Damian Stack
@damianstack.bsky.social
Kerry based sports scribbler, politics nerd, Diiv fan LLAP
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F1 should be suspending these, have Marko and Lambiase sit out the last race. You’re either serious about protecting your people from abuse or you’re not.
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
F1 should be suspending these, have Marko and Lambiase sit out the last race. You’re either serious about protecting your people from abuse or you’re not.
Even excepting this weekend's McLaren fuck up, would Lando be champion on this result of they didn't fuck up in Vegas?
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Even excepting this weekend's McLaren fuck up, would Lando be champion on this result of they didn't fuck up in Vegas?
North Kerry SFC Final: Listowel Emmets emphatically put down Knocknagoshel uprising to claim title
North Kerry SFC Final: Listowel Emmets emphatically put down Knocknagoshel uprising to claim title
McMUNN’S NORTH KERRY SFC FINAL (Replay)
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November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
North Kerry SFC Final: Listowel Emmets emphatically put down Knocknagoshel uprising to claim title
Sorry, no, this is just wrong, leave the park name as it was
A motion to rename Dublin's Herzog Park because it is named after an Irish-born, former president of Israel is to be debated on Monday.
Former justice minister, Alan Shatter accused Dublin City Council of going 'full-on Nazi' over the proposal jrnl.ie/6889215
Former justice minister, Alan Shatter accused Dublin City Council of going 'full-on Nazi' over the proposal jrnl.ie/6889215
Motion to rename Dublin's Herzog Park over links to Israel slammed
The Rathgar park was named Herzog Park in 1995, in honour of Chaim Herzog, the then President of Israel who spent many years of his childhood in Dublin.
jrnl.ie
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Sorry, no, this is just wrong, leave the park name as it was
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16,766 without a home
This is f*cking scandalous
A result of shameful government policy with empty homes everywhere
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social updated the numbers on our dereliction billboard yesterday with music by Meryl Streek
Lower John St, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm
This is f*cking scandalous
A result of shameful government policy with empty homes everywhere
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social updated the numbers on our dereliction billboard yesterday with music by Meryl Streek
Lower John St, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
16,766 without a home
This is f*cking scandalous
A result of shameful government policy with empty homes everywhere
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social updated the numbers on our dereliction billboard yesterday with music by Meryl Streek
Lower John St, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm
This is f*cking scandalous
A result of shameful government policy with empty homes everywhere
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social updated the numbers on our dereliction billboard yesterday with music by Meryl Streek
Lower John St, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm
This doesn't sound fun
Whether people like that or not is a different thing. It gives Formula E races and interesting ebb and flow but is much harder to follow to fully appreciate who's at an advantage
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This doesn't sound fun
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shop.ria.ie/products/iri.... This book would make nice present (hints).
Irish Food History: A Companion
Back in stock! This book is also available open access from EUT+ Press Winner of Food & Drink book of the year 2024 - An Post Irish book awards Winner of Best Culinary History Book in the World 20...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
shop.ria.ie/products/iri.... This book would make nice present (hints).
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Check out Irish Food History studies-some nice books and articles-e.g. TUDublin's chef and scholar Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, and company-for example-https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04308778.2018.1502402
Recognizing food as part of Ireland’s intangible cultural heritage
Drawing on evidence from across a range of disciplines (literature, folklore, history, sociology, etc.), this paper explores the lack of an iconic link between Ireland and food, explaining the reas...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Check out Irish Food History studies-some nice books and articles-e.g. TUDublin's chef and scholar Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, and company-for example-https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04308778.2018.1502402
Discussing this with my partner, who's not Irish, what are some uniquely Irish dishes/meals? Do we have any? Drisheen maybe? Coddle heaven forfend?
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Discussing this with my partner, who's not Irish, what are some uniquely Irish dishes/meals? Do we have any? Drisheen maybe? Coddle heaven forfend?
The terrorist Israeli state is out of control
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The terrorist Israeli state is out of control
🎶🎶 Oh Martina just wants to have fun, she just wanna just wanna, oh Martina just wants to have fun 🎶🎶
Known widely for her outbursts condemning and berating judges, politicians, guards, teachers and even nurses, Ms Burke is a woman of ferocious belief in her convictions
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The making of a matriarch: How Martina Burke went from fun-loving camogie girl to mother of a fundamentalist family
The transformation of Martina Burke from her schooldays as a “totally normal” teenager who was “a laugh a minute” and a gifted camogie player, confounds those who knew and cared for her in her youth.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🎶🎶 Oh Martina just wants to have fun, she just wanna just wanna, oh Martina just wants to have fun 🎶🎶
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Brotherly *love
** Grudging acceptance
** Grudging acceptance
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Brotherly *love
** Grudging acceptance
** Grudging acceptance
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I don't understand or care for American sports. This is objectively nuts.
Dave Hannigan: Pay, and payoffs, for college gridiron coaches is obscene
Cost of firing coaches almost $200m for the current campaign, even before end-of-season sacking spree
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November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I don't understand or care for American sports. This is objectively nuts.
What's it like having a kitten you ask?
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
What's it like having a kitten you ask?
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That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?
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I absolutely hate this. Cutting funding for this program actually costs more because people are homeless again and have to access other programs. But while right-wing parties bang on about saving money they’re actually just being cruel to those less fortunate than themselves.
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way.
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...
Homelessness on the Rise in Finland - Y-Säätiö
Asunnottomien ihmisten määrä on kääntynyt kasvuun. Nyt asunnottomien määrä kasvoi Helsingissä, vaikka asunnottomia asutettiin vuoden aikana vaikuttava määrä.
ysaatio.fi
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I absolutely hate this. Cutting funding for this program actually costs more because people are homeless again and have to access other programs. But while right-wing parties bang on about saving money they’re actually just being cruel to those less fortunate than themselves.
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This is neither an overhaul or tighten. Asylum seekers make up a small proportion of inward migration. They’re also the worst off. Making their situation more painful to appease a few morons who believe refugees make their own lives worse, it’s brutal
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is neither an overhaul or tighten. Asylum seekers make up a small proportion of inward migration. They’re also the worst off. Making their situation more painful to appease a few morons who believe refugees make their own lives worse, it’s brutal
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“Small countries must tiptoe around the sensibilities of big violent nuclear powers or else they’ll get what’s coming to them“ is a bizarre kind of brain worms that often passes itself off as anti-imperialism.
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Now consider that if Ireland continues to more aggressively align themselves with western interests (which have a positively amazing record of respecting national sovreignty) what would an opposing power feel the need to do to that subordinate state?
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Small countries must tiptoe around the sensibilities of big violent nuclear powers or else they’ll get what’s coming to them“ is a bizarre kind of brain worms that often passes itself off as anti-imperialism.
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
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The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable
I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable
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Musk has been instrumentalising Twitter/X to feed reactionary politics and its concomitant disinformation networks for the past two years. Staying there gives tacit consent to that destructive project. And yet so many institutions, politicians, broadcasters & companies remain there, morally inert.
February 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Musk has been instrumentalising Twitter/X to feed reactionary politics and its concomitant disinformation networks for the past two years. Staying there gives tacit consent to that destructive project. And yet so many institutions, politicians, broadcasters & companies remain there, morally inert.
This is why I love KEXP they're playing Roscoe by Midlake which has been rattling around my head all week
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is why I love KEXP they're playing Roscoe by Midlake which has been rattling around my head all week