Peter McGuire
@petermcguire.bsky.social
Semi-retired journalist. Now mostly comms, copywriting & content design. Former bylines include
@irishtimes
@TJ_investigates
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@irishtimes
@TJ_investigates
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If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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Penneys claims it's making clothes that are “designed to last” as the company attempts to position itself as planet-friendly.
Our investigative team put these claims to the test, finding that a lot of their clothes did not hold up.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
Our investigative team put these claims to the test, finding that a lot of their clothes did not hold up.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
Penneys claims it's making clothes to last - so we put them to the test
From jeans that changed colour to a jumper that bobbled after a handful of wears, a lot of these clothes did not hold up.
www.thejournal.ie
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Penneys claims it's making clothes that are “designed to last” as the company attempts to position itself as planet-friendly.
Our investigative team put these claims to the test, finding that a lot of their clothes did not hold up.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
Our investigative team put these claims to the test, finding that a lot of their clothes did not hold up.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
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Helpful and easily digestible thread on Chomsky and why the left needs to shift on their stance of this very problematic man.
After watching @skepchick.org's video on how her justified public spat with Lawrence Krauss ended up in the Epstein emails (video below), I decided to finally open them up and take a look.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...
So I'm in the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Helpful and easily digestible thread on Chomsky and why the left needs to shift on their stance of this very problematic man.
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A "baleful and malign presence, an intruder, stalking the school, its teachers and its pupils".
The judge sums Enoch Burke up perfectly.
The judge sums Enoch Burke up perfectly.
The High Court has ordered that secondary school teacher Enoch Burke should be imprisoned immediately for clear, deliberate and persistent contempt of a High Court order directing him to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School
High Court orders Enoch Burke to be imprisoned
The High Court has ordered that secondary school teacher Enoch Burke should be imprisoned immediately for clear, deliberate and persistent contempt of a High Court order directing him to stay away fro...
www.rte.ie
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A "baleful and malign presence, an intruder, stalking the school, its teachers and its pupils".
The judge sums Enoch Burke up perfectly.
The judge sums Enoch Burke up perfectly.
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"He said Mr Burke was entitled to his religious beliefs but not to his own reality."
You'd really feel for the students having to deal with this weirdo around them all the time, Enoch Burke is not a behaving in a normal way. #Spéirghorm
You'd really feel for the students having to deal with this weirdo around them all the time, Enoch Burke is not a behaving in a normal way. #Spéirghorm
The High Court has ordered that secondary school teacher Enoch Burke should be imprisoned immediately for clear, deliberate and persistent contempt of a High Court order directing him to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School
High Court orders Enoch Burke to be imprisoned
The High Court has ordered that secondary school teacher Enoch Burke should be imprisoned immediately for clear, deliberate and persistent contempt of a High Court order directing him to stay away fro...
www.rte.ie
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"He said Mr Burke was entitled to his religious beliefs but not to his own reality."
You'd really feel for the students having to deal with this weirdo around them all the time, Enoch Burke is not a behaving in a normal way. #Spéirghorm
You'd really feel for the students having to deal with this weirdo around them all the time, Enoch Burke is not a behaving in a normal way. #Spéirghorm
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Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
Watching season 2 of #TraitorsAUS and I’ve never seen such a collection of catastrophically idiotic, jaw-droppingly stupid Faithfuls. Like, thick as a bag of boiled shites. I genuinely don’t think they should be let out of the house without a responsible adult, for fear of banging their heads.
November 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Watching season 2 of #TraitorsAUS and I’ve never seen such a collection of catastrophically idiotic, jaw-droppingly stupid Faithfuls. Like, thick as a bag of boiled shites. I genuinely don’t think they should be let out of the house without a responsible adult, for fear of banging their heads.
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There's something very on brand for Dublin about this. Building something as a temporary stopgap, putting 'temporary' ("pro tempore") in the name, doing nothing more for 200 years, and then eventually going "OK lads let's just stick with this one cos we're clearly never going to build the other one"
Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral
Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years.
www.rte.ie
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's something very on brand for Dublin about this. Building something as a temporary stopgap, putting 'temporary' ("pro tempore") in the name, doing nothing more for 200 years, and then eventually going "OK lads let's just stick with this one cos we're clearly never going to build the other one"
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
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Gonna tell my kids this was Fleetwood Mac
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Gonna tell my kids this was Fleetwood Mac
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Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
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On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
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Alan carr
a screenshot of a video game with the word start on the bottom
ALT: a screenshot of a video game with the word start on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Alan carr
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Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors
Very glad at a traitor win. Once Joe was gone, it just had to be Alan Carr. Particularly glad David didn’t win - he’s sound & smart but he stumbled his win to the endgame #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Very glad at a traitor win. Once Joe was gone, it just had to be Alan Carr. Particularly glad David didn’t win - he’s sound & smart but he stumbled his win to the endgame #CelebrityTraitors
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he literally did the meme
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
he literally did the meme
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This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.
Yeah, I'm sorry but the idea that being a racist cunt is a protected characteristic now is extremely clearly not the intent of the law and it's ridiculous to pretend it is.
The District Judge doesn't consider each of the 5 limbs of Grainger, neither does he set out what Tommy Robinson said his beliefs were. How does this lead to a conclusion of Robinson having a protected belief?
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.
If you work in media & didn’t know that Ivan Yates was deeply compromised, you’re too naive for this industry. And if you did know, well… remind me again, why have people stopped buying papers or trusting legacy media?
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
Ivan Yates used his media training company to also lobby both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs – including junior minister Niall Collins – in hotel meetings on behalf of an energy company that wanted advice on getting “a favourable planning decision”.
www.ontheditch.com/ivan-yates-l...
www.ontheditch.com/ivan-yates-l...
Yates lobbied government TDs, minister for energy firm
Ivan Yates used his media training company to also lobby both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs.
www.ontheditch.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you work in media & didn’t know that Ivan Yates was deeply compromised, you’re too naive for this industry. And if you did know, well… remind me again, why have people stopped buying papers or trusting legacy media?
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
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April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
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The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
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Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
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My last thought on the presidential elections is that we had to suffer through every stray thought that passed through Ivan Yates' brain, amplified by the media, without him ever saying he was being paid by one side, but it was only after the election that I read a 'who is Béibhinn O'Connor?' piece.
November 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My last thought on the presidential elections is that we had to suffer through every stray thought that passed through Ivan Yates' brain, amplified by the media, without him ever saying he was being paid by one side, but it was only after the election that I read a 'who is Béibhinn O'Connor?' piece.
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What I find least credible in this Ivan Yates saga
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What I find least credible in this Ivan Yates saga
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
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to be on air, discussing the presidential election, making wild and bullish statements about what candidates should do, while omitting the fact that you’re literally working for a campaign… it’s just not very good behaviour is it. doesn’t suggest good character, does it.
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
to be on air, discussing the presidential election, making wild and bullish statements about what candidates should do, while omitting the fact that you’re literally working for a campaign… it’s just not very good behaviour is it. doesn’t suggest good character, does it.