Conor Donnelly

@Wisdom_HQ FALSE - only the version released to USA had subtitles, the version released in UK/Ireland did not have these subtitles

Brad Pitt almost walked away from Snatch the night before filming because he couldn't nail the accent. After a long night of Guinness and panic, he stopped trying to be perfect and started being incomprehensible. The result? A performance so "broken" the studio demanded subtitles, and a character that became the most iconic part of the movie. Sometimes the "mistake" is actually the masterpiece. 💎🥊

@jdflynn If the search slots you higher than the Vice President then that’s okay by me 😉

Twitter's search function is now completely unusable. that's kind of annoying.

@Glinner There’s more than one type of AI

Who are the best people on AI on here? I mean thinkers and nerd philosopher types rather than creatives (but that too if anyone's doing anything interesting)

@jennfrey How did Ireland survive all these years without the wisdom of these people? 😉 ☘️

You do not understand large family dynamics. It's best to be quiet about what you don't understand. Furthermore, the idea that the mother is the only one whose time and attention matter is modern and questionable. I certainly question it.

@VeteranIrish 3 bob bit that Andy fella

👇🏻😂😂

@jennfrey Does skilling the tech worker belong in the same academy as fostering elite thinking for the kids of the wealthy? We pondered these questions in my first semester of Graduate Theology at a large Catholic university. Kids of lower income families desperately seek vocational study.

Anyone who follows me knows that I believe there is nothing conservative about destroying the centuries long tradition of liberal arts and the university in favor of "workforce alignment." I like Stitt; I support higher ed reform; this badly misses the mark.

@BishopFintan Really … white Jesus and white people? You know you can ask AI better 😂

@marginview @NiallStanage Of course, we like to remind people that the “college” - St Columb’s - yielded two Nobel Prize winners. The other was a true social democrat: a man who led the people on the streets and not some US Democrat engaged in insider trading and phony identity politics while Rome burns.

@NiallStanage Your fellow Ulster man had a word

I’m watching the latest scenes from Minneapolis with the same horror as so many people. We feel inches from the abyss. Five years ago, in the wake of Jan. 6, I wrote a personal piece about the Belfast of my youth and the U.S. of today. I so wish I’d been wrong.

@Glinner Let’s make this really simple: a small number of cops in a context of the culture of “not speaking up” and strong Fraternal Order backing does not make for universal problems with law enforcement. To say otherwise is the literal definition of prejudice. Weed out the problems.

Because modern leftists are so dysfunctional, their only achievements are accidental.

@derryjournal But they’ve been silent on the thousands being killed in Iran … probably because the Persian Troll sites are where they get their messageing from 😉

In a stark message today, Derry IPSC has urged people to stand by and read themselves to gather at Free Derry Corner if one of the Hunger Strikers should die in the coming days.  trib.al/QD6q926

@DeTahmineh @Glinner You could say the same for Syro-Levantine people: Syriac/Aramaic language suppressed, Islam forcing many Catholics to convert or die, and their culture overlaid by Arabs. That is also ignored by the media - like they forgot that Alexandria-Jerusalem-Antioch was Catholic

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime. Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it. Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine. This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased. By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely. There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues. As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises. Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically. This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language. Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape. That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored. So the silence continues.

@BishopFintan Young Monahan … don’t forget the women and children … especially the wee fella who had brought the little food 😉

@mikelinley1 @VeteranIrish People forget that the 62 Supply Squadron was also involved

@RevDrC @VeteranIrish It’s always bothered me , how the fuck did they get the horse off the balcony x.com/MilitaryCooI/s…

“Kirk to Enterprise… Scotty beam this cunt up and jail him ffs..” 😳😳😳

@Troubles_Truth @KNEECAPCEOL We know who’s wearing those masks …

@GaryHynds Next they will be calling for the immediate withdrawal of the Amish and the restoration of the Lenape Indians

At least 20 people came out with Gerry Carroll to support the dictators of Venezuela & Iran in an "emergency demonstration" in Belfast tonight. This will surely send shockwaves around the world! 😅🤣

We stand for peace. We stand with Venezuela 🇻🇪 See you Sat. Please share as widely as possible.

Anti Imperialists take a stand for sovereignty and national self-determination in Dublin! More than 100 people attended a protest in solidarity with Venezuela organised by Anti Imperialist Action Ireland today at the US Embassy in Dublin. #HandsOffVenezuela

@VeteranIrish @182sudani Okay … but why say “YOU” in Arabic to a man who speaks Farsi? Do you think this is possibly a fake video? You never know these days! 😂 😂 😂

@182sudani 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

⁦@VeteranIrish⁩ Next!

Nicolás Maduro has only himself to blame. If he’d spent his career raping 14-year-old girls and cosying up to the Mossad he’d be in DC getting a standing ovation from both houses. Rookie, rookie error.

@GerryAdamsSF أنتم تقفون إلى جانب الغزاة العرب وليس إلى جانب السكان الأصليين لبلاد الشام.

Israel violated the ceasefire agreement again in Gaza killing two civilian Palestinians and injuring many others. Since the declaration of ceasefire 82 days ago Israel killed 425 Palestinians in Gaza and injured 1158.