Pádraig Lohan

Dave McSavage says grants for stand-up comics could destroy the industry: "Get funny or starve".

The guy who graduated Blackrock College, whose father was a Fianna Fáil Minister, whose brother was a Junior Minister...

I'm sure he was under plenty risk of starvation.

#irishcomedy #irishpolitics

A view of the dock at Mountshannon.

#Mountshannon #Clare #Speirgorm

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

A person wearing a white sheet ghost costume is scrolling on their phone screen.

me continuing to post on Bluesky despite the alleged death of Bluesky

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Maybe if they keep trotting him out he'll eventually win an argument, or be on the winning side of a campaign. Tenth times the charm!

Very sorry to hear that former SocDems councillor June Murphy has passed away. When we started in West Cork, she was incredibly supportive and encouraging. Always with the kind word. A very decent human being. RIP.

#speirgorm

I've been up to something. If #SpeirGorm can lend a hand , even just by resharing, that'd be fantastic. We've been super busy, but like most small businesses these days, we need a bit of a helping hand to get things moving. All donations are welcome www.indiegogo.com/projects/rev...

To people posting angrily on posts about #diversity or cultural celebrations in #Ireland:

What do you need? Why are you so unhappy? What would change that?

Because we both know getting rid of the people who don't look like you won't actually fix what's wrong with you.

#SpeirGorm #irishpolitics

Oh, absolutely.

I more meant his performance as a speaker, which was a lot more scattered and stumbling than he is on Prime Time or shows like that.

But the content of the speech was reactionary and cruel.

Peadar Toibin's #Aontú #ArdFheis speech has the air of "panel show comedian who can't hold their own as a stand up".

On #rtept, and during #GE24, he can get in his pithy lines when he has someone to respond to and attack.

But on his own he's a bit directionless.

#Ireland #SpeirGorm #irishpolitics

What #Starmer and #Labour are doing is more evil than what the #Tories did.

Labour's 2024 win was a swing away from the Tories. Starmer's actions since has been a slap in the face.

At least regressive Tory policies reflected regressive rhetoric winning a mandate.

#politics #ukpolitics #SpeirGorm

Impressive that #KeirStarmer won a majority in Commons because of how abjectly shit the #Tories were, and has spent the last 10 months dragging #Labour to the right on every piece of culture war bullshit he can find.

What's the point of Labour if they're anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT?

I did get some very good advice once from my uncle Simon, which was about getting work as a musician but I've applied to all my arts endeavours - be the nicest, most fun and memorable person to work with and people will both remember and want to work with you again.

This. If you have actual expertise / experience worth listening to, point to that, not just the fact that you've been around a while.

Getting in touch with Dublin City Council to tell them the bin on the corner was only used 14 times today so they need to get rid of it

I'm an aeons man myself.

But it rarely works.

I'm guessing "audio" is your starter word?

The Green Party don’t get as much media coverage as Reform because the continuation of civilised human life on the planet isn’t as interesting as cunts.

A lesson from the last decade of Western #politics --

of #Dems running to the right and losing, of #Labour running to the right and falling in the polls, of FF/FG teaming up to keep SF out

-- is that they're not moving right to win.

They're moving right, because they'd rather lose than go left.

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu

*me reading Busy at Maths*

"Wow they need to start teaching this stuff in schools!"

I understand why #clickbait headlines get engagement for non-stories.

But is there data that shows that burying the story does the same?

Will "Iconic 00s Boyband Coming to #Limerick" get more clicks than "Blue to Perform in Limerick"?

I feel I'd be more likely to read the second one?

#SpeirGorm

This Carney victory is going to launch a thousand think pieces and I WANT ALL OF THEM

FG suggest that older people should "downsize" and move out of their homes to free up larger houses for young families.

But would never suggest landlords just not price gouge young families for every cent they can get.

#SpeirGorm #Dáil #FGFF #IrishPolitics

Women’s Social Hours
Thursday April 24th | 11am-1pm & 6pm-8pm
This month we are meeting on Thursday April 24th, at our offices on 28 John Street, Limerick City, V94 K5N5, and we are doing vision boards!

There'll be no rational discussion around parking while a handful of business reps are constantly platformed by local media as if they're public reps.

Our corner shop had better options than the supermarket, but even then it's all eggs with chunks and popping candy and orange flavouring (which is fine, I do like them) and very few ordinary eggs with bars, etc.