@michelabarlow.bsky.social
Treehugger in Tipperary. 🇵🇸
The brushing genocide under the carpet operation has started in earnest
13.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Catherine Connolly used to wrap little bits of turf in tinfoil and sell them as ten spots of hash in the campsite at Féile
#SmearTheBejaysis
"Through their own negligence, Fianna Fáil have given us a presidential election with an asterisk — the last thing that any state needs at a time when democracy across the world is being undermined."
This week's column. Fair warning, the first few paragraphs are me saying I told you so.
She was canvassing in Cashel as was driving thru. Big crowd hangin around chatting - really lovely atmosphere. Gutted I missed the hurling bit!
10.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ah here. Hurling n all??
#Áras25
Yes! Wicked wit.
09.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"I buried those boobs in Baden Baden" is such a cracking line! Really like her & what she has created.
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Gaza civil defence reports strikes after ceasefire plan announcement - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-reports-strikes-after-ceasefire-plan-announcement
09.10.2025 04:39 — 👍 22 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
The Long Game Imagine you are a tenant, in the worst financial crash in living memory, and you discover that over three thousand of your very precious and irreplaceable euros have been sent by your idiot bank to your previous landlord. And then he won't give them back. Not then, but also, not later either. He just keeps the money, because that is how Irish private landlords behave. You pay a deposit to a landlord and then they try anything on to refuse to give it back. Now imagine you spend the next 16 years seething every time that landlord appears on the TV, being fêted for his sporting triumphs, receiving state appointments and still never giving you your money. And now, and I invite you to imagine this in full 8k Hi-Def Surround Sound, imagine seeing that guy announce he was running to be President and realising you were going to tell your story and End It.
I learned about Sports Thumb Jim Gavin dropping out of the Irish Presidential election from @tupped.bsky.social's The Gist this morning and I owe it to you to share this relevant passage, which got my week off to a great start:
06.10.2025 08:26 — 👍 191 🔁 64 💬 4 📌 6NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
Unfortunately for Jim Gavin, across all codes and creeds there are simply very few charges more universally sympathetic than "my ex-landlord owes me thousands of euro"
05.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 115 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 3I wrote a thing today about a man I never met.
It's a strange thing, & a strange feeling, but this one has really floored me, kinda like Bowie did.
A colossal loss, &, well... Here's my 2nd blog.
An Fhatach - Manchán Magan. 💚
#SpéirGorm #ManchánMagan
www.claireblennerhassett.com/finding-my-v...
This sounds so incredibly dodgy and something that ends up with them being raided by commandos dropped from helicopters.
04.10.2025 03:38 — 👍 33 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1And you! X
03.10.2025 20:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Claire! 💕 I loved this. Have been so sad for him and his family today, and also for all of us as a nation to lose this essential voice, this treasure of knowledge & words linking us to our land. The bridge is a lovely analogy.
03.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0I think of the older women in Belfast arrested for Palestine shirts and stickers every time I pass the UVF billboard on the Donegall Road, which is several times a week
03.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 88 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0
Manchán Magan in Kennys
Ní bheidh a leitheid arís ann is an overused phrase, but it could not be more apt than with Manchán Magan. He would tell you a story about the origin of the phrase, and why it's used more in certain parts of the country than others. He crammed so much into his 55 years, /1
03.10.2025 09:02 — 👍 69 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1Such a huge loss. What an inspirational man. His passion for our heritage, landscape and language was so important.
03.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A tragic loss. Manchán has helped us define a different kind of relationship with nature based on our language and traditions. RIP.
03.10.2025 06:29 — 👍 108 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
Is new Dublin restaurant Entrecôte connected to the French originals? All 3 Entrecôte restaurant groups in France have told us they're not, but almost every media outlet has reported otherwise... www.allthefood.ie/single-post/is-new-dublin-restaurant-entrec%C3%B4te-connected-to-the-french-originals
26.09.2025 19:45 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
Evergreen up yours to Iona
Still one of the greatest.
24.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of Gavan Reilly reporting that Maria Steen 'claims the political consensus has never been so out of kilter with the grassroots desire for an alternative voice'; reply from Sinéad Gleeson pointing out the jarringly high value of the bag Steen is clutching in the photo
Hermes bag: 20k
Documented donations to the Iona Institute from far-right groups like the Novae Terrae Foundation: at least 25k?
The grassroots desire for an alternative voice: priceless
I'm going to blame Fintan 'Ireland needs a conservative Catholic to run' O'Toole for providing her the first cloak of respectability for her campaign.
23.09.2025 12:39 — 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 3
Disruption across Italy 🇮🇹 as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war
Schools and stations closed and ports blocked in one of Europe’s biggest demonstrations opposing Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
My commute is super early so they are a lifesaver to have ready. Third oats, third frozen raspberry & blueberry, and third flax/chia/mixed seeds. Hot water to soak. Big dollop of greek yoghurt on top. V addictive
20.09.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Her name is Abir Al-Sahlani member of the European Parliament from Sweden
This is absolutely delightful.
17.09.2025 07:42 — 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
