@patrickcullen
Irish (northern). Union rep. Interest in urbanism, Irish history & politics, labour history, modernism, cinema, jazz, soul, social policy & reconciliation. Slow runner. Football ref & rubbish cricketer. Join a union. Ní neart go cur le chéile ☘️
As a congestion pricing partisan, the degree to which it turns out to be One Weird Trick for a whole host of adjacent issues (business visits, noise complaints, traffic outside the zone) is delightfully surprising even to me.
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
RSVP here!: luma.com/inauguration
Meanwhile, Trump’s having a champagne Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago. 🤨
#LetThemEatCake 🍾 🥂 …. 🍰
That's... a pretty big omission.
Let's hope Irish broadcasting can finally clear out this Yates infection once and for all.
She is also the best storyteller I’ve ever met in my life. It was she who told me tales of my great aunt Maggie, who lived to be 106 and, until her dying day, cohabited with her two bachelor sons, for whom she was still cooking breakfast – and delivering semi-regular scoldings related to their drinking habits – well into their 80s.
Text from the Fermanagh Herald, October 1989: Margaret Dundas celebrated her 106th birthday on Saturday - and revealed her secret for long life. No drinking, no smoking - and stay away from men. Margaret (pictured with her sons), still alert, giggled loudly as she told her family and friends of her magic recipe for longevity. Family and friends gathered at her home on Derrygonnelly for a birthday celebration on Saturday and among the many birthday greetings was Margaret's seventh telegram from the Queen. "She forgot to put in a few quid," Margaret joked, "isn't it a pity to be poor." She has lived in her present house since her son Patrick was born in 1913, and how shares it with him and her oldest son Joey, who is 83.
![Old Mrs Dundas - your great grand aunt - died at 106. She had two sons, Sonny and somebody else and they never got married and they lived with her. She got up ever morning and she made them dunner and kept house and the two boys were fond of going down to the pub in Derrygonnelly and she had a terrible job minding them. But anyway, one of them had a prostrate thing and was in the hospital. He was 81 and this aul bitch of a nurse - hated Catholics with a vengeance - was saying to me, since I was a social worker - "you'd need to speak with someone, had a drink last night, came in from Lisnaskea", almost as if since I was a Catholic, I'd be able. So she rang Sheila and Joe [my parents] asking them to bring in his clothes, and they went in and chatted with him and he seemed grand. But when they go to pick him up, the nurse says he's raving. Sheila says "he seems fine to me" and the woman scoffed - "we asked him who he was going home to and he said his mother" and Sheila said, "well actually he is" Now Sheila wouldn't think that was funny, she just said "yes he is going to his mother, it's quite true", and the mother died at age 106. There was a photograph of her in the paper. At 106!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lss244cnzeoicm3p3nrg5ovh/bafkreif4b6irssliyom26yxhnxpunpfw2ajtm5whyh5ml7ieypj5tci2vy)
Old Mrs Dundas - your great grand aunt - died at 106. She had two sons, Sonny and somebody else and they never got married and they lived with her. She got up ever morning and she made them dunner and kept house and the two boys were fond of going down to the pub in Derrygonnelly and she had a terrible job minding them. But anyway, one of them had a prostrate thing and was in the hospital. He was 81 and this aul bitch of a nurse - hated Catholics with a vengeance - was saying to me, since I was a social worker - "you'd need to speak with someone, had a drink last night, came in from Lisnaskea", almost as if since I was a Catholic, I'd be able. So she rang Sheila and Joe [my parents] asking them to bring in his clothes, and they went in and chatted with him and he seemed grand. But when they go to pick him up, the nurse says he's raving. Sheila says "he seems fine to me" and the woman scoffed - "we asked him who he was going home to and he said his mother" and Sheila said, "well actually he is" Now Sheila wouldn't think that was funny, she just said "yes he is going to his mother, it's quite true", and the mother died at age 106. There was a photograph of her in the paper. At 106!
I mention my great aunt Maggie, who has been covered in the press before - when she took the occasion of her 106th birthday to call out the Queen. As always, my auntie Patricia told her stories best, as in the tale of her son's trip to hospital when he was in his eighties.
“We need to respect the opinions of everybody who spoiled their vote”
Actually I think you’ll find that they spoiled their vote because we’ve lost the ancient art of telling people to cop on for themselves when they’re talking shite
A beautifully crafted hymn of praise for a beautifully crafted beer from @atjbeer.bsky.social in @pelliclemag.com www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...
“Overlapping.”
MTUC statement regarding today's horrific attack on the Manchester Jewish community. Trade Unionists stand in solidarity with those affected.
She came to her #ICE check-in backed by an Episcopal bishop and 500 supporters religionnews.com/2025/09/16/e... @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
Britpopple #1129
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In memory Ian Kevin Curtis, lead singer, lyricist and occasional guitarist of the post-punk band Joy Division, born on this day in 1956, Stretford, Lancashire, England.
Photo by Paul Slattery
#punkrock #postpunk #iancurtis #joydivision #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Legs over High Tor, Matlock, 1975, photo by Paul Hill.
Italy have qualified for the T20 #cricket World Cup. Incredible. At least they will be at one world cup next year. Joe Burns has honoured his brother and delivered. Will Emilio Gay commit to the tournament
A powerful cohort of US Christians back Israeli attacks aimed at eliminating the last wholly Christian town in the West Bank, the town of #Taybeh
Sorry to bring it up 😂
Mr. SCHERER: Why do you not stay in Russia?
PAUL ROBESON: Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?
Sounds like your cabinet
Hard to believe the US just allocated $100 billion for the fiscal year 2027 to invade and subjugate itself but here we are. It's like we turned a meme into reality.
I don't know what upset Rachel Reeves but she went out and faced everyone. Maybe she should have hid in a fridge, a la Johnson? She might have got more sympathy.
One of the good guys
Kinder Scout's northern edge, Peak District, Summer Solstice June 2024, photo by Sarah Lister.
Adding trillions of debt just so some rich people can get tax cuts - like a shitter Liz Truss
Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
