Trish Byrne

Do you think Catherine Connolly would take time out of campaigning to play for us against Portugal on Saturday? She seems like she could do a job in midfield.

a cartoon of spongebob squarepants giving a thumbs up sign Alt: a cartoon of spongebob squarepants giving a thumbs up as he gets blasted by a megaphone

Me every single budget day:

STOP GIVING MILLIONS TO GREYHOUND RACING

I suspect he didn't say it, and that this is an Urban myth.

well well well if it isn't the blowjob brothers

Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

This is causing a lot of confusion so there's a handy mnemonic you can use:

If your Gavin be gruesome, you'll find he's a Newsom.
If your rent he be havin', you've got a Jim Gavin.

#spéirgorm #MainCharacterSky

you know, when somebody says "cut-price lithium battery" I think gosh, that's for sure something I want in my home!

The VAT rate on breastpads, breast pumps and pump accessories is 23%. Infant formula (rightly) has a 0% VAT rate. Chicken nuggets now have a vat rate of 9%. #budget25 #spéirghorm

An illuminated room number sign: 4 0 4

We couldn’t find our hotel room.

Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to

They should have some kind of loyalty scheme where you bring in six empties and you get a free coffee. Or a deposit return scheme. That’s working wonders for cutting down on plastic bottles.

Kerry town that banned disposable coffee cups sees project falter amid Government U-turn Two projects in Dublin, inspired by Killarney Coffee Cup Project, now in doubt

Whenever I see ads for Frank & Honest coffee, I just think of litter. Those cups are always left on our beach.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Whenever anyone mentions anything about artisans, I think of them working exclusively in the medium of gummi.

The Second Coming By W.B. Yeats Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that'd been away Haven't changed, hadn't much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy They were askin' if you were around How you was, where you could be found Told them you were livin' downtown Drivin' all the old men crazy [Chorus] The boys are back in town The boys are back in town (I said) The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town

For National Poetry Day, a personal favourite of mine and one I think about more and more in these troubled times.

I really hope that James Norton understands that being called sexy Mr Brennan or sexy Mr Tayto is the highest praise a non-footballing Englishman can receive from Irish people.

First of all we already have an AI actress and have had one for years. Her name is Gal Gadot and the results have not been great

Jane Goodall comforting a chimpanzee.

RIP. A long life that did a great deal of good & added much to the richness of the world--all one could ask for.

In Ireland we don't have daily mass shootings, we have daily men killing their families

While it's no surprise that the Irish Times' Pat Leahy is ratty about Catherine Connolly running for President, his assertion that 'military industrial complex' is a typical leftie term shows a surprising lack of awareness of that famous Commie Dwight D Eisenhower.

By Grabthar's hammer, go to bed, woman.

I am at that phase of getting ready for a holiday where I would be fucking delighted if I did not have to go on the holiday. This phase can sometimes last till I get back from the holiday.

Day 17 of dunking my face in ice water and I still don’t look like Mark Ruffalo

YouTube video by Bell Brothers B.O.B. (Birds Over Big Bird)

Only 44k views for this work of art is absolutely insane. It's incredible.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAXO...

"What's one way you've used AI to simplify a task?"
Well, if I see something that's been written by AI, I pay no attention to it and save time.

"Nearly 80% of soya beans are used for livestock and aquaculture." Says it right there in the article. Right there.

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

It's actually the world's taste for meat that's creating such a demand for soya. It says so right in the article. This is an extremely misleading headline.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Relatedly, I will NEVER turn on the audio (unless it's a cute animal and you tell me it's making noise I need to hear). Even IF I'm willing to sit thru your video, if it doesn't have subtitles, I ain't watching

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

A reminder that Heather Humphreys was not just a poor Minister for heritage and biodiversity, but actively worked to extend hedge cutting and burning of hill vegetation in to bird nesting season. Thankfully the next govt reversed this stupidity. #aras2025

www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/he...