Peter Donaghy

The worst giants-related grammatical aberration since Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

FPTP has the One Ring problem. Everyone wants to destroy it, apart from the party that just won an election with it.

Petition for the Alliance Party to rebrand themselves as Wow!

The claim that regional inequality has doubled in Northern Ireland is not accurate.

📈Stats show Belfast’s output per person grew faster than average but that’s not a full measure of regional inequality.

Read why here 👇

It's no exaggeration to say that this, the news that stinkbug eggs look exactly like a hape of creamy pints, is one of the most impactful things that's ever happened in the history of Irish posting. A dazzling event. A nuclear level revelation.

The release of ChatGPT is pretty obvious in this chart

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

Russia launched its full-scale invasion exactly four years ago.

If anyone had told us, during that first month, that this would be the situation four years later, we would have instantly called it a massive Ukrainian victory and a staggering Russian defeat

1400 and bits and pieces of 1300

A chart showing the length of Rob Zombie album titles and the SF share of the vote at Irish general elections since 1997

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Do the laser eyes signal a predictable pivot to shilling Bitcoin

A Venn diagram showing difficulty levels in DOOM and Lana del Rey albums

It's time to update the chart

A picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the 1980s wearing a shirt that says "No I Just Look Like Him!" on the back

I wonder if he still has this shirt, it might have been useful recently

A bottle of The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5

I must say that ski jumping looks like jolly good fun. If I want to give it a go do I need anything else

looks like bridge discourse is back on the menu boys

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

8% margin of error with the small sample size

A combined nationalist vote share of 38% would be tied with the 2016 Assembly election as the lowest since 1992 in an Assembly or Westminster election.

A chart showing the price of a kilo of beef mince from September 2019 to December 2025

From the latest ONS item price quotes data, the price of a kilo of beef mince is up 42% year-on-year to £12.

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can you send me a message on updog

> what's updog?

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A screenshot of the Pitchfork review of "Rehearsing My Choir" by Fiery Furnaces; it got a 4.0 review.

It's been over 20 years(!) but this is still the biggest travesty of justice Pitchfork review of all time. A solid 10.0, one of the best albums of the 2000s.

A screenshot of Moldovan TV new year's eve show

Teleradio-Moldova are streaming their New Year's Eve show on YouTube now and it is incredible

A chart showing anti-social behaviour and violent and sexual offences in the Titanic DEA of Belfast since 2011

Not all places have seen a decline, with the Titanic DEA of East Belfast one area where there has been an increase in recorded crimes over the last couple of years.

A chart showing violent and sexual offences in Northern Ireland since 2011

There was a post-Covid spike in incidents of violent and sexual offences, but this has been falling over the last few years as well and September 2025 was lower than September 2019.