A meteorite of desire, plummeting through the Irish zeitgeist. 170bpm banger merchant. Big shot on the East Coast. Badman from early. Broadcaster. He/Him.
It's been said before but the fact the Animaniacs recognise Palestine as an independent state puts them closer to the right side of history than the vast majority of elected officials worldwide for the last 75 years.
Say what you like about Ireland but at least we're still the kind of country that somehow manages to provoke Israel into taking five minutes off doing a genocide to make a twitter video dissing us.
Recognizing a Palestinian state will lead to more terrorism, instability in the region and jeopardize any prospects for peace.
Don’t be a pawn in the hands of Hamas.
You never expect much from the British left but for the last three days they've been tearing each other apart over the issue of whether certain breeds of dog are inherently dangerous, having ignored their government retroactively legalising the state killing of Irish civilians.
My parents' neighbour found this lovely wee pup abandoned in a ditch last night and dropped her in to us. She's incredibly friendly and trusting. We've called her Myrtle. Trying to convince the ould pair to let her stay (there's a vacancy) but it's a battle. More as we get it.
The Wolfe Tones are going to play Celtic Symphony at Electric Picnic and everyone is going to sing along and there will be a viral video we're going to get and weeks and weeks of moral panic about it in the Indo aren't we.
Clogging the bridge up taking selfies = grand
Sticking a "love lock" on the bridge = not a bother sure
Leaving coats out for the many thousands of homeless that state policy has deliberately created = Ah now lads please, the tourists will get upset
Dublin City Council asks people not to hang clothes on the Ha’Penny Bridge for health & safety reasons- it reduces pedestrian flows & causes congestion on bridge.Please consider giving them to charity shops.Items collected by DCC will be redistributed via our homeless services
I can absolutely guarantee you that more people voted for the Greens because of people like Saoirse McHugh than voted for the Greens because of people like Eamon Ryan.
Thread on leaving the greens:
I have left the Green Party. I doubt that’s a surprise to most people.
The reasons I have left are obvious, I joined the greens with the hope of furthering the cause of climate justice..1/
A western lowland gorilla has been born at Dublin Zoo. Zookeepers have so far been unable to determine its gender, as mother Kafi has been keeping her baby close to her chest since the birth on 1 April |
All the other cars are empty, and are only there to boost her emissions; this is the only way she'd agree to do it, otherwise they'd have had to figure out a way to land a private jet in Croke Park.
This will do absolutely nothing to stop the far right but the cops will end up walloping some 19 year old NCAD student into a coma for wearing a covid mask at a housing rights demo.
A mere 200 yards from the old George Bernard Shaw, which was shut down because concentrations of large pubs were supposedly out of line with the development plans for that historic area.
Tough to choose between the FG chap who joined Renua to Repeal the 8th, owns a 600k house and wants to be "a voice for Generation Rent", and the FF candidate who banned her tenants from using her kitchen and reckoned a student could happily live in her linen cupboard.
Wild how as soon as you're sitting at a table provided by a member of the licensed vintner's association you're no longer a dangerous threat to public health and you're also no longer liable to be baton-charged by a whole platoon of Templemore's most aggro.
Make it an older Bond that starts with him *absolutely bricking it* when the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 is repealed.
I spent a few months in South America in 2009-ish and every second hostel in rhe bigger cities was just packed to the rafters with super intense Israelis who stayed in their dorms for weeks on end absolutely railing the coke into them. All fresh out of their stint in the IDF.
Amazing work from Dublin City Council here, whose ongoing efforts at gradually and deliberately disimproving every last aspect of our city's public realm are now at so advanced a stage that they are gaining notoriety in the foreign press.
they’re turned it off. we’re back to a time where the only portal to New York in dublin is finding a yank in the temple bar that’s up for a green card marriage
We're officially 18 months away from having a dead capital city absolutely pockmarked with unfinished building sites as Micheal Martin, in a shiny blue suit, looks into the camera to explain why each and every one of us somehow owes 70 grand to a bank on Wall Street.
Dublin City Council has approved plans for a new hotel development at Molyneux Yard off Meath Street. The scheme comprises 224 no bedroom hotel with bar, restaurant etc.
@deejaygeejaygee
@bartlebooth45
A bouncer in about:blank once asked me if I was "carrying anything for self-defence", I looked him right in the eye and said "nür mein Irische charme", he groaned and waved our whole group in
You can tell how old someone on Dublin Twitter is by simply asking them which incident first led them to swear they were never ever going to set foot in the White Moose Café.
Public order Gardai dealing with increasingly tense and hostile situation in Dublin City centre following the attack on school children and a staff member this afternoon.
As soon as bouncers stopped being able to ask "have yis no homes to go to" because the likely answer became "no" it was inevitable that the government was going to legislate to stop that question being asked instead of addressing the housing crisis.
When the Irish Gender Recognition act was passed it was so uncontroversial that *Willie O'Dea* of all people called it a "paternalistic solution" that "didn't go far enough".
Complaining about a piece of legislation passed when you weren’t paying attention seems like a you problem tbh.
Lydia Foy battled very publicly for more than 15 years for gender recognition. It’s not her or any trans person’s fault you were too busy picking your nose.
Broadcaster Niall Boylan to contest Dublin seat in EU elections.
Finally, finally, someone who is saying what people are thinking but afraid to say.
The EU election just got VERY interesting! Go Niall!
Rónán Mullen says some people had positive experiences in religious-run institutions and we should acknowledge that.
Mullen speaks of the hypocrisy of certain people, says some babies are now "sentenced to death" in Ireland, referencing abortion.
Other senators interject.
Genuinely curious as to what particular destruction of which iconic landmark or beloved cultural centre will finally be the point at which Dublin says "no more".
Gosh I'm amazed that the company who went to the High Court to have sectoral agreements on minimum wages for fast food workers declared unconstitutional is now having difficulty with attracting workers.
One underdiscussed aspect of just how awful this is is the fact that it's two men, whose country has just spent 28 million pounds on a big party for a very old lady in a hat made of stolen diamonds who they believe has magical blood, are calling the Irish "irrational"
The year is 2022… and a BBC presenter and someone from the British Army are explaining why “micks” actually isn’t an offensive term for Irish people… 🙄🤦♂️
Trying to get my head around the Greens sitting there quiet as mice these past few weeks as anger at Golfgate boiled over, and then breaking their silence to announce to the world that food and clothing need to cost twice as much, *just* as the damp Autumn cold starts to bite.
The Irish Times putting out an open call for contributors from underrepresented backgrounds and then slapping it behind a paywall to make sure that only people from the right sort of underrepresented backgrounds can read it is the most Irish Times thing imaginable.
Neither Dante himself or Hieronymus Bosch in their wildest ecstatic visions of the scorched horizons of hell could ever have conjured up an image of perpetual infinite torment as vivid as this.
The old Sackville Lounge now looks like a fridge magnet you'd buy in a Carrolls gift shop with a raging hangover before flying back to Grimsby after a stag do in Temple Bar
I knew in my heart of hearts this referendum campaign would eventually devolve into two men in suits arguing in a TV studio, but I *never* thought I would see a Blueshirt reach for the "800 Years" to score a point against a Shinner.
This is really sad and also really short sighted. Quite apart from the loss to science outreach it was also one of the few things that actually drove footfall down to a part of town that is effectively dead space because of TCD overdevelopment.
According to the vast majority of sensible professional politics commentators, policing experts, and politicians this man is absolutely no different to a 19 year old NCAD student waving a placard calling for public housing, tenants' rights and an end to evictions.
Sinn Féin are going to keep on trying to appeal to the lads setting fire to Coolock who will never ever vote for them, while alienating the massive chunk of their supporters who just want Eoin Ó Broin to make a roof over their head be an achievable dream. It's done. Finito.
Analysis: Is Sinn Féin's new immigration policy doc about adopting a 'whatever you're having yourself' platform in a bid to shore up hemorrhaging votes?
It's quite remarkable that 100 years later both sides of this divide, a divide so acrimonious that a country took up arms against itself, are sitting in peaceful coalition government together, united by a shared belief in the right of foreign corporate landlords to pay no taxes.
A Fianna Fáiler becoming Taoiseach at a time when everyone is prevented from leaving the country to emigrate means we have lost the one traditional self preservation mechanism that generations of people living under a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach have had to resort to. God help us.
She went to the protest calling for the fences to be removed and is shocked that people removed the fences rather than waiting for the people who'd put up the fences to heed their call to take down the fences and this really is the Labour party in a nutshell isn't it.
Shocked to return to
#Portobello
#GrandCanal
this evening to see barriers thrown everywhere.
We are all frustrated at the
@waterwaysirelan
fencing, but this is not the answer.
Thanks to local Gardai for swift action in clearing barriers from paths & roadways.
Lots of commentators out there bemoaning the state of American race relations who somehow don't think it's at all weird that Ireland has a nationwide network of privatised refugee centres run by the same company that owns that nice café in Wicklow that your bougie aunt loves.
Imagine travelling back to 2010 to explain to your mates that one day Jedward were going to be out there darkly hinting they're on a government kill-list.
Next stop: Repeal the 27th Amendment, Repeal the bit of Bunreacht na hEireann about a woman's place being in the home, Repeal the blasphemy bit, Repeal the 1935 Public Dancehalls Act, and the law that stops us getting cans in Spar after 10pm please & thanks.
Excuse me but I am absolutely GONE at the idea of Shane Ross having to enlist his daughter and his wife to decode the hugs and kisses and textspeak in Gerry Adams's messages and to help him reply in kind.
Paddy Cosgrave's data-driven pivot from tech-conference organiser who platformed the likes of Le Pen and Farage to self-appointed leftist oracle all because he got a bit of positive engagement on a few mild tweeted critiques of Irish government policy is pretty funny to be fair.
I hate bookies, and I really fucking hate Paddy Power, and I refuse to watch the Colm Meaney video you're all sharing. Apart from being *parasitical sociopaths* they threatened to call the guards on any union rep who dared show up to chat to their employees.
Haven't see it mentioned recently but the vast majority of RTÉ's digital DAB radio offerings, their electronic music and alternative shows etc, are all presented by volunteers who don't get paid a cent.
Drama on the Dublin to Galway train as a man is removed from my carriage for refusing to wear a mask. This then devolved into half the carriage giving it the "Ah well the Swedes did nothing at all and they're grand now so they are" and honestly trains are as bad Facebook comments
Feverish, vomiting, and sweating blood from every pore of his ebola-ravaged frame, Dr De Brun gamely crawls into the restaurant so as not to have to cancel a table booking and inconvenience a restaurant owner.
So let me get this straight in my head, I can have Aids, Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, Ebola, Hepatitis, Meningitis and conjunctivitis.. and I can eat in a restaurant and go to the pub.. but if I haven't had a vaccine for covid-19 (aka nasty cold virus) ... I'm barred.
Seriously?
Ireland was a better place to live in the 1990s than it is now in just about every way I can think of. The "golden age" of liberalism in Ireland was really from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, before the socialists really started messing everything up.
Dublin City Council has given the green light to contentious plans to turn James Joyce’s ‘House of the Dead’ on Dublin’s quays into a 50 bed tourist hostel
Every time you buy a nice salad in Avoca or a cup of coffee at the National Gallery you are putting money in the pocket of the people making money from this, and they get to keep even more of that money thanks to the unique fiscal quirks of multinationals doing business here.
Incarcerated people in Nevada prisons have resorted to eating salt, toothpaste, and toilet paper. Why? Because the food being served by foodservice giant
@Aramark
is making people sick and they can't afford commissary items. It's a human rights crisis.
Pope Francis denounces cancel culture as "a form of ideological colonization" at a Vatican event.
"Under the guise of defending diversity, it ends up canceling all sense of identity," he says
Unfortunately Portobello Plaza is closed this weekend & we appeal to the public not to come here. We are aware of the importance of public spaces but some behaviour at this location in recent weeks has been completely unacceptable.
#Portobello
#Dublin
Weird, the public order unit looked pretty dedicated when they were dragging striking Debenham's workers out of the Ilac centre loading bay in the middle of the night a few weeks ago.
Imagine looking at the desolate wasteland of litter, upward-only rent reviews, car-choked streets and dereliction that is Dublin and thinking that the *one* thing stopping it from being paradise is the fact you can buy a fist-shaped dildo if you go into a shop on Capel Street.
The story of the five Garth Brooks shows in Croke Park that were cancelled, shot, directed and edited in the style of Uncut Gems. Eight nailbiting episodes.
Big Phil's whole entire reputation hinges on him being such a thundering bollocks that hardened negotiation teams crumble the minute he walks into a meeting room, and the whole country just listened to him barely managing to scrape through a ten minute radio interview on RTE.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee arrives at Store St Garda station with Minister Paschal Donohoe ahead of meeting with senior Gardai.
Meeting comes following an attack on an American tourist in the area.
Shook to discover that every time I've said "mind yourself!" instead of goodbye to a non-Irish person, they've heard it as a Sopranos style threat. Hiberno-English confusion strikes again
Children of Men is a much better film if you simply imagine the rest of the world is carrying on in relative normalcy off-screen while the Brits quite simply choose to Be Like That.
The most unrealistic thing about Children of Men is the idea that 'only Britain soldiers on'. In reality the crisis is only just beginning, and Britain has essentially fallen down the stairs.
Spotted in town today - Violet Gibson of course was the Anglo-Irishwoman who used all the privilege at her disposal to shoot Benito Mussolini in the face.