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@beirne.bsky.social

he/him | irish | mostly posting about rugby, women’s football and my terrible life

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Announcing this the day after someone set fire to an IPAS centre certainly sends a message alright…

01.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“That’s $200 in the economy”

Just masterful

01.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Look forward to learning how losing ground to the left once more means that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael need to swing even further to the right, yet again

01.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finding out Ivan Yates was advising Fianna Fáil during the presidential election is even funnier/more egregious when you remember that he was giving out free advice to Fine Gael to “smear the bejaysus” out of Catherine Connolly as a Russian asset

01.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

lol. lmao, even

01.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sorry to hear. Hope you’re doing alright (or as well as you can in the circumstances) ❤️

01.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just hit 10k steps for the 365th day in a row. I promise that it’s harder than it sounds to not miss a single day

01.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where is the initiative, or the resourcing, to stamp this out before someone is killed? (2/2)

01.11.2025 11:57 — 👍 105    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 2

A real test for politicians and gardaí.

There's been a years-long campaign of arson/attempted arson at IPAS centres - even buildings rumoured to be considered for asylum seekers.

We've had far-right instigated riots in our capital, at CityWest and Coolock; arson at TD's property... (1/2)

01.11.2025 11:57 — 👍 167    🔁 66    💬 3    📌 1

Right wing dickheads want you afraid of foreign criminals coming in, putting "our women and children" at risk, meanwhile this is what they're doing to women and children

01.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 88    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 0

Actually this tweet is perfect because the torment nexus tweet is about completely missing the point of literature, and in this case the literature is the torment nexus tweet

01.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 2024    🔁 455    💬 18    📌 2

They should invent a hotel with good wifi

01.11.2025 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just don’t think you can disconnect the government taking an increasingly hostile rhetorical line to migrants this week with that horrific attack on the IPAS centre in Drogheda. If you tell these people they have a point, they will escalate their violence.

01.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 69    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 0

I think this is legitimately the worst delivered joke of all time. Like in all of human history. Since they invented jokes. Actually since they invented language.

01.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 390    🔁 38    💬 13    📌 3

This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment:

It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.

01.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 1010    🔁 274    💬 18    📌 13

“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL [Yale Humanitarian Research Lab] has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while.”

Incredibly grim

31.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 151    🔁 128    💬 0    📌 2

Jesus Christ it’s genuinely impressive how she manages to find new ways to be awful after all this time

31.10.2025 23:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry to hear. Hope you’re doing alright ❤️

31.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for doing actual journalism!

31.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Number of homeless people reaches new record of 16,614 including 5,238 children
It’s an increase of 261 people compared to the previous month’s figures.

Number of homeless people reaches new record of 16,614 including 5,238 children It’s an increase of 261 people compared to the previous month’s figures.

As our Government decide to go all in on attacking immigrants because far right rioters asked them to, we have over 5000 children homeless now, a number that only ever moves upwards.

5238 kids having their childhoods torn away.

31.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 46    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 1

If it helps, this was one of the things that convinced me to start paying because I was going crazy not seeing that coverage anywhere else really

31.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m sure the Spanish car rental company will be very normal about this accident that happened in France and this definitely won’t drag out at all or cost me any money

31.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some French lad has managed to crash into my parked rental car in an otherwise empty car park but at least he found me to make sure I have all his insurance info and has totally admitted fault so I can’t even really be all that mad at him

31.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s probably not even gonna matter cuz the AI bubble is so big now that it’ll wipe everything else out with. Gonna make us nostalgic for 2008

31.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really need to call my pension guy and totally divest from any AI stock because this has to pop

31.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

30.10.2025 23:56 — 👍 4650    🔁 1324    💬 124    📌 62

Good look to their commercial and marketing team trying to get sponsors on board or even renew existing ones!

31.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Since the far right race riot where immigrant families were threatened, Garda were attacked, and a Garda van was set on fire, have you heard our senior politicians talk more about the rioters, or immigration?

31.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 110    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 0

She’s legally not allowed to answer the questions you’ve asked. Hope this helps. Should probably know these things if you want to be a journalist

30.10.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also lol @ the idea of the king of britain “privately” funding anything, but especially at “privately” funding his paedo brother‘s new life as “not a prince but still living a life more luxurious than 99.9% of normal people”

30.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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