Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 8hah come on, we could've spent that money on greyhounds 041
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 9hover a decade ago, Trump leveraged himself into political discourse by tweeting patently unserious content and the Twitterati stupidly helped him along by rage-quoting everything he said. and yet here we are doing exactly the same with some AI voice modelling grifter 020
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 11hisn't this a variant of Conway's Law? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%...en.wikipedia.orgConway's law - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonLoki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 13hBut that Zuckerberg lad is a great chap, sure didn't he give a few euro to a few GAA clubs. A lad who donates .06% of his net worth can't be that bad. Surely he wouldn't be complicit in suppressing left wing political activity. Coming to an election near you!! 1207
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the other day Adobe PDF reader tried to charge me for *rotating a document clockwise* so this is great news 041
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026London Falling narrated by the author @praddenkeefe.bsky.social is extremely good, worth every single award it's gotten. 000
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026apocryphal quote from General Omar Bradley I've always liked which I think you'll appreciate - 'Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics' 120
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026fair play, I don't think I've ever been 'well actually'd' quite as astronomically before 020
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonTheresa Reidy @theresareidy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Will be nice to be in the Dáil to hear the order of the budget policies, even nicer not to have to take any, as the entire contents were in the morning papers. Successive governments willfully ignore budget confidentiality. It should be put to referendum, isn’t tenable to ignore the constitution. 122
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a guy in my class was a complete space cadet and I don't think he ever left Mullingar 190
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026you knew you were in a posh house when you saw The Lost Symbol too 010
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The last time a government TD's canvassers rang my doorbell, I asked 'what are her priorities for the constituency?' and got the blankest faces as if I had been speaking Sanskrit and some furtive mutterings about greenways #speirgorm 020
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonJames Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 06/10/2026[All national infrastructure slides further into a sinkhole; A&E waiting times move closer to 13 hours; it costs eleventy trillion euro to buy a house] yay I have €750 36124
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026when I was about 15, I read an entire Jeffrey Archer novel in a day, while at school. 500-odd pages. Kain and Abel I think. Not sure what that says about Archer or my schooling 000
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026have one in the garden. did some reading as to how such a clearly Mediterranean plant ended up 'native' to Ireland and apparently that is what the boffins think. Only found in areas which used to have copper mines and there you go 020
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026apparently they were brought over by Spanish copper miners in the Bronze age for making drink out of them 130
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026non zero possibility that the Academy and Academy-adjacent population are in their 'are we the baddies?' phase and are primed to upvote anything which might take them out if that sense of discomfort 110
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026if you thought giving ridiculous nicknames was a new feature of Irish culture, here's Feidhlim Fíon (Felim of the wine, so called because he only accepted rent in wine, not malt barley) thus described 200 years after his death. now you can slag him too, another 400 years later #speirgorm 061
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026tbf it was the PSNI whose advice said 'we have no intelligence that suggests there will be trouble if the parade goes ahead'. 210
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory 122038
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SMcB made a good point about this on the BelTel pod on Monday. PC's logic implies that, per PSNI advice, that the Garvaghy Road residents should have rioted occasionally. But because they had been quiet, there was no police intel to suggest trouble, the parade was permitted 🤷♂️ 030
Reposted by Ciarán Mc Mahonkevin @beirne.bsky.social · 28/09/202620,000 secondary school teachers are starting industrial action next week because the government refuse to pay them properly but sure let’s spend €300m on training people to use the fraud machine that turns your brain to porridge 25638
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonWWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"But Alternative Parade Route Wouldn't Allow Us To Pointlessly Create Tensions" Orange Order Confirm waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2… 414356
Reposted by Ciarán Mc Mahon🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 8785682808
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026would've been smart to specify the ruling as such 100
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism. 18637255
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026you'd think that 28 years of peace and quiet would be enough time to grow and mature somewhat, but evidently not 1710
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026it is also extremely revealing that, a generation later, the Orange Order are still intent on marching down a road where they are unwelcome. they have learnt nothing, they have matured not a jot, every day of peace and tranquility has been entirely wasted on them #garvaghy #drumcree #speirgorm 415342
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026How on earth did the Parades Commission think that allow this parade after 28 years of peace and quiet, would be a good idea? the mind boggles at the sheer incompetence #drumcree #garvaghy 2578
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Almost got the point - "Members then went back inside the hall, with Mr Dawson saying "there was no point getting wet unnecessarily". " www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/armagh/...belfasttelegraph.co.ukMichelle O’Neill says PSNI has ‘questions to answer’ over Drumcree parade as Carla Lockhart labels protesters ‘rabble’PSNI read out warning to Garvaghy Road protesters 010
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026'aww but the President can't say anything!' 'aww but we specifically voted for this one so that she would say something!' and she hasn't said anything #speirgorm #stopthegame 110
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026which frankly makes her of a lower moral standing than even this pathetic government 000
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What exactly are those restrictions? Do they make her entirely silent? She who campaigned 'to represent Ireland with pride, courage and integrity'? 000
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026UEFA now has the chance to do the funniest thing - disqualify Ireland from the tournament #stopthegame 052
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonCiarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It would have been pretty simple for @president.ie to make some kind of symbolic input to these discourses - without overstepping the limits of her role. We all saw the keepy-uppy vid, we know she's a soccer fan. Disappointed #speirgorm 141
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonCiarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I am disappointed that there does not seem to have been any comment from President Catherine Connolly on either the Drumcree/Garvaghy or the Rep Ireland / Israel #stopthegame issue. #speirgorm 351
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026'what's it going to achieve' is the exact argument thrown at any kind of political activism. 'We all know her position' is the weakest sauce I've ever come across 100
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonCiarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sorry but I don't buy that at all. 'She's better off not saying anything in case she looks bad' is cowardice. Connolly was literally elected to 'represent Ireland with pride, courage and integrity' - and on the biggest moral debate in Irish sport in a generation she is silent 121
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sorry but I don't buy that at all. 'She's better off not saying anything in case she looks bad' is cowardice. Connolly was literally elected to 'represent Ireland with pride, courage and integrity' - and on the biggest moral debate in Irish sport in a generation she is silent 121
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026it is not limited to the point of her saying nothing 100
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It would have been pretty simple for @president.ie to make some kind of symbolic input to these discourses - without overstepping the limits of her role. We all saw the keepy-uppy vid, we know she's a soccer fan. Disappointed #speirgorm 141
Reposted by Ciarán Mc Mahonkelly @earley.bsky.social · 26/09/202620 years from now there’s gonna be a saipan-esque film about gavin bazunu that paints everyone else here as a complete prick and i am looking forward to it 06817
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I am disappointed that there does not seem to have been any comment from President Catherine Connolly on either the Drumcree/Garvaghy or the Rep Ireland / Israel #stopthegame issue. #speirgorm 351
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026has there been a peep out of @president.ie in either of these issues? #speirgorm 010
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonCiarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026what strikes me about both #stopthegame and Drumcree/Garvaghy is the severe lack of clear moral leadership at the highest levels of Irish society 0163
Reposted by Ciarán Mc MahonCiarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It is as plain as day what the honorable decision is in both of these cases yet the powers that be have bungled both of them #speirgorm 0112
