The Derry screening of Displace is taking place in The Nerve Centre tomorrow! So much good stuff happening across the whole festival fortnight and am gutted to be missing it. Emma Warren would be a huge highlight for me amongst an absolute gluttony of savage events in the city! So much on!

Scamp Media@scampmedia.bsky.social · 8h ago

Great to see Displace: The Battle for Dublin opening this year's Féile film programme in Derry. The line up is incredible, and I'm gutted to be missing things like a workshop with the likes of Emma Warren who writes about dancefloors as sites of community care. There's SO MUCH ON over the festival!

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

Beyond delighted to be screening at Féile Derry as part of an outstanding programme of films and documentaries at The Nerve Centre. All screenings are free! Big thanks to the team there for including me in the programme. Gutted not to be able to attend in person due to pre-booked holliers! 😔💔

Delighted to be taking part in Obedience - a pop-up exhibition in a former butcher turned disused bookshop on Meath Street, co-curated by Ishmael Claxton and Eve Woods, and featuring work by Ishmael Claxton, Hollie Gilson, Con:temporary Quarters (Aoife Ward and Eve Woods), and myself. Buzz down!

Looking forward to all the Nardai standing around doing ID checks on kids whizzing around on escooters. I’ve never seen such a tonne of absolute silly season horse shit in my life.

Traffic lights out all morning at Doyle’s Corner in Phibsboro. It tells you something about how little care there is for the NIC. Not a single traffic cop there to manage the traffic or pedestrians. Everyone fending for themselves at one of the busiest and most congested junctions in the city.

All this Carlton Cinema hype: did the state not own that already under NAMA, flipped it to Hammersons and is now buying it back? The adjoining derelict site has been derelict since 1976. And these people claim to be the adults in the room? No forward thinking. lauderteacher.com/insights/ham...

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Hard to fathom why the media give so many column inches to moral puritans who want to stand in the way of people sipping a beer while looking at some art or enjoying late night theatre. And all of this amidst plummeting drinking rates and a wider sober curiosity. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

‘We’re only half doing nightlife in Ireland’: campaigners call for reforms to move forward

Many await longer opening hours and other reforms, but concerns surround growth in alcohol availability

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Really looking forward to the David Peace book based around the Nigel Farage years. I wonder what sort of murky nickname the protagonist will get. Perhaps The Weasel.

We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street

Loving how this Hans Zimmery/John Carpenter-esque soundtrack has mutated the final season of The Bear into some sort of cramped survivalist horror where the crew are battling to stay afloat in space on a failing ship running out of supplies.

6 yrs ago today we shared this derelict building We repeated this across 2km of Cork city A daily dose of dereliction for 1yr Thousands of others all over Ireland did the same under #DerelictIreland Together we've changed culture, practice, policy & protest People power does work #spéirgorm

Another discussion on RTE Drive Time about m50 chronic congestion and all its knock on impacts without a single mention of remote work. Pundits and politicians would rather argue about wasting billions on more roads than cut the Gordion knot and give folks more rights in legislation to work remote.

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.

Dublin Shitty Council strikes again. I'm absolutely against a "Wild West" free for all but so many of their decisions seem guided by a miserablism that borders on the anti-social. And the absolute state of their own efforts to develop cafes and market plazas. www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-...

Dublin pub refused permission for food court that revitalised business

While the concept has been welcomed by planners, the layout of the premises has presented issues

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Nothing sums up unamullally.bsky.social's point better than The Mezz in dereliction, where Trev cut his teeth. It was also a stomping ground for that pied piper of parties, Al Keegan. McGruders rots too. Grim tombs filled with memories of a vibrancy long gone. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Una Mullally: The band and their late manager grew up in public when the city offered an affordable life and latitude to experiment

The band and their late manager grew up in public when the city offered an affordable life and latitude to experiment

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Up to Belfast next week for a screening of Displace: The Battle For Dublin. Thursday June 18, 7pm in An Cultúrlann as part of the @docsireland.bsky.social festival. Tonnes of other great docs on the go, including one about Amy Goodman from Democracy Now. Check it out and spread the word!

Scamp Media@scampmedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Screening next week in Belfast, June 18, 7pm in An Cultúrlann for @docsireland.bsky.social! The film is nominated for the Pull Focus Award for Best New Irish Feature and eligible for the Ross McDonnell Award for Best Cinematography in an Irish Documentary. Not bad for a completely DIY project!

Absolutely wild how right-wing commentators and politicians are just completely ignoring the attempted pogrom in Belfast. Families with kids rescued from homes set on fire. And these same people who smear peaceful protests against genocide as hate marches say NOTHING

This so giving me the warm and fuzzies for the days of Dublin Community TV.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is honestly so good in so many ways that are, whether by design or no, a rebuke to the aesthetic tyranny of the big budget, the phantom “general public,” etc, public access is strictly better than what we decided instead to pay for. Stop me before I thinkpiece but honestly though

Ennis's performance is a clear message to X users that engagement on defamatory rants garnered there thanks to paid subscription to that website, does not represent the real world.

We could go with shitech. Cos they put the absolute shite into technology. And use it for all the shite reasons.

Si Begg@sibegg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Maybe we need to stop using the term big tech to describe Google / Meta etc It implies that they are all about great technology, so you’re anti technology if you’re anti big tech. A better term would be capitalist tech or something.

Ireland has *immeasurably* benefited from immigration. Despite its problems (none of which were caused by immigrants) it is a vastly more interesting, vibrant - and *fun* - place than it was in the grey dreary miserable 80s thanks to immigrants. And anyone who walks through Dublin city centre and...

There's lesson there for Irish politics. Just because a right turn feels like "Common Sense" doesn't mean it's the clever move.

Adam Ramsay@adamramsay.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.

To Win Just Once by The Saw Doctors is a song that has long captured the frustrations and hopes of ordinary people in Ireland. It became an anthem among striking school secretaries and caretakers this year. Great to have it used on the Forsa biennial conference video. youtu.be/vcKJUK7ZltE?...

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Workers at outsourcing tech firm Covalen have voted in favour of strike action after the company announced that the jobs of 720 workers on Meta projects are at risk of redundancy. The firm provides AI annotation and moderation services to Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook. jrnl.ie/7032489

Covalen workers vote to strike after 720 workers on Meta projects told jobs at risk

Workers will protest outside the Dáil today to call on the government to bring in more protections.

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This. But simultaneously while gas lighting the residents about how the rental increases are to facilitate more maintanance.

Mallaidh@mnicearbhaill.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

WTF is the plan though - just let them collapse and rot and then derelict. Ah ok so then a vulture fund will buy them blah blah. FFG are fuckers

I will never forgive all the media who made the Iona Institute a voice of authority instead of a shower of mad people who should create a trad Catholic theme park for themselves and leave the rest of us alone.

Is there not a swell of public in favour of a Lido that the city can actually use for this area? Instead we are being force fed this phallic wisdom for a giant Cock In The Dock? I wish we'd stop entertaining every dipso entrepreneur with a hare brained scheme. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

'Dublin needs something mega,' says man behind 'Giant' proposal

The man behind a proposal for a 'giant' moving digital statue in Dublin's docklands says it has the potential to become one of Ireland's biggest attractions and is calling for the city council to supp...

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to take this further, most ppl genuinely do not fathom just how much alcohol consumption has reduced over the last 200 years or so. those mfs were downing ale at breakfast, beer at lunch, burgundy and spirits all night and between all of this they were doing glasses of sherry and claret

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i remember one middle-school teacher asking the class how many pints a "normal" man drank the correct answer, it turns out, was 2-3 at lunch & 5-6 after work