if you've ever wondered why sites like TipperaryLive, GalwayLive, etc. are so plastered with ads, it's because those sites and the papers they collate news from are owned by a British advertising kingpin who scoops up distressed papers so he can corner the advertising market

The Ditch@wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2h ago

Competition undertakings to separate the British owner of Ireland’s largest regional media group from the advertising sales house his rivals depend on have “proven ineffective”, according to Celtic Media Group. ‘This is not healthy for media plurality.’ www.ontheditch.com/competition-...

Solidarity with trans people in Britain today. Fuck the EHRC guidelines.

around brexit, when americans were struggling with the difference between britain / uk / british isles, someone on twitter suggested to me (somewhat tongue in cheek) that "the british isles" is unacceptable and that the politically correct term is "these isles"; or "those isles" if you're american

Ken McFadden *drags deep from cig* I haven’t heard that name in years

Myles na gCup O'Lean.@executivesteve.bsky.social · 22h ago

Counterpoint: what better way to honour his legacy than by chatting up good-looking young wans?

Counterpoint: what better way to honour his legacy than by chatting up good-looking young wans?

Rasputin levels

Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 2d ago

“he dies of alcoholism, suicide or cancer. a short illness followed by a heart attack.” What

I don't believe in a higher power, but Rod Liddle dying on Eamon Dunphy's birthday could make me question it slightly.

Lmao it's literally his birthday! What a gift.

Mojito Fiend@ronronzo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Apropos of nothing I hope Eamonn Dunphy is having a great day.

Apropos of nothing I hope Eamonn Dunphy is having a great day.

She did this while on holidays in Greece, from a yacht on the Aegean sea. It took Graham Linehan half a decade to reach this level of derangement and she's barely out of the starting blocks.

Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 6d ago

Roisin Murphy trawled through Instagram and found one of her old pop songs. When she saw that almost every commentator was critical of her newfound status as a deranged swivel-eyed TERF, she screenshotted their profiles & made a video of them. All completely normal behaviour 😬

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

Wild that this is the first time in nearly a decade I've seen a tweet of his that isn't explicitly anti-trans hate speech. It's an adage as old as time, once you start down the road of terf-posting you will never post anything remotely normal ever again.

Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21@darkeden21.bsky.social · 6d ago

just in case you wondered how graham is doing lol

Gotta say it thrills me to see US production companies saving money by making The Price Is Right in Ireland using the S481 tax break that was designed to create an indigenous film industry while many Irish filmmakers (including me) don't have a fucking pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

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...

Biggest day in a while for the "actually it's ephebophilia" community all the same.

The solution to this kind of thing in Ireland is always "the companies have promised us they'll be good this time"

Conor Gallagher@conorgallagher.bsky.social · last wk.

Aughinish Alumina will, under a new oversight arrangement, be expected to provide the Government with regular evidence its products are not supplying the Russian military. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ireland declared a national day of mourning after 9/11 and all the pubs were shut so a big gang of us ended up in Sirens (as the hotel bar was called) and spent the whole day on the sauce. It closed down not long after. The WTC will be rebuilt and up and humming well before they build anything here.

Dr Neutopia@oceanclub.bsky.social · last wk.

This hole in the ground was formerly a famous hotel which starred in Ulysses. It was closed 20 years ago and demolished 10 years ago. Nothing is happening and seemingly no one even knows who owns it. At the same time supposedly developers are over-regulated. Well done all around.

This case illustrates why we must not allow Meta to normalise its pervert glasses.

Lorcan Murphy’s use of ‘spy pen’ to record women in Dublin part of ‘path to future crime’

The Dubliner was jailed this month for murdering US nurse Mackenzie Michalski in Hungary

irishtimes.com

With all due respect, because you are a human and thus deserving, I wonder if there is a rational reason why you reject humility in yourself but demand it from others?

I don't remember Microsoft having to engage a global supply chain auditor over allegations that it provided unlawful data processing for the IDF (facilitating war crimes) through its Irish-based data centres. www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Aughinish Alumina offers ‘third-party verification’ of its exports to Russia as State’s probe is inconclusive

Peter Burke says Department of Enterprise could engage independent supply-chain auditor

independent.ie

“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

Whoever drives the Mayo team's bus home now has the opportunity to do the funniest thing in 75 years.

Margaret Thatcher, Oliver Cromwell, Dillinja, Isombard Kingdom Brunel, Wiley, Jeremy Corbyn, Emmeline Pankhurst, William Shakespeare, Shy FX, Skinnyman, Winston Churchill, Tim Roth, Caitlín Moran, Glinner, Suella Braverman, your boys just took one HELL of a beating!!

American Embassy invited a woman who claims that upholstery on seats in Crumlin Children's Hospital contains secret paedophile symbols to 4th of July party. And we're supposed to bow and scrape before this dumbass country.

Bessborough or somewhere like it should be the site of a museum about that whole carceral archipelago which is the state's darkest secret. A place where people could go to take in the enormity of what happened and where the names and lives of everyone who suffered and died could be memorialised.

Hannah O'Sullivan@sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · last mo.

#SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm Siobhán McSweeney: Cork council go-ahead for 140 apartments on Bessborough site 'f***ing disgraceful' share.google/lNANr4d1zLdb...

There hasn't been this many Germans covering their faces around Paraguay since the end of 1945

Scooter, Albert Speer, Thomas Mann, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Ben Klock, Angela Merkel, DJ Hell, Ursula Von Der Leyen, Rainier Rilke, Otto Merz, Helena Hauff, Josef Mengele, Werner Von Braun, Uwe Boll, Marcel Dettman....... your boys took a hell of a beating!

Dude absolutely panned out on the ground in Phibsboro - heat and substance related. Do we’ve any actual street medic teams in Dublin? It’s not an uncommon sight people are left waiting absolutely ages for ambulances.

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

When I was trying to be a Serious Actor(tm) and training at a conservatory years ago, we had an instructor who had us create, what was essentially a stage version of a music video. We'd been neck deep in a bunch of experimental and movement-based practices (Viewpoints, Suzuki, biomechanics)...

Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very, very intrigued by this book doing something similar: "aesthetics of deformation"—scenes when otherwise realistic texts depart from verisimilitude and embrace a more disquieting style…just as horror may rupture the fabric of everyday life, so too may it rupture the fabric of a literary text.”