#  @RobLooseCannon BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine posts on X about dublin, in the, ireland, history the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +192% - [--] Month [---------] -48% - [--] Months [---------] +200% - [--] Year [---------] -19% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +19% - [--] Month [---] -0.81% - [--] Months [---] +65% - [--] Year [---] +0.59% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.57% - [--] Month [------] +2.40% - [--] Months [------] +14% - [--] Year [------] +20% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::50374575/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) #3549 [countries](/list/countries) 16.43% [finance](/list/finance) 5% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 2.86% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 1.43% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 1.43% [financial services](/list/financial-services) 0.71% [stocks](/list/stocks) 0.71% **Social topic influence** [dublin](/topic/dublin) #12, [in the](/topic/in-the) #5221, [ireland](/topic/ireland) #65, [history](/topic/history) 7.14%, [patricks](/topic/patricks) #157, [the british](/topic/the-british) #206, [night](/topic/night) 4.29%, [just a](/topic/just-a) 4.29%, [sunday](/topic/sunday) 4.29%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 3.57% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@billeverhard](/creator/undefined) [@davidsc36517670](/creator/undefined) [@michaelhills8](/creator/undefined) [@houricanvincent](/creator/undefined) [@joeblynam](/creator/undefined) [@bridiebreen1](/creator/undefined) [@10pencefreddo](/creator/undefined) [@patconnor6](/creator/undefined) [@iveaghgael](/creator/undefined) [@mmmmmmmmbeer](/creator/undefined) [@maggielucey1](/creator/undefined) [@galwaywalks](/creator/undefined) [@beloved71478281](/creator/undefined) [@fatherstone4](/creator/undefined) [@gunker1](/creator/undefined) [@scolairebocht21](/creator/undefined) [@supalouma](/creator/undefined) [@flyingsauc14092](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@beveridgep82854](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Grab your towel and flip flops we're taking a dip in the infamous "Turkish Baths" on Lincoln Place/Leinster Street in [----]. Before we enter this rare splash of the exotic in dreary Victorian Dublin let's gaze at the glamorous exterior. Opened in [----] their eccentric owner and architect Richard Barter designed the place to evoke the luxury of the orient. Scandalous to some at the time its decadent Arabesque plaster facade inspired notions of steamy hareems in the heart of the Ottoman Empire. Note the distinctive fairytale [--] foot high Sultan's palace dome adorned with ornamental minarets. The" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022342284688150532) 2026-02-13T16:09Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "Heres some vital medical info some doctor mates of mine were telling me about. Did you ever hear of "Daughter from New York" or "Son from London" syndrome Youll know exactly what I mean in a second trust me. Basically its doctor/nurse lingo for when a terminally ill or elderly person is in care and suddenly out of nowhere a long-lost or estranged relative suddenly arrives on the scene and tries to take over. And its seldom to the benefit of the poor patient or the carer child or the rest of the family who have been consistently there for them. In the HSE handbooks they describe it as" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022359540813951131) 2026-02-13T17:17Z 24.3K followers, 31K engagements "A 15-year-old Irish girl called Amy Fitzpatrick stepped out into the night on the Mijas Costa of Spains Costa del Sol on New Years Day [----]. It was 10:00p.m. and she was heading the short walk home after babysitting her friends younger brother. The teenager vanished without a trace. In those early hours the Guardia Civil launched one of the most extensive missing persons investigations in the regions history combing trails pathways and scrubland around Mijas and Riviera del Sol. Helicopters sniffer dogs and foot patrols scoured the terrain without any trace of the girl being found. Then some" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022281099875877113) 2026-02-13T12:06Z 24.3K followers, 57.5K engagements "Today in [----] Ireland played a friendly match against England it Lansdowne Road. Some level of mindless violence was predicted. The FAI struck a deal with the FA to reduce English fan tickets to [----] out of [-----]. Garda drilled for a few minor scenarios however their main presence was outside the stadium. Before the game in a prelude to violence nearby pubs were vandalised with Loyalist paramilitary and British National Party graffiti. It seemed the dangerous element landed in Dun Laoghaire on the ferry that day. President Mary Robinson was loudly booed from the English stands as she met the" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022962139044978975) 2026-02-15T09:12Z 24.3K followers, 33.2K engagements "@HouricanVincent Underequipped understaffed and underpaid then as now. I don't envy you lads at all" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023044649489998279) 2026-02-15T14:40Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements "A crisis in the 1970s meant Irish pubs briefly replaced banks In the summer of [----] Ireland accidentally conducted an extraordinary social and economic experiment. For more than six months between the 1st of May and the 17th of November the major clearing banks of the Republic of Ireland closed their doors in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The result was a shitestorm total paralysis of the formal financial system. Cheques couldnt be cashed deposits couldnt be accessed and about 60% of the nations savings were suddenly out of reach. Yet the Irish economy did not collapse." [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023310069891264828) 2026-02-16T08:14Z 24.3K followers, 74.9K engagements "Today we visit a lethal IRA kidnapping and rescue that claimed the lives of two heroes. On a freezing November morning in [----] the Troubles arrived in Rathfarnham. Don Tidey chairman and chief executive of Associated British Foods was driving his 13-year-old daughter to school when a car blocked his path. A van appeared behind him its door slid open and armed balaclava wearing men dragged the one of the most powerful businessmen in Ireland inside. Tidey was no ordinary executive. Through ABF he presided over Quinnsworth. Irelands first supermarket chain was a symbol of a modernising economy" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2000852750037299235) 2025-12-16T08:57Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Liffey Ferry was an iconic workhorse a constant presence since our citys pre-industrial past. The most famous of them all was the Number [--] the dockers taxi immortalised in song and in folklore. Cutting her humble path through the choppy green-grey waters in all weathers she was more than just a boat. For dockers and everyday Dubliners alike she was a way of life. Making the short often bone shaking bockety crossing was a rite of passage. You and your handful of fellow sailors would chug along bracing yourselves against the spray of Liffey water marinating in the cold soup of coal smoke" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2012499687937351925) 2026-01-17T12:18Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements "Grab your old spice and brylcreem and get ready to dance around your handbag on the sticky floors were off to visit some Dublin nightclubs of the 1970s to the 1990s. In the 1970s Dublin nightlife operated under the bizarre conceit that gargle could not be served late unless accompanied by a substantial meal. Thus was born the chicken-in-a-basket era a ritual so entrenched it barely registered as absurd at the time. So in Catholic Ireland were not going out clubbing you were dining. The wine was often undrinkable the food barely edible but the dancefloor made up for it. Clubs were not yet" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2016794155171692802) 2026-01-29T08:42Z 24.1K followers, 21.1K engagements "On this day in [----] a terrified freezing 15- year-old schoolgirl called Ann Lovett was crouched in the fetal position in agony at the grotto of the Virgin Mary in Granard Co. Longford. But whilst this child is certainly innocent and worthy of help and this is a place where pious people come to seek assistance from Our Lady her desperate prayers will not be answered that lonely night. Amid the darkness and cold Ann will give birth to a stillborn baby. Compounding that unimaginable tragedy which occurred in this dreary garden of Gethsemane just hours later the teenage mother will also perish in" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017516029589573741) 2026-01-31T08:31Z 24.2K followers, 94.6K engagements "The Irish "Vanishing Triangle" is the large hypothetical area roughly bounded by Dublin Kilkenny and Dundalk where several innocent women went missing presumed murdered mostly in the 1990s. Its become synonymous with victims like Annie McCarrick JoJo Dullard Fiona Pender Ciara Breen and Fiona Sinnott. The remains of some of the women associated with the Vanishing Triangle were never found. In total at least [--] women are commonly associated with the triangle. Theories include a serial killer or killers with a similar modus operandi. committing their disgusting crimes and disposing of their" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2017920635351990337) 2026-02-01T11:19Z 24.1K followers, 19.3K engagements "19 year old Fiona Sinnott had an 11-month-old daughter when she vanished on a cold night in [----]. Fiona was living in rented cottage in the rural townland of Ballyhitt just outside the small village of Broadway County Wexford. On Sunday the 8th of February [----] she was socialising with friends in Butlers Pub in Broadway. Shortly after midnight she stepped out into the chill night air. According to later statements her ex-boyfriend Sean Carroll walked her home and spent the night sleeping on her couch. The following morning he claimed Fiona told him she was going to see a doctor for pain in" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018256506148319699) 2026-02-02T09:33Z 24.1K followers, 25.3K engagements "The Burning of the British Embassy in [----] was a direct and furious response to the Bloody Sunday massacre that had taken place just three days earlier in Derry. On the 30th of January [----] soldiers of the British Armys 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march massacring [--] unarmed civilians and injuring dozens more and understandibly igniting outrage and anti-British across Ireland and the world. The British Embassy at [--] Merrion Square became the obvious lightning rod. In the days after the massacre the building was attacked with petrol bombs. But it was on the" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018280446799327659) 2026-02-02T11:08Z 24.1K followers, 13.1K engagements "Did you know that Dublin Bay prawns dont come from Dublin Bay and aren't really even prawns "True" prawns the hipsters of the aquatic crustacean family have transparent soft shells. The "Dublin Bay" prawns are more like mini lobsters with a hard pink shell which they shed as they grow and they've prominent claws walk on the balls of their feet and wear Canada Goose jackets. And these immigrants are not even from Dublin Bay Their real name is Nephrops Norvegicus or the Norwegian langoustine first classified in [----] by zoologist Carl Linnaeus. Our Italians cousins call them 'scampi' whilst" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018377740873855141) 2026-02-02T17:35Z 24.1K followers, 22K engagements "@Triggertrucker I'd love to give it a go meself. Was it rough" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018380588290286072) 2026-02-02T17:46Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements "Moses once walked the beaches of Dublin. In the 1970s and 80s. A distinguished senior citizen roamed from Merrion Road down to Sandymount Strand and onward towards Blackrock. The gentlemans real name was Tom or Thomas. His surname may have been OMalley or something similar. However local reverently knew him as Moses because he had the look of an Old Testament prophet. And the aura. I will refer to him thus and with the same great respect. He sported a long grey beard blown wild by the sea air. Overall his epic appearance was weather beaten and like Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings he always" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2018987609318453432) 2026-02-04T09:58Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Irish Merchant Navy Memorial on City Quay features an anchor that once belonged to a working ship.The memorial was unveiled in [----] long after the war it commemorates. Officially it honours Irish merchant seamen who died during The Emergency aka World War [--]. Unofficially it marks what the sailors themselves called The Long Watch the endless nerve shredding vigil of crossing mined waters and U-boat hunting grounds. Ireland was neutral but the Atlantic theatre didnt recognise that. Irish ships were torpedoed by German U-boats and struck by Allied forces alike sometimes mistaken for enemy" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019374118332678267) 2026-02-05T11:34Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements "Sometimes things that look modern and ordinary are actually ancient. Saint Winifred's well on Eustace Street in Temple Bar is one such fascinating feature. An overlooked diamond amid the cigarette butt and vomit-smeared cobblestones which tells a tale for those with eyes and ears for history. This humble hole fringed with a little stone wall lies outside what is currently The Norseman pub. It was buried for centuries before its rediscovery during roadworks in the mid-1990s. Wells and holy wells specifically have a deep and timeless importance to the Irish. Water sources named after saints" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019469489167859962) 2026-02-05T17:53Z 24.2K followers, 12.6K engagements "Today in [----] the Irish House of Commons voted itself out of existence. Sitting in College Green in what is now the "blind" Bank of Ireland building Irelands parliament approved a legislative union with the Kingdom of Great Britain. Just over a year earlier the same proposal had been defeated forcing the British government led by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger to change tactics. Persuasion gave way to pressure and bribery. Between the two votes lay the failed trauma of the United Irishmen rebellion of [----]. The uprising bloodily suppressed had terrified the British political class." [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019671714913755193) 2026-02-06T07:17Z 24.2K followers, 19.2K engagements "An 18-year-old student teacher called Deirdre Jacob was back home in Kildare on her summer break from St Marys University in London. She vanished almost in sight of her own front gate on the 28th of July [----]. Deirdre set out that day to do some messages in Newbridge town walking the familiar 20-minute route from her parents gaff in Roseberry. Her precise movements were captured CCTV At 2:18 pm they saw her at the AIB withdrawing a bank draft for her student accommodation rent. By 2:26 pm she was seen posting that draft at the Post Office. Deirdre was chatting with a friend at 2:32 pm. Then" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020044637373624356) 2026-02-07T07:59Z 24.3K followers, 26.1K engagements "Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. Basically this beautiful little city is the product of two rival medieval settlements on neighbouring hills. So like the Whitestown-Ladyswell Yupbro wars of [----] two plucky urban combatant settlements eventually found common ground through trade marriage and common defence interests. First documented in [----] with the establishment of a diocese on Kaptol the city of Zagreb grew alongside the fortified royal town of Gradec which was granted the Golden Bull by King Bla IV in [----]. They were formally united in [----] under Mayor Janko Kamauf. Despite suffering a" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020117775885140425) 2026-02-07T12:49Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "The mysterious disappearance of married couple Conor (62) and Sheila (60) Dwyer from Fermoy County Cork in the spring of [----] remains unsolved. The quiet couple lived on Chapel Hill a short rise above the town close enough to hear the bells of St Patricks Church. On the 30th of April [----] the Dwyers attended a funeral Mass in St Patricks. It was the last confirmed sighting of them. A neighbour Katherine Fenton saw the couple outside the church afterwards barely a hundred metres from their front door. The following day the 1st of May Sheila talked to her sister on the phone. There was nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020458026814029846) 2026-02-08T11:21Z 24.2K followers, 17.5K engagements "St. Marks Church the medieval heart of the Upper Town was built in the 13th-century the famous 19th-century tiled roof blazing with heraldry the Triune Kingdom of Croatia Dalmatia and Slavonia on one side the city of Zagreb on the other came later. Just a few minutes walk away beside the old Stone Gate stands one of Zagrebs most interesting monuments a bronze St. George and the Dragon from [----]. Created by the Austrian artists Arthur Winder and Andreas Kompatscher. It shows the knight in the aftermath helmet removed head bowed his horse standing over a dragon already slain. The unholy serpent" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020494120318365982) 2026-02-08T13:45Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "Youve seen them both thousands of times two men gazing down on you from their stone plinths on OConnell Street where the Luas crosses. But their names and stories are forgotten by the majority of Dubliners who pass them daily. So lets change that and make friends with the men behind the statues. Sir John Gray (1815-1875) and William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864) Gray was born in Claremorris Mayo then went on to become the MP for Kilkenny City representing the Home Rule League. But this polymath was so much more than just a politician. He was a skilled surgeon and owner of the notoriously" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020762296335646976) 2026-02-09T07:30Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "Dublin pubs functioned as morgues right up until the 20th century. This was the days before refrigerated mortuaries in hospitals or municipal body storage. And it was the law. Under the Coroners Act of [----] any body found dead in suspicious accidental or unexplained circumstances had to be viewed by a coroner and jury before burial. If there was no designated morgue nearby and in most towns there was not the body was to be brought to the nearest suitable building. The coldest and reasonably sterile place in almost any town was the pub cellar. Stone-lined underground and designed to keep beer" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2020815296638894469) 2026-02-09T11:01Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "Lets visit Hell. Not the makey-up one that men in funny hats created so they could keep you on your knees while their hand went through your pockets. But the devilish playground of sex and booze and gambling surrounding Gods biggest gaff in 18th century Dublin Clustered around Christ Church Cathedral was the dodgiest ancient neighbourhood in the city. It was a shady maze so notorious that locals knew it simply as Hell. Here in the pissing rain beneath the faces of saints you could gamble and gargle and fornicate your life away to the soundtrack of cathedral bells and seagulls. And considering" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021137807784255720) 2026-02-10T08:22Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "Big news lads The Dublin Time Machine is set to self-destruct this November [----] unless I can turn me beloved hobby into a book. Mental health and new work responsibilities mean I need to publish or be damned. So if you can help with literary agents or publishers please drop us a message and I will gratefully get through them all. As always lads retweets and recommendations are appreciated. Here is a sufficiently pathetic historic picture of me still getting to grips with 20th century Earth to inspire you that I need all the bleedin assistance I can get. You can also help the DTM by buying me" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021203966000869793) 2026-02-10T12:45Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "@JoeBLynam ah thanks a million Joe Im extremely grateful for the support much appreciated" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021512750015377884) 2026-02-11T09:12Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements "Ill be checking all the rest of me messages on lunch now lads thank you so much again. Extremely grateful for all the support X" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021513587827871883) 2026-02-11T09:16Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements "Here's a bloke who personally ended the lives of more people than most serial killers. For more than a generation Thomas Galvin (Galvan in some records) was an executioner at Kilmainham Gaol in the bloody days of late 18th and early 19th century Dublin. Trigger warning here this deals with hanging. And although this piece is about criminals Christ knows far too many sadly innocent souls have been lost that way. Victims of their own pain may they rest in peace. Back to the history 18th and early 19th century Ireland was a violent time of rebellion against repression and public punishment in" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021566898576543931) 2026-02-11T12:48Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "The strange disappearance of Alpho OReilly made no senses. The [--] year old who grew up in Ballinasloe and Westport was a well known and respected figure in Irish cultural life. OReilly arrived in Dublin after the war to study at the National College of Art gravitating quickly toward theatre. By the early 1950s he was acting designing and stage-managing at the Gate Theatre moving in circles that included Lord and Lady Longford. He then moved to England to work at the BBC and ABC Television and remarkably served as production designer on the first five episodes of The Avengers. No not that one" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021618480743616990) 2026-02-11T16:13Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "@bridiebreen1 He did. You know your hangmen Ive actually two posts coming up about Pierpoint and another lad who was an irishman working for the Brits around the War of Independence" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021628269083471996) 2026-02-11T16:51Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements "Sources for this and independent news articles and a bibliography of authoritative sources including statements about British government collusion from the British government themselves. Official Government Documents & Reports **1) The Report of the Patrick Finucane Review A full official UK government review into state involvement and what was known about collusion. 🔗 **2) Statement to Parliament on the murder of Patrick Finucane UK government speech acknowledging collusion and outlining the commissioning of the De Silva review. 🔗 **3) Prime Minister David Camerons statement on Patrick" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021874198964998199) 2026-02-12T09:09Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "@10pencefreddo Yeah I'd have to agree in this particular instance. Although you know yourself experiences even by members of the same nationality in the same regiments can be drastically different due to things like class ans religious affiliation" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021913340348452871) 2026-02-12T11:44Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "Heres just a few British and Irish media stories remembering his murder and eulogising him decades on. Maybe you can read them whilst youre sitting down X * The official press release from the Department of the Taoiseach welcoming the UKs decision. * https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/press-releases/taoiseach-simon-harris-welcomes-confirmation-of-a-public-inquiry-into-the-murder-of-pat-finucane/ http://Gov.ie https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/27/pat-finucane-inquiry-fell-below-human-rights-standards-judges-rule" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021989490709987633) 2026-02-12T16:47Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements "@DavidSc36517670 Feckin hell Ah here how does the Illinois State Military Museum justify this as anything but an embarrassing spoil of war Not very edifying to keep it when a neighbouring nation wants it back. Extremely disrespectful" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022026001904193565) 2026-02-12T19:12Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements "Today in [----] from the pulpit of St Brendans Cathedral in Loughrea the Bishop of Clonfert Thomas Ryan delivered a sermon that would echo across the nation. The night before on Teilifs ireann an episode of The Late Late Show had aired which the bishop was now wringing his hands at and proclaiming was a national embarrassment. Before mounting the altar steps he had already sent a telegram to the programmes host Gay Byrne. It contained just five words: Disgusted with disgraceful performance. From the pulpit Bishop Ryan declared the evil programme was unworthy of Irish television unworthy of" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022219592555254110) 2026-02-13T08:01Z 24.2K followers, 13K engagements "@lester_durden Yeah sadly theres definitely that element too. Its also one of the reasons that although I'm pro euthanasia I think we need extremely solid laws in Ireland to stop coersion" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022389851572834680) 2026-02-13T19:18Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "@PatConnor6 Yep that's definitely a predatory element" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022394811681218911) 2026-02-13T19:37Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "@michaelhills8 I'm always amazed how these people seemingly sleep like babies" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022602911860011046) 2026-02-14T09:24Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements "@IveaghGael Yep a lot of building sites" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022605075970166827) 2026-02-14T09:33Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements "There's a [----] year old hidden holy well in a very unexpected place There was even a cryptic clue to its location on a now vanished old street sign for Nassau Street. The former Irish name mysteriously said "Srid Thobar Phdraig". Patricks Well Road. Take a closer look near the garden of the Provost's House at the entrance to the Trinity Arts building.From the roadside you'll see a pillar a 1950s crumbling concrete eyesore. Take a gander from the Trinity side and you'll see a locked gate. Beneath that some Georgian red bricks and mysterious looking steps down to a more ancient stone basin" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2019323321309868131) 2026-02-05T08:12Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "Thanks a million everybody for your extremely generous support and advice 🙏🏻 I'll be replying to everyone the minute I get to me laptop this morning so I can respond properly. Thanks a million X" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021506988954595454) 2026-02-11T08:49Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements "Holy magic stones don't just exist on Father Ted's Craggy Island. We've got one here in Dublin There has been a place of worship on the site of Old St. Audoen's church since medieval times. That even more ancient chapel was for St. Columba. Audoen's is the oldest surviving medieval church in Dublin with parts of it dating from about [----] CE. The 17th-century tower contains six bells. Three of these are the oldest in Ireland and date from [----] CE. And with centuries of history comes more than a few mysteries. A 9th-century grave marker called The Lucky Stone (an chloch dh) was practically" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021956104431816749) 2026-02-12T14:34Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "@Mmmmmmmmbeer I already robbed all the artefacts (and copper) from most lesser-known archaeological sites in Dublin you'll be grand 😂" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022742254717423617) 2026-02-14T18:38Z 24.3K followers, [--] engagements "@veteris_insect @irl_sport The legend himself posted this photo on Facebook yesterday hes gas 😂🌹" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023001145409732808) 2026-02-15T11:47Z 24.3K followers, [--] engagements "@PLUTO_M00N Yeah a huge waste of time for all involved except the Troglodytes" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023024330163277963) 2026-02-15T13:19Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements "@MaggieLucey1 Yeah extremely awful. Both the personal abuse of trust and the loss to Irish culture too. I wonder how common this sort of neglect and abuse is in relationships where a partner is medically vulnerable" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023036255421026466) 2026-02-15T14:06Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements "@Aunty_Bigot Yeah sadly I agree" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023342044840861821) 2026-02-16T10:21Z 24.3K followers, [--] engagements "Familiar to millions of Dubliners for his iconic windows in Bewley's on Grafton Street St Peters Church in Phibsborough and the National Gallery Henry "Harry" Clarkes (18891931) short life was as turbulent as it was creative. His Da was from Leeds and decorated churches" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1677606904451694592) 2023-07-08T09:13Z 24.3K followers, 188.5K engagements "On this day in [----] "The Plough and the Stars" a drama set during the Easter Rising notoriously caused a riot in the Abbey Theatre. It was only a decade since the city had burned as what W.B Yeats has described as "a terrible beauty is born." The scars from those events and the ensuing War of Independence and Civil War were very much still raw. During the third performance of The Plough and the Stars several women in the audience who were directly involved in the Rising began to get rowdy. The "ringleaders" were three firebrand ladies. Sighle Humphreys (pic 1) was vice-president of Cumann na" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021497952695365656) 2026-02-11T08:14Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "-The next area's decor is a confection of pastel-coloured bricks mosaic-tiled floors and oriental arches. Basically the best budget approximations of the Middle East the second city of Empire could buy. The style was a fashionable trope erroneously called "Saracenic" architecture. We enter a large changing room space called a Divan. This was lined with benches and timber stalls with scarlet curtains for undressing. Unnecessary modesty being a British vice Paddy had inherited at the time All this was beneath an alluring multicoloured painted panelled ceiling. A visitor described the effect as" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022342807155822738) 2026-02-13T16:11Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements "On this day in [----] [---] young people went out for a Valentine's Day dance in The Stardust nightclub in Artane. That night [--] sons and daughters of Dublin never came home tragically dying in a nightmarish and preventable fire. Escape routes were chained shut. Dozens of young people were seriously injured hundreds of family members and friends were traumatised forever. The first tribunal cited arson as the "probable" cause implying one of the young people attending the disco caused the fire. This verdict was contradicted by extensive evidence that emergency exits in the club were regularly" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022553246498226455) 2026-02-14T06:07Z 24.3K followers, 10.8K engagements "Despite St. Valentine's Day being popular with Dubliners many don't realise his body (well some of it) is actually here in our city Father John Spratt (1797-1871) was a humanitarian in the Irish Carmelite Order who did a huge amount of charity work especially helping the homeless and hungry in the Liberties. He was also involved in the construction of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Whitefriar Street. In [----] he was honored for his work by Pope Gregory XVI with a gift of part of the relics of St Valentine. The bones and blood of the Roman martyr were brought home from Rome and installed in" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022603202470752603) 2026-02-14T09:25Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "Today in [----] the one and only Barry McGuigan the @ClonesCyclone defending his world title 🥊at the old RDS. Me gaff was full of neighbours sweating bullets on Valentine's Day for the Clones Cyclone WATCH: @RTEsport gets ready to broadcast Barry McGuigan's world title defence at the @TheRDS RT News reports #OnThisDay in [----] https://t.co/teJsOBA5ES From the RT Archives News Collection https://t.co/JAyeqyfF7X WATCH: @RTEsport gets ready to broadcast Barry McGuigan's world title defence at the @TheRDS RT News reports #OnThisDay in [----] https://t.co/teJsOBA5ES From the RT Archives News" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022718744066400701) 2026-02-14T17:05Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "More details from @britishmuseum UK Lawyers for Israel threatened that using the term Palestine was "historically inaccurate and effectively erased the history of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judea". Considering the usually glacial pace of change for even the smallest item in the British Museum and the fact they ignore hundreds of petitions yearly to repatriat artefacts etc its pretty telling how much power UKLFI must have over the institution to cause such huge alterations" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023035667257651342) 2026-02-15T14:04Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "@2013_Sylvius Thats facinating Might it be a genetics bottleneck effect then that more people with that mutation survived the plague and therefore went on to reproduce with similar Apologies I've nowhere near a medical education but I'm fascinated" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023434352777195542) 2026-02-16T16:28Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements "Today in [----] Pat Finucane sat down to Sunday dinner with his wife Geraldine and their three children in their north Belfast home. He was [--] years old. Two gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association smashed their way into the house and fired fourteen shots at close range. His family watched him die at the table. Finucane was one of the most prominent defence solicitors in Northern Ireland known for representing republican suspects and for challenging the conduct of the security forces in court. In the febrile atmosphere of the late 1980s insisting on legal rights was enough to mark a man for" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021841750105452851) 2026-02-12T07:00Z 24.3K followers, 40.9K engagements "Did you known scores of Irish soldiers were executed by the US in the largest mass execution in American military history Saint Patricks Battalion the Batalln de San Patricio occupies an dodgy place in 19th century American history. To the US they were deserters and traitors men who "fecked around and find out" as the kids now say. To Mexico they were martyrs foreigners who chose conscience over flag and died for it. Back in Ireland some kind of say them as another flight of Wild Geese. The battalions founder was John Riley born in Galway around [----]. He was a former soldier of the British" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2021860468189548737) 2026-02-12T08:14Z 24.3K followers, 36.9K engagements "Whats more romantic than a Valentine's trip to a haunted castle Groaning in the night and ectoplasm on the sheets in the morning Dublin is riddled with castles so lets take a gander at a few less well known "haunted" and historic fortifications. In the middle of a cow field in south Dublin sits Pucks Castle. This gothic looking ruin has no visitor centre. Just ivy skeletal cattle and a squat stone tower slowly surrendering to the wildlife around it. What it lacks in size it more than makes up for in mythology. The name comes from the Irish pca a shape-shifting mischievous spirit of folklore." [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022709089285931452) 2026-02-14T16:26Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "Most Irish people have seen the movie My Left Foot but dont know the shocking things that happened to Christy Brown after the film was set. Because when that romantic Hollywood style ending with Brown meeting Mary Carr was over the reality of his adult life was far darker for the author and artist. But so much before that was also left out for poetic licence. Long before Mary Carr appeared on the scene Browns most formative adult relationship was with Beth Moore a wealthy American socialite and married woman who became his patron muse and intellectual partner. They met in [----] after Beth read" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2022985471752618151) 2026-02-15T10:44Z 24.3K followers, 33K engagements "Wow The British Museum has removed or updated references to "Palestine" within its ancient Middle East galleries following a formal complaint from the group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). In response the museum replaced the terminology with "Canaan" for descriptions of the southern Levant in the second millennium BC. Wow its not enough to destroy the future some Zionist want to erase the past. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023028594964914300 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023028594964914300" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023028594964914300) 2026-02-15T13:36Z 24.3K followers, 26K engagements "Down All The Days was adapted as a stage production by Jim and Peter Sheridan. It ran for a number of months in [----] at the Oscar Theatre Serpentine Ave. Christy Brown attended the opening night and was appreciative of the production and cast. Geraldine Plunket and Vincent Smith ( The Riordans) played the mother and father Tom Murphy (Adam & Paul) played Christy. This is a scene from the play. Source: P Morgan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023053967605846034 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023053967605846034" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023053967605846034) 2026-02-15T15:17Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "@GalwayWalks Jaysus yous must've really had to think on your feet. And you's survived it eventually yeah Did it change your perspective much" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023321875217019252) 2026-02-16T09:01Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "The Church Street Disaster is one of the great forgotten tragedies that occured in the slums of Dublin in [----]. On the night of the 2nd of September tragedy struck. Two decrepit tenement houses Numbers [--] and [--] Church Street collapsed without warning burying men women and children beneath tons of rubble. Seven people died including three children. All the deaths occurred in No. [--]. Among the dead was Hugh Sammon a teenager who had already saved several family members before returning to rescue his four-year-old sister Elizabeth. He never came back out. Around a hundred people were left" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023367999487447088) 2026-02-16T12:04Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "@Beloved71478281 I'm not a doctor but I had a look on and Cooleys anemia (Beta-Thalassemia Major) also involves iron overload but through different mechanisms" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/2023448240864067849) 2026-02-16T17:23Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements "Just 4km off the coast of Portrane Dublin lies Lambay Island. This 600-acre wild private isle is home to a few humans a working farm cows deer and a troupe of Rednecks. But these are lad's of a different stripe. These are Red-Necked Wallabies The way these Aussie and Tasmanian natives made it to Lambay is as interesting as the story of the isle itself. The Barings banking dynasty bought Lambay in [----]. They built a manor house follies and a farm. The lads tried to turn the place into a bit of a menagerie during the 1950s-60's however these charming marsupials were the only exotic blow-ins" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1784836320763728064) 2024-04-29T06:45Z 24.3K followers, 171.7K engagements "The legendary origin of the phrase "chancing your arm" is a brilliant story from Dublin in [----]. The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare were involved in a violent land feud. The Butlers retreated to the sanctuary of St Patrick's Cathedral with the FitzGeralds in hot pursuit. A standoff took place the Fitzgeralds refusing to leave till the Butlers surrendered. However the Butlers feared they'd be massacred by their sworn enemies if they left the sanctuary. To break the stalemate and show his sincerity to let the Butlers surrender peacefully Gerald Fitzgerald cut a hole in the" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1785204674741571994) 2024-04-30T07:08Z 24.3K followers, 192.2K engagements "Patrick Flemming was a 17th-century lawless hellraiser who inspired the song "Whiskey in the Jar."". His life was like a dodgy Errol Flynn movie directed by Tarantino. The "gentleman thief" started life as a footman for the Earl of Antrim. But the tearaway teenager robbed his wealthy employer blind. He started hanging out with a criminal gang in Dublin breaking into rich men's gaffs. He swiftly moved up the ranks dodging the hangman's noose in Stephen's Green gibbet several times. [--] years later he was regarded by the English Old Bailey as Dublin's gangster number one. Eventually the heat got" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1785577580130689333) 2024-05-01T07:50Z 24.3K followers, 81.4K engagements "Here is a tale about digging up the dead but it's not about body snatchers or archaeologists. It's a story about love and things more important than death. It's a story that will make you proud to be Irish. The life and death of Con Carey in the little village of Brosna were unremarkable. It's what happened after he died that teaches us about the value of community and human dignity. Con Carey passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning 2nd April [----]. He was not a wealthy man but he was well known in the village for his good sense of humour and willingness to help his neighbours. In" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1788107755191996723) 2024-05-08T07:24Z 24.3K followers, 92.8K engagements "Blessington Street Basin is a romantic oasis that opened in [----]. Originally a reservoir this sanctuary of calm has evolved into one of Dublin's last secret gardens. Its first fresh water source was Lough Owel in Westmeath the water being piped via the Royal Canal until [----]. Originally called the Royal George Reservoir the basin contains about [--] million litres. Eventually it proved too small for a growing citys requirements so it was used by Powers and Jamesons Whiskey as a production source for decades. It benefited from a refurbishment in [----]. The charming artificial island in the centre" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1804438194932371637) 2024-06-22T08:56Z 24.3K followers, 68.7K engagements "Declan Flynn was a 31-year-old working at Dublin Airport for Aer Rianta. Were he living in 21st Century Dublin you might see him as just another good looking young gay lad smiling in a selfie on Facebook or maybe bopping on the dancefloor of The George with his mates of a Saturday night. But Declan and countless others like him lies cold in the grave now his young life brutally snuffed out by hatred and ignorance on a cold September night in [----]. Dublin in the early eighties was a grim place to be gay. Criminalisation made it extremely difficult to learn about other LGBT people let alone" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1806981540426977355) 2024-06-29T09:22Z 24.3K followers, 281.7K engagements "A bit of fun on a dingy July afternoon.the Mythical Beasts of Ireland" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1808162607586570698) 2024-07-02T15:35Z 24.3K followers, 103.3K engagements "Eithne Coyle (1897-1985) spied for the IRA while working undercover as an Irish language teacher. An active member of the women's revolutionary organisation Cumann na mBan she performed reconnaissance missions against British forces. Coyle was arrested in February [----] and court martialled in Kilmainham Courthouse. The rebel Gaeilgeoir refused to acknowledge the British court or speak English to the judge instead much to the courts fury she read a newspaper throughout the proceedings occasionally laughing or gasping the stories. She got [--] years in Mountjoy Prison but Eithne had no intention" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1809881939815358540) 2024-07-07T09:27Z 24.3K followers, 36.6K engagements "Today in [----] Mary Manning a humble shop worker in Dunnes Stores on Henry Street made a stand for human rights which would echo throughout the world. In protest against the appalling racist apartheid regime she refused to handle the sale of produce from South Africa. Her workers' union IDATU had issued directions boycotting South African products. Manning was the first member to implement the strike when she refused to handle grapefruit from the targeted nation. She and her shop steward Karen Gearon were suspended for their moral stance. Then another [--] IDATU members went on strike; Liz Deasy" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1814183161586503694) 2024-07-19T06:19Z 24.3K followers, 28.2K engagements "On this day in [----] gangland boss Martin Cahill was assassinated. Knicknamed "The General" he was as notorious for his unconventional lifestyle as his brazen brutality. He loved to taunt the Garda who wasted millions in a dedicated budget on surveillance of the "ordinary decent criminal." He vandalised the greens of the Garda golf course in Stackstown and stole files from the Director of Public Prosecutions' office in Stephen's Green. When asked about his childhood Cahill said "Reform school was my primary school St. Patrick's Institution my secondary school and Mountjoy my universitythey" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1825070163613319484) 2024-08-18T07:20Z 24.3K followers, 210.4K engagements "With news of Russian secret agents in Ireland what's the top secret history of Russian spies in Dublin The Russian embassy is a hotbed of espionage. However the majority of spies in Ireland are living and working amid the general population of Dublin. KGB meddling in Irish affairs goes back to the very founding of our state. Then during the Cold War an espionage ring operated on the west coast of Ireland a clandestine elderly Russian couple who used sophisticated surveillance tech to monitor US submarines in the Atlantic. In [----] after the Bloody Sunday massacre of unarmed civil rights" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1825445535039304182) 2024-08-19T08:11Z 24.3K followers, 357K engagements "This is the last cigarette [--] year old student Kevin Barry smoked before being hanged at Mountjoy Gaol in [----]. Dublin-born Barry spent a lot of his childhood in Carlow. He was an IRA volunteer who attended Belvedere College and UCD to study medicine. On the 20th of September [----] he took part in an IRA raid on a British army supply truck at Monk's Bakery on North King Street Dublin. The ambush went wrong and three British soldiers were killed. Barry was captured at the scene after his revolver jammed preventing him from escaping. Despite his youth he was tried by court-martial under the" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1828759651208274192) 2024-08-28T11:40Z 24.3K followers, 159.6K engagements "Theres an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated [---] people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin first cited by Ptolemy in [---] CE. Eblanas brutalist design without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busras station aesthetic. Although the acoustics were apparently excellent as was the intimate ambience. The main Busras structure took six years to build construction starting in [----] and finishing in [----] at a then stratospheric cost over" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1829061241551065122) 2024-08-29T07:39Z 24.3K followers, 78.7K engagements "Just a reminder of the dangers of all the Cromwell apologists. You get despicable mass murderers being rehabilitated as national heroes. Their revisionist history has been trying to white-wash the evil heritage of British rule for centuries. It's a cynical exercise to simultaneously alleviate their guilt whilst also maintaining social cohesion with the children of the old empire. You don't want millions of teenagers every year learning how their cultures were raped pillaged and enslaved. In Ireland under Cromwell alone [------] out of [---] million died from fighting famine and disease. That's" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1834184093241684246) 2024-09-12T10:55Z 24.3K followers, 305.9K engagements "Ireland has legends of Far Gorta "Hungry Grass." Found along lonely moonlit country roads spectre haunted hills and long deserted ghost towns Hungry Grass looked ordinary until stood upon. Then your body would be paralysed by agonising hunger and abyssal dread. You'd fall to the ground the chill of inescapable horror seeping through your exhausted body from the very earth itself. Death was certain in minutes unless you carried a morsel of food with you to eat thus breaking the spell. This frightening folklore sadly has its roots in the attempted genocide that was "An Gorta Mr" the Great" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1839988663049949658) 2024-09-28T11:20Z 24.3K followers, 58K engagements "Someone installed this plaque at the site of the unfinished childrens hospital. The project is years overdue and [---] billion over budget so far" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1853046055039885664) 2024-11-03T12:06Z 24.3K followers, 101.8K engagements "Shout out to that time in [----] when US Sen. Joe Kennedy II was on a state visit to Belfast when thuggish Brit soldiers tried to intimidate him. Ignorant soldiers told him "Go back to your own country" Senator Kennedy shouts back "Why don't you go back to yours" 😂👌🏼" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1859927961006416051) 2024-11-22T11:52Z 24.3K followers, 397.9K engagements "Annual reminder: Anyone offended by a certain word in "Fairytale of New York" please take a long hard look at yourself. I'm a proud married gay man and I'm not offended by it. Neither the connotation nor context is homophobic in the song. Grow up There's many things in our society worthy of your outrage. Some of which actually are in the song FTONY like alcoholism homelessness drug abuse suicide and misogyny. So rather than being constantly offended (often on other people's behalf) how about using that energy in positive ways Let's concentrate on alleviating those real pressing issues in our" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1865347379613860057) 2024-12-07T10:47Z 24.3K followers, 54.7K engagements "A video showing a PSNI officer kicking a 16-year-old boy in the head during an arrest in Cookstown County Tyrone outside Time nightclub last Sunday morning where the boy was arrested on suspicion of assaulting police officers. The PSNI has confirmed the boy was released on bail pending further inquiries. No officers have been removed from duty at this stage and the Ombudsman is appealing for witnesses or footage of the incident" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1867607114786504911) 2024-12-13T16:26Z 24.3K followers, 182.9K engagements "Sometimes I lose my compassion and need a reminder that my own people were also casually labelled thieves and terrorists when they left their homes seeking a better life. Though this world hardens me heart more each day may it never close my mind. The date of this article was Thursday 14th July [----] and was part of an ongoing campaign blaming Paddies for everything including simultaneously calling us all lazy whilst complaining we were taking all their jobs" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1871533268354433345) 2024-12-24T12:27Z 24.3K followers, 249.3K engagements "Didn't want to post about this till I got permission. That young couple who were cruelly killed by a hit and run driver were my nextdoor neighbours for over a decade. I still can't get my head around those beautiful and caring people and their [--] great kids now orphaned. I spoke to their inconsolable family at the vigil. Their hearts and minds are destroyed. Their friends and our neighbours devastated. We will miss you both thanks for being so kind to my Mam and me. Yous were [--] in a million. We can't do anything to help poor Georgina or Anto now but we can try and raise a few bob for their" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1873711451367412055) 2024-12-30T12:43Z 24.3K followers, 176.3K engagements "How dystopian and scandalous is it that hospital porters from Cork University Hospital had to recycle [------] bottles and cans to raise nearly [-----] for critical medical equipment for sick children Absolutely scandalous how mismanaged @HSELive budget is. Outgoing Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly should be ashamed. This isnt to take away from the incredible charity work by John Collins and John Keenan with the CUH Charity funding a mobile high-flow oxygen therapy unit to aid children with respiratory conditions like pneumonia and asthma. Brilliant work to those heroes. But it should not be" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1874828708885717494) 2025-01-02T14:42Z 24.3K followers, 15.8K engagements "Absolutely speechless at the audacity of Katherine Zappone attempting to re-enter the political sphere with a [-----] per annum plus expenses Oireachtas seatafter refusing to appear before the very same Oireachtas foreign affairs committee three years ago. Zappone epitomised cronyism when Enda Kenny parachuted her into politics in [----]. Makes you wonder what leverage they had on each other. Despite lacking qualifications she was handed the role of Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (20162020). Then came Simon Coveneys creation of a cushy made-up position as UN Special Envoy for Freedom of" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1879161961914495249) 2025-01-14T13:41Z 24.3K followers, 101.2K engagements "On this day in [----] British soldiers shot [--] unarmed civilians at a peaceful protest in the Bogside area of Derry. [--] were murdered and dozens more were injured in what became known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre. John "Jackie" Duddy (17) was unarmed and running away from soldiers through the carpark when multiple witnesses saw a soldier take aim at the boy shooting him in the soldier the bullet penetrating his chest. Michael Kelly (17) was also unarmed and standing at the rubble barricade on Rossville Street when he was fatally shot in the stomach. Hugh Gilmour (17) was mortally wounded by a" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1884882423386693906) 2025-01-30T08:32Z 24.3K followers, 54.7K engagements "I'm shocked how many vile misogynistic "Mother and Baby Home" apologists are on this app. Even as we remember the deaths of Ann Lovett and her baby these hypocrites are romanticising the slavery neglect and murder of woman and children. For all you supposed Catholics who worship Mother Mary and Baby Jesus in theory but not in practice here's a list of just a few mass graves for these despicable institutions: Tuam Co. Galway (Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home)At least [---] infants and young children were discovered in a former septic tank. Bessborough Co. Cork (Sacred Heart Mother and Baby Home)" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1885357302548476178) 2025-01-31T15:59Z 24.3K followers, 38.7K engagements "On this day in [----] [---] young people went out for a Valentine's Day dance in The Stardust nightclub in Artane. That night [--] sons and daughters of Dublin never came home tragically dying in a nightmarish and preventable fire. Escape routes were chained shut. Dozens of young people were seriously injured hundreds of family members and friends were traumatised forever. The first tribunal cited arson as the "probable" cause implying one of the young people attending the disco caused the fire. This verdict was contradicted by extensive evidence that emergency exits in the club were regularly" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1890316574092849266) 2025-02-14T08:26Z 24.3K followers, 25.5K engagements "The legendary origin of the phrase "chancing your arm" is a brilliant story from Dublin in [----]. The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare were involved in a violent land feud. The Butlers retreated to the sanctuary of St Patrick's Cathedral with the FitzGeralds in hot pursuit. A standoff took place the Fitzgeralds refusing to leave till the Butlers surrendered. However the Butlers feared they'd be massacred by their sworn enemies if they left the sanctuary. To break the stalemate and show his sincerity to let the Butlers surrender peacefully Gerald Fitzgerald cut a hole in the" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1896534286989193604) 2025-03-03T12:13Z 24.3K followers, 100.2K engagements "There's another Emerald Isle in the Caribbean which celebrates St. Patricks Day with enough craic and culture to make any Irish person proud. Monserrat became home to Irish indentured servants displaced and persecuted by Cromwell in the 17th century. Originally making up more than half the population they integrated and intermarried with their neighbours. This resulted in some beautiful accents arts and culture (as well as people) The island people now share and celebrate a rich common Afro-Irish heritage. Saint Patrick's Day is a week-long festival of craic and ceol in the Caribbean." [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1901192677619646752) 2025-03-16T08:43Z 24.3K followers, 108.7K engagements "Today in [----] England passed the "Adventurers' Act" to fund the conquest of Ireland. This ruthless financial scheme was designed to fund Englands reconquering of Ireland in the wake of the [----] rebellion. In return for their investment private individuals known as "Adventurers" were promised stolen Irish land. The rebellion had led to the formation of the Confederation of Kilkenny a Catholic government that controlled two-thirds of Ireland and posed a direct challenge to English rule and King Charles Is authority. Parliament sought to crush this defiance offering confiscated land steeped in" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1902262252134109643) 2025-03-19T07:33Z 24.3K followers, 60.5K engagements "On the 30th of March [----] hundreds of starving men women and children set out on a harrowing overnight death march from Louisburgh Co. Mayo to Delphi Lodge a hunting retreat nestled deep in the mountains. They had no choice. Two government officials had arrived in Louisburgh to determine whether famine relief an essential lifeline of grain would continue for the destitute. Yet without conducting an inspection the officials departed for Delphi ordering the desperate crowds to follow. In the darkness hundreds of emaciated people described as living skeletons struggled through the treacherous" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1906262505426501773) 2025-03-30T08:29Z 24.3K followers, 100.7K engagements "King of the cute hoors Michael Healy-Rae just appointed his son Jackie Healy-Rae as his ministerial adviser with a salary of [------] The sheer unapologetic scale of the nepotism is mind-boggling. You might remember this was his son who was previously convicted of assault and sentenced to a total of eight months (suspended for six months) for two linked assaults during a [----] incident in Kenmare. The court ruled he had also lied to garda about his involvement" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1906378247438225745) 2025-03-30T16:09Z 24.3K followers, 141.1K engagements "Recent report reveals that giant gombeen Danny Healy-Rae privately profited millions from contracts with Uisce ireann (Irish Water) whilst publicly campaigning against Irish Water Danny Healy-Rae's family-owned plant hire firm received [----] million in contracts from [----] to [----]. The cute hoors firm contracted directly with Uisce ireann under their national Repair and Maintenance Framework. He has since transitioned the ownership of his company to his sons" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1907767822341517438) 2025-04-03T12:11Z 24.3K followers, 45.4K engagements "Dublins streets are blighted by an explosion of barbers phone kiosks and vape shops. These businesses are eerily identical often empty. How can you justify five barbers or vape shops with no footfall The Garda county councils and local chambers of commerce quietly admit what many suspect. Some of these premises are fronts for money laundering drug trafficking and organized crime. Gangs are turning struggling streets into conduits for dirty cash. One Stoneybatter takeaway was among several locations raided by over [---] Garda across Dublin Kildare and Meath resulting in arrests tied to ongoing" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1932029066690941348) 2025-06-09T10:56Z 24.3K followers, 35.8K engagements "Looks like Judge Martin Nolan has some competition in Judge Grainne Malone. A 24-year-old asylum seeker from Somalia sexually assaulted a woman on a crowded Luas tram in Dublin. Abdiweli Ali stood behind the woman for an eight-minute journey and ejaculated on her dress. The incident occurred in broad daylight while the woman was traveling with a friend to a concert. Ali initially denied the accusation for a year despite DNA but changed his plea to guilty shortly before his trial. He came to Ireland [--] years ago. He was even living in an International Protection Accommodation Services centre" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1932800894015299811) 2025-06-11T14:03Z 24.3K followers, 83.9K engagements "On this day in [----] [--] year old Noah Donohoe a pupil at St Malachys College in Belfast set off from his home by bike to meet friends. On the 27th of June his body was recovered from a storm drain in north Belfast. A post-mortem concluded he died from drowning with no signs of head injury. CCTV footage allegedly recorded the healthy young boy acting bizarrely. Why did Noah abandon his belongings and clothing in an unfamiliar part of the city Could a head injury or sudden psychotic break alone explain it. Or did someone frighten or harm him driving him to a desperate escape attempt Why did the" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1936451238515687550) 2025-06-21T15:48Z 24.3K followers, 91.8K engagements "More shocking allegations have emerged about Mountbatten and his M15/Loyalist paedophile boys' home conspiracy. In "Kincora: Britains Shame" a new book by investigative journalist Chris Moore @ChrisMooreRDP claims Lord Louis Mountbatten (cousin to the late Queen Elizabeth II) sexually abused five children trafficked from the notorious Kincora Boys Home to his summer estate at Classiebawn Castle in Mullaghmore Sligo. One former resident Arthur Smyth says he was just eleven when he was raped twice by Mountbatten at Kincora. He filed a civil case against state institutions in [----]. According to" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1942607594146746560) 2025-07-08T15:31Z 24.3K followers, 82.9K engagements "A man attacked a woman from behind on her way to work dragging her to a park where he violently sexually assaulted her and told her he would kill her before passers-by raised the alarm and he fled. Marius Lacatus already has several previous convictions for robbery and domestic violence in Romania. The judge noted the maximum sentence for the sexual assault was [--] years but then stated "mitigating factors" because the rapist had a "difficult and impoverished childhood" and "good work history". So he only imposed a five and a half year sentence. Guess the Judge. Yep" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1949904643741347910) 2025-07-28T18:47Z 24.3K followers, 31.8K engagements "Hilarious and disturbing how apologists for British colonialism and butchery keep telling this Irish HISTORY account to "stop living in the past" whenever I post about some despicable crime against humanity committed by the English state. It's not our fault your historic legacy to the world is the anniversary of one shameful atrocity after another. Talk about delusional victim blaming" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1954213207544885711) 2025-08-09T16:08Z 24.3K followers, 71.2K engagements "Did you know an Irish athlete at the [----] Olympic Games in Athens committed a brave act of defiance against British rule on the world stage. Peter OConnor was born in England in [----] to Irish parents but raised in Ashford Wicklow. He was a solicitor by profession and a proud member of the Gaelic Athletic Association since its earliest days.OConnor held the world record for the long jump from [----] to [----] an extraordinary 20-year reign. He won All-Ireland titles with ease and refused to compete under a British flag at the [----] Olympics. When the [----] Intercalated Games rolled around considered" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1954810653119541329) 2025-08-11T07:42Z 24.3K followers, 83.5K engagements "On this day in [----] Michael Collins' convoy drove through Bal na mBlth and into eternity. Civil War had erupted only months before. Sacrifices alliances and betrayals unimaginable weeks ago were routine in the new bloodbath of brother against brother. Despite these dangers Collins believed he wasn't a credible target for Anti-Treaty Irregulars. especially in his native Cork. He set off to inspect military installations in that beautiful wild corner of the country. Perhaps he confused his hopes of reconciliation and renewal with the desires of the new domestic enemy. When the National Army" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1958790222881185811) 2025-08-22T07:15Z 24.3K followers, 327.2K engagements "The UDA has ordered Catholic families out of mixed housing development in West Belfast. Not a peep out of the PSNI or the DUP or Downing Street. Perhaps if the terrorised Catholic families wore Free Palestine shirts the police might take notice. Disgusting sectarianism and two tier policing" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1962163168311922695) 2025-08-31T14:38Z 24.3K followers, 28.4K engagements "On the night of the 9th of September [----] thirty-one-year-old Declan Flynn left a pub in Donnycarney and walked toward Fairview Park. He was a young man from Whitehall who worked for Aer Rianta. Flynn was sitting on a bench in Fairview Park when five local youths aged between fourteen and nineteen descended on him. They were out as they later put it to clean up the area of queers. They chased him beat him unconscious robbed him and left him for dead on the grass. Flynn was found and brought to Blanchardstown Hospital but he died within an hour of admission. When the case came to court in" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1965356485107388626) 2025-09-09T10:07Z 24.3K followers, 111.8K engagements "Just a reminder of how colonialists teach and think about history given the anniversary of Drogheda. "ADVENTURE" = The attempted genocide of the Irish Race. [------] civilian casualties. Entire cities slaughtered after surrending. [-----] deported as indentured slave labourers. Countless more starved in the resulting famine or dying from diseases" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1966149641734340665) 2025-09-11T14:39Z 24.3K followers, 74.6K engagements "In the summer of [----] hundreds of corpses appeared along the shores of Mayo Sligo and Donegal. Locals and Garda found bodies caught in kelp cast onto rocks or drifting into quiet bays. They were the mangled and water bloated corpses of Italians Germans Austrians and British soldiers. The victims of the Battle of the Atlantic who had been carried for days by the restless currents. For the neutral communities of the west it was a shocking reminder that the war was at their door. The story began on the 2nd of July [----] when the SS Arandora Star a converted passenger liner pressed into military" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1966459034451476601) 2025-09-12T11:09Z 24.3K followers, 34.5K engagements "Last Sunday a disgusting incident of mass animal abuse happened on a train following the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Irish media seem reluctant to discuss it. On an Irish Rail train from Athlone to Dublin on approx [--] unaccompanied WHITE IRISH minors boarded the 5pm train at Ballinasloe with small birds and rodents in boxes. Passengers witnessed the poor creatures being kicked burned with lighters and subjected to other forms of torture causing them to scream in distress. This happened in Carriage C. When a female passenger attempted to intervene she was allegedly surrounded by the minors who" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1976322822889754700) 2025-10-09T16:24Z 24.3K followers, 103.7K engagements "Two Cork drag queens were assaulted on the street and left bloodied during the Cork Jazz Festival in Douglas whilst minding their own business and making a video. Two little thugs were arrested and a knife was seized by Gardai. One of theme was later handed a court date. Both have very interesting "histories". If you watch this and think "im not a drag queen or gay so this doesn't effect me" you're dead wrong. Because this is a great litmus test of how safe a society is. When innocent people are attacked on video by hateful degenerates as people laugh then your loved ones city just got a" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1982856255828791616) 2025-10-27T17:05Z 24.3K followers, 404.5K engagements "On this day in [----] in a crowded courtroom in Dublin Theobald Wolfe Tone stood in the dock and made the speech that would outlive him. Outside the rebellion of that summer was broken. The United Irishmen were scattered its leaders dead or dying. Tone had been captured in the Bay of Lough Swilly aboard the French flagship Hoche a grand but battered vessel limping home after a failed attempt to land troops in Donegal. He had recruited French aid for Ireland convinced that the republic born in Paris might help birth one here. A republic of Catholics Protestants and Dissenters united a nation" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1987804579627499748) 2025-11-10T08:48Z 24.3K followers, 74.3K engagements "105 years ago today in Croke Park Tipperary took on Dublin before a capacity crowd. Suddenly at 3:25pm armoured cars and trucks containing rabid Black and Tans British Auxiliaries and RIC surrounded the stadium. Without warning they stormed the grounds opening fire indiscriminately. Rifles and revolvers were savagely unleashed against the helpless spectators and players. Terrified victims were shot in the back as they frantically tried to escape. Some desperately scrambled over walls and squeezed through narrow exits. The British butcher's guns riddled the unarmed civilians mercilessly for" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1991779831046983932) 2025-11-21T08:04Z 24.3K followers, 50.3K engagements "On this day in [----] Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and Detective Garda Ben O'Sullivan were sitting in an unmarked car protecting a post office van in Adare Limerick. Suddenly a jeep rammed them from behind and three balaclava clad thieves jumped out. But these men were not "ordinary" criminals who were trying to make their escape from a botched robbery. They were members of the splinter paramilitary group the Provisional IRA. And they were armed with Kalashnikovs. Whilst the garda were still stunned the three provos opened fire. Detective O'Sullivan was seriously injured and Detective McCabe" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1931256913267765425) 2025-06-07T07:48Z 24.3K followers, 17.1K engagements "Today in [----] was one of the darkest in Corks history. British forces unleashed a wave of destruction known as "The Burning of Cork" that left the city centre in smouldering ruins and its citizens murdered and traumatised. Earlier that evening the Cork No. [--] Brigade of the IRA ambushed British Auxiliaries targeting soldiers at Dillons Cross just outside the city. Two Crossley Tender lorries carrying the despised Auxiliaries were leaving Victoria Barracks (later renamed Collins Barracks) around [--] p.m. These ragtag units often contained pardoned criminals and were known for their brutality." [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1999028118242082916) 2025-12-11T08:06Z 24.3K followers, 11.6K engagements "1. Today in [----] the last Irish Magdalene Laundry closed its slave labour prison doors. Originally called the Gloucester Street Laundry located on Sean MacDermott Street it was owned and exploited by the nuns of the ironically titled "Sisters of Our Lady of Charity"" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1584797508836167680) 2022-10-25T06:42Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "1) For Hanukkah here's a quick look behind an unusual door in Fairview. You can tell there's something special by the stone plaque saying built in the year [----]. These unassuming premises is the gatehouse for Ireland's oldest Jewish cemetery" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1604758461207789571) 2022-12-19T08:40Z 24.3K followers, 133.2K engagements "There's a [----] year old hidden holy well in a very well known yet unexpected place with a cryptic clue to its location on a now vanished old street sign for Nassau Street. The former Irish name mysteriously said "Srid Thobar Phdraig". Patricks Well Road" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1651485244229287936) 2023-04-27T07:15Z 24.3K followers, 172.6K engagements "Theres an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated [---] people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin first cited by Ptolemy in [---] AD" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1652218601963929605) 2023-04-29T07:49Z 24.3K followers, 430.7K engagements "The legendary origin of the phrase "chancing your arm" came from Dublin in [----]. The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare were involved in a violent land feud. The Butlers retreated to the sanctuary of St Patrick's Cathedral with the FitzGeralds in hot pursuit" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1664158846871388161) 2023-06-01T06:36Z 24.3K followers, 806.9K engagements "Their leader shook Fitzgerald's hand. Both families left the cathedral in peace and in one piece The "Door of Reconciliation" is still on display in St Pat's Cathedral this day. Maybe there's someone in your life you should chance your arm with" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1664158878785781761) 2023-06-01T06:36Z 24.3K followers, 52K engagements "Today in [----] the Irish inventor of the hypodermic needle used it on a human for the first time in the Meath Hospital Dublin Dr Francis Rynd injected his patient Margaret Cox with morphine to treat severe agony" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1664883458970202113) 2023-06-03T06:35Z 24.3K followers, 82.8K engagements "Grab your flashlights and wellies we're taking a trip down to the secret tunnels underneath our ancient city This drain on Wellington Quay hides some fascinating history. It's the exit tunnel where the medieval underground river Poddle meets the Liffey" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1670385351884517377) 2023-06-18T10:57Z 24.3K followers, 604.2K engagements "Young Dick Bauf is one of the most tragic Dubliners ever. Aged [--] he & his parents were convicted of theft and murder in [----]. Bad as their crimes were the decision of the judge was outright evil. The child would be allowed to go free if he agreed to.execute his own parents" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1670682351293046784) 2023-06-19T06:38Z 24.3K followers, 297.5K engagements "Theres an underground train tunnel and station running under the Phoenix Park which disturbed a massive Viking burial ground. Work was began on it in [----] by The Great Southern & Western company. It opened in [----] and runs into a tunnel at Conyngham Road and resurfaces at Cabra" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1676121984122404864) 2023-07-04T06:53Z 24.3K followers, 267.5K engagements "Ancient Ireland was a melting pot of Celts Vikings Norse Normans and English and its counties' names and GAA nicknames reflect that. Sometimes silly occasionally simple yet always interesting let's begin in alphabetical order" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1682650229642784769) 2023-07-22T07:14Z 24.3K followers, 879.9K engagements "If Croke Park is the cathedral of Gaelic games then Hill [--] is a chapel dedicated to the worship of Dublin's Blue Army. Many Dubs fans believe the myth that Hill [--] was built using the rubble of the GPO and OConnell Street from the Rising. The truth is equally fascinating" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1685190875679232000) 2023-07-29T07:29Z 24.3K followers, 372.4K engagements "Dunsoghly Castle in Finglas is located on private land near the end of a Dublin airport runway. The 4storey medieval tower house was built in [----] by Sir Thomas Plunket one of the Earls of Fingal. Its [---] year old roof is the last surviving original wooden one on an Irish castle" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1692835573394776562) 2023-08-19T09:47Z 24.3K followers, 159K engagements "Mary 'Dancing Mary' Dunne was a common sight on O'Connell Street for [--] years. The Dun Laoghaire native was always immaculately dressed with trademark skirt & high heels. She danced for hours in all weathers in religious ecstasy & with the energy of a woman half her age" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1733461146349244447) 2023-12-09T12:18Z 24.3K followers, 141.7K engagements "Sunlight Chambers on the corner of Parliament Street and Essex Quay is an overlooked masterpiece. It wouldn't be out of place in Renaissance Rome. But the beautiful artwork is 20th century and actually represents the history of hygiene It was the Irish HQ of Lever Brothers which made Sunlight soap. The magnifcent glazed ceramic friezes were made in [----] by Conrad Dressler in Buckinghamshire. Among the figures are donkeys babies women washing and men farming and building an arch" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1765681330371600545) 2024-03-07T10:10Z 24.3K followers, 59.1K engagements "1/2 Ireland in the 1940's was like Orwell's "1984". The fledgling country was a Catholic theocracy. A grey dystopia run by bishops priests and nuns. If our nation had a motto back then it would've been "Women and Children last". Welcome to the world of Archbishop McQuaid. Warning some distressing content. The church with the tacit permission of an undemocratic Dil ruthlessly controlled every aspect of public and private life from cradle to grave. It has a stranglehold on state institutions; economy education and even the healthcare of his subjects. This makes ire a Vatican vassal state and" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1781976812156805210) 2024-04-21T09:22Z 24.3K followers, 184.6K engagements "Mary Dunne fondly known as 'Dancing Mary' was a common yet curious sight on O'Connell Street for nearly [--] years. The Dun Laoghaire native was always immaculately dressed with trademark skirt and high heels. She danced for hours in all weathers seemingly in religious ecstasy and with the energy of a woman half her age. When she wasn't utterly lost in her trance she would interact with the busy pedestrians who made up her audience. She'd chat smile and wave rosary in one hand and sometimes a flower in the other. In the great tradition of Dublin "characters" Mary was celebrated for her glorious" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1866066412189450713) 2024-12-09T10:24Z 24.3K followers, 69.3K engagements "A 24-year-old man Nikita Dvoynin caught with possessing over [----] child abuse images just received a fully suspended two-year sentence. No jail time. Guess the judge When are we going to hold powerful lawmakers accountable" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1884351107620823070) 2025-01-28T21:21Z 24.3K followers, 43K engagements "On this day in [----] a terrified freezing 15- year-old schoolgirl called Ann Lovett was crouched in the fetal position in agony at the grotto of the Virgin Mary in Granard Co. Longford. But whilst this child is certainly innocent and worthy of help and this is a place where pious people come to seek assistance from Our Lady her desperate prayers will not be answered that lonely night. Amid the darkness and cold Ann will give birth to a stillborn baby. Compounding that unimaginable tragedy which occurred in this dreary garden of Gethsemane just hours later this teenage mother will also perish" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1885250895039832396) 2025-01-31T08:56Z 24.3K followers, 205.4K engagements "36 years ago today human rights crusader solicitor Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalist terrorists in collusion with British security forces. He was just [--]. His killers intended to silence the growing movement for human rights in Northern Ireland. They wanted to sustain the unjust inequalities against nationalists endemic in the British system which had served them for so long. They failed" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1889610212534812896) 2025-02-12T09:39Z 24.3K followers, 109K engagements "A filthy scumbag with [--] videos and [--] images of child abuse on two phones was given a fully suspended two-year sentence. Richard Hayes (51) disgusting material included the rape of a toddler and the sexual abuse of a child with a disability. No jail time. Guess the Judge" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1891897874000044271) 2025-02-18T17:09Z 24.3K followers, 167.1K engagements "Today in [----] Grace OMalley the Irish pirate queen stood in the royal court of Greenwich Palace before another queen Elizabeth I. She had crossed the Irish Sea not as a supplicant but as a sovereign in her own right seeking the release of her sons and her half-brother imprisoned by the ruthless Governor of Connacht Sir Richard Bingham. Grace is said to have refused to curtsey declaring that she recognised no monarch as her superior though she addressed Elizabeth as a fellow ruler. When the English guards found a dagger concealed in her clothes she explained calmly that it was for her own" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1964245066005823902) 2025-09-06T08:31Z 24.3K followers, 34.3K engagements "Former Taoiseach and professional parasite Bertie Ahern doesn't want all the skeletons in his closet dragged back into the light so he dropped out of his last great scheme to shake down the Irish people. But we haven't forgotten. The Dublin Time Machine will visit his legacy of lies and larceny. And unlike Bertie I've got all me receipts. The Mahon Tribunal the Moriarty Tribunal the Philip Sheedy affair each cast fresh light on the sins surrounding Aherns finances and decision-making. The saga began with brown envelopes of cash. As Minister for Finance in the early 1990s Ahern received" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1964281464595632298) 2025-09-06T10:56Z 24.3K followers, 45.1K engagements "An ancient nameless three-faced god emergeing from the grave might seem like something out of a horror. But in [----] a farmer called James Longmore quarrying the limestone soil in Cavan uncovered one of the most haunting relics of pre-Christian Ireland The Corleck Head. Whether or not the Cavanman planned to sell the gravel he excavated before that is not recorded () Today that iconic Corleck Head resides in our National Museum in Dublin but its ethereal triple-gaze stares beyond the glass case of that institution to the Otherworld. Where gods (and demi-semi-gods) and humans met on a hill" [X Link](https://x.com/RobLooseCannon/status/1985041862948716914) 2025-11-02T17:50Z 24.3K followers, 42.9K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Grab your towel and flip flops we're taking a dip in the infamous "Turkish Baths" on Lincoln Place/Leinster Street in [----]. Before we enter this rare splash of the exotic in dreary Victorian Dublin let's gaze at the glamorous exterior. Opened in [----] their eccentric owner and architect Richard Barter designed the place to evoke the luxury of the orient. Scandalous to some at the time its decadent Arabesque plaster facade inspired notions of steamy hareems in the heart of the Ottoman Empire. Note the distinctive fairytale [--] foot high Sultan's palace dome adorned with ornamental minarets. The"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:09Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Heres some vital medical info some doctor mates of mine were telling me about. Did you ever hear of "Daughter from New York" or "Son from London" syndrome Youll know exactly what I mean in a second trust me. Basically its doctor/nurse lingo for when a terminally ill or elderly person is in care and suddenly out of nowhere a long-lost or estranged relative suddenly arrives on the scene and tries to take over. And its seldom to the benefit of the poor patient or the carer child or the rest of the family who have been consistently there for them. In the HSE handbooks they describe it as"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:17Z 24.3K followers, 31K engagements
"A 15-year-old Irish girl called Amy Fitzpatrick stepped out into the night on the Mijas Costa of Spains Costa del Sol on New Years Day [----]. It was 10:00p.m. and she was heading the short walk home after babysitting her friends younger brother. The teenager vanished without a trace. In those early hours the Guardia Civil launched one of the most extensive missing persons investigations in the regions history combing trails pathways and scrubland around Mijas and Riviera del Sol. Helicopters sniffer dogs and foot patrols scoured the terrain without any trace of the girl being found. Then some"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:06Z 24.3K followers, 57.5K engagements
"Today in [----] Ireland played a friendly match against England it Lansdowne Road. Some level of mindless violence was predicted. The FAI struck a deal with the FA to reduce English fan tickets to [----] out of [-----]. Garda drilled for a few minor scenarios however their main presence was outside the stadium. Before the game in a prelude to violence nearby pubs were vandalised with Loyalist paramilitary and British National Party graffiti. It seemed the dangerous element landed in Dun Laoghaire on the ferry that day. President Mary Robinson was loudly booed from the English stands as she met the"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:12Z 24.3K followers, 33.2K engagements
"@HouricanVincent Underequipped understaffed and underpaid then as now. I don't envy you lads at all"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:40Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements
"A crisis in the 1970s meant Irish pubs briefly replaced banks In the summer of [----] Ireland accidentally conducted an extraordinary social and economic experiment. For more than six months between the 1st of May and the 17th of November the major clearing banks of the Republic of Ireland closed their doors in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The result was a shitestorm total paralysis of the formal financial system. Cheques couldnt be cashed deposits couldnt be accessed and about 60% of the nations savings were suddenly out of reach. Yet the Irish economy did not collapse."
X Link 2026-02-16T08:14Z 24.3K followers, 74.9K engagements
"Today we visit a lethal IRA kidnapping and rescue that claimed the lives of two heroes. On a freezing November morning in [----] the Troubles arrived in Rathfarnham. Don Tidey chairman and chief executive of Associated British Foods was driving his 13-year-old daughter to school when a car blocked his path. A van appeared behind him its door slid open and armed balaclava wearing men dragged the one of the most powerful businessmen in Ireland inside. Tidey was no ordinary executive. Through ABF he presided over Quinnsworth. Irelands first supermarket chain was a symbol of a modernising economy"
X Link 2025-12-16T08:57Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Liffey Ferry was an iconic workhorse a constant presence since our citys pre-industrial past. The most famous of them all was the Number [--] the dockers taxi immortalised in song and in folklore. Cutting her humble path through the choppy green-grey waters in all weathers she was more than just a boat. For dockers and everyday Dubliners alike she was a way of life. Making the short often bone shaking bockety crossing was a rite of passage. You and your handful of fellow sailors would chug along bracing yourselves against the spray of Liffey water marinating in the cold soup of coal smoke"
X Link 2026-01-17T12:18Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Grab your old spice and brylcreem and get ready to dance around your handbag on the sticky floors were off to visit some Dublin nightclubs of the 1970s to the 1990s. In the 1970s Dublin nightlife operated under the bizarre conceit that gargle could not be served late unless accompanied by a substantial meal. Thus was born the chicken-in-a-basket era a ritual so entrenched it barely registered as absurd at the time. So in Catholic Ireland were not going out clubbing you were dining. The wine was often undrinkable the food barely edible but the dancefloor made up for it. Clubs were not yet"
X Link 2026-01-29T08:42Z 24.1K followers, 21.1K engagements
"On this day in [----] a terrified freezing 15- year-old schoolgirl called Ann Lovett was crouched in the fetal position in agony at the grotto of the Virgin Mary in Granard Co. Longford. But whilst this child is certainly innocent and worthy of help and this is a place where pious people come to seek assistance from Our Lady her desperate prayers will not be answered that lonely night. Amid the darkness and cold Ann will give birth to a stillborn baby. Compounding that unimaginable tragedy which occurred in this dreary garden of Gethsemane just hours later the teenage mother will also perish in"
X Link 2026-01-31T08:31Z 24.2K followers, 94.6K engagements
"The Irish "Vanishing Triangle" is the large hypothetical area roughly bounded by Dublin Kilkenny and Dundalk where several innocent women went missing presumed murdered mostly in the 1990s. Its become synonymous with victims like Annie McCarrick JoJo Dullard Fiona Pender Ciara Breen and Fiona Sinnott. The remains of some of the women associated with the Vanishing Triangle were never found. In total at least [--] women are commonly associated with the triangle. Theories include a serial killer or killers with a similar modus operandi. committing their disgusting crimes and disposing of their"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:19Z 24.1K followers, 19.3K engagements
"19 year old Fiona Sinnott had an 11-month-old daughter when she vanished on a cold night in [----]. Fiona was living in rented cottage in the rural townland of Ballyhitt just outside the small village of Broadway County Wexford. On Sunday the 8th of February [----] she was socialising with friends in Butlers Pub in Broadway. Shortly after midnight she stepped out into the chill night air. According to later statements her ex-boyfriend Sean Carroll walked her home and spent the night sleeping on her couch. The following morning he claimed Fiona told him she was going to see a doctor for pain in"
X Link 2026-02-02T09:33Z 24.1K followers, 25.3K engagements
"The Burning of the British Embassy in [----] was a direct and furious response to the Bloody Sunday massacre that had taken place just three days earlier in Derry. On the 30th of January [----] soldiers of the British Armys 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march massacring [--] unarmed civilians and injuring dozens more and understandibly igniting outrage and anti-British across Ireland and the world. The British Embassy at [--] Merrion Square became the obvious lightning rod. In the days after the massacre the building was attacked with petrol bombs. But it was on the"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:08Z 24.1K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Did you know that Dublin Bay prawns dont come from Dublin Bay and aren't really even prawns "True" prawns the hipsters of the aquatic crustacean family have transparent soft shells. The "Dublin Bay" prawns are more like mini lobsters with a hard pink shell which they shed as they grow and they've prominent claws walk on the balls of their feet and wear Canada Goose jackets. And these immigrants are not even from Dublin Bay Their real name is Nephrops Norvegicus or the Norwegian langoustine first classified in [----] by zoologist Carl Linnaeus. Our Italians cousins call them 'scampi' whilst"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:35Z 24.1K followers, 22K engagements
"@Triggertrucker I'd love to give it a go meself. Was it rough"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:46Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Moses once walked the beaches of Dublin. In the 1970s and 80s. A distinguished senior citizen roamed from Merrion Road down to Sandymount Strand and onward towards Blackrock. The gentlemans real name was Tom or Thomas. His surname may have been OMalley or something similar. However local reverently knew him as Moses because he had the look of an Old Testament prophet. And the aura. I will refer to him thus and with the same great respect. He sported a long grey beard blown wild by the sea air. Overall his epic appearance was weather beaten and like Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings he always"
X Link 2026-02-04T09:58Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Irish Merchant Navy Memorial on City Quay features an anchor that once belonged to a working ship.The memorial was unveiled in [----] long after the war it commemorates. Officially it honours Irish merchant seamen who died during The Emergency aka World War [--]. Unofficially it marks what the sailors themselves called The Long Watch the endless nerve shredding vigil of crossing mined waters and U-boat hunting grounds. Ireland was neutral but the Atlantic theatre didnt recognise that. Irish ships were torpedoed by German U-boats and struck by Allied forces alike sometimes mistaken for enemy"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:34Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Sometimes things that look modern and ordinary are actually ancient. Saint Winifred's well on Eustace Street in Temple Bar is one such fascinating feature. An overlooked diamond amid the cigarette butt and vomit-smeared cobblestones which tells a tale for those with eyes and ears for history. This humble hole fringed with a little stone wall lies outside what is currently The Norseman pub. It was buried for centuries before its rediscovery during roadworks in the mid-1990s. Wells and holy wells specifically have a deep and timeless importance to the Irish. Water sources named after saints"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:53Z 24.2K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Today in [----] the Irish House of Commons voted itself out of existence. Sitting in College Green in what is now the "blind" Bank of Ireland building Irelands parliament approved a legislative union with the Kingdom of Great Britain. Just over a year earlier the same proposal had been defeated forcing the British government led by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger to change tactics. Persuasion gave way to pressure and bribery. Between the two votes lay the failed trauma of the United Irishmen rebellion of [----]. The uprising bloodily suppressed had terrified the British political class."
X Link 2026-02-06T07:17Z 24.2K followers, 19.2K engagements
"An 18-year-old student teacher called Deirdre Jacob was back home in Kildare on her summer break from St Marys University in London. She vanished almost in sight of her own front gate on the 28th of July [----]. Deirdre set out that day to do some messages in Newbridge town walking the familiar 20-minute route from her parents gaff in Roseberry. Her precise movements were captured CCTV At 2:18 pm they saw her at the AIB withdrawing a bank draft for her student accommodation rent. By 2:26 pm she was seen posting that draft at the Post Office. Deirdre was chatting with a friend at 2:32 pm. Then"
X Link 2026-02-07T07:59Z 24.3K followers, 26.1K engagements
"Zagreb is the capital of Croatia. Basically this beautiful little city is the product of two rival medieval settlements on neighbouring hills. So like the Whitestown-Ladyswell Yupbro wars of [----] two plucky urban combatant settlements eventually found common ground through trade marriage and common defence interests. First documented in [----] with the establishment of a diocese on Kaptol the city of Zagreb grew alongside the fortified royal town of Gradec which was granted the Golden Bull by King Bla IV in [----]. They were formally united in [----] under Mayor Janko Kamauf. Despite suffering a"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:49Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The mysterious disappearance of married couple Conor (62) and Sheila (60) Dwyer from Fermoy County Cork in the spring of [----] remains unsolved. The quiet couple lived on Chapel Hill a short rise above the town close enough to hear the bells of St Patricks Church. On the 30th of April [----] the Dwyers attended a funeral Mass in St Patricks. It was the last confirmed sighting of them. A neighbour Katherine Fenton saw the couple outside the church afterwards barely a hundred metres from their front door. The following day the 1st of May Sheila talked to her sister on the phone. There was nothing"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:21Z 24.2K followers, 17.5K engagements
"St. Marks Church the medieval heart of the Upper Town was built in the 13th-century the famous 19th-century tiled roof blazing with heraldry the Triune Kingdom of Croatia Dalmatia and Slavonia on one side the city of Zagreb on the other came later. Just a few minutes walk away beside the old Stone Gate stands one of Zagrebs most interesting monuments a bronze St. George and the Dragon from [----]. Created by the Austrian artists Arthur Winder and Andreas Kompatscher. It shows the knight in the aftermath helmet removed head bowed his horse standing over a dragon already slain. The unholy serpent"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:45Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Youve seen them both thousands of times two men gazing down on you from their stone plinths on OConnell Street where the Luas crosses. But their names and stories are forgotten by the majority of Dubliners who pass them daily. So lets change that and make friends with the men behind the statues. Sir John Gray (1815-1875) and William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864) Gray was born in Claremorris Mayo then went on to become the MP for Kilkenny City representing the Home Rule League. But this polymath was so much more than just a politician. He was a skilled surgeon and owner of the notoriously"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:30Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Dublin pubs functioned as morgues right up until the 20th century. This was the days before refrigerated mortuaries in hospitals or municipal body storage. And it was the law. Under the Coroners Act of [----] any body found dead in suspicious accidental or unexplained circumstances had to be viewed by a coroner and jury before burial. If there was no designated morgue nearby and in most towns there was not the body was to be brought to the nearest suitable building. The coldest and reasonably sterile place in almost any town was the pub cellar. Stone-lined underground and designed to keep beer"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:01Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Lets visit Hell. Not the makey-up one that men in funny hats created so they could keep you on your knees while their hand went through your pockets. But the devilish playground of sex and booze and gambling surrounding Gods biggest gaff in 18th century Dublin Clustered around Christ Church Cathedral was the dodgiest ancient neighbourhood in the city. It was a shady maze so notorious that locals knew it simply as Hell. Here in the pissing rain beneath the faces of saints you could gamble and gargle and fornicate your life away to the soundtrack of cathedral bells and seagulls. And considering"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:22Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Big news lads The Dublin Time Machine is set to self-destruct this November [----] unless I can turn me beloved hobby into a book. Mental health and new work responsibilities mean I need to publish or be damned. So if you can help with literary agents or publishers please drop us a message and I will gratefully get through them all. As always lads retweets and recommendations are appreciated. Here is a sufficiently pathetic historic picture of me still getting to grips with 20th century Earth to inspire you that I need all the bleedin assistance I can get. You can also help the DTM by buying me"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:45Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@JoeBLynam ah thanks a million Joe Im extremely grateful for the support much appreciated"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:12Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Ill be checking all the rest of me messages on lunch now lads thank you so much again. Extremely grateful for all the support X"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:16Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Here's a bloke who personally ended the lives of more people than most serial killers. For more than a generation Thomas Galvin (Galvan in some records) was an executioner at Kilmainham Gaol in the bloody days of late 18th and early 19th century Dublin. Trigger warning here this deals with hanging. And although this piece is about criminals Christ knows far too many sadly innocent souls have been lost that way. Victims of their own pain may they rest in peace. Back to the history 18th and early 19th century Ireland was a violent time of rebellion against repression and public punishment in"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:48Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The strange disappearance of Alpho OReilly made no senses. The [--] year old who grew up in Ballinasloe and Westport was a well known and respected figure in Irish cultural life. OReilly arrived in Dublin after the war to study at the National College of Art gravitating quickly toward theatre. By the early 1950s he was acting designing and stage-managing at the Gate Theatre moving in circles that included Lord and Lady Longford. He then moved to England to work at the BBC and ABC Television and remarkably served as production designer on the first five episodes of The Avengers. No not that one"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:13Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@bridiebreen1 He did. You know your hangmen Ive actually two posts coming up about Pierpoint and another lad who was an irishman working for the Brits around the War of Independence"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:51Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Sources for this and independent news articles and a bibliography of authoritative sources including statements about British government collusion from the British government themselves. Official Government Documents & Reports **1) The Report of the Patrick Finucane Review A full official UK government review into state involvement and what was known about collusion. 🔗 **2) Statement to Parliament on the murder of Patrick Finucane UK government speech acknowledging collusion and outlining the commissioning of the De Silva review. 🔗 **3) Prime Minister David Camerons statement on Patrick"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:09Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@10pencefreddo Yeah I'd have to agree in this particular instance. Although you know yourself experiences even by members of the same nationality in the same regiments can be drastically different due to things like class ans religious affiliation"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:44Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Heres just a few British and Irish media stories remembering his murder and eulogising him decades on. Maybe you can read them whilst youre sitting down X * The official press release from the Department of the Taoiseach welcoming the UKs decision. * https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/press-releases/taoiseach-simon-harris-welcomes-confirmation-of-a-public-inquiry-into-the-murder-of-pat-finucane/ http://Gov.ie https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/27/pat-finucane-inquiry-fell-below-human-rights-standards-judges-rule"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:47Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@DavidSc36517670 Feckin hell Ah here how does the Illinois State Military Museum justify this as anything but an embarrassing spoil of war Not very edifying to keep it when a neighbouring nation wants it back. Extremely disrespectful"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:12Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Today in [----] from the pulpit of St Brendans Cathedral in Loughrea the Bishop of Clonfert Thomas Ryan delivered a sermon that would echo across the nation. The night before on Teilifs ireann an episode of The Late Late Show had aired which the bishop was now wringing his hands at and proclaiming was a national embarrassment. Before mounting the altar steps he had already sent a telegram to the programmes host Gay Byrne. It contained just five words: Disgusted with disgraceful performance. From the pulpit Bishop Ryan declared the evil programme was unworthy of Irish television unworthy of"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:01Z 24.2K followers, 13K engagements
"@lester_durden Yeah sadly theres definitely that element too. Its also one of the reasons that although I'm pro euthanasia I think we need extremely solid laws in Ireland to stop coersion"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:18Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@PatConnor6 Yep that's definitely a predatory element"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:37Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@michaelhills8 I'm always amazed how these people seemingly sleep like babies"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:24Z 24.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@IveaghGael Yep a lot of building sites"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:33Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements
"There's a [----] year old hidden holy well in a very unexpected place There was even a cryptic clue to its location on a now vanished old street sign for Nassau Street. The former Irish name mysteriously said "Srid Thobar Phdraig". Patricks Well Road. Take a closer look near the garden of the Provost's House at the entrance to the Trinity Arts building.From the roadside you'll see a pillar a 1950s crumbling concrete eyesore. Take a gander from the Trinity side and you'll see a locked gate. Beneath that some Georgian red bricks and mysterious looking steps down to a more ancient stone basin"
X Link 2026-02-05T08:12Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks a million everybody for your extremely generous support and advice 🙏🏻 I'll be replying to everyone the minute I get to me laptop this morning so I can respond properly. Thanks a million X"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:49Z 24.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Holy magic stones don't just exist on Father Ted's Craggy Island. We've got one here in Dublin There has been a place of worship on the site of Old St. Audoen's church since medieval times. That even more ancient chapel was for St. Columba. Audoen's is the oldest surviving medieval church in Dublin with parts of it dating from about [----] CE. The 17th-century tower contains six bells. Three of these are the oldest in Ireland and date from [----] CE. And with centuries of history comes more than a few mysteries. A 9th-century grave marker called The Lucky Stone (an chloch dh) was practically"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:34Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Mmmmmmmmbeer I already robbed all the artefacts (and copper) from most lesser-known archaeological sites in Dublin you'll be grand 😂"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:38Z 24.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@veteris_insect @irl_sport The legend himself posted this photo on Facebook yesterday hes gas 😂🌹"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:47Z 24.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@PLUTO_M00N Yeah a huge waste of time for all involved except the Troglodytes"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:19Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@MaggieLucey1 Yeah extremely awful. Both the personal abuse of trust and the loss to Irish culture too. I wonder how common this sort of neglect and abuse is in relationships where a partner is medically vulnerable"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:06Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@Aunty_Bigot Yeah sadly I agree"
X Link 2026-02-16T10:21Z 24.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Familiar to millions of Dubliners for his iconic windows in Bewley's on Grafton Street St Peters Church in Phibsborough and the National Gallery Henry "Harry" Clarkes (18891931) short life was as turbulent as it was creative. His Da was from Leeds and decorated churches"
X Link 2023-07-08T09:13Z 24.3K followers, 188.5K engagements
"On this day in [----] "The Plough and the Stars" a drama set during the Easter Rising notoriously caused a riot in the Abbey Theatre. It was only a decade since the city had burned as what W.B Yeats has described as "a terrible beauty is born." The scars from those events and the ensuing War of Independence and Civil War were very much still raw. During the third performance of The Plough and the Stars several women in the audience who were directly involved in the Rising began to get rowdy. The "ringleaders" were three firebrand ladies. Sighle Humphreys (pic 1) was vice-president of Cumann na"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:14Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"-The next area's decor is a confection of pastel-coloured bricks mosaic-tiled floors and oriental arches. Basically the best budget approximations of the Middle East the second city of Empire could buy. The style was a fashionable trope erroneously called "Saracenic" architecture. We enter a large changing room space called a Divan. This was lined with benches and timber stalls with scarlet curtains for undressing. Unnecessary modesty being a British vice Paddy had inherited at the time All this was beneath an alluring multicoloured painted panelled ceiling. A visitor described the effect as"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:11Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements
"On this day in [----] [---] young people went out for a Valentine's Day dance in The Stardust nightclub in Artane. That night [--] sons and daughters of Dublin never came home tragically dying in a nightmarish and preventable fire. Escape routes were chained shut. Dozens of young people were seriously injured hundreds of family members and friends were traumatised forever. The first tribunal cited arson as the "probable" cause implying one of the young people attending the disco caused the fire. This verdict was contradicted by extensive evidence that emergency exits in the club were regularly"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:07Z 24.3K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Despite St. Valentine's Day being popular with Dubliners many don't realise his body (well some of it) is actually here in our city Father John Spratt (1797-1871) was a humanitarian in the Irish Carmelite Order who did a huge amount of charity work especially helping the homeless and hungry in the Liberties. He was also involved in the construction of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Whitefriar Street. In [----] he was honored for his work by Pope Gregory XVI with a gift of part of the relics of St Valentine. The bones and blood of the Roman martyr were brought home from Rome and installed in"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:25Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Today in [----] the one and only Barry McGuigan the @ClonesCyclone defending his world title 🥊at the old RDS. Me gaff was full of neighbours sweating bullets on Valentine's Day for the Clones Cyclone WATCH: @RTEsport gets ready to broadcast Barry McGuigan's world title defence at the @TheRDS RT News reports #OnThisDay in [----] https://t.co/teJsOBA5ES From the RT Archives News Collection https://t.co/JAyeqyfF7X WATCH: @RTEsport gets ready to broadcast Barry McGuigan's world title defence at the @TheRDS RT News reports #OnThisDay in [----] https://t.co/teJsOBA5ES From the RT Archives News"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:05Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"More details from @britishmuseum UK Lawyers for Israel threatened that using the term Palestine was "historically inaccurate and effectively erased the history of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judea". Considering the usually glacial pace of change for even the smallest item in the British Museum and the fact they ignore hundreds of petitions yearly to repatriat artefacts etc its pretty telling how much power UKLFI must have over the institution to cause such huge alterations"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:04Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@2013_Sylvius Thats facinating Might it be a genetics bottleneck effect then that more people with that mutation survived the plague and therefore went on to reproduce with similar Apologies I've nowhere near a medical education but I'm fascinated"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:28Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Today in [----] Pat Finucane sat down to Sunday dinner with his wife Geraldine and their three children in their north Belfast home. He was [--] years old. Two gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association smashed their way into the house and fired fourteen shots at close range. His family watched him die at the table. Finucane was one of the most prominent defence solicitors in Northern Ireland known for representing republican suspects and for challenging the conduct of the security forces in court. In the febrile atmosphere of the late 1980s insisting on legal rights was enough to mark a man for"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:00Z 24.3K followers, 40.9K engagements
"Did you known scores of Irish soldiers were executed by the US in the largest mass execution in American military history Saint Patricks Battalion the Batalln de San Patricio occupies an dodgy place in 19th century American history. To the US they were deserters and traitors men who "fecked around and find out" as the kids now say. To Mexico they were martyrs foreigners who chose conscience over flag and died for it. Back in Ireland some kind of say them as another flight of Wild Geese. The battalions founder was John Riley born in Galway around [----]. He was a former soldier of the British"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:14Z 24.3K followers, 36.9K engagements
"Whats more romantic than a Valentine's trip to a haunted castle Groaning in the night and ectoplasm on the sheets in the morning Dublin is riddled with castles so lets take a gander at a few less well known "haunted" and historic fortifications. In the middle of a cow field in south Dublin sits Pucks Castle. This gothic looking ruin has no visitor centre. Just ivy skeletal cattle and a squat stone tower slowly surrendering to the wildlife around it. What it lacks in size it more than makes up for in mythology. The name comes from the Irish pca a shape-shifting mischievous spirit of folklore."
X Link 2026-02-14T16:26Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Most Irish people have seen the movie My Left Foot but dont know the shocking things that happened to Christy Brown after the film was set. Because when that romantic Hollywood style ending with Brown meeting Mary Carr was over the reality of his adult life was far darker for the author and artist. But so much before that was also left out for poetic licence. Long before Mary Carr appeared on the scene Browns most formative adult relationship was with Beth Moore a wealthy American socialite and married woman who became his patron muse and intellectual partner. They met in [----] after Beth read"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:44Z 24.3K followers, 33K engagements
"Wow The British Museum has removed or updated references to "Palestine" within its ancient Middle East galleries following a formal complaint from the group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). In response the museum replaced the terminology with "Canaan" for descriptions of the southern Levant in the second millennium BC. Wow its not enough to destroy the future some Zionist want to erase the past. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023028594964914300 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023028594964914300"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:36Z 24.3K followers, 26K engagements
"Down All The Days was adapted as a stage production by Jim and Peter Sheridan. It ran for a number of months in [----] at the Oscar Theatre Serpentine Ave. Christy Brown attended the opening night and was appreciative of the production and cast. Geraldine Plunket and Vincent Smith ( The Riordans) played the mother and father Tom Murphy (Adam & Paul) played Christy. This is a scene from the play. Source: P Morgan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023053967605846034 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023053967605846034"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:17Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@GalwayWalks Jaysus yous must've really had to think on your feet. And you's survived it eventually yeah Did it change your perspective much"
X Link 2026-02-16T09:01Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Church Street Disaster is one of the great forgotten tragedies that occured in the slums of Dublin in [----]. On the night of the 2nd of September tragedy struck. Two decrepit tenement houses Numbers [--] and [--] Church Street collapsed without warning burying men women and children beneath tons of rubble. Seven people died including three children. All the deaths occurred in No. [--]. Among the dead was Hugh Sammon a teenager who had already saved several family members before returning to rescue his four-year-old sister Elizabeth. He never came back out. Around a hundred people were left"
X Link 2026-02-16T12:04Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Beloved71478281 I'm not a doctor but I had a look on and Cooleys anemia (Beta-Thalassemia Major) also involves iron overload but through different mechanisms"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:23Z 24.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Just 4km off the coast of Portrane Dublin lies Lambay Island. This 600-acre wild private isle is home to a few humans a working farm cows deer and a troupe of Rednecks. But these are lad's of a different stripe. These are Red-Necked Wallabies The way these Aussie and Tasmanian natives made it to Lambay is as interesting as the story of the isle itself. The Barings banking dynasty bought Lambay in [----]. They built a manor house follies and a farm. The lads tried to turn the place into a bit of a menagerie during the 1950s-60's however these charming marsupials were the only exotic blow-ins"
X Link 2024-04-29T06:45Z 24.3K followers, 171.7K engagements
"The legendary origin of the phrase "chancing your arm" is a brilliant story from Dublin in [----]. The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare were involved in a violent land feud. The Butlers retreated to the sanctuary of St Patrick's Cathedral with the FitzGeralds in hot pursuit. A standoff took place the Fitzgeralds refusing to leave till the Butlers surrendered. However the Butlers feared they'd be massacred by their sworn enemies if they left the sanctuary. To break the stalemate and show his sincerity to let the Butlers surrender peacefully Gerald Fitzgerald cut a hole in the"
X Link 2024-04-30T07:08Z 24.3K followers, 192.2K engagements
"Patrick Flemming was a 17th-century lawless hellraiser who inspired the song "Whiskey in the Jar."". His life was like a dodgy Errol Flynn movie directed by Tarantino. The "gentleman thief" started life as a footman for the Earl of Antrim. But the tearaway teenager robbed his wealthy employer blind. He started hanging out with a criminal gang in Dublin breaking into rich men's gaffs. He swiftly moved up the ranks dodging the hangman's noose in Stephen's Green gibbet several times. [--] years later he was regarded by the English Old Bailey as Dublin's gangster number one. Eventually the heat got"
X Link 2024-05-01T07:50Z 24.3K followers, 81.4K engagements
"Here is a tale about digging up the dead but it's not about body snatchers or archaeologists. It's a story about love and things more important than death. It's a story that will make you proud to be Irish. The life and death of Con Carey in the little village of Brosna were unremarkable. It's what happened after he died that teaches us about the value of community and human dignity. Con Carey passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning 2nd April [----]. He was not a wealthy man but he was well known in the village for his good sense of humour and willingness to help his neighbours. In"
X Link 2024-05-08T07:24Z 24.3K followers, 92.8K engagements
"Blessington Street Basin is a romantic oasis that opened in [----]. Originally a reservoir this sanctuary of calm has evolved into one of Dublin's last secret gardens. Its first fresh water source was Lough Owel in Westmeath the water being piped via the Royal Canal until [----]. Originally called the Royal George Reservoir the basin contains about [--] million litres. Eventually it proved too small for a growing citys requirements so it was used by Powers and Jamesons Whiskey as a production source for decades. It benefited from a refurbishment in [----]. The charming artificial island in the centre"
X Link 2024-06-22T08:56Z 24.3K followers, 68.7K engagements
"Declan Flynn was a 31-year-old working at Dublin Airport for Aer Rianta. Were he living in 21st Century Dublin you might see him as just another good looking young gay lad smiling in a selfie on Facebook or maybe bopping on the dancefloor of The George with his mates of a Saturday night. But Declan and countless others like him lies cold in the grave now his young life brutally snuffed out by hatred and ignorance on a cold September night in [----]. Dublin in the early eighties was a grim place to be gay. Criminalisation made it extremely difficult to learn about other LGBT people let alone"
X Link 2024-06-29T09:22Z 24.3K followers, 281.7K engagements
"A bit of fun on a dingy July afternoon.the Mythical Beasts of Ireland"
X Link 2024-07-02T15:35Z 24.3K followers, 103.3K engagements
"Eithne Coyle (1897-1985) spied for the IRA while working undercover as an Irish language teacher. An active member of the women's revolutionary organisation Cumann na mBan she performed reconnaissance missions against British forces. Coyle was arrested in February [----] and court martialled in Kilmainham Courthouse. The rebel Gaeilgeoir refused to acknowledge the British court or speak English to the judge instead much to the courts fury she read a newspaper throughout the proceedings occasionally laughing or gasping the stories. She got [--] years in Mountjoy Prison but Eithne had no intention"
X Link 2024-07-07T09:27Z 24.3K followers, 36.6K engagements
"Today in [----] Mary Manning a humble shop worker in Dunnes Stores on Henry Street made a stand for human rights which would echo throughout the world. In protest against the appalling racist apartheid regime she refused to handle the sale of produce from South Africa. Her workers' union IDATU had issued directions boycotting South African products. Manning was the first member to implement the strike when she refused to handle grapefruit from the targeted nation. She and her shop steward Karen Gearon were suspended for their moral stance. Then another [--] IDATU members went on strike; Liz Deasy"
X Link 2024-07-19T06:19Z 24.3K followers, 28.2K engagements
"On this day in [----] gangland boss Martin Cahill was assassinated. Knicknamed "The General" he was as notorious for his unconventional lifestyle as his brazen brutality. He loved to taunt the Garda who wasted millions in a dedicated budget on surveillance of the "ordinary decent criminal." He vandalised the greens of the Garda golf course in Stackstown and stole files from the Director of Public Prosecutions' office in Stephen's Green. When asked about his childhood Cahill said "Reform school was my primary school St. Patrick's Institution my secondary school and Mountjoy my universitythey"
X Link 2024-08-18T07:20Z 24.3K followers, 210.4K engagements
"With news of Russian secret agents in Ireland what's the top secret history of Russian spies in Dublin The Russian embassy is a hotbed of espionage. However the majority of spies in Ireland are living and working amid the general population of Dublin. KGB meddling in Irish affairs goes back to the very founding of our state. Then during the Cold War an espionage ring operated on the west coast of Ireland a clandestine elderly Russian couple who used sophisticated surveillance tech to monitor US submarines in the Atlantic. In [----] after the Bloody Sunday massacre of unarmed civil rights"
X Link 2024-08-19T08:11Z 24.3K followers, 357K engagements
"This is the last cigarette [--] year old student Kevin Barry smoked before being hanged at Mountjoy Gaol in [----]. Dublin-born Barry spent a lot of his childhood in Carlow. He was an IRA volunteer who attended Belvedere College and UCD to study medicine. On the 20th of September [----] he took part in an IRA raid on a British army supply truck at Monk's Bakery on North King Street Dublin. The ambush went wrong and three British soldiers were killed. Barry was captured at the scene after his revolver jammed preventing him from escaping. Despite his youth he was tried by court-martial under the"
X Link 2024-08-28T11:40Z 24.3K followers, 159.6K engagements
"Theres an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated [---] people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin first cited by Ptolemy in [---] CE. Eblanas brutalist design without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busras station aesthetic. Although the acoustics were apparently excellent as was the intimate ambience. The main Busras structure took six years to build construction starting in [----] and finishing in [----] at a then stratospheric cost over"
X Link 2024-08-29T07:39Z 24.3K followers, 78.7K engagements
"Just a reminder of the dangers of all the Cromwell apologists. You get despicable mass murderers being rehabilitated as national heroes. Their revisionist history has been trying to white-wash the evil heritage of British rule for centuries. It's a cynical exercise to simultaneously alleviate their guilt whilst also maintaining social cohesion with the children of the old empire. You don't want millions of teenagers every year learning how their cultures were raped pillaged and enslaved. In Ireland under Cromwell alone [------] out of [---] million died from fighting famine and disease. That's"
X Link 2024-09-12T10:55Z 24.3K followers, 305.9K engagements
"Ireland has legends of Far Gorta "Hungry Grass." Found along lonely moonlit country roads spectre haunted hills and long deserted ghost towns Hungry Grass looked ordinary until stood upon. Then your body would be paralysed by agonising hunger and abyssal dread. You'd fall to the ground the chill of inescapable horror seeping through your exhausted body from the very earth itself. Death was certain in minutes unless you carried a morsel of food with you to eat thus breaking the spell. This frightening folklore sadly has its roots in the attempted genocide that was "An Gorta Mr" the Great"
X Link 2024-09-28T11:20Z 24.3K followers, 58K engagements
"Someone installed this plaque at the site of the unfinished childrens hospital. The project is years overdue and [---] billion over budget so far"
X Link 2024-11-03T12:06Z 24.3K followers, 101.8K engagements
"Shout out to that time in [----] when US Sen. Joe Kennedy II was on a state visit to Belfast when thuggish Brit soldiers tried to intimidate him. Ignorant soldiers told him "Go back to your own country" Senator Kennedy shouts back "Why don't you go back to yours" 😂👌🏼"
X Link 2024-11-22T11:52Z 24.3K followers, 397.9K engagements
"Annual reminder: Anyone offended by a certain word in "Fairytale of New York" please take a long hard look at yourself. I'm a proud married gay man and I'm not offended by it. Neither the connotation nor context is homophobic in the song. Grow up There's many things in our society worthy of your outrage. Some of which actually are in the song FTONY like alcoholism homelessness drug abuse suicide and misogyny. So rather than being constantly offended (often on other people's behalf) how about using that energy in positive ways Let's concentrate on alleviating those real pressing issues in our"
X Link 2024-12-07T10:47Z 24.3K followers, 54.7K engagements
"A video showing a PSNI officer kicking a 16-year-old boy in the head during an arrest in Cookstown County Tyrone outside Time nightclub last Sunday morning where the boy was arrested on suspicion of assaulting police officers. The PSNI has confirmed the boy was released on bail pending further inquiries. No officers have been removed from duty at this stage and the Ombudsman is appealing for witnesses or footage of the incident"
X Link 2024-12-13T16:26Z 24.3K followers, 182.9K engagements
"Sometimes I lose my compassion and need a reminder that my own people were also casually labelled thieves and terrorists when they left their homes seeking a better life. Though this world hardens me heart more each day may it never close my mind. The date of this article was Thursday 14th July [----] and was part of an ongoing campaign blaming Paddies for everything including simultaneously calling us all lazy whilst complaining we were taking all their jobs"
X Link 2024-12-24T12:27Z 24.3K followers, 249.3K engagements
"Didn't want to post about this till I got permission. That young couple who were cruelly killed by a hit and run driver were my nextdoor neighbours for over a decade. I still can't get my head around those beautiful and caring people and their [--] great kids now orphaned. I spoke to their inconsolable family at the vigil. Their hearts and minds are destroyed. Their friends and our neighbours devastated. We will miss you both thanks for being so kind to my Mam and me. Yous were [--] in a million. We can't do anything to help poor Georgina or Anto now but we can try and raise a few bob for their"
X Link 2024-12-30T12:43Z 24.3K followers, 176.3K engagements
"How dystopian and scandalous is it that hospital porters from Cork University Hospital had to recycle [------] bottles and cans to raise nearly [-----] for critical medical equipment for sick children Absolutely scandalous how mismanaged @HSELive budget is. Outgoing Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly should be ashamed. This isnt to take away from the incredible charity work by John Collins and John Keenan with the CUH Charity funding a mobile high-flow oxygen therapy unit to aid children with respiratory conditions like pneumonia and asthma. Brilliant work to those heroes. But it should not be"
X Link 2025-01-02T14:42Z 24.3K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Absolutely speechless at the audacity of Katherine Zappone attempting to re-enter the political sphere with a [-----] per annum plus expenses Oireachtas seatafter refusing to appear before the very same Oireachtas foreign affairs committee three years ago. Zappone epitomised cronyism when Enda Kenny parachuted her into politics in [----]. Makes you wonder what leverage they had on each other. Despite lacking qualifications she was handed the role of Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (20162020). Then came Simon Coveneys creation of a cushy made-up position as UN Special Envoy for Freedom of"
X Link 2025-01-14T13:41Z 24.3K followers, 101.2K engagements
"On this day in [----] British soldiers shot [--] unarmed civilians at a peaceful protest in the Bogside area of Derry. [--] were murdered and dozens more were injured in what became known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre. John "Jackie" Duddy (17) was unarmed and running away from soldiers through the carpark when multiple witnesses saw a soldier take aim at the boy shooting him in the soldier the bullet penetrating his chest. Michael Kelly (17) was also unarmed and standing at the rubble barricade on Rossville Street when he was fatally shot in the stomach. Hugh Gilmour (17) was mortally wounded by a"
X Link 2025-01-30T08:32Z 24.3K followers, 54.7K engagements
"I'm shocked how many vile misogynistic "Mother and Baby Home" apologists are on this app. Even as we remember the deaths of Ann Lovett and her baby these hypocrites are romanticising the slavery neglect and murder of woman and children. For all you supposed Catholics who worship Mother Mary and Baby Jesus in theory but not in practice here's a list of just a few mass graves for these despicable institutions: Tuam Co. Galway (Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home)At least [---] infants and young children were discovered in a former septic tank. Bessborough Co. Cork (Sacred Heart Mother and Baby Home)"
X Link 2025-01-31T15:59Z 24.3K followers, 38.7K engagements
"On this day in [----] [---] young people went out for a Valentine's Day dance in The Stardust nightclub in Artane. That night [--] sons and daughters of Dublin never came home tragically dying in a nightmarish and preventable fire. Escape routes were chained shut. Dozens of young people were seriously injured hundreds of family members and friends were traumatised forever. The first tribunal cited arson as the "probable" cause implying one of the young people attending the disco caused the fire. This verdict was contradicted by extensive evidence that emergency exits in the club were regularly"
X Link 2025-02-14T08:26Z 24.3K followers, 25.5K engagements
"The legendary origin of the phrase "chancing your arm" is a brilliant story from Dublin in [----]. The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare were involved in a violent land feud. The Butlers retreated to the sanctuary of St Patrick's Cathedral with the FitzGeralds in hot pursuit. A standoff took place the Fitzgeralds refusing to leave till the Butlers surrendered. However the Butlers feared they'd be massacred by their sworn enemies if they left the sanctuary. To break the stalemate and show his sincerity to let the Butlers surrender peacefully Gerald Fitzgerald cut a hole in the"
X Link 2025-03-03T12:13Z 24.3K followers, 100.2K engagements
"There's another Emerald Isle in the Caribbean which celebrates St. Patricks Day with enough craic and culture to make any Irish person proud. Monserrat became home to Irish indentured servants displaced and persecuted by Cromwell in the 17th century. Originally making up more than half the population they integrated and intermarried with their neighbours. This resulted in some beautiful accents arts and culture (as well as people) The island people now share and celebrate a rich common Afro-Irish heritage. Saint Patrick's Day is a week-long festival of craic and ceol in the Caribbean."
X Link 2025-03-16T08:43Z 24.3K followers, 108.7K engagements
"Today in [----] England passed the "Adventurers' Act" to fund the conquest of Ireland. This ruthless financial scheme was designed to fund Englands reconquering of Ireland in the wake of the [----] rebellion. In return for their investment private individuals known as "Adventurers" were promised stolen Irish land. The rebellion had led to the formation of the Confederation of Kilkenny a Catholic government that controlled two-thirds of Ireland and posed a direct challenge to English rule and King Charles Is authority. Parliament sought to crush this defiance offering confiscated land steeped in"
X Link 2025-03-19T07:33Z 24.3K followers, 60.5K engagements
"On the 30th of March [----] hundreds of starving men women and children set out on a harrowing overnight death march from Louisburgh Co. Mayo to Delphi Lodge a hunting retreat nestled deep in the mountains. They had no choice. Two government officials had arrived in Louisburgh to determine whether famine relief an essential lifeline of grain would continue for the destitute. Yet without conducting an inspection the officials departed for Delphi ordering the desperate crowds to follow. In the darkness hundreds of emaciated people described as living skeletons struggled through the treacherous"
X Link 2025-03-30T08:29Z 24.3K followers, 100.7K engagements
"King of the cute hoors Michael Healy-Rae just appointed his son Jackie Healy-Rae as his ministerial adviser with a salary of [------] The sheer unapologetic scale of the nepotism is mind-boggling. You might remember this was his son who was previously convicted of assault and sentenced to a total of eight months (suspended for six months) for two linked assaults during a [----] incident in Kenmare. The court ruled he had also lied to garda about his involvement"
X Link 2025-03-30T16:09Z 24.3K followers, 141.1K engagements
"Recent report reveals that giant gombeen Danny Healy-Rae privately profited millions from contracts with Uisce ireann (Irish Water) whilst publicly campaigning against Irish Water Danny Healy-Rae's family-owned plant hire firm received [----] million in contracts from [----] to [----]. The cute hoors firm contracted directly with Uisce ireann under their national Repair and Maintenance Framework. He has since transitioned the ownership of his company to his sons"
X Link 2025-04-03T12:11Z 24.3K followers, 45.4K engagements
"Dublins streets are blighted by an explosion of barbers phone kiosks and vape shops. These businesses are eerily identical often empty. How can you justify five barbers or vape shops with no footfall The Garda county councils and local chambers of commerce quietly admit what many suspect. Some of these premises are fronts for money laundering drug trafficking and organized crime. Gangs are turning struggling streets into conduits for dirty cash. One Stoneybatter takeaway was among several locations raided by over [---] Garda across Dublin Kildare and Meath resulting in arrests tied to ongoing"
X Link 2025-06-09T10:56Z 24.3K followers, 35.8K engagements
"Looks like Judge Martin Nolan has some competition in Judge Grainne Malone. A 24-year-old asylum seeker from Somalia sexually assaulted a woman on a crowded Luas tram in Dublin. Abdiweli Ali stood behind the woman for an eight-minute journey and ejaculated on her dress. The incident occurred in broad daylight while the woman was traveling with a friend to a concert. Ali initially denied the accusation for a year despite DNA but changed his plea to guilty shortly before his trial. He came to Ireland [--] years ago. He was even living in an International Protection Accommodation Services centre"
X Link 2025-06-11T14:03Z 24.3K followers, 83.9K engagements
"On this day in [----] [--] year old Noah Donohoe a pupil at St Malachys College in Belfast set off from his home by bike to meet friends. On the 27th of June his body was recovered from a storm drain in north Belfast. A post-mortem concluded he died from drowning with no signs of head injury. CCTV footage allegedly recorded the healthy young boy acting bizarrely. Why did Noah abandon his belongings and clothing in an unfamiliar part of the city Could a head injury or sudden psychotic break alone explain it. Or did someone frighten or harm him driving him to a desperate escape attempt Why did the"
X Link 2025-06-21T15:48Z 24.3K followers, 91.8K engagements
"More shocking allegations have emerged about Mountbatten and his M15/Loyalist paedophile boys' home conspiracy. In "Kincora: Britains Shame" a new book by investigative journalist Chris Moore @ChrisMooreRDP claims Lord Louis Mountbatten (cousin to the late Queen Elizabeth II) sexually abused five children trafficked from the notorious Kincora Boys Home to his summer estate at Classiebawn Castle in Mullaghmore Sligo. One former resident Arthur Smyth says he was just eleven when he was raped twice by Mountbatten at Kincora. He filed a civil case against state institutions in [----]. According to"
X Link 2025-07-08T15:31Z 24.3K followers, 82.9K engagements
"A man attacked a woman from behind on her way to work dragging her to a park where he violently sexually assaulted her and told her he would kill her before passers-by raised the alarm and he fled. Marius Lacatus already has several previous convictions for robbery and domestic violence in Romania. The judge noted the maximum sentence for the sexual assault was [--] years but then stated "mitigating factors" because the rapist had a "difficult and impoverished childhood" and "good work history". So he only imposed a five and a half year sentence. Guess the Judge. Yep"
X Link 2025-07-28T18:47Z 24.3K followers, 31.8K engagements
"Hilarious and disturbing how apologists for British colonialism and butchery keep telling this Irish HISTORY account to "stop living in the past" whenever I post about some despicable crime against humanity committed by the English state. It's not our fault your historic legacy to the world is the anniversary of one shameful atrocity after another. Talk about delusional victim blaming"
X Link 2025-08-09T16:08Z 24.3K followers, 71.2K engagements
"Did you know an Irish athlete at the [----] Olympic Games in Athens committed a brave act of defiance against British rule on the world stage. Peter OConnor was born in England in [----] to Irish parents but raised in Ashford Wicklow. He was a solicitor by profession and a proud member of the Gaelic Athletic Association since its earliest days.OConnor held the world record for the long jump from [----] to [----] an extraordinary 20-year reign. He won All-Ireland titles with ease and refused to compete under a British flag at the [----] Olympics. When the [----] Intercalated Games rolled around considered"
X Link 2025-08-11T07:42Z 24.3K followers, 83.5K engagements
"On this day in [----] Michael Collins' convoy drove through Bal na mBlth and into eternity. Civil War had erupted only months before. Sacrifices alliances and betrayals unimaginable weeks ago were routine in the new bloodbath of brother against brother. Despite these dangers Collins believed he wasn't a credible target for Anti-Treaty Irregulars. especially in his native Cork. He set off to inspect military installations in that beautiful wild corner of the country. Perhaps he confused his hopes of reconciliation and renewal with the desires of the new domestic enemy. When the National Army"
X Link 2025-08-22T07:15Z 24.3K followers, 327.2K engagements
"The UDA has ordered Catholic families out of mixed housing development in West Belfast. Not a peep out of the PSNI or the DUP or Downing Street. Perhaps if the terrorised Catholic families wore Free Palestine shirts the police might take notice. Disgusting sectarianism and two tier policing"
X Link 2025-08-31T14:38Z 24.3K followers, 28.4K engagements
"On the night of the 9th of September [----] thirty-one-year-old Declan Flynn left a pub in Donnycarney and walked toward Fairview Park. He was a young man from Whitehall who worked for Aer Rianta. Flynn was sitting on a bench in Fairview Park when five local youths aged between fourteen and nineteen descended on him. They were out as they later put it to clean up the area of queers. They chased him beat him unconscious robbed him and left him for dead on the grass. Flynn was found and brought to Blanchardstown Hospital but he died within an hour of admission. When the case came to court in"
X Link 2025-09-09T10:07Z 24.3K followers, 111.8K engagements
"Just a reminder of how colonialists teach and think about history given the anniversary of Drogheda. "ADVENTURE" = The attempted genocide of the Irish Race. [------] civilian casualties. Entire cities slaughtered after surrending. [-----] deported as indentured slave labourers. Countless more starved in the resulting famine or dying from diseases"
X Link 2025-09-11T14:39Z 24.3K followers, 74.6K engagements
"In the summer of [----] hundreds of corpses appeared along the shores of Mayo Sligo and Donegal. Locals and Garda found bodies caught in kelp cast onto rocks or drifting into quiet bays. They were the mangled and water bloated corpses of Italians Germans Austrians and British soldiers. The victims of the Battle of the Atlantic who had been carried for days by the restless currents. For the neutral communities of the west it was a shocking reminder that the war was at their door. The story began on the 2nd of July [----] when the SS Arandora Star a converted passenger liner pressed into military"
X Link 2025-09-12T11:09Z 24.3K followers, 34.5K engagements
"Last Sunday a disgusting incident of mass animal abuse happened on a train following the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Irish media seem reluctant to discuss it. On an Irish Rail train from Athlone to Dublin on approx [--] unaccompanied WHITE IRISH minors boarded the 5pm train at Ballinasloe with small birds and rodents in boxes. Passengers witnessed the poor creatures being kicked burned with lighters and subjected to other forms of torture causing them to scream in distress. This happened in Carriage C. When a female passenger attempted to intervene she was allegedly surrounded by the minors who"
X Link 2025-10-09T16:24Z 24.3K followers, 103.7K engagements
"Two Cork drag queens were assaulted on the street and left bloodied during the Cork Jazz Festival in Douglas whilst minding their own business and making a video. Two little thugs were arrested and a knife was seized by Gardai. One of theme was later handed a court date. Both have very interesting "histories". If you watch this and think "im not a drag queen or gay so this doesn't effect me" you're dead wrong. Because this is a great litmus test of how safe a society is. When innocent people are attacked on video by hateful degenerates as people laugh then your loved ones city just got a"
X Link 2025-10-27T17:05Z 24.3K followers, 404.5K engagements
"On this day in [----] in a crowded courtroom in Dublin Theobald Wolfe Tone stood in the dock and made the speech that would outlive him. Outside the rebellion of that summer was broken. The United Irishmen were scattered its leaders dead or dying. Tone had been captured in the Bay of Lough Swilly aboard the French flagship Hoche a grand but battered vessel limping home after a failed attempt to land troops in Donegal. He had recruited French aid for Ireland convinced that the republic born in Paris might help birth one here. A republic of Catholics Protestants and Dissenters united a nation"
X Link 2025-11-10T08:48Z 24.3K followers, 74.3K engagements
"105 years ago today in Croke Park Tipperary took on Dublin before a capacity crowd. Suddenly at 3:25pm armoured cars and trucks containing rabid Black and Tans British Auxiliaries and RIC surrounded the stadium. Without warning they stormed the grounds opening fire indiscriminately. Rifles and revolvers were savagely unleashed against the helpless spectators and players. Terrified victims were shot in the back as they frantically tried to escape. Some desperately scrambled over walls and squeezed through narrow exits. The British butcher's guns riddled the unarmed civilians mercilessly for"
X Link 2025-11-21T08:04Z 24.3K followers, 50.3K engagements
"On this day in [----] Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and Detective Garda Ben O'Sullivan were sitting in an unmarked car protecting a post office van in Adare Limerick. Suddenly a jeep rammed them from behind and three balaclava clad thieves jumped out. But these men were not "ordinary" criminals who were trying to make their escape from a botched robbery. They were members of the splinter paramilitary group the Provisional IRA. And they were armed with Kalashnikovs. Whilst the garda were still stunned the three provos opened fire. Detective O'Sullivan was seriously injured and Detective McCabe"
X Link 2025-06-07T07:48Z 24.3K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Today in [----] was one of the darkest in Corks history. British forces unleashed a wave of destruction known as "The Burning of Cork" that left the city centre in smouldering ruins and its citizens murdered and traumatised. Earlier that evening the Cork No. [--] Brigade of the IRA ambushed British Auxiliaries targeting soldiers at Dillons Cross just outside the city. Two Crossley Tender lorries carrying the despised Auxiliaries were leaving Victoria Barracks (later renamed Collins Barracks) around [--] p.m. These ragtag units often contained pardoned criminals and were known for their brutality."
X Link 2025-12-11T08:06Z 24.3K followers, 11.6K engagements
"1. Today in [----] the last Irish Magdalene Laundry closed its slave labour prison doors. Originally called the Gloucester Street Laundry located on Sean MacDermott Street it was owned and exploited by the nuns of the ironically titled "Sisters of Our Lady of Charity""
X Link 2022-10-25T06:42Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"1) For Hanukkah here's a quick look behind an unusual door in Fairview. You can tell there's something special by the stone plaque saying built in the year [----]. These unassuming premises is the gatehouse for Ireland's oldest Jewish cemetery"
X Link 2022-12-19T08:40Z 24.3K followers, 133.2K engagements
"There's a [----] year old hidden holy well in a very well known yet unexpected place with a cryptic clue to its location on a now vanished old street sign for Nassau Street. The former Irish name mysteriously said "Srid Thobar Phdraig". Patricks Well Road"
X Link 2023-04-27T07:15Z 24.3K followers, 172.6K engagements
"Theres an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated [---] people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin first cited by Ptolemy in [---] AD"
X Link 2023-04-29T07:49Z 24.3K followers, 430.7K engagements
"The legendary origin of the phrase "chancing your arm" came from Dublin in [----]. The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare were involved in a violent land feud. The Butlers retreated to the sanctuary of St Patrick's Cathedral with the FitzGeralds in hot pursuit"
X Link 2023-06-01T06:36Z 24.3K followers, 806.9K engagements
"Their leader shook Fitzgerald's hand. Both families left the cathedral in peace and in one piece The "Door of Reconciliation" is still on display in St Pat's Cathedral this day. Maybe there's someone in your life you should chance your arm with"
X Link 2023-06-01T06:36Z 24.3K followers, 52K engagements
"Today in [----] the Irish inventor of the hypodermic needle used it on a human for the first time in the Meath Hospital Dublin Dr Francis Rynd injected his patient Margaret Cox with morphine to treat severe agony"
X Link 2023-06-03T06:35Z 24.3K followers, 82.8K engagements
"Grab your flashlights and wellies we're taking a trip down to the secret tunnels underneath our ancient city This drain on Wellington Quay hides some fascinating history. It's the exit tunnel where the medieval underground river Poddle meets the Liffey"
X Link 2023-06-18T10:57Z 24.3K followers, 604.2K engagements
"Young Dick Bauf is one of the most tragic Dubliners ever. Aged [--] he & his parents were convicted of theft and murder in [----]. Bad as their crimes were the decision of the judge was outright evil. The child would be allowed to go free if he agreed to.execute his own parents"
X Link 2023-06-19T06:38Z 24.3K followers, 297.5K engagements
"Theres an underground train tunnel and station running under the Phoenix Park which disturbed a massive Viking burial ground. Work was began on it in [----] by The Great Southern & Western company. It opened in [----] and runs into a tunnel at Conyngham Road and resurfaces at Cabra"
X Link 2023-07-04T06:53Z 24.3K followers, 267.5K engagements
"Ancient Ireland was a melting pot of Celts Vikings Norse Normans and English and its counties' names and GAA nicknames reflect that. Sometimes silly occasionally simple yet always interesting let's begin in alphabetical order"
X Link 2023-07-22T07:14Z 24.3K followers, 879.9K engagements
"If Croke Park is the cathedral of Gaelic games then Hill [--] is a chapel dedicated to the worship of Dublin's Blue Army. Many Dubs fans believe the myth that Hill [--] was built using the rubble of the GPO and OConnell Street from the Rising. The truth is equally fascinating"
X Link 2023-07-29T07:29Z 24.3K followers, 372.4K engagements
"Dunsoghly Castle in Finglas is located on private land near the end of a Dublin airport runway. The 4storey medieval tower house was built in [----] by Sir Thomas Plunket one of the Earls of Fingal. Its [---] year old roof is the last surviving original wooden one on an Irish castle"
X Link 2023-08-19T09:47Z 24.3K followers, 159K engagements
"Mary 'Dancing Mary' Dunne was a common sight on O'Connell Street for [--] years. The Dun Laoghaire native was always immaculately dressed with trademark skirt & high heels. She danced for hours in all weathers in religious ecstasy & with the energy of a woman half her age"
X Link 2023-12-09T12:18Z 24.3K followers, 141.7K engagements
"Sunlight Chambers on the corner of Parliament Street and Essex Quay is an overlooked masterpiece. It wouldn't be out of place in Renaissance Rome. But the beautiful artwork is 20th century and actually represents the history of hygiene It was the Irish HQ of Lever Brothers which made Sunlight soap. The magnifcent glazed ceramic friezes were made in [----] by Conrad Dressler in Buckinghamshire. Among the figures are donkeys babies women washing and men farming and building an arch"
X Link 2024-03-07T10:10Z 24.3K followers, 59.1K engagements
"1/2 Ireland in the 1940's was like Orwell's "1984". The fledgling country was a Catholic theocracy. A grey dystopia run by bishops priests and nuns. If our nation had a motto back then it would've been "Women and Children last". Welcome to the world of Archbishop McQuaid. Warning some distressing content. The church with the tacit permission of an undemocratic Dil ruthlessly controlled every aspect of public and private life from cradle to grave. It has a stranglehold on state institutions; economy education and even the healthcare of his subjects. This makes ire a Vatican vassal state and"
X Link 2024-04-21T09:22Z 24.3K followers, 184.6K engagements
"Mary Dunne fondly known as 'Dancing Mary' was a common yet curious sight on O'Connell Street for nearly [--] years. The Dun Laoghaire native was always immaculately dressed with trademark skirt and high heels. She danced for hours in all weathers seemingly in religious ecstasy and with the energy of a woman half her age. When she wasn't utterly lost in her trance she would interact with the busy pedestrians who made up her audience. She'd chat smile and wave rosary in one hand and sometimes a flower in the other. In the great tradition of Dublin "characters" Mary was celebrated for her glorious"
X Link 2024-12-09T10:24Z 24.3K followers, 69.3K engagements
"A 24-year-old man Nikita Dvoynin caught with possessing over [----] child abuse images just received a fully suspended two-year sentence. No jail time. Guess the judge When are we going to hold powerful lawmakers accountable"
X Link 2025-01-28T21:21Z 24.3K followers, 43K engagements
"On this day in [----] a terrified freezing 15- year-old schoolgirl called Ann Lovett was crouched in the fetal position in agony at the grotto of the Virgin Mary in Granard Co. Longford. But whilst this child is certainly innocent and worthy of help and this is a place where pious people come to seek assistance from Our Lady her desperate prayers will not be answered that lonely night. Amid the darkness and cold Ann will give birth to a stillborn baby. Compounding that unimaginable tragedy which occurred in this dreary garden of Gethsemane just hours later this teenage mother will also perish"
X Link 2025-01-31T08:56Z 24.3K followers, 205.4K engagements
"36 years ago today human rights crusader solicitor Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalist terrorists in collusion with British security forces. He was just [--]. His killers intended to silence the growing movement for human rights in Northern Ireland. They wanted to sustain the unjust inequalities against nationalists endemic in the British system which had served them for so long. They failed"
X Link 2025-02-12T09:39Z 24.3K followers, 109K engagements
"A filthy scumbag with [--] videos and [--] images of child abuse on two phones was given a fully suspended two-year sentence. Richard Hayes (51) disgusting material included the rape of a toddler and the sexual abuse of a child with a disability. No jail time. Guess the Judge"
X Link 2025-02-18T17:09Z 24.3K followers, 167.1K engagements
"Today in [----] Grace OMalley the Irish pirate queen stood in the royal court of Greenwich Palace before another queen Elizabeth I. She had crossed the Irish Sea not as a supplicant but as a sovereign in her own right seeking the release of her sons and her half-brother imprisoned by the ruthless Governor of Connacht Sir Richard Bingham. Grace is said to have refused to curtsey declaring that she recognised no monarch as her superior though she addressed Elizabeth as a fellow ruler. When the English guards found a dagger concealed in her clothes she explained calmly that it was for her own"
X Link 2025-09-06T08:31Z 24.3K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Former Taoiseach and professional parasite Bertie Ahern doesn't want all the skeletons in his closet dragged back into the light so he dropped out of his last great scheme to shake down the Irish people. But we haven't forgotten. The Dublin Time Machine will visit his legacy of lies and larceny. And unlike Bertie I've got all me receipts. The Mahon Tribunal the Moriarty Tribunal the Philip Sheedy affair each cast fresh light on the sins surrounding Aherns finances and decision-making. The saga began with brown envelopes of cash. As Minister for Finance in the early 1990s Ahern received"
X Link 2025-09-06T10:56Z 24.3K followers, 45.1K engagements
"An ancient nameless three-faced god emergeing from the grave might seem like something out of a horror. But in [----] a farmer called James Longmore quarrying the limestone soil in Cavan uncovered one of the most haunting relics of pre-Christian Ireland The Corleck Head. Whether or not the Cavanman planned to sell the gravel he excavated before that is not recorded () Today that iconic Corleck Head resides in our National Museum in Dublin but its ethereal triple-gaze stares beyond the glass case of that institution to the Otherworld. Where gods (and demi-semi-gods) and humans met on a hill"
X Link 2025-11-02T17:50Z 24.3K followers, 42.9K engagements
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