🔴⚪️ St Patrick’s Athletic Fan and Historian 📕📖 Author, ‘Saints Rising: The Early History of St Patrick’s Athletic FC’ 👨🏫🍎 HSCL Teacher 💜⬅️ Socialist - former SDCC Cllr and Mayor
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm
Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for womenThe memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...www.irishexaminer.com
The Corleck Head • Cavan As we're in the time of Lughnasa, it gives me an excuse to share one of my favourite artefacts in @nmireland.bsky.social – the Corleck Head. It was found in 1855 near Corleck Hill in County Cavan, where a Lughnasa festival was regularly held. #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
Here is a link to my article detailing and analysing a bonkers week in football Infantino’s World Cup plot leaves him deserted by allies and with his credibility detonated www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
Gavin Cooney: Infantino’s World Cup plot leaves him deserted by allies and with his credibility detonatedFifa president has managed to unite football, but not in the way he wishedwww.irishtimes.com
If you can bet on wildfires on Polymarket, you are now financially incentivised to start fires. This is the endgame. We are fucked.
In this Sunday’s matchday programme - to follow afterwards on our Patreon - we look at the second part of the 1967/68 season - featuring European and LOI Shield action. 🔴⚪️
SIPTU has reaffirmed that it will support any member who, on grounds of conscience, refuses to participate in the hosting, servicing or facilitation of the upcoming UEFA Nations League fixtures involving the Irish and Israeli national football teams. https://bit.ly/4cdpEw2
SIPTU supports workers' boycott of Israel fixtures and calls on Government to cancel gamesWhen facing an attempt to sportswash a genocide, workers have a right to act in accordance with their conscience and should not face disciplinary action.www.siptu.ieThe Saints who beat TEK United en route to the 1974 FAI Cup Final. Back row (l-r): Mick Dempsey, Paul Doyle, Tom Lally (GK), Brendan Myles, Sean Byrne, Jack Burkett (p-m), Dermot ‘Mo’ Shiels Front row (l-r): Leo ‘Pop’ Flanagan, Ben O’Sullivan, Paddy Munroe, Ernie Reynolds (c), Mick Cooke (sub) 🔴⚪️
Glad to see so much uptake of this story which was first reported by Shamim, but please be aware this is entirely typical and unsurprising behaviour by the DOJ. It’s particularly cruel when the students are from Gaza but it’s also part of a pattern of unjustified visa refusals
Shamim MalekmianDozens of people from Gaza seeking visas to study in Ireland are denied entry. It was Haneen Eshraim's only “realistic opportunity at this stage to leave Gaza safely and continue my education”, she said. More here www.dublininquirer.com/dozens-of-pe...
Really begs the question how much he has donated to 'Progress Ireland' to push his deregulation agenda doesn't it? Calls for wealth taxes on the super-rich are growing across the world and People Before Profit will renew our call for a tax on multi-millionaires in Budget 2027.
Irish entrepreneur Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth taxBuilding a Better California opposes proposal that would require California’s billionaire residents to pay a one-off tax on their assetswww.irishtimes.com
Enough is never enough for this vile man.
World Cup for sale: Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in tournamentFifa president could become ‘commissioner’ of new company in plan discussed with Trump’s administration, but critics fear it’ll be a ‘nuclear bomb’ for the gamewww.thetimes.comDermot Keely, Joe Smith and Paddy Munroe defending against Cork Celtic in the 1976/77 season. 🔴⚪️
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
The Mayo bus has accidentally driven under a ladder and smashed through the Swinford mirror factory on its way home. This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen.
The rugby team have been losing WC quarter finals for longer than Mayo were losing All-Ireland finals , I think it's high time we made up some old nonsense about then being cursed
A smouldering fire in Glenasmole in Dublin reignited overnight after a change in wind direction helped the fire find new fuel. It crossed the Featherbeds and down into Glencree in Wicklow. Strap in for wildfire stats🧵 #Climate #Wildfire #Speirgorm
Wee bump for this. New-new blog post coming this Saturday, first instalment of a two-parter on someone I've wanted to write about for quite a while: "Joe McKelvey's final year: Part 1."
Kieran GlennonNew/updated blog post: "The Map of the Belfast Pogrom (June 2026 update)." As well as incorporating the changes in last month's update, the map now includes some new details about those responsible for particular killings. thebelfastpogrom.com/2026/06/27/t...
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
Roberta MetsolaFifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.