Omelas re-telling but as an Irish Times Abroad piece. "I loved Omelas but it didn't love me."

The fact that we're all remembering him because he was too much of a scuzzball for Éamon Dunphy, who, at the time of that famous outburst, was (allegedly) visibly half-cut on live broadcast television, should tell ye. #spéirghorm #ireland

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2d ago

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.

I'll tell ye when: likely never. That party has done heinous things, over the last century; to our economy, our society, our culture, abuse survivors, and our natural world, and that rump of diehard voters has not blinked once. Once. #spéirghorm #ireland

Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️@freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 2d ago

So with as little fanfare as possible, Big 'not for turning' Jim was forced to meet with solicitors yesterday in an attempt to undo the damage he did to our criminal justice system. When are FF supporters going to cop on and realise this hard man guff gets them nowhere.

A lot of fear around this morning. We'll all get through it. 6pm and we're all good.

Folks, when I tell you I stepped outside last night to put the bins out, and there was no difference between inside and outside, I'm not being dramatic or funny. This shit is not on, lads. We have to put a giant ice cube into the ocean or something. #spéirghorm #ireland

James Kelleher@jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 2d ago

I am living in a swamp and I don’t like it

If you're around Belfast tomorrow afternoon, why not join myself, @stephenbaker.bsky.social and Phil Ramsey in discussing what the media landscape may look like in a 'New Ireland'!

What is missing is not votes. It is any two of those parties saying, before polling day, that they will not go in with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael, and asking their voters to transfer to each other instead. (3/4)

Thoughts on the dead singer. Yesterday, my middle aged straight hairy biker son went on one on social media about the dead singer and those eulogising him. He did not hold back. What was unusual was that he took to social media to vent knowing it would attract vile bile. I asked him why.

That gap, however, has never been narrower; and there's soft social-justice votes among FF/FG's number, as well as the independents and floating vote. #spéirghorm #ireland

The pious lecture. By Harry Burton @hbtoons.bsky.social for the Irish Examiner. #Ulm5

Talking to a very non-activist non-online Dub in the pub tonight and the “trans issue” comes up and he just lets out a RANT about who is this ENGLISH woman JKR trying to dictate who can take part in an Irish festival They just don’t understand Ireland at all and that will be their downfall here

So people get that bringing private investors in to something that belongs to everyone, for a small cash injection - but to milk it dry long term for shareholders is stupid right? Right.. now kick them out of rail, water, energy, telecoms, healthcare etc.

Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash

Gianni ⁠Infantino has said Fifa ​has scrapped plans to ⁠sell a stake in the World ⁠Cup to private ​investors ‌after widespread ‌backlash

theguardian.com

"Homelessness in Ireland rises to 17,482, latest figures show" Rises again. Fine Gael is in government for the 15.5yrs. Fianna Fáil has been their partner for last 10.5 yrs. As homelessness has been rising all that time, it *must* mean that this is the goal. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Homelessness in Ireland rises to 17,482, latest figures show

Latest Department of Housing figures show more than 5,600 children were living in emergency accommodation during June

irishexaminer.com

TONIGHT! 7pm! #spéirghorm #ireland #cork

Mike McGrath-Bryan@mikemcgb.bsky.social · 3w ago

At the end of the month, I'll be piloting a Slow Trad Session in Cork City. Dust off your instruments and we'll all learn a slow air together in a welcoming environment! Friday July 31st, 7pm-ish; Quay Co-op, all welcome, pay-what-you-can. #spéirghorm #ireland

Ok which one of you did this? Because it's the best comment we've ever gotten.

See, they're denying good, hard-working, tax-paying citizens (and museum patrons) the opportunity to possibly continue the circle of life in the belly of a whale. Counter-productive to human curiosity.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

Like clockwork - they're coming after neurodivergent people now. @channel4.bsky.social, bullshit like this is a very good way to make sure I'll openly talk about pirating your shit forever. #adhd #actuallyadhd

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

This Friday at 7pm-ish! #spéirghorm #ireland #cork

Mike McGrath-Bryan@mikemcgb.bsky.social · 3w ago

At the end of the month, I'll be piloting a Slow Trad Session in Cork City. Dust off your instruments and we'll all learn a slow air together in a welcoming environment! Friday July 31st, 7pm-ish; Quay Co-op, all welcome, pay-what-you-can. #spéirghorm #ireland

Oh, shock horror, there's skullduggery afoot at the purpose-built skullduggery factory.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last wk.

After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...

Fame is a mask that eats into the face. Alternatuvely, its a get-out-of-jail card

He's not lyin', there was still an ad for extras lately on UCC's bulletin boards for gameshows out at Troy.

Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · last wk.

They used to recruit Irish audiences and train them to say WOOOO like Americans, but clearly they despaired of that, and just booked 400 flights and hotel rooms for the audience instead. I promise you this is not something I imagined.

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.

Naked City, self-titled, top volume on non-noise-cancelling headphones, on repeat.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.

The sun still shines in the morning.

Progressive Politics NI@ppni.bsky.social · last wk.

New statement from Féile an Phobail. The high court has vindicated their right to cancel the transphobic event! 🙌🏻🏳️‍⚧️ It is confirmed NOT to be part of the Feile. 🎉

Time for the Pro Evolution World Cup

Eoghan Walsh@eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely it's schism time?

Lots of chat about guillotines these days but people are really sleeping on defenestration, the materials for which are widely available everywhere

Interesting timeline split between people who know and people who don’t

I was initially disappointed at how they had come to book the event in the first place, and was sure it would end up with years of legal wrangling (as a lot of these things do), but the people in Féile seem to know what they are at, and this is a solid and beautiful fuck off to transphobia.