People say the Dublin docklands have no soul, but I am always quite moved by this elegant memorial to all the Sith who lost their lives fighting for Irish freedom.
What’s an Irish word you strongly prefer to the English equivalent? I really like “gruaig” instead of “hair”. Gruaig is the sound hair would make if you could hear it grow.
Biden sending the US’s spare vaccines to Mexico rather than to a wealthy island off the coast of Europe is a good call on his part. Irish people expecting otherwise would need a serious reality check
In Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin have already made it illegal to be white, male or middle class. All those people are in jail now. Don’t let it happen here
FACT: if Keanu Reeves from the movie Speed had had to obey the new Phoenix Park 30k/ph speed limit -- everyone on his bus would have died.
This is what the Green Party wants to happen
So let me get this straight
We have
A Minister for Sport who has never won an all-Ireland
A Minister for Defence who has never shot someone
A Minister for Children who is not a child
A Minister for Food who refuses to be eaten
And they call this democracy? ;(
This is absolutely obscene. Evicting tenants and then smashing up their home, all in the midst of a pandemic. Here we are just two weeks after the government voted to weaken the evictions ban.
Just had a very nasty experience - a group of men (all aged 40+) stopped me on Talbot Street, tried to take the food I was carrying and kicked me in the legs. Really sad behavior on one of the best streets in Dublin 👎🏻
For those asking what the difference is between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil: FG voted with the far right in the European Parliament, while FF didn’t vote because they’d left work early
For four days in 1991, Kazakhstan was the entire Soviet Union because all other members had left. The question now before us is which one football club will become the entire Super League.
With Catherine Noone, Gerry Adams and Enda Kenny no longer in the Oireachtas, this may be the first time in decades there isn’t a national parliamentarian with an on-the-record use of the n-word
Landlords in my apartment complex are still operating an Air BNB service, with at least two sets of tourists having arrived this morning. Yo
@MurphyEoghan
is this illegal yet?
Exchange of the night
Micheál Martin: “People remember when I was Minister for Enterprise —“
Mary Lou: “They remember you crashed the economy”
Nearly spit out my drink. Perfect delivery
#GE20
Kamala Harris at SF fundraiser: "I just love Gen Z. I know it may be complicated if you have Gen Z in your family, but I think they're terrific... When Gen Z starts voting in their numbers, a whole lot of this is going to have an absolute sea change in terms of leadership."
Majority of Sinn Féin voters being in favour of a hard border on the island of Ireland - if it keeps asylum seekers out - is possibly the grimmest poll result I can remember seeing in years
The problem with RTÉ’s Home of the Year is that all the homes featured belong to people who knew they’d be reviewed. Participation should be random and mandatory; at any time, the judges could arrive at any home in Ireland and assign it a score.
In the final analysis, Dianne Abbott will be remembered as a trailblazing politician long after every one of the staffers who mocked her have been entirely forgotten.
Taiwan is part of
#China
+ recognised as such by
#UN
but now
#US
is stoking tensions- US military have even been in Taiwan training local forces. US +
#EU
are interfering in China’s domestic affairs- a violation of Art 2 of UN Charter- EU must stop working for US state dept…
How can satire have a future when “Fine Gael TD accidentally gives motivational feminist address to an Iranian terrorist organisation” is a real thing that happened?????
The Chair of the HSE's Monkeypox Incident Management Team has said it is possible that cases of monkeypox will be seen in Ireland and an incident management team has been established to ensure the country is fully prepared for that eventuality
Exit polling for the 2024 General Election:
“What single issue most influenced how you cast your vote?”
Housing - 14%
Cost of Living - 12%
Immigration - 7%
Dáil Bike Shelter Too Expensive - 59%
Other - 8%
Grotesque scenes in Seanad Éireann as Jerry Buttimer, currently serving out a suspension from Fine Gael due to Golfgate, describes his reduced access to speaking time as a system of Apartheid.
Claire Byrne pressing Matt Carthy to support a ban on people with criminal convictions from working in politics is grotesque.
Former prisoners already suffer enormous (legal) discrimination in the jobs market, a conviction shouldn’t automatically be a life sentence
#CBLive
Captain Sir Thomas Moore may have sadly passed away in February, but he tops the list of people Britons say had the biggest impact on the world in 2021.
Captain Tom - 21%
Donald Trump - 9%
Greta Thunberg - 7%
Boris Johnson - 6%
Elon Musk - 6%
I don’t go in for mindless Shinner-bashing but it is beyond belief that any Irish party would turn to British law in order to accept a donation that is 1,600 times the legal limit in the Republic.
Eamon Ryan has rightly apologised now, so might be good to re-focus on the story he was trying (clumsily) to amplify: a black person's own personal account of racism in Ireland
via
@IrishTimesOpEd
Our brains have been so broken by lockdown that people are texting in to national radio suggesting that those with suspiciously fresh hair cuts should be arrested and fined
Brazil under Lula currently looking at:
✅ 24% reduction in poverty
✅ 36% reduction in deforestation
✅ 100% reduction in Twitter use
Truly a model for a new socialist age
Renua Ireland has zero public representatives at any level of government, received fewer than 5,500 votes nationally (0.3%), and is no longer entitled to public funding. What exactly will it take for Red C to stop including them in its polls?
RTÉ should not be hosting a debate on monarchy as current affairs programming.
People Before Profit should not be rewarded with airtime for posting dumb memes.
Random rugby coaches shouldn’t be invited on the television to discuss their low-engagement diss tweets.
Find it very hard to take Mary Lou McDonald's criticism of the Covid situation too seriously when her party voted against the extension of emergency health legislation just two weeks ago!
This is what the Sinn Féin Health spokesperson said on the 3rd of November!
Ban it. Ban it outright and completely, and put in place laws that prevent it ever coming back. Facilitating people renting out their spare rooms or whatever is not worth this.
My beautiful grandmother died on Hallowe’en 2020. I’ve been spending a lot of time in her house the past few days, remembering so many little moments that made my childhood very special. Grateful to have known her for a portion of her remarkable life ❤️
Bertie Ahern going around Drumcondra doing the trick-or-treat circuit, not taking any sweets when offered but asking people to “keep him in mind” for the future 👀
The Seanad is about to debate free access to contraception. I am now taking bets on which Senator will make the strangest/least relevant/most outrageous remark.
Fintan O'Toole on CNN there, proposing the Republican and Democratic candidates in Georgia stand down and offer their Senate seats to anti-Brexit activists drawn from civil society and the performing arts.
Party leaders from most to least likely to have been in a nightclub in the last five years:
1. Leo Varadkar
2. Alan Kelly
3. Mary Lou McDonald
4. Catherine Murphy
5. Micheál Martin
6. Eamon Ryan
7. Peadar Tóibín
8. Roisín Shortall
If I was a member of Seanad Éireann in 2021, I would simply not include the phrase “All Lives Matter” twice in my tweet about the recent shooting of a black man.
An Tánaiste’s Top Ten artistic works that helped him through the pandemic:
1) “Normal People”
2) The Late Late Show (did not enjoy)
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Varadkar says the arts was important to him too during the lockdown.
He remembers watching Normal People, and also staying in on a Friday night, watching The Late Late Show, something he says he doesn't have to do again.