I really don't know who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature. I'd like it to be Pynchon but think it unlikley.

Have to pass at least two Constitutional referenda for that to happen: Art 29.4.9, if it relates to any EU common defence, and Art 15.6.2, which prohibits the raising *or maintaining* of any armed force not raised by the Oireachtas. I can just imagine the level of debate 🙈

RT @jamesfallon40: @LawAndFraud I'd sooner Ireland sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean than have that paedophile Rapist in charge ...

Unfortunately, it never hugely surprises me when “celebrities” turn out to be eejits

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Serious medicine needed❤️. I had to give daughter the “Baby Heimlich” (turn upside down/sharp rap on the back) at 2. The other lost the tip of a finger when she tipped a heavy oak chair over while I was cooking dinner. I’ll literally never be the same after that

Presumably, he just knows no MAGA/QANON will look up and see whether it actually happened? They’ll just post AI schlock, footage from Syria or Chechnya, etc. and say it’s “an Irish Civil War”. They should have their hands crushed, so they can never type this shite again

RT @Care2much18: "Shopping mall massacre" in Ireland yesterday, according to the American far-right. 🙄 Obviously no details are provided,…

Why in the name of fuck would anyone do this to themselves?

My mate calls this "things people say". It's like when people expressed that we were waiting a long time for a family funeral even though that's always the time it takes and they had never arranged one. It's something to say and we all do it. I guess.

I'm going to predict that when the damage assessment is complete -- well into the future -- Trump's greatest crime will prove to be espionage - AND - it will be the most catastrophic breach of national security in American history. We will discover he passed secrets to Russia from Day 1 because he was compromised; and did favors for the Saudis shortly after, purely for personal grift; and who knows what the hell else. His many Useful Idiocies will boggle the mind. And his America First gaslight will be remembered as it should be remembered: "He put Trump Before America, facilitated by millions of idiots disguised as patriots." His treachery, done for grandiosity and greed and powered by his cravings - including power, profit, legitimacy, revenge, and entitlement - will have massively impacted the globe, permanently shifted wealth, and cost many millions of lives. I have to add that a good deal of it - LOTS - would not have happened but for legacy media's consistent and widespread normalization of his disorders.

It would appear @MrHarryCole of @TheSun is blocking anybody who shares this image.

I watched The Overlap this morning, and they brought up the Pep is a better manager than Sir Alex debate. Look, saying Pep is a better manager than Sir Alex is the sort of thing people blurt out because Pep’s teams look prettier and win a lot recently. It falls apart the second you remember what Ferguson actually did. He walked into a United side that hadn’t won the league in 26 years, nearly got sacked, then spent the next two and a half decades turning them into the biggest club in the country. Thirteen titles. Two Champions Leagues. Thirty-eight trophies at one club. Different teams, different generations, academy lads who became world-beaters. Pep’s ten years at City have been ridiculous, no argument there, but he inherited a project with money most managers will never see. That is not the same job. People love the trophies-per-season stat because it makes Pep look unstoppable. Fine. He is brilliant. He changed how a lot of teams try to play. But Ferguson did it when English football was poorer, when you couldn’t just buy half a squad every window, and he still kept winning after the first lot of players got old. He built the Class of ’92, then rebuilt again around Ronaldo and Rooney, then won the league in his last season. Pep has never had to do that kind of long haul with the same club. He went to Barcelona when they already had Messi coming through, Bayern when they were expected to win the league, and City when the chequebook was already open. Context is not a small thing. And the European argument doesn’t rescue it either. Pep has one Champions League with City after a decade of being favourites most seasons. Ferguson has two with United. One of them completed the first English treble. Pep’s Barcelona side was special, nobody’s denying that. But putting him above Ferguson because his teams pass it better or because he won more cups in a shorter, richer spell just feels like people confusing a peak with a career. Ferguson’s the one who actually built a dynasty and kept it standing for a generation. That’s why the comparison, the way they framed it on The Overlap, is nonsense.

I'm amazed when he says this. Bannon does it too. Millions of people hear this positively, and their resolve ratchets. I would surmise 2 out of every 3 people that hear this, get psyched.

Burger Gemma is always whinging about how hard it is to run a business. How much harder would it be if all those tourists visiting Killarney got to know of his pro-Russian leanings? Beyond the few MAGA’s that actually have passports it’s hard to see it being enhanced by this.

Actually felt a bit emotional seeing this — the only known group portrait of the Bröntes, painted by their brother Branwell (originally depicted in the middle), thought lost until it was found folded on top of a wardrobe in a relative’s house in Ireland in 1914

I suspect this is about to change. Politics is almost ALWAYS reactive. They take years to solve problems that clearly need to be solved. But if there’s sufficient public outcry, they’ll spend the money in days

Céad míle fáilte, Troy Parrott 💚🤍🧡