Damian Mac Con Uladh

The Dutch word for a horse is paarden (fairly similar to the English "pardon") and the Dutch word for breeding is fok (fairly similar to, well, you know) and that's all the context you need for this joke...

Englishman: What do you do?
Dutchman: I fok horses
Englishman: Pardon?
Dutchman: Yes paarden

I was delighted once to have served as editor of Hostings, journal of the Ballinasloe and District Heritage Society . Currently the bestseller locally, it makes the ideal Christmas gift for Ballinasloe people (and not only) at home and abroad!

Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.

Mark Zuckerberg's yacht moored off Corinth

What can algorithmically rewarding the most divisive and inflammatory content and facilitating the spread of misinformation get you? For Mark Zuckerberg, it’s a $300m, 387-foot mega yacht, Launchpad, which is now moored off Corinth.

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Hopefully he'll be refused entry for his own health and safety.

At Dublin Airport and there's a lad with an overcoat and Docs waiting to board a flight to Athens, where temperatures are forecast to hit 38°C today.

Beware of Greeks (not) bearing chips!

Tourist's 'nightmare' as Corfu hotel 'had no English food' and not enough chips Susan Edwards complained that her stay at a hotel in Corfu, Greece, came without the 'English food' she liked, and without entertainment or easy access to a private beach

"There was no hot bacon or sausage. We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

🫣🫣🫣

So the Greek media is convinced that Egypt is confiscating Mount Sinai Monastery and evicting its monks on the basis of an "exclusive" report in an obscure religious "news" site?

It's a typographical issue. They have a single opening quotation mark, not an apostrophe. And I've noticed a lot of this of late.

Has anyone else noticed recently in the Irish Times that the apostrophe in many possessive 's in texts is is wrong way around?

Hard on the eye.

Ποιος Guardian μωρέ, η «Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών» της Αγγλίας; Θα στείλουμε λουλούδια και γλυκά στον πρωθυπουργό Κυριάκο Μητσοτάκη γι' αυτό που είπε σήμερα σε συνέντευξή του στον ΣΚΑΪ 100.3, για την Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών. Αυτός βέβαια νόμιζε ότι το είπε για κακ...

Greek PM, who thinks Breitbart is a real media outlet, attempts to dismiss the Guardian as "the Efimerida ton Syntakton [left-wing daily] of the UK". Needless to say, EfSyn is celebrating what Mitsotakis intended as an insult.

www.efsyn.gr/stiles/ypogr...

We can now reveal where each country stood during the meeting:

In favour: 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇱🇺🇵🇹🇸🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹🇲🇹🇩🇰🇪🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰

Against: 🇩🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇭🇷🇱🇹🇭🇺

Neutral: 🇱🇻

Pope Leo XIV is an American. Trump will surely claim it was all his work.

That was quick!

Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας Λευκός καπνός εμφανίστηκε από μια καμινάδα στην κορυφή της Καπέλα Σιξτίνα στο Βατικανό, σηματοδοτώντας ότι οι 133 ρωμαιοκαθολικοί καρδινάλιοι που συναντήθηκαν σε μυστικό κονκλάβιο εξέλεξαν νέο πάπα.

Habemus Papam! Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας

www.kathimerini.gr/world/563601...

Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity

Some "Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism ... are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have ... threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Greek American MAGA worshippers: "We feel left out. We demand an Orthodox ecumenical patriarch version! Remember 1204!"

Discovered by chance, a mass grave revives memories of Greece’s brutal civil war | eKathimerini.com It’s common to find ancient remains or objects in Greece. But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–1949 Civil War.

"The find has not been directly addressed by the country’s center-right government – a reminder that many Greeks still find it easier to walk past the country’s ghosts than confront them."

www.ekathimerini.com/news/1268339...

The Canadian election is definitely the only election in a developed country I can remember where the central pitch of the winning party was essentially “this country should exist”.

🚨 Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia, was abducted from his final citizenship interview by ICE.

My Israeli friends who had family murdered by Hamas on 10-7 are vouching for Mohsen as *an ally in fighting antisemitism & peace activism.*

That’s the opposite of supporting Hamas terror!

Jeez. Did Trump really just say President Zelensky started the war with Russia?

Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin

FACTS MATTER

World's first vaporware

University staff member taught for 12 years without a recognized degree, investigation reveals | eKathimerini.com A recent investigation by the National Transparency Authority (NTA), prompted by a formal complaint, found that an individual served as adjunct teaching staff at a higher education institution in nort...

"According to the findings, the individual in question has a close familial relationship with the university’s president."

www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266520...

I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.

BBC World has been relaying this insane verbal diarrhoea from the Shite House since the top of the hour.

YouTube video by Tommy Tiernan Out Of The Whirlwind (BEST OF) | TOMMY TIERNAN

Two days to Tommy Tiernan in Athens!

Universe (Leoforos Kifisou 87), April 10th, 2025, at 9:00 p.m.

Tickets: www.more.com/gr-el/ticket...

youtu.be/8fKVPtn-szk?...

Three Afghans cleared in Moria camp fire case | eKathimerini.com Three Afghan asylum seekers were acquitted last Friday by a juvenile court in Mytilene, on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, overturning prior convictions that saw them imprisoned for over three ye...

#Moriatrialwatch

www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266432...