Tony - Pod Guy - Groves
@tonygroves.bsky.social
Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home.
Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
You tried to kill me,
So call me maybe?
And this is crazy,
You tried to kill me,
So call me maybe?
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
You tried to kill me,
So call me maybe?
And this is crazy,
You tried to kill me,
So call me maybe?
Shoutout to Jennifer and Jim for allowing the outgoing Fianna Gael leadership to stand at the front at the President Connolly inauguration. A nice touch. Classy.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Shoutout to Jennifer and Jim for allowing the outgoing Fianna Gael leadership to stand at the front at the President Connolly inauguration. A nice touch. Classy.
Catherine Connolly is our President. What’s next? New pod with the Head of Digital Campaigning with Connolly for President, Cian Prendville is out now everywhere podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Catherine Connolly is Our President, What’s Next?
Podcast Episode · The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack · 11/11/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Catherine Connolly is our President. What’s next? New pod with the Head of Digital Campaigning with Connolly for President, Cian Prendville is out now everywhere podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Andrew kindly rejoined me on the Tortoise Shack earlier to discuss Sudan, human rights and why, despite appearances to the contrary, lots of people care. Read his piece below. Podcast out now on the tortoise shack.
It’s too easy – and too wrong – to dismiss the atrocity-ridden crisis in #Sudan by saying "no one cares".
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
“No One Cares about Sudan”
It’s not easy to write about Sudan’s latest round of mass murder. And it’s hard to hear how some people dismiss it.
The recent fall of the city of El Fasher, following an 18-month siege, to the Rapid...
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Andrew kindly rejoined me on the Tortoise Shack earlier to discuss Sudan, human rights and why, despite appearances to the contrary, lots of people care. Read his piece below. Podcast out now on the tortoise shack.
Teachers, nurses and gardai should have studied harder and learned to be born into hereditary wealth. Simples.
“A teacher in their first year after qualifying will earn under €42,500, a nurse just over €37,000 and a garda less than €39,000, if not doing shift work… None of them will meet the minimum salary for a one bedroom apartment.”
Dublin jrnl.ie/6870044
Dublin jrnl.ie/6870044
Applications to open later this month for 99 affordable purchase homes and apartments in Dublin
One-bedroom apartments will range between €248k and €332k, while two-bedroom apartments will cost between €320k and €414k.
jrnl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Teachers, nurses and gardai should have studied harder and learned to be born into hereditary wealth. Simples.
Wrote this about the Sanctuary Runners a few weeks ago. This is Ireland at its best.
No paywall: www.patreon.com/posts/141588...
No paywall: www.patreon.com/posts/141588...
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Wrote this about the Sanctuary Runners a few weeks ago. This is Ireland at its best.
No paywall: www.patreon.com/posts/141588...
No paywall: www.patreon.com/posts/141588...
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Got my wee sign ready #MarchForIvan
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Got my wee sign ready #MarchForIvan
I know it’s not the main story today, but just wanted you all to know that I’m one of only 8 people in Ireland over the age of 35 who haven’t had a picture taken with outgoing president Michael D. Higgins. It’s mathematically easier to win the lotto than avoid a Michael D. pic. #Proud #Groves2032
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I know it’s not the main story today, but just wanted you all to know that I’m one of only 8 people in Ireland over the age of 35 who haven’t had a picture taken with outgoing president Michael D. Higgins. It’s mathematically easier to win the lotto than avoid a Michael D. pic. #Proud #Groves2032
Giving a talk to RTE staff in the morning about how their unconscious bias jeopardises their credibility. Whereas I am fully conscious of my bias so my credibility is beyond reproach.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Giving a talk to RTE staff in the morning about how their unconscious bias jeopardises their credibility. Whereas I am fully conscious of my bias so my credibility is beyond reproach.
HI, HOW ARE YOU? WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME ON MY PODCAST?
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
HI, HOW ARE YOU? WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME ON MY PODCAST?
Russian-Irish, US-based Prof Constantin Gurdgiev on the AI bubble, Trump’s attacks on economic data and the failure of politics to uphold the social contract
Don’t miss it
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Don’t miss it
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AI Bubbles, Infrastructure Deficits and the Fraying of Society
Podcast Episode · The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack · 10/11/2025 · 1 sec
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Russian-Irish, US-based Prof Constantin Gurdgiev on the AI bubble, Trump’s attacks on economic data and the failure of politics to uphold the social contract
Don’t miss it
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Don’t miss it
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Myself, Noel Kelly, Miriam O’Callaghan and Seamus Dooley are organising the #MarchForIvan this coming Sunday. Assemble 12pm at Bauer Media, Marconi House, marching to RTE Donnybrook. If you can’t make it, please send cash to myself and or Ivan. Many thanks
#JournoRequest
#JournoRequest
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Myself, Noel Kelly, Miriam O’Callaghan and Seamus Dooley are organising the #MarchForIvan this coming Sunday. Assemble 12pm at Bauer Media, Marconi House, marching to RTE Donnybrook. If you can’t make it, please send cash to myself and or Ivan. Many thanks
#JournoRequest
#JournoRequest
‘And I can assure my fellow Democrats, Resistance is Feeble!’
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
‘And I can assure my fellow Democrats, Resistance is Feeble!’
It’s the Pod Save crew who are the real victims here :(
After the 2016 election, I wrote this, about how Chuck Schumer was the worst possible Democratic leader at the worst possible time. He still is! theintercept.com/2016/11/14/c...
Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
The soon-to-be top elected Democrat might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face for opposition to Donald Trump.
theintercept.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
It’s the Pod Save crew who are the real victims here :(
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After the 2016 election, I wrote this, about how Chuck Schumer was the worst possible Democratic leader at the worst possible time. He still is! theintercept.com/2016/11/14/c...
Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
The soon-to-be top elected Democrat might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face for opposition to Donald Trump.
theintercept.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
After the 2016 election, I wrote this, about how Chuck Schumer was the worst possible Democratic leader at the worst possible time. He still is! theintercept.com/2016/11/14/c...
All this over a kebab?
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
All this over a kebab?
In keeping with the vampiric tradition, Bram Stoker’s family home in Marino is available on Air BnB.
Yesterday was Bram Stoker’s 178th birthday! 🎂 Author of THE LADY OF THE SHROUD, THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, and, of course, the iconic DRACULA. 🧛
Read the 1899 public-domain edition here ⤵️
archive.org/details/drac...
Read the 1899 public-domain edition here ⤵️
archive.org/details/drac...
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In keeping with the vampiric tradition, Bram Stoker’s family home in Marino is available on Air BnB.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Remember me when I am gone away,
Far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
This is an attack on Access to Justice, championed by the “abundance bro’s” and media insiders who peddle government talking points in lieu of actual journalism
The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
m.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This is an attack on Access to Justice, championed by the “abundance bro’s” and media insiders who peddle government talking points in lieu of actual journalism
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From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
From Eamonn Sweeney’s sports column in the Indo 👏
A look through a window into our capacity for evil.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A look through a window into our capacity for evil.
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Photo evidence of the massive flag pole earlier
Ulster's Iwo Jima
Ulster's Iwo Jima
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Photo evidence of the massive flag pole earlier
Ulster's Iwo Jima
Ulster's Iwo Jima
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Irish Twitter never died
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Irish Twitter never died
Excited to be giving* the keynote speech at the Pro-Anti-Peace Summit this evening.
*heckling Dan O’Brien, Larry Donnelly and Brigid Laffan
*heckling Dan O’Brien, Larry Donnelly and Brigid Laffan
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Excited to be giving* the keynote speech at the Pro-Anti-Peace Summit this evening.
*heckling Dan O’Brien, Larry Donnelly and Brigid Laffan
*heckling Dan O’Brien, Larry Donnelly and Brigid Laffan
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Starmer, Macron, and Martin walk into a bar. That was last weekend. They’re still waiting for the focus groups to deliver a clear consensus on what they should order. After a month, they leave without ordering, and blame immigrants.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Starmer, Macron, and Martin walk into a bar. That was last weekend. They’re still waiting for the focus groups to deliver a clear consensus on what they should order. After a month, they leave without ordering, and blame immigrants.