Myles na gCup O'Lean.

a new study finds that there is enough microplastic in your nads to make a little army guy. whats worse is that its the guy with the radio so he doesnt even have a gun. and he has a bunch of extra plastic along the seam on the bottom so he keeps falling over.

Meanwhile when the Sisters of Our Lady Of Charity kindly handed the former Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott St back to the State, they hung on to the car park, so they will financially benefit from whatever memorial is eventually put there to the women they enslaved.

Ooof, that looks great!

Whereas a broke weirdo like me, cursed with piles and my father's religion, attracts nothing but bitter opprobium.

Can't see it happening in a by-election, the quota will be miles above where his vote topped out last time. Be interesting to see if Maria Steen chucks her hat in the ring all the same.

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

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bluesky mods retire bitch

This is the first one of these debates I've watched and my god what depravity. How do you people live like this. #speirgorm

My garda neighbor told me rioters keep burning his vans so I asked how many vans he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new van afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding vans to rioters and then his daughter started crying.

The Guards have been treating the far right with kid gloves for years now and therefore are woefully unprepared to deal with them when they turn against them

Hmmm, that was Jim Gavin imo. Very little attention paid to obvious flaws in the construction of his campaign. A disingenuous attempt to market him as proven military grade equipment. Immediately descended to incredible depths he was ill prepared to navigate. Instantly imploded under the pressure.

The number one predictor of Brexit support back in the early days of polling on that issue, possibly even before the phrase was coined, was support for the death penalty.

how do you know something isn't a crime if you don't investigate it. why didn't this decision come after a court threw out their spurious case against Mo Chara, which they are now appealing? also, why is the world such bullshit nowadays

Exorcist III is weirdly fantastic if you haven't seen it.

Regardless of your stance on foxhunting and hare coursing, whoever is sending Humphreys out with that "They're rural pursuits, they have rules" stock answer is failing at their job, and so every journalist who doesn't follow it up with "why is cockfighting illegal then?" is failing at theirs.

You absolutely would believe it, I suspect; there's lately been a wave of wistful speculation about what you might have made of this particular image.

Took Twitter a few years to get buzzy and good too but yeah, the juice-o-meter is hovering low.

Which is entirely untrue as it happens. Lots of former republican prisoners at Leinster House for example, in various roles and varying levels of responsibility.

Mmhmmm, and is a linguist who applied for temporary project based contract with a TD a "member of the Oireachtas"? Why list them at all?

Interesting list of former Oireachtas members who've served prison sentences helpfully appended to that article. I guess they simply mustn't have had space for all the Fianna Failers too.

Gardaí stopped Catherine Connolly from hiring woman convicted of gun crime The presidential candidate sought to hire Ursula Ní Shionnáin, a former Éirigí member who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

Putting aside the thorny question of whether prison sentences have any rehabilitative effect (clearly the state doesn't believe this when it suits it) it's interesting Ray Burke, Ivory Callely, Ned O'Keeffe etc etc aren't mentioned in the brief list of examples of Oireachtas members who served time.

Screenshot of a 2023 tweet from the Irish Aviation Authority quoting Jim Gavin saying that it's the responsibility of every drone owner to obey the applicable laws.

Whoops

The anti abortion right don't give a damn about being "consistently pro life" they care about being consistently anti-woman. This is pitiful stuff.

Aviation safety chief Jim Gavin filmed presidential running video using drone in ‘red zone’ A promotional video of presidential candidate and aviation safety chief Jim Gavin taking part in a Parkrun event was filmed using a drone a in a “red zone” without permission.

All the lads who spent the week screaming about a vote for Catherine Connolly putting us all at a grave risk of drone attacks from state actors seem to be eerily quiet this morning.

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A mad little story of brazen food PR nonsense, and a wider indictment of media context collapse in Ireland and everywhere else.

Excellent work by @allthefood.bsky.social

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It's just not nearly as fun when two thirds of them only think it in private.

Every day till election day is going to consist of journalists reporting on Catherine Connolly saying something eminently sensible that everyone you know agrees with instinctively and pretending that it's an absolute bombshell that should instantly disqualify her.

As I always say a "technicality" is the word you use for a bit of law you don't like.