Aodhán Ó'Coileáin

Promises made by the Party of Header Humphreys.

How will she respond? Canvass in a McDonalds? Resell one of her apparent derelict apartments?

Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the recesses of my mind

By 1922, the British had infested about a quarter of the world's land mass and forced its rule over 1 in 4 people globally. Bit late to be expecting white faces to dominate the emptying husk of your empire. The best part left is the richness of your people.

McBudget: Opposition criticises big companies being included in VAT cut for hospitality sector The reduced VAT rate for food-led hospitality services and hairdressers will come into effect next July.

McBudget: Opposition criticises big companies being included in VAT cut for hospitality sector jrnl.ie/6837319

'I have never seen election promises abandoned so fast': Opposition seeing red after Budget 2026 Tax cuts for developers, a meagre increase in social welfare, and no reduction to childcare costs were hot-button issues in the political reaction.

'I have never seen election promises abandoned so fast': Opposition seeing red after Budget 2026 jrnl.ie/6837563

A post from Instagram stories with a swipe up link for the Irish Times. A composite image of Leinster House, Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe is titled "Budget 2026: Main Points" but the bullet points that follow comprise non-sensical filler text (Lorem ipsum) and snippets apparently borrowed from a restaurant review (One point reads: "Borgo review: Well-priced and welcoming", the next "everything a good neighborhood", and finally "restaurant needsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet")

Someone at the IT is having a 'mare rushing out the Budget coverage.

This was a sponsored post in my Insta Stories.

The social team needs a break and a hug maybe.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

Simon Harris and Micheál Martin both put out statements today to mark the second anniversary since October 7th.

Hostages are mentioned in both statements.

The word "genocide" is not mentioned in either statement.

#Spéirghorm

🚨 Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty calls Budget 2026 a “catalogue of handouts for those at the top” and criticised the 50 cent increase in petrol and diesel as one of the worst decisions by the Government.

#VMNews | #Budget2026

Her contempt is extraordinary.

Trump thinks he's a king. He believes he's accountable to no one. Not Congress. Not the American people.

And so when his people testify before the Senate, they act like they are bound by no rules and no laws.

They're calling it an 'Investment Budget'. Translated, that means a budget for the business community, not the average worker. #Budget2025

Reducing the VAT rate on places like McDonald’s is criminal - especially when lower income homes/families are saying it’s become more expensive to shop healthily.

Fook hospitality, & fook the government for letting a lobby group pull the wool over their eyes. #Speirgorm #budget2026

Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting tomorrow evening with all TDs, Senators and MEPs attending.

Na gaeilge for bloodbath is Foladh Folcaidh

FF

#Áras25
#Speirgorm

WTF?
Seriously? Reading that gave me a headache.

Let it go, lads.

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

The catastrophe in Gaza has reverberated viciously back to the UK. It’s unsurprising, given the RAF involvement for Israel & the many families & friends of Palestinians. Historically Britain is responsible for causing the conflict. The volume, scale & hatred is extreme.

Interesting FF and MM think a beloved Landlord is a "broad-based candidate who could have the potential to garner a significant degree of support across society".

If you were outside GAA circles, there's a good chance you didn't know who this man was.

It shows how much of a bubble MM might live in

I was talking to someone the other night who uses old election posters to build a pathway out into reedbeds on the Shannon estuary mudflats, for cutting reeds for thatching cottages

So, we are all a prefix? Wow, some insult!

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.

To quote Greta Thunberg, this is appalling, but it is not the story - the genocide in Gaza continues, and all focus should be on bringing it to an immediate and permanent end.

An image of Hans Sloane from the Bedford Hotel website captioned as "inventor of drinking chocolate with milk".

The Bedford Hotel in Belfast are using a slave-owner and a disputed myth about him "inventing" drinking chocolate for their marketing.

There's a lot of people who used to throw jibes at Greta who have gone very quiet. She's a million times braver than any WhatsApp group chat banter legend.