Martin McGrath @bsky.social
@martinmcgrath
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Senior lecturer, PR, writer, editor, PhD. Irish, Labour & LFC. CIPR & NUJ. Mostly posting in another place now. It's bluer and more sky-like.
Joined February 2009
Antonio Gramsci as a child. No. 1 in a very brief series of adorable Marxists http://t.co/wMobpI2EOh
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All-Ireland Champions 🏆 What a day for our County Senior Ladies as they are crowned TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate Champions after an incredible performance at Croke Park! A massive congratulations to the players, management and everyone involved – a truly unforgettable day for
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THE MOON IS TOO CLOSE! IT'S GOING TO HIT!! WE'RE DOOMED! DOOMED!
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Despite having a population less than a quarter of China's (the only nation even in the same GDP ballpark) the US economy is 50%+ bigger. The US "prosperity" problem is a prosperity distribution problem. Only Mexico, Turkey & Bulgaria in northern hemisphere are more unequal
JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )
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Would you look at that! What a point that is
🔊 "It's over the baaar....!" Lorcan McGarrity's late winner sealed An Charraig Mhór's place in the Connollys of Moy Senior Football Championship quarter-finals. #RefuseToLose
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Best day of the Parliamentary calendar. Happy Private-Members'-Bill-Day Eve to all who celebrate...
The Private Members' Bill ballot is taking place tomorrow. Find out how the ballot works ⬇️
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Casemiro deserves the freedom of Liverpool. It's only fair since he's out there giving Mac Allister and Szoboszlai the freedom of Old Trafford.
Casemiro deserves the Chris Jericho treatment
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This is depressing. We all need Unionism to be better.
EXCLUSIVE: 6 times as many unionists as nationalists believe immigration is too high in NI, @LucidTalk poll for @BelTel finds: 🔷82% unionists 🔷13% nationalists 🔷10% Alliance voters Just 25% of unionists say immigration is good for our economy/society. https://t.co/nVtYS3tFbW
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Your own Personal Jenas Sometimes he’s taken off air Sometimes he stares
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22 years ago today I was in the final of @SYTYFunny here in Edinburgh. Among the other finalists, Rhod Gilbert, Nina Conti, Greg Davies, Rufus Hound. But it was won a guy who wasn’t that into comedy and just went back to his real job afterwards.
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Work to defeat Hitler: dispensable. Different bedroom preferences: unforgivable. If I cared about the decline of a "British culture" I wouldn't be bothered about "woke", "Islam" or "immigrants", I'd focus on the way British conservativism has been Americanised into oblivion
Blimey. Have the people recommending this piece read it? Is that about the *indispensability* of the pre-1958 laws on homosexuality to the survival of civilisation ..
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"The letter claimed he was an 'over-confident individual' who 'presented with no remorse'." I mean I think this was pretty clear from the original pictures...
Sentencing for rioter who looted Lush while wearing England top delayed over claims he offered prison officer his autograph https://t.co/ZYSx9XXGI7
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I've been to Australia. That was their best dancer.
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Like a penguin, Leon Marchand seems much less graceful out of water...
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Not to bring everyone down, but... Imagine how much fun the Los Angeles Olympics will be if, after a term of hyper-Trumpism, Vice President JD Vance is using them as a propaganda backdrop for his White House run in 2028...
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