Diarmuid Fitzgerald

Connolly 'absolutely delighted' with initial tallies Independent Presidential Election candidate Catherine Connolly has said she is "absolutely delighted" with initial tallies in her home county of Galway.

“I want to thank everybody, even those that didn't vote for me.

"I understand their concerns in relation to who will represent them best."

- Catherine Connolly

www.rte.ie/news/preside... #Aras25

16% turnout lol. Everyone has ceased to give a shit.

7m ago 07.52 CEST Will Hayward, the Welsh political commentator, says the Caerphilly byelection result confirms that the left-voting block in south Wales easily outnumbers the right-voting blog. In a post on his Substack blog analysing the Caerphilly result, he has posted this graphic. Byelection voting Photograph: Will Hayward Newsletter

I wonder if there are any lessons to be learned here for the Labour Party, as the governing party with cratering approval ratings who are facing an electoral wipeout next year, or whether the lesson will be the importance of hectoring people into voting Labour despite its quixotic rightward shift.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

An absolutely knackered MPC2000 LCD screen displaying a DISK READ ERROR!!! message

Not the best photo to use in your Akai MPC2000 listing on eBay. Especially when the only detail you provide is “it switches on”

Italian cinema poster for BONNIE & CLYDE. Because their legend wasn’t so well known outside of the US, it was retitled GANGSTER STORY, which is a pretty rubbish name for what would become such an iconic film

Ooh aye, Bonnie And Clyde (1967) is £2.99 on iTunes. Still packs a punch after nearly 60 years

"Condiment Udders"

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

We gotta get Marwan Barghouti outta prison

Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"

"They told me to spoil the vote." - me, next Friday when someone asks me why I brought my polling card to the zoo and for ice-cream after.

My favourite thing about Catherine is how insanely mad she has made all the biggest losers in Irish politics

Sounds like #capitalism.

FUN FACT:

Our military is not being paid,

but the ICE gremlins are.

Make that make sense.

Congratulations, you just defined capitalism.

There's a great Roni Size 12" of this, promo only

And I strongly doubt these are the only places where the views of actual working class people would horrify the fuck out of the flag-humpers.

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

When the VAT is €1.30? & the administration fee is nearly €6, you do curse BREXIT, I do.

If they really believed this, they’d drop prices first, betting on that being a huge win. But they’re not being in that at all, they don’t have that confidence, because they know it’s bullshit, and they’re betting on bullshit fooling us all

Pretending this is the new Taylor Swift album and asking what everyone’s problem with it is

Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."

Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.

The insanity continues. The police either don't know what they are doing or are just arresting people as a punitive deterrent.

If only we could deport people like Paz49.

We really could make the country better.

double checked this and it originated from the LBC political editor over on twitter, so it does appear to be real.

with that out of the way: lmfao

Didn’t understand the plot after 15 minutes? What a big fucking idiot sex pest he is

Harvey messing it up again. Creep.

Poster for Tarsem Singh’s THE FALL (2006), depicting a small band of men stood before a towering, blood-soaked drape

Having hated Tarsem’s THE CELL (2000) I didn’t bother with his 2006 follow up. Turns out it’s actually very good. Unlike his film school classmates Michael Bay & Zack Snyder, he manages to mix striking images with an emotional wallop (thanks to excellent performances by Lee Pace & Catinca Untaru)

Trying to imagine the reaction from the presidents of other countries to this: "THREE GRAND? in EUROS? He dropped out over a €3K debt to a former tenant from sixteen years ago? What the fuck?"
If only this kind of thing was the standard practice in Ireland.