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
read two chapters of his book at work and I liked it. the chapters on 'one' and 'with or without you' he seemed p self aware in the book or maybe that's an act. quite sweet but not cloying stuff about his wife.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 4 November 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
then again there are a lot of days where Joshua Tree is my favourite album ever so I cut all of U2 a lot of slack.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 4 November 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
Maybe he just needs to get someone else to go out and sell it for him.
― trishyb, Friday, 4 November 2022 10:46 (one year ago) link
don't worry Oscar I can beat you here for reading shit celeb biographies. My mum bought the Bob Geldof one in the 80's and I read it cover to cover, lol
― calzino, Friday, 4 November 2022 10:50 (one year ago) link
He's a very good talker and a relatively good writer, in a way that seems particular to some (not all; maybe just a minority) Irish people. Heaney was a relevant comparison.
His TV performance sounds odd though.
I would read the book but I suspect that somehow it will undermine and ironise the music, which is not what it needs.
The Sinn Francisco gig moment was dire. It's OK for Bono to say 'I do embarrassing things' but in that particular case he also attacked someone else who didn't deserve it.
― the pinefox, Friday, 4 November 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
Ah yes, the Bob Geldof book. The Gideon Bible of late Eighties Irish homes.
― trishyb, Friday, 4 November 2022 11:26 (one year ago) link
I would imagine the Bono book is more intelligent and better written than most rock star autobiogs, he is still a tit though.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Friday, 4 November 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
It was written with more ties to intelligence.
― Chris L, Friday, 4 November 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
Heaney was a relevant comparison.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: Former British soldier David Holden (52) found guilty of manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie in Tyrone 34 years ago. He’s the first British veteran to be convicted of a historical offence in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. pic.twitter.com/e5k5cGLn6C— David Blevins (@skydavidblevins) November 25, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 25 November 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
Liberals will tell you there's no invasion. You're not being replaced. Open your eyes! pic.twitter.com/I5g4kfcf2b— Joe (@JoePostingg) November 29, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
Happy birthday baby
Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Free State, the direct precursor to what is now known as (the Republic of) Ireland, and the date to which Ireland as an independent country is dated.Making it also 100 years since the UK lost ~30% of its territory.— Chris Barrett-Molloy (@cr15b) December 6, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
Good.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
Is there a lot of stuff happening in Ireland to mark the occasion?
― Tim, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
Doubt it, I haven’t seen anything about it on the news though.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
No jig?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
There’s a lot Roy Keane can learn from fun-loving Brazilians who dance to express their emotions like *checks notes* Joao Bolsanaro. https://t.co/qNc2A5te9e pic.twitter.com/U90hZJLULP— Pádraig Mac Oscair (@PMacoscair) December 6, 2022
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Pinefox, I doubt you have ever seen this ad:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVudFaYSjq0A classic! But now there’s an article about how everyone is doing Joyce wrong that you might like: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/christmas-ad-5952178-Dec2022/
The snow at the end of The Dead is the culmination of this paralysis as the entire Ireland becomes frozen stiff, unable to move. Joyce’s characters were not looking at the snowfall from the warm side of a double-glazed window, holding a hot chocolate with a dropeen of Baileys in it, delighted at the opportunity to cancel plans.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen that ad - is there really a connection to The Dead beyond "snow at Christmas time" or is that something the article writer put in to juice it a bit?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
No, everyone is making it up and only you can see it.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
Journalism of the year, this.
Both brands of Tayto are marketed by an anthropomorphic potato mascot named Mr Tayto, though the two differ noticeably in style. The Republic of Ireland Mr Tayto wears a red suit, a black hat and yellow pinstripe pants, whereas his Northern counterpart wears an entirely red suit and hat. There is also a marked difference in the facial features of the Northern Mr Tayto, who possesses a larger, rounder jaw, and tends to smile with his mouth open, while Mr Tayto (Republic) is more stoic in demeanour. Both creatures typically wear a blue tie.
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
Tayto reunification when??
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
Silby, it’s not even legal to sell south of the border Tayto outside Ireland! The Nordie Tayto are the ones with a license! We’ll get a reunified country before this!
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
I've probably posted this before but it's a sick boast and I'm repetitive af. My mum was a childhood friend of Ray Coyle and she claims his family wanted to adopt her. One of her biggest regrets is it didn't happen and she ended up one of the many industrial school orphans!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
Just want to point out NI Tayto never made (and quickly deleted) a sad Mr Tayto to commemorate the death of a national treasure!https://0-i2--prod-irishmirror-ie-0.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w820/s/i2-prod.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article20812609.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_EIjbkvQXUAAqXrn.jpg
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
So the NI Mr Tayto isn't orange with a bowler hat?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
I think we are all aware of that creature’s sympathies
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
Tayto divided will never be at peace
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 9 February 2023 12:40 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fLTWA02.jpg
― conrad, Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
I was going to say that will have made Van Morrison happy but nothing makes him happy.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
There's an episode of Peppa Pig where the family go to a theme park called 'Potato City' - "where the magic of vegetables comes alive" - when they get there they are surprised to find it has a dinosaur park, and much is made of how incongruous this is. This episode was on one of the few kids DVDs we had in China, so I've seen it many times.Last year I was surprised to discover that this was a surprisingly accurate parody of Tayto Park, a real theme park in Ireland, sponsored by Tayto.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link