DelMcG's Avatar

DelMcG

@delmcg.bsky.social

Raconteur, bon vivant, connoisseur, delusional fantasist Dublin, Ireland Threads/Instagram @delmcg77

544 Followers  |  393 Following  |  1,368 Posts  |  Joined: 28.08.2023  |  1.9989

Latest posts by delmcg.bsky.social on Bluesky

No lying or making yourself out to be a cool kid.
Post the first record you bought.
If you can remember the shop or circumstances add that too. Local color appreciated.

Bought with money I got for my 14th birthday in the only record shop in Swords at the time (whose name escapes me)

03.11.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An absolute titan of a woman πŸ’”

03.11.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure what's worse, the USA defence or that Scotland alternate kit πŸ‘€ #SCOvUSA #AutumnInternationals

01.11.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
πŸ–
🐷
🐽

01.11.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 949    πŸ” 258    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8
Preview
darth vader is holding a light saber with the words if you strike me down below him ALT: darth vader is holding a light saber with the words if you strike me down below him

Probably stems from the fact, aside from genuine human decency, that one of them tried to end his career by digging up his old tweets. Kinda backfired, that...

01.11.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says " too soon " ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says " too soon "

1st November, is it?

Right, best get those Christmas decorations up...

01.11.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
By Lamplight or Moonlight: A Haunted History of Ireland 9 episodes, 1 ratings & reviews. True tales from Ireland's haunted past.

For the night that's in it, add this one to your podcast rotation.

Only 9 episodes but perfect for your Halloween listening "pleasure"
πŸŽƒπŸ‘»πŸ’€πŸ§›β€β™‚οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈπŸ§™β€β™€οΈ

31.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œOh, I don’t know. Billy’s been having trouble in school, and Sally’s always having some sort of crisis. I tell you, Edith, it’s not easy raising the dead.”

β€œOh, I don’t know. Billy’s been having trouble in school, and Sally’s always having some sort of crisis. I tell you, Edith, it’s not easy raising the dead.”

β€œOh, I don’t know. Billy’s been having trouble in school, and Sally’s always having some sort of crisis. I tell you, Edith, it’s not easy raising the dead.”

31.10.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Bloody Leinster players blocking Munster men again... πŸ˜‰πŸ˜

30.10.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I genuinely believe that the person or persons who discover the causes of the excess number of knee injuries in women's rugby, football and Gaelic games & comes up with a way to reduce their occurance should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

30.10.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
30.10.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And yet he's still clocked up more first team minutes than Arthur Melo ever managed... πŸ˜…

29.10.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The way things are going lately, if we signed him, he'd probably continue to score against us... πŸ˜…

29.10.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Squirrel Baille πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

28.10.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If last season Doctor Tottenham were the cure for opposing teams' ills, is it Surgeon General Liverpool this season?...

26.10.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Some rail services will not be running this Bank Holiday weekend All services across the country will operate on a revised timetable.

Likely not helped by the fact that there are no train services operating north of the river due to works.
Thankfully there are no major events in Dublin this bank holiday weekend that this will negatively impact... πŸ€”πŸ‰πŸƒ

25.10.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait until you find out that they used to give you a free pint of Guinness when you donated blood.

One pint out, one pint in. The Irish principle of balance 😁

25.10.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Nine years since these disturbing scenes at Halesowen.

By the letter of the law, that’s probably a red card offence…

25.10.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

Taxi Driverless?

24.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Go Ahead Eagles" sounds like the Merseyside fan club of Philadelphia's NFL team 😁

23.10.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely *perfect* read for this time of year, especially the treatise on Hammer Horror "classic" Horror Express.

At 99p it's a bargain at twice the price πŸ‘πŸΌ

23.10.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image 22.10.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Twice on TNT Sports comms, Darren Fletcher has described Arthur Theate as an international team-mate of Virgil van Dijk.

Arthur Theate is Belgian.

Virgil van Dijk, rather famously, isn't.

πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

22.10.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice of them to use your Linkedin profile picture, all the same πŸ˜†

Happy Birthday πŸ‘

22.10.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not to be a vocabulary pedant towards the no-doubt eminently qualified Grauniad sub-editor here, but "misadventure" is not the opposite or negative of "adventure"
A misadventure is an accident, a mishap or an incident resulting in negative consequences. You can't say any of that applies to LRZ here

21.10.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's both FF & FG tbf
No doubt they've always done it but you'd think with a century of practice they'd have it down to an art yet they're so very, very bad at it
What they've come up with is the political equivalent of "Yeah but... but... yer ma buys your shoes in Penneys!"
Absolutely cringeworthy.

20.10.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Farrell should have been there ahead of Henshaw on Day 1 anyway, although I will say Henshaw was one of very few Leinster players to come out of Saturday with any credit. The other is Alex Soroka who I'd like to see added as a training player in Gleeson's place. He's started the season really well

20.10.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This #PresidentialElection campaign goes down as one of the worst in my voting lifetime: weird without being sufficiently interesting, unedifying without being sufficiently dramatic
But look, we might end up with a president who does keepy-uppies with the ROI team when she meets them at the AvivaπŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

20.10.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All that said, for the first time in 30yrs, I am not certain if I'm actually going to vote at all
I don't have any ideological issues with the candidates but I have no particular grΓ‘ for them either. I'll probably make my mind up at the 11th hour (literally: the polling station is 5mins walk away!)

20.10.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I literally have no idea what Heather Humphreys stands for, bar a few light (i.e. safe, non-inflammatory) comments around Irish unity because her side have been so bad at actually putting her out there or putting their side of the story across. They'd much rather throw weak jabs at their opponent.

20.10.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

@delmcg is following 20 prominent accounts