Philip O'Connor

"Up here, we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn-out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying will lead us into glory... "
- Paul Brady, "The Island"

Also, Pete Hegseth is a unique kind of loser, and his inevitable demise (whether brought about by his raging alcoholism or equally raging stupidity) will be a generational moment for incompetent, talentless pick-mes everywhere.

In Arabic, it's called a "jihad" ...

If those films about soldiers being sad about all the civilians they killed while deployed were visualised as a human face, it would look like Michael Martin's.

The amount of events and festivals around the country using genAI for their promotional images is slightly maddening. All about supporting local, except their local artists.

Between Brewdog, Labour and Dubai eating it, a very specific type of guy is having the worst time and they absolutely deserve it.

Like, I don't want to believe that these people are actually dumb, but they make it hard sometimes.

100% this, especially when many of us have been under charging community groups for years as we know they have limited budgets

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"The time has come for us to tighten our belts - and by us, I mean you ..."

Haha, and he'll do the sum total of fuck all, as usual.

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I don't often applaud modern media framing, but this is spot on.

feel ominously meaningful that there's an astonishing lack of alarm among the loudest supposed champions of international law and diplomatic norms while the notable sceptics are all freaking the fuck out

He has always been a piece of shit.

By not calling out an illegal war that has already seen hundreds of children killed, once again the Irish government is at odds with the will of the Irish people.
Winning a seat or election is not a blanket mandate to do whatever you want - it is the granting of the right to represent the voters.

Jimmy Goebels endearing himself to the Irish public again.

That's a different Philip O'Connor =)

You're entirely right Tony, and I should be more cognisant of the real victims here - those brave people with a mad horn to send the children of other, poorer people to die.

He hasn't a fucking clue what he's doing.

An image of a text that says: There is always ALWAYS Money For war.

I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time repeating myself in the coming weeks and months ...

The importance of maintaining the triple lock could not be clearer.

Any government that can't call out clear violations of international law because they're afraid how the US will respond cannot be trusted with decisions about foreign deployment of troops.

It's as simple as that.

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

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Call your government TDs and your ministers. Go to their clinics, or Dáil Eireann.
Make them hear you out, and then look you in the eye and tell you why they cannot speak out against the killing of children.
Let them feel your anger, but most of all, your resolve.
This is how change happens.

As I have said many times, politicians exist to serve the people and not the other way round.
It's high time principled, decent, peace-loving Irish people reminded both the belligerent windbags and silent nodding donkeys that supporting and aiding war is not what they were elected to do.

Hamstrung by the number of seats they have, opposition parties can only do so much - but citizens marching and contacting the people they chose to elect them by phone and email to ask why they are not reflecting their wishes is much more powerful and immediate. THAT is the true opposition.

The political calculus is that voters vote once every four years and then do nothing until it's time to vote again, and in the Irish context that is often true - but if enough constituents get off their arses and protest, elected reps can be influenced and their policies changed.