Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

The best albums of the month:
Words on CMAT, Geese, james K, Cate Le Bon, NewDad, The Redneck Manifesto, Automatic, Hayden Pedigo, God Knows, pôt-pot and more.
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I know it’s a fairly uninspiring race, but we know what we could have had: a cast of racists, rapists and rosary bead-clutching weirdos inviting us to jump in their Delorean all trying to drag our national discourse down the toilet for personal gain. Be thankful for these small mercies.

Jokes aside (and the jokes are class), we should be a little proud that there is some level of integrity in this presidential race. Gavin could have behaved like most Western politicians and just lied and/or blamed immigrants for no reason. Resigning in disgrace is a dying art these days. #áras25

That means the score is now:

Tenants 1 - 274,652 Landlords

If you like clever disco tunes, the new Say She She album out today is very enjoyable.

Playing the Academy in Dublin on 23 November too. 🪩🕺🏻

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Yeah, I think a lot of Connolly voters won’t even put down a second preference. She should get a solid percentage, but as Gav says, maybe not enough. Just hard to know where either Gavin/Humphreys’ transfers will go. Probably will lean towards each other though.

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed

How certain are people that the coalition party candidates votes will transfer to each other though? I’m not sure what direction they would travel. But I get that if people want an ‘alternative’ then they’ll likely put Connolly #1 rather than go for the others and put her #2.

I have such a deep, deep level of distrust for people who set up their own email account and have their full name in all lowercase.

Watched the first episode of #HouseofGuinness and it’s so bad I might never be able to drink a pint of Guinness again.
It’s like they let Conor McGregor direct and left the Production Design to AI.
I’m not a stickler for historical accuracy in these things, it’s just that it’s shit.

And so Dublin finally takes on its true form. Nothing but a corporatised playground for American tourists. Nothing else matters. Dance for the tourist dollar, you ungrateful cretins.

That penalty miss means #AVFC maintain their record of having all their goals this season, across three competitions, coming from outside the box.
Unai Emery is just playing football on difficult mode.

Also who do I complain to about this new mural which is deeply offensive to my people (Irish football supporters)?

Great to see DCC filling the city centre with flags for C̵u̵l̵t̵u̵r̵e̵ ̵N̵i̵g̵h̵t̵ that fucking NFL game.

Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#TraitorsIRL So all the players at the start of the series were like “oh, I want to win the money to put a deposit on a house!” and now it looks like the prize money is going to a posh boy estate agent. Who wrote this script? Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael?

Such an estate agent.
#TraitorsIRL

If we can’t get Oyin onto the ballot for the Áras in time, can we make her Garda Commissioner or something?
#TraitorsIRL

Like, Twitter was good for a couple of years when it was just silly people spurting out nonsense from their brains and also bad puns. Then it became all about “Buckle up 🧵” and people trying to police discourse on a global scale. Truly insane behaviour that some are determined to replicate here.

PRAISE FOGGY! 🙌

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I’d like to see a review of how their predictive model relates to actual outcomes in recent years. Have they ever called it right? What chance/ranking did the eventual winners have at the outset? Etc.