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A scribbling, squabbling, strácáiling eejit, that got blown along the N20 and out to Cork City, Ireland. Bestselling co-author. Foghlaimeoir, bleeding-heart, AuDHDer. Opinions my own. Check https://www.linktr.ee/mike_mcgb for latest scut-acting.

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'Kindred Spirits' Director Tomm Moore Shares the Supernatural Secrets of Cartoon Saloon's New Project | Animation Magazine Director Tomm Moore gives us a sneak peek of his new feature 'Kindred Spirits,' which will be showcased at Cartoon Movie in March.

THE SECRET OF KELLS STUDIO IS DOING A MOVIE ABOUT THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN AN IRISH FAMINE REFUGEE AND A CHOCTAW BOY???

01.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 97    🔁 39    💬 0    📌 4

Love that Danhausen, but WWE clearly doesn't have the first idea of what to do with the athlete; and it's already looking very much like they'll Flanderise the character.

Pity he couldn't have made it work with AEW/ROH; double-pity he's ended up in MAGA-land.

#wrestlesky

01.03.2026 16:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every time I read a book from before the 20th Century, I am reminded that everyone who posts one of those anti-classics screeds on social media is a rube who has never actually read a book.

01.03.2026 15:45 — 👍 53    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0

I am ashamed of my country's recent shameless pandering to the far right. As well as the increase in deportations, many decent, hardworking people who have been here for years have been left waiting for months for renewal of their existing permits to live & work here.

01.03.2026 15:38 — 👍 71    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 0
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PayGap.ie - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal A portal cataloguing gender pay gap reports from Irish companies.

Friends, I'm working on allowing people to access PayGap.ie in Irish. I'm close to finished on the code work needed to support translatable strings everywhere, and will do my best at a first pass of the translations too, but if there's any Irish speakers willing to give it a look, let me know!

01.03.2026 15:19 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

I see Nigel "always cheated never defeated" Farage is now trying to stop non UK citizens from voting. This would mean my Irish wife would have no right to vote despite giving 20 years of hard work and taxes to the UK state.

And where does it stop - the unemployed/benefit claimants will be next

01.03.2026 13:43 — 👍 1167    🔁 280    💬 135    📌 16

this is brilliant

01.03.2026 13:19 — 👍 26    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

The people who hate asylum seekers are cheering on an illegal war that will create millions of refugees…

28.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 83    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 5

BIG BAD BRODY KIIIIIING

28.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Neph is somehow right at the middle of the Venn diagram between philosopher, comedian, rapper, storyteller and god-help-us

28.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Will never not post this when Fetterman's name comes up.

"I feel like Neph Fetty Wap Man/My dope hit like Rob Van Dam" 💃

youtu.be/juESUZ179nI

28.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Deconsecrate it and make a drop-in community centre out of it.

The institutional Catholic Church still owes the people of Ireland too much for it to be sold off and fill their coffers.

#spéirghorm #ireland

28.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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archive.ph/0sBvh

28.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

They made a promise, a reasonable and achievable one; and they broke it. No points from me.

28.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the 2007-11 gov't, the Greens were among the architects of an austerity campaign that this country will likely never recover from.

In the 2020-2024 coalition, they promised an end to Direct Provision, then doubled-down on it.

Polanski wouldn't recognise our Greens as his.

#spéirghorm #ireland

28.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Which has everything to do with a message that is the opposite of the Irish Greens in government.

Vehemently anti-austerity, up for directly punishing the biggest polluters, in favour of a humane asylum system - everything we've needed from Greens IE, but didn't get.

#spéirghorm #ireland

28.02.2026 18:24 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

“New Labour redistributed income fiercely”... to weapons dealers

28.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dean: Burglar put their own spin on Generation X mimicry “Their songs are a veritable Lollapalooza of unflashy guitar play, stark aesthetics, gentle melodies, interlocking guy-girl vocal harmonies, and the spirit of Fugazi.”

Good new Irish music alert!

28.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
New Limited Series: Turntable Stories – Flirt FM 101.3

Turntable Stories is a new @cnam-ie.bsky.social funded series exploring vinyl culture.
 
The four episodes will focus on record shops, Record Store Day, record fairs, Irish musicians and DJs and the ecological ramifications of the vinyl revival.

⏺ Tune in 8pm each Saturday from tonight.

28.02.2026 13:15 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

“Lock him up!”

28.02.2026 13:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
28.02.2026 12:52 — 👍 28    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

The Pro Evolution Peace Prize would never.

28.02.2026 12:04 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Crowds gather at a Pride March holding rainbow flags. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "Community group to bring Pride festival back to Cork in 2026". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".

Crowds gather at a Pride March holding rainbow flags. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "Community group to bring Pride festival back to Cork in 2026". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".

“Cork Community Pride is being organised by a passionate, grassroots collective of volunteers from across Cork city and county”. Read 👉 buff.ly/wn6YyPH #GCNnews

28.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And they've not even gotten power out of it! Needless. Chasing a "centre-right" that's largely bots and socks.

28.02.2026 10:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And how do we explain the accelerated evacuation of US diplomatic personnel yesterday?
This is clearly a US-Israel war against Iran. Why give Trump the benefit of the doubt

28.02.2026 10:35 — 👍 76    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 2

For anyone wondering, I'm against it. War is no good for anyone. More unnecessary and wasteful conflict in service of egomania and distraction.

28.02.2026 10:34 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The most powerful military in human history are simultaneously massive fucking dork losers

28.02.2026 09:39 — 👍 41    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

Calling on every Irish person to write to your TDs, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste expressing your total unfiltered disgust over our cooperation with the US military. The upcoming visit to the White House on St Patrick's Day must be a humiliating scar on the legacy of every politician who participates.

28.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 119    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 0
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i did it! i completed my very first #gamejam 🥰

Presenting: From the Ground Up, a narrative-driven, story-rich game. Around 20-30 mins gameplay.

The theme: grow! unaminh.itch.io/from-the-gro...
#gamedev #indiegames

27.02.2026 17:43 — 👍 53    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 2