Gavan Reilly

🎵 Snapdragon Cup Champions, you’ll never sing that 🎵

Nice.

We were only Ireland’s biggest lingerie section trying to find out how to get AWAY from Ireland’s biggest lingerie section.

Daft idea: thinking UK teenagers looking for porn will not realise there are many free VPNs available

Dafter idea: not realising they giving people a gateway to VPNs will lead to even murkier content

Daftest idea: the regulator publishing a list of porn sites operating without ID/age verification

I was a student in 2005 when that rebrand happened. They were worried that the acronym ‘UCD’ was also understood world as ‘UC Davis’ (as in, University of California). Was before they had international campuses etc

[citation needed].

Enda Kenny meets with Hulk Hogan in an airport tunnel, 2015.

Hulk Hogan was likely to miss his connecting fight to Austin for SxSW in 2015, but an unexpected security delay to his flight from Atlanta meant Hogan was actually able to make the plane after all.

When he heard about the delay, he asked to meet the man responsible for saving him.

And thus…

The path seems clear for Mairéad McGuinness to be the sole Fine Gael candidate for #aras25 - Sean Kelly MEP (who was touted for a third time) says entering the race “is not the right move at this point in time”. ⁦‪@virginmedianews.bsky.social

Mary Lou McDonald in March, asked about contesting the presidency: “Well, it won’t be me!”

Mary Lou McDonald today, asked about contesting the presidency: not commenting on any specific possible candidates …

The 1975 had good staging. And shite music.

‘Killjoy council took away my giant elephant slide’ A perturbed pensioner is pleading with council chiefs to return a 20ft-long fibreglass elephant removed from his driveway over safety fears.

Lot to unpack here www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...

The problem with putting him on the bottom left is that McDonald’s don’t do green tea so he’d never pull in anyway

Toooootally. If anything he might even be the type to lecture them about its evils on the drive home

There’s been a lot of talk (and confusion) about rental changes.  Virgin Media News Political Correspondent @gavreilly.com breaks it all down — from new caps and six-year tenancies to what it means if your landlord owns four properties. 

More on #VMNews

Sinner has shipped quite a few points today too tbf

I knew Jannik Sinner’s shirt reminded me of something

Nice to see one of the copies I signed for @booksupstairs.bsky.social out in the wild!

Sorry now. Steward’s inquiry.

Hate that for you. Counselling is available

I’m convinced every single one of his ‘fans’ eat crayons for breakfast.

If anyone here has finished the book, how did you find it? Honest criticism welcome!

For the second week in a row, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 is Ireland’s number 1 non-fiction bestseller.

In all good bookshops now, or order online via linktr.ee/gavreilly.

Thanks to everyone on #speirgorm who has picked up a copy so far!

Daryl has good taste. Be like Daryl.

Tá siúl agam go mbainfidh tú sult as!

The Secret Life of Japan’s War on Leinster House: so secret even the Japanese didn’t know they were doing it

Probably in a brass plaque in Malta

Congrats on another relentless season of kicking bits out of everyone else in the Copa Marconi/Bauer Bowl/ragtag radio rampage/whatever we’re calling it for 25-26

Hopefully a bit of all three from the Reithean trinity

Tremendous booking. Fanatics would be proud of the merch hustle

A copy of The Secret Life of Leinster House by Gavan Reilly

This by @gavreilly.com arrived today - looking forward to reading!