The Irish

ha, haven't noticed this. I'll keep an eye out

…the plot thickens:

Montreal!

Book Group: They're reading Helen DeWitt's "The Last Samurai" (nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie!) over at Conversational Reading - Maybe we should do the same here?

Love and hate this depressing incestuous country and its cronyism

#Golfgate is more than the dinner itself. It's a perfect illustration of how cosy Ireland's elite are together - high court judge, former political journalist on Ireland's public service broadcaster, TD's, Senators, banking lobbyists and "good" families, all sitting down together

— Sorcha Ní Aoláin (@SJTHolland) August 21, 2020

I feel there might now be popular support for my platform of attendees to Oireachtas Golf Society events to be greeted by machine-gun fire - the problem is maintaining that support next year if Covid is no longer an issue.

There will be a lot of people thinking "The politicians giving out about this are jealous that they weren't there".

Also, they're not entirely wrong there.

I mean, yeah? Look at the names, that’s a pretty good list of your typical room where the decisions get made.

Taken by David Minihane off Castletownbere on Monday. Just wait for it...... pic.twitter.com/naumi7E7Xn

— Cork Beo (@corkbeo) August 22, 2020

whale say hi to me

i'm going to ireland in a couple of weeks! literally years since i was there not during christmas although this may obviously be in lieu of

Are you watching the ESB ad or wha

But also, why do you go home so infrequently? Don’t answer if personal, obviously.

lol can't be arsed!

ireland or marseille this summer? hmmm

Meanwhile in Ireland

#Breaking The Cabinet is to self-isolate and the Dáil has been adjourned following news that Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly is unwell and being tested for Covid-19

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 15, 2020

Big shouts to Irish-America for the sharp intake of breath you just coerced me into having pic.twitter.com/QEiCT3p7Sb

— Myles na gCovid-19. (@EXECUTIVESTEVE) September 16, 2020

Obsessed with O’Neill’s in Soho actively choosing to tell this story of terminal cultural decline pic.twitter.com/kfaKhF13hg

— Sean Bernard (@seanbgoneill) September 18, 2020

I stayed in a Travelodge in swords last night and was so desperate for shit Irish telly I ended up watching all two hours of an episode of Maura and daithi from 2019

On YouTube (the TV was broken)

There is, of course, previous between our island and The Economist:

In deeply Protestant England, they think a German woman has magic blood and throw money at her and her dogs to live in huge palaces whilst their children go hungry https://t.co/FE3ddvC8wp

— The Man Don't Give A... (@JurassicArse) September 22, 2020

the people, rapidly increasing, have been reduced, by acts for which they are chiefly to blame, to a sole reliance on the precarious crop of potatoes. It would be unjust to Ireland – it would be a neglect of a great duty which is imposed on us at this time – if we did not point to this calamity, assuming as it does this aggravated form, as in a great measure the natural result of that crime which has precluded the people from other available resources. That the innocent suffer with the guilty, is a melancholy truth, but it is one of the great conditions on which all society exists. Every breach of the laws of morality and social order brings its own punishment and inconvenience. Where there is not perfect security, there cannot be prosperity. This is the first law of civilization.

In fairness, her, her dad and her grandad are English, and Buckingham Palace is publicly owned so the UK is her landlord and kinda required to discharge its duties as such. If we're going to go after rich people for not contributing, she's waaaaay down the list.

— FalanxZealot (@FalanxZ) September 22, 2020

P good comeback 2 this

Not really

No I mean the reply to that reply. Why am I posting replies idk I suck today

Oh yes i definitely laughed at that, he’s one of the best accounts on the godforsaken site

Jon Bon Jovi on Armchair Podcast speaking about how his upbringing was different to Bono "I didn't have Orangemen walking through his neighborhood saying get the Catholic kid and beat him up"

— [Dave Leahy] (@daveleahy) October 6, 2020

lool!

lolol

We Now Go Live To Finglas. pic.twitter.com/L0j7qCHeGb

— Féach News (@_FeachNews) October 6, 2020

bono isn't even catholic iirc?

my mum said once when she was driving her sister Joan from Dublin to Kilbrew she pointed at a very grand house somewhere and said that's where Bono grew up, but she said it was nothing on the mansion the Coyle's of Tayto crisps fame lived in! It wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't catholic.

I just googled, catholic dad, protestant mum, grew up going to church of Ireland, went to a catholic primary school and a protestant secondary.

classic centrist twat!

my mum has an obsession with the Coyle family because at some point they wanted to adopt her and save her from her freerolling not very good parents who used to go missing for weeks, but it didn't happen and she ended up in the care of an industrial school instead!

christ, that's unfortunate.

when I was talking to her earlier she says her brother (who died earlier this year of prostate cancer) who represented + organised of dozens industrial school survivors in taking their case against the Catholic church has left his archive of interviews and documents related to that casework to Sheffield University.

All this trolling of Bono on Twitter today is really unfair. He went through enough in Long Kesh. pic.twitter.com/jskRl4VBPH

— Patricia MacBride (@IRLPatricia) October 7, 2020

big shout out to the historically racist housing policies in islington council that have left a large enough irish population in my neighbourhood that sainsburys stocks barmbrack.

Plax I’m wildly jealous. N7? The oifig an phoist there was full of seandaoine the day I visited.

lol just the angel sainsburys

how good is brack tho

no ring unfor

I don’t like brack tbh tbh but I’ve been to that angel many many times

However I will tell you I introduced the other half to purple snacks over lockdown and he’s a fan. Like so many things though, they’re not as nice as they used to be.

tempted to try the shop in the irish centre a go someday soon

would love a purple snack, if you could get a purple snack

You can buy 3 6-packs on Amazon for £10, not great but cheaper than the last time I bought them at home.

But I’ve wanted to go to that shop for ages, will you see if they have Polo biscuits? I really miss them.

will report. i suspect its just cidona taytos and that ballymaloe stuff

find me somewhere in london that sells annascaul black pudding and i'll be really impressed

Love this story

Priests have said they are upset by the "very hurtful criticism" of "mass-hoppers" who go from one online mass to another passing comments over their "performances".https://t.co/GqTjbDLIax

— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) November 10, 2020

According to Fr Tim Hazelwood, a spokesman for the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), which represents over 1,000 Irish priests, "mass-hoppers" are undermining many priests who are already self-conscious and are "not performers".

I heard there was a suggestion that Xmas be moved to late January to help combat Covid.
I was buying bread and this story came on the news on the radio while i was doing so.
So that's it then. Canceled Ester and all the oher parades this year.
Bah humbug

masshoppers need not apply xp

The thing is this is just the kind of stuff that goes on in a lot of households, but can’t imagine it’s much fun hearing the unfiltered verdict of a critical Irish granny.

It goes on in the church hall over a cup of tea ten minutes after communion.

I remember a local priest having a following. he was moved to my old parish when it came free upon the death of the old priest, he brought a following with him from the other parish, as in tens of people, and gave all the lay person roles like sacristan etc to members of this group. a lot of the locals didn't rate him, but some fell under his spell