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Honestly I am eating these White House renovations up. It's a perfectly formed running gag in a sitcom

this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.

Lá breithe shona duit

Have I Got Phobia For You Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...

A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour

haveigotphobiaforyou.com

Another gorgeous Macnas parade to close out the #BramStokerFestival.

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Use myaccount for govid signing. Lpt portal requires prop id/pin but you can get to portal from myaccount
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The doings and transprirings of the "Royal" families of more backward nations are of no consequence to us citizens of free republics

This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old

The wreck
We looked upon his works
Yes
YES
The despair is out

Lies, damned lies and reality TV  – The Beacon Izzy Kamikaze discovered first hand that the media continues to fail minorities and instead prefers entertainment over justice.

We've known the dangers of reality TV ever since Nancy Campbell-Panitz was beaten to death by her ex on the night they appeared on the Jerry Springer show. 38 people have taken their own lives after taking part in reality TV. Tricking people into taking part is not OK. the-beacon.ie/2025/10/27/l...

Dear editors,

It's not just the phones causing your circulation to plummet.

Catherine Connolly: What do I know? Back at the start of these Gists I said that Catherine Connolly was having a mare of a campaign. This, of course, was because I am an idiot. And, in this case, I was a particularly shameful kind of idiot. Like the most flabby-minded middle aged golf bore at the end of the club bar, I mistook my media diet for reality. Shame on me.

New Gist, In which I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-...

Connoll-Tea!

Poster

If you haven’t, get out there and vote #connolly4president #aras25 #speirgorm

Old cartoon of woman leaning over a ballot box & holding a hammer Caption: “When she gets it, what will she do with it”

🇮🇪 Presidential Election Day

1918 was the first time Irish women were permitted to vote, & even then only ~women over 30 who owned property~

Is é do vóta do ghuth 🗳️ #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

Mural of Catherine Connolly in Stoneybatter

House with Halloween decorations saying Spookybatter

Grotto at Aughrim street church

Scenes from the walk to polling station
#Aras2025 #Áras2025
#Spéirghorm #Speirgorm

A section of map showing Scribblestown, Co. Dublin

Scribblestown, parish of Castleknock, Dublin.

The Irish name is Bhaile Scriobail, 'Scrypple's Town', Scrypple being a family name.

#speirgorm

Greyscale drawing of the Morrigan as three women in Celtic-inspired dresses and cloaks, with blank white eyes, surrounded by crows. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Samhain #Halloween #Art #TraditionalArt

Continuing the spooky theme, the Morrigan triple goddess - and the crows they are heavily associated with - is Irish mythology's foreteller of death or victory in battle ⚔️

Prints on sale at the moment here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

A púca for the season that's in it 👻

All prints of this one are hand-finished with gold paint, and they're also on sale (along with many other spooky prints) until the end of this month.

www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Is the Left Right for the Park? Do you want radical socialists to run the Presidency? If Not vote no. 1 Brian lenihan

From the 1990 Presidential Election

“Are there any parades that don’t exist that you wouldn’t march in?”

Now why don’t we try out this gambit in our presidential debates? Just mind-meltingly lunatic irrelevancies pitched at the candidates.

Knightley and Macfadyen both working with Rowling on the new audiobooks only confirms the 1995 Pride And Prejudice as the superior one

Michael McDowell: Liberals must stop adopting lazy, woke stances on complex issues Political and social liberalism, nationally and internationally, is more vulnerable than ever

If you are sick of reading tendentious crap like this about "trans activists" being "woke" and want to read a nuanced novel about a trans woman trying to come to grips with her identity in a hostile world, head to the pinned post and go order my book!

Sensitivity-read by THEE Aoife Martin :)

The large portal tomb at Browneshill, Carlow, Ireland. It consists of a giant capstone supported by upright stones. The capstone leans at a dramatic angle, but still stands after 5,000 years.

Browneshill Dolmen • Carlow

Ireland has around 170 recorded portal tombs, also known as dolmens. They were constructed during the Neolithic period, from around 3800 BC onwards.

The capstone at Browneshill is enormous! It is estimated to weigh well in excess of 100 tonnes.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Photograph of a very starry sky. #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Goodnight from the bit of the Kingdom underneath this (might need to throw the brightness up on a phone to see it) - highly recommend going outside for a look, helluva sky tonight 🌌

Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly on hopes, fears, and daily routines Getting to know more about our two presidential candidates with questions about everything from morning routines and earliest memories to biggest fears

In today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social the two remaining presidential hopefuls told me about their daily lives, their hopes and fears for the future, their earliest memory and the one thing people don't know about them #PresidentialElection
#Aras25
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/he...

Cartoon. Two people standing on a stage looking at a third person who is jumping down through a trap door. In the foreground we see the backs of the audience’s heads. One standing people observes “It’s just a stage he’s going through”

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

The second flotilla is now in the ‘red zone’ where Israel has previously abducted flotillas and trafficked them onwards to false imprisonment. We’ll do all we can to reach Gaza, but if they stop us it will likely be within 24 hours. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker