Judi Sutherland

I don’t think that counts as news, ‘Opposition opposes government’. It would be news in the US.

Badenochery.

It’s not like the arts and humanities don’t make a lot of money for the country. If the government seems obsessed with the white heat of technology it’s because they don’t understand it and think it is sorcery.

I can recommend to you Peter Riley and Ian Duhig for similar vibes.

My Facebook is full of poets. It’s the only way I know who is reading and who has a new book out.

Arts and culture are also what holds a nation together. They might consider that.

We working classes should know our places and confine ourselves to oily trades and answering telephone helplines.

What's up with a political party which, at one and the same time, slags off English degrees, and yet wants immigrants to integrate by learning English??

I’d vote for him.

There was me, thinking that Irish politics was more dignified than British politics, and then this same contest gave us Conor McGregor and this absolute balloon.

Sometimes I have a good chuckle at the way David Cameron foisted Brexit upon us in order to unite and save the Tory Party.

I absolutely love this excerpt from the West Wing.

Since 1920. But it could happen now.

Ireland is part of the EU and probably plans to rely on them, plus receiving informal military support from the UK.

It will never return the favour, though, because of its spurious ‘neutrality’.

Dear God no.

Let’s not worry about our gas pipeline from the UK that comes ashore at Gormanstown IIRC.

They didn't even invent the internet...

Because this is the internet, not America.

She was abducted from international waters, illegally imprisoned, and abused. She’s kind of brave I think.

I’m a dual citizen and I’ve got quite sensitive to the history especially since I’ve been living in Ireland.

I care a lot more about what they think now than what they thought in the 1930s tbh.

Jeez I don’t think there’s anyone I can vote for. Is Graham Norton free?

The Americans have rather lost their sense of humour but I guess that's understandable. However the guy who thinks Irish are British and that we all love our 'Irish' cousins over the pond might not get many laughs either.

Well she’s no longer being held in a dodgy jail in Israel, so there’s that.

Made me smile, thank you.

Keep going. It’s brave work and we are horrified and sympathetic. It can happen anywhere.

We are just amazed that roughly $3000 can unhorse a politician here, while in US, UK and other places they can get away with anything right now.

We have had one heck of a day and it’s still only lunchtime.

There are always unintended consequences! Thanks.