Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainPhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the spirit of England's difficulty being Ireland's opportunity, pretty much the only way I'd agree to this is if part of the price was the unification of Ireland. Most of us are doing fine without them, and after the trouble they caused with Brexit, why would anyone want them back? 4114
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The bumblebee jersey was an abomination 242
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainDean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The decision should have been made by the FAI but the players are a legitimate target for the boycott. When social-minded footballers are told "shut up and play", we criticise that attitude. Well the door swings both ways. They should be scrutinised for just shutting up and playing in this situation 1121
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainThe Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🗣️ “This could have been a seismic moment for the FAI to seriously change perception of the association.” Former Ireland international Kevin Kilbane says boycotting the Israel game could have given the FAI an opportunity to get back onside with the public. #TonightVMTV 011
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainDublin South-West PBP @pbpdublinsouthwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Baltic boycotts expose holes in FAI case for playing Israel. Between 2024 and May of this year, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia opted out of competitive fixtures when drawn against Belarus in qualifiers. Their punishments were 3-0 defeats and, in one case, a small fine of €5,000. That seems a small pr 175
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Gardaí showed up one day to do a talk on the dangers of drugs. It was the 90s in Donegal and weed might as well have been heroin as far as they were concerned. Anyway they passed around two spliffs so we'd know what they looked like. Three were handed back and all hell broke loose 1271
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Next time a conspiracy theorist tries to tell you what really happened, confront them with an even more outlandish theory and accuse them of trying to cover up the truth…  1233759783
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Iconic Media's enshittification of local news continues unabated the "disgusting incident" was a car getting egged, the "action" gardaí have taken is opening an investigation and appealing for witnesses, but if everything isn't turned into clickbait, how can Malcolm Denmark harvest ad money 2204
Reposted by Marcas Ó Cathluainflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I understand the outrage at the rampant fascists but, look: our national press has been telling the public that the streets are infested with ethnic sex offenders and migrant rapists, set loose by secret communists, for *fifteen years* now. And not sotto voce either, power-blasting it constantly. 214749
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for genocidal murderers. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.iemy.uplift.iePetition to #stopthegameI just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for g... 100
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ed Sheerin having a career in music is catastrophic and unjustifiable 001
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English 964318609
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026RTÉ Sport providing live updates from the Cricket match between Dublin and Glasgow. If only they cared as much about other minorities.. 100
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Today’s poem is called ‘Morrissey’s Fridge’. 437672
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainAcid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley. 14982162047
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainConor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026With the Irish state, for the first time in a decade, refusing more Palestinian visa applications than it grants, as well widespread refusals for student visas for Palestinians, a group of international academics have called off a gathering at Maynooth University. www.ontheditch.com/internationa...ontheditch.comInternational academics protest Palestinian visa refusalsThe impact on the capacity for Palestinians to engage freely in intellectual exchange is grave 002
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainKieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Those crazy bastards. Gulf of America? Lake America? London-derry?? Psychopaths tbh 062
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainLog Off. Live More. ✊ @logofflivemore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thousands of data center projects are stalled or dead. Not from a federal law from neighbors who read the zoning documents and showed up. The most powerful companies on earth keep losing to people with a folding chair and a free Tuesday. www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/23/d...dailysignal.comData Center Backlash Brings Thousands of Projects to a Screeching HaltAmericans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether. 592423899
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainGalen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Oligarchs need to be taxed back to humility.commondreams.orgDestruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian | Common DreamsHistorian warns of unchecked power in Big Tech firms, drawing parallels to British East India Company. US lawmakers urged to rein in tech giants. 4685552542
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainDr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thirty-one years apart, about the same place on the Llewellyn Glacier. 1218
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainCarl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“Saying that a border poll could cause a rift in Northern Ireland is sort of like saying that an ordnance survey of the Grand Canyon might cause a rift in the landscape of northwestern Arizona.” Here’s this week’s Surrealing!jrnl.ieBorder poll risks ‘rift’ in Northern Ireland, where everything has been fine until nowThose in the north famously love to be told what’s what by Westminster. 15915
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainCeltic Supporters Limited @celticsupporters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026We are struggling to get traction here on Blue Sky, like most we hate the X platform but see so much more interaction Can we please ask you to push this out to the Celtic Blue Sky community encouraging support 🙏🏻 We truly believe CSL is the vehicle to affect change in our club 🍀 #celtic 999118
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainDavid @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The Venn Diagram of that type of British person who will tell someone from the north of Ireland, that they’re British whether they like it or not, and turn around and tell 3rd and 4th generation Brits of immigrant heritage, that they’ll never be British, is a perfect horrible circle. 0326
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for genocidal murderers. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.iemy.uplift.iePetition to #stopthegameI just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for g... 000
Reposted by Marcas Ó Cathluainwhitey67.dw @whitey67-dw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026He who laughs Lask, laughs Jabalongest………. 2215
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone. 402396680
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)openculture.comDolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)Note: We were sad to see the news that Dolly Parton passed away. Today we are bringing back one of our favorite Dolly Parton posts. She will be missed. The Walrus is… Dolly Parton? 04012
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 04/08/2026There’s a one-time donation button here. Thank you! www.ionadhindrajab.orgionadhindrajab.orgIonad Hind Rajab 12213
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainPaul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 28/05/2026Ivana Bacik proposal to SocDems and Greens to come together to negotiate with FF/FG is simply an invitation to repeat the same old mistakes of Labour. It would be a disaster. People want rid of FF/FG, not to prop them up. All on left should rule out coalition with FF/FG. #VoteLeftTransferLeft 84312
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Ivana Bacik, on the back of one half-decent by-election performance where her party still didn't win, now wants to decide who can and can't be a left wing party. Guess what, Ivana? Running cover for FFG isn't "left". So that rules out Labour and the Greens. Jog on 030
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Lovely to see the Irish people rise up in protest! No, nothing to do with our government facilitating a genocide.. Petrol prices went up ffs! 😱 051
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It's up to yourself, but if you get the chance to see Nightmares on Wax playing Smokers Delight in the Royal Albert Hall, I'd say you should take it 000
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Slight diversion…but that headline does a disservice to men and women. The story is about a subset of Gen Z misogynists, not ‘men my age’. Framing misogyny as a generational male trait is part of the problem and risks normalising it, instead of calling it what it is. 0316
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainAshleigh Loeb (She/Her) @ashleighloeb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026As a British Jew, please apologise to us for the Antisemitism of assuming that criticism of Israeli genocide is Antisemitic. Jews are Jewish citizens of the countries they live in. We are not Israeli unless we have Israeli citizenship. 0297
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The NYT style guide 7081663282
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Astonishing result. Devastating outcome for Labour AND for Reform but an absolute breakthrough for the Greens, proving public hunger for decency, integrity and basic humanity in politics. 48513
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 23/02/2026This is the most measured and important thread I've read all day 131
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/02/2026What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion 337103122027
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026John Davidson cannot control his profanity, as the show was broadcast on a delay, the BBC however could have edited this out, because they definitely edited out Akinola Davies Jr saying “Free Palestine”. 9662146
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026"In an interview with U2's official magazine" Exactly how far up your own arse do you need to be to set up an interview with yourself where you tell the rest of the country they're wrong? 130
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Is cuma le do "thuaraim féin" a Mhícheáil. Is é an t-aon run atá tábhachtach ná an Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta 010
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Just when you think things can't get any worse, you find out U2 have released a new album 🙄 130
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes 3536375
Marcas Ó Cathluain @marcasocathluain.bsky.social · 15/02/2026This is the measure of Simon Harris. Don't stand up for what's right if there's a chance it might cost you something. 070
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainThe lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 14/02/20261940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated. 8322151
Reposted by Marcas Ó CathluainClark Delon @clark-delon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026"You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win." -Fred Hampton 0106