Greg Daly

I’m still hopeful this shattering ship will be with us a while yet, but I’ve branched out elsewhere just in case. I’m not yet sold on Mastodon, but I like the other Twitter that’s not Twitter, while @RadiopaperHQ is pleasant and thoughtful whenever I dip my toes into the water.

@RMcGreevy1301 This looks great, Ronan. Well done.

Today is publication day for Seán Lemass: The Lost Memoir. It was such a privilege to edit the memoir of a man who was not just an outstanding patriot, but witty, insightful and wise with a rare facility to present complex political ideas in clear language. Many thanks to @Hodges_Figgis for the wonderful display.

@dramdarcy It’s almost as though the essence of the student experience shouldn’t be learning through being taught by people who research, reading others’ research, researching for themselves, and learning to think.

An argument actually made by one of our less intelligent hatchetwomen during the employment tribunals ... She was singularly unconvincing, but it was a shock to hear this Orwellian inversion voiced out loud in a court of law.

@dieworkwear Thank you. I have been trying to figure out affordable ways to try split-toe derby shoes, and it’s rather tricky as I’ve not seen anywhere at all in Ireland selling them.

@GregDaly meermin

i don't think that's true. factory-made ready-to-wear tailoring has essentially been perfected. and yet people still value a fully benchmade tailoring produced by a tailor. this demonstrates people care about humans being in the process.

@dieworkwear Dare I ask who the shoes on the left are from? I appreciate the more expensive option, of course, and understand what’s being paid for there.

Shoes on left cost $250; shoes on right cost $5000. People who fit fine into left will still pay for right bc of how they were made. Right shoes were handlasted, handwelted, and made from a last carved from a rough turn. People with knowledge & discernment will pay for this skill

@mfjlewis It’s not even that, I think. It’s just illness, or a kind of being bent of shape that’s twisted his brain. Being obsessed with someone this way… it’s not normal, and it’s obviously not good.

@GregDaly What I notice is that these posts are always all about me. It doesn't matter what position I take. It doesn't even matter if I substantially align with his point of view. He's always turning it into some weird negative personal attack on me. Is it jealousy?

Why is this loser so obsessed with every single thing I tweet? Why does he read all of my articles? Seriously except when I notice once again that he is telling lies about me, I don't think about this guy. Why can't he quit me?

@geoffwilt @ClwnPrncCharlie Oh my. I hadn’t seen this before. Fwiw, I think it heroes are lower-middle class rather than working class - the latter of whom lived in destitute conditions here at the time, but the point stands: that’s a spectacularly snobbish take, tainted as much by ignorance as by envy.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- as much as I love Woolf she despised Ulysses because its heroes are the poor and working class and she was born wealthy, with all the biases about art that entails. she also immediately tried to write her own Ulysses with Mrs Dalloway so

@DonaldClarke63 Much as I’d like to venture Alec Guinness, maybe somebody who wasn’t a native English speaker? Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Peter Lorre, Marcello Mastroianni, Max Von Sydow, or Jean Gabin, say? Also: surely Philip Seymour Hoffman ahead of one or two there.

Someone born before 1930 for starters.

@tonyannett Maybe he was thinking of Sean Connolly - dib.ie/biography/conn…? I mean, he was a socialist too.

Does he realize that James (not John) Connolly was a socialist?

@itsjohncrotty @stephenehorn Oh my. The notion that there’s any comparison between violent state-direction dispossession and plantation on one hand and individual immigration on the other, and the cluelessness around how partition happened…

@stephenehorn You misspelled Colonisation Stephen Not to mention Britains undemocratic partition of an island that favoured separation

There are two countries on the island of Ireland because of immigration 400 years ago And we're just supposed to pretend like modern-day immigration cannot have deep and long-lasting consequences?

Just for the record, I don’t think any of these recipes are reliable. Also, there’s a thing in the picture of the fry that might or might not be an egg.

@malonebarry I’ve still got them, I’m afraid. There could be some demonic setting at work.

@GregDaly Oh good GOD. Okay, I think I’ve turned them off?

This is a marvellous performance of a fine song. (I wish I could praise the subtitles as much. I like good subtitles, except for comedies, but find these forced subtitles, so often out of sync and inaccurate, leave me feeling like I’m reading in a car on a bumpy road.)

@carleolson @cworldreport There’s lots more that’s wrong in the piece, starting with construing Patrick’s mission from something he seems never to have said. All told, this looks to have been a desperately misleading homily to have inflicted on a congregation.

@carleolson @cworldreport Carl, this is very wrong. Take the line that abortion was legalised a bit more than 10 years after 1983; it took 35 years. Or if every single Pole, Brazilian, and Nigerian in Ireland was a weekly massgoer they’d still make up less than a fifth of the typical attendance.

From Fr. Stravinskas @cworldreport: In the modern era, Ireland sent missionaries around the world. Whole dioceses of the United States were populated by what were dubbed “FBI clergy,” that is, “foreign-born Irish” priests. On my first visit to Ireland in 1983, the country was still spared the ravages of divorce and abortion. When I expressed admiration for that reality, a curate at the Pro-Cathedral of Dublin chastened me with a reality check, ”Come back in ten years,” he prophesied, “and you won’t find a stone upon a stone.” How right he was. Indeed, in a bit more than ten years, Ireland would earn the shameful distinction of not only having legalized divorce and abortion but of being the first country in the world where those plagues were not visited on the people by judicial or legislative fiat, but by the direct vote of the people–the result of a prosperity-fueled and virulent secularization. What does the data tell us? Forty years ago, 93% of the Irish self-identified as Catholic; today, that is 69%. In the 1970s, the Church in Ireland could boast of a 90% Sunday Mass attendance, which has today dwindled to about 27%. Eleven seminaries have been reduced to one, with just a single ordination in the entire country last year. Truth be told, were it not for Polish, Brazilian, and Nigerian immigrants, the majority of churches there would have to be shuttered. Interestingly and ironically, by a twist of not Fate but Providence, Nigeria, which was almost single-handedly evangelized by Irish missionaries, now has the highest Mass attendance in the world at 92%!

@jshocds It is true that Prosper of Aquitaine refers to Palladius having been sent by the Pope to act as bishop to the Irish while simultaneously working to keep Britain Christian rather than Pelagian. Could you be confusing this with Patrick’s mission and Arianism? 3/3

@jshocds What’s more, there’s no evidence at all in Patrick’s own writings he was sent by the Pope - and that absence is telling, given the defensive character of the Confession; this looking like a much later Armagh myth. Neither is there evidence he was sent to address Arianism. 2/3

There’s often talk about St Patrick being a migrant, which is nonsense. That’s an error being used by some for political & ideological purposes. St Patrick came to Ireland….. …..first as a slave, revealing that slavery was widespread long before the trans-Atlantic slave trade from Africa. Shamefully, every race engaged in it & people from every race were perpetrators & victims. It’s worth noting that St Patrick’s second work, his Letter to Coroticus, was a condemnation of Irish people being kidnapped into slavery. As late as the 17th century, Irish people were captured & sold into slavery. Des Ekin has a very good book on this - the 1631 kidnapping of people from Cork for the Muslim North African slave trade (obrien.ie/the-stolen-vil…). ….then secondly as a Catholic missionary, sent by the Pope as Bishop of Ireland to intensify the evangelisation of the people here. He was a man formed in a theological school in France, sent not only to convert the Irish but to undermine the work of Arian heretics who were also at work on the island to some degree - hence St Patrick’s overwhelming emphasis on the Holy Trinity & the person of Jesus. St Patrick’s legacy is one of Catholic theological orthodoxy, effective evangelisation & intimate union with Christ. So St Patrick’s life & legacy is very different from that presented by left wing activists. He’s a man best understood, not by politics, but by faith: he was a man of God, a Catholic Christian, who wanted to win souls for Christ.

“It is not right to curry favour with such as these nor to take food or drink with them, nor ought one to accept their alms, until they make amends to God” - St Patrick in Ireland’s oldest known text, urging that Christians never accept wickedly funded hospitality or support.

@gerrylynch @snsetiveyungman I wouldn’t bother, Gerry. An account that has existed for six years, without a real name, and with just 34 followers … that might not be a bot, but it certainly doesn’t look like a credible person.

It took us a long time to get there, but thank you for admitting your problem is with having a woman archbishop. And, you know, that's cool, we have freedom of religion. But other people can disagree with you. It also sheds light on you torturing data to say the opposite of its plain meaning! Anyway, have a good day.

Terminally online right wing Catholics don't even understand actual Catholicism in England, let alone Anglicanism, so I'll ignore their obsession, to the point of bearing fault witness, of spewing hatred (not too strong a word) towards our Archbishop because she's a woman. 1/3