Match is over. Get rid of this shite and put the squirrel back up. #justiceForTheSquirrel

In 2019, the developer got rid of the Tara St Squirrel. After five years, they finally replaced it - with a corporate NFL mural. #urbandesign #visualculture #dublin

Gloomy, but alas all too apt, thoughts from Samuel Johnson (b otd 1709): “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” “I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.” “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Really enjoyed talking to @NaomiLOConnell and Emna O'Halloran about their latest collaboration - some exciting work to come #newopera #irishopera

'362,000 litres of wastewater with ammonia levels 30 times above the legal limit and orthophosphate levels two-and-a-half times above the limit was emptied into the river during a ten-hour period on the night of the fish kill.' But the EPA didn't state in it's report that this is

The Dairy industry is killing us all Starting with our rivers "ammonia levels in the discharge were 52 times over the permitted limit" from North Cork CoOp Creamery the morning after the biggest fish kill in the history of the state https://t.co/vgHqkJAG85

Lovely to get to hear @IrishBaroque play Handel's Alexander's Feast again - and on @BBCRadio3 from the @bbcproms, wonderful - but can't help feeling perplexed that music originally sung in 1742 Dublin by Susannah Cibber is now on a countertenor's lips. Sounds like erasure?

Interesting pivot to see them insert the Hippolyte et Aricie/Phèdre narrative as a subplot in #HostageNetflix - don't underestimate the power of baroque theatre.....

Confidence in the Gardaí among the migrant community is on the floor at the moment. This has been going on for years and it has intensified to at least one attack every day now. Silence from the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan and silence from the government.

Someone is attempting to make a story out of the (vastly long-overdue) development of the Concert Hall: what is this really about? The costs are nothing compared to the 'other' NCH....

Terrible news about the @NYCNI_ (formerly Ulster Youth Choir), closing after only 26 years due to mimimal arts funding in Northern Ireland. A hopeless situation, with young people the main losers.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Tuned into the BBC Proms, but they seem to have replaced the concert with a talk show. #willitneverend

Remember when there were protests about reduced pay & conditions at BIMM Dublin? Well, the place still turned a profit, so maybe they got away with it...

If there were annual fires in Dublin where the Union Jack was ritually burned I suspect the BBC would cover the story

Israeli settlers set fire to a Church that stood for 15 centuries, along with a Byzantine Christian cemetery in Taybeh, Palestine — a village where Christians have lived since the time of Jesus. Israel is destroying Palestinian Christian heritage. Not a peep from Western media.

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” ~ Cicero

I am quite shocked by the fact that here on the (musical) TwiXer, there were 4 of us to remember the centenary of #CathyBerberian, today. Various (male) conductors, for example, are remembered every minute, doesn't matter the reason. 🤷‍♀️

NEW statement from the President of Ireland: Statement by President Higgins on situation in Gaza   27 June 2025   “We are living in an era of profound challenges. The condition of our modern world too often seems to drift towards the opposite of solidarity: towards division,

New Review in JSMI - link below!