Fake job logic on #TraitorsIrl is like ‘I can’t tell them I’m a librarian as they’ll think I’ve read books about deception so instead I’ll pretend I’m quality control inspector for Fisherman’s Friends mints’
Alan Kinsella
@electionlit.bsky.social
Collector of political ephemera, Shamrock Rovers fan
🚨Scottish Election Study Data Release 🚨 SES is today releasing its 2026 campaign wave and post-election data. github.com/ScottishElec... The SES is the independent ESRC-funded study of voter attitudes and behaviour in Scotland 1/
GitHub - ScottishElectionStudy/Scottish_Election_Study_2026: This repository holds the data, codebook, user guides and original questionnaires for the 2026 Scottish Election Study. Data are available ...
This repository holds the data, codebook, user guides and original questionnaires for the 2026 Scottish Election Study. Data are available in .dta and .sav format. - ScottishElectionStudy/Scottish_...
github.com
One thing I recall from that election, at the height of the Tiger years; Dana was the only candidate I remember talking about poverty, particularly among older people. I know she was after the conservative Catholic vote, but there was a concern for equality there.
From the 1997 Presidential Election where she received almostv14% of the vote.
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There’s absolutely NO WAY that Siobhan McSweeney and Fionuala Linehan don’t know each other from the Cork drama scene #traitorsIRL
I have seen Fionuala in the Panto a few times and I feel she is very much bringing Panto energy to this #traitorsIRL
Remember this one too? We might have better off if Lisbon really had created an EU army. (Via irishelectionliterature.com @electionlit.bsky.social )
A large chunk of prominent leaders in this country, across politics, business and education, are in the grip of a national Not Logging Off crisis
Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 3d agoChancellor of the University of Limerick is over on X saying it's child abuse for trans parents to breastfeed she's @'ing the Minister for Health about it
Followers from England. This is one of the best Irish films of this century and you should watch it.
Seán Costello@seanjcostello.bsky.social · 4d agoA heads-up for those with access: this Irish-language adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella Foster is currently streaming on Channel 4. Scannán iontach atá ann. (It’s a wonderful film.)
The banner of generations - Lenin! (Soviet Poster, 1969) Artist: Oleg Dmitrievich Maslyakov
I'm gonna start throwing all my rubbish and sewage into the river next to my house and see how much money Waterford county council will pay me to stop doing it
The Phoenix Park in Dublin recorded 40mm of rain in two hours this evening, that is more rain in 2 hours than in the last 2 months.
19rs ago when Dolly sent me a personal video message just cos a friend sent her a letter telling her about our annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser, The Alternative Miss Ireland, and how much I loved her And far away in Tennessee she sat down and shot an adorable engaged video for this nobody just to be nice
Panti and Dolly Parton, AMI XIII, March 11, 2007
YouTube video by AlternativeMissIRL
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From the 1999 Local Elections in Ennis. All bar Frank Flaherty were elected. Bernard Hanrahan won the final seat by one vote from Brian Meaney of the Greens.
From the 1999 Local Elections in Ennis. All bar Frank Flaherty were elected. Bernard Hanrahan won the final seat by one vote from Brian Meaney of the Greens.
Connolly looks like he's suggesting that to someone across the bar.
Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 7d agoLabour Annual Report 1969
![Cartoon: James Connolly’s ghost appears and asks “how fares Labour?”
[Photo of Labour Annual Report ‘69 with illustration of Connolly]
Connolly says “Nice. This is nice actually”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzn62zgeah3uzasupdcmypht/bafkreigc5p2th3gwxu65vrk3rbyvdgnmcsrgccbak5zow76ble57kbibge)
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
CNN@cnn.com · last wk."At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
Just saw Facebook antivaxxers speculating that 80-year-old Dolly Parton’s death was hastened by the COVID vaccine she helped fund the development of and received—half a decade ago—and am thinking about how the past decade spent catering to these people has been nothing but a waste of time.