Darach Ó Séaghdha

@darach.bsky.social

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I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter. "Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉

Italian PM Meloni listening to UK PM Andy Burnham on the phone. She is wearing a cream suit and sitting behind a desk. Her face suggests annoyance, boredom, and plotting.
Book cover, white text on black with bits of gold flecked around. The title is "The Game Of Life" and the subtitle is "& How To Win It". Author is identified as Ivan Yates, a notoriously unsuccessful bookie and political consultant.
David McWilliams X This is really important data crunching by @Nick_Delehanty - have a read of it. It lays out the numbers coming to work, where they are from and where they are working from tech, to meat packing and healthcare. Great work. Nick Delehanty @Nick_Dele.... 1d We have crunched the Data on Irish work visas. Since 2020, 189,599 have been issued. Here is the data by nationality, employer a... 55 181 1.4K Ill 137K Leo Varadkar X.com @LeoVaradkar Informative figures. Worth pointing out though that each work permit issued is NOT the same a new arrival in the state. Far from it. These numbers would include renewals & extensions, change of status, changes of work type etc. And, not everyone stays. That doesn't come across. 16:38 15/07/2026 45K Views
Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.” Resistance to the new technology, he continued, is “very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’”
the sea captain from the Simpsons. In its initial context this showed the Sea Captain expressing dismay that Handsome Pete, who dances for nickels, had been thrown a quarter and this would have him "dancing for hours". Here, the sea captain is showing dismay because some people, you know the type, are a bit too into the fact that Kiwi actor Sam Neill was (briefly) born in Ireland.
Three fellas atop the bonfire stack in Belfast. They are very high up.
Daniel Yanofsky @danyanofsky.bsky.social Follow I'm going to give Conor McGregor some credit. Trying to do everything to show he still has the fighting spirit. Going old school to find the old McGregor. Real, or all an act? #UFC329 • 3:36 AM · Jul 10, 2026 Everybody can reply
John Mills, the thirstiest man in Africa, in "Ice Cold In Alex" (1958)
Scooby Doo "Fred reveals the villain's identity" meme
God, from God & Adam fresco by Michelangelo in the Sistene Chapel
Stella O'Malley QT'ing an Irish Independent tweet that states "transgender Irish dancers now allowed to compete in categories matching their gender identity". Stella describes this as horribly unfair to girls
Kevin Keegan during his infamous "I would love it" screed.
SJP in her most famous role, Carrie Bradshaw in Sex & The City. This screenshot of an epilogue from one episode - in which she compares the fight between marrieds and singles to "the war in Northern Ireland" is very famous in Ireland.
Charlie in Always Sunny, at his conspiracy board.
Cover art for the Van Halen single "Panama".
Serge Gainsbourg and his attractive wife Jane.
Headline says "Starmer was wrong in a world that doesn't know how to be right" and it has a picture of Starmer looking down
Screenshot from Deep Space Homer episode of the Simpsons in which a number of almost identical astronauts are described as "a colourful bunch" and "the three musketeers". They are a mathematician, a different kind of mathematician, and a statistician.
Dr Fishman in Arrested Development, who always says things in a misleadingly over-literal way.
Cover photo for legendary indie album "Spiderland" by Slint. The photo is black and white. The band are up to their necks in water. There is something intangible and menacing about the image which is hard to explain.
Black and white photo of American comedian Rodney Dangerfield, his hands open in a gesture that suggests he is telling one of his famous hard-luck anecdotes.
Screenshot of Éamon Dunphy during his infamous "Rod Liddle left his wife for a young one" screed.
DVD cover for The Big Bow Wow - the complete series UNCUT. The subheading promises that it is "the controversial original television series from the UK". The cover art is a photo of six cast members, none of whom are smiling and the one at the top right appears to be a mime
Three office pals in Bermuda wearing traditional Bermuda office suits.
Mr Bronson, the heel headmaster of BBC youth drama Grange Hill. He is wearing large bow-tie, tinted glasses, a weak moustache and his hair does not look real. He has a grumpy countenance.
Scaffolding By Seamus Heaney Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won't slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this comes down when the job's done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall.
CRIME GUN CRIME GUN CRIME GUN CRIME GUN CRIME GUN CRIME GUN
Homer Simpson from the Japan episode of the Simpsons when he is on a quiz show and he has to answer a question about Japan and, owning his ignorance, asks if the answer is Japan. I have changed the word Japan to "guns" to make light of Americans who think every problem can be solved with high gun ownership.
The Times View Headline: Burning resentment in Belfast fuelled by inaction on immigration Subhead: The mob violence in Northern Ireland is appalling but Sir Keir Starmer must recognise that a weak immigration policy threatens national stability
Irish Times piece with headline "poem written by Junior Cert pupil's mother appears on his English paper". Emily Cullen and her son Lee are in the photo.
A construction site. The covering indicates that the construction firm is called Walls. Their slogan is "building our future together". The scene is bathed in the soft morning light of June in Dublin.