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kieranryan.bsky.social
Westport, Mayo, Ireland.
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"Old Man Yells At Cloud" is supposed to be a chuckleworthy internet meme, not a cornerstone of foreign diplomatic relations.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

I don't understand why newsrooms, especially Irish ones, are parsing that imbecile's posts to make the language sound more diplomatic. Read that verbal diarrhea verbatim.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the bombing of iran, the inevitable escalation, and the lasting global consequences are the kind of once in a lifetime disaster you only see 5 or 6 times before your mid forties

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Still got to go to work?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Is this bad? This seems bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Ireland is one of only two EU countries that do not recognise covid19 as an occupational disease or injury. This article highlights the disgraceful lack of care and respect that the government are showing towards frontline healthcare workers injured during the height of the pandemic. #speirgorm

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It's a solid business strategy, to be fair.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Current affairs, wha'?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If you are currently sick with a respiratory illness in Ireland, it's far more likely to be Covid than flu or RSV.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Up, up,and away. Covid summer wave underway in Ireland.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Big fan of my new @dublininquirer.com tote bag

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A record six male Corncrakes have been recorded on Rathlin Island this breeding season, marking a significant milestone in conservation efforts for the species:

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

No nuclear war last night? Alright, guess I'll head out.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

3 charts below: 1. Antibiotic-resistant "Superbug" cases in Ireland. 2. Covid wastewater levels in Ireland. 3. The charts overlaid & roughly synced for the same time period. The pattern appears to show a connection between the peaks of Covid and peaks of superbug infections. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Xenophobia will solve our housing crisis...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Our housing system working as designed.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil. It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

submitted 11 days ago • 61 comments

So you're telling me the military that has carpet bombed Gaza (which has no air defence), and blown up hospitals & refugee camps, can put a missile through the window of a specific apartment in Tehran when it wants to?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A short overview of the Covid situation in Ireland: 📈 There's a summer Covid wave brewing 🙈 The weekly Covid wastewater reporting gets switched to monthly for the summer 💉 Very few people have an up-to-date Covid vaccine (healthcare workers aren't even a vaccine target group anymore) Good luck 👍

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Twitter and Facebook are harming us. Radicalising people into racism and other inane cruelties, and fomenting violence on our streets. They should be subject to the same publishing restrictions and responsibilities as other publications

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

There’s a Dutch phrase about feeling anxious that translates to “shitting seven colours of sludge.” A Bulgarian version is “deep in thought like a fat pig before Christmas.” But my favourite variant is the Puerto Rican como cocodrilo en fábrica de carteras, or “like a crocodile in a wallet factory.”

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

New housing plans on Primetime last night & it’s just about how to stimulate the market, lads. Renters (like me) are just fruit to be juiced to feed landlords & developers cos there can’t possibly be another way of building homes (social what?). Developer response to plans: this won’t make me build.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment