Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜
@shaneconneely.bsky.social
Overly ernest; Policy nerd; Award winning writer;
That fucking guy 🙄
Take your pick
That fucking guy 🙄
Take your pick
The one billion is a figure from before COVID (when the publicly acknowledged number was €250 million). So probably somewhere north of €2B now.
Imagine what kind of luas system you could put into the city for a quarter of that.
Imagine what kind of luas system you could put into the city for a quarter of that.
Major public transport projects at risk as Govt priority shifts to roads; funding committed to Galway’s second ring road with “€1bn+” cost
Under pressure from rural TDs supporting it, the Government is shifting its transport spending priorities from sustainable transport to road building -- the…
Under pressure from rural TDs supporting it, the Government is shifting its transport spending priorities from sustainable transport to road building -- the…
Major public transport projects at risk as Govt priority shifts to roads; funding committed to Galway’s second ring road with “€1bn+” cost
Under pressure from rural TDs supporting it, the Government is shifting its transport spending priorities from sustainable transport to road building -- the funding ratio between public transport and roads is set to change from 2:1 to close to 1:1. Between 2026 and 2030, public transport is expected to get €10.1 billion, while roads is to get €9.7 billion, while active travel and greenways are expected to get €1.8 billion.
irishcycle.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The one billion is a figure from before COVID (when the publicly acknowledged number was €250 million). So probably somewhere north of €2B now.
Imagine what kind of luas system you could put into the city for a quarter of that.
Imagine what kind of luas system you could put into the city for a quarter of that.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Another instance of copying British policy without any reference to how well things are going over there.
We do it on housing, on education, social welfare, privatisation etc. just with a lag that ranges from months to decades.
And never with an eye towards how those policies are working out
We do it on housing, on education, social welfare, privatisation etc. just with a lag that ranges from months to decades.
And never with an eye towards how those policies are working out
Sweeping changes to Ireland’s migration and asylum system have been set out by the government, including significant new restrictions on family reunification rights and citizenship applications.
Major changes to asylum, citizenship and family reunification unveiled
Sweeping changes to Ireland’s migration and asylum system have been set out by the government, including significant new restrictions on family reunification rights and citizenship applications.
www.irishlegal.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Another instance of copying British policy without any reference to how well things are going over there.
We do it on housing, on education, social welfare, privatisation etc. just with a lag that ranges from months to decades.
And never with an eye towards how those policies are working out
We do it on housing, on education, social welfare, privatisation etc. just with a lag that ranges from months to decades.
And never with an eye towards how those policies are working out
I've had more than one lecturer over the years tell a class that they had a book which was a good match for the course, but that we should not buy it, because only Elsevier would benefit from that.
And then they'd helpfully point out that there are websites where it can be found.
open-slum.org
And then they'd helpfully point out that there are websites where it can be found.
open-slum.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I've had more than one lecturer over the years tell a class that they had a book which was a good match for the course, but that we should not buy it, because only Elsevier would benefit from that.
And then they'd helpfully point out that there are websites where it can be found.
open-slum.org
And then they'd helpfully point out that there are websites where it can be found.
open-slum.org
And rakes of people see apparitions on toast.
Scientists say it's time to consider whether we should tell the people who really believe it's Jesus on the toast that they're dumber than bottled shite.
Scientists say it's time to consider whether we should tell the people who really believe it's Jesus on the toast that they're dumber than bottled shite.
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
And rakes of people see apparitions on toast.
Scientists say it's time to consider whether we should tell the people who really believe it's Jesus on the toast that they're dumber than bottled shite.
Scientists say it's time to consider whether we should tell the people who really believe it's Jesus on the toast that they're dumber than bottled shite.
The grave issue here is that the only credible threat to Ireland comes from our rapidly destabilising nearest neighbour.
I can see why lots of countries that were invaded by Russia want to be part of Nato now.
But I'm just not sure whom can we join forces with for our problems.
I can see why lots of countries that were invaded by Russia want to be part of Nato now.
But I'm just not sure whom can we join forces with for our problems.
Despite these high stakes, Ireland has no dedicated intelligence agency, just four working navy vessels and the smallest defence budget in the EU. In fact, the only thing the Irish navy can do when it spots a suspicious ship lurking is say “hello”.
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The grave issue here is that the only credible threat to Ireland comes from our rapidly destabilising nearest neighbour.
I can see why lots of countries that were invaded by Russia want to be part of Nato now.
But I'm just not sure whom can we join forces with for our problems.
I can see why lots of countries that were invaded by Russia want to be part of Nato now.
But I'm just not sure whom can we join forces with for our problems.
The only thing that might get me to buy the Sunday Independent is if they did a full spread on Ireland's 15 least sympathetic households (who just happen to be the Dartmouth Sq residents who are objecting to the Metro being built).
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The only thing that might get me to buy the Sunday Independent is if they did a full spread on Ireland's 15 least sympathetic households (who just happen to be the Dartmouth Sq residents who are objecting to the Metro being built).
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Where Irish_Patriot_1916 blue ✔️ accounts on twitter are based
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November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Where Irish_Patriot_1916 blue ✔️ accounts on twitter are based
youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?...
youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?...
As someone who's been trying to lift files off old hard drives with bad sectors for an older friend of mine recently..... Do make sure you have copies, and backups.
Noting exists digitally unless you've three copies
Noting exists digitally unless you've three copies
I'll add academics, writers, and anyone else who relies on their local files. I've had laptops self-destruct the evening before leaving on an international flight for fieldwork in a low-tech area. A quick laptop purchase, then my backed-up files on thumb drives (expensive at the time) saved me.
Unsolicited artist advice of the day: if you're a freelancer with no back up devices or storage, remember to pick a few things up in the black Friday sales. Even a pen drive to back up your projects so if you have a catastrophic hard drive failure you wont lose everything..learn from my mistakes. 😅
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
As someone who's been trying to lift files off old hard drives with bad sectors for an older friend of mine recently..... Do make sure you have copies, and backups.
Noting exists digitally unless you've three copies
Noting exists digitally unless you've three copies
Starting to think that the chinless wonder with daddy/abandonment issues might not be a great guide for relationship advice
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Starting to think that the chinless wonder with daddy/abandonment issues might not be a great guide for relationship advice
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
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I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.
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Nothing but respect for our foxy brethren
Residents of a south Dublin housing estate are trying to uncover the cause of damage to around 40 cars which has resulted in repair bills totalling tens of thousands of euro
Foxes in south Dublin estate accused of damaging cars
Residents of a south Dublin housing estate are trying to uncover the cause of damage to around 40 cars which has resulted in repair bills of totalling tens of thousands of euro.
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Nothing but respect for our foxy brethren
It's something that I talk about with my pals but I never hear talked about in general - my world was unimaginably more violent when I was a kid.
And I don't mean getting smacked - though my most 80s memory was watching a 5y.o. get kicked and slapped down an aisle of Dunnes Stores in Kilinarden.
And I don't mean getting smacked - though my most 80s memory was watching a 5y.o. get kicked and slapped down an aisle of Dunnes Stores in Kilinarden.
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's something that I talk about with my pals but I never hear talked about in general - my world was unimaginably more violent when I was a kid.
And I don't mean getting smacked - though my most 80s memory was watching a 5y.o. get kicked and slapped down an aisle of Dunnes Stores in Kilinarden.
And I don't mean getting smacked - though my most 80s memory was watching a 5y.o. get kicked and slapped down an aisle of Dunnes Stores in Kilinarden.
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I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social can I drop you (an entirely professional) dm? I've a question for you
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
@nualaoconnor.bsky.social can I drop you (an entirely professional) dm? I've a question for you
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Dick Dastardly's dog wasn't well so he borrowed another one. It wasn't *exactly* the same, but it was a proxy Muttley.
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Dick Dastardly's dog wasn't well so he borrowed another one. It wasn't *exactly* the same, but it was a proxy Muttley.
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One of our Sheela-na-gigs is now on display at @immaireland.bsky.social. This piece from Seir Kieran, Co. Offaly (2206:W13) features in Cecilia Vicuña’s Reverse Migration Exhibition, on view until 5 July 2026.
Explore more online:
#SheelaNaGig #IMMA #IrishArt www.museum.ie/en-ie/collec...
Explore more online:
#SheelaNaGig #IMMA #IrishArt www.museum.ie/en-ie/collec...
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of our Sheela-na-gigs is now on display at @immaireland.bsky.social. This piece from Seir Kieran, Co. Offaly (2206:W13) features in Cecilia Vicuña’s Reverse Migration Exhibition, on view until 5 July 2026.
Explore more online:
#SheelaNaGig #IMMA #IrishArt www.museum.ie/en-ie/collec...
Explore more online:
#SheelaNaGig #IMMA #IrishArt www.museum.ie/en-ie/collec...
I was once ambivalent about youth voting. Then I did some research into the resistance towards women getting the vote.
Every argument I encountered regarding how women were unsuited to voting was an argument that I'd seen applied to younger people, and with equal validity.
Every argument I encountered regarding how women were unsuited to voting was an argument that I'd seen applied to younger people, and with equal validity.
Incredible that it’s always the parties that you could count their youth vote on your fingers that have this position.
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I was once ambivalent about youth voting. Then I did some research into the resistance towards women getting the vote.
Every argument I encountered regarding how women were unsuited to voting was an argument that I'd seen applied to younger people, and with equal validity.
Every argument I encountered regarding how women were unsuited to voting was an argument that I'd seen applied to younger people, and with equal validity.
Jaysus, the ads situation on the YouTube app has become so intolerable that I've had to delete the thing. God be with the days when people didn't look at brand value as something to mine for Q4 revenue growth.
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Jaysus, the ads situation on the YouTube app has become so intolerable that I've had to delete the thing. God be with the days when people didn't look at brand value as something to mine for Q4 revenue growth.
"Let's go dig up Maggie's grave and ask her where the drink went"
Despite some very stiff challenges the privatisation of water was probably the most disastrous policy of the past 50 years
We really do need to start sending Ministers to prison.
We really do need to start sending Ministers to prison.
November 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"Let's go dig up Maggie's grave and ask her where the drink went"
If it wasn't in earnest this would be a god-tier shitpost
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If it wasn't in earnest this would be a god-tier shitpost
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Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland.
What a country.
What a country.
President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end.
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president.
#VMNews
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland.
What a country.
What a country.
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On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.
Client confidentiality...
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?
‘Golden rule’ - Ivan Yates cites client confidentiality as reason he didn’t disclose media training of presidential candidate Jim Gavin
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Client confidentiality reason for non-disclosure - Yates
Former broadcaster Ivan Yates has said client confidentiality was the reason he did not disclose the fact that he gave media training to former presidential candidate Jim Gavin.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Client confidentiality...
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?
I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account.
I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?