Checks out
I think that Irish people have developed a kind of evasive bonhomie as a national trauma responses to, y'know, all of it. It's charming but it takes a toll on us.
And that partly explains our morbid fascination with this stridently unfriendly, direct, noticeable family.
And that partly explains our morbid fascination with this stridently unfriendly, direct, noticeable family.
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Checks out
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Maybe don’t put it at the top of every search result then?
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If you want more details on this despicable vote please listen to this interview I did in July: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f...
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you want more details on this despicable vote please listen to this interview I did in July: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f...
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My doctor said I'm a serious heart-throb! Or something to that effect. I wasn't really listening.
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
My doctor said I'm a serious heart-throb! Or something to that effect. I wasn't really listening.
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Ireland is the first country in the world whose people have voted to elect three women as Presidents.
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Ireland is the first country in the world whose people have voted to elect three women as Presidents.
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
#MaryRobinson
#MaryMcAleese
#CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
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There's a parallel universe not too far from here where Seán Gallagher is leaving the Áras after 14 glorious years of saying "business" a lot, sharing inspirational quotes on the Áras an Uachtaráin LinkedIn page every day, and promising to learn Irish during his retirement.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There's a parallel universe not too far from here where Seán Gallagher is leaving the Áras after 14 glorious years of saying "business" a lot, sharing inspirational quotes on the Áras an Uachtaráin LinkedIn page every day, and promising to learn Irish during his retirement.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Got to collaborate with some great people on this - poet Natalya O’Flaherty, drummer Ellie Myler (ØXN), DOPs Albert Hooi & Alex Sapienza and clients @ballsdotie.bsky.social Carlsberg 0.0 and @irelandfootball.bsky.social #COYGIG
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Got to collaborate with some great people on this - poet Natalya O’Flaherty, drummer Ellie Myler (ØXN), DOPs Albert Hooi & Alex Sapienza and clients @ballsdotie.bsky.social Carlsberg 0.0 and @irelandfootball.bsky.social #COYGIG
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Ireland disinformation update:
Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”
Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ireland disinformation update:
Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”
Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”
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My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine".
Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"
Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"
October 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine".
Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"
Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"
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Hear the Israeli refusers - why they refused 👇
August 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hear the Israeli refusers - why they refused 👇
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I can understand why a company that gets commission from selling airport taxis, airport parking, airport coach tickets and car rentals may not want to compete with a metro. But MetroLink is about much more than Ryanair's business strategy or even the airport itself.
August 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I can understand why a company that gets commission from selling airport taxis, airport parking, airport coach tickets and car rentals may not want to compete with a metro. But MetroLink is about much more than Ryanair's business strategy or even the airport itself.
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He wrote a follow up letter to the Irish Times on Wednesday claiming again that there's been no cost benefit analysis done on the project. This is simply false and it undermined the public confidence in a vital transport project. He can't say he didn't know anymore.
August 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
He wrote a follow up letter to the Irish Times on Wednesday claiming again that there's been no cost benefit analysis done on the project. This is simply false and it undermined the public confidence in a vital transport project. He can't say he didn't know anymore.
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I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
August 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I delivered the 700 page business case and cost benefit analysis for MetroLink to Michael O'Leary's office yesterday.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
O'Leary said on RTÉ Radio that there’s been no cost-benefit analysis done on Metrolink which was then repeated on multiple news outlets.
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Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show reut.rs/45DQIRj @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show reut.rs/45DQIRj @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
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Updated Dublin events spreadsheet! Rare chances to see Spinal Tap and the Rocky Horror on the big screen. And Gibby Haynes playing the hits of the Butthole Surfers NEXT WEEK. It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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The Crackdown
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August 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Updated Dublin events spreadsheet! Rare chances to see Spinal Tap and the Rocky Horror on the big screen. And Gibby Haynes playing the hits of the Butthole Surfers NEXT WEEK. It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This is either profound or problematic and I cannot figure out which #northcircular
August 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is either profound or problematic and I cannot figure out which #northcircular
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North Circular dir. Luke McManus on RTE 1 tonight 9.30 ..its really great
August 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
North Circular dir. Luke McManus on RTE 1 tonight 9.30 ..its really great
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After an incredible cinema journey at home and abroad North Circular hits the small screen tonight. RTE ONE 9:35.
Don't miss it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0y...
Don't miss it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0y...
North Circular - Cinema Trailer
YouTube video by Luke McManus
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August 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
After an incredible cinema journey at home and abroad North Circular hits the small screen tonight. RTE ONE 9:35.
Don't miss it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0y...
Don't miss it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0y...
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Me: 'Sorry I forgot your name! I have a terrible memory. It's basically a medical condition.'
Also me: 'In 1987 Johnny Hates Jazz had a huge hit with Shattered Dreams, written by lead singer Clark Datchler.'
Also me: 'In 1987 Johnny Hates Jazz had a huge hit with Shattered Dreams, written by lead singer Clark Datchler.'
August 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Me: 'Sorry I forgot your name! I have a terrible memory. It's basically a medical condition.'
Also me: 'In 1987 Johnny Hates Jazz had a huge hit with Shattered Dreams, written by lead singer Clark Datchler.'
Also me: 'In 1987 Johnny Hates Jazz had a huge hit with Shattered Dreams, written by lead singer Clark Datchler.'
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I liked the system we had on telly in the eighties where you simply watched anything that had Barbara Flynn in it, and that was all the algorithm you needed.
Barbara Flynn 🎂 pictured with David Troughton for the second series of A Very Peculiar Practice in 1988. Photo by Lu Jeffery for @radiotimes.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I liked the system we had on telly in the eighties where you simply watched anything that had Barbara Flynn in it, and that was all the algorithm you needed.
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That They May Face The Rising Sun is on rte1 at 21.30. Lady Bird is on TG4 at the same time. Two very different but fantastic films.
August 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
That They May Face The Rising Sun is on rte1 at 21.30. Lady Bird is on TG4 at the same time. Two very different but fantastic films.
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“Now, I no longer dispute the charge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza” @dovwaxman.bsky.social
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Why I changed my mind on the genocide charge against Israel
For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…
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August 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“Now, I no longer dispute the charge that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza” @dovwaxman.bsky.social
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