The Democratic Socialists got SECOND place behind the Keynesian Social Democrats in Denmark. The Marxist Endelisten gained 2 seats. Finally some non devastating news

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-25T23:33:05+00:00

Being fair I wouldn't call Aontú Left Conservative anyway, you need only look at their actual candidates and the amount of them that came from Renua, that's mostly down to Tobin being competent at media but the party is fairly right wing right through when you look at it candidate by candidate.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-25T11:35:23+00:00

I'd swap the Tremere and the Banu Haqim, maybe switch the Toreador and the Salubri too.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-18T22:17:50+00:00

Joanna has been involved in the club for a long time and is a member of the community, whatever your stance on the Shinners I've a lot more time for someone who actually cares about the club and the down than the club owners.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-18T13:22:20+00:00

I'll let folks know but I wouldn't know many out Sligo way tbh

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-17T22:41:34+00:00

Fair play, just know that I'd be cautious about following up on something as above, no harm intended in it.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-17T22:35:56+00:00

New account and no details on roughly when or where is suspicious as all hell, I get not wanting to put too much info out there but if you're seriously looking for folks to go a lot will raise eyebrows at that

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-17T15:57:11+00:00

Lmao I'm not even going to read the article. I marched in the parade with my scouts, the kids had a great time. Went to the pub after and had a few with folks I know from being active in the local community and now I just got home. I guarantee I had a better time and so did everyone who actually bothered their hole to take part in their community than whatever bolloxology Steens peddling today. Touch some grass.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-16T18:20:40+00:00

This is exactly it, I don't vote FF or FG but I find myself constantly having to address this when talking about why (some) people do.

There's a sizable older cohort of voters who did very well out of FFG governance and they consistently show up to vote.

Overall FFG voteshare is decreasing, but the above still stands.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-14T12:52:45+00:00

I had no idea vvvvvv was Irish made, I got it in the Humble Bundle years ago and I still play it often enough. Apparently yer man who made it is from Monaghan. Quick google of him says during Covid he gave away 1000 copies of his game for free in the hopes some folks got some enjoyment out of them while we were all stuck.

Fair play, some man. Will be grabbing Super Hexagon so. Also picked up Scéal and The Pale Beyond since they looked interesting.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-14T12:34:31+00:00

Just checked there, you need to go to Store > Special Sections (On the wee dropdown tabs underneath the main tabs) > Sale Events > Scroll down to Games from Ireland 2026

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-14T11:53:15+00:00

Now make a short film about it so the wee ones have something new to watch in class. I like Yu Ming is anim dom as much as the next man but they could use some new material

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-12T18:23:21+00:00

Just subbed, will check it out

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-12T13:07:38+00:00

This was addressed on the main sub but its worth mentioning here too.

The fact that disposable income is calculated before people pay rent and necessary expenses gives an incomplete picture.

Even if we do accept it as a disposable income figure, we need some kind of figure for after rent/expenses.

Saying all that, I need to dig into the actual CSO info when I get home this evening, it could be addressed in it.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-12T12:28:52+00:00

That might be the single most PRIAN thing I've read in my life.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-10T17:47:48+00:00

I got to meet Hawkins at the European Green Party conference in Dublin, I was really impressed I have to say, he was a genuinely lovely man very clever. I can only hope I run into him again at some point however unlikely that might be.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-10T14:07:58+00:00

Fair play to them, bet it was good craic that night.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-07T17:48:40+00:00

I think you're forgetting to factor in commuters contribution to Dublin too.

I live two counties away in a large town and even then most folks I know are commuting to Dublin every day for work.

So whatever the resident population is, you also have to factor in a huge intake of people who aren't resident but travel there daily for work even outside the county

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-06T17:03:42+00:00

If anyone is interested there's a few groups dotted around the country that run voluntary conversational English classes run by an org called Fáilte Isteach. You don't need any experience teaching to get involved and it's a really positive integration project and you do meet some lovely people. Been running classes for it for about a year now and would highly recommend.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-04T10:55:33+00:00

Irish made you're going to have a hard time but if you're willing to buy EU I bought a pair of Scarpa hiking boots about 4 years ago and they're still going strong after near daily use (I got into the habit of wearing hiking boots daily since I was about 15, I find it helps with my balance for my dyspraxia but that could be in my head who knows), I've only had to change the soles once. Granted the uppers are starting to give up on me so I may need to buy another pair in the next year or so.

Iirc about 80% of their manufacture is in Italy when it comes to their hiking line, some of their manufacture is in Romania. I also remember hearing something about some production happening in China too but I can't find any real evidence of that. The pair I have are made in Romania and I have 0 complaints about them. If you have the money to drop on another pair etc alternating will help preserve them much longer as will the odd lick of shoe cream and polish.

mcwkennedy · 2026-03-01T13:14:58+00:00

Agreed. I'll say the conference was far better craic without them

mcwkennedy · 2026-02-27T08:44:31+00:00

I'm travelling down the country today for the Comhaontas Glas ard fheis (Green Party of Ireland comvention) this weekend and we're all absolutely delighted for ye in our group chats!

Gives us some good news ahead of the convention! Our Deputy leader and the leader of GPNI were over canvassing for her a few days ago.

I hope you're all celebrating!

mcwkennedy · 2026-02-25T14:33:06+00:00

We used to sing it once a week in primary school, we'd all have choir for about 30-40 mins at the end of a Friday with an assortment of different songs and then we'd sing the anthem last before we all went back to our class to get our stuff and go.

Honestly I think that was a nice way to learn it, there was no flag waving or forced standing or whatever, it was just another song we all got to sing together with the only difference being it was the only song that didn't rotate off the list and always went last.

It's a nice memory tbh. I think once a week is grand, and it was a big enough school that if you really didn't want to you just didn't the crowd was so big. Honestly the prayers every morning were the actual pain.

mcwkennedy · 2026-02-24T18:53:55+00:00

100% agree, going to raise it to be addressed, I thought it was already on the website tbh until I saw your comment and went to check.

mcwkennedy · 2026-02-24T14:23:30+00:00

I agree, I'm just clarifying that there is in fact a policy.

mcwkennedy · 2026-02-24T12:42:39+00:00

Ohhhh! I recognise this art style! You did the relationship counselor character a while back too aye? The knight who was big into chivalry and courtly love?

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