Roger O'Keeffe
@rogerokeeffe.bsky.social
Shooting the breeze on Irish, EU and world affairs, history, language(s). #speirgorm
A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences.
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A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences.
Location: 🇺🇸 shitshow to the left of us< 🇮🇪 > 🇬🇧 shitshow to the right
Mind you, with all the beards on show, it looked as if we had taken over! 😆
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Mind you, with all the beards on show, it looked as if we had taken over! 😆
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The full text of Catherine Connolly's speech is here: president.ie/en/media-lib... #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
Inaugural Speech of President Catherine Connolly | President of Ireland
A Thaoisigh, A Phr&iacute;omhbhreithimh, Air&iacute;, Baill Chomhairle an St&aacute;it, Baill an Oireachtais, Ambasad&oacute;ir&iacute;, Ceannair&iacute; Eaglaise, agus dhaoine...
president.ie
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The full text of Catherine Connolly's speech is here: president.ie/en/media-lib... #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm
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That was routine and near-universal in my childhood.
More irritating - to me at least - is the current English fad for saying "may have" when people mean "might have" (the latter referring to a hypothetical, the former to an indeterminate factual state).
It skunks a useful distinction.
More irritating - to me at least - is the current English fad for saying "may have" when people mean "might have" (the latter referring to a hypothetical, the former to an indeterminate factual state).
It skunks a useful distinction.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
That was routine and near-universal in my childhood.
More irritating - to me at least - is the current English fad for saying "may have" when people mean "might have" (the latter referring to a hypothetical, the former to an indeterminate factual state).
It skunks a useful distinction.
More irritating - to me at least - is the current English fad for saying "may have" when people mean "might have" (the latter referring to a hypothetical, the former to an indeterminate factual state).
It skunks a useful distinction.
Advent vestments. 😊
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Advent vestments. 😊
Motormouth O'Leary would love it if older, infirm and disabled people would just f*** off out of his world and let him focus on making even more money.
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Motormouth O'Leary would love it if older, infirm and disabled people would just f*** off out of his world and let him focus on making even more money.
Predisposed by AI to present her as a dangerous leftist with links to previously-unheard-of islamists?
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Predisposed by AI to present her as a dangerous leftist with links to previously-unheard-of islamists?
That's my reaction, not an entry!
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
That's my reaction, not an entry!
I also have one on standby for @frankie49.bsky.social 's job description in case I am again moved to engage with one of his Diary entries in the Letters page.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I also have one on standby for @frankie49.bsky.social 's job description in case I am again moved to engage with one of his Diary entries in the Letters page.
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Are we in the "convince people it's broken" stage of the break it, convince people it's broken, convince people only privatisation will fix it, privatise it, cycle of privatisation?
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Are we in the "convince people it's broken" stage of the break it, convince people it's broken, convince people only privatisation will fix it, privatise it, cycle of privatisation?
In German one could make a case for Unwetterwarnungsunterlassenergrafschaftssauwetter.
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In German one could make a case for Unwetterwarnungsunterlassenergrafschaftssauwetter.
Just started watching.
Sign-language for her speech, but no English interpretation for the bits of it that are in Irish?
Sign-language for her speech, but no English interpretation for the bits of it that are in Irish?
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Just started watching.
Sign-language for her speech, but no English interpretation for the bits of it that are in Irish?
Sign-language for her speech, but no English interpretation for the bits of it that are in Irish?
Aha! Eugene Lambe on uilleann pipes. I never thought of him. Better known to me as a maker rather than as a performer.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Aha! Eugene Lambe on uilleann pipes. I never thought of him. Better known to me as a maker rather than as a performer.
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Andrew Neil could host This Week on the BBC while being editor of The Spector.
The hysterical cries of "bias" only go one way.
The hysterical cries of "bias" only go one way.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Andrew Neil could host This Week on the BBC while being editor of The Spector.
The hysterical cries of "bias" only go one way.
The hysterical cries of "bias" only go one way.