Ó Raġallaiġ ᚑᚏᚐᚌᚆᚐᚂᚂᚐᚔᚌᚆ

“While Fianna Fáil may well be aggrieved that their actions have had consequences, it’s the public at large who will have to suffer the consequences. So far, so Fianna Fáil.”

Éiríonn le Carl Kinsella tochailt go croí na ceiste agus é a tharraingt chun solais i gcónaí.

Tá an ceart agat mura bhfuil dul amú ormsa chomh maith, grma don bheirt agaibh!

Is ea iad! Grma

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Seoda gan dabht, ba mhór an cúnamh iad ⁊ mé ag athfhoghlaim na teanga. Más buan mo chuimhne bhí ceann amháin eile sa tsraith a bhain leis na treoracha suas/thuas/anuas, ⁊rl., ach níl sé faoi lámh agam.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Tá sé ag cur an croí trasna ionam go bhfuil Mo Dhuine ag druidim le 15 uair an chloig anois lena dúbailt síos. Baois na bPostálaithe. 😔

selection of coins with animals on them, fish, birds, deer, bull, greyhound, horse, hare

ok it's time to get to the crux of this campaign

@catherinegalway.bsky.social will you commit to using the office of president to push to put the animals back on the coins?

Mise chuile uair a fheicim an snáithe seo ar m’fhotha;

Bottom corner of a 17th century book showing drawings

Title page of 'Epigrammes' by Ben Jonson, showing doodles at the bottom of the page

Delightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams

i know i'm just repeating what we all already know, but the side-by-side of a football manager candidate forefeiting his campaign while his 68-year-old opponent demonstrates preternatural keepy-uppy skills and wins unanimous praise for it is historically funny

Anyway, I'm super annoyed at Heather Humphreys this morning setting her prerequisite of being President as motivation to learn Irish, so here's a code 'creidimionat' to get my Irish language ebook of 150 resources for free. I've set aside 20 slots for that code.

payhip.com/b/bm0ZI

This has been quite the evening online

Arbh é an físeán seo an buille marfach a chur JG as an iomaíocht?

Title: "Ní Shionnáin served her sentence - surely she is allowed to rebuild her life?" I want to clarify something – is it the view of the Taoiseach, and of commentators, that former prisoners should be denied opportunities to rebuild their lives away from violence or criminality, even after they have served their sentence? Given her qualifications, Ursula Ní Shionnáin was perfectly suited for the role of administrative support for a TD working on the Oireachtas Committee for the Irish language, and Catherine Connolly was in the right to give her a chance. I think it is much more concerning if our Government thinks that prisoners such as Ní Shionnáin should not be given the opportunity to rehabilitate when they demonstrate a willingness to do so. As a former employee of the Irish Prison Service, that seems to go against everything that I was told during my training. Tomás M Creamer, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim Published 4th October, 2025, on the letter section of the Irish Indepedent.

My earlier tweet about Catherine Connolly hiring a former prisoner, in the form of a letter to the Indo.

m.independent.ie/opinion/lett...

telling my kids that mo ghile mear is about bonnie princess charli & she's even got the roman numerals to prove it!

Braitheann sé ar an am gan dabht. Beidh orm lipéad a chrochadh thart mo mhuineál ⁊ mé ag taisteal go moch le ‘ná dúisigh mé, fiú má tá Gaeilge agat’ scríofa air.

Beidh orm a bheith ag faire amach do bhaill foirne le fáinne amach anseo!

‘An mbeifeá compordach ag labhairt Gaeilge ar an dtraein?’ Tá suirbhé faoi úsáid na Gaeilge ar thraenacha á reáchtáil ag Iarnród Éireann

tuairisc.ie/an-mbeifea-c...

Má tá duine le labhairt leo, labhraím!

Cad é do mheas ar na meáin Ghaeilge? Cad é do mheas ar TG4, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Tuairisc, An Páipéar, Seachtain agus na meáin Ghaeilge eile?

www.rte.ie/gaeilge/2025...

Suirbhé @tusaite.bsky.social ar na meáin Ghaeilge

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.

"women, like men, often wore the mantle"

Níl a fhios agam faoi ollscoileanna eile, ach bhí cothromas maith ann i nGaillimh idir litríocht, foghlaim na teanga, sochtheangeolaíocht, amhránaíocht, lámhscríbhinní, béaloideas, etc.

Ní aontaím leis an rogha dubh is bán idir 'polasaí' agus 'litríocht' a dtráchtar go minic air...

My sentiment exactly. The myth that Irish is a difficult language only makes sense if you only speak English. From English, everywhere is uphill.

If this can happen in our house, it can happen in yours. Check.

#Spéirghorm #CheckTheRegister

www.checktheregister.ie/en-IE/search

Everything I know about Enoch Burke, Conor McGregor, Maria Steen (and countless others)... I know against my will. They are constantly driving the national narrative.
So much of our media is dominated by a format of asking "Does this dipshit have a point?. We'll discuss for 3 weeks".

From the irishpolitics community on Reddit: (VIDEO) Paul Murphy talking to media about media bias against Catherine Connolly Explore this post and more from the irishpolitics community

This is a good stand by @paulmurphy.pbp.ie here.

The seeming unwillingness of these reporters to recognise the insufficient balance between describing a bad-faith edited video and the only refutation being a "claims" quote from the accused is very frustrating.

www.reddit.com/r/irishpolit...

Claiming it’s misogynistic to comment on a bag that costs some people’s salary, falls into the lie that feminism means it’s wrong to say anything bad about a woman, rather than believing that women are equal human beings deserving of rights, which obviously is not something Maria herself believes

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

If ever Ireland needed Bugs Bunny dressed as a Classy Dame to distract some senators into a humiliating trap, this is the hour.