Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉
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He's fucking Mosley, cosying up to Hitler. But Mosley was cossetted by the right wing press too.
The fact that Labour refuses to hit Farage, and instead try to outflank him from the right, shows either their ineptitude or their resignation to holding power for a single term
Labour should go in all guns blazing on this. All but call him a traitor. Deliberately ignore his subsequent "BUT Greenlanders should choose" weasel words and don't give him space to repeat them. This will and should stick on him
January 22, 2026 at 8:40 AM
He's fucking Mosley, cosying up to Hitler. But Mosley was cossetted by the right wing press too.
At a showing of Bringing up Baby in Cottage Rd our great local cinema. They have Labyrinth on next, and our MC introduced it by saying it stars 'Jennifer Connolly who was 16 at the time, now 55, and David Bowie who's dead at the moment '
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 PM
At a showing of Bringing up Baby in Cottage Rd our great local cinema. They have Labyrinth on next, and our MC introduced it by saying it stars 'Jennifer Connolly who was 16 at the time, now 55, and David Bowie who's dead at the moment '
The problem has been America as a whole long before Trump.
Do the Newsoms of this world realise how this type of comment drives us Europeans mad with frustration and anger and reinforces our growing perception that the problem is not just Trump, but America as a whole?
January 21, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The problem has been America as a whole long before Trump.
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Hey, FFFG, have you considered improving the old public transport at all? www.thejournal.ie/dublin-traff...
Dublin is the third most congested city and sixth slowest city in the world for traffic
The latest research from Satnav company TomTom shows that the average speed during rush hour in Dublin is 13.5 km/h.
www.thejournal.ie
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Hey, FFFG, have you considered improving the old public transport at all? www.thejournal.ie/dublin-traff...
ICE vets 30 years from now
January 21, 2026 at 3:23 PM
ICE vets 30 years from now
They're all just having the worst Christmas dinner of their lives with senile racist grandad lectureing them for hours, and no food.
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM
They're all just having the worst Christmas dinner of their lives with senile racist grandad lectureing them for hours, and no food.
He is, actually, tilting at windmills. Donald Quixote (I'm sure I'm the 97th person to say this)
Trump: "There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place. And they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing. I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China."
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
He is, actually, tilting at windmills. Donald Quixote (I'm sure I'm the 97th person to say this)
How about 'axis powers'?
Pay-to-play Dark UN
BBC News reports that Netanyahu is joining Trumps 'board of peace'
They could have mentioned that Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes that include using starvation as a method of war, directing attacks against civilians, & extermination as a crime against humanity. But they didnt
They could have mentioned that Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes that include using starvation as a method of war, directing attacks against civilians, & extermination as a crime against humanity. But they didnt
January 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
How about 'axis powers'?
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What did we think Trump was going to do, if Europe showed him we would fully collaborate on the total destruction of the Gaza Strip and ferociously repeat even the most absurd lies about it to our citizens? Did we think he would decide: best to not push the law breaking and war crimes, be sensible.
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 AM
What did we think Trump was going to do, if Europe showed him we would fully collaborate on the total destruction of the Gaza Strip and ferociously repeat even the most absurd lies about it to our citizens? Did we think he would decide: best to not push the law breaking and war crimes, be sensible.
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
'Rejoice Kinsale, thy help is near!'
'Rejoice Kinsale, thy help is near!'
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“You pack a lot of wit and/or wisdom into a little room.”
“You pack a lot of wit and/or wisdom into a little room.”
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“Speaking to Melody Maker in January 1978 Howard said, ‘I was a bit bored with music that went blam-blam-blam. And I was especially bored when I turned round and saw fifty other groups playing music that went blam-blam-blam.’”
“Speaking to Melody Maker in January 1978 Howard said, ‘I was a bit bored with music that went blam-blam-blam. And I was especially bored when I turned round and saw fifty other groups playing music that went blam-blam-blam.’”
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
'Rejoice Kinsale, thy help is near!'
'Rejoice Kinsale, thy help is near!'
Newsom has some neck coming to Europe and telling us Trump is our problem. No mate, yours to get rid of, and not with your attempts at wit.
January 20, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Newsom has some neck coming to Europe and telling us Trump is our problem. No mate, yours to get rid of, and not with your attempts at wit.
It's your job to get rid of him Newsom, not ours.
I've said it before, but it's time for leaders to start adopting silly high-pitched voices and gurning expressions at these events. A whole room full of high-level leaders and journalists fawning while adopting the voices of Donald and Davey Stott, and saying "It's my normal voice!" if challenged.
Gov. Newsom at Davos rips into world leaders who think they can appease Trump: “I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.…this is pathetic”
January 20, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It's your job to get rid of him Newsom, not ours.
Is Trump speaking at Davos? Can just one person boo him?
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Is Trump speaking at Davos? Can just one person boo him?
Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Trump is next level.
January 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Trump is next level.
I regret to tell you we have now arrived at the point where we are forced to agree with Michael O'Leary.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO ‘an idiot’
Tesla boss clashed with Michael O’Leary when airline boss rejected installing Starlink technology on aircraft
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I regret to tell you we have now arrived at the point where we are forced to agree with Michael O'Leary.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
While we're all complaining about AI and student assignments, can I offer the example of the student who presented their essay on post-punk as a fanzine and went to the trouble of photocopying the photocopy to get that authentic late '70s look. Footnotes look weird in a 'zine, mind ...
January 20, 2026 at 3:21 PM
While we're all complaining about AI and student assignments, can I offer the example of the student who presented their essay on post-punk as a fanzine and went to the trouble of photocopying the photocopy to get that authentic late '70s look. Footnotes look weird in a 'zine, mind ...
Important question.
Linguistsky, has anyone encountered a name for the "menty b" "sunny d" style abbreviation yet?
Immediately I was reminded of the cost of living crisis being called "cozzie livs" and general elections being called "genny lecs"
My question is: does this style of abbreviation have a name? Where two words become... tooey wuz?
My question is: does this style of abbreviation have a name? Where two words become... tooey wuz?
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Important question.
FIFA - never not doing exactly the wrong thing.
On the subject of World Cup boycotts, this is a story which ought to be much better known: why African countries decided not to compete for a place at the 1966 tournament. One of Fifa's most shameful moments, which hardly ever gets a mention.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...
How Africa boycotted the 1966 World Cup
The BBC's Piers Edwards explains the little-known story behind the African boycott to the 1966 World Cup, the only World Cup in history to have been snubbed by an entire continent.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 12:03 PM
FIFA - never not doing exactly the wrong thing.
Latest Lankum offshoot drops
Some tweets from my book on Fenianism and the peasantry.
January 20, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Latest Lankum offshoot drops
Trivial, but the Edward Boyle Library in our place universally referred to by students as Eddie B's
Good morning.
It has been brought to my attention that our neighbours across the eastern waves have taken to referring to a mental breakdown as a "menty b".
It has been brought to my attention that our neighbours across the eastern waves have taken to referring to a mental breakdown as a "menty b".
January 20, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Trivial, but the Edward Boyle Library in our place universally referred to by students as Eddie B's
RTÉ Archives | Society | Poor Housing Conditions In The Sixties share.google/DDCWdet4Lkcr...
January 19, 2026 at 10:06 PM
RTÉ Archives | Society | Poor Housing Conditions In The Sixties share.google/DDCWdet4Lkcr...
Not just America
January 19, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Not just America
New to me novelist, from a Jeremy Prynne tip off. Nicely absurd, a prose Ed Dorn...
January 19, 2026 at 8:24 PM
New to me novelist, from a Jeremy Prynne tip off. Nicely absurd, a prose Ed Dorn...
Cow brighten than US president.
Did a super-cow write this? "There is no suggestion that Veronika’s skills are evidence of the evolution of an ominous new species of super-cow"
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow brighten than US president.
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Reading a 1996 obituary for Marcello in Time:
“‘Mastroianni’ became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who’s been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him.”
“‘Mastroianni’ became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who’s been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him.”
January 19, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Reading a 1996 obituary for Marcello in Time:
“‘Mastroianni’ became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who’s been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him.”
“‘Mastroianni’ became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who’s been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him.”