bastani is too big a boy to fit in the room with everyone. they had to put him in his own room & let him talk through the window

Reckon Liz Truss just doesn't really have a grasp on actually existing politics beyond a simplified ideological position (see: when she was prime minister) and that she does things she thinks are cynical and clever which are actually not.

I buried 2-3 pounds of cheese in my yard and a shy large black wild pig dug it up and ate most of it. I only saw the back of the pig, running away, oinking.

‘Oh God, yeah, cé a ghlacfas an Ghaeltacht?’ – ‘díomá’ ar iar-aire ó Fhine Gael faoi ‘bhotún’  an Taoisigh via Tuairisc tuairisc.ie/oh-god-yeah-ce…

Did we know Jerusalem has the exact same Luas as Dublin? Whole set via AFP of 'morning after' activities post drone attack.

This stuff just keeps on giving: Liz Truss on the cut to the 45p tax rate.

She's in a unique position in that Tories hate her with an AOC type energy (famously they fundraise from supporters with the focus on her) - but Labour's 'centralising impulse' also has her as a roadblock because she's directly elected, so they can't just ship her to the steppes

Letter to the Editor: Joe Taylor recalls the novelty of the introduction of a cocktail list in a Sligo pub in the 1970s and a mysterious entry called a ‘Tourist Pint’.

You can read more Guinness-themed letters here: irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

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Delighted to say that Mark O’Connell has joined The Irish Times as a weekly columnist. He will appear on Saturdays, starting tomorrow.

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If you knew everything ever said on In Our Time would you know every answer on University Challenge or would they still get you on biology and jazz

(Mis)translations - In Sligo we find that Log an Chaca “the hollow of excrement (i.e., the worthless hollow)” morphed into Log an Chatha “the hollow of the battle”. It seems that a battle was thought preferable to excrement ⚔️ 💩 Logainm.ie
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