Ronan Gingles [ex-Mr_Ro_Jangles🐦]

You may think that the Italians have a lot of different owls but, in fact, they have even more consonants.

Friday's weather forecast is looking pretty rough for most of the island of Ireland. Still, nice to see that our friends in the North seemingly won't face the full Status Red ravages of #StormEowyn.
[No 🍊 political comments please.]
#SpeirGorm
#SpeirGhorm

Doctor Strangelove grinning maniacally.

Has the ear of the US president, knows about rocketry and satellites, prone to letting the arm off the leash.

i'm losing it

Too cold, eh?
I reckon Greenland ❄️ is safe from MAGA after all.

#Everton are riddled with contradictions. Their team tonight includes Young, who is ancient, and Gueye, who has previously avoided matches where he would have had to wear an LGBT 🌈symbol. Plus Keane whose eagerness mustn't have impressed his new boss much on the training ground as he's on the bench.

This public engagement is part of #CorkCityCouncil involvement in the 🇪🇺 #INTERREG North-West Europe project GreenDense - working with Dordrecht, Bremen, Stuttgart, Brest, Brugge & Mechelen plus other partners to explore new and multi-dimensional approaches to greening city centres.
#Cork #EU

...Forfar 5 East Fife 4...

[As a noted Christian] he should build frateral ties with the🌎 Gaeilge-exempt students in another IN article (further down page) as allies against its perfidious classroom influence. Then call for greatly increased immigration to safeguard the imperilled globalised anglosphere as our lingua franca.🫣

What elevates this cartoon is that the red faction of a fractured US also truly believes it lives on the north shore.

This strange dependency routine has to be a psychological yearning for Sir Alex Ferguson's well-known dressing-room approach to underperformance. 😡📢🤯

Even in this 🥶 weather I can hear the🍦van with the 'Match of the Day' theme tune driving around Mahon.
🤔

One week into 2025 means I have now invoked the personal statute of limitations on "Happy New Year!" as a greeting or conversation opener. Applications reopen in 51 weeks.

Ever said goodbye in Spanish or French?

I misread this as an Alan Partridge hotel breakfast scam reference. 🍽

By the end of the week I expect there to be 'Cork people have 123 different words for snow' pieces running in the media.

This NCT 🚘car test waiting room is one of the most anxious-looking places I've ever been as ashen-faced drivers await the worst of the diagnosis from the man with the clipboard 📋. They should have a roaming therapy cat for people to stroke.

And with that, me not having reciprocated with the follow-back her/their lovebomb campaign of attention-seeking desired, she/they 🤖 and her/their multiple ways of spelling her/their names had disappeared from my Bluesky account and seemingly my life.

Aleex/Alexxx/Alexxia etc., I hardly knew ya/ye.

Plenty of Nordic pine there.

Some very variable attempts to pronounce the word "Ferencvaros" in Irish sports bulletins today.

What can I tell you Sue?
There are a lot of strange things going on:

bsky.app/profile/rona...

"Friday night, they'll be dressed like krill.
Down at Nemo's Bar 'n' Grill..."

[Had to look that reference up]
They didn't have Australia either.
Well, apart from the Aborigineal people obviously, but I'm not familiar with their culinary practices.

Y'see, THIS is why young people across Texas, Oklahoma and much of Kansas will never be able to afford their own home.

imo a car horn should be able to make both a mean sound and a thumbs up sound

In terms of grills or grilling, you might be confusing the Renaissance era with that time just before the discovery of 🔥 when meat was traitionally consumed on the rare side.

Drove back to Cork this afternoon and think we may have stumbled upon the source of all that #sneachta, off the motorway before Portlaoise. Presumably Met Eireann have issued the chimney stack in question with a license.
#speirgorm

If Wilson's Hospital school had been closed due to #sneachta this morning, I wonder would Enoch Burke still have (been) driven over from Mayo on a fool's errand?

More dramatic #sneachta ❄️ empty shelves today. This time genuine and from Kells, Co Meath, where the locals have stockpiled personal care and, intriguingly, hair colour products.
#SpeirGorm

❄️☃️Panic-buying leaves local shops all out of frankincense and myrrh on the eve of the Epihany.
#sneachta
#spéirgorm #spéirbán