Ciarán Mc Mahon

really wish I could remember that Pat McCabe quip about education - ring any bells? @irishlittimes.bsky.social

I'm old enough to remember the Digital Age of Consent - wasn't there supposed to be a review published of its effectiveness, after five years or so? What happened there? What exactly did the the Government learn from that? #speirgorm

your man Zelensky is some boyo. how he managed to zip over to Merrion St and get that put in the NDP, something else

the drones were also possibly never there? so the guards, the navy, the government, RTE, IT, Journal etc - they've all had the wool pulled over their eyes? is that it? well it's original at least

people who are going to characterise this as some kind of conspiracy whereby the Ukrainians launched drones against their own President (or something) to help Martin make the case for more defence spending have extremely generous opinions on the government's competence

why is @news.rte.ie using a discredited platform of disinformation to simply repeat a Met Eireann storm warning - when they already have that information direct from ME? Why is @rte.ie continuing to drive traffic to X ? #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

"Ireland’s neutrality does not make it immune to hostile actions" 👀
From the website of the European Commission's representation in Ireland - a page explaining Ireland's participation in EU defence projects, added to the site December 4.
The office told me they began writing the page in September.

What passages of prose are on a fixed-rate mortgage in your medulla oblongata

so what do you think happened then?

but is it more or less likely than what McGee said? that the drones were Russian? what is the most likely explanation?

the extraordinary claim being 'Ukraine launched five drones against its own President's plane, from the Irish sea, where its navy has never before operated'

but is there any evidence of Ukr doing anything like that before now? as in, would that be more or less likely than Russia doing it?

well there isn't muchh evidence for this happening at all, because of the nature of the topic, you can seldom be empirical about issues of national security. but if we assume it did happen, I'm still curious what alternative explanation would be more credible than what McGee said

what are the alternative hypotheses as to what they were?

If you give this a like we'll put you in a hat and one of ye will win a nice #TheLateNightWritersClub Book *and* a fairly tricky 1000 piece Jigsaw puzzle featuring the Reading Room at @nlireland.bsky.social and, of course, YeatsBinchyBeckettKavanaghWildeSwiftEdgeworthKeaneTynanO'CaseyBehanJoyce

Not young, and not renewable, but man

Questions raised about why former Garda Commissioner had rent paid for by the State Former Garda Commissioner Drew Harris lived in a property owned by the OPW in Phoenix Park for seven years.

strikes me that this complete non-story is also being driven by cranky senior guards www.thejournal.ie/drew-harris-...

Senior gardaí express annoyance over Defence Forces' response to rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit By Conor Lally, Conor Gallagher and Mark Paul (Irish Times)

my hunch is that 'senior gardaí are annoyed about something' probably drives a significant amount news coverage in this country #speirgorm

Yes, that works now!

What if the British army had launched 'Z Day' in Ireland in 1921? Behind the scenes of treaty negotiations, British military had spent months preparing for a renewed and far more aggressive campaign

an intriguing article from RTÉ's collaboration with academia which cites, as far as I can see, zero primary sources

fwiw I went through your - amazing - website and I can't see that particular product there?

hate to break it to you G

which xmas light flashing sequence are you? tag urself. i pretend I'm a Scintellement but in reality im a Swiatlo Stale

there is absolutely no way in hell my 7yos are staying up to watch an extended ad. If it aired at 8pm maybe, but 9.35? On a Friday? no thank you, that's tv time for Daddy

beautiful but you may want to repost as that link comes right back to here

nice catch!

TD suggests 'radical' step to nationalise online media A Social Democrats TD has suggested that Ireland take the "radical" step of nationalising online platforms like a utility.

we are all way too Silicon Valley-pilled to even be able to imagine let alone support a technology platform controlled by anywhere else

#speirgorm

It strikes me that the meeting #OTD on the Hill of Crufty in 1641 should have a bigger place in our national story. This was the first time the Gaelic/Old Irish and Norman/Old English came together in rebellion and thus laid the foundation of modern Irish inclusive republican nationalism #speirgorm

YouTube video by Taking Care of Ancient Lore What happened on this hill in 1641?

#OTD 384 years ago, on a small hill in Co. Meath, a meeting took place which would change the course of Irish history forever #speirgorm #irishhistory #earlymodern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Tq...