Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One more reminder about this! I'm having great fun writing questions and putting together physical rounds 365
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A Czech person just handed my husband this extremely A.I. but nonetheless good-natured card on the street 000
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What should I use to get a few drops off paint off a granite patio? Methylated spirit? 311
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorCormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Aslan can’t be played by a woman! How can one woman play five lads from the Finglas/Ballymun area of Dublin?! 77123
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Today I learned that there are shebeens all over South Africa! 000
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 05/09/2026What if, this year, we all just agree to stay on Irish Standard Time? They can't be mad if there are dozens of us 111
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Nobody seems to use Three network for home broadband; can anyone on here shed any light on whether they're any use?! 201
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Here's an idea: what if houses had birthdays. And every house's street number moved up by 1 every year? Could be charming 021
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Set myself this challenge, to make a quiz where you can't win WITHOUT a cross-section of ages!! 382
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026youtube.com/watch?v=oyRq... I love this recording so much - the banter, her heavenly laugh, the trading of compliments. RIP to one of the greatest. For your philanthropy to arguably transcend your music career - a career in which you were one of the best of all time to do it? Beyond wildest dreamsyoutube.comChet Atkins, Dolly Parton "Do I ever Cross Your Mind'YouTube video by daffydoug 110
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I guess Darja and I will have to share the honour 000
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A very cool time in Dunsink. The whole event was great, I loved hearing what the volunteers' special interests were (solar wind, Saturn, the moon, etc) 010
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 12/08/2026People attending the match in Croke Park tonight: GROW UP 000
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Kudos to DCC for getting their full money's worth out of their wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube snowman 010
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk. 14675251652
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Bathroom ring lights in pubs and restaurants should be illegal after 11pm 000
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorSaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This summer has made it abundantly clear that we need rewetting across all landscapes, varied habitats, firebreaks and a recalibration of what we use water for, and in ireland, a massive growth and restoration of our degraded ecosystems like bog and wet woodlands that are naturally fire resistant 6520122
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa 571527395
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Congratulations I guess to Blackrock Village Centre 000
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I just learned that in America, Sylvanian Families are known as "Calico Critters" and I just want to say what the fuck 110
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I just want it known that I have a (justified) lifelong vendetta against Viking Splash Tours, and I welcome any information and/or kompromat that entrenches my position 010
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The most French thing about Notre Dame cathedral is the loud pre-recorded SHHHHHHH that goes out on the speakers every 2-3 minutes 000
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I don't dare to hope that this access near Alfie Byrne Road is for swimming - does anyone know? 100
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The man in the bike shop just told me I need to elevate my dreams. He's right 220
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to a puree. 011727
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Give me the confidence my 5-year-old has while telling me all the details of a story that I witnessed myself, happened less than five minutes ago, and she's already recounted to me twice 080
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I think there's a decent Venn diagram between people who've seen Backrooms and people who've read The Unconsoled; I would like to start a support group for those people 000
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorSaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Oh wow it's almost like politicians have been cynically using 'rural ireland' as cover for shitty politics and should never have been taken at their word about the death/nail in the coffin/last straw/end... Etc of rural Ireland. This will be of no surprise to anybody from a rural area 314539
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Alongside it this priceless artefact from Sealife Bray (RIP) 010
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I just found this 119-year-old coin in my wallet; no idea 000
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorDave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Paperback cover reveal! Out August 13th with @grantabooks.bsky.social 1146
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Horseplay/neighground/whatever you can come up with yourself 010
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorHelen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026How can this guy ever be allowed drive again? He has a ten year ban only? He had a long list of driving convictions and one after the killing of the couple and maiming their daughter? The covering up the crime, leaving the scene of a hit and run is unspeakable. #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/courts/...rte.ieMan jailed for Dublin hit-and-run which killed coupleA man has been jailed for five years for a hit-and-run incident in Dublin on St Stephen's Day 2024, which led to the death of a husband and wife. 96020
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Today is Thursday. I say "next Saturday". Do you know exactly which day I mean by this? 620
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If anyone can help: I'm looking for a pub on Dorset Street that used to be called Conway's. NB not the Conway's on Parnell Street! Does it ring a bell for anyone? It wasn't Conway's its entire life, nor is it called that now! But where was it? 101
Louise O'Connor @oconnola.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It was an honour to be interviewed by National Geographic Kids magazine for their cover article 051
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorDublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 13/05/2026The image on the cover of our latest print edition, "Squares: North and South, Dublin", by Paula Pohli, shows Parnell Square and Mountjoy Square at top, and St Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square and Fitzwilliam Square at the bottom. "The fish in the river are mullet," Pohli writes. 2325
Reposted by Louise O'ConnorThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Israel has now killed 2618 people in Lebanon. Please spread the word. 30640438
