Darach Ó Séaghdha
@darach.bsky.social
That @theirishfor guy. Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him.
I used to think climate change driven by human activity was a real thing, an urgent issue of our time. Then I saw this high quality "meme" from this century's Jimmy Cricket.
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I used to think climate change driven by human activity was a real thing, an urgent issue of our time. Then I saw this high quality "meme" from this century's Jimmy Cricket.
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I can see why he needed Twink for punching up gags.
Eoghan: Want a Mars bar?
Me: I don't know, Eoghan, is this a very laboured metaphor for Northern Ireland?
Eoghan: just answer the question!
Me: I don't know, Eoghan, is this a very laboured metaphor for Northern Ireland?
Eoghan: just answer the question!
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I can see why he needed Twink for punching up gags.
Editor: Sarah, that was the president on the phone. Your article... it fixed all the young people in Ireland! They're not angry anymore, they reject the empty promises of socialist gaeilgeoir "woke" republicanism. Truly amazing writing!
Sarah: well, I do know how to write stuff coherently!
Sarah: well, I do know how to write stuff coherently!
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Editor: Sarah, that was the president on the phone. Your article... it fixed all the young people in Ireland! They're not angry anymore, they reject the empty promises of socialist gaeilgeoir "woke" republicanism. Truly amazing writing!
Sarah: well, I do know how to write stuff coherently!
Sarah: well, I do know how to write stuff coherently!
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Incredible how this metaphor doesn’t work on any level
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Incredible how this metaphor doesn’t work on any level
Hey Robert, do you want to go to the zoo?
No thanks, I've just eaten.
No thanks, I've just eaten.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Hey Robert, do you want to go to the zoo?
No thanks, I've just eaten.
No thanks, I've just eaten.
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"What are you gonna do - stab me?"
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"What are you gonna do - stab me?"
If the snappy dialogue from the West Wing that didn't make the final cut is this good, the finished show must be spectacular!
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If the snappy dialogue from the West Wing that didn't make the final cut is this good, the finished show must be spectacular!
Eoghan: Want a Mars bar?
Me: I don't know, Eoghan, is this a very laboured metaphor for Northern Ireland?
Eoghan: just answer the question!
Me: I don't know, Eoghan, is this a very laboured metaphor for Northern Ireland?
Eoghan: just answer the question!
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Eoghan: Want a Mars bar?
Me: I don't know, Eoghan, is this a very laboured metaphor for Northern Ireland?
Eoghan: just answer the question!
Me: I don't know, Eoghan, is this a very laboured metaphor for Northern Ireland?
Eoghan: just answer the question!
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Stabbee getting the giggles in the lower pic.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Stabbee getting the giggles in the lower pic.
When you have a little rant about an annoying trend in publishing... and it backfires spectacularly.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
When you have a little rant about an annoying trend in publishing... and it backfires spectacularly.
Male and female stabbing styles.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Male and female stabbing styles.
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Temperature of this dish: ice cold.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Temperature of this dish: ice cold.
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Legitimate change to consumer law: reintroduce the clause where a ‘discounted’ price can only be advertised if the previous ‘higher’ price was charged for a minimum period of time, e.g. 30 days of previous 90
While they’re at it:
Ban ‘Black Friday’ promotions ending before Black Friday occurs
While they’re at it:
Ban ‘Black Friday’ promotions ending before Black Friday occurs
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Legitimate change to consumer law: reintroduce the clause where a ‘discounted’ price can only be advertised if the previous ‘higher’ price was charged for a minimum period of time, e.g. 30 days of previous 90
While they’re at it:
Ban ‘Black Friday’ promotions ending before Black Friday occurs
While they’re at it:
Ban ‘Black Friday’ promotions ending before Black Friday occurs
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Saw some abysmal takes in the wild
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Saw some abysmal takes in the wild
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Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
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new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
@lisehand.bsky.social you probably don't remember writing this, you must have been on work experience from school or something.
In 1988, the Sindo ran a piece on Púiríní, an Irish language show for young people, and the introduction talked about how attitudes to Gaeilge were changing. It was trendy now.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@lisehand.bsky.social you probably don't remember writing this, you must have been on work experience from school or something.
This article glances over issues with a number of European minority languages so I don't want to get pissy about it not getting the story of Irish exactly right.
Having said that, the "Irish is cool now" trope is about 40 years old! We need to break up with it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Having said that, the "Irish is cool now" trope is about 40 years old! We need to break up with it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future | Stephen Burgen
What does it mean to lose a language, and what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently, says freelance writer Stephen Burgen
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This article glances over issues with a number of European minority languages so I don't want to get pissy about it not getting the story of Irish exactly right.
Having said that, the "Irish is cool now" trope is about 40 years old! We need to break up with it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Having said that, the "Irish is cool now" trope is about 40 years old! We need to break up with it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Can we not just offer to write off Enoch Burke's court fines if he agrees to stand outside the Kremlin every day for the next 2 years? We'd never see another Russian ship in Irish waters again
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Can we not just offer to write off Enoch Burke's court fines if he agrees to stand outside the Kremlin every day for the next 2 years? We'd never see another Russian ship in Irish waters again
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I feel a contrarian instinct arise in me when I see suggestions for politicians and poets for this.
This is an opportunity to make famous those who'll be too easily forgotten, who had more direct roles in the science and magic of flight. Lemass and Joyce will get their boats and bridges in the end.
This is an opportunity to make famous those who'll be too easily forgotten, who had more direct roles in the science and magic of flight. Lemass and Joyce will get their boats and bridges in the end.
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I feel a contrarian instinct arise in me when I see suggestions for politicians and poets for this.
This is an opportunity to make famous those who'll be too easily forgotten, who had more direct roles in the science and magic of flight. Lemass and Joyce will get their boats and bridges in the end.
This is an opportunity to make famous those who'll be too easily forgotten, who had more direct roles in the science and magic of flight. Lemass and Joyce will get their boats and bridges in the end.
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Go n-éirí go geal leis an bhfeachtas! #DisposeWithDignity #TharAm
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/pros...
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/pros...
Prostate cancer survivor backs campaign for sanitary bins in men’s toilets | BreakingNews
Gerry Connolly shared his story as part of Dispose With Dignity.
www.breakingnews.ie
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Go n-éirí go geal leis an bhfeachtas! #DisposeWithDignity #TharAm
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/pros...
www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/pros...
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C'mon Darach, we're all here giving it "Airport McAirportface" and you're here with your smug and wonderful actual answer 🙄
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
C'mon Darach, we're all here giving it "Airport McAirportface" and you're here with your smug and wonderful actual answer 🙄
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It took 7 yrs to find a publisher for my 1st novel because young women writers in the early 2000s weren't currency. Finally a balancing out & the menz are unhappy. Good points here:
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated
As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem ...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It took 7 yrs to find a publisher for my 1st novel because young women writers in the early 2000s weren't currency. Finally a balancing out & the menz are unhappy. Good points here:
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
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Strong endorse. This would be rad as hell.
It has to be named after Maureen Sweeney, the Irish meteorologist who gave the Allies a critical weather report before D Day.
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Strong endorse. This would be rad as hell.
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PREACH.
It has to be named after Maureen Sweeney, the Irish meteorologist who gave the Allies a critical weather report before D Day.
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
Irish aviation history and meteorological history are intimately linked, and we're a Republic - we don't name things after Taoisigh here (except in Cork).
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
PREACH.