Mike Finnerty

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Went back home to Galway for the weekend, they don't tell you this but they have the Saw Doctors playing N17 on the banjo when you cross over the border

Just had to look this up because I quit twitter years ago... extra dot ie are bigger idiots for giving that unnamed TD a chance to air their grievances about the issue. It's total manufactured American culture war bullshit

My 9 favourite games: Burnout 3: Takedown (2004) Just Cause 2 (2010) Mercenaries: Playground Of Destruction (2005) Disco Elysium (2019) Mass Effect 2 (2010) The Walking Dead season 1 (2012) Fallout: New Vegas (2010) Alpha Protocol (2010) Hitman: World Of Assassination (2016- present day)

#My9Games reveals my elder millennialism and that I'm an action RPG boy

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

Ó Ríordáin has been banging this drum for over a year now - Fine Gael's grouping in the European Parliament is increasingly working in lockstep with the far-right in the European Parliament and taking Trump's side on major issues (immigration and climate change, notably)

SNAs plan to "stand up and fight back" amid threat of cuts Despite the government saying they have U-turned on planned cuts to SNAs, 100s of SNAs, teachers and parents protested outside the Dáil last week

Covered the protest by special needs assistants outside the Dáil last week, and it has become clear that the austerity mindset is still present in the civil service and within the halls of government. #Speirgorm dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

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Turnstile cover The Stone Roses' ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ for Like A Version YouTube video by triple j

Turnstile's cover of I Wanna Be Adored is proof that Turnstile Summer 2 is just around the corner www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZgZ...

The Bride press screening notes "Jessie Buckley will do that weird acting trick where she speaks out of the side of her mouth" "Christian Bale wil be doing a LOT (and LOT is underlined twice)"

Seated for The Bride presser

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric.
So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.

Modern America has such a sickness that gamblers are literally making a profit based on the suffering of others. Real Gilded Age vibes coming from that side of the Atlantic now

This explains all of her output since 2013, honestly

I'm so Bored with the U.S.A. by The Clash

The Artist Formerly Known As UCG

I'm regularly told my BA in Business/Film is a mickey mouse degree... Despite the film industry being one of the biggest ones on the planet, and a huge industry in the UK.

STEM research keeps you alive, but arts make it worth being alive.

I'm still gonna call it NUIG when I'm 80, like how old Dubliners still call Dublin City Council "the Corpo"

I say this as someone who dropped out of an arts degree at NUIG, but it would be foolish to get rid of an arts course in such an artistic city. This American style laser focus on STEM and business among our youth is a race to the bottom. Look to the UK if you want an example of an artless society

It was Bluesky wot won it... this should be a lesson to Labour (and indeed, Ireland's political parties) to stop thinking that Twitter reflects real life and that progressive minded people use social media and, gasp, vote too

Any teacher or SNA I've spoken to have told me the same thing - the Department Of Education is still operating as if the crash has just happened and austerity measures are still in place. This is in a country where we hear about strong GDP growth and budget surpluses. Something has to give.

I don't really discuss this, but in my school days I needed the support of an SNA during summers, needed extra time in exams, needed "quiet rooms" for sensory reasons, I did my LC in 2015 and even then, there was a sense that austerity was harming people like me. Nothing has changed in a decade +

Sinn Féin TD Mary Lou McDonald

Social Democrats TD Jen Cummins

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett

Protest outside the Dáil at the planned SNA cuts. Reps from SF/SD/Green/PBP/LAB and independents are speaking, alongside parents, union reps. Very potent campaign forming, this cuts across party, class and society. #Speirgorm

Planned Israeli matches set off political firestorm News that Ireland has drawn Israel in the UEFA Nations League has set off a political firestorm, with Brian Kerr saying the FAI should "show some balls" and boycott the fixtures, and Fine Gael Senator Evanne Ní Chuilinn said the FAI “cannot be expected” to boycott the matches

Wrote about the Ireland/Israeli matches setting off a political firestorm; Brian Kerr has called on the FAI to "show a bit of balls" and not play in the fixtures, but the official government line is "there is no Irish boycott of Israel" dublinpeople.com/news/sport/a...

Local reps call for supports for flooding victims Local politicians have criticised the government for failing to protect the Northside from recent flooding with one TD saying it was a "scandal" that millions of euros have been spent on a weather awareness system that hasn't entered use

Recent flooding on Dublin's Northside has called the government's commitment to tackling climate change into question, and has raised questions about Ireland's councils being stretched to the limit in terms of disaster management dublinpeople.com/news/northsi...

The Secret Agent pulls off a wildly ambitious heist The Oscar-tipped The Secret Agent is the finest thing out of Brazil since Ronaldinho, per our review

Be sure to catch The Secret Agent - one of the very best films of the year dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...

Is the American economy really in that dire a state that people are betting money on what raindrop reaches the bottom of the window first? Why has the betting thing exploded since Trump won again?

I did a semester of Russian politics in final year, ask me anything about the 2008 Russian presidential election and its consequences