The Irish

fair question

i think youre safe enough with this one im sure the internet can suggest a custard substitute my personal experience no help alas

If I think of that kind of thing, I think of apple tart or apple crumble, both big favourites in my house (not with me personally, not a fan, but 99% Irish people disagree). So something like this?

https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/2016/1110/830148-molly-makes-apple-crumble/

Oh here you go, maybe this is the kind of thing you mean?

https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/2023/0315/1363477-catherine-fulvios-irish-apple-cake-today/

Apple tart here: https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/2016/0318/775323-traditional-irish-apple-tart/

agree re apple tart being the thing

or a tea brack

oh what a gorgeous lot of choices, thank you both!!

Exactly the kind of mentality I mean when I hate on the diaspora

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She gets mercilessly roasted in the replies.

Oh I’ve seen

muchas gracias y'all <3

i split the difference between tart & crumble with apple crumb bars and almond custard cream on the side

we're swimming in wonderfully sour little apples right now (it's fall, bears hongry, people gotta strip their fruit trees) so that was no problem but of course the rest devolved into the usual fiasco of "what there's no flour" "but i thought we had oats!" "where's the butter, okay, guess i'll use that gallon jug of coconut oil we bought at the start of the pandemic" etc. and ended up with an almond flour/puffed millet (why do we even have puffed millet) aberration.

but he was delighted and loved it and has implored me to make it again sometime! so i'm gonna chalk that up as another win for ireland, why not 🎉🇮🇪🎉

https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/israel-bloody-sunday-bono/

This story about the Israel propaganda machine totally misunderstanding how Bono is regarded at home is the closest to 'light relief' I've experienced in the escalating and unreal seeming (though unfortunately real) horrors unfolding on every tiny little screen that beeps and buzzes.

Bono looked emotional when dedicating U2 song ‘Pride’ to the victims of the massacre by Hamas at a music festival in Israel near the border with Gaza a fortnight ago. The IDF spin doctors must have assumed that getting a sympathetic Bono apparently on their side gave them an opening to a normally hostile audience in Ireland. Thus, the official IDF social media account shared a video of his comments before tweeting: “This is Israel’s Bloody Sunday.”

I know, the Bono thing was really badly researched. Have they missed the whole Zombie discourse?!

gauging the republic's national mood by reading Alec Baldwin tweets 🤡

I missed the Zombie thing because I despise rugby, but presume it's bad because it's another band with no lived experience of The Troubles expressing similar unhelpful bulshit to what the grandstanding moron Bongo frequently did on stage.

zombie is just a spoooooky halloween song thats all

'im going to eat your brains' (guitar solo)

popular in blackrock

Iirc it was about the both sidesing of the Troubles when the lyrics literally reference the tanks of the British army, as though the two were equivalently resourced and supported institutionally…but plax might remember better

xp I resent that as a former blackrock resident (for a year)

i think it's about seals honking

But yeah I guess I’m referring to partitionist thinking. I’m not sure I ever saw the “glorious” 7th & its effects on Irish in the north portrayed in something mainstream until Derry Girls did it. Like hey, the Irish in the north literally flee the place to avoid the supremacism, you’d think that might be a conversation point at some stage?!

Glorious 12th. I don’t know why I said 7th, except my cat bunted my phone as he wants to sit on my lap but I have coffee.

I don’t know how foreign viewers saw it but obviously if you know, you know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7meZZeYllo

It’s just the fellas that burn our flag and posters of politicians, nbd nbd nbd

I've never had any idea what Zombie, mainly because I've never been able to listen to more than three seconds of it, so I didn't realize it mentioned 1916.

funny how that clip ends with a snippet of the cranberries

https://theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/13/ireland-embrace-zombie-song-rugby-world-cup-stirs-debate-lyrics ofc it was rugby heads to blame

Whoever recorded this deserves a full reception at the Arás

https://on.soundcloud.com/2j6up

Truly one of our greatest heroes. See also: https://m.soundcloud.com/waalstepofficial/when-youre-in-irish-class-and-you-get-an-idea-ft-irish-aural-guy-full-version

well lads

well

Not great is it

not great

been simmering a while

my mates wife followed home by a prominent far right activist in recent months and gardai action v limited

look i know its not in site character to request a baton charge but

lol. Mutual of mine on Twitter doxxed by fascists the other day. It’s quite a thing to see stuff like this and think, hmm maybe I don’t really know how safe things will be moving home 🤙🏻 feels great

it is tbh a v limited set pf action ito of proximity and occurrence

i think we'll wait to see how justice apparatus reacts to this first

i think covid was a marked lapse in how the state reacted to this shittier gurrier et al element

I don’t know that it is, they’ve been banging on the door an awful long time now

well there's the rise of yer anti-immigrant loopers but there's also the general bleak, hopeless vibes that have permeated the city since covid

im not _that_ sure tbf

I'm in temple bar was thinking to go out shortly and have a look

I suspect it will have none of the carnivalesque atmosphere of London 2011

Can't even begin to imagine how annoying liveline will be tomorrow

I'm in temple bar was thinking to go out shortly and have a look

I suspect it will have none of the carnivalesque atmosphere of London 2011

xp and not to fuckin as much as drop a line mind u

this better not be because of hitchcock

Plax will you finally be home at the same time as me is the important q

along with “Why voluntarily go to Temple Bar”

I'm temporarily living in temple bar

They just chased a lot of 'gurriers' past Dublin castle

sorry

sorry now

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why would the coincidental colocation of a half tan be the important q' here?