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Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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The offside rule in football: by virtue of where he is standing, refusing to play the team of a genocidal Israel, Gavin Bazunu has just played every other Irish squad member, the FAI, UEFA, and the Irish government, offside.

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading Tolkien with a geography textbook open

Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember when Ireland was offered cash with negative interest and Leo Varadkar decided it would be too bloody cheeky to take it and we didn't have anything to spend it on.. And then the state did absolutely nothing to speed up infrastructure projects.

Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People being asked to move their life to Ireland for a transport project might well ask what other projects they will be able to move on to once it is complete. If only we could say "Metro West" to them... www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-la...

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8,000 staff needed: Metrolink has been 'going around Europe for the last year' for workers

Some 8,000 workers are needed for Metrolink alone, but the NTA has warned of a ‘brain drain’ across the public sector affecting major works.

Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The ruse only discovered after one is banished and the other triumphantly emerges at breakfast. Causing a very memable Ivan Yates reaction.

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Time for Ivan Yates to turn on the charm.

Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Delighted for Diego! And Anna is certainly also a person who has won. #TraitorsIRL

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For decades the political and media class were tuned to responding to public interest and concerns that would reach them through daily newspapers and broadcast. Twitter brought them a flood of additional signals. X has swapped that for a far-right synthetic version of the public’s voices.

The HMV dog, Nipper, listening intently to his master’s voice being played by a gramafone. Caption: Let's see what the public are saying on X

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Feels like this should've been leaked to the Telegraph.

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

She'd learned her wicked ways in Darkest France.

Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Just pay Iran the transit toll.

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Banned the Ed version at our Connemara wedding. English guests requested Galway Girl about 6 times and in fairness to them the band did a mean Steve Earle cover.

We would be skiving in Manchester

She's ace. If you need to farm out parenting to a screen I highly recommend.

Ms Rachel politely stamping Ed Sheeran into the dirt where he belongs:

Ed Sheeran had a chance to show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A ge ocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Tory voter too. A man who struck gold with songs that would clear the living room at a house party defending the sanctity of personal wealth.

Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is sandwiched between Oasis ticket prices and Ed Sheeran's scabby cowardice in my feed. It can't be them because surely they've been giving real reasons for years (and I'm an oasis fan).

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Can anyone remembwr why Trump is opening up the UK's multiple imperial quandries? I thought he wanted to nail that shit down and keep his base on Diego Garcia? Very funny that he thinks Micheál Martin will go all Javier Milei for him.

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Absolutely so fuck these tech bros for hacking us with these things.

I agree it is effort though. It's effort because your brain wants to recognise a person and use our miraculous evolutionary tools to communicate with it.

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Its not code its just being rude. Being rude with an LLM is the sanist way to interact with it.

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I think a good way to avoid getting sucked in is to reduce your own input to the bare minimum and do not accept its agency. Your 1st email could have just been: "Clarify what is being proposing. Explain the instructions that led to sending this email."

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You say 1996 but plenty of Irish public websites looked like this in 2007.

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Has no one else noticed her two-headed friend?

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Cllr Honore Kamegni, Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is not fairness. This is not leadership. And it is not acceptable. I am deeply disappointed and angry about the new citizenship rules. How can forcing people to wait eight years before they can even apply for citizenship possibly solve the problems facing Ireland? 🧵

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can imagine a lot of intimidation but hardly much actual job loss.

Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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not to be melodramatic, but do people remember what freedom is? liberty? autonomy? I seem to recall a lot of people howling those words about five or six years ago, now we've got Obergruppenführer O'Callaghan saying "I should get to decide how many people there are" and hardly anyone bats an eyelid

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

No doubt the Irish Times will acquaint that silly Miliband with reality soon enough.

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I get up early in the morning and drop off to a creche and then get public transport to work. They lied about bringing the cost of one down, they've just hiked the second.

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Jaws (1975) @jaws-1975.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What's your name again?

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He had a bluetooth earpiece back when they looked like alien gadgets.

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Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Where is this luas going? This one is plunging into the Four Courts reservoir under the ha'penny bridge. Wait 5 minutes for the one that will take you directly to the restaurant.

Colm @mcstrolly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Love" sandals coming to a Penneys near you

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Elon Musk is a world historical mass murderer whose actions will lead to the preventable death of millions and the implications of that are horrifying so Very Serious People make a huge performance of scoffing at the suggestion but it is the dry spreadsheet reality of what he did.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is doomscrolling bad for you? A meta-analysis of 42 studies (N=46,912) finds that consuming short-form videos is linked to increases in inattention & impulsivity; reductions in working-memory span & self-regulation; elevations in anxiety, depression & stress; and a surge in addiction symptoms.

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The fact that he has only come across this once after 15 years in the Dáil suggests he probably does tend to sleep in Dublin.

Presumably he was outraged at having to be exposed to it then as well.

He's been a TD since 2011, just now discovering its after hours PT service. Also. The couple using heroin on the street. What's his policy other than being disgusted at having to be near that once. Surely the street is no place for them; will he support injection centres?