Eoghan McNeill

Comment: If you tolerate this

(Briefly) how we got here (since 2008 or thereabouts).

Comment: Don’t indulge analysis that doesn’t acknowledge the establishment’s demise

History (What’s up with that?) - M.I.A. 

Comment: Inaction (is a weapon of mass destruction)

Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction.

Comment: Not a normal democracy

That's football guys. That's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do? - Tony D'Amato

Comment: The tankies were right. (We always are)

Last night I got the venue for Clare Daly in conversation with Bernadette McAliskey wrong and ended up in St Dominic’s Grammar School on the Falls Road.

Comment: This won’t last forever

It was for this. 

Comment: The centre must fold

We used to call them counterrevolutionaries. Some would’ve called them petty bourgeois. Now we call them centrist dads. 

Comment: The world keeps telling us Ireland isn't western

When I lived in Beijing for a year I came across some taxi drivers who tried to scam westerners. They had a simple trick.

Comment: Trinity protesters identified Ireland's past of same structures as Palestinian struggle

Maybe an old world is dying, like Antonio Gramsci told us, like Ursula von der Leyen is telling us, like those for whom Ireland’s neutrality is an anachronism unfit to withstand the threat of a barbarous non-west are telling us.

Analysis – State Failures: Still Just Across the Border

An old joke: asking what’s the difference between apples and oranges, the answer being there’s no such thing as apple bastards. An acquaintance once told it to my family and was embarrassed when he found out my father’s a Protestant. 

Comment: McGregor and Gript may act the rebel - but neither have any interest in challenging power

I mean the shit was all bad just a week ago  - J Cole 

Comment: The very concept of Michael Healy-Rae

Left wing protests were in fact expressions of democracy, of the will of the people, in the face of a democratic deficit. Last week’s protest was driven by ethnonationalism and transphobia imported, ironically, from Britain. They’re not the same.