The Irish Guy

If this scene had been in Monty Python, nobody would have thought it out of place

@IrishRail leap card tap on not working at Dunboyne station. Do I just tap off at destination?

Hard to believe that with all the joy and drama of the World Cup that Irish football seems hell bent on conceding 2 games and making it even harder to qualify for the next one, just to make some pointless gesture that will be forgotten about before it even happens.

Why is it that so many teacher trainers are not familiar with the science of learning? Or even actively oppose it? I think the case of differentiated instruction is useful. The *best* case that can be made for differentiated instruction is that the evidence is inconclusive. It is also hugely time-consuming for teachers to enact. Yet it is enthusiastically endorsed everywhere from teaching standards to there being entire units on it at training colleges. If this is not a response to evidence, what is it? It is a response to ideology. This ideology maintains that everyone is different and special—which is a pleasant idea—and so they need their own unique mix of teaching methods—which is probably untrue. Nobody ever explains what evidence a teacher would use to decide this mix. They just need to *know their students*. And, of course, teacher trainers do not have to suffer the consequences of this approach. It is for others to do the suffering.

Ringmahon Rangers have done more to promote the upcoming All Ireland hurling semi finals than the participating counties or the GAA

Wow. Keith Evans' 69th minute block on Michael McKernan was incredible. This would have brought Tyrone level. Heroic stuff. (This video by @officialgaa is a work of art. They're doing great things on social media these days.)

@VillageMagIRE Went to the recycling center today to get rid of garden waste. Had bottles to get rid of too. I asked the man which of the huge bins the different color bottles go. His reply “it doesn’t matter. It’s all the one” This is the center that the bottle bank bins are brought. Enjoy ☀️

As Europe burns under climate-change-boosted heat, not one person in Irish public life has had both 1) the imagination to treat this as an existential issue; and 2) the wit to ensure we had ACTUALLY BINDING TARGETS for CO2 reductions, in legislation. #timeservingmediocrities

The UN is beyond a joke. It needs disbanding

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

and knowledge necessary to move on and learners risk gaining surface-level understanding

In practice, however, they are frequently ineffective. Teachers may struggle to ensure progression in core concepts. Essential foundations of knowledge get missed out. As a result, teachers of later year groups cannot be confident that pupils will arrive with the vocabulary

From the overview of NI curriculum This emphasis on subjects is sometimes known as a domain-led curriculum, as each subject.. (such as history, science, mathematics or the arts) …..pupils gain access to specialised, structured knowledge that cannot be acquired incidentally.

Not much going on so here's Liverpool beating Man United 7-0 at Anfield a few years ago 👍

I think it’s outrageous the way Robbie Keane is being treated. He was in a job when the war started, he explains his and his staff situation very well here. He has done nothing wrong. He being labeled by a group of mentally unwell in this new cult for 🇵🇸

@DaveLeGaeilge It's a deeply stupid question that doesn't belong in a history exam. It is green ideology leaked in from somewhere else

@DavQuinn It’s insane what they have done. To any person of good faith interested in education, please compare the JC History paper from 2016 with today’s paper. Backwards steps and dumbed down.

The first question in today's Junior Cert history paper was about...climate change.

What distinguishes third-wave feminism from its second-wave predecessor is not an easy question to answer but some would say the difference is marked by the concept of intersectionality. Second-wave feminism is criticised by feminists of a more radical stripe for what they see as its concentration on the concerns of middle-class heterosexual white women to the virtual exclusion of the problems of lesbians, women of colour and working-class women. Third-wave feminists tend to see the oppression of women, however broadly conceived, as just one aspect of a more extensive notion of oppression of people by sex, by race and by class, these categories intersecting at various points. If you are a worker, you are oppressed; if you’re black you are oppressed; if you are a lesbian you are oppressed. If you are a black lesbian worker, you are intersectionally triply-oppressed. Where there are the oppressed, there must of necessity be oppressors. So, men oppress women, whites oppress blacks, heterosexuals oppress homosexuals, capitalists oppress workers, the so-called cisgendered oppress the transgendered and the able-bodied oppress the disabled or differently-abled. The intersection of these categories gives rise to some apparent anomalies: if you are a black, lesbian company director you are at once oppressed (black and lesbian) and an oppressor (company director). If you are a man you are an oppressor; if you are white you are an oppressor; if you are unemployed, you are oppressed; if you are a worker, you are oppressed—if you are a white, male, unemployed worker you are at once oppressed (unemployed worker) and an oppressor (white and male). So, then, one can be simultaneously privileged and oppressed but not in respect of the same category. Thus, a cisgendered white woman is privileged in respect of her whiteness and cisgenderedness but oppressed in respect of her femaleness. An able-bodied attractive homosexual is privileged in respect of his able-bodiedness and attractiveness but oppressed in respect of his homosexuality. How are we to calculate the fine grades of oppression and rank them on a scale where they can be compared? How are we to determine whose victimhood is superior? Whatever may be the correct answer to this question, if indeed it has a correct answer, one suggestion may immediately be dismissed and that is the radical idea put forward by many patriarchs (i.e. men) that we should treat people as individuals and not simply as tokens of various types. This superficially reasonable proposal is just another reprehensible exercise of patriarchal power designed to suppress the oppressed groups’ consciousness of their group identities which is what gives them their superior victim status. Such a deviously reactionary idea may be safely ignored. 😎🧐

@theirishguy2016 @danobrien20 @K02568 Seriously? That's insane, what possible reasoning do they have for doing this? It's fucking bonkers, how can students understand the foundation of the state if they don't have all the info? Doesn't make any sense.