@mcculld.bsky.social
Journalist with RTE, presenter of the Today show, Springsteen and Leinster fan, views mine not RTE's. RTs are not an endorsement. Get my new book here linktr.ee/mcculld
It’s a cracker - pity it’s necessary.
29.01.2026 10:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A grand total of zero seats booked for tomorrow evening's screening of the Melania Trump documentary in Cineworld. You'd think the US ambassador would at least head along
29.01.2026 08:53 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Magnificent Craig Finn tonight!
27.01.2026 22:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Gift link - State terror has arrived www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
25.01.2026 13:29 — 👍 8 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Oh no! A legend.
24.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How Ireland Voted 2024 The New Normal? Book © 2025
In 2024, governments across world fell as far-right parties surged. Why did Ireland buck the trend?
Prof. @theresareidy.bsky.social, co-editor of 'How Ireland Voted 2024', discusses the new publication in conversation with @mcculld.bsky.social
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Not sure I pronounced it very well…
21.01.2026 11:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think the last invasion of Canada was by the Fenians. Bet they have some contingency plans left over from then…
21.01.2026 07:16 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#DIBBlog ‘Sé seo stáisiún 2RN Baile Átha Cliath ag triail’ (This is 2RN Dublin testing). Séamus Hughes' words, broadcast on 14 Nov. 1925, marked the dawn of Irish broadcasting. Read our new blog by Dr Finola Doyle-O'Neill, first published by @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.
www.dib.ie/blog/2rn-and...
A great January tradition in Dublin! @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social
17.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Awful news - a lovely bloke and a great colleague. RIP www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
17.01.2026 12:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still a few signed copies of The Red Branch in Antonia’s bookstore in Trim. And they do that online thing too!
antoniasbookstore.com/product/the-...
Hello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
16.01.2026 15:22 — 👍 23 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 0
Bluesky Twitter account: NEW FEATURE: This button allows you to opt out of having images you post on X turned into porn Plus image of the create new account button on bluesky
Bluesky going to work over on Twitter
15.01.2026 16:55 — 👍 12340 🔁 1869 💬 88 📌 96
Unfortunately, they wouldn’t let me dress up this time…
15.01.2026 08:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Office for the day! Broadcasting from the GPO n @rteradio1.bsky.social for #RTE100
15.01.2026 07:16 — 👍 61 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
Your occasional reminder of the existence of a townland in Cavan named TonyConnelly @news.rte.ie
www.townlands.ie/cavan/tullyg...
Went to Hamnet earlier… wow, it really is brilliant. The Academy could save time by just giving Jessie Buckley the Oscar now - and one to Paul Mescal as well. Superb.
14.01.2026 17:47 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really enjoyed Saipan in the cinema this afternoon - but I feel a bit retraumatised!
11.01.2026 19:44 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1
What a game!!!!
10.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Awww…. Hope all goes ok
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This week we are featuring some extraordinary Irish women in honour of #NollaignamBan. Mary Ann McCracken campaigned for the abolition of slavery, and argued that the liberty and equality sought by the United Irishmen should be extended to women. www.dib.ie/biography/mc... #DIBLives @ria.ie
05.01.2026 08:47 — 👍 73 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed “The Dead” at MOLI…
04.01.2026 18:18 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A really excellent biography by @stepwalktv.bsky.social
04.01.2026 14:22 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
This is great fun. Insightful too.
03.01.2026 15:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0*And*, most important, appearing on a radio show with me! Your productivity is amazing, all the best for improving on it next year!
31.12.2025 20:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
26 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”
I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.
29.12.2025 21:33 — 👍 545 🔁 130 💬 14 📌 7
Wowsa! Really loved Bailout Babies by @adammaguire.bsky.social - intelligent, illuminating, and full of great one-liners. Really funny, but also thought-provoking. And now I want to go axe throwing…
29.12.2025 19:59 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
