Watched the video & thought, "Well this is reasonable. As always witty, incisive. Really does capture the breadth of public feeling as diplomatically as possible." Then I got that feeling of doom - "he's going to get dragged through hell for trying to being reasonable on this."

Vile. Utterly vile.

A letter from Stephen McCarthy: trib.al/6k2Ehbg

Really interesting comparison between EU countries & some non-EU inc. UK. Surprised tbh that there's only €100-odd of a difference between UK and Ireland in PPP. Genuinely expected it to be more. euronews.com/business/2025/…

Funniest bit of the Kneecap shit storm is Gen z'ers on Tiktok having an amti-imperialist meltdown over the press reporting someone's legal name. Who else hoped the peace process would gradually shrink the chips on people's shoulders? Bores the balls off me.

If nationalism has sense they'll hold Jarlath for a few presidential elections & deploy him wisely. His approach to a UI, where all that it means to be Irish is negotiable, is the kind of nationalism that many unionists will struggle to counter in appealing to the 'middle' of NI.

Weren't we all educated recently that the £ subvention to NI was actually much less & therefore a u.Ireland is not a great economic risk? Oul' Schrödinger's Occupied Six, hey?! It's not economically viable but at the same time economically viable enough to integrate seamlessly 🤷

Seeing the fada brigade wincing with middle-class cringe for fear that NI will be embarrassed in the eyes of the world by "those great unwashed & poorly-educated loyalists & their frightful bands" marching at the *checks notes* BRITISH Open, is like an episode of Black Mirror 🤯

Whoever wrote this tweet needs to go back to school.