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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 4h

I stumbled over this when rooting in the back of the hotpress recently. Oliver Callan really is, and has always been, an unredeemable gowl

Oliver Callan being a cunt about refugees

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

It's mightn't be much, but I'll take it. Hopefully the other half of the vote only improves things

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

As Púca always says, "you can be the chewy stick in someone's day."

Teething puppy that's really fucking enjoying chewing that stick

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

She's assuring me that she's a well of forgiveness, I just have to keep the treats coming

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Púca is on the phone to her solicitor and is reporting me to the Hague

Photo of a puppy that has just had a shower and was entirely underwhelmed by the experience

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

It's a small thing, but I ran into Jim O'Callaghan around lunchtime on Thursday mooching his way down towards Church street, alone and in the rain. My surprise meant that l held back from telling him how disappointed I am in him and his courting of the racists (along with much else).

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh! 𝗬𝗼𝘂 are not happy? Púca is not happy? I wouldn't be out here if it weren't for you, buddy!

Damp and resentful Glen of Imaal Terrier

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Púca (the sweet summer child that she is) is both traumatised by the change in weather, and is also pretty sure it's all my fault.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a girl here who will be delighted with that. She's not taking the morning well.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Weird... Seems like these guys need you to know they are not fans of Jews. Seems really important to them. No doubt it's because of (((legitimate concerns))) and there's no point in thinking about this anymore.

Website text:

How Do I Tell if an Area is Loyalist or Republican?

Loyalist areas, just watch out for Union and Ulster flags. Orange and Crimson banners are ours as well. Kerbstones painted Red White and Blue are another sign. Unfortunately, you’ll occasionally see Israeli flags too. That doesn’t mean people are actual Zionists, they only put them up because the left-wing Republicans fly Palestinian ones! Republican areas have tricolours, although nothing like on the scale of our flag displays.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Our little changeling Púca struggles to stay puppy shaped when she's sleeping

My Glen of Imaal Terrier pup in her post-walk flop position where only her hind quarters stay in her crate and the rest of her forms a puppy-puddle on the floor

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Púca lulling me into a false sense of security while assessing the ideal moment to turn feral

My very cute Glen of Imaal Terrier puppy, Púca

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

I think it's 14 years we've been waiting since the building was in use, and over a decade since the squat was cleared. Still waiting.

Damaged electrical box with a sign that reads "PLEASE RING BELL AND WAIT"

Screengrab from a Facebook account that reported on the activists that were occupying the building being evicted

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Look, I know there is a lot wrong with this paragraph (from the empty prose, to the mispelling of names, the bad grammar, the historical inaccuracies, and beyond), but also, the evidence that is contemporary to Cleopatra is that she wasn't hot hot. Her wit and charm was what made her attractive.

Roman bust of Cleopatra

From the Enclopedia Brittanica:
Cleopatra VII in Marble: The ‘Berlin Cleopatra,' c. 50–38 BCE
A marble portrait bust of Cleopatra VII (c. 50–38 BCE), known as the “Berlin Cleopatra,” third quarter of the 1st century BCE. In the collection of the Altes Museum, Berlin. The queen is depicted wearing a low diadem; her face is framed by ringlets, with the remainder of her hair carved in segmented “melon” ridges and gathered into a bun. The almond-shaped eyes, prominent nose, and softly modulated features have been praised for reflecting Cleopatra's renowned intelligence and allure.

Cleopatra VII
A carving on the Temple of Horus at Idfū, Egypt.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Púca's little legs, and heavy body, and young age, mean that her walks can only be a maximum of fifteen minutes long. This means we have to carry her to somewhere nice before she gets a run around (an arrangement she's reluctantly tolerating).

A glen puppy sitting inside of a tote bag on her way to her mooring walk

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

I'd love to know what the brief was... I'd have thought that "an angry mam who's done up for her first night out in months (but sporting a beard) and is having none of your shit" was an odd choice for a saviour statue.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

I was already radicalised, but I got radicalised radicalised when I realised that the Grange golf club beside Marley Park, is actually bigger than Marley Park. That, and that there were another five or six golf courses within a half hours walk of it.

Google maps image of with locations of golf clubs around Rathfarnham in Dublin

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

The closer you get to that image, the less it makes sense. It's like some AI slop has breached containment.

Close up of the Simpsons pic in the image above, but they've melted

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Little Púca is settling in well, she's clearly found her place in the world

Exhausted little Glen of Immal Terrier overcome with the efforts of eating and zoomies

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

I made a new friend over the weekend. Her name has yet to be decided upon, but isn't she gorgeous 🥰

My puppy! I've a puppy! Isn't she the best puppy!!

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

When George Hook complained on Twitter that people were calling him a ghoul, and we all had to explain to him that he is a gowl, I put a reminder into my calendar. It always raises a smile for me when I see it.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

The joys of poking around the second-hand bookshop. Sorry it didn't work out for you kids!

Handwritten dedication:

"R,
You sexy piece of ass you. I think you're the luckiest person ever + I can't wait til I return in the Spring to that gorgeous rack of yours. God dammit... It's dying for some motor boatin.

Ahhh, the rack...
Lots of <3
A"

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

Do they walk around the town with their eyes open at all?

Screen shot of the Google maps street view of the Kevin Barry flats.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

If you've an actual interest in Irish history that goes beyond the memes, see the below. Marriage was about property, breeding, and the obligations to pay for the rearing of children. There was plenty of cause for divorce, but it wasn't faultless - it was difficult for a woman without cause.

Sorry, it's six pages of footnoted commentary from Fergus Kelly's "A guide to early Irish law" DIAS, 1988 - I'm not able to type it all out.

Highly recommend this book though, I've had to steal it back of three family members who have stolen it from me

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

If you can't keep your nose out of other people's business, you can at least avoid incidentally supporting racists who spent their time threatening women who feed the homeless or vandalising the memorial of a poor Brazilian kid who was crushed by a truck only a few days before

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

They're a bunch of fascist cunts who are contractors and truckers not farmers who took advantage of the fuel crisis your government triggered by attacking Iran. They went on the piss in Dublin during the quiet part of the year, when it wouldn't cost them money, so they could abuse brown people.

Tractor trailer with a sign saying racist shite on it, written by an illiterate

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm shocked that the young lad who was charging his phone on a €350k John Deere, with a custom three-axle silage trailer, using an engine that costs €50/hour in diesel isn't all that price sensitive about the price of diesel. Shocked!

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

When the regs finally came in for PPTs, I remember being naively concerned about how restrictive the rules were which meant that a lot of reasonable things were explicitly illegal (mono-scooters, electric skateboards, the Gardaí's own Segways etc.) But then no one bothered enforcing any rules

A pair of Gardaí in the rain on Grafton Street. The lad of the right looking very unhappy about this scene being saved for posterity

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

I think planning system changes are being made in a cac-handed way because they know projects will get thrown out by the courts in a couple of years so they'll claim credit for things they don't have to fund in the run up to the election and then blame others when it all falls apart afterwards

Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech Painting

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

It's been going since it started (in 2009) the post below is from 2015. Kevin Finnegan from Castlecoote house is the organiser. More fool the punters who turn up to be the other side at this event, it's always centered on the right wingers (John Waters had a good run there for a few years too).

Text from 2015 post at https://corkandabout.blogspot.com/2015/05/house-of-light-castlecoote-in-roscommon.html

The [Percy French] Festival, established by Kevin, has taken place annually in Castlecoote since 2009. Kevin’s father was involved in the Percy French festivals of 1957 and 1958. The festival is about the music of French but over the years has played on his name to focus on a particular subject and examine aspects of Irish life in detail.

The title for next July’s festival is Through a French Mirror. “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Now I see warts and all”. Over three days (8th-10th), life will be examined by a list of speakers that includes: Robert Ballagh, Lucinda Creighton, Professor William Reville, Kevin McStay, Dr Olga Cox Cameron, Dr Síle de Cléir, Bishop Kevin Doran, and Adelle Hughes. Musicians performing are Jon Henderson, The Mulligan Sisters and Johnny Duhan. Information and tickets here.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

Much like Miller, if my Mekon wasn't so botoxed it would raise an eyebrow

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 14/07/2026

I thought this was too good to be true, but no, the the hack writer that scribes the world seems to be the patron saint of hack writers

A 2011 article from business insider describing how Rowling got fired from Amnesty.

https://www.businessinsider.com/15-people-who-were-fired-before-they-became-filthy-rich-2011-4#jk-rowling-spent-too-much-time-at-work-brainstorming-story-ideas-2

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

This is not a "judge a lawyer by their clients" thing. Fashy Jim here though was a counsel on the Fyffes Vs DCC case which involved the claim that Jim Flavin engaged in insider trading and committed a €83m fraud. That single case involved ~€20m (in 2006!) lawyers fees magill.ie/archive/bigg...

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Pollard is a bit of a bollocks alright but you didn't need to do him like that.

Q: Is there anything more pathetic than a Bluesky user?

A: Stephen Pollard

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

If you look at their books, there's no provision within the group for financing remediation unless there's a definite plan to close a place down, they operate all plants as though they'll run for another 50 years. When the subsidiary goes down, we'll be on the hook www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/lis...

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

Me, wondering what Some Navan Chekhov's 🤝 lad who thinks carpark handbrakes foreshadows are woke

Photo of some dipshit's car non-co sensually nuzzling the rear of another car after the driver walked off having not put the handbrake on

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026

There's nuance to it that's just not considered here (on BSky). And because poor old people die in heat waves it's treated as though it exposes a moral failing in counties where there is less AC. The assumption being that we won't use AC

Someone talking about how AC is going to be their response to Euros mentioning US gun policy

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

Meath scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

Roadside advertisement for the "Dino Raceday" at the Fairyhouse Racecourse.
T-rexes to be found on the 8th of July

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

Absolutely mad that dublin city council managed to organise some free tobacco advertising for a children's event because they went with an AI design. (Also copaganda, also promoting driving fast to kids, also the noise and particulate pollution on the day) H/T to @e-m-forster.bsky.social

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

🎶One of these things is not like the others 🎶One of these things doesn't belong 🎶Can you tell which thing is not like the others 🎶By the time we finish our song?

A series of daily polls from thejournal.ie and the drone one has 155k views, nine times the views of the next highest poll (the alcohol one on 17.3k)

The poll with the highest number of views here is the should trillionaires exist one which is about 19k, less than an eighth of the 155k 'views' that the drones poll got

The highest poll here is on 33k views, about a fifth of what the drone one got

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026

It is easy to mock them for their takes, but this is public service posting at its finest. Not just wrong, but w̵̝͉̟̒̄͠r̶̖͒̃͝ȯ̸̳̲n̴̤̼̘͌ǵ̶̣͂! Wrong in ways that that we could be writing blogposts on it. Never delete! Never apologise! Just keep posting on through it! That's the energy that every message board needs

Some yank talking about how the problem with Northern Ireland is that there are not enough good guys with guns

Same yank, who is for some reason playing the martyr about getting slapped down by Irish people, and is attempting to make their concerns about hypothetical threats to their community transcend the actual harms being done actual people, in real time.

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

Batten down the hatches leaids! We're in for some amazing takes once the yanks come back online this afternoon

Some yank ascribing responsibility for the Loyalist pogroms on to the Catholic community for not stopping the pogroms

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

How do you protect people who are on the far side of 'Peace lines' like this? The reason why these fortifications are in place is because the 'Catholics' who live there were burnt out of their homes in 1968. And the people living there don't want them gone: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The peace gates at Lanark Way between the Shankill and Falls roads close every evening at 10.30pm and reopen at 6am. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

The Cupar Way side of the peace wall in west Belfast. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Tourists visit the Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden, on Bombay Street, Belfast. Behind the memorial garden is the Peace Wall between the nationalist Falls Road and unionist Shankill Road. Photo: Bryan O’Brien

Feet from the edge of the Peace Wall, a protective metal cage, behind the home of Jean Canavan protects her back yard area in Bombay Street. Photo: Bryan O’Brien

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

The Troubles, which began in 1968, started with the protests of the Housing Action Committees who were resisting the slums they were being forced to live in and the lack of schools for their children. They kept with the civil rights marching and protesting until they were being killed by the cops

From the Cain site https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/majinc.htm#1

List of 'First' Violent Incidents

First Catholic Civilian Killed
Sunday 14 July 1969
Francis McCloskey (aged 67) died one day after being hit on the head with a baton by a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) during street disturbances in Dungiven, County Derry.

First Shooting Incident
Thursday 14 August 1969
John Gallagher, a Catholic civilian, was shot dead by the Ulster Special Constabulary ('B-Specials') during street disturbances on the Cathedral Road in Armagh. John Gallagher is recorded, by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), as the first 'official' victim of the Troubles.

First Protestant Civilian Killed
Friday 15 August 1969
David Linton (aged 48) died after being shot by a Republican group during street disturbances in North Belfast.

First Members of Irish Republican Army (IRA) Killed
Friday 15 August 1969
Gerald McAuley (aged 15), a member of Fianna Éireann, the youth section of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was shot dead by Loyalists during street disturbances in the Lower Falls area of Belfast.
Friday 26 June 1970
Thomas McCool (aged 40) died when an incendiary device exploded prematurely in his own home in the Creggan area of Derry. 4 other people - 2 Catholic civilians and 2 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - died in the explosion.

First Explosions
30 March 1969
Explosion at an electricity substation near Belfast which was carried out by a Loyalist group possibly the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) or Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). This incident was initially blamed on the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
21 April 1969
Explosion at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down which was carried out by a Loyalist group possibly the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) or Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). This incident was initially blamed on the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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Séan Ó Conghaile ᚛ᚄᚕᚅ᚜ @shaneconneely.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

They already do come after the Catholics. This is why the borders between Loyalist and Nationalist areas look like in Belfast. Loyalists don't have 'Catholic' neighbours because they'd already have terrorised them out. But property is cheap in these areas so poorer people move in there.

Interface zone between the Loyalist Shankill Road area and the Nationalist Falls Road (with some added Zionist propaganda because this is the Loyalist/Protestant side)

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