just a note that the shop is going to be closing on Friday for about a month or so whilst we hopefully welcome a new housemate, so this is your last week to pick up some lovely handmade art for a while www.etsy.com/ie/shop/pray...
Dermot Looney
@dlooney.bsky.social
🔴⚪️ St Patrick’s Athletic Fan and Historian 📕📖 Author, ‘Saints Rising: The Early History of St Patrick’s Athletic FC’ 👨🏫🍎 HSCL Teacher 💜⬅️ Socialist - former SDCC Cllr and Mayor
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm
Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for women
The memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...
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The big hope for us all is that these techbros are absolute lúdramáns who are so arrogant they can’t comprehend basic human interaction.
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago
The Corleck Head • Cavan As we're in the time of Lughnasa, it gives me an excuse to share one of my favourite artefacts in @nmireland.bsky.social – the Corleck Head. It was found in 1855 near Corleck Hill in County Cavan, where a Lughnasa festival was regularly held. #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
Do you like coffee? Do you like decent people? Check this out. ☕️
Imbibe Coffee Roasters@imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 6d agoAs many of you know, we've given 1% of all the money you spend with us to @womensaidireland.bsky.social for over 8 years. A few years ago, we decided to increase this donation to 10% on Bank Holiday weekends. From midnight, it’s a Bank Holiday... Image made by a real life designer.
Here is a link to my article detailing and analysing a bonkers week in football Infantino’s World Cup plot leaves him deserted by allies and with his credibility detonated www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
Gavin Cooney: Infantino’s World Cup plot leaves him deserted by allies and with his credibility detonated
Fifa president has managed to unite football, but not in the way he wished
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I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for genocidal murderers. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
Petition to #stopthegame
I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for g...
my.uplift.ie
If you can bet on wildfires on Polymarket, you are now financially incentivised to start fires. This is the endgame. We are fucked.
In this Sunday’s matchday programme - to follow afterwards on our Patreon - we look at the second part of the 1967/68 season - featuring European and LOI Shield action. 🔴⚪️
SIPTU has reaffirmed that it will support any member who, on grounds of conscience, refuses to participate in the hosting, servicing or facilitation of the upcoming UEFA Nations League fixtures involving the Irish and Israeli national football teams. https://bit.ly/4cdpEw2
SIPTU supports workers' boycott of Israel fixtures and calls on Government to cancel games
When facing an attempt to sportswash a genocide, workers have a right to act in accordance with their conscience and should not face disciplinary action.
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The Saints who beat TEK United en route to the 1974 FAI Cup Final. Back row (l-r): Mick Dempsey, Paul Doyle, Tom Lally (GK), Brendan Myles, Sean Byrne, Jack Burkett (p-m), Dermot ‘Mo’ Shiels Front row (l-r): Leo ‘Pop’ Flanagan, Ben O’Sullivan, Paddy Munroe, Ernie Reynolds (c), Mick Cooke (sub) 🔴⚪️
Interesting that even UEFA itself considers boycotting a valid tactic. All the more reason to continue all our pressure to kick Israel out of international football while they continue their genocide against Palestinians. #stopthegames
Miguel Delaney@migueldelaney.bsky.social · last wk.Uefa meeting is 2pm UK time tomorrow - boycotts will be discussed It’s already been raised how the same threat was used to kill Fifa’s plan to have a Russian team in the World Cup after Ukraine Also idea of EU/EC removing Fifa’s antitrust law exemptions www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Glad to see so much uptake of this story which was first reported by Shamim, but please be aware this is entirely typical and unsurprising behaviour by the DOJ. It’s particularly cruel when the students are from Gaza but it’s also part of a pattern of unjustified visa refusals
Shamim Malekmian@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · last wk.Dozens of people from Gaza seeking visas to study in Ireland are denied entry. It was Haneen Eshraim's only “realistic opportunity at this stage to leave Gaza safely and continue my education”, she said. More here www.dublininquirer.com/dozens-of-pe...
Really begs the question how much he has donated to 'Progress Ireland' to push his deregulation agenda doesn't it? Calls for wealth taxes on the super-rich are growing across the world and People Before Profit will renew our call for a tax on multi-millionaires in Budget 2027.
Irish entrepreneur Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth tax
Building a Better California opposes proposal that would require California’s billionaire residents to pay a one-off tax on their assets
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I just signed this petition, calling on the Irish govt to send legal observers and demand a just trial of the Ulm 5 in Germany. Will you add your name? my.uplift.ie/petitions/su... @uplift.ie
Support Ireland’s monitoring of Germany’s “show trial” against the Ulm 5!
I just signed this petition, calling on the Irish govt to send legal observers and demand a just trial of the Ulm 5 in Germany. Will you add your name?
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Germany’s godawful politics is the main driver of the EU’s pathetic response to what’s happening in Palestine. Their response and influence has emboldened Netanyahu no end and enabled the ongoing genocide. With some honourable exceptions, the German left have been awful.
Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.Germany's chancellor Friedrich Merz tells @virginmedianews.bsky.social he has concerns around Israel's continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank, but has assured that country Germany will not support any sanctions against it at EU level. (1/2)
And they want to get rid of Gaeilge as a core subject? Scanallach!
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · last wk.So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre
Dermot Keely, Joe Smith and Paddy Munroe defending against Cork Celtic in the 1976/77 season. 🔴⚪️
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
The Mayo bus has accidentally driven under a ladder and smashed through the Swinford mirror factory on its way home. This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen.
The rugby team have been losing WC quarter finals for longer than Mayo were losing All-Ireland finals , I think it's high time we made up some old nonsense about then being cursed
All the big curses in Irish sport now broken 🏑 🔵🟡The Curse of Biddy Early 1914-1995 ❌ ⚽️ 🔴⚪️The St Pat’s Hoodoo Voodoo 1961-2014 ❌ 🏐 🔴🟢 The Mayo Curse 1951-2026 ❌
A smouldering fire in Glenasmole in Dublin reignited overnight after a change in wind direction helped the fire find new fuel. It crossed the Featherbeds and down into Glencree in Wicklow. Strap in for wildfire stats🧵 #Climate #Wildfire #Speirgorm
