Roger O'Keeffe
@rogerokeeffe.bsky.social
Shooting the breeze on Irish, EU and world affairs, history, language(s). #speirgorm
A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences.
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A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences.
Location: 🇺🇸 shitshow to the left of us< 🇮🇪 > 🇬🇧 shitshow to the right
TL,DR: Britannia waives the rules (yet again).
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
TL,DR: Britannia waives the rules (yet again).
This article could serve as the last word on anti-Irish #PoppyRage. But it probably won't.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This article could serve as the last word on anti-Irish #PoppyRage. But it probably won't.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Lads, are we going to have to start looking at recipes for salted cod for Christmas?
#speirgorm #BirdFlu #bacalhau
#speirgorm #BirdFlu #bacalhau
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Lads, are we going to have to start looking at recipes for salted cod for Christmas?
#speirgorm #BirdFlu #bacalhau
#speirgorm #BirdFlu #bacalhau
Staten has free public transport! Is that not communism?
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Staten has free public transport! Is that not communism?
This rang a French bell. Cognate?
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This rang a French bell. Cognate?
At last, someone challenging the usually-unquestioned description of Sinn Féin as a leftist party.
#speirgorm
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November 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
At last, someone challenging the usually-unquestioned description of Sinn Féin as a leftist party.
#speirgorm
#speirgorm
Posted this in the other place.
I suggest others try to gather stragglers there with a message appropriate to their interests.
I suggest others try to gather stragglers there with a message appropriate to their interests.
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Posted this in the other place.
I suggest others try to gather stragglers there with a message appropriate to their interests.
I suggest others try to gather stragglers there with a message appropriate to their interests.
From today's #IrishmansDiary by @frankie49.bsky.social.
I don't know if it's been documented, but I believe the transition to the "Irish" spelling is due to the alliterative coupling "ceol agus craic"/"craic agus ceol" by various pubs or trad music sessions.
#GallivantingWithWords
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I don't know if it's been documented, but I believe the transition to the "Irish" spelling is due to the alliterative coupling "ceol agus craic"/"craic agus ceol" by various pubs or trad music sessions.
#GallivantingWithWords
#speirgorm
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
From today's #IrishmansDiary by @frankie49.bsky.social.
I don't know if it's been documented, but I believe the transition to the "Irish" spelling is due to the alliterative coupling "ceol agus craic"/"craic agus ceol" by various pubs or trad music sessions.
#GallivantingWithWords
#speirgorm
I don't know if it's been documented, but I believe the transition to the "Irish" spelling is due to the alliterative coupling "ceol agus craic"/"craic agus ceol" by various pubs or trad music sessions.
#GallivantingWithWords
#speirgorm
Strong agree.
But government needs to be honest and treat the public as adults.
But government needs to be honest and treat the public as adults.
October 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Strong agree.
But government needs to be honest and treat the public as adults.
But government needs to be honest and treat the public as adults.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Background to racist riots in Dublin.
October 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Background to racist riots in Dublin.
Still catching up with yesterday's Irish Times.
This is a good article.
Anyone know if there will be any exit poll results tonight?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
This is a good article.
Anyone know if there will be any exit poll results tonight?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
October 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Still catching up with yesterday's Irish Times.
This is a good article.
Anyone know if there will be any exit poll results tonight?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
This is a good article.
Anyone know if there will be any exit poll results tonight?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
Why didn't C Connolly just say this? There would have been absolutely no breach of confidentiality.
Instead, she just came across as unnecessarily evasive.
Arrogance?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
Instead, she just came across as unnecessarily evasive.
Arrogance?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Why didn't C Connolly just say this? There would have been absolutely no breach of confidentiality.
Instead, she just came across as unnecessarily evasive.
Arrogance?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
Instead, she just came across as unnecessarily evasive.
Arrogance?
#Áras25 #speirgorm
"Ma foi, des hobereaux de province."
October 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Ma foi, des hobereaux de province."
"The 'French Crown jewels'? Seriously? Do they mean the baubles of some provincial upstart?"
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"The 'French Crown jewels'? Seriously? Do they mean the baubles of some provincial upstart?"