Neil Mac Dhonnagáin
@neilmacdh.bsky.social
Youth mental health researcher
I get that legally he's not wrong but morally it's such a weak point. Suggesting Allianz Ireland has nothing to do with Allianz globally, because of a lack of financial ties, is nonsense. It's still the same brand.
Surely the GAA could find a sponsor not complicit in Gaza?
the42.ie/6909925
Surely the GAA could find a sponsor not complicit in Gaza?
the42.ie/6909925
'We cannot be carrying out acts of self-harm because people think that Allianz plc is directly involved. They are not'
GAA President Jarlath Burns defends the Association’s decision to continue its partnership with Allianz.
the42.ie
December 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I get that legally he's not wrong but morally it's such a weak point. Suggesting Allianz Ireland has nothing to do with Allianz globally, because of a lack of financial ties, is nonsense. It's still the same brand.
Surely the GAA could find a sponsor not complicit in Gaza?
the42.ie/6909925
Surely the GAA could find a sponsor not complicit in Gaza?
the42.ie/6909925
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Manhattan Peanut factory owner reacts to Luas Finglas project
December 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Manhattan Peanut factory owner reacts to Luas Finglas project
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
The more asylum seekers there are, the more pressure there is on the asylum seeking system, not the general housing system.
FF and FG know exactly what they're doing here by conflating asylum seeking with housing, which they have mismanaged. Appalling #tonightvmtv
FF and FG know exactly what they're doing here by conflating asylum seeking with housing, which they have mismanaged. Appalling #tonightvmtv
🗣️ "The one thing that there is a problem with is housing right across the state, and the more that come to seek asylum, the more pressure it puts on that system.” - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Timmy Dooley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The more asylum seekers there are, the more pressure there is on the asylum seeking system, not the general housing system.
FF and FG know exactly what they're doing here by conflating asylum seeking with housing, which they have mismanaged. Appalling #tonightvmtv
FF and FG know exactly what they're doing here by conflating asylum seeking with housing, which they have mismanaged. Appalling #tonightvmtv
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“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
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The so-called "red tape" that needs cutting is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's chaotic housing policies that created and then compounded the housing crisis.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Micheál Martin says house building in Ireland is hampered by 'gold-plating' of EU rules
Taoiseach says 'going beyond what is required' is slowing down delivery of housing and other big projects in Ireland
www.irishexaminer.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The so-called "red tape" that needs cutting is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's chaotic housing policies that created and then compounded the housing crisis.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
Zero point trying to blame anything or anyone else, or trying to pretend that the financialisation of housing isn't a core ideological failure.
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Another good piece of writing from @benfraser.bsky.social on how the story of #Aras25 has shifted to focus not on a left-wing victory, but on right-wing grievances.
"If they wanted a right-wing candidate, they need only have followed the rules and nominated one."
"If they wanted a right-wing candidate, they need only have followed the rules and nominated one."
No Spoilers
How the story of the Presidential Election has been reworded
medium.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Another good piece of writing from @benfraser.bsky.social on how the story of #Aras25 has shifted to focus not on a left-wing victory, but on right-wing grievances.
"If they wanted a right-wing candidate, they need only have followed the rules and nominated one."
"If they wanted a right-wing candidate, they need only have followed the rules and nominated one."
Also consistent with youth vote discourse. If young people don't vote, it's seen as their fault. But if conservative voters don't vote/spoil, it's seen as a system failure.
Low turnout = people voting with their feet due to poor representation, regardless of where they stand #aras25 #áras25
Low turnout = people voting with their feet due to poor representation, regardless of where they stand #aras25 #áras25
Right-wingers: “We don’t feel represented!”
*Everyone stops, turns, listens. Podcasts are recorded, articles written*
Queers, people of colour, neurodivergent folk, working class people:
“We don’t feel represented!”
*Crickets*
*Everyone stops, turns, listens. Podcasts are recorded, articles written*
Queers, people of colour, neurodivergent folk, working class people:
“We don’t feel represented!”
*Crickets*
October 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Right-wingers: “We don’t feel represented!”
*Everyone stops, turns, listens. Podcasts are recorded, articles written*
Queers, people of colour, neurodivergent folk, working class people:
“We don’t feel represented!”
*Crickets*
*Everyone stops, turns, listens. Podcasts are recorded, articles written*
Queers, people of colour, neurodivergent folk, working class people:
“We don’t feel represented!”
*Crickets*
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Right-wingers: “We don’t feel represented!”
*Everyone stops, turns, listens. Podcasts are recorded, articles written*
Queers, people of colour, neurodivergent folk, working class people:
“We don’t feel represented!”
*Crickets*
*Everyone stops, turns, listens. Podcasts are recorded, articles written*
Queers, people of colour, neurodivergent folk, working class people:
“We don’t feel represented!”
*Crickets*
For all the talk of the spoil the vote campaign as a conservative coalition, it's worth noting the Burkes released several videos to encourage people to vote for Humphreys, and that they heavily criticised Ganley and Steen. They weren't as unified as the left were for Connolly #aras25 #áras25
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Connolly's younger volunteers and organisers are fantastic and deserve huge credit.
Smart, optimistic, strategic, disciplined, tapped into culture, positive message-bearers, excellent communicators.
It's so great to see people putting their energy into a movement that expresses hope. 🇮🇪
#Aras25
Smart, optimistic, strategic, disciplined, tapped into culture, positive message-bearers, excellent communicators.
It's so great to see people putting their energy into a movement that expresses hope. 🇮🇪
#Aras25
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Connolly's younger volunteers and organisers are fantastic and deserve huge credit.
Smart, optimistic, strategic, disciplined, tapped into culture, positive message-bearers, excellent communicators.
It's so great to see people putting their energy into a movement that expresses hope. 🇮🇪
#Aras25
Smart, optimistic, strategic, disciplined, tapped into culture, positive message-bearers, excellent communicators.
It's so great to see people putting their energy into a movement that expresses hope. 🇮🇪
#Aras25
Appreciating it's a lot of work to complete this info, but can reporters please give some indication/example of what good turnout by 5pm is if they're going to report raw percentages? Like compared to the last few elections/referendums, should we expect over 30/40% turnout by 5pm? #áras25 #aras25
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
This is so pathetic from the party that has mismanaged Irish housing for over a decade.
Also it would be hilarious if neither government party received enough proportion of the vote to get reimbursed at this point
#aras25 #áras25
Also it would be hilarious if neither government party received enough proportion of the vote to get reimbursed at this point
#aras25 #áras25
Fine Gael tripling down with a slight pivot.
Trying to say it’s about “non-disclosure” of her former work rather than her doing it.
Trying to say it’s about “non-disclosure” of her former work rather than her doing it.
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I can't find any evidence in this article that Connolly made a strongly worded personal criticism of Humphreys.
Personal criticisms have not been "traded". It's clearly coming from one side who are trying to win by dragging everyone down with them
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Personal criticisms have not been "traded". It's clearly coming from one side who are trying to win by dragging everyone down with them
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Presidential election: Combative exchanges expected as voting day nears
Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys traded strongly-worded personal criticisms over the weekend
www.irishtimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I can't find any evidence in this article that Connolly made a strongly worded personal criticism of Humphreys.
Personal criticisms have not been "traded". It's clearly coming from one side who are trying to win by dragging everyone down with them
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Personal criticisms have not been "traded". It's clearly coming from one side who are trying to win by dragging everyone down with them
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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"Our opponent is just like Trump" claims party launching all out attack on the justice system
October 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Our opponent is just like Trump" claims party launching all out attack on the justice system
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Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)
Jane Goodall modelled the behaviour we will need in a future world
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Jane Goodall modelled the behaviour we will need in a future world
She modelled the behaviours needed to cope with climate breakdown and ecological crisis
www.irishtimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Jane Goodall modelled the behaviour we will need in a future world
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
From the last 20 minutes I saw tonight of #áras25 debate Connolly looked presidential. To me she's showing that she can be both a values-led meaningful critic and the type of leader/statesperson that the president has always been in my lifetime.
It strikes me that Jim Gavin and Catherine Connolly have the opposite issues to prove they are to win #áras25. Connolly has the experience as a politician, but is seen by some as too anti-establishment. Gavin has a career representing the establishment but needs to prove himself as a politician
September 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
From the last 20 minutes I saw tonight of #áras25 debate Connolly looked presidential. To me she's showing that she can be both a values-led meaningful critic and the type of leader/statesperson that the president has always been in my lifetime.
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I cannot stress enough that every candidate had seven years to get their ducks in a row here. That she chose to try at the last minute and feels affronted that she failed actually speaks to the deep level of privilege which she is being rightly criticised for about her bag.
September 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I cannot stress enough that every candidate had seven years to get their ducks in a row here. That she chose to try at the last minute and feels affronted that she failed actually speaks to the deep level of privilege which she is being rightly criticised for about her bag.