Vicky Finlay

@McTim11 @masters @RoscommonGAA @donie_89 @RTEsport @offtheball @ExaminerSport @irishexaminer @echolivecork Wear it, enjoy it, feel it. When you are in fear of it disintegrating through overuse then frame it, but until then...

3 years after missing out on @masters through #prostatecancer battle, I got this amazing gift from @RoscommonGAA legend @donie_89 today and blown away by it. Should I wear it or keep it, a tough choice . @RTEsport @offtheball @ExaminerSport @irishexaminer @echolivecork

Sunny spells and showers make for great rainbows. The full rainbow just now after a shower. Captured by drone near Tullow.

@Munsterrugby Eugh... Who's next- Paddy Jackson??

Munster Rugby are pleased to confirm that Roger Randle has been appointed as the province’s new Attack Coach on a two-year contract 📝 Roger will take up his role in July on completion of the 2026 Super Rugby season. More Info 👉 bit.ly/4dJA5sZ #SUAF 🔴

@hynessl @TullMcAdoo Sarah, I am so sorry for your loss and for having to put up with all the toerags in your replies. I hope your MIL is ok and may your mother RIP. x

You can add “cruelty to old ladies” to his rap sheet. My 80 year old mother in law had to walk from Connolly to Heuston yesterday on her way back from my mothers funeral

@kylegriffin1 Yeah and my dog went to a farm in the country....

Trump says Bondi is going to a "job in the private sector."

@Cynic_Housewife @travisakers Our school has been doing this for years but now every school in ireland has to, by law, implement something similar. And you know what - it works.

@Cynic_Housewife @travisakers School rules - Phones off in my kids school from first bell to last or else they are confiscated for a few days. Works a treat. If i need to contact them urgently I call the office, if I need to text about something random its there when they finish school. Its a no brainer.

Parents, Stop texting your kids during class while they’re at school. If it’s that important you can call the main office. But now you’re taking away from my classroom time and the time of 35 other students because you can’t follow the rules and law yourself. So knock it off. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Respectfully Mr. Akers

I’ve been seeing clips from the new Netflix documentary ("Inside the Manosphere") where Louis Theroux interviews influencers like Justin Waller and Myron Gaines. One idea that keeps coming up is “one-sided monogamy,” where the man sleeps with whoever he wants while the woman must remain completely monogamous. And they present this as strength, dominance, and the natural order of things. They almost brag about it. But if you actually understand masculine psychology and power dynamics, it’s the opposite. It’s one of the clearest examples of what Jung would call phallic masculinity, which is a shallow, performative imitation of real masculine power. Phallic masculinity is obsessed with proof: proof of status, proof of dominance, and proof of sexual conquest. It constantly needs to demonstrate itself because it’s fundamentally insecure. So these men collect women like trophies and frame indulgence as power. They portray a lack of restraint and discernment as freedom. But real masculine authority doesn’t look like that. Real masculine power is generative. It builds things. It creates stability. It commands respect voluntarily rather than forcing submission. A man who needs sexual asymmetry written into the rules of his relationship is not demonstrating strength. He’s revealing that he cannot inspire loyalty without coercion. A woman who genuinely respects and admires you doesn’t need rules to remain loyal. She chooses it. And another uncomfortable truth follows from this. High-quality, feminine, self-respecting women do not voluntarily enter dynamics like this. These arrangements tend to attract women who are young, insecure, struggling with attachment wounds, or seeking validation from a dominant male figure. In other words, the system selects for the weak feminine, not the strong feminine. A truly empowered feminine woman is one who knows her value and expects mutual respect, and she would laugh at that proposal and walk away. The irony is that these arrangements reveal the opposite of what is being advertised. Instead of a powerful man with a devoted woman, what you often see is a man demanding loyalty while refusing to embody the behaviors that inspire it. Disciplined masculinity has always been admired across cultures for a reason. The man who can command himself commands everything else. The one who cannot control his appetites rarely controls much of anything. Historically, the most formidable men were not the ones enslaved to their impulses, they were the ones who ruled them.

@Variety No apology then?

The security company working the #Oscars has issued a statement to Variety after Oscar nominee Teyana Taylor claimed she was shoved during the ceremony: "There was a brief interaction involving Ms. Taylor and a member of our security team during the show last evening. Our security personnel were working to manage a crowded area and ensure the safety of all guests. During that interaction, there was incidental contact and we regret that the situation escalated. This is not the standard of professionalism we expect from our team, and we have addressed the matter internally to help ensure situations like this do not happen again." variety.com/2026/film/news…

@bambibristol Big 'I'm on a horse' vibes

The strategic importance of Dubai cannot be underestimated… It’s a concentrated holding pen for 98% of the world’s fucking idiots.

@tomdoorley @tcddublin I was chatting to a psychotherapist who works with teenagers and she said that a huge majority of her clients reference irish as a specific cause of anxiety.

Make Irish optional for Leaving Cert. Why do universities (other than @tcddublin) insist on Irish, English and Maths? English, I get. Maths, maybe. But Irish? Opinion: Ireland’s ‘power class’ has a colonial attitude to the Irish language irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

@jaredwright17 Wonder was he told not to mention you know who...

Fin Baxter having a casual yarn about scrums with Kate.#ENGvIRE

@ThatEricAlper The dance montage in Dirty Dancing

What's a movie scene you could watch countless times in a row?

It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold. That could not be further from the truth. This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory. This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002. Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate. But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck. In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over. Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance. In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time. In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest. And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him. So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime. He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance. He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal. Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault. So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes. That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win. It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off. It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances. So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off. This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold. It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times. Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.

Oh, be careful, Merriam-Webster, lest we suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of our lexical ground.

@rorymcevoy I very stupidly nearly gave myself a concussion with one of these when it sprung open and bashed me backwards into the wall 🤣

Would you ever think they could fit a mattress into this box??

@DHSgov This is a lie. Shame on you murderers.

At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here.  The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene.  The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.    About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement.  This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.

@ek_rugby Or Jack and Ben Murphy

@ek_rugby Don't forget Tommy and Jimmy O'Brien

Jeez that's an exciting backrow #MUNvDRA