Niamh
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Everything is terrible except the €2 90-minute fare. Look after yourself. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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We wish the very best for their future to President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins as they leave the Áras for the last time. President Higgins opened the doors of Áras an Uachtaráin to us, to many of the brilliant Palestinian speakers, artists, lawyers and activists that came here to advocate
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We wish the very best for their future to President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins as they leave the Áras for the last time. President Higgins opened the doors of Áras an Uachtaráin to us, to many of the brilliant Palestinian speakers, artists, lawyers and activists that came here to advocate
In Michael D Higgins we have been lucky to have a President for the last 14 years who not only had such a keen appreciation of history but in labour history, not least during the decade of centenaries. It’s easy to take it for granted now but I always thought how easily that might not have been so.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In Michael D Higgins we have been lucky to have a President for the last 14 years who not only had such a keen appreciation of history but in labour history, not least during the decade of centenaries. It’s easy to take it for granted now but I always thought how easily that might not have been so.
Is repeatedly alluding to one’s “personal integrity” a lack of self awareness or a blunt attempt at NLP?
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Is repeatedly alluding to one’s “personal integrity” a lack of self awareness or a blunt attempt at NLP?
Missed The Ivy latest. Turns out the tipping out system means managers are getting tips but not kitchen staff. So the people who do the roster get tip money but not the KP.
‘The system for sharing tips is grossly unfair’: Fresh flashpoint at The Ivy in Dublin
www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
‘The system for sharing tips is grossly unfair’: Fresh flashpoint at The Ivy in Dublin
www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
‘The system for sharing tips is grossly unfair’: Fresh flashpoint at The Ivy in Dublin
Restaurant documents shows tens of thousands of euro in tips for wait staff but kitchen workers see only a fraction of that
www.irishtimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Missed The Ivy latest. Turns out the tipping out system means managers are getting tips but not kitchen staff. So the people who do the roster get tip money but not the KP.
‘The system for sharing tips is grossly unfair’: Fresh flashpoint at The Ivy in Dublin
www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
‘The system for sharing tips is grossly unfair’: Fresh flashpoint at The Ivy in Dublin
www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
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And a little entertainment afterwards?
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
And a little entertainment afterwards?
Was thinking the other day Dublin seemed to have nearly finished its new hotel spree but in the last two days I’ve seen planning for two more. Yes, they want to turn Pablo Picante into a hotel
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Was thinking the other day Dublin seemed to have nearly finished its new hotel spree but in the last two days I’ve seen planning for two more. Yes, they want to turn Pablo Picante into a hotel
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My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
¡Hola! A pal is looking for a Jinx Lennon ticket for Thomas House this evening if anyone has a spare?
#ticketfairy
#speirgorm
#ticketfairy
#speirgorm
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
¡Hola! A pal is looking for a Jinx Lennon ticket for Thomas House this evening if anyone has a spare?
#ticketfairy
#speirgorm
#ticketfairy
#speirgorm
Made the mistake of reading that O’Connor column which was as idiotic as one would expect but this bit is exceptionally dense
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Made the mistake of reading that O’Connor column which was as idiotic as one would expect but this bit is exceptionally dense
Dame Street is closed for an event but I can’t see anything anywhere about what’s on. Anyone know?
November 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dame Street is closed for an event but I can’t see anything anywhere about what’s on. Anyone know?
Without casting any obvious aspersions on that the Progress outfit the last two times I had to use Stripe it got large transactions it didn’t work and I had to spend an hour in the bank did one and go into town to the shop for the other. So *my* suggestion would be make your shit work better.
October 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Without casting any obvious aspersions on that the Progress outfit the last two times I had to use Stripe it got large transactions it didn’t work and I had to spend an hour in the bank did one and go into town to the shop for the other. So *my* suggestion would be make your shit work better.
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Posting old halloween comics, #2
![A comic from 2022 I think, Halloween week - here's the script:
The scene is a darkened woods, at night. All is depicted in dingy blues and purples. In a lonely moonlit clearing we see a CABIN. its windows are dark, clearly unoccupied. A lone figure runs towards it, from the trees. Closer in on them now - we see they are terrified. The race for the door of the cabin, desperately trying to enter. They rattle the door, frantically. It is locked. They look behind them. We see the darkened, black trees of the woods. In amongst the forest, we see the black silhouette of a figure. It walks closer. Closer still. Closer - and now we see it is holding a chainsaw. It emerges into the light, slowly the shadow lifts from its face. It is wearing a mask. The victim silently screams in a rictus of horror. This can't be happening, no, no, no. Closer, closer now it lifts the chainsaw high above its head as it speaks:
MURDERER:
This murder is brought to you by MeUndies.
VICTIM:
What?
MURDERER:
If you're like me you'd kill for comfortable underwear -
VICTIM:
Sorry -
VICTIM:
Are you...
doing a *podcast*?
MURDERER:
I knoooww...
It's such a cliché
Everybody's got one these days!
VICTIM:
But I thought you were trying to murder me?
MURDERER:
Indeed! I'm a true crime podcaster driven mad by having to change gear between horrific human tragedy and adverts for MeUndies.
MURDERER:
So just tap in offer code I'M BEING MURDERED with your bloodied, trembling hand for 20% off some pants!
MURDERER:
Now, back to the murder-
[he revs up his chainsaw again]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibykzdireisel5kc6kg6trjvf4clhzdnf6o7fikvmioisro3f45ku@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Posting old halloween comics, #2
I just want to be able to go online and not see palid sausages or people talking about them. I don’t feel like it’s too much to ask
October 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I just want to be able to go online and not see palid sausages or people talking about them. I don’t feel like it’s too much to ask
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Dunno if sharing photos of the violent threats and hatred on spoiled votes and thereby giving those gowls the audience and coverage they want their otherwise mainly unseen messages to get is great tbh
October 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Dunno if sharing photos of the violent threats and hatred on spoiled votes and thereby giving those gowls the audience and coverage they want their otherwise mainly unseen messages to get is great tbh
Not sure if I’ve seen it reported that there were active spoil canvases in Dublin Central and North West, at least, by anti-immigrant reps and parties. Seems worth noting
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Not sure if I’ve seen it reported that there were active spoil canvases in Dublin Central and North West, at least, by anti-immigrant reps and parties. Seems worth noting
I am asking people if they honestly think it is reasonable or good to share a video of a kid being harassed. Just delete it
October 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I am asking people if they honestly think it is reasonable or good to share a video of a kid being harassed. Just delete it
That Indo headline is still there. There’s also a story about a TD having their consistency office vandalised although unlike RTÉ, it didn’t managed to illustrate it or outline the nature of the vandalism
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
That Indo headline is still there. There’s also a story about a TD having their consistency office vandalised although unlike RTÉ, it didn’t managed to illustrate it or outline the nature of the vandalism
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'In June, when two Romanian-speaking teenagers were charged with attempted rape in Ballymena, there were anti-foreigner riots and violence for over a week.
A disturbing report published by The Detail, found about half of the rioters arrested had domestic abuse complaints filed against them. '
A disturbing report published by The Detail, found about half of the rioters arrested had domestic abuse complaints filed against them. '
You're not protecting women and children with violent protests
When it becomes routine to connect migration with sexual crimes, any incident is a potential tinder box
www.irishexaminer.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
'In June, when two Romanian-speaking teenagers were charged with attempted rape in Ballymena, there were anti-foreigner riots and violence for over a week.
A disturbing report published by The Detail, found about half of the rioters arrested had domestic abuse complaints filed against them. '
A disturbing report published by The Detail, found about half of the rioters arrested had domestic abuse complaints filed against them. '
This is horrible. I hope everyone is okay but it’s an awful thing to happen. The exact people who say they want to protect women show us who they are every time. www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
‘Call the cops’: Mary Lou McDonald’s reaction as Catherine Connolly supporters allegedly assaulted in Dublin
Two Catherine Connolly supporters canvassing with Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald were allegedly assaulted in Dublin's north inner city.
www.independent.ie
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is horrible. I hope everyone is okay but it’s an awful thing to happen. The exact people who say they want to protect women show us who they are every time. www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
I don’t know why a think piece that was probably stupid last week or the week before when it was published is being shared again tonight.
a yellow smiley face with closed eyes and the words i pretend i do not see it
ALT: a yellow smiley face with closed eyes and the words i pretend i do not see it
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I don’t know why a think piece that was probably stupid last week or the week before when it was published is being shared again tonight.
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It’s wild how Israel imprisoned some
British activists from the flotilla like two weeks ago and Starmer was like: it’s a matter for Israel but there’s been an emergency parliamentary meeting to discuss football hooligans from another country and how we welcome them
British activists from the flotilla like two weeks ago and Starmer was like: it’s a matter for Israel but there’s been an emergency parliamentary meeting to discuss football hooligans from another country and how we welcome them
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s wild how Israel imprisoned some
British activists from the flotilla like two weeks ago and Starmer was like: it’s a matter for Israel but there’s been an emergency parliamentary meeting to discuss football hooligans from another country and how we welcome them
British activists from the flotilla like two weeks ago and Starmer was like: it’s a matter for Israel but there’s been an emergency parliamentary meeting to discuss football hooligans from another country and how we welcome them
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
Gutted. Should have been CMAT
October 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Gutted. Should have been CMAT
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Great article by our friend Sarah
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Sarah Clancy: Flotillas show that ordinary people must be the antidote to toxic world powers
After arrest, imprisonment, and deportation from Israel, Sarah Clancy, an Irish Gaza flotilla participant, reflects on solidarity, conscience, and the power of ordinary people
www.irishexaminer.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Great article by our friend Sarah
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Clancy, who was kidnapped by apartheid Israel in international waters trying to get aid into Gaza. Our governments' complicity in the genocide of Palestinians compels us to act in all the different ways we can. #FreePalestine
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Was in Rome a few years ago, went to the Sistine Chapel - As I was on the stairs out of the chapel some American shuffling out ahead of me - realising the stairs was the exit - yelled, in sincere disbelief and outrage "Was that it?! One room?" and began discussing getting their money back.
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
October 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Was in Rome a few years ago, went to the Sistine Chapel - As I was on the stairs out of the chapel some American shuffling out ahead of me - realising the stairs was the exit - yelled, in sincere disbelief and outrage "Was that it?! One room?" and began discussing getting their money back.