Patrick Freyne

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

morning after is different! That’s basically a roll over. Nowadays people apparently do a whole second day!

I am very ancient and most of my friends were married in weird old pagan ceremonies if they got married at all. well, I have just discovered the concept of having a “Day 2” to a wedding & I’m here to say that thats basically a hostage situation and shouldn’t be allowed

I feel like such a rube. The budgets are lower in Irish media and so parenting columnists here have to use their own less fancy kids.

You know what they say about lower life expectancy for the working class? Out of the 70(ish) friends and extended fam at my mam n dad's wedding, there are only 10 still living to be invited to their 50th anniversary in April. My mam is only 69 and Padre 71 🤯🤪

This is a lovely last parenting column from Séamas (he’s giving up the column not parenting… I think)

Working on an article called "156,564 Listicles that Have Been a Waste of my Time"

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

They don't really need intellectuals for what they want to do. Their "intellectuals" are just Bugs Bunny dressed up as a sexy lady bunny - there to distract centrist podcasters and heterodox media buffoons.

"Look, we all know thinkings for nerds but we have this tweedy guy with glasses who says weird things polysyllabically just in case"

Before Trump's election many migration experts said that the people who love the idea of mass deportations in theory wouldn't like it in practice: armed forces on the streets & nurses, doctors, carers, students, colleagues, neighbours, children (not mythical gang members) being targeted.

Using SCSI estimates suggests retrofitting DCC's Wood Quay HQ might cost roughly €70.2m. The council's CEO, Richard Shakespeare, says it'd cost roughly €350m-€400m, so it makes sense to abandon Wood Quay and build a new HQ on Kevin St. But the council won't explain how it got those numbers.

Patrick Freyne: The Beauty asks big questions. What if sexy people got so hot they exploded? Ryan Murphy’s show has the shape of satire while never making it entirely clear what’s being satirised

I wrote about the Beauty www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

That's very funny. But now I want to see the film even more because I'm a glutton for that sort of punishment...

Five things the film “Is This Thing On?” gets wrong about the world of stand up. Stand-up comedy is not about constantly talking about your feelings; if it was-why would straight men be so successful at it?

Fantastic, pointed, and written with furious élan. She v good.

open.substack.com/pub/grainnem...

Patrick Freyne: The Beauty asks big questions. What if sexy people got so hot they exploded? Ryan Murphy’s show has the shape of satire while never making it entirely clear what’s being satirised

I wrote about the Beauty www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Had more AI docs sent to me & am convinced that hard drives all over Dublin are filling with fierce professional looking pages that nobody reads properly & are, in fact, complete garbage. I think it's fascinating and bizarre. Otherwise smart people are being outfoxed by superficially nice layouts

Genuine question. Does anyone think they have a better "movie bad guy" name than me?
Richard Craven is the name of the head of the rich fraternity in a college movie.
Richard Craven is the name of the romantic false lead in a rom com that's cheating on the lead actress.

* rising slowly, wringing cap between shaking hands *

I think those little electronic signs that tell you when the bus is coming should have accurate information about when the bus is coming.

White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti after intense backlash Departure of Bovino, whose tactics drew sharp criticism, indicate that officials see killing as political threat to Trump

It's nice to see the authoritarian playbook doesn't entirely work while you can't (yet) just jail everyone www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Tumblr post by stimmyabby Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay. 642,270 notes

I think about this post a lot

Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.

Adapt, shrink or die: the global crisis in humanitarian aid [FREE TO READ] The UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees on the west’s retreat in Sudan, the folly of abandoning state-building and ‘necessary anger’

Despite the focus on small boats, most refugees stay in poor countries.

I went to Sudan, where nearly 1/3 of the population has left their homes, to see how the UN is coping with Trump's cuts and the west's retreat.

Sudan is a brutal, forgotten war. Please do read: as.ft.com/r/7db76b9a-8...

‘Your mammy was a flower’: a young boy’s bereavement One of 11 children, Séamas O’Reilly was just five years old when his mother died. In an extract from his touching new memoir, he recalls the day of her wake

I've always found writing about grief difficult, but rewarding. Today I'm sharing this piece, adapted from my memoir's first chapter, which is a good intro to its themes (death is sad) and its tone (things are still funny). #NGAW2026 #IrishHospiceFoundation

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I more or less did the same thing!

Adapt, shrink or die: the global crisis in humanitarian aid On the road in Sudan with the UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees

Really interesting and worrying piece from @henrymance.ft.com about the future of humanitarian aid in an increasingly isolationist world - he embeds with the UN high commissioner for refugees www.ft.com/content/8600...

This is incredibly detailed, humane and clear writing that reshaped the US narrative on Hiroshima. (Can’t believe only reading it now). We need lots of reporting like this in the current moment

Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

What stayed with Amundson most was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.
“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Bear Grylls: ‘I’ve bought an apocalypse-proof boat, with an array of weaponry’ The adventurer on his family’s escape vessel, his crush on the Princess of Wales, and a disgusting toenail habit

Quick everyone! To Bear Grylls apocalypse boat! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...