Simon McGarr @[email protected]

Taking a break from the Middle East this weekend – I’ve been seconded from the Foreign Desk and will be reporting on the @RTEDublinBayNth constituency from the RDS. With 20 candidates and just two outgoing TDs standing, this 5-seater will return 3 first-time TDs (at least) #GE24

Yesterday, my wife tweeted a single line about a local Dublin Bay North election candidate Barry Heneghan, pretty mildly expressed, and received a weird defensive blast reply from him. He wasn’t going to get my No 1, but now he’s not getting single digits.

Voters in Dublin Bay North should be aware that independent candidate, Barry Heneghan is Finian McGrath’s protege and he’s having a very bad day, imho.

In Howth, there is a seal who will wave at you if you throw him a fish.

@yet_so_far Ignore all the nonsense with the guitar fellow. This actually a cracking good meal in a flash. youtu.be/htHZguMJ_xY

Anybody got any quick and easy weeknight dinner recipes?

@Viriconia It’s actually the archive of fun posts and past chats that has held me here in amber for the last few years. But the Terrible Person has poisoned the well.

@Tupp_Ed MORE homework good grief. Sorry to see you go, we had some good times on this here app.

@Viriconia Hello! Good morrow to you! I will shortly be exploding my Twitter account and your posts are one of the few remaining bright spots I would miss. Can I extend a personal invite to you to come on over to, say, Bluesky as an alternative (Or Mastodon.ie even)

@Viriconia I’ve followed and I hope to see you there after my nullification here.

@Tupp_Ed I'm on bluesky but I don't bloot there much but maybe I'll start bsky.app/profile/virico…

@Cowb11Saltwater @TheKavernacle Ireland:

@TheKavernacle 1/ Last time I checked Northern Ireland is still a part of the UK and the IRA, to a large extent, no longer exists. By your argument we should see more kids in the IRA. Not only do we not see that but more Irish Catholics are more likely than ever to consider themselves British

I went to Belfast last year and did a tour with a former IRA insurgent. He said when he was 14, British soldiers shot up his apartment bloc killing someone he knew. He joined the IRA's youth wing after that, then joined the IRA when he was 18. He was vague but said

@williamhboney1 Thinking good thoughts, Martin.

In hospital ATM, if Ur trying to get in touch it will be a few days before I can reply

@dermotcasey Bluesky has the juice.

New @EchoChambersPod with Digital Rights expert, Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed) on the Digital Safety Act and how good ideas badly legislated are doomed to failure. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5bFlED…

Fluent Irish requirement ‘a barrier’ to more working-class young people becoming teachers irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

@dermotcasey You have to tell us your forwarding address- where are you decamping to? I have a foot in both Bluesky and Mastodon, so I will hunt you down. Nowhere is safe.

@bbboatclub And, not a book, but a reader’s guide to the McAleese Report on the Laundries mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2021/01/14/how…

@bbboatclub 3 Belonging:%20One%20Woman's%20Search%20for%20Truth%20and%20Justice%20for%20the%20Tuam%20Babies a.co/d/dJyRQgS

Can ye recommend books about Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby homes in Ireland? I’m looking for solid research based academic stuff.

“Over the last five years the tide came in for Sinn Féin and then it went out again, and they never got the good of it... I can’t see the moon pulling the votes in SF’s favour again this year.” The Gist 13/6/24 thegist.ie/the-gist-a-saf…