The Irish

Yes. Have tried not to think about it much all day because I might cry when I do

fucking Baron Ian Austin makes Frank Field (who was good friends with Thatcher) seem like a moderate, a sickening little creep.

As a QC who specialised in human rights issues, it’s very odd that the leader of the Opposition at Westminster, Keir Starmer, hasn’t said a word about the Govt’s failure to announce a public inquiry into the state’s illegal killing of a fellow human rights lawyer. Remarkable even

— Chris Hazzard (@ChrisHazzardSF) December 1, 2020

the diminutive dog-shagger Austin deleted his Finucane tweet, even some of horrible tory friends said he was trying a bit too hard.

Has the man ever spoken for the nation so well?

Same. pic.twitter.com/987xdfc7G3

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) December 2, 2020

sounds dope rly

He sounds sincere tbf

As sincere as I’ve ever seen him

Newgrange stream from 8.45 here

loved this

got a result this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esAkRoqjKx4

I had an early meeting this morning so I’m sorry to have missed this one, but I’ve loved watching this week. It really makes you feel privileged to be able to witness it.

I feel like Newgrange is somehow underrated? Like everyone knows about it, you learn about it in school, and it's just always...there. But when you go and stand in that chamber and feel the actual weight of history above you... It's magical

On the first stream, when they had a beautiful clear day and the sun was entering the chamber, they had a lovely shot of the “sun dagger” from above and your man said “when i see this, the word ‘immutable’ comes to mind, in other words we are touching the ancestors, and we are experiencing something that five thousand years ago was similarly experienced”.

But when you go and stand in that chamber and feel the actual weight of history above you... It's magical

The lack of development around it is great as well. When you go and stand on that hill and there isn't a major road in sight or a housing estate, or anything beyond a few farms, it's beautiful.

Anne Rabbitte at it again, I see.

In April 2019, Rabbitte criticised plans to excavate the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, describing it as "a wilful waste of public money", and questioned if the intention was to dig up every cillín (burial ground for stillborn and unbaptized infants) in Ireland.

Rabbitte: "As a mother I wonder what sort of societal pressure I'd have to be under to turn my back on my children… society must be responsible for forcing the hands of these families… the circle of blame is vast"

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) January 12, 2021

If RTÉ replaced the Angelus with a minute dedicated to someone who died in the M&BH, one day dedicated per each individual, that would be 25 years for the babies alone

— Suzie (@leninjapirate) January 12, 2021

Fuck

Yep.

Somebody in Moscow has built a replica of iconic Dublin pub @ODonoghues15.

What’s more, unlike the ‘real’ version, it’s open, has customers in it, and is selling pints. pic.twitter.com/EEnuMpamUw

— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) January 26, 2021

ah, but can you get the pint of Harp?

Nice

Genuinely thought the badly censored guy was wearing a gimp mask there for a minute.

Or rubber-banding it

I heard the guinness isnt great lads, cancel the minibus

Also just spotted uncensored creepy looking guy in the first photo.

Doesn't travel, I hear xp

Horrible

Watching him deal with this his entire career, so just having my say after 9 years of constant abuse. pic.twitter.com/5nEyujhpZw

— Erin McClean (@Erineyy) February 15, 2021

Nasty fuckin stuff

Here is the blacklist of Irish surnames produced by Pontins and uploaded to its intranet

It was headed "UNDESIRABLE GUESTS" pic.twitter.com/poQNC6up8h

— Chris Green (@ChrisGreenNews) March 2, 2021

Hey, we're not on there, that can't be right.

Susan Boyle, Jimmy Carr, Rory Gallagher, Bruce Lee, Paddy McGuiness, James Murphy, Richard O'Brien and all of the Nolan sisters are not welcome at Pontins.

Ive checked the list and seems ok, go to print imo

i like the cutesy gandalf meme paired with the racist policy memo

and no Conamarans and no dogs either!

my brother's ex-wife was from a Connemaran family and she was boasting how their family was a such powerful and influential lot in some village and the main well sat on their land or something and then when she was visiting he said she got dysentery or something nearly as bad from drinking water from the well! This was in the early 90's as well not the early 20's!

When the families have been in situ for the few hundred years local politics gets into some petty shit

Which is awkward at discos because well you have to shift *someone* ffs

Real Ireland! If at one point my mum had decided to stay over there then I'd have been a connected guy in a Kerry building business and middle class by kerry standards. So perhaps just a different kind of arsehole to what England has made me into!

Sher look one brother over and id have been a multimillionaire meself but alas

as a Connemara I can vouch for your dysentery story the water system here has been badly affected by corruption peaking with the crypto sporidium scandal in the early 00s that left large parts Galway with undrinkable tap water for years

it seems during the boom years lots of that money that was sloshing around in Ireland wasn't spent how it ought to have been

Never!

My name's on the Pontins blacklist, but I got into ATP 2016 under an assumed name and did loads of redacted so the joke's on them. Unless the joke is on me because half the headliners cancelled idk

Getting vaccines to all your friends, family and kids’ teachers, all while running a busy hospital? I wanna tell ya... try it sometime! pic.twitter.com/43HUyuJYI9

— jack (@jackalexe) March 30, 2021

i think to keep in mind the fact (it may of course be no fact at all but in art the construct is designed to fall away or to be concealed by the end result nest pas) that the 'ch' is well and good but it could as easily have been described as a 'gh'

the aaaauwwuuugh that calvin does the odd time might give an indication as to where the breathing is, an open gullet almost catching at the end of the emphasised nnTOIEE before the sharp 'ish' withdrawal that is rather akin to a kyokushinkai punch count

i hope that clears it up, at least as far as upper achill formal pronunciation goes. its different in newport, theyd rush it into toieeshuh which is no service to the word at all.

― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 14:25 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Its a wonder imo folens havent picked me up yet with notes like this

Hilarious story. What a prick.

Oh my. https://t.co/qT31iOh3b5

— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) May 6, 2021

This review is pretty scathing...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/06/van-morrison-new-record-project-volume-one-review

He actually has a song called Why Are You on Facebook? lol

not trying to be a dick here Andy... but so much the wrong thread!

Sorry, sorry - in my mind they're already reunited