So the 45 year old dude from Ranelagh who couldn't appear before the judge today in connection with last night's riot because he had soiled himself in his cell also appears to have threatened to blow up an Islamic bookshop in London in 2017. That's interesting to me
Beyond bonkers that Ireland, a country with no army or navy and a grand total of zero wars fought, is being portrayed as the diplomatic aggressor in opposing bombing a heavily populated region back to the stone age. What do you even do with that?
Sinead O'Connor apparently "burned her career to the ground" by tearing up a photo but Joe Pesci didn't burn his a career by threatening to hit a woman for tearing up a photo. Something not quite right there
Varadkar's statement on canal tragedy is borderline sociopathic. He is known. He was offered accommodation before. He will be again.
As if they had created the perfect set of circumstances for this man to thrive & it was only his refusal to accept that caused him to be maimed
Dublin is now at the point where anyone I know who is nearing the end of a lease is assuming they'll have to at least consider leaving the city. It's way beyond a crisis
When you elevate the sanctity of tourism over meeting even the most rudimentary needs of people who live in a city then don't be surprised when tourism becomes leverage. PS duh
Trinity College students have clashed with tourists as they blockade access to the Book of Kells this morning, as part of a ‘Freeze the Rents’ housing protest.
Was just chatting to the brother there and you wouldn't know it from social media but Lankum were kicked off a festival bill in Leipzig last night due to being overly concerned about the plight of people
#Germany
#germanyisfuckingoutofitsfuckingmind
Seeing lot of well intended but misplaced obits stating as fact that Sinead derailed her own career. I think she summed that one up rather well in her own words. Hope she realised how vital this separation of art and capital and principles was to young minds eg mine
I'm not saying there were no disaffected inner city youth in last night's mayhem because there clearly was but there were also 45 year old men who live in Ranelagh and want to kill Muslims. Can you include that in your narrative please? Thanks a million
Social media algorithms do not approve of this benefit night for Gaza and it is happening very soon. Please retweet if you think shadowbanning humanitarian events is incredibly weird behaviour
Ireland is the most antisemitic country in the Universe and the cure is Conor McGregor. You people are out of your goddamn fucking minds. I mean you have become unhinged from matter and energy and time and space.
"Unions are lying, cheating rats." When the biggest company on the planet
feels okay about using this language in a training video it might be time to take a stand.
Last night my dog, who is a dog, tapped me on the shoulder and with tears in his eyes plaintively asked me in perfect human English, "why did Mr Higgins break presidential protocol and comment on the housing crisis?". I didn't know what to say. He hasn't spoken before or since.
Twitter pals. Could I ask your help in giving this a little push? We'd love to try and make this an annual thing as I think the badly city needs it so a successful launch is important. 38+ amazing Irish underground acts over 3 days. 13 - 15 March
I think the thing I'm most looking forward to when I'm a famous billionaire is having the confidence & resources to challenge powerful institutions like the libraries department of Fingal County Council
I should say that this is unverified but a 39 year old David Moffat and a 45 year old David Moffat in 2017 and 2023 respectively, both irrationally angry at Muslims feels like it might be the same guy
@clareanneath
Do you see any irony at all in referencing abandoned British army checkpoints in the same actual Tweet as your unequivocal support for an occupation?
@1rorycowan
@RozanneStevens
I live in Dublin 8 too and I honestly think that you shouldn't build social policy based on the amount of fireworks that you can hear from your living room on Halloween night. I really believe that with all my heart.
A tense stand off between two protest groups, one who were protesting for their right to attack homeless people and set fire to their belongings and the other who were protesting against the right to attack homeless people and set fire to their belongings
The rate at which ChatGPT has taken over the content industry in spite of it being catastrophically awful, painfully easy to spot and an insult to subject and reader alike, is a pretty good metaphor for the world right now
After 4 years of continuous moral panics, some of which were about almost nothing, it's kind of eerie how lacklustre the reporting has been on 23 arson attacks all coordinated by the same easily identifiable idiots
An analysis by
@RTE_PrimeTime
shows there have been at least 23 fires set at properties or locations linked, or rumoured to be linked, to the housing of people seeking asylum or international protection
Music industry tip - if you want the Irish Times to religiously cover your band you should change your band name to Sympathetically Upgraded Cottage In The Heart Of Ranelagh For €1.5m
@AnMailleach
@Independent_ie
So to paraphrase if I may, the reason this generation feels less well off than the previous one is because they are less well off than the previous generation. I wanna be a journalist and academic
One of my main issues with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is that they don't show the context of why Leatherface was murdering them with a chainsaw. You don't just attack someone with a chainsaw for no reason
I have had my pie and I can confirm that the David Moffatt who was 39 in London in 2017 and wanted to kill Muslims now lives in Dublin and probably still does
Immensely proud to be involved in organising this rather WHOPPER line up. Tickets on sale now. This is obviously a very limited capacity so don't sleep on it
If Vicar St increases to 2,000 capacity then there will be no venue left in Dublin city to cater for crowds of 800 - 1500 & there's already ENORMOUS pressure on getting smaller venues with less than 6 months lead-in. City is in total crisis and it's hiding in plain sight
Walking down O'Connell St today and I witnessed Celtic Symphony beating the shit out of Zombie in broad daylight and not a Garda in sight. Precisely the same spot where I thought I smelled weed a few months back. We simply must join NATO
Hey let's exchange anecdotes about living in a city across several decades. I remember when a bunch of yacht owning rugger twats tried to jump me in college because I was small and poor and not scared of them. This was close to the Book Of Kells, where American tourists live
RE: Dublin safety. A few years ago I was walking close to the Abbey at about 9pm when a gang of feral teens started throwing glass bottles at us on the street. I don’t know if I was more scared for myself or embarrassed as there were American tourists who were horrified by it all
I am pretty shocked that that David Baddiel, the man who said that accurately describing Churchill was antisemitic and that a Muslim saying that a depiction of Jesus felt like family was also antisemitic, has not had a single word to say about the slaughter in Gaza
@GaryLineker
@henrywinter
Without in any way meant to detract from an important article why do you think racism is such a blindspot in English football punditry? It's been a massive problem for my entire adult life but every incident is treated as an aberration rather than a long-term national disgrace
@Alan__Shatter
Would it surprise you to know that you, a man in Ireland, have never mentioned LGBT rights on this platform outside of a Middle East context? What do you think that says about your concern? I can help you if the penny doesn't drop
Hey the attack on Dublin culture/nightlife is about 12 years old at this point and not far off its successful conclusion. So if you're mad about yesterday
#s
news then please for the love of God stay mad and get active.
Racist
- Jeremy Corbyn's pronunciation of Epstein
- Saying Churchill was a mass murdering monster
- Private Eye cover lightly mocking the Israeli government
Not racist
- Hounding a black footballer out of the sport with a pineapple & some black make up
- Genocide
It's so cool living in a time when Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong anti-racism campaigner, is a racist and David Baddiel, a racist, is an anti-racist intellectual. That's so cool.
@Mr_Andrew_Fox
@aanepade
By that logic you've never seen words projected onto a building before, which is what is so shocking to you? Don't worry, it's just a projector using light to superimpose words. They can't hurt you or anything
I will try to be of use today. I worked as a retail music buyer for c.15 yrs and have built up a pretty random but extensive body of knowledge. If you're on the hunt for something new to listen to, stick an album you like in my replies & I'll (hopefully) suggest summat unfamiliar
During the Irish famine when there was no Twitter (I think), lads used to walk around the country wearing a sandwich board displaying GDP & savings stats so that the corpses would know that they died during a growing economy
I'm not censorious at all but a huge celebrity using a horrible tragedy to tell people to burn down buildings depending on who is in them feels like a line being crossed
Off the top of my head these are a few acts I've worked with in The Cobblestone. I do not anticipate having the same relationship with a hotel lobby
Richard Dawson
Brigid Mae Power
Landless
Maija Sofia
Stick In The Wheel
Mama's Broke
Charlie Parr
@electricalWSOP
Never understood why venues take a cut of merch but musicians don't get a cut of the bar take on top of their fee. The principle is identical
@markcurtis30
And in the middle of all of the Corbyn/IRA bullshit we had this little revelation that stayed in the popular imagination for approximately 4 seconds
This hurts in all kinds of ways but I am also certain that it will prove to be the correct decision. See you all further down the line and thank you SO MUCH for all of the love and support around this. It will happen
We’ve thought, debated and agonised over this for the past couple of weeks but we’ve decided to postpone Alternating Current. This has been a very difficult decision but we think it’s for the best. Please see thread for full statement.
Just had lunch in Press Up's new Post Punk Pantry right next door to Dr Quirkys Famine Museum and it was absolutely delicious. Dublin is on the march again
Jaysus it's pretty disappointing when Irish music industry people can see a room of people where literally everyone except the musician is being properly paid and say "this is normal and fine". It might be normal but it's definitely not fine
Also interesting that this 2300%-ish rise in arson attacks isn't being presented as representative of the decline of society or something, unlike say, a tourist getting mugged in a city centre once
After 4 years of continuous moral panics, some of which were about almost nothing, it's kind of eerie how lacklustre the reporting has been on 23 arson attacks all coordinated by the same easily identifiable idiots
Mad idea: after midnight when RTE pretty much give up the already long-abandoned ghost, why not show music videos through the night? A really well-programmed few hours with a decent sense of history/adventure would be genuinely priceless
@oldbooksguy
@jasoncola1
It's genuinely hard to offer a coherent counter argument when the person posting about objectivity and art doesn't appear to understand the difference between objective and subjective or the basic concept behind human artistic expression. Do you get what I mean?
@WhelanKarl
Hi Karl. Looking forward to lecturing your students about economics next week as part of the reciprocal 'I Have Absolutely No Idea What I'm Talking About' programme
My brother just alerted me to this and my mind is slightly blown. Cover art for the world on the left and cover art for North America on the right. No wonder they were shocked when she turned out to be the cover on the left in person.
Throwing citizens who are already underneath two buses, under a third bus, for the sole purpose of protecting landlords who don't need protecting, should be a pretty big story imho
Fine Gael ministers received hundreds of emails about evictions, but just 22 about gender and trans issues, before the eviction ban lapsed in April.
One party TD had claimed that trans issues were dominating emails from the public before the ban expired
Conflating a sovereign state with an ethnicity is the epitome of bigotry except when we want to score the cheapest of political points at the expense of said ethnicity
What's also interesting to me is how the replies of each accusation of a national antisemitism by some dork are brimming with the wildest racism about Irish people.
Enthusiastic Eunuch Is Absolutely Thrilled To Welcome Back
Richard Dawson
with special guest
Myles Manley
Whelan's, Wexford St
Friday 26th May
Doors 8pm
Tickets €22.50 + BF from WAV & Billetto
When surveyed, 100% of negative commenters under Irish hip hop threads believe that we should have proper Irish culture on telly, like rock bands who sound a bit like an American rock band from 5-15 years ago or repurposed American country music
Ireland is absolutely nothing like New Zealand. Ireland is a small island of c. 5m people, a former colony of the UK lying beside a much bigger island and is recently famous for being the filming location of a global fantasy franchise.
@OHanlonEilis
@gript
@john_mcguirk
Yeah acting as a stenographer for the IDF and falsely accusing immigrants of rape is the journalism we all need right now. Much like your own writing