Beth O’N

Irish business save millions by not adapting pointless and non functioning “ai” services

Am with the Americans on this one, let’s embrace the dishwasher 😌*
* if your landlord buys you one

Last two weekends I’ve left Dublin on a 12.20 bus and not made it home until 20 to 2. The buses are JAMMED too, and pretty much everyone stays on until at least shankill. The good people of bray demand late night public transport

Sometimes I think about the fact that the green bus from Dublin to Limerick (which is notoriously slow) is nearly as fast as the only bus that goes from Dublin to bray after 11.30 PM 🥲

I’m so sick of everywhere having the heat absolutely cranked up, it’s not that cold yet!

Rudy Giuliani on Facebook posting a photo of the twin towers burning on 911 superimposed with his own face and the message "New York, you forgot"

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

A t-shirt reading "DICK CHENEY DIED ON THE DAY THAT ZOHRAN MAMDANI WAS ELECTED MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER 4, 2025"

We're bringing back calling him a vampire, I don't care

Had to share this from twitter just because

Crisis pregnancy centres are unregulated, and misinform pregnant people about their options. Yet, they continue to receive funding from the government and organisations such as the National Lottery.
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Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

thegist.ie In defence of Neutrality For the Irish Neutrality Bemoaner, Ireland's failure to join in with international military alliances is a stain on the nation's soul. We are happy to take the benefits of regional peace, they say, but we are not willing to play our part in making it happen. This argument, despite its widespread articulation, seems to fall apart with a simple tug of its connecting strings. To be clear, nobody for a moment thinks- not even the Neutrality Bemoaners- that any offensive capability that Ireland added to a military alliance would make the slightest difference to the outcome of any given clash or deterrent. For them, it is the principle of the thing. If you want to enjoy peace you should spend, fight and have your young men die for it.

thegist.ie On the other hand, it is also the case that the existence of non-aligned western democracies (Ireland, Austria, Finland* etc) allows those small, militarily unthreatening states to play a part in brokering, hosting and sometimes even carefully enforcing peacebuilding and peacebuilding talks and actions. Without honest brokers, how could deals get done? Oslo peace accords*. Nuclear disarmament deals done in Reykjavik. Peacekeeping in the Lebanon. Ireland's Neutrality is not an abdication of the duty to promote security. It is an opportunity that gives certain countries, by dint of historical experience or geographical location, a chance to act for peace far more effectively than any military action their armies could contribute.

thegist.ie Bemoaning Neutrality is to conflate militarism with effectiveness and presents peace as something only won through constant threat of overwhelming war. The lasting regional peace that Ireland enjoys is thanks to a western Europe which abandoned that thinking after it devastated its people and nations twice in a century and choose a more lasting model of co-operation with old enemies. If you were designing an Irish foreign policy from scratch now, with the aim of coming up with the most effective way in which a very small stable democracy in a strategic backwater location could contribute to promoting peace, military non-alignment would be a persuasive frontrunner by some distance. Even if it did disappoint the hardware enthusiast community.

In fact, I’ll save you the click.

This bears repeating.

Ireland: overwhelmingly votes for an independent left wing candidate

Irish Media: We must do more to help the far right!!

Since we’re talking about election coverage+the media, Ellen coyne has been a breath of fresh air on the IT’s inside politics. Just having someone point out that a lot of people were actually excited to vote for Connolly in amongst most of the “nobody liked these candidates” takes has been v welcome

Catherine Connelly’s colleagues gathering at Dublin Castle for the official announcement of her win. The front of the picture is entirely women.

Mary Robinson in 1990, making her acceptance speech with her colleagues behind her. The front row is entirely male, with only one woman in view at all.

2025 and 1990

Cackling, we are not a serious county

Only time I miss Twitter is during elections. Where is my hyper niche account that solely tweets the county from rural Wicklow

My hot take of the day: the media is always going to find an excuse for why a left victory doesn't count. Enjoy the win anyway and know that your haters are seething.

Side note: the relief of not unravelling an absolute scroll when I went to vote yesterday has me convinced we need to make getting on the ballot for European elections in particular much harder.

What we’ve seen across marriage equality, repeal, and this election is there’s about 60% of those who vote who want a progressive, inclusive Ireland. We need to focus on this 60% an not give oxygen to the 6% who have been slowly been sinking toward brain washing since Covid

That Philip Sutcliffe ballot has sickened me beyond belief and I honestly wish I hadn't seen it. Man alive, we need to come up with some way to deal with these people, and fast.

IN HER OWN CONSTITUENCY

Humphreys only drew level with Connolly. Only winning in her home town.

This is the ultimate narrative. Not spoiled votes. This is the most clear election ever.

As landslidey as landslides get.

The Irish people have spoken.

Hearing reports of people spoiling their ballots by writing 800-word op-ed columns about how Ireland needs to have a grown-up debate about joining NATO

Connolly is going to win this thing with about 60% of the vote and the op Eds will be all about how there wasn’t someone scary far right enough to represent that like 10% of headbanger

The scary fact is that instead of analysing a Connolly landslide with spoiled votes beating Humphreys as Humphreys just being REALLY unpopular, this will somehow be interpreted as the people clamouring for Maria fucking steen

Anything but acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, people do want something different, and came together on the ground to work for it.

The story today should be a left-wing landslide but the scale of the spoiled votes is going to shit all over it.

Put a poppy bowtie on your dog to remember the lads killed at the Somme with dignity