Brian Reddy
@brianreddy.bsky.social
Father of two, health economist, Bohs fan and Dubliner.
Didn't realise this was a bunch of newspaper articles. As a result inevitably staccato & formulaic. In theory I like the concepts of Psychogeography and of Will Self. But often
smug / nauseatingly too close (i.e. being in London circa 2007!); often warmly familiar - man approaching middle age.
smug / nauseatingly too close (i.e. being in London circa 2007!); often warmly familiar - man approaching middle age.
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Didn't realise this was a bunch of newspaper articles. As a result inevitably staccato & formulaic. In theory I like the concepts of Psychogeography and of Will Self. But often
smug / nauseatingly too close (i.e. being in London circa 2007!); often warmly familiar - man approaching middle age.
smug / nauseatingly too close (i.e. being in London circa 2007!); often warmly familiar - man approaching middle age.
This was an amazing book. The first part - a dad's hapless, frenzied experience of childbirth - is the best description I've seen anywhere of it. Really moving family epic, in only 100 pages.
May 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This was an amazing book. The first part - a dad's hapless, frenzied experience of childbirth - is the best description I've seen anywhere of it. Really moving family epic, in only 100 pages.
I recommend it! Magical realist, bittersweet short stories. They're good
May 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I recommend it! Magical realist, bittersweet short stories. They're good
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May 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
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Record crowds, record transfers: Irish football reaches a watershed moment
Record crowds, record transfers: Irish football reaches a watershed moment
Shamrock Rovers are one win from history in Europe while League of Ireland clubs are thriving after Covid and Brexit
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Record crowds, record transfers: Irish football reaches a watershed moment
‘It’s so deeply unfair’: Lankum singer Radie Peat on the lack of supports for her autistic daughter
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
‘It’s so deeply unfair’: Lankum singer Radie Peat on the lack of supports for her autistic daughter
‘You ask yourself, will she ever say mama’ - singer and Lankum musician told she must wait until July 2028 for services
www.irishtimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
‘It’s so deeply unfair’: Lankum singer Radie Peat on the lack of supports for her autistic daughter
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
open.spotify.com/track/6cKbmt... this could hopefully be useful post match from time to time this season🫎🫎🫎@bfcdublin.bsky.social
Hoots Mon!
Lord Rockingham's XI · The Incredible Lord Rockingham's XI · Song · 1958
open.spotify.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
open.spotify.com/track/6cKbmt... this could hopefully be useful post match from time to time this season🫎🫎🫎@bfcdublin.bsky.social
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Family of Limerick student Joe Drennan 'disgusted' by concurrent jail sentence for his hit-and-run killer.
Family of Limerick student Joe Drennan 'disgusted' by concurrent jail sentence for his hit-and-run killer
Joe Drennan’s mother Marguerite said Kieran Fogarty’s sentence for her son’s death was “absolutely unbelievable” and “really hard to take”.
jrnl.ie
January 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Family of Limerick student Joe Drennan 'disgusted' by concurrent jail sentence for his hit-and-run killer.
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Excellent points here- “It is not inevitable that so many people will be killed or maimed for life. It is a political choice.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Eamon Ryan: Moaning about cycle lanes is a symptom of our inertia on road safety and climate
Untold story about our roads is the dramatic rise in serious injuries in 10 years
www.irishtimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Excellent points here- “It is not inevitable that so many people will be killed or maimed for life. It is a political choice.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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I tell my kids, that even at red lights and with a green pedestrian crossing, make sure you make eye contact with any cars still moving.
You just can’t trust drivers any more.
You just can’t trust drivers any more.
Been absolute carnage on the roads, and it breaks my heart.
Something has gone terribly and uniquely wrong for road safety in Ireland.
Something has gone terribly and uniquely wrong for road safety in Ireland.
December 27, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I tell my kids, that even at red lights and with a green pedestrian crossing, make sure you make eye contact with any cars still moving.
You just can’t trust drivers any more.
You just can’t trust drivers any more.
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Today marks exactly 20 years since the 2004 magnitude 9.1 great Sumatra earthquake and tsunami, one of the worst disasters of all time. It was the planet's first M9 quake in over 40 years. More than 225,000 lost their lives across 14 different nations, an unprecedented transnational disaster.
December 26, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Today marks exactly 20 years since the 2004 magnitude 9.1 great Sumatra earthquake and tsunami, one of the worst disasters of all time. It was the planet's first M9 quake in over 40 years. More than 225,000 lost their lives across 14 different nations, an unprecedented transnational disaster.
Happy Christmas everyone. Blessed are the peacemakers.
December 25, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Happy Christmas everyone. Blessed are the peacemakers.
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Reading that long fascinating article about how the weird owner of the Samuel Smith pub chain in the UK buys historic buildings just to let them rot reminded me of Martin Keane, who's letting the Iveagh Market, Mother Redcaps & other venues decay. But when he gets profiled here, it's in these terms:
December 19, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Reading that long fascinating article about how the weird owner of the Samuel Smith pub chain in the UK buys historic buildings just to let them rot reminded me of Martin Keane, who's letting the Iveagh Market, Mother Redcaps & other venues decay. But when he gets profiled here, it's in these terms:
I absolutely LOVE Sam Smith's pubs. But it turns out their owner may be quixotic, monomaniacal, deranged...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:06 PM
I absolutely LOVE Sam Smith's pubs. But it turns out their owner may be quixotic, monomaniacal, deranged...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
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Michael McDowell has a good article in the Irish Times.
There. I said it.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
There. I said it.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
Michael McDowell: Israel has accused Irish politicians of anti-Semitism before. It has never been true
Ireland’s position on Israel has always been consistent. If our Government is guilty of anything, it is delay
www.irishtimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Michael McDowell has a good article in the Irish Times.
There. I said it.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
There. I said it.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
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Today is 2024-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:46 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 03 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 14, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Today is 2024-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:46 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 03 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
Interesting! Imho en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
Pingo - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 7, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Interesting! Imho en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
Seems completely plausible to me that FF and FG fall out in the coming weeks and we end up with and FF+SF+(either) Labour or SD government. Assumedly both Lab and SD would find this more palatable than with FF+FG. Would have a comfy 98 seats in either formulation.
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Seems completely plausible to me that FF and FG fall out in the coming weeks and we end up with and FF+SF+(either) Labour or SD government. Assumedly both Lab and SD would find this more palatable than with FF+FG. Would have a comfy 98 seats in either formulation.
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Bohs truly are a wonderful football club.
The annual Bohs effort to get a toy to every child in direct provision in Ireland is a wonderful thing.
Donations and info here: gofund.me/ee17f8fe
Donations and info here: gofund.me/ee17f8fe
Donate to Direct Provision Christmas Toy Drive 2024, organized by Dan Lambert
WE NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN THIS YEAR!
In a year that's shown the worst of human… Dan Lambert needs your support for Direct Provision Christmas Toy Drive 2024
gofund.me
December 4, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Bohs truly are a wonderful football club.
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the utter shamelessness of FIFA is not new, they have always been for sale to any regime that wanted to pay up
but somehow "highest bid evaluation score ever" feels like a new low -- it makes any claim this organization is remotely serious self-refuting
but somehow "highest bid evaluation score ever" feels like a new low -- it makes any claim this organization is remotely serious self-refuting
FIFA bid reviewers gave Saudis “highest ever evaluation score ever (TM)” even when:
*entire host cities remain unbuilt
*the stadiums remain (one literally) pie in the sky
*the obvious risk to life and safety of those constructing FIFA World Cup infrastructure
*No idea when it will be played
*entire host cities remain unbuilt
*the stadiums remain (one literally) pie in the sky
*the obvious risk to life and safety of those constructing FIFA World Cup infrastructure
*No idea when it will be played
November 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM
the utter shamelessness of FIFA is not new, they have always been for sale to any regime that wanted to pay up
but somehow "highest bid evaluation score ever" feels like a new low -- it makes any claim this organization is remotely serious self-refuting
but somehow "highest bid evaluation score ever" feels like a new low -- it makes any claim this organization is remotely serious self-refuting
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Lovely throwback to a lost Ireland where people were humbler, happy to settle for Friday night drinks in the Shelbourne and dinner out in a gourmet restaurant. A simpler time.
November 29, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Lovely throwback to a lost Ireland where people were humbler, happy to settle for Friday night drinks in the Shelbourne and dinner out in a gourmet restaurant. A simpler time.
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Doing the nursery run with the kids chatting / bickering in the front of the Big Bike is just the dream. The frost just adds to it ✨❄️
November 28, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Doing the nursery run with the kids chatting / bickering in the front of the Big Bike is just the dream. The frost just adds to it ✨❄️