"There is a palpable sense of danger in Ireland at this moment. Immigrants to Ireland will tell you this. Emigrants who have recently returned to their home shores will tell you this."
Wrote this about Newtownmountkennedy and the upcoming elections.
We all talk a lot about how Google search doesn’t work anymore but Spotify disemboweling the meaning of the word “shuffle” actually frustrates me on a more primal level.
Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along.
The Duolingo owl and the Hooters owl are brothers. One chose the path of knowledge. The other, the path of jumbo bazoingas, short shorts and chicken wings. An unbridgeable schism. A tale as old as time.
With a click of their fingers, TWO French billionaires have given €300million to restore Notre Dame. Just imagine if billionaires cared as much about uhhhh human people.
WATERGATE GUY: you need to make sure my identity stays a secret
WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN: that's fine we'll just use a codename.
WATERGATE GUY: oh yeah like what?
WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN: oh just something normal
Michael Lewis, the writer behind The Big Short, has been traveling with Sam Bankman-Fried for the last 6 months is writing his next book on the FTX founder, per Bloomberg.
FRANZ FERDINAND: do they remember me
ME: *encouragingly* sort of. There’s a band named after you.
FRANZ FERDINAND: are they good
ME: *encouragingly* sort of
just saw a magpie and my mam goes “one in sight is worth two in flight” goddamn how many fuckin rules do these birds have. an entire fuckin constitution
I always love the “getting the gang back together” parts of a movie. I would watch a movie that’s just two hours of getting the gang back together and that’s it.
we build an 'unsinkable' cruise liner, then crash it into an iceberg in 1912, so we can sell tickets for a makeshift submersible to visit the wreckage 4000m below sea level, and then when it goes missing, we use the publicity to get free Blink 182 tickets
French Goalkeeper Steve Mandanda has a brother called Parfait Mandanda. Meaning that their parents called one of their children Perfect, and the other one Steve.
Boston Market tweeted this and the entire thread below is just them hiding replies of people sending pictures of a man fucking a raw chicken. The brands get what they deserve.
Marko Arnautovic is a great example of what you can achieve when you hate every manager you play for, every team you play for, all your teammates, and the very idea of football.
IRELAND: we’ll be speeding up the reopening process starting today
WEATHER: oh will ya? have some thunder, lightning and hail in the middle of June ya stupid cunt
In honor of a Steve Sondheim’s birthday this weekend... Ronan will kill me for this but here he is as a teenager singing a little Not While I’m Around” - the song i used to sing to him when he was little.
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for
@POTUS
and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
Honestly I can't get my head around the government voting to give three of its ministers, already on €124,000 a year, a €16,000 pay increase. I just can't get my head around it. It's so deeply and comically and villainously unfair.
I hate when a TV show starts a new season by introducing a new character we've never met before because it's almost NEVER Desmond from Lost. It's only ever been him ONCE (Lost, Season 2)
this is such a funny tweet. “300,000 people have enjoyed the traffic free streets, it’s been a major success and everyone loves it! we are terminating it with immediate effect”
Over the last 11 weeks, more than 300,000 people have experienced the traffic-free streets of Capel St & Parliament St. This weekend is the final scheduled weekend so be sure to check it out!
#Dublin
#CityRecovery
#Pedestrianisation
KENDALL ROY: yeah so we’re going totally fucking Goblin Mode here guys *answers phone* uh hey dad, uh yeah, yeah I thought maybe it would be good to go Goblin Mode. uh-huh, uh-huh, no, yeah, you’re right
@annefcirl
The Pavillions SC Swords. Centre Manager dismissed my concerns. When I said I wanted to make a complaint he replied saying well you have. Didn't take name or number
Ireland being free to condemn Israeli actions in Gaza, out of step with the EU at large, is a pretty firm reminder of why our neutrality matters so much, btw. We simply don't hold the same attitudes as many of the nations it's suggested we should ally with, militarily.
#PrincePhilip
clearly in very poor health hence the transfer to St Bart's a specialist cardiac hospital.
#HarryandMeghanonOprah
should think very carefully about the timing of the release of that 'no holds barred' interview
- They're apartments, not houses.
- There will be 1,269 apartments.
- Only 126 (10%) of them will be social housing.
- The social housing will cost €243,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, just over €358,500 for a two-bed, and €442,000 for a three-bed.
- It's still not built.
We're about five minutes away from Stephen Donnelly announcing that all of our vaccines were being stored on the big ship stuck in the Suez Canal for some reason.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Djokovic case, Australia’s reputation as a laidback “no worries mate” lucky country has been shredded by the pandemic.
You won, New Zealand. Enjoy the normal society, I hope it makes you very happy. Dear lord, what a sad little life, New Zealand. You've ruined my night completely.
A long-term goal of mine has been to lead a disinformation campaign which claims that the Luas is free until enough people believe it that they have no choice but to give in and make the Luas is free. So if anyone ever asks you, remember: the Luas is free.
EXCLUSIVE: A new Popeye movie is in development from screenwriter Michael Caleo ("Sexy Beast," "The Family").
This will be the first live-action revisiting of the character since Robert Altman's 1980 film "Popeye," led by Robin Williams.
[ROALD DAHL TO QUENTIN BLAKE] hey I’ve written these magical children’s books, could you maybe illustrate them with the most off-putting drawings in the world?