Bravo Ireland
Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home.
5,031 followers 386 following 2,833 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Bravo Ireland
You, Gary (and to a lesser but more extent me) made this happen. Well done. Me
New column
By me from 2023: Four Days a Week: This Labor Day, Let's Talk About Laboring Less theintercept.com/2023/09/03/f...
Green goes Purple. We need more Red.
Well let me introduce you to my comrade…
Well jel
Storm Tony smashed through cork city a few years ago. It did over €250m worth of improvements to the area.
Attn Ballymun: the one and only Robert Murphy is on a boat and headed for Gaza as part of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla If a working class hero is something to be, then Robbie is some hero. Yup the Flats.
It’s unclear if just the prospect of a Jim Gavin presidency intimidated Israel into moving their so-called war bonds out of Ireland. But it 100% was a factor | latest by me in today’s Irish Independent
The saying goes that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. While many helped in this result, I want to single out @tupped.bsky.social for his work and (reluctantly) @garygannontd.bsky.social for taking on the risk. But it’s not over. Not until the EU says no to Israeli war bonds.
€2k per month for an “apartment” that is the same size as a minimum sized disabled car parking space.
If it’s any comfort, I believe the 354 All Ireland titles that Dublin won under his leadership should all be stripped away.
Jim Galway Tent Gavin is such an establishment hack that he’s not blocked by Rory Cowan. (More of an other place legacy post)
@tonygroves.bsky.social please post this to see if any Irish media will get involved rsf.org/en/over-210-...
#Speirgorm There is a call to action for Irish folks as well. I will post that next www.irishlegal.com/articles/leg...
Still cash only...
History will not be kind to the anti-Coddle bigotry of this accursed world.
Jim Galway Tent Gavin, in an attempt to get them onboard, is assuring Fianna Fáil members that he will back the Bring Back Tubridy to the Late Late campaign and would be willing to sign the legislation necessary to ensure it passes quickly.
When they go low, we get into the mud.
I’m not ready to give up, but for my friend of many years, Simon, to write a piece about the candidates for the presidency and not include me isn’t making me feel good about my campaign, tbqhwy.
Looks like a normal dirt trail. But trust me, there’s a v.dangerous master of camouflage velociraptor amongst the leaves.
It's hard to really be shaken up these days, but as usual, Tony is a real one
Paywall lifted www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
She’s a Dub, so that’s good. But need to check on her bohs views.
I'll never forget when my movie screened at the film festival in Rome & this Palestinian flag popped up as the first frame. I started crying & thanking them...they said "oh we didn't do this for you...this flag comes up and stays up for one minute of silence before every movie we screen" ❤️ Italians
You’re laughing. In a few years Mo Chara will be a Fine Gael MEP and you’re laughing.
Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date. While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens. My story in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That’s because the lie that austerity saved the country is still believed by the professional managerial class.
He’s well known for it. There’s video, but RTE are refusing to release it!
This one is true.
You’re too young to remember it, D. But there was a time when you could go into town with £20 in your pocket, have four pints, work with despots and dictators, record a podcast, get a bag of chips and still have enough money left for a Joe Maxi home.
God I miss my old life. Before the unpleasantness. Halcyon days they were.
Getting shouted at by Baldomort shows that I’m ready to Sit There And Take It for Ireland!
Genuinely think Jim Gavin is only entering the race now because he saw an opportunity when the left selected Catherine Connolly over me as their so-called unity candidate. #CoddleNotConnolly
Unpresidented 🤞
Good music stopped being made after Ben Kweller’s 2002 album Sha Sha. I’m the only one brave enough to say it.
Rylans career will be fine. Racism pays, after you let on you’re being persecuted for your perfectly reasonable racism & play the puppy with a sore paw bit just right, it can lead you to being on stage performing with Robbie Williams. It’s as lucrative here as in England - I’d say we’re just delayed
Jim Galway Tent Gavin is talking to Tony Blair and Vogue Williams on the MainStage at Electric Picnic at 1pm.
Revelatory: Your enjoyment of kneecap Revolutionary: My enjoyment of kneecap Reality: None of us listen to kneecap
No way.
I’d shoot you. But only for sport! Run
If I Ever Leave This World Alive is on my long run playlist because YASSS
I was there. That was a surreal performance with cat keyboards etc. But yes, that was the 2nd* best performance of that I was ever there for. An unreal tight band live. *flex
I confess this is my first listen. But I can absolutely see why it would be a live build-build-build belter.
Well argued. Couldn’t disagree
Stop. Whisper it, but the real truth about the Nirvana era is that it is really the Pearl Jam era. I’ll have to delete this shortly…
150%.
Is that a flex or a moment of bliss or both?
Ooofff
A soft drink are not a band ;)
Show off.
What’s the best live performance of a song that you have ever seen? It has to be a song that you liked, but didn’t love until the live performance seared it into your brain. Mine is The Divine Comedy’s Tonight We Fly.
🎶The wheels of the bogus self employment bus go round and round🎶
Ireland now has over 5000 children living through homelessness. A month ago, the Housing Minister said he was powerless to stop this. Can you imagine being a child stuck living in a hotel, telling yourself it won't be for much longer, then seeing the man with the power to stop it talking like this
If at least one of the tabloids doesn’t run a ‘Catherine Gone-olly’ headline tomorrow then the media doesn’t deserve to survive.
That’s awful. And we are told over and over that we are a wealthy country that has never had it so good.
money for warfare✅ money for welfare❌
For “did” see also do xx
The world is upside down and backwards. But even in all the madness I did not have ‘Paddy Cosgrave in the Masters Tennis World Rankings top 20’ on my 2025 bingo card.
Beautiful picture from Shuaib Abu Jahal of the sunset in Gaza as families play in the sea. Find joy wherever you can.
Every word of this
It’s just sad watching Jim Gavin throw his lot in with Fianna Fáil and realising that I’m going to have to post mean things about him. It’s enough to put you off your breakfast Coddle.
You’re performing in both Greystones and cork. *adds DOD to enemies list* Best of luck
Another great reason to get yerselves to Dublin Maker this weekend
👇👇👇 #Journalism #Gaza
The Ditch as well. But the “more” are on a swiftly sliding downward scale. Not even 10. Liberal bullshit and Israeli framing.
Colin Sheridan of the Irish Examiner showing more backbone than the rest of the “liberal” media combined. Yes, it kills me that he writes for a cork newspaper.
'We will win!': School secretaries and caretakers rally in their thousands as strike starts jrnl.ie/6801539 I listened to an excellent podcast on this yesterday with @tonygroves.bsky.social, and while I wasn't terribly familiar with the subject before, I'm all in favour of their demands.
I can’t share this enough. Every word is true. Journalism is supposed to be the 4th pillar on which democracy is built. The legislature, executive &judiciary with journalist invigilators. There was a time it was investigative journalism broke the big stories, it was considered honourable. No more.
It’s a double triple quadruple meany tax… …this is my plea to get back on RTE.
It’s not just about the death of journalists in Gaza. It’s about the death of journalism in the West. And each cowardly journalist drove a nail into that coffin. I got a bit heated on today’s #EchoChamberPod, but I stand over every single word.
That’s a matter for the government in Stormont.
Love that journalists and writers in Gaza listen to and appreciate the PalCast. It’s all down to Yousef Aljamal. I did not expect to be discussing Wuthering Heights as the drones buzzed on, but that’s part of the magic. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
💔 The smile on Maryam Abu Daqa’s face as Soliman Hijjy keeps the wise cracking up. Palestinians are the bravest, most resilient and (in Soliman’s case) funny people. Rest in Power, Maryam 💔
This was a brilliant conversation! I hope PalCast has Sara back regularly.
Palestinian writer Sara Awad - The Final Evacuation - on the #TortoiseShack PalCast. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2LQ7... or wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you for calling Impotent Rage, Your call is unimportant to us. So please stay on the line and a sense of futile fury will be with you shortly.
#CoddleNotConnoly #GiveGrovesAChance
Noz ( @beardedgenius.bsky.social ) called Starmer’s Labour in early 2023. “What are you without your values or beliefs? If you’ve not got those then you are nothing and that means you are dangerous because that means you can be anything.”
Bring me back a stick of rock. Or else.
Some news from me, thanks to a team of super activists who have been working for months, the biggest flotilla to try and break the siege on Gaza is leaving on Aug 31st. I'm proud to be going on it and obviously nervous. We'd love if you'd follow globalsumudflotilla.org #FromEveryRiverToEverySea
Won’t make it into the Journalist Rally this evening. But I just want to say how proud I am of Irish journalism and their coverage of the genocide in Gaza. I hope one day that I will have the courage to be just as cowardly as you are. #Solidarity #SoBrave
In association with Big Anthrax™️
Hey, I’m sorry you are feeling so much pain. Sending love and solidarity here. And a picture of a tortoise eating. 🐢💚🐢
The new tariffs are going to hit artists particularly hard if it means losing customers in the US, so I'd ask Irish people to please consider buying local, from Irish makers, where at all possible. Support that means little to a huge business makes a massive difference to small creators. We need ye.
The Irish “Hot Ones” just dropped.
Overlooked again. First the centrists picked Catherine Connolly over me and now this. And while I’m upset, it says more about you lot than it does about me.
They’ll blame the left when they don’t get a second term
Slow new limited edition bohs jersey week.
Journalists attending this could help their colleagues in Gaza by demanding that the news outlets they work for stop covering for Israeli war crimes via framing, passive voice guff, foregrounding Israeli talking points and shady editorial control. But they won’t. Tell me I’m wrong.
It was a privilege to interview Sara Awad in Gaza City for the latest #TortoiseShack PalCast. “The Last Evacuation” will be available soon. (Side note: Sara is braver than all of the craven Irish journalists put together)
I’m speculating, but I reckon Kieran Lockheed Martin Cuddihy is glad that his colleagues Ciara Kelly and Mick Clifford have kept the focus on the real victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Bono.
Reminder that the BBC refused to broadcast a documentary about the Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza. The BBC (along with the majority of legacy media orgs) are complicit in the genocide. Fuck the BBC.
The shittiest day in a long line of shitty days.
Don’t worry if you can’t make the vigil in Belfast. Seamus Dooley, Ciara Kelly and Kieran Cuddihy are holding a Dublin vigil in solidarity with Irish journalists who have been attacked for doing sweet fuck all about the relentless killing of Palestinian journalists. Bono is writing a poem.
