MacDara Conroy
@macdaraconroy.com
Word wrangler. Film and music enjoyer. Wrestling aficionado. From Dublin, living in Dundalk. He/him. Like D sang, this ain’t no picnic. macdaraconroy.com
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MacDara Conroy
@macdaraconroy.com
· Mar 21
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Callaghan’s new “tough on immigration” rules will only affect a tiny proportion of immigrants—who also happen to be among the most vulnerable. The gov know that drastically reducing inward migration would be an act of self harm so they’ll pick on these asylum seekers as an act of performance. Sick
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Callaghan’s new “tough on immigration” rules will only affect a tiny proportion of immigrants—who also happen to be among the most vulnerable. The gov know that drastically reducing inward migration would be an act of self harm so they’ll pick on these asylum seekers as an act of performance. Sick
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1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
New: major overhaul of immigration laws to see citizenship denied to those who got welfare, or are in debt. Family reunification only for close family, tighter rules around self sufficiency. Changes to revoke residency for those who commit serious crimes
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
No Irish citizenship for refugees on welfare benefits
Ministers to crack down on migration after UK review of asylum-seeking rules
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
I’m selling two tickets in Block K for My Bloody Valentine tonight #ticketfairy secure.ticketmaster.ie/rs/18006174E...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I’m selling two tickets in Block K for My Bloody Valentine tonight #ticketfairy secure.ticketmaster.ie/rs/18006174E...
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"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
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it is sad that people move on so fast from halloween, you could look out your window today and see someone being bitten by frankenstein or someone being flung to pieces by a strong muscle witch or some other beautiful halloween moment and no one would even care to listen to you about what you saw.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
it is sad that people move on so fast from halloween, you could look out your window today and see someone being bitten by frankenstein or someone being flung to pieces by a strong muscle witch or some other beautiful halloween moment and no one would even care to listen to you about what you saw.
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
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Turn the volume up 🔊 Sub Pop Rock City alum Soundgarden are being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame TONIGHT in Los Angeles. Congrats to these distinguished humans 🎉
📸 Charles Peterson
📸 Charles Peterson
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Turn the volume up 🔊 Sub Pop Rock City alum Soundgarden are being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame TONIGHT in Los Angeles. Congrats to these distinguished humans 🎉
📸 Charles Peterson
📸 Charles Peterson
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it
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This seems very bad
RTÉ's in-house TV documentary unit is to cease production next year as part of changes at the broadcaster.
The broadcaster maintains this will not lessen its output and these staff will be re-assigned across RTÉ.
www.thejournal.ie/rte-document...
The broadcaster maintains this will not lessen its output and these staff will be re-assigned across RTÉ.
www.thejournal.ie/rte-document...
RTÉ will close its in-house TV documentary unit next year
The decision has been blasted by the National Union of Journalists.
www.thejournal.ie
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This seems very bad
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Tear it down.
Any party who stands over this statement doesn't deserve to govern.
Any party who stands over this statement doesn't deserve to govern.
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Tear it down.
Any party who stands over this statement doesn't deserve to govern.
Any party who stands over this statement doesn't deserve to govern.
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The only “honest conversation about immigration” would state that there is no solid ground for saying that immigration in Ireland is too high and only the prejudiced would make such a claim
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The only “honest conversation about immigration” would state that there is no solid ground for saying that immigration in Ireland is too high and only the prejudiced would make such a claim
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Absolute fucking state of this bollox
The Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has confirmed that the amount of time Ukrainians who are fleeing the war are given in State accommodation will be looked at and potentially reduced from 90 days to 30
30 days 'not enough' for Ukrainians to find accommodation
The Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has confirmed that the amount of time Ukrainians who are fleeing the war are given in state accommodation will be looked at and potentially reduced from 90 day...
www.rte.ie
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Absolute fucking state of this bollox
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Again here evading the opportunity to call out the hate driving the behaviour. It wasn’t a random attack.
I condemn in the strongest terms the deeply disturbing incident at the IPAS centre in Drogheda. To put vulnerable families, including young children, at risk is abhorrent and has no place in our society.
Our thoughts are with those affected by this horrifying experience.
Our thoughts are with those affected by this horrifying experience.
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Again here evading the opportunity to call out the hate driving the behaviour. It wasn’t a random attack.
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Bad enough the Gardaí gave free run to the far right for years.
Bad enough arson against immigrant centres became standard practice for racists.
Bad enough we've already had race riots.
The Taoiseach & Táinaiste poured petrol on all the above during the week, & we shouldn't be shy in saying it.
Bad enough arson against immigrant centres became standard practice for racists.
Bad enough we've already had race riots.
The Taoiseach & Táinaiste poured petrol on all the above during the week, & we shouldn't be shy in saying it.
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Bad enough the Gardaí gave free run to the far right for years.
Bad enough arson against immigrant centres became standard practice for racists.
Bad enough we've already had race riots.
The Taoiseach & Táinaiste poured petrol on all the above during the week, & we shouldn't be shy in saying it.
Bad enough arson against immigrant centres became standard practice for racists.
Bad enough we've already had race riots.
The Taoiseach & Táinaiste poured petrol on all the above during the week, & we shouldn't be shy in saying it.
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"you cannot measure the soul of a nation in capital flows. It breathes in the child warmed by a public health nurse, the pensioner safe on a winter night, the worker who does not fear tomorrow. Not in airports and equity markets.”
Colin Sheridan going for the jugular today... Perfectly said
Colin Sheridan going for the jugular today... Perfectly said
"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"you cannot measure the soul of a nation in capital flows. It breathes in the child warmed by a public health nurse, the pensioner safe on a winter night, the worker who does not fear tomorrow. Not in airports and equity markets.”
Colin Sheridan going for the jugular today... Perfectly said
Colin Sheridan going for the jugular today... Perfectly said
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Discovered Husker Du when I was 16, in the wake of Nevermind, and they were my absolute North Star for years, and remain so close to my heart. Thanks so much to @thequietus.com for letting me write this. It’s quite long. thequietus.com/interviews/h...
Plans That They Made: Hüsker Dü Interviewed | The Quietus
Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about Grant Hart, American punk and paving the road for Nirvana
thequietus.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Discovered Husker Du when I was 16, in the wake of Nevermind, and they were my absolute North Star for years, and remain so close to my heart. Thanks so much to @thequietus.com for letting me write this. It’s quite long. thequietus.com/interviews/h...
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Sunday announcement! My wee radio show, Raidió Mar Dhea, is joining @rte.ie 2XM.
For the winter, 2XM will catch-up on this year's episodes, Sun @ 5pm - starting TONIGHT.
Tune in: 2xm.rte.ie, RTÉ Radio App, @saorview.ie 206, @virginmediaireland.bsky.social 944.
#radio #music #spéirghorm #ireland
For the winter, 2XM will catch-up on this year's episodes, Sun @ 5pm - starting TONIGHT.
Tune in: 2xm.rte.ie, RTÉ Radio App, @saorview.ie 206, @virginmediaireland.bsky.social 944.
#radio #music #spéirghorm #ireland
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sunday announcement! My wee radio show, Raidió Mar Dhea, is joining @rte.ie 2XM.
For the winter, 2XM will catch-up on this year's episodes, Sun @ 5pm - starting TONIGHT.
Tune in: 2xm.rte.ie, RTÉ Radio App, @saorview.ie 206, @virginmediaireland.bsky.social 944.
#radio #music #spéirghorm #ireland
For the winter, 2XM will catch-up on this year's episodes, Sun @ 5pm - starting TONIGHT.
Tune in: 2xm.rte.ie, RTÉ Radio App, @saorview.ie 206, @virginmediaireland.bsky.social 944.
#radio #music #spéirghorm #ireland
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Can you imagine TDs scrambling to change the Constitution or commentators hand-wringing in the media if it was leftists who behaved the way the spoiled vote crew did, in the same (minority) numbers, after several bigoted riots. Not so much forced to pander to them as willingly taking a running leap.
October 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Can you imagine TDs scrambling to change the Constitution or commentators hand-wringing in the media if it was leftists who behaved the way the spoiled vote crew did, in the same (minority) numbers, after several bigoted riots. Not so much forced to pander to them as willingly taking a running leap.
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Happy Friday, here is a new song called Spilt Milk, which has some amazing additional vocals by @miriamingram.bsky.social
youtu.be/vDmxbUXjS8Y
youtu.be/vDmxbUXjS8Y
Spilt Milk by Eoin Mac Ionmhain featuring Miriam Ingram
YouTube video by calicojak
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Happy Friday, here is a new song called Spilt Milk, which has some amazing additional vocals by @miriamingram.bsky.social
youtu.be/vDmxbUXjS8Y
youtu.be/vDmxbUXjS8Y
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a state that should spend every living minute in shame of itself
Former British paratrooper Soldier F has been found not guilty at Belfast Crown Court of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Derry
Soldier F cleared of two murders on Bloody Sunday
A former British paratrooper has been found not guilty at Belfast Crown Court of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Derry.
www.rte.ie
October 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
a state that should spend every living minute in shame of itself
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Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence
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The Necks answered some questions during their bandcamp listening party.
October 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Necks answered some questions during their bandcamp listening party.
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I cannot stress enough that the government didn't announce this unprompted or make updates to their press release. I broke this story by hassling them until they admitted this to me, and then told the Irish Times.
This would have passed by completely unnoticed if I didn't care so much.
This would have passed by completely unnoticed if I didn't care so much.
On the one hand, it's quite nice to be proved right. On the other hand, that's 6000 companies due to report who now I have to catalogue or else the data is lost forever because the govt., once again, have failed to deliver on a promise...
paygap.ie/blog/news/no...
paygap.ie/blog/news/no...
Government gender pay gap portal to fall short of promises made on International Women’s Day
October 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I cannot stress enough that the government didn't announce this unprompted or make updates to their press release. I broke this story by hassling them until they admitted this to me, and then told the Irish Times.
This would have passed by completely unnoticed if I didn't care so much.
This would have passed by completely unnoticed if I didn't care so much.
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Today! Join us at secretcinematheque.com for THE 24-HOUR HORROR MOVIE MIND MELTER starting @ 11:00 AM (ET) to watch a stream of rare, weird and wonderful horror movies. It's a secret line-up, but as the films play, I will reveal the titles and posters below:
October 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Today! Join us at secretcinematheque.com for THE 24-HOUR HORROR MOVIE MIND MELTER starting @ 11:00 AM (ET) to watch a stream of rare, weird and wonderful horror movies. It's a secret line-up, but as the films play, I will reveal the titles and posters below: