I wrote about how the idea of "romanticising your life" became a shorthand for living the most mundane, routined life possible – and what happens when everyone and everything starts looking exactly the same theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Selling up to 3 tickets to this on 13th July @ €30 per ticket #TicketFairy

New Labour bill would give workers paid time off for cancer screening appointments | Irish Independent share.google/scz74mabqLkeWz…

Spike Lee has to be top 5 posters ever

A lot in my life is riding upon the new Lena Dunham series being good

The excellent Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh tells Dáil FA Ctte re OTB: "The Govt's narrow focus on goods fails to ensure compliance with the duty set out by the ICJ. There is no basis in int. law for differentiating between trade in goods & trade in services in the manner proposed."

Caillou is sort of the “don draper” of the show “Caillou”

my untimely passing will send ripples thru the salt and vinegar chip industry. there will be many chip tycoons at my funeral

Please god will someone relieve me of these tickets to Supergrass on Sunday night in Dublin

first sip of a pint has got me feeling like the first 9 seconds of Rock DJ by Robbie Williams

what i want for dinner hasn’t been invented yet

We in The Labour Party Ireland are willing to sit during summer to legislate for the Occupied Territories Bill 🇵🇸 Today in the Dáil, I raised the continuous horror that is unfolding in Gaza and stressed our obligation for the OTB to be enacted in its original form - to ban both goods & services.

Reflecting on 10 years of the Gender Recognition Act (🎂), I was Googling Lydia Foy and discovered this incredible piece of lore. She has made history in so many ways.

Remarkable answer from IBEC at FA Ctte on the Occupied Territories Bill. Asked whether they accept that the Israeli settlements traded with are illegal under International, EU and Irish law, they say they are "not in a position to provide an informed view on that". Seriously?

I can’t tell you how much I’d love to marry and then be publicly cheated on by a man with a reported net worth of £1.3bn

Today’s Muppet of the Day is the Pig Baby The youngest of the Muppet Show’s pigs first appeared in season two. Usually a member of the pig chorus, the baby appeared independently in the Brooke Shields episode, playing the Duchess’s cursed child.

July 22 1796 - Huzza! Huzza! I am always huzzaing, like a blockhead.

A magnificent example of the European culture we’re told doesn’t exist. Touches my heart every single time.

Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the '50s and '60s, Dies at 97 variety.com/2025/music/obi…

Glad The Labour Party Ireland⁩ stood firm in refusing to sign up to this nonsense. €867.7 million for the state to subsidise McDonalds while families enter arrears on their electricity. Spending on infrastructure makes sense, cutting VAT on hospitality is quite mad irishtimes.com/business/econo…