damaging to the prospect of a shared island.

Not the deftest of takes from Conor Deegan there, but this particular Irish Protestant did not feel singled out by it. I suspect support for fox hunting and the Orange Order had more to do with Humphreys coming across as a colonised mind than her views on transubstantiation or the length of hymns.

It’s a brave strategy to go for a pro-animal cruelty platform, let’s see how it plays out for Heather H. Based on her answer, does HH also support other ‘sports’ enjoyed for centuries in Ireland until relatively recently - cock-fighting, dog-fighting, bull-baiting and bear-baiting?

This is the top story on The Guardian today and had a prime time news slot on Irish radio earlier. Kids have always had irritating, meaningless things they say for fun. The real story is a generation of very online parents who don’t know what to do when they no longer understand a meme.

"I have now received the reviewer's report"

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Can’t prove it, but I swear spellcheck/autocorrect/predictive text stuff on phones is getting worse, and I’m noticing it in other people’s messages and posts. I honestly don’t think it’s paranoid to wonder if this is a way of encouraging us to think we need to use A.I. for basic correspondence.

The relationship between professional footballers and paying supporters in the crowd is not remotely reciprocal and they should not be allowed to shush and goad opposition fans when they score.

My 5 year-old nephew had quite the existential crisis last week when he picked out a Best Uncle in the World birthday card for me, only for it to dawn on him that the presence of multiple cards of this type implied the existence of multiple Best Uncles in the World, which is surely a paradox.

UK passports get revoked if their holders don’t bang on about how very clever Stephen Fry is at every given opportunity.

I’m immensely proud to have passed my PhD viva yesterday. My thanks to my examiners, Prof Madhu Krishnan and @gavant.bsky.social, and to inspring scholars such as @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @annakornbluh.bsky.social, who are all cited.

I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here

I met my wife through blogging. We were reading and enjoying each other’s posts long before we met or even knew what the other one looked like.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I won’t lie, part of me feels some weird nostalgia or pride or something in the notion that a presidential candidate might feel some shame about their past actions and how they bring the office into disrepute. Like, awwwww.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Is anyone talking about why the spiders in Ireland this year have been twice as big and twice as many? Feels like we should be

Wicklow: cider and wet grass Longford: diesel and chips Kildare: over-roasted coffee and soggy cardboard Leitrim: paracetamol and ennui

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10... Manchán Magan was a talented and important writer, broadcaster, and Irish language advocate. Gone far too soon, but leaves a wonderful legacy. Always interesting and, more importantly, interested.

It is the nature of long-term loving relationships that sometimes you see each other in degrading, humiliating situations and don’t even bat an eyelid. Nevertheless, if my wife had just seen the way I just ate mortadella straight from the fridge

EXCLUSIVE: KNEECAP rapper Mo Chara – real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – speaks to #VMNews in his first interview since terror charges were dropped. He tells Keir Starmer & the British state: “better luck next time”. Full Interview: https://f.mtr.cool/frnaifkhpb @newschambers.bsky.social

Very accurate and obvious statement by Catherine Connolly that will be mulled over and treated as commie loose cannon heresy by large sections of our commentariat

I should note that this is the first Netflix show to have Irish language subtitles available. That’s a good thing, but the fact they used A.I to match subtitles to text on screen is not a good thing. Dressing every character as either a pint of porter or a leprechaun is also not a good thing.

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

Contrary to some ludicrously glowing reviews, House of Guinness is over-stylized nonsense that is just intended to promote the brand and push an image of Ireland that attracts the worst type of tourism. Peaky Blinders in Dublin, but much worse. It’ll no doubt be massive.

*Right-wing Americans pretending to be Irish on Twitter explode in a cloud of psycho-sexual rage*

We need a better less innocuous marketing terms than Chat Bots and Artificial Intelligence. What have yall got? Crap Bots Bullshit Bots Cheat Bots Echo Systems Vampire Tech Oligarch Tech Anti-Human Intelligence

What we see here is the aping of idiotic statements from the likes of RFK, for the sake of some cheap attention. I don’t think Healy-Rae is even this stupid, but he knows there’s a voter base that is, and some American money he can chase by propagating bullshit. He’s a cruel, cynical man.

A social media pet hate of mine is the question “What thing are you convinced people are pretending to like?” Fuck all. You just have a chip on your shoulder about people liking things you don’t and secretly worrying you might be thick.

It's so weird that people pick the sad occasion of Robert Redford's death for an outpouring about his hotness. Reminds me of Gene Hackman in the Royal Tenenbaums: “I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.”

jesus christ