Kieran Glennon
@drnightdub.bsky.social
Researches the political/sectarian conflict in Belfast 1920-22. Author of "From Pogrom to Civil War - Tom Glennon & The Belfast IRA" and "Pogrom & Partition - Belfast's Market Area 1920-22." Blogs at www.thebelfastpogrom.com. Cooks fish, watches St Pats.
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If it weren’t for a double standard, they would have no standard at all.
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
If it weren’t for a double standard, they would have no standard at all.
Minneapolis "wine moms," watch and learn...
Women making petrol bombs. Battle of the Bogside, Derry, 1969
January 25, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Minneapolis "wine moms," watch and learn...
Happy for both of them
Fianna Fáil at 15 is some drop from the 22% in the GE only fourteen months ago
Social Democrats on 10, that party’s highest ever poll rating
Social Democrats on 10, that party’s highest ever poll rating
POLL: Business Post/Red C
(circa Jan 15-20, MoE 3%)
Sinn Féin 24 (+2 in two months)
Fine Gael 18 (+1)
Fianna Fáil 15 (-3)
Social Democrats 10 (+2)
Labour 5 (+1)
Aontú 5 (-1)
Ind Ireland 4
PBP-Solidarity 3
Greens 2 (-1)
Other parties 1
Independents 13 (-1)
www.businesspost.ie/politics/fia...
(circa Jan 15-20, MoE 3%)
Sinn Féin 24 (+2 in two months)
Fine Gael 18 (+1)
Fianna Fáil 15 (-3)
Social Democrats 10 (+2)
Labour 5 (+1)
Aontú 5 (-1)
Ind Ireland 4
PBP-Solidarity 3
Greens 2 (-1)
Other parties 1
Independents 13 (-1)
www.businesspost.ie/politics/fia...
January 24, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Happy for both of them
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An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 AM
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
But that's OK because, in terms he and millions like him have used, they went out dressed like that and they acted like that.
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 18, 2026 at 11:40 PM
But that's OK because, in terms he and millions like him have used, they went out dressed like that and they acted like that.
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Athens, the Dublin of the South.
Each Irish county has been paired with an EU member state for Ireland’s presidency of the European Council
January 18, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Athens, the Dublin of the South.
If you could go back in time, where would you go and when?
Norway 1967 would definitely be up there.
youtube.com/watch?v=kUk1...
Norway 1967 would definitely be up there.
youtube.com/watch?v=kUk1...
Stax Volt Tour 1967 feat. Otis Redding, Booker T. & The MGs, Sam & Dave
YouTube video by bobbynoe1
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January 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
If you could go back in time, where would you go and when?
Norway 1967 would definitely be up there.
youtube.com/watch?v=kUk1...
Norway 1967 would definitely be up there.
youtube.com/watch?v=kUk1...
Still one of the best-ever samples featuring a guest appearance by...
youtube.com/watch?v=7FmP...
youtube.com/watch?v=7FmP...
January 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Still one of the best-ever samples featuring a guest appearance by...
youtube.com/watch?v=7FmP...
youtube.com/watch?v=7FmP...
The last line of this Irish Times article is profoundly depressing on a couple of levels: (a) if true, (b) it smacks of the NRA line "Guns don't kill people, people do."
January 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
The last line of this Irish Times article is profoundly depressing on a couple of levels: (a) if true, (b) it smacks of the NRA line "Guns don't kill people, people do."
Shitesnake
Ruin a band by changing a letter
Poo Will Eat Itself
Poo Will Eat Itself
Ruin a band by changing one letter
British Sex Power
British Sex Power
January 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Shitesnake
To paraphrase Emmet Kirwan, "It wasn't blokes in hoodies who ruined the world, it was blokes in suits."
Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
To paraphrase Emmet Kirwan, "It wasn't blokes in hoodies who ruined the world, it was blokes in suits."
@dlooney.bsky.social Will you tell her or will I?
The Camac. It flows under the Luas line in an almost unseeable configuration at Blackhorse, flows in a backwater between rows of houses, almost unseen, and somewhere flows into a tube to spill unseen into the Liffey.
Quote post this with your nearest river. Ours is the Santry River. It runs, mostly unculverted, from Harristown and Dubber near Dublin Airport, through Santry and Coolock, reaching the sea at Raheny, in a lagoon area inshore of Bull Island.
January 13, 2026 at 12:08 AM
@dlooney.bsky.social Will you tell her or will I?
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert/artist and the band or artist.
It was July 1980, I was 16, we'd all just done the Leaving Cert. Nowadays, kids go on post-Leaving Cert sun holidays abroad, the sunshine came to us here:
It was July 1980, I was 16, we'd all just done the Leaving Cert. Nowadays, kids go on post-Leaving Cert sun holidays abroad, the sunshine came to us here:
January 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert/artist and the band or artist.
It was July 1980, I was 16, we'd all just done the Leaving Cert. Nowadays, kids go on post-Leaving Cert sun holidays abroad, the sunshine came to us here:
It was July 1980, I was 16, we'd all just done the Leaving Cert. Nowadays, kids go on post-Leaving Cert sun holidays abroad, the sunshine came to us here:
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Irish governments protect beef cattle with more vigour than children. We breed both for export though.
Very well said @tupped.bsky.social. It’s all about the framing… how do we feel about having a child sex abuse material factory in Dublin 2?
(In Ireland of all places, where we have a long history of ignoring such places when they are run by ’respectable’ institutions)
#SpeirGorm #MustRead
(In Ireland of all places, where we have a long history of ignoring such places when they are run by ’respectable’ institutions)
#SpeirGorm #MustRead
New Gist: The Abuse Factory
It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
January 11, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Irish governments protect beef cattle with more vigour than children. We breed both for export though.
Years ago, I heard Eamonn McCann point out, "There are no Catholic babies. There are no Protestant babies. Every baby that's born comes into this world an atheist. It's when the adults get at them the trouble starts."
Mary McAleese: Baptism is a key Catholic recruitment tool. It denies babies their human rights
Mary McAleese: Baptism is a key Catholic recruitment tool. It denies babies their human rights
Rite & Reason: No one is Catholic by birth and the notion of ‘Baptismal promises’ is risible
www.irishtimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Years ago, I heard Eamonn McCann point out, "There are no Catholic babies. There are no Protestant babies. Every baby that's born comes into this world an atheist. It's when the adults get at them the trouble starts."
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If you want #ICEOUT, boycott them and their families.
Picket their homes and where they stay while on duty.
Do not do business with those who serve them.
Render them, their spouses, children and relatives no help or assistance of any kind.
Only united communities can defeat fascism.
No pasarán.
Picket their homes and where they stay while on duty.
Do not do business with those who serve them.
Render them, their spouses, children and relatives no help or assistance of any kind.
Only united communities can defeat fascism.
No pasarán.
January 10, 2026 at 9:40 PM
If you want #ICEOUT, boycott them and their families.
Picket their homes and where they stay while on duty.
Do not do business with those who serve them.
Render them, their spouses, children and relatives no help or assistance of any kind.
Only united communities can defeat fascism.
No pasarán.
Picket their homes and where they stay while on duty.
Do not do business with those who serve them.
Render them, their spouses, children and relatives no help or assistance of any kind.
Only united communities can defeat fascism.
No pasarán.
I reckon Dominic Behan would approve
January 10, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I reckon Dominic Behan would approve
Floppy Little Fingers
Slightly diminish a band
Prince and The Incremental Reform
Prince and The Incremental Reform
Slightly diminish a band
They Might Not Be Giants
They Might Not Be Giants
January 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Floppy Little Fingers
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Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal - "You don't want this smoke.."
January 9, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Did he just abolish Thanksgiving Day?
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Did he just abolish Thanksgiving Day?
Can't remember the last time I read a book that was so moving it reduced me to tears. There's such a shimmering beauty to this, it's just entrancing.
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Can't remember the last time I read a book that was so moving it reduced me to tears. There's such a shimmering beauty to this, it's just entrancing.
Everyone knows what we mean when we say "The Brits are at it again."
Maybe we need to add "The Yanks are at it again" to the conversation.
Maybe we need to add "The Yanks are at it again" to the conversation.
January 4, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Everyone knows what we mean when we say "The Brits are at it again."
Maybe we need to add "The Yanks are at it again" to the conversation.
Maybe we need to add "The Yanks are at it again" to the conversation.
Starmer can't influence anything the other side of the M25, let alone anything the other side of the Atlantic
I don't think the UK had anything to do with what the US did but I wasn't even thinking about if the UK had anything to do with it until Starmer said they had nothing to do with it.
January 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Starmer can't influence anything the other side of the M25, let alone anything the other side of the Atlantic
Poetic.
Forget snow tyres, forget 4WD, a couple of floor mats from their own SUV and they'd've been on their way but they're too thick even for that
Forget snow tyres, forget 4WD, a couple of floor mats from their own SUV and they'd've been on their way but they're too thick even for that
January 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Poetic.
Forget snow tyres, forget 4WD, a couple of floor mats from their own SUV and they'd've been on their way but they're too thick even for that
Forget snow tyres, forget 4WD, a couple of floor mats from their own SUV and they'd've been on their way but they're too thick even for that
New blog post: "The use of bombs in Belfast." Hand-grenades, or bombs, killed dozens and wounded hundreds, yet many people had bombs thrown through their front window and still walked out of the house unscathed.
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/12/29/t...
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/12/29/t...
The use of bombs in Belfast
“Bomb” was a common description applied to hand-grenades, which were used by both republicans and loyalists in some of the most notorious incidents of the conflict. The period also saw new types of…
thebelfastpogrom.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New blog post: "The use of bombs in Belfast." Hand-grenades, or bombs, killed dozens and wounded hundreds, yet many people had bombs thrown through their front window and still walked out of the house unscathed.
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/12/29/t...
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/12/29/t...