donegal yeah for sure that kind of thing is what im getting at
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
if putin is allowed to do this in the ukraine, will johnson in london be looking at the four ports and be licking his lips?
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:03 (two years ago) link
Don’t make me visualise that this dark morning pls
― mardheamac (gyac), Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:12 (two years ago) link
Thanks Darraghmac for your substantial post.
I had never heard talk of
a new superdock between dublin and belfast
This stuff tends to go into Flann O'Brien territory - if only, in my mind, because the early Flann c.1934 demanded a deep water harbour in Bettystown. Which would be a good proposal here except that, as we know, Bettystown is only 48km from Dublin and would hardly bring the spatial equality sought.
For the above reasons I was excited to actually see, or actually to see, Bettystown for the first time, in 2006; though more engaged still by Skerries.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
i doubt very much that you couldnt dig into any one caper dreamt up by the same man that didnt have a lot more than a seed in either a white paper hed read or a meeting he had attended that week tbh
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:32 (two years ago) link
Pf I sincerely think you might be the first and perhaps only person in history to be engaged by Skerries.
― mardheamac (gyac), Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link
If Pyutin will go after Keev, who’s to say Cobh isn’t next Joe?
― mardheamac (gyac), Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:35 (two years ago) link
joe would be out with the red flag ten mins after joe knows his pitch
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link
We're still waiting for Boris' bridge from the Shankhill Road to Ibrox Park to get the go ahead.
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:49 (two years ago) link
alan kelly gone as labour leader
professional politician since school, professional shouter since, always had fuck-all time for him tbh and whatever labour needed after govt and collapse it was never him.
we wish him well in future endeavours
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 23:37 (two years ago) link
"Duncan Smith takes himself out of race for Labour leadership" might some of us a double-take.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 3 March 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
*give some of us
This is huge.
#AE22 First preference votes(All 18 constituencies reporting)🟢 SF 250,388 (29.0%)🟠 DUP 184,002 (21.3%)🟡 AP 116,681 (13.5%)🔵 UUP 96,390 (11.2%)🟩 SDLP 78,237 (9.1%)🟦 TUV 65,788 (7.6%)♻️ Green 16,433 (1.9%)🟢 Aontú 12,777 (1.5%)🟪 PBP 9,798 (1.1%)— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) May 6, 2022
― gyac, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
That's up (2%) on the last election's vote total, too.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 6 May 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
and there it is
― mark s, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
good luck with that petition of concern u speak of
― gyac, Saturday, 7 May 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
Meanwhile
POLL: Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks(May 6, MoE 3%)Sinn Féin 34 (+1 in four weeks)Fine Gael 23 (+1)Fianna Fáil 16 (-2)Soc Dems 4 (-2)Labour 4Greens 4 (+1)PBP-Solidarity 3 (+1)Aontú 3Inds/others 8 (-2) https://t.co/Zkok403wsH— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) May 7, 2022
― gyac, Saturday, 7 May 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
This is true.
there's lots of heavy breathing about Sinn Fein, but none of it gives me any idea of what SF will do in power on either side of the border— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) May 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 May 2022 07:45 (two years ago) link
nobody cares about the opinions of English people, sorry now
― gyac, Sunday, 8 May 2022 09:17 (two years ago) link
Don't be sorry, will keep linking British opinions or otherwise if I like it.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:25 (two years ago) link
Whenever a woman is successful, this is is what they do. Absolutely sick and tired of this shite. pic.twitter.com/aw7ZA7uXmP— Maggie Moo Mar (@Midge1415) May 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 May 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link
Coverage of this latest electoral outcome has demonstrated something: large parts of NI, and also the BBC, are content to consider nationalists as politically invalid and not people who have a right to political participation.
A republican party wins by far the highest share of the vote. In a democracy this would have consequences. The actual consequences from Unionism and the BBC seem to be: we'll ignore these people and not conduct politics anymore, and mainly talk about why they are bad and should never be allowed to participate in society.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 8 May 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
that is not too far from what happened in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Irish_general_election
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 8 May 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
Agreed.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 8 May 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
R4's election coverage included interviewing two people whose parents got taken out by the RA during The Troubles. very impartial lads, and not at all inflammatory/unhelpful.
― calzino, Sunday, 8 May 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
In so far as there's progress, the DUP has publicly said that the issue with supporting a national executive is the Northern Ireland Protocol rather than the concept of a Sinn Fein first minister, with some apparently accepting that "the people have spoken" - obviously I'd be wary of considering the DUP of operating in any kind of good faith, but it is noticeable that they're not throwing that particular toy out of the pram.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 8 May 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
that is not too far from what happened in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Irish_general_election🕸
― gyac, Sunday, 8 May 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
Pretty soon this will all pass and the English media and public can go back to their default position of ignoring all those ka-rrrrrrazy people somewhere over there across the Irish Sea.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 May 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
Andrew F: this seems true. So, we have a Brexit deal, which secured the current powerful UK government, which apparently means that the NI Assembly cannot exist.
I won't say that no-one pointed this out before (lots of people pointed out lots of bad things about Brexit all along), but it appears that the UK state now rests on a basic incoherence, which the current UK PM happily created and went along with and little of the British media (perhaps unlike the Irish) cared to mention.
Calzino: yes, I heard this report. It was extraordinary. Like being back in about 1987.
I started to wonder: if we're going to ban popular political parties from taking office because their historical associates have killed people, maybe we'll have to extend that to the Con Party and, come to think of it, the Labour Party. Not to mention the DUP, who were oddly not mentioned in this connection by Radio 4 and are now seemingly seen as responsible, sensible people.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 8 May 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
Jerry: We only need to be lucky once! George: She's gotta be lucky every time, Jerry! Every time! https://t.co/YKnhX6dAst— brandon (@BrandyBeansH) May 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FT7ctcTX0AAu_2w?format=jpg&name=smallas an avid player of the Irish Daily Millions lottery game I just thought I'd share this fantastic pic from their site, because it cracks me up and I felt like it was very important to make a record of it before it disappears.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 May 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link
Incredible
"I would strongly encourage the Irish tea sock..." pic.twitter.com/zQAuShsbzM— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 13, 2022
― gyac, Monday, 13 June 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
ludicrous, everyone knows it’s pronounced tea sack
― (ʇɐɔ) o (cat), Monday, 13 June 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
even i'm passable at it now, i'm told
― imago, Monday, 13 June 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
As ever, it's so easy to pick up on the disdain for the very existence of Ireland as a separate nation from British politicians. I doubt that will ever change.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 06:53 (one year ago) link
Huge if true🤯 pic.twitter.com/UWnLxxFoZU— Ógra Shinn Féin (@Ogra_SF) August 14, 2022
― calzino, Sunday, 14 August 2022 11:35 (one year ago) link
potato crop failing in england… well well well https://t.co/giunrKcCkv— caoimhe (@scorpiophobic) August 12, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 August 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.potatonewstoday.com/2022/08/11/ifa-potato-crops-shutting-down-in-ireland-ongoing-drought-reducing-yields-in-europe/
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 14 August 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
(and that's the first result from Googling 'Ireland drought 2022')
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 14 August 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
I guess these posts make sense in the alternative reality where Ireland starved the UK by exporting their staple crop in a time of failure. Ofc even with this drought we are one of the world’s most food secure countries. We’ll be fine.
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Sunday, 14 August 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah so anyway
Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for first time since its creation https://t.co/qw5L4dcMGS— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 22, 2022
The state of Northern Ireland was established with the intent of maintaining a pro-British Protestant majority as a counterweight to the newly independent and predominantly Catholic Irish state to the south.
― barry sito (gyac), Thursday, 22 September 2022 09:20 (one year ago) link
You would assume everyone would know that but you can never underestimate how little the English know or care about anything other than English history.
Which reminds me, I only found out a few days ago that Edward Carson was given a state funeral, the next non-royal to receive one after him as Churchill and there hasn't been another since.
Britain gave him a state funeral, which took place in Belfast at St Anne's Cathedral; he is still the only person to have been buried there. From a silver bowl, soil from each of the six counties of Northern Ireland was scattered on to his coffin, which had earlier been covered by the Union Flag, which however was removed during the service.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 September 2022 09:38 (one year ago) link
was Churchill ffs
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 September 2022 09:40 (one year ago) link
Bono’s claims the IRA targeted the U2 frontman is ‘news to me’, says Gerry Adams https://t.co/FCrrOhxzpm— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) October 25, 2022
Mr Adams added that while he’s an admirer of the work that Bono has done in highlighting issues of social injustice around the world, his “commentary on the conflict here was shrill, ill-informed and unhelpful”.“However, you weren’t on your own,” he said.“You echoed the Irish establishment line. It was the wrong line for decades. A failure of governance and the abandonment of responsibility to lead a process of peace and justice.“Thankfully that changed. But it took a long time. Despite this some of us got through it all. With or without you.”
“However, you weren’t on your own,” he said.
“You echoed the Irish establishment line. It was the wrong line for decades. A failure of governance and the abandonment of responsibility to lead a process of peace and justice.
“Thankfully that changed. But it took a long time. Despite this some of us got through it all. With or without you.”
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 06:07 (one year ago) link
Class.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 07:40 (one year ago) link
That time Bono chewed out a fan for bringing a Sinn Féin sign that was actually a San Francisco sign pic.twitter.com/i7QMeo8w41— Dean Van Nguyen (@deanvannguyen) December 22, 2016
― calzino, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
LOL what a tool
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Friday, 4 November 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
I watched a bit of Graham Norton the other night with him on it. Twice Graham tried to get him to tell an amusing anecdote from his book, and both times he either could not or would not just face the audience and tell the story. He squirmed around trying to be chummy with Taylor Swift (who was visibly trying to keep her distance from him while still being polite) and then when he told the stories I thought, is that it? That's not a story at all! There's nothing there! Is the whole book like this? Not that I was going to buy it anyway, but if it had been great I might've borrowed it from someone.
― trishyb, Friday, 4 November 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
Imagine being Irish and not being able to tell a good story. They should take your passport.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
He could have told the story about the Orangemen chasing him through a posh suburban part of Dublin when he was a kid, yelling "get the Catholic!". for the sake of younger viewers, Bongo was one of the most world famous performing clowns of the 80's.
― calzino, Friday, 4 November 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link