Donal O’Keeffe's Avatar

Donal O’Keeffe

@donalokeeffe.bsky.social

Reporter with The Echo, but opinions very much my own.

781 Followers  |  260 Following  |  51 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.8142

Latest posts by donalokeeffe.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image 12.09.2025 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

him (a man of wealth and taste): please allow me to introduce myself.

me (puzzled by the nature of his game): woo woo

06.05.2023 01:54 — 👍 1441    🔁 360    💬 18    📌 6
Preview
fridge To fridge a (usually female) character in a movie, television show, comic book, etc., is to kill them off or seriously harm/abuse/violate them in some way (as a writer) for the purposes of motivating ...

So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition.

Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.

www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge

09.06.2025 19:42 — 👍 3544    🔁 729    💬 108    📌 45
Video thumbnail

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

09.06.2025 01:39 — 👍 34758    🔁 16635    💬 2471    📌 3432

This is like a nature documentary about the battle for supremacy between two magnificent lions, except instead of magnificent lions, it's half-bald rats and one of the rats is off its tits on ketamine.

05.06.2025 21:51 — 👍 32    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

I put it to you, Mr Zimmerman, that if you did indeed hear that hoot-owl singing as they were taking down the tents, then the stars above the barren trees could not have been his only audience.

05.06.2025 22:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Video thumbnail

This ad aired in 2002….they have been trying to warn us and we weren’t paying attention

30.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 797    🔁 269    💬 28    📌 30

date: can you take off your work gloves

Jim Henson: they have names

01.05.2023 12:01 — 👍 4921    🔁 1115    💬 39    📌 19
An article from The Independent under the section "News > World > Americas > US politics" with the headline: "Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’." The subheading reads: "Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’." The article is authored by Gustaf Kilander in Washington D.C., published on Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 16:31 BST.

An article from The Independent under the section "News > World > Americas > US politics" with the headline: "Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’." The subheading reads: "Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’." The article is authored by Gustaf Kilander in Washington D.C., published on Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 16:31 BST.

Welcome to our everyday hell, fund managers.

13.04.2025 17:00 — 👍 4399    🔁 663    💬 317    📌 73

@hanszomer.bsky.social Hey Hans! Good to see you.

12.04.2025 21:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

This is what happens when a man with six bankruptcies runs a global economy.

03.04.2025 16:01 — 👍 3053    🔁 683    💬 119    📌 21
Post image

Portrait of Rory Gallagher by Togher artist John Doolan. John works in Deaf Enterprises in Ballinlough. An exhibition of his work is upstairs in Bishopstown Library during April.

08.04.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Most Viagra is produced in Ireland, we could end tariffs and, indeed, Musk's presidency simply by shutting off supplies to the old, rich men that run the USA.

02.04.2025 21:54 — 👍 40    🔁 12    💬 6    📌 0

He's like the world's shittest supervillain.

"I hereby impose tariffs on all of Latveria's enemies!"

But my lord Doom, tariffs will beggar your own faithful peasants first, hurting those who love you most!

"TARIFFS!"

02.04.2025 21:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

The KKK: “In our schools and libraries are books that create hatred and dislike among the people of different sections of America. The Klan is pledged to true history.” (1922)

30.03.2025 20:09 — 👍 655    🔁 263    💬 9    📌 9
Gay Mitchell asks the European Commission if they could consider standardising Mother’s Day and Father’s Day across Europe

Gay Mitchell asks the European Commission if they could consider standardising Mother’s Day and Father’s Day across Europe

The European Commission basically says lol

The European Commission basically says lol

#tbt to 2012 when an Irish MEP asked the EU to standardise Mother’s Day across the continent

30.03.2025 20:24 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

Putting a sticker on my Volkswagen to let people know I bought it BEFORE I knew Hitler was a Nazi.

10.03.2025 01:44 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Bearing a grudge since being fired from "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), Joan Crawford said of director Robert Aldrich, "He is a man who loves evil, horrendous, vile things."

Aldrich replied, "If the shoe fits, wear it, and I am very fond of Miss Crawford."

03.03.2025 00:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They learned something from their first term.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles.

So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.

23.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 16396    🔁 4117    💬 266    📌 131

Trump isn’t going to end the war in Ukraine. He’s going to make it easier for Russia to keep what it stole and greenlight Putin to go after other countries.

20.02.2025 22:30 — 👍 5807    🔁 739    💬 268    📌 28

I hope it chokes Vance.

18.02.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Video thumbnail

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech at the Munich Security Conference ends with prolonged applause👏

15.02.2025 18:24 — 👍 14114    🔁 3016    💬 510    📌 218
Preview
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

"For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire" www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

16.02.2025 11:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

10.02.2025 13:49 — 👍 6185    🔁 3065    💬 164    📌 210

“Yes, Donald Trump and his horde of monied incels are shredding the constitutional order and working to re-impose a racial & gender caste system on public life. But I had a self-righteous nonbinary undergrad in one of my classes, so who is to say whether the left or the right is worse?”-every pundit

11.02.2025 18:33 — 👍 626    🔁 120    💬 5    📌 4

"Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall." - Terry Pratchett

09.02.2025 21:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

I appreciate that everything about this - headline, premise, content, author name and photo - looks like an Onion-level satirical gag.

07.02.2025 10:27 — 👍 121    🔁 23    💬 7    📌 2
Preview
Opinion | From the river to the sea, Palestine will be ... abolished? With Israel’s Netanyahu alongside, Trump adds Gaza to his list of colonial ambitions.

“Genocide Joe never looked so good.” Scalding piece by Dana Millbank . “From the river to the sea, Palestine will cease to exist. As those uncommitted voters now know: Elections have consequences.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

05.02.2025 08:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

"His comments seemed to indicate that Mr. Trump wanted to find a new homeland for the Palestinians rather than reconstruct Gaza" is an insane way to describe what would be one of history's greatest programs of ethnic cleansing.

04.02.2025 21:44 — 👍 1094    🔁 238    💬 33    📌 5

A lot be of people are saying this.

01.02.2025 13:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@donalokeeffe is following 20 prominent accounts