Cathal Mac Coille
@cathalmaccoille
I write for Tuairisc.ie and post in English and Irish. Iománaí ar an gclaí. Politics. 🎶 Ceol. Hurling. Cyclist. Deep down quite shallow. 🟩⬜️🟪
Well said Brenda Power in her Irish Daily Mail column on the cancelling of a women’s group meeting by Belfast’s Féile an Phobail.
Sinn Fein MEP Lynn Boylan, making news in Brussels. www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...
‘Fair play duit. Thug tú lán-tacaíocht, mar a thug mise, do chinedhíothú Iosrael i nGaza.’
Muinín, misneach agus meas. Tábhacht mhór na fianaise a chuala an giúiré le linn triail Riad Bouchaker Mo cholún ar Tuairisc.ie. #Gaeilge (Grianghraf: RTE) tuairisc.ie/ta-an-t-adh-...
Trumps ‘books’ on Air Force One. Another case for Myles na Gopaleen’s de luxe Book Handling service. ‘Each volume to be thoroughly handled, eight leaves in each to be dog-eared, a suitable passage in not less than 25 volumes to be underlined in red pencil… and a leaflet in French to be inserted’.
Report that reminds me of the classic cartoon. @fiscalcouncil.bsky.social www.fiscalcouncil.ie/wp-content/u...
‘Níl tír chomh breá le hÉirinn ar domhan ach briseann an teip seo mo chroí.’ Tionchar pearsanta an ghanntanais tithíochta á phle ag Éireannaigh i Nua Eabhrac agus i mBaile Átha Cliath. Mo cholún. tuairisc.ie/nil-tir-chom...
Ar ais arís: éiginnteacht thall agus abhus. Mo cholún. #Gaeilge (cartún: Marian Kamensky) tuairisc.ie/ta-aghaidh-a...
Elon Musk, spreading messages of ‘disgust, fear and anger’ on his anti-social media on Tuesday as racists planned violence in Belfast.
News item about a pregnant woman or, to use the State Examination Commission’s terminology, ‘a pregnant person’. (Irish Mail on Sunday)
The case against President Connolly’s decision to become a patron of trans lobby organisation Belong To, reasonably made by Stella O’Malley. www.irishcatholic.com/is-the-presi...
Spot-on by Michael de Adder, assuming that Trump really wants to find an exit from his stupid war.
Job done in Phibsborough. #ibikeivote @dublincycling.bsky.social
How EU policy on Israel’s abuse of human rights varies. If the victims are Palestinian, the EU will take no effective action against it. However, if the victims are EU citizens, the EU might issue an strongly-worded statement and take no effective action against it. Consistent shamelessness.
Cur sios deas simplí cumhachtach ag Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ar a mothú agus í ag smaoineamh ar Altan. ‘Mo theaghlach eile’. ‘Comhluadar Ceoil’ ar tg4.bsky.social
Pobalbhreith Ipsos/B&A TG4 Irish Times - Baile Átha Cliath Láir. @nuachttg4.bsky.social Na príomh-thorthaí (lamháil earráide +/- 4%):
Scéal thar a bheith suimiúil ar @nuachttg4.bsky.social anocht.
‘Most women in Ireland can cycle and have access to a bike, but are only half as likely as men to choose cycling as a mode of travel’ - TII’s Empowering Women to Cycle survey and report. After the bad news, what needs to be done, correction, what must be done about it: www.tii.ie/en/news/pres...
Tá a lá breithe á cheiluradh ag Fianna Fáil. Scríobh mé colún do @tuairisc.bsky.social faoin bpáirtí ó shin, faoi láthair agus amach anseo. tuairisc.ie/gaisci-agus-...
‘Ideologies may change, but biology doesn’t.’ Applied common sense in Brenda Power’s column about a school’s ‘gender-neutral’ toilets, with a fair question about teachers.