Love to get my first cold of the year just as hay fever season begins

polanski is just holding starmer to the same standards starmer held sunak to. i can't understand why labour thought they'd get a different set of rules.

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This is a great zinger and all, but we should really call him by his full name: John "Still willingly a labour MP under Keir Starmer" McDonnell

is 'angry starmer' the starmer that uses slurs instead of hiding his bigotries behind middle-class media-friendly polite speak by saying stuff like 'dignity & respect' as he smears queer ppl as rapists and perverts?

Did he do an Eve Fartlow and misread a Free Parking sign

Labour has always been inherently right wing. This is the party who once welcomed Oswald Mosley

From an ogham stone label, it reads "the final names is like the Old Irish báeth (foolish) and was used as a personal name" #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

[proudly] "And this is my child, Fuckin' Eejit"

Make that four months. Back in August 🥰

This idea gambling is an inherently working-class pastime (which Labour are implying here) is not only classist, but also out of touch. Go out to any British town, find a local, and ask them if they want more betting shops in their high street

Happy 1926 Irish Census Day to all who celebrate!

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Caitlyn never thought…🐆

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Stamp art of the new logo, showing Irish language names on a signpost with Reclaim Your Placename.

Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life."
They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

Selfie taken in Tralee Town Park, locally known as the Green. I’m wearing a mustard yellow fisherman’s beanie and purple Aran jumper with a navy blue checkered jacket. In the background the Church of St. John the Baptist dominates, a late 19th century Gothic revival Catholic church. The sky is grey, but it’s grand.

Slán go fóill, Trá Lí agus Ciarraí. It won’t be another million years next time 💚💛

Sending a literal telegram is more efficient than posting on here

Bluesky is the RTE Player of social media apps.

A van for USSR Ltd (Underground System & Sewer Repair Ltd) parked outside The Square in Tralee

A van for FBI (Flowers By Irene) as seen in The Simpsons

Same energy

Dingle Bay, on a clear spring afternoon

Probably the first time I visited Dingle where it *didn’t* rain

Selfie with Dingle Bay and green hills in the background. The sky is blue.

Dia daoibh sa Daingean Uí Chúise!

Workers Solidarity with the headline "Armoured Cars and tanks and Dunnes"

From 1986

Flashback to a few years ago when I had an impromptu photoshoot with Jim, one of my housemate's cats and made him look like the unfortunate "Wrong Man" protagonist of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.

I even remember when he died in 2012 thinking “oh yeah he visited home once!” but at the time I couldn’t find anything online to back this up and ended up believing it never happened. I’ve basically spent the last 14 years gaslighting meself

A placard marking Neil Armstrong Way, at Tralee Town Park. Split into two panels, in Irish and English, it explains the life of Neil Armstrong and his connection with Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. The first panel details Armstrong’s life. The second panel explains his connection with Tralee. Some extracts from the second panel: ‘The Exploration of Space, opened by Neil Armstrong on April 18th, 1997, was a highly acclaimed exhibition tracing the origins of space flight. It was organised in conjunction with NASA and the European Space Agency.’ ‘The visit made headlines worldwide as Armstrong made few public appearances at the time. Afterwards he walked he walked along this very pathway to Siamsa Tíre. Neil Armstrong was given The Freedom of Tralee at a civic reception hosted by the Town Council and then Mayor, the late Maeve Spring. After his death on August 25th, 2012, at a meeting of Tralee Town Council, he was fondly remembered and his visit 15 years earlier was still fresh in their minds. The then Mayor of Tralee, Johnnie Wall, who previously walked side by side with Neil Armstrong in 1997, as they made their way from the Ashe Memorial Hall to Siamsa Tíre along the pathway that links the two buildings, proposed the naming of this path as THE NEIL ARMSTRONG WAY. To commemorate all of this, the adjacent sculpture was unveiled on August 21st, 2018, by Erin Stefancin, the Ohio (home state of Neil Armstrong) Rose of Tralee contestant, along with the Mayor of Tralee, Graham Spring. It celebrates the 50th anniversary of the First Moon Landing on July 1969. So by walking on this path, never forget that you are walking in the footsteps of the man who took the first footsteps on the Moon in July 1969.’

The stone sculpture mentioned in the Neil Armstrong Way placard, commemorating the Apollo 11 lunar landing. The sculpture is made of grey stone and features Celtic as well as modern abstract designs, and has a gold arrow in the centre so the whole piece resembles a sundial. The sculpture also includes text in a mixture of Irish, English, and Roman numerals: “APOLLO XII. MCMLXIX. MMXIX. FIRST MAN. AN CHÉAD FHEAR. NEIL ARMSTRONG.”

Walking through Tralee town earlier proved an early memory I long ago dismissed as a figment of my creative childhood imagination: Neil Armstrong really did visit my hometown in 1997.

A part of the town park was named in his honour in 2018 commemorating this visit and his life.

Only been in Tralee for a few hours and have already met so many relations as word of my arrival got round fast. RTÉ hasn’t got anything on the Irish family news network

That’s a first. My hei-tiki got flagged by security at Manchester Airport, meaning I had to go through extra checks. They’re just a little guy made from rock!

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉