I lived for a few years in that circled house literally right next to the Cusack Stand entrance and we never had a complaint about Croke Park being used for matches and concerts because, before we moved in, we noticed there was a very large stadium next to us.
Fair play to Ryan Tubridy responding to an accusation of misogyny by speaking over the woman making the accusation, repeatedly interrupting her and then accusing her of being in a 'mood'.
He absolutely put that accusation to rest. Case. Closed.
If that exit poll is true a gang of young women in black jumpers with clipboards and leaflets just kicked the absolute snot out of the biggest gang of bullies and thugs since the Tans.
#Referendum2018
#Together4YES
#repealtheeight
Beginning to think if the British had had a negotiating team of this ability in 1922 we’d never have had a border and we’d probably have got Wales.
#Brexit
I see Michael McDowell is writing in the Irish Times about the dangers of racism.
There's a real risk people will confuse him with a man of the same name who took citizenship rights away from children born here because 'too many' immigrants were coming into Ireland.
A lot of 'since World War 2' stuff on Twitter and in the media today.
Just a reminder the Yugoslav Civil War led to well over 100,000 dead, mass ethnic cleansing and genocide.
It wasn't a small thing.
For ten long years I have reminded my wife that I don't like dogs and I don't want to have one in the house.
Today, Rosa arrived.
Proving once and for all that my wife is a better lobbyist than I am.
Huge credit to the Irish Times to find space to give a platform to Fintan O'Toole to explain gender, misogyny and the lived experience of Trans people.
Women and Trans people are lucky to have him to speak for them as they are, notoriously, unable to write.
Cannot recommend this highly enough. Not just a fantastic, and harrowing, account of the crimes of British imperialism but sets it in its proper legal and social context.
Big section on Ireland and how British agents took what they ‘learned’ here to Aden, Palestine, Malaya etc.
Ran into an old comrade last month who told me that SF was going to have a disaster of an election
#GE2020
.
He went on to explain everything the party was doing wrong.
I drink in his local now and will continue to do so until he appears.
Asked for tips for things to do in Cork. Nine hours and literally scores of suggestions later I’m LinkedIn friends with the concierge at the Cork Metropole.
Cork people take selling Cork very seriously.
Arrived three weeks early, & very suddenly, on Tuesday morning Fia Jennings-Moran (future Galway camogie All-Star & second female Taoiseach) is safely home.
Early arrival due to concern at exit poll data from south Florida. 'Though she be but little, she is fierce.'
Just passed two Gardaí outside Botanic Gardens systematically ticketing the dozen or so cars parked in a row in the cycle lane.
Policing you love to see.
Don't normally share stuff behind paywalls (buy the paper, take out a sub) but this by Sarah Carey today is absolutely fantastic.
Great on the turf ban but even better on the lack of political leadership if we're going to tackle
#ClimateChange
.
A big thanks to
@irishcongress
.
Just finishing up to go spend two weeks of paid paternity leave hanging out this with cheerful rogue.
An entitlement I have because trade unions campaigned a long time for it.
Thanks lads.
#JoinAUnion
My wife and I just discovered we’ve been separately renewing different TV licences for our home for three years.
On the one hand, irritating, on the other, RTÉ gets its revenge for years of unpaid licences while a student.
Let’s call it a draw?
Bought a new iPhone recently and have been avoiding using it because it's so hard moving everything over.
But now if you put the phones next to each other THEY DO IT THEMSELVES. Even the wallpaper.
This is like black magic to me.
Just listening to
@SarahAMcInerney
this morning and trying to remember a time when the term 'R-number' meant nothing to me.
Also, just to add my voice to everyone else urging
@rte
to keep her in the job. She's the reason I'm listening daily to a show I had got patchy on.
According to an Irish Times columnist, who started his career with an online blog viciously ridiculing working class and overweight people, I need to be house trained.
My parents trained me well enough not to make my money making fat jokes.
In the flats getting out the
#GE2020
vote.
‘You do the lower floors and I’ll work down from the top,’ the thoughtful young activist says to me.
That used to be me that said that.
Officially old.
Mad to see a generation of allegedly politically informed journalists shocked that Michael D opposes genocide and would use his role as President to express this.
Woodies paint guy: Actually, have you a picture of your walls? That might help pick the right white.
Me: Hold on, let me check.
Time passes as we both look at dozens of pics on my phone, almost all of Maude.
Woodies: She’s a lovely looking cat in fairness.
Nothing but love for the TUV voter who apparently chose to give their second preference to Sinn Fein MLA and former hunger striker Pat Sheehan.
Voters are just fundamentally odd.
#AE22
Lads, had anyone heard this story before?
35 girls burned to death in Cavan because the nuns locked the doors to prevent them being seen in their nightclothes by rescuers?
#FireWardenTraining
Tweeted earlier that I knew a FF TD who did that fake polling. A good friend of mine was directly involved.
Two more since told me they did it, one for FF and one for Labour, posing as ‘researchers’.
Both were paid cash in hand.
Michael McDowell believes the Irish media is not aggressive enough in attacking Sinn Fein because, deep down, all Irish journalists are communists.
He's really stretching his lead in the contest to be Ireland's Donald Trump.
You can forget the climate all you want, son, the climate's not going to forget you.
Beautiful headline from one of this week's local papers. Anyone want to guess the TD?
If you needed any more proof that Ireland does death better than anyone else, at Shane MacGowan's funeral this afternoon the priest held up some of his favourite items, one of them a box of teabags
Got a couple of emails on this so to clarify, I am not running for the Seanad, no one has asked me to run, there were no emails and I voted to abolish it but if nominated by a future Taoiseach I would happily, and in an act of gross hypocrisy, take the seat.
Mother of a friend of mine just had her door knocked by a journalist going door-to-door looking for parents with kids in the school closed because of
#COVID19ireland
.
As they put it themselves 'feels a bit dodgy'.
Earlier? It was in 2008 - 14 years ago - that EirGrid published Grid25, setting out the need to reinforce our electricity grid to ensure a secure, safe and affordable supply of power in the 2020s.
People were warned. Many times. They just didn't listen.
There's a fantastic buddy-film to be made here of Alan Kelly and Micheál Martin putting aside their differences to save Christmas. Still time to make it and get it onto Netflix for Christmas.
One of the madder comments in Dan O'Brien's article in the Business Post. Literally no one I know in politics, left/right, Government/Opposition, media/elected rep thought this was the case.
And off she goes. The journey to becoming Ireland's second female Taoiseach starts with her first day at creche. Critical to start building her network of political allies from Day One.
Drove to Waterford yesterday for a family dinner.
Plugged it into an ESB charger in the car park closest to the restaurant while eating and then drove home and 44% left on the battery.
Another EV driving nightmare.
Met someone this morning who told me her post office has run out of passport application forms.
Irish passport forms.
In her East Belfast post office.
She was advised to go to
@sinnfeinireland
for help.
#Brexit
really is bringing people together.
No problem with people wanting to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Irish Free State. In fairness, a seminal moment in Irish history.
But, lads, it's not the same thing as Irish independence.
I think if there is one clear message from this poll it’s how badly Sinn Féin handled the Armagh partition commemoration celebration issue.
Crystal clear just how out of touch the party truly is. Lessons to be learned.
Sinn Féin has extended its lead over the government parties since the release of the budget, in its strongest ever performance in a Business Post
@REDCResearch
poll.
@obraonain
reports.
As Ronan Mullen tops the poll and is elected on the first count in
#Seanad2020
a section of lefty Twitter will continue to wonder why running multiple similar left candidates continues to fail to unseat him.
#ElectionsDontWorkThatWay
Split left vote in Dublin means we lose the best MEP we’ve had in 20 years and FF take the third seat. Outstanding. I think we can all agree the Irish left has reached new heights of self-sabotage.
#EP2019
#EE2019
The genius of tax cuts as economic stimulus.
I will now go and spend my...19 cent...on luxury items to help the domestic economy. If a thousand of us do so that's 190 euro to help the country get back on its feet.
Take THAT you tax & spend communists.
This might sound like something just for energy nerds but there is literally no other country in the world that can do this.
Twenty years ago people would have said it was simply not possible.
#IrishResearch
This isn't getting the attention it deserves.
@EirGrid
announced they can now handle up to 75%
#RenewableElectricity
at any time.
Doing this on an isolated island grid like ours is literally world-leading innovation.
#MoreWind
and, soon,
#MoreSolar
!
Do you remember, two resignations ago, when we were being told the Greens would be a disaster in the Drpartment of Agriculture?
Maybe just give Pippa Hackett the big job?
The Cabinet has approved a scheme that aims to retrofit half a million homes by 2030. The scheme will be underpinned by €8 billion in the National Development Plan. | More:
Apparently no professional journalist covering Irish politics over the last 20 years had heard anything about what was, when I was most politically active in the 2000s, relatively open and common.
Where did people think the 'internal constituency polls' came from?
Canvassed a house in Phibsboro tonight.
Four housemates, none registered here.
Six people registered to vote at that address but none of the four know who they are.
Lads, really time we sorted the register.
#GE2020
I see many people who attended Sinn Féin Ard Fheiseanna and watched our Ard Chomhairle being elected are breaking the news that (checks notes) Sinn Féin has Ard Fheiseanna and elects an Ard Chomhairle.
Only a matter of time before our support for a united Ireland is exposed.
This is the key point for me, if you think a cycle lane in Salthill is controversial we may as well retreat to higher ground and throw in the towel.
There isn’t the beginning of the start of the commencement of understanding what’s before us.
Yes, no problem, as far as I'm concerned. Flag, anthem and lots of things would change to accommodate those who are British or Northern Irish.
People might be surprised at how open republicans are to this and how long we've been thinking about it.
Listening to Alan Kelly this morning and credit where it's due. The Labour party press office is getting multiples of the volume of coverage we did when I was a shinner press officer with five TDs.
My not-at-all left wing mother-in-law came across a collection of more than 30 Soviet Union political postcards from the 1950s and 1970s marking various Lenin anniversaries. She has some impressive present-buying game.
As a PR type for 20 years, Mick is completely in the right. The embargo only applies if you give the journalist information he or she did not otherwise have.
If they find out the story without you telling them that's not 'breaking an embargo', that is - literally - journalism.
Greens and Shinners shared a floor in LH 2000 after the 2002 elections. First time I got to know Eamon Ryan and have been impressed by him ever since.
Our country owes him a debt it may take some time to fully appreciate for his work on climate action.
@teelingbart
@Philip_Ryan
And the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Interesting set of choices to accompany this presumably unbiased and objective piece of journalism.
Probably late to this but the posts from the reburial of the Lakota Sioux of their children who died in an industrial school are incredibly moving and, for Irish people, a visceral connection.
The most beautiful burial I’ve ever witnessed. After over a 100 yrs the children who died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School are laid to rest by the youth of this generation. Wrapped in buffalo robes and back to the comfort of Grandmother Earth in their ancestral Lakota lands.
As loathsome as the abuse is of
@fintanwarfield
by cowards and bullies it’s inspiring to see the solidarity it brings out from all parties and none as was the previous case with Roderic O’Gorman.
Far more of us.
#Talks
..why is
@DUPleader
not being asked if she and her party will deliver the agreement they reached with Sinn Féin at the conclusion of the February 2018 negotiations? Is Mrs Foster saying that deal is irretrievable from her perspective?
Tip for Lefty political types attacking the Government for the number of advisers they're hiring.
If we're serious about genuinely transforming politics we'll need A LOT more than the current crowd if/when we get in.
Good advice costs money. No advice costs a whole lot more.
Fintan O’Toole making things up again today.
It’s not that he opposes Sinn Féin that bothers me, he’s hardly alone, but that he is so deeply and profoundly ignorant of what he opposes.
He’s like a UKIP member who opposed the EU without really knowing much about it.
Sad times here. Fia’s decision to spend most of the night awake meant Santa had no choice but to pass us by. No presents for anyone.
Harsh lesson to learn at one year old but it’ll stand to her in years to come.
Disgusted that Government seems to have bottled it on
#CarbonTax
in
#Budget19
. A day after
#ipcc
report highlights the urgent need for action on
#climatechange
they shelve an increase in the carbon tax - the single most important climate measure proposed in
#Budget2019
.
Two of their five reasons for collapsing a government are a row over a rose bush and not getting money to throw the British queen a party.
I legitimately had to check this to make sure it's not a spoof account.
Twenty eight of us out in Drumcondra, later joined by 18 friends from Doctors for Repeal! Huge amount of ground covered.
#Together4Yes
#Whatwinninglookslike
Because Bolshevik Russia supported Irish independence 100 years ago we should support fascist aggression aiming to crush Ukrainian independence.
It’s a tough competition but this may be the dumbest take i gave seen on the entire conflict.
We seem to have forgotten that England's enemy is Ireland's friend. Russia is England's enemy. Russia was the only country in 1920 that recognised the Irish Republic. But it appears that eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Not going to bother linking to them but as a former member of both the SF Ard Chomhairle and the Coiste Seasta, referred to by two know-nothings in op-eds in the Irish Times this week, they haven't a clue what they are writing about.
"Only 2% of secondary school students now cycle to school, when in 1986, more students cycled than went to school by car."
Mind officially blown reading this in
@HannahEDaly
's opening statement to the Oireachtas Climate Action committee today. 🤯🤯