The Irish

oh hes far beyant it now that fella. off to join some embassy in next few months, has put "nowhere that kills me for being gay pls" on his forms so fingers crossed for the lad eh.

omg! Good luck to him!

this approach actually has worked for previous lgbt+ officers of our mutual so yknow even amidst bureaucracy theres ways and means.

this fella and i have somehow hopped around together across the past four or five depts starting with actually stuffing envelopes in the ill-fated (feted) household charge.

hes def the second most likely person i know to be a spy after sv- dashing six footer, double history masters, learning diplomatic french from alliance francaises in the evenings around his international policy masters and knows exactly which tds used to frequent that bathhouse on the quays

not utterly spoiled by being a fanatical blackburn fan but ive often advised him to tone it down at interview

Any chance of a webmail re the quays?!

I’ve never met an Irish Blackburn fan, literally whyyyy

Did ye ever benefit from the free cheese protests?

1: he never even breathed a word to me save the one name youd actually expect, and all stopped well before greatness

2: has to be from a cousin that remembers 95, thats the only thing ive ever heard attributed

3: lol we were somewhere else entirely, it was all a sting operation. no badges, no insignia, lecarre aint got shit on us type stuff til the day we had a fire in the print room and the bauld lads of dublin fire brigade threw the offending item out of the fourth floor window and covered all of d7 in our headed paper

five full time staff and three hundred agency ppl sorting forms and data entry in a secret building in the city centre tho, it was great apart from the dogshit youd find in the odd envelope. its where i came across the gaeilgeoir donkey for a start.

ah good times

v disappointed to hear that supermacs may be going global. what will be left to visit once the last pathetic scraps of parochial nostalgia have been debased by relentless availability. That sneaky supermacs in eyre square while steeling myself for my parents house will seem colder comfort than ever.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/15/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-legal-battle-supermacs

I appreciate that this may be a "galway" thing.

Supermacs is much appreciated in the midlands as a source of excellent chicken, and fights outside it are an institution. Choco cones if they still do them are amazing.

you can't export the vibe in the Eyre Square outlet at 3 am on a Saturday plax

some things refuse to be commodified

they were in nyc with years i posted it here for dayo

chicken breast sandwich is the best burger

agreed

I don’t think I’ve ever had their burgers, chicken mainly and I have fond memories of the pizza from secondary school.

a supermac is outrageously expensive iirc

i'm always like "how much?"

the meal man the meal

curry chips are great too

curry chips are decent but not Four Lanterns (the global standard) level

onion rings are acceptable iirc

four lights double chicken burger cheese springsteen write a song

Outside Westminster this morning, a Brexiteer told me Ireland’s biggest problem is “You have a man who’s adopted Ireland and he’s far fonder of the EU than he is of Ireland.”

When I asked who he meant, he confirmed he meant the Taoiseach.

“He’s as Irish as I am,” I said.

— Donal O'Keeffe (@Donal_OKeeffe) February 5, 2019

Not top ten or anything but I get so annoyed at having to defend Leo, who I’d never have a good word to say about otherwise, because of shit like this.

leos fine for what leo is and yeah i get what you mean, in the current climate on foreign affairs he just has to show up to look great in comparison rly

Lookit I don’t want to make this difficult like but

...

are you a blueshirt?

Like I think he’s awful on basically every domestic issue going and I would never vote for him or FG ever, so he falls a far way below ok for me! But the second some cunt tries to slag him off cos his da is Indian...

for what he is!

one hates to be so gauche as to but i argue against everyone and vote lab as a rule

also lol you love to make it difficult but its never a prob sure

FG presiding over the accidental end of partition is Nixon in China stuff and I await the opera.

xp this is true, it’s a character deficit of mine (one of many)

As someone from a traditionally FG family I am v relieved

our lot are ff but god help us no child of the 80s onwards follows that pls god

And yet still they persevere.

ive come along rapidly to the "it could be a lot worse" kinda thinking looking around yknow

also....i mean, ran the cumann ff family if we're conffessing

👀👀👀👀

So, that Karen Bradley eh?

Honestly amazed at how I’ve gone from “the North should decide what it wants for itself” to “UNITE IRELAND NOW” in like a relatively short period?

I had a fight with my parents about this recently and our perspectives might as well be miles apart now.

with apologies to gyac for bumping other thread with this:

we'll talk about it in here so i spose

the statement by SoS for NI made to the house of commons yesterday is not just a resigning matter but should be an international scandal the scale of which should see ambassadors, foreign ministers and idk any human rights, justice or military union either country is involved in involved and investigating as a priority

its not as important as internal labour party intrigue obv but hey this is probably a good reminder that yknow countries really should rule themselves

― god knows i want to fp (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 March 2019 12:36 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its absolutely true tho about becoming a republican all of a sudden!

not just this but a few accumulated bits and pieces, brexit and tories being tories i guess are central

It's almost as if NI has always been a bad faith pretence of a country that's ignored by the English unless there's some political advantage wants milking

are you...Hibernosplaining

lol hes not wrong maybe

i dont usually feel like a naif but i mean oof

re thread, I was mostly joking, níl aon fadhb again leat i ndairíre...

ffs first ilx fucks up my attempt to post itt and then autocorrect does too, now I know how Wolfe Tone felt

lollllz

It's a fair cop, just wanted to acknowledge this week's shitshow tbh

Now I know how Wolfe Tone felt, now I know how Wolfe Tone felt,
As the blade rose to his proddy throat and he drained all his heeeealth

Patriotism is not my natural reaction when I see what is happening in the UK.

im not sure anyone is advocating blind patriotism as opposed to reminding ourselves of the merits of home rule

any support for that feels fairly theoretical or abstract to me i suppose - i don't know what steps would have to happen for a united ireland or whether i would want them to happen.

Yeah that seems like an odd take considering the tone of the respective posts.

well i felt relatively confident in darragh's ability to have a discussion

I'm sure a post-Brexit uk government will take a strong line on protecting the human rights of all of its citizens

xp honestly just killfile me, it doesn’t have to be like this. I’d certainly never mind seeing a reply from you again.

As I ever, autocorrect owns me. I’d certainly never mind NOT...

lads!

i will never killfile anyone tbh. i am happy for people to discuss things here as long as it doesn't become meta or personal.

the question of a 32 county republic is much more on the table as a result of the actions of the dup and tories this past two years, its a natural topic

i now think it will happen in my lifetime, and i wouldn't be particularly surprised to see it happen in the next twenty years

what the unionist minority sop could look like under any such move is hard to imagine, but then so were the strides from 94 onwards and so would have been the gaffes and missteps of doddsy and may et al recently