The Irish

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

so many priest are fucking shit at saying mass. lots of nervous ones who can't hold eye contact

The flashy ones are going to set up their own Padréon accounts.

I feel sick, I feel sick, we are in hell.

An MP stood in the House of Commons today and called a man that was shot dead in front of his wife and children “the IRAs solicitor of choice” and it hasn’t caused a ripple over there.

I still can’t get over it

— Seána (@GrantSana) November 30, 2020

Was chatting shit about the wrong fucking party as well, but hey, Paddies right

I'm not in Sinn Féin and I think what the government have done is a total disgrace. Do you think it's OK for a government to murder it's own citizens then refuse a proper inquiry into that murder @LordIanAustin ? https://t.co/M10M1MQ9ZN

— Colum Eastwood (@columeastwood) November 30, 2020

Lord Ian Austin. Horrible cunt.

I think that the British establishment is moving away from being able to handle a topic like finucanes murder and the surrounding collusion at light speed tbh, the bloody Sunday apology feels like it's likely to be an anomaly in so many ways

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