Darragh O’Reilly

Aimé Césaire not Foucault. Matter of fact, forget Foucault.

why absolute popularism is bad: voters can move a lot, especially on lower-salience issues. show them a party label and a statement and support can move by almost 70 points. if republicans lead while democrats just follows the polls, guess where we'll end up

The first European to win a Grand Slam, and the first Irishman to win the Masters. A legend of the game.

I don’t condone disruptive behaviour or littering, but we need to acknowledge a broader reality: in major cities around the world, enjoying a drink outdoors in the sun is normal. Instead of resisting it, we should design for it: more public spaces, more bins, fewer problems.

This is the stupidiest, most envious piece I've ever read in @jacobin. Why not ask @garyseconomics to write a guest article than publishing this patently jealous random melange? Why are the English left so wedded to being irrelevant.

The OBR was created by Osborne to hardwire austerity into decision making. It is good at estimating the costs of policies, but bad at assessing the benefits — and is allergic to fiscal multipliers This creates a bias against the ambitious, transformative policies we need

On @LBC, SMF Director @theobertram set out our inventive ideas for the Spring Statement 🧮 ✅ Raise Remote Gambling Duty to raise £4.4bn ✅ Vacant Property Tax to raise £10bn ✅ Tax on house flipping to raise £2.8bn ✅ Tax on non-resident home purchases to raise £6.7bn

If you're wondering why Belfast Bikes may have lower rentals than many previous years, this could be playing its part. I used them for years, but I'm not putting down a £150 deposit to use them

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Sinn Féin is simultaneously demanding Storm Éowyn compensation for those who suffered in RoI while opposing it for the same people in NI. The details of how this happened reveal ideological chaos and a party which can't handle the power it has at Stormont. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

This is pathetic.

Barry Keoghan was in the right

5 years on and @deptinfra still dithering in pedestrianising Hill St. If anything shows DFI’s loyalty to cars it’s this. It’s not a question of money - it’s a just few signs & bollards - it’s just they don’t want to do it. From yesterday’s Tele ⬇️

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People like George Monbiot who attack growth show the depth of the problems faced by the Left. They cannot argue for nationalization of private capital b/c of Soviet experience. They cannot argue for higher taxes b/c they are deeply unpopular. Hence they attack an accounting concept: the GDP.

La socialdemocracia es más necesaria que nunca. Aquí y ahora. No tengamos dudas, ser socialista es estar del lado correcto de la historia. Lo fue en el pasado, lo es ahora y lo será en el futuro.

#Seanad2025 - Nessa Cosgrove is the 11th candidate to be deemed elected on the Labour Panel, having reached the quota via the 7th sub-parcel of the Rabbitte, Anne votes. #SeeForYourself Seanad 2025 Results Hub - oir.ie/9ab621a

NIE made £91.5 million in the last reported year. More than £30m was passed to ESB in Dublin as a dividend. They, and not the taxpayer, can and should be compensating both business and domestic consumers without lumping it in to bills.

I might do a thread one day on Cormac O Grada's book on the Irish Jewish community, but worth noting for now his views on historic anti semitism in Ireland because a lot of people are misstating the reality