Roibeárd Meillear
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Roibeárd Meillear
@beaniebob.bsky.social
Accidental Anarchist. Retired journalist and NUJ Life member but still a union activist. Garage artist just for the joy of it. Stout drinker again just for the joy of it. Ex-rugby union player. For my sins in a past/current life still a ManU fan.
The Catherine Connolly Column marches on in 2025
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Feckity, feckity, feck: The beard, beanie and I are not impressed with this dry hacking cough and buzzing headache.
October 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Please donate
October 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The new Messiah?
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This matters to everyone

If police admit spying on journalists in Northern Ireland then you can be sure as bears s..t in the woods then trade union and labour/community activists will be scrutinised by nefarious means.
October 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Solidarity
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What the DUP Lord Weir of Ballyhome said this morning about Starmer.
October 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
As another journalist is spied on in NI we need to ask what the cops and MI5 spooks are hiding in the Noah Donaghue death?
September 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The red door by Beanie Bob and his beard.
September 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The modern day equivalent is ... give you three guesse
September 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
September 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Press freedom and journo lives under attack globally.
Martin Turner’s cartoon in the weekend Irish Times sums it up precisely.
September 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
September 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
September 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A broken promise
September 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Exposing the women haters hiding in full sight.
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
September 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
September 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Charlie Kirk was a dangerous rabid right-wing Christian-Nationalist nutter. Here’s some of his choice comments for you to contemplate on his true character. Should he have been murdered … no.
September 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Charlie Kirk was a dangerous rabid right-wing Christian-Nationalist nutter. Here’s some of his choice comments for you to contemplate on his true character. Should he have been murdered … no.
September 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Brothers in babies
September 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Free, Free Palestine

Work in progress: The beard, beanie and I are painting a diptych in support and solidarity with the murdered Gaza journalists and media workers.

Tiocfaidh siad chun cinn

Sawf yansha'uwn

They Will Arise
September 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
September 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM