I wonder does
@SarahAMcInerney
go home at night and recline on a chaise longue fashioned from the skulls of preposterous bloviating egomaniacs who crossed mics with her
Bizarre to hear of young men who can’t be arsed voting because it’s “a woman’s issue.”
Some Breaking News for you, lads
THE 👏🏻👏🏻EGGS 👏🏻👏🏻DON’T 👏🏻👏🏻 FERTILISE 👏🏻👏🏻THEMSELVES 👏🏻👏🏻
#8thRef
Chapeaux off to
@SarahAMcInerney
- she played an absolute blinder every day, but especially today amid the clatter of breaking news. A cool and class act from start to finish 👏🏻
Every time a British politician or journalist ignorantly calls the Republic of Ireland “the south” - as
#Marr
did while interviewing
@simoncoveney
- I’m tempted to start describing Britain as “the east”
#ffs
Hearing that Fianna Fáil has added Hannah Lemass, a great granddaughter of former taoiseach Sean Lemass, to its local election ticket in Dublin ward of Cabra-Glasnevin
Contraception ‘impinges on the dignity of women’, makes women less likely to resist unwanted sex, and leads them to support same sex relationships’! Meet Bishop Kevin Doran, the Pat Robertson of Ireland - neither of whom understand women or sexuality.
Irish media in UK media terms:
Irish Indo = Daily Express
Newstalk = Daily Express on radio
Irish Times = Telegraph
RTE = Telegraph on radio + TV
TheJournal = CTRL+C 😂
#GE2020
Me, an Irishperson, hiding under the bed:
Armed robber:
Me:
Armed robber:
Me:
Armed robber (in plummy Brit accent): “The backstop is undemocratic and alternative arrangements...”
Me: *IT’S AN INSURANCE POLICY. AND IT WAS YIZZER FUCKEN IDEA
The high moral ground, currently occupied by a stampede of self-righteous Greens, will be a chilly spot when pissed-off voters take their business elsewhere next time
Senior hurling, my hat. A self-destructive shemozzle in the political parallelogram
Watched a fellow hack interview a mourner at the Big Tom funeral yesterday.
“Can I get your full name please?” he asked the woman politely
“Philomena Begley,” said she
Dubs, eh. You can’t take us anywhere 🤠
Holy shit. Katie Porter holds the CDC Director's feet to the fire and gets him to commit to FREE TESTING for coronavirus for ALL AMERICANS.
Watch every second of this.
“I’m not getting into the facts,” Danny Healy Rae tells
@MiriamOCal
when asked about the CSO figs that remittances from Ireland to Nigeria is €17m pa
Indeed
Feckin facts, wha’?
💯 “The problem is not Biden’s anti-Britishness. It is those who think celebrating Irishness is the same as demeaning Britishness; that no one could possibly love both; that in this world, diplomacy is a zero-sum game”
Stood on a Manhattan street 19 years ago and watched the towers fall.
So much tragedy, so much bravery.
Soul a little soothed this morning by the beauty of Kerry
#911Remembered
I’m not interested in any statues in our towns or cities being torn down.
What I do really really want is....
More 👏🏻statues 👏🏻of 👏🏻strong 👏🏻clever 👏🏻courageous 👏🏻creative 👏🏻pioneering 👏🏻mighty 👏🏻 Irishwomen 👏🏻to 👏🏻be 👏🏻ERECTED ✊🏻
Apologies for the below tweet. I meant “was there ever a more ignorant pigshit-thick dangerous dog-whistling total spanner than
@elonmusk
”
Forgot to include the dog-whistling bit
Dáithí a chara, after
#Brexit
happens, Hiberno-English takes over as the official language of the EU.
Regarding your tweet, may I refer you to words such as gobshite, gobdaw, gombeen, shitehawk, amadán, flute, ludraman and gowl.
Just had conversation with a British couple who have a holiday home near us. They voted for Brexit and have made no arrangements whatsoever for what happens on Jan 1. They have now discovered the reality of their situation.
The blame apparently is with "Brussels".
My Jaysis. A ghost from my rocker past rises to greet me.
Interviewed
@U2
Edge there one afternoon whilst in the grip of a savage hangover. Thought I hid it well, until he got up and went to the bar, kindly suggesting, “You look like you could do with a pint.” Hero 🎸
Would you ever get a grip
@washingtonpost
Debbie Harry was never “just a pretty blonde in tight pants”
So in your book did
@springsteen
have to prove he was “more than a working-class boy with a great arse in a pair of jeans”, yeah?
#gobdaws
🤡
Ah yes. The same charming chap who remarked on-air that I “must be an easy lay” after I wrote an article about taking responsibility for my contraception by owning condoms
Sin é. The guns in Ireland’s bitterest legislative war have finally fallen silent.
Passed in Seanad by 27 votes to 5 the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 en route to Áras.
Abortion now legal in the Republic of Ireland
#legis18
Britain's former Prime Minister Theresa May leaves parliament after a cross-party alliance defeated Boris Johnson in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement. Read more: 📷 Henry Nicholls
The wonderful Julie who works in Leinster House restaurant just revealed on
@RyanTubridyShow
the best fact ever: that Charlie Haughey liked to have his grapes polished (not a euphemism)
An emotional Cllr Jimmy Guerin has lambasted Gemma O’Doherty - who is a no-show at
@Fingalcoco
over allegations she made about the murder of his sister Veronica
#Aras18
Swing Gate, Votegate, Fobgate, TDs obliged to return expenses, unsavoury outbursts by sitting TD Noel Grealish and wannabe TD Verona Murphy, the Oireachtas printer and Dara ‘Trotters in Trough’ Murphy
No wonder voters couldn’t be arsed with by-elections
When I’m idle after
#ge2020
think I’ll compile a Handy Hiberno-English guide for the befuddled Brussels bureaucrats.
Send me your deadliest words, like the decent skins yiz are, please and thank you 🙏🏻
#HandyGuide
Anyone who missed this searing interview on
@morningireland
with Mahbooba Seraj, the voice of the Afghan Women's Network in Kabul should take a listen. Yet another reminder that women and children are inevitably the real frontline in every conflict
"As soon as you put a hard border back in again... you undermine the basis of the Good Friday Agreement."
Jonathan Powell, chief government negotiator in Northern Ireland 1997-2007, explains why the Irish backstop matters
WATCH:
#newsnight
|
@maitlis
Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan says he is taking time out from work commitments to be with his family. A plan has been put in place for others to take over responsibility for different aspects of his role. Dr Ronan Glynn will take over as acting Chief Medical Officer
How refreshing to see political acumen at work.
@PresidentIRL
1. Saw a political landmine before it exploded
2. Weighed up the pros and cons
3. Made his decision
4. Explained his decision
5. Is sticking to his decision
PS. John Briton, oops, Bruton is a gom
First time in a long time that breaking news relating to American politics doesn’t make me want to punch a wall or howl at the heavens
#Kamala
#HopeAndHarris
Great speech by
@realDonaldTrump
, strikes the right tone. Pays great respect to the memory of
#GeorgeFloyd
. Enacts the right and only decision capable of protecting innocent life and property. In a word, Presidential.
Mansion House packed with football people to discuss how to reform
@FAIreland
following recent controversies involving ex-CEO John Delaney
#footballforum
Everyone deserves a little fun in life, even stray dogs. Eugene Bostick, an 80-year-old retiree, noticed that people were abandoning their elderly dogs near his his barn in Texas so he took them in, built a train to take them out on excursions and the rest is history!! ❤ ❤ 🐾
One evening in Toner’s Paddy Murray was getting his round in. It was a large Tribune crew and the order was sizeable. Ten pints of Guinness. Paddy’s face lit up. “The perfect round,” he declared happily
#PintForPaddy