Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 13hEvery year Ireland gets stern warnings about how reliant it is on corpo tax revenue and every year it cuts its other tax nets to make that reliance worse. 24519
Reposted by DaraghOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wonder if the CAQ regrets not fixing the electoral system? 1524138
Reposted by DaraghRay Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Finance minister and Taoiseach screaming he was bad at both jobs. 2218
Reposted by DaraghCarol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is written to fly under the radar, from today’s Sunday Independent (Ireland). The press council upheld a complaint about an offensive and transphobic opinion column by Brenda Power. Sindo was required to publish the decision. @mams4transrights.bsky.social @jesalady.bsky.social 413394
Reposted by DaraghWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Quebec is a great place to live if you want to experience Maximum Weather. No Mediterranean temperate shit here, bitch, just raw uncut seasons. 1331210
Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm quite sure they wrote Dublin "and major cities" because they can't name any others. 041
Reposted by DaraghDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026we don't have to budget by the seat of our pants like this. it's a mad way to run a country. the entire budgets of departments should not be up for negotiation once a year. how much public work hours are wasted every year lobbying for the budget 5235
Reposted by DaraghDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026She’s been banging this drum since before the Hunger Strikes. This pretence of being in the process of abandoning her Irish republican background, mar dhea, has always been her USP. 4428
Reposted by DaraghDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Troubles in NI arose at least partly because people saw that protests against injustice were not working. In this respect, state-sanctioned unwelcome sectarian marches into a neighborhood is a reminder about which communities have been empowered to impose their values over others. 618135
Reposted by DaraghAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On Sunday, July 12th 1998, Jason (aged 8), Mark (aged 9) and Richard Quinn (aged 10) were killed in their home in Ballmoney when it was petrol-bombed by Loyalists, rioting after the Drumcree parade was banned from travelling the Garvahy Road that year. 3 brutal sectarian murders. 414774
Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Honestly a toss-up whether the dumber response to this comes from Jack Chambers or Darragh O'Brien. 030
Reposted by DaraghRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As Terry Pratchett regularly highlighted, "privilege" means "private law". One rule for me and another for you. O' Callaghan is working hard to exacerbate that inequality and hurt those who effectively live and contribute as second class citizens in Ireland. It's just plain racism #spéirgormrte.ieCitizenship a privilege, says minister ahead of overhaulMinister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan said "citizenship is a privilege, not a right" ahead of new rules for people seeking Irish citizenship. 211351
Reposted by DaraghDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them? 2724258
Reposted by DaraghMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The cool thing about complicity is that it goes away if you just tell people you don’t have it 583042241
Reposted by DaraghThe Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And they were trying to tell us we should be worried about Connolly saying something undiplomatic lol 47613
Reposted by DaraghJoan Boooooooo-ns!: SPOOKY Gay Cartoonist Lady @joantoonz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's yaoi go see it 112624
Reposted by DaraghDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Our government is pandering to the racist right with the new citizenship legislation The GAA has yet again proven itself to be a intractable misogynistic boys club And we are paying for a rapist to stay in the state guest house at Farmleigh Not a good week for the country 411241
Reposted by DaraghDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026the most toxic dynamic in Irish politics right now is the endless dick-measuring contest between Jim O’Callaghan, Matt Carthy, Ken O'Flynn and Peadar Tóibín to see who can be the most anti-immigrant. just four utter dickheads bidding up the rate of public bigotry to pave their way to power 37323
Reposted by DaraghDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just pure gutter racism dressed up in a suit. Appalling stuff. And I wish I believed the media would put on their grown up pants and deal with this properly but I suspect they'll soft-soap and both-sides it into reality. 321053
Reposted by DaraghDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I don't want to be more in line with the rest of the EU on citizenship. I want us to repeal the fucking 27th Amendement and return to our own tradition of birthright citizenship instead of the jus sanguinis shite that tells people born and reared here they aren't Irish if they have immigrant parents 916857
Reposted by DaraghMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09... 13758081209
Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The first billboard ads I see upon entering Toronto are for oil and gas and online gambling. 000
Reposted by DaraghAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“ I need the most Canadian thing you have” “We made a billboard exclusively aimed at Americans and it’s got French text” “No that’s too Canadian” 1035252
Reposted by DaraghSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A reminder, again, that Ireland has *chosen* not to take regulatory action against this abuse factory, whose office sits in Fenian Street in Dublin. I think this failure to act in the face of clear knowledge is an unforgivable act. 9934325
Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Please hire someone else to write about US politics @thejournal.ie, trying to pass this shit off as analysis is embarrassing. 2103
Reposted by DaraghDustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026While this is probably just them being wildly overconfident about the separatists' chances, it also comes across as rather ominous. 57111
Reposted by DaraghJonesy @loanseyjonesy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026lol good luck navigating 14 tariff regimes in one country, Jim Beam 513929
Reposted by Daraghᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026The cognitive dissonance it must have caused her to come to Ireland and find that even the local parish priest can support trans people... 1206
Reposted by DaraghJacques Nacouzi @jacouzi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Magnifique! 👌 Piste Christophe-Colomb, Montréal. #velomtl 210711
Reposted by DaraghIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 25/08/20261) We started it 2) historically, french canadians got the irish treatment. 3) Montreal being the base of elite power meant that anglos who had no interest in french ran the french province 5895
Reposted by DaraghIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Its possible people dont really get why we have a contentious relationship with quebec lmao 311210
Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is exactly how Seán Fitzpatrick was talking about Ireland's financial regulation a year before the arse fell out of the banking sector. 0143
Reposted by DaraghSam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason 2364883896
Reposted by DaraghJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026We were on the verge of breaking up Ticketmaster, every music fan's dream for the last 4 decades, until Trump intervened www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comThe Trump Intervention That Got the DOJ Off Live Nation’s BackAntitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact. 15966308
Reposted by DaraghIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Just to be clear this is like saying "for this trade deal to go through, you must eliminate college football" level ask in our politics 342067399
Reposted by DaraghAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 22/08/202650% tariffs for absolutely no logical reason besides trying to crush our economy and force us into submission to fulfill his Manifest Destiny annexation fantasies. 213316
Reposted by DaraghNaomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Do you remember when a fundraising campaign for the Navajo and Hopi people went viral during the pandemic, as people recalled the generosity of native Americans to Irish people during the famine? If you were one of those who donated - you are invited to have your photo taken … 19559
Reposted by DaraghMelissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 20/08/2026Montréal on two wheels is pure joy. There’s a reason this city feels so effortless by bike: it boasts one of North America’s oldest and largest network of protected bike lanes, with 250 km of physically separated infrastructure woven into a network that stretches over 1,000 km across the island. 321735
Reposted by DaraghAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account. 229114175344
Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Not really sure what the RSA is on the hook for here except not "being visible" which is a kind of complaint made by poor quality managers (or ministers) more than anything. 072
Reposted by DaraghBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry. 312476567
Reposted by DaraghKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026After boycotting American products and shunning vacations south of the border, Canadians are pouring their incandescent anger at the U.S. into a new cause: ousting the American ambassador. More than 190,000 have signed a petition calling for the removal of Pete Hoekstra.nytimes.comCanadian Petition to Expel U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Takes OffMr. Hoekstra has been President Trump’s faithful messenger in Canada amid a historic low in relations. More than 190,000 Canadians want him gone. 1672538694