on a Ring of Kerry bus tour with a 70yo tour guide who calls himself “The King of the Ring,” and just likened Loreto nuns to the Taliban. More as we have it
I was immediately angry over this until I remembered a friend on his J1 telling an American gal that the reason he was in the US was because when you're 18 in Ireland you've to fight your father, and if you lose, you leave
SPOILERS: Just realized that Shiv's final betrayal is foreshadowed even in her NAME- Siobhan is an irish name, and the irish are infamously untrustworthy
D’ordaigh mé an phionta seo trí Gaeilge amháin agus fuaireas €1 as an phraigheas!!! / I ordered this in Irish and got €1 off @ Hyne’s Bar, Stoneybatter
💚🍀🔫🐸 more of this, please
he just spent about eight minutes describing, in beautiful detail, the magic of Fungi’s relationship with Dingle, only to end with “he’s now missing, presumed dead”
A commentator for the Dub - Mayo game just said a player showed the strength of Ciara Mageean by slotting between two players to score. Feels hopeful to think male athletes are being lauded for their ability to perform like female athletes :-)
Nightclubs look set to be allowed stay open later and Sunday pub opening hours will be extended under a plan by the Minister for Justice to reform the alcohol licensing laws
thankyou to everyone for joining me on a solo work tour! I’m writing about this so will share for all of you seemingly so fond of dead dolphins. for those asking: the tour was given by the inimitable John O’Neill of Wild Kerry Tours. give him all of your money forever more amen!
He’s just hammed up his South Kerry accent to say this: “This is a totally non PC bus ladies and gentlemen. It’s all sex drugs and rock + roll from here on in. But I must ask, if you’re doing any of the above with a hot drink, please leave it outside the coach first.”
without breath or explanation, tour guide just said “not too long ago in the bog to your left, archaeologists found several thousand-year-old butter that, when dug up, was as fresh as the day it was made. they also found bodies. they were less so”
Whatever your thoughts are about any politician, posting a picture of a young woman on their staff in an attempt to get people to troll is misogynistic and frankly demented. Take this down
just hit Caherciveen: “Daniel O’Connell is big business in Ireland. he got Catholics the vote and used to be on the £20 note before we switched to this euro business. now everyone wave to Meabh the traffic warden”
he just described, in grisly detail, the Puck Fair to 20+ audibly horrified Americans. No wonder the world thought Banshees of Inisherin was set in modern day
Enoch: That is a lie. It's a lie. A lie.
Isaac (Enoch's brother): A lie. A lie. A lie.
Enoch: He's lying to the court. He should be struck off the register.
Enoch roaring now. His mother, Martina, is applauding him.
As everyone I spoke to yesterday can attest to, I’m still very much in shock. Thank you all so much for your kind wishes, support and trust to share your stories. Today I might stop calling myself an idiot, but from tomorrow things will resume as normal xxx
Always looking for deserving Irish up-and-comers to write about. Can't guarantee anything, but if you have any Irish artists, musicians, designers, actors, playwrights, rappers, authors etc you think the world should know about, get onto me here ⬇️
just stopped at a sheepdog training session. Shepherd walks in like a god. the distance between US confidence and Irish mortification has never felt so vast. had to touch base with the inner circle to confer/scream
we just stopped “for five minutes” at the side of a mountain for whatever this is. seems to be a friend of gas tour guide. cute hoorism knows no bounds, including bucket hats with ‘high til I die’ stitched to the front. up Kerry
fuck it, we go again. Today we’re on a lakes tour! the sun is out and we’re on the water. Tour guide just said “I see a lot of ye looking worried and ye needn’t be, we haven’t had a serious accident in at least a fortnight”
en route to Sneem. He has now taken to recounting previous tours and slagging Americans. “Ye lads want to bring the Book of Kells to the Cliffs of Moher, kiss the Blarney Stone and also get a coffee to go on the way. Would ye ever sit down and have a pint”
🚨 hello! as of this week, I have dropped out of the rat race and will be henceforth be a freelance writer. A dumb idea? Time will only tell. Commissioning editors, feel free to get in touch w me – katedemolder
@gmail
.com – to write things about stuff 🌹 RTs v much appreciated
“We have different road names in Ireland. If you see ‘r’ at the start, it means regional, and they’re shocking to drive on. If you see ‘l’ they’re local roads which are awful and grassy. And where you see ‘n,’ they’re national… and they’re worse than the first two put together”
I present to you the most Irish photo ever taken of me—the day AFTER my communion (I’d fallen out of my top bunk the night before and we later found out that I’d fractured my skull) but the photographer was paid for so I was sent out to get a few snaps
Congratulations to
@katedemolder
who has won this year's Arts Journalism and Criticism award for her work in The Sunday Times at the 2022
@newsbrandsirl
Journalism Awards
After 6+ years on pretty heavy duty antidepressants, my dosage is finally coming down 🥲 mental health woes are bleak but just wanted to share this for anyone who worries that they’ll never feel normal. DMs always open for those who wanna scream about having no libido lol
Wrote this following the recent slate of transphobic behaviour that's attacking cis women not deemed 'feminine' enough––highlighting how it was never about trans people in the first place, but rather a more critical form of misogyny:
the housing crisis has entered the chat! “The average price for a semi-d in Dublin is now half a million euro. T’would be nice to get a living wage but sure I drive a godforsaken bus around Kerry, not shovel chips in McDonald’s.” He’s playing the tip game… and I appreciate it
an acoustic Black Is The Colour now fills the bus as we hit our narrowest roads yet. tour guide has noticed the nervous gasping from highway-adjacent Americans. “If ye close your eyes for the next while it’ll make yer lives a lot easier”
we’ve hit hour five of the tour. just under two more to go. everyone is damp, tired and vaguely smelling of chowder. tour guide is now gesturing to fields with discarded bathtubs, polystyrene and broken chairs with a flair that could only be described as allegorical
The clouds have parted and the washing has been taken in at Dublin Airport…
Our much talked about word clouds and clothes line graphics have been retired. Stay tuned for some new installations - coming very soon! ☁️ 🧺
rare sincere tweet alert 🚨
I'm looking to create a community of freelance journalists to share rates/swap stories and generally make this job feel a little easier––
Send this to anyone who might be interested, would love to have you