David McCullagh

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

OMG.

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

In memoriam...

Don't believe the lies of the weather forecasters. They just want you to stay indoors so they can have all the sunshine to themselves. #exactly

Trump To Send National Guard Into Dublin Following Assault Of NFL Player US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has ordered the national guard into 'the 51st State' after calling the sovereign American territory of Dublin 'a warzone' where lawlessness reigns and NFL quarterbacks are robbed. FREE DUBLIN FROM LEFTIST GANGS …

Trump To Send National Guard Into Dublin Following Assault Of NFL Player https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/09/29/trump-to-send-national-guard-into-dublin-following-assault-of-nfl-player/

Straight into the Top 10! Thanks everyone!🎙️🎙️‘Think You Know…the Presidents?’ brings you behind the scenes of our 9 presidencies. Stories, scandals, sins…all there! Pic with co-host @flormaccarthy.bsky.social & our superb producer Siobhán Maguire. Thanks also @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social #Aras25

Kneecap, Eurovision and the rise of authoritarianism! Podcast Episode · Behind the Story · 09/26/2025 · 36m

Loved speaking with @mcculld.bsky.social & Evelyn O'Rourke on @news.rte.ie Behind the Story podcast about authoritarianism, Trump, and my new book w/ @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics.

In case you need weekend listening:

Terribly sad news. Saw him a few weeks ago (at Electric Picnic, of all places) and he was in the best of form. Always interesting, always polite even when disagreeing, and did the State huge service. RIP.

Ex-minister and FF adviser Martin Mansergh dies aged 78 Former minister of state and key Fianna Fáil adviser Martin Mansergh has died aged 78.

Our sincere condolences to Martin Mansergh’s family and friends. Martin was a great friend of UCD Archives. We will miss his warm and gracious presence in our reading room.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/09... Ex-minister and FF adviser Martin Mansergh dies aged 78

Correction - Gavin posters up too (though this one isn’t particularly well placed!)

Looks like Catherine Connolly is first out with the posters…

How it started…..and how it ends.
❤️🙏 # MorningIreland

Vanessa: “Safe Home”. Peak Irish. #traitorsIRL

Incident on 57th Street - Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ - 9/20/1978

Happy birthday, Boss… open.spotify.com/track/69yzsK...

From Bullets To Ballots Civil War politics has defined the Irish political landscape for generations. The parties which emerged from the divisions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 dominated elections for decades. The war ...

Coming this October from @ucdpress.bsky.social and historian and author Owen O'Shea

The first ever county-based study of Civil War politics in Ireland

How and why did the Civil War shape politics and elections in Kerry in the decade after 1923?

Pre-order now: shorturl.at/56pZE

You went too easy on them

I seem to have written a buke

De Valera eligibility for president questioned in 1959 Question marks over Éamon de Valera's eligibility to run for President in 1959 caused panic in official circles, according to newly published documents.

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I posted this 7 months ago and it's only grown more relevant every day since. Which is, you know, annoying.

The Records Show S02E01 The Queen of England is wined and dined, a St Patrick’s Day tradition is born by accident and there's an inventor who promises to make Ireland a world leader in the energy industry Watch The Records S...

Loved this from @katiehannon.bsky.social So many stories! www.rte.ie/player/serie...

Finally caught up with @mcculld.bsky.social terrific Dev:Rule. More than maintained the standard of Dev:Rise. Really loved the 1973 Wizard of Oz moment.

On episode #2 of #ForTheRecord this Sunday on @rtegold.bsky.social at 6pm my #recordcollection guest is columnist, playwright and former @hotpress.com music critic, Fiona Looney. Expect #WestSideStory, #TheScratch,, #KLF, #ElvisCostello and more.
#music #radio #records #vinyl #CDs #albums #singles

Who said anything about anyone falling behind any “benchmark”?

Opinions still divided on Dev - and on documentaries about him! You can make up your own mind - Dev:Rise + Rule is available on the
@RTEplayer
#DecDoc

Thanks Leeann!

Ding ding, round 2! Second part of Dev on @rteone.rte.ie tonight at 9.35. From Nobber to the Áras, Spike Island to Stradbally, Leinster House to London, we look at Dev’a Rule - and some of the people he dealt with along the way. #DevDoc

The second part of the 'Dev: Rise and Rule' documentary is on RTÉ One tomorrow night (9.30pm Wed, 10th), making extensive use of De Valera's papers in @ucdarchives.bsky.social with some filming taking place in the Reading Room and the wider James Joyce Library.

Yessssssss!!!!!!