Paul McCarrick
@paulmccarrick.bsky.social
Attempts to put words after one another.
Highly Commended - Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2024 & Fool For Poetry 2024.
Highly Commended - Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2024 & Fool For Poetry 2024.
Sweet Divine Lord Jaysus.
Sensational. Unbelievable.
Sensational. Unbelievable.
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sweet Divine Lord Jaysus.
Sensational. Unbelievable.
Sensational. Unbelievable.
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I’m not sure the problem here is bad faith. The fascists were quite honest about being fascists. The problem is overrating the value of winning a debate with people who are much more interested in normalizing their ideas than persuading.
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
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How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
www.offmessage.net
July 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m not sure the problem here is bad faith. The fascists were quite honest about being fascists. The problem is overrating the value of winning a debate with people who are much more interested in normalizing their ideas than persuading.
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
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“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
July 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
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Decent signing tbf
July 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Decent signing tbf
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‘We’re not even allowed to talk about winning the World Cup anymore. It’s political correctness gone mad, Stew’
July 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
‘We’re not even allowed to talk about winning the World Cup anymore. It’s political correctness gone mad, Stew’
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We have learned nothing.
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
June 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We have learned nothing.
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
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Submissions to PB12, the 12th edition of our poetry magazine, are now open.
Please send up to 3 poems as an attachment with no identifying info to [email protected]
Put you name in the body of the email.
Many thanks and please share!
Please send up to 3 poems as an attachment with no identifying info to [email protected]
Put you name in the body of the email.
Many thanks and please share!
June 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Submissions to PB12, the 12th edition of our poetry magazine, are now open.
Please send up to 3 poems as an attachment with no identifying info to [email protected]
Put you name in the body of the email.
Many thanks and please share!
Please send up to 3 poems as an attachment with no identifying info to [email protected]
Put you name in the body of the email.
Many thanks and please share!
Jesus wept. The Economist. A right shower.
This sort of prejudice against Irish is exhausting from The Economist. It's not the first time. The Irish language is no more or less "unfathomable" than French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese etc. All languages are "fathomable" when you take the effort to learn them. Cc @shashj.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Jesus wept. The Economist. A right shower.
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There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?
June 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?
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Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good
May 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good
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MY BOYS MY GLORIOUS BOYS
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
MY BOYS MY GLORIOUS BOYS
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Israel’s former army chief - who is also a former defence minister of Netanyahu, says
May 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Israel’s former army chief - who is also a former defence minister of Netanyahu, says
The great Tottenham Hotspur poetry collection. That's what we all really need, isn't it?
May 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The great Tottenham Hotspur poetry collection. That's what we all really need, isn't it?
I remember this live on the TV. Harrowing. Vital part of any reflection on contemporaneous or historical Ireland. May he finally rest in peace.
Michael O'Brien, the child sexual abuse survivor who spoke powerfully of his experiences on an episode of RTÉ’s Questions and Answers in 2009, has died
Abuse survivor Michael O'Brien dies
Michael O'Brien, the child sexual abuse survivor who spoke powerfully of his experiences on RTÉ's Questions and Answers, has died.
www.rte.ie
April 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I remember this live on the TV. Harrowing. Vital part of any reflection on contemporaneous or historical Ireland. May he finally rest in peace.
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Michael O'Brien, the child sexual abuse survivor who spoke powerfully of his experiences on an episode of RTÉ’s Questions and Answers in 2009, has died
Abuse survivor Michael O'Brien dies
Michael O'Brien, the child sexual abuse survivor who spoke powerfully of his experiences on RTÉ's Questions and Answers, has died.
www.rte.ie
April 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Michael O'Brien, the child sexual abuse survivor who spoke powerfully of his experiences on an episode of RTÉ’s Questions and Answers in 2009, has died
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The decision today is honestly a madness, a cruelty that'll be used freely for some time to come to embolden ignorant hate. The omnicrisis (permacrisis?) makes it more important to support and resist.
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The decision today is honestly a madness, a cruelty that'll be used freely for some time to come to embolden ignorant hate. The omnicrisis (permacrisis?) makes it more important to support and resist.
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I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
April 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
Harry Enfield head on him. Pure comedy.
A Conservative MP has called on Ireland to join the Commonwealth during a debate in the House of Commons
Conservative MP calls on Ireland to join Commonwealth
A Conservative MP has called on Ireland to join the Commonwealth during a debate in the House of Commons.
www.rte.ie
March 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Harry Enfield head on him. Pure comedy.
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The 100 best Irish fiction books of the 21st century so far: No 100 to No 51. We assembled a panel of 60 experts – writers, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers & journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of 2000-2025
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The 100 best Irish fiction books of the 21st century so far: No 100 to No 51
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years...
www.irishtimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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There's a joke somewhere in the idea of Gary Neville Chamberlain, surely?
"Peace at this moment in time"
"Peace at this moment in time"
2025 is a movie that seeks to answer the question 'what if everyone was Neville Chamberlain'
February 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
There's a joke somewhere in the idea of Gary Neville Chamberlain, surely?
"Peace at this moment in time"
"Peace at this moment in time"