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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 6h

Religious disagreements are just arguing over who has the best imaginary friend.

Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 15h

I think there's only a couple of tours a week and each is limited to 12 people, so yeah, places get snapped up in no time. I ended up following the OPW on Eventbrite and got a notification when new slots were made available.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 15h

Finally got to go on the guided tour of the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park this morning. Lovingly restored, wonderfully atmospheric. As is always the case, the #OPW guide was brilliant - informative and entertaining.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 15h

There's a surface car-park directly across the street from there, or at least there was when we stayed in Cork in summer 2025. Some lowlifes just refuse to pay for parking.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 18h

Screaming

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's nice to think there's a whole generation listening to the show who haven't a clue what a Crackerjack pencil is. Or was...

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nature is healing, nature is Antifa.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Back in the '80s myself and a couple of mates were over in London for a holiday/gig/can't remember. On the tube, a couple of local lads started taking the piss over us being Irish. My mate put on his FCA beret and we started talking as Gaeilge while staring at the two boys. Two boys went very quiet.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My da used to routinely refer to her as "Yer ma" as if (A) he'd nothing to do with my conception, it was all down to her, and (B) there was a whole separate category of fourth person singular that applied to her and her only. The underlying message being "Honour thy mother."

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think it was only about 10 years ago the whole nun thing came out. "[Your brother] is home from England, can you call out while he's here, we've something to tell both of you?" Made us realise even more what an absolute force of nature she is in terms of resoluteness and determination.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me and her nibs went to Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast for our honeymoon and I remain convinced we made the better choice. But my folks chose what worked for them and that's fine.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Basically, they were both devout Catholics. And I mean very devout. My mum had entered a convent for nun training or whatever they call it, but shortly before taking her vows she decided, "No, this isn't for me." Her eldest brother, a priest, never really forgave her. But they were devout.

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We congratulate poet Paul Muldoon on receiving UCD's highest honour - the UCD Ulysses Medal.🏅 Muldoon has read his poetry for the UCD Irish Poetry Reading Archive, & in 2022 was commissioned to write a poem for the Poetry as Commemoration project. Here is "The Belfast Pogrom: Some Observations".

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

True. "She looked like Eve Marie Saint in On The Waterfront" is a much better tribute.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You are an absolute genius for dripfeeding intriguing details! Was Pete a Woodbine chimp or more of a Marlboro cowboy in chimps clothing?

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need more details! Did they escape and swim to sanctuary? Were they relocated cos of, y'know, cutbacks? Has someone discovered they were Welsh all along and deserve to be let live at home?

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So sorry to hear that, losing both so soon must be agony. It's two deaths in the family and the world just went shite.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He was let stay in the women's hostel on the basis that he and my mum were actually married. Still had to stay in separate rooms though. This was all pre-Vatican II, but that's obviously no fucking excuse. I swear to god, German Catholics make Irish Catholics look downright dilletante.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curious fact: my folks decided to go to the Passion Play in Oberammergau for their honeymoon. Accomodation was strictly segregated as regards men & women. There was some kind of pre-booking.com fuck-up over my da's accommodation so he ended up with nowhere to stay.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And he has been, for nearly 60 years. Which is kinda terrifying, on many levels.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You need ministers for the cabinet-level argy-bargy between different departments' plans. Civil servants just implement whatever nonsense the ministers decide on.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Spending decisions, including wasteful ones, are made by the government on the basis of civil servants' recommendations. I dream of a government that'd voluntarily decide to sack itself, but I can't see FF/FG being enthusiastic about the idea...

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First seven were easy, last two I had to sweat over #my9albums www.my9albums.com/s/qMJIh8Go0v

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One time when my mum was in hospital, my da made dinner: a mountain of mashed potato with some chopped-up bits of corned beef. That was it, the entire creation. "Da, you know I hate mashed potato. What is this?" "That's Belfast Goulash, son, we lived on that during the war." I went to bed hungry.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well that's a coalition that is not about to be outflanked - unstoppable!

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remember Eamonn McCann saying in a talk about 30 years ago, "Every baby born comes into the world an atheist, it's when the adults get at them the trouble starts." This atheist reckons maybe we need a new slogan: Catholic, Protestant, Dissenter and people with no imaginary friend.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine if you'd opened it up to atheists as well? 😄

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pity you didn't throw him under the train. Yours sincerely, an Irish voter. Love what you're doing in NY though, a lot of politicians around the world could learn a lot from you.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gemma's back again, this time she takes on Jamie Bryson. This wonderfully articulate young woman tells it like it is. She's a credit to this island, we need more Gemma's and less Jamie's. She's a legend ✊ You can follow her on TikTok @fightingfitwithgemma

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heroic, but only down as far as the ankles

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On a different note, my da and my uncle (Auntie Anne's husband) passed away within 12 hours of each other. They're buried in the same cemetery, two graves apart. Some stranger is probably sick and tired of the pair of them chatting to each other over him/her.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone needs to get this framed and give it to @gavreilly.com as a present.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then the sister to whom the ashes were sent got dementia. Now Auntie Joan is somewhere in Auntie Anne's house but no-one's exactly sure where and either way, scattering the ashes isn't really on anyone's agenda right now.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My auntie died in Australia, wanted her ashes scattered in Ireland. So her ashes were sent home. My mum and her other sisters thought they'd found a quiet beach in Shankill where they could do it on the QT. My mum started studying the times of the tides. South Dublin County Council said it'd be OK.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking at the respective run-ins, I reckon if Bohs beat Rovers on the 12th, we'll win it. If Rovers-Bohs is a draw, Rovers will win it by a point.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congrats for the nomination Gerry, hugely deserved.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Huge congrats and bonus kudos for the term "Irish History Twitter trenches."

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have given Lansdowne Road an upgrade. 💚

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would love to see more fish/seafood recipes. What you put out looks interesting and wonderfully creative, but we're pescatarians.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't have kids but can often hear & see the neighbours' kids when they're out playing. One lad fascinates me, he seems to never just walk, only skip or sprint, perpetual motion. Have said to her nibs that the wee lad's ma must not be feeding him Weetabix for breakfast, but Duracell batteries.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you ever tempted to simply reply "Yes"?

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's one in Clonard as well. Can only assume it has the same appeal.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lady's Day as well in the north, Aug. 15th (feast of Our Lady of the something or other). Got subsumed into commemoration of internment. Was at a History Ireland Hedge School in Cavan or Monaghan about 10 years ago, the chair was gobsmacked when a guy got up, said he was Secretary of the local AOH.

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some kind of imaginary/delusionary unfinished business with the Ancient Order of...

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Kieran Glennon @drnightdub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably not a great week for #BlueLights S4 to begin, but I can detach the idiocy of the actual PSNI brass from the drama of the fictional Blackthorn (up there with Hill Street Blues) PSNI. Explosive first episode: loyalists attack a migrant centre, Dublin fascists turn up in support. Great TV.

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