Eamonn Hackett @Ehackett

If you have a spare 3 mins and 45 secs today, watch this fantastic grilling by Sally Nugent on BBC Breakfast. The very first time I've seen Farage questioned properly about his £5M bung, and it's fair to say, he totally fluffed it. There are points when you can see Farage tremble and even accuse the BBC of putting him in danger. 🤦‍♂️ It was for security. It was for cars. Nobody cares. It's no one's business. He won't tell us. DANGER! At one point, he let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards may 'disagree' with him on the rules around donations. He knows he's going to be found guilty on this one. He's in trouble, and his face gave it away gloriously. Top hats off to Sally Nugent. Stellar work. 👏

I cannot believe Cape Verde actually convinced this guy to play for them via LinkedIn😭. Monster of a defender. His mother is Irish, his father is from Cape Verde. He was born and raised in Ireland, and currently the captain of Shamrock Rovers. He represented Ireland at youth level before switching to Cape Verde. In 2018, Cape Verde were looking for professional footballers with Cape Verdian heritage and the coach came across Pico Lopes. He messaged him on LinkedIn to play for them, Lopes was working part time as a Mortgage advisor in a bank then and still playing professional football. He didn’t respond because the message was in Portuguese and he didn’t understand, he thought it was a spam. A year later (2019), the coach messaged him again, this time he did it in English. Lopes agreed to play for Cape Verde and the rest is history. A very good addition to the squad, a pure leader. Ladies and Gentlemen, Pico Lopes.

Brilliant presence of mind from Gibson-Park and Keenan to strike when everyone else stopped playing. #LEIvBUL #URC

Prendergast, outta nowhere 😅 Hit that Chariots of Fire tune 🏃‍♂️💨💨

This is f*cking batshit crazy. Russian soldiers fire rockets during the Ukrainian attacking in Moscow, while stood in the middle of a highway as civilian vehicles slowly drive past.

Zelensky tells the Belarusian dictator that he has one week to remove the missile guidance systems that he allows Russia to use for targeting Ukrainian cities or "we will remove them ourselves".

Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts" "They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling

Just hearing the news, dear god. RIP Ciaran O'Lionard

Yes, definitely, and without any beating around the bush: Putin has deteriorated significantly, and he continues to weaken in plain sight. He used to appear in public as a cold, psychopathic, cynical, cruel, treacherous, and calculating predator, always wearing that smug little sadistic grin. Now, month after month, he is increasingly descending into outright buffoonery and farce. He is drowning in his own childish giggling, awkward antics, and crude off-color jokes. He now routinely blurts out poorly thought-out nonsense straight from the top of his head, which contradicts itself and even the mainstream narrative of his own propaganda machine. It's almost as if Donald Trump bit him. As a result, he now constantly shocks his own officials and Russia's Z-fascists on Telegram. He keeps making mistakes. He keeps absorbing painful public blows from Zelensky. He keeps allowing himself to be backed into corners. I don't know exactly what it is. Maybe age is finally taking its toll. Maybe accumulated exhaustion. Maybe a growing, reluctant realization that things are not going well in the war against Ukraine, that the prospects ahead promise nothing good, that a certain threshold has been crossed beyond which Russia will no longer be able to break Ukraine, and that only the countdown remains to the most terrifying thing of all: the eventual acknowledgment of failure. And so the Kremlin war machine (and the dictator's own veins) are filling with nervousness, frantic activity, denial of reality, impulsive decisions, palace intrigues, and a growing loss of control. Add to that the recent setbacks in Syria, Hungary, Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Most likely, it's all of the above. Because you can puff out your chest, pound your fist, issue threats, and project as much small-dick-energy bravado as you want, but against the backdrop of devastating Ukrainian strikes on Russia's oil industry -- and now on its military and fuel logistics -- Putin nevertheless authorized Roman Abramovich's trip to Kyiv. The thing is, the old Putin probably would never have bragged about something like that in public or signaled to everyone that beneath all the swagger, laughter, and bravado, he had blinked first.

Ukraine‘s president Zelenskyy in an interview with Skynews disclosed that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich came to Kyiv, Ukraine. This secret meeting took place recently and Zelenskyy made clear that Ukraine is not going to surrender any parts of Ukraine, including Donbas. Zelenskyy said that the only compromise he is willing to take is an unconditional ceasefire. This are interesting news. Abramovich would have never come to Kyiv if this wasn’t sanctioned by Putin. In other words, Putin blinked.

A fascinating interview with Anniemarie O'Brien 👏

Ukraine flew drones 1000km across Russia and blew up a $150m Russian warship and set fire to an oil terminal on the opening day of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. Utter humiliation for the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin.

No one’s been more critical than me of Keir Starmer. He absolutely nailed Nigel Farage there. Farage didn’t know how to respond.

Sturgeon's Kuenssberg interview was the defining moment in the biggest financial scandal in Holyrood history. But it is also the last time a politician in a jam will tearfully play the misogyny card. She wasn't the victim of patriarcy, she was the boss. Link below.

Michéal Martin absolutely scalds Richard Boyd Barrett in the Dáil. Someone call a burns specialist. "It's great to be virtuous, deputy, but for the workers’ representative, you lack all virtuosity when it comes to protecting Irish workers."

What an interview this is!! Pure passion and visceral joy. From foaling her himself to being with her all the way to the winners enclosure. Magic, magic stuff. Congrats, Ronan. 🙌

Sinn Féin FPV votes in Dublin Central (their leader's constituency) have fallen through the floor: 2020 GE: 35.7% 2024 GE: 23.34% 2026 BE: 17.5% But keep trusting in Mary Lou and calling the working class racists.

Losers from the By-Elections: Sinn Fein Aontu Gript The Ditch Fuel Protestors Far left Far Right Mobsters

RoyK @roy_kinsella

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Such an achievement considering this is Catherine Connolly's old seat. rte.ie/news/2026/0524…

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@MaryERegan hilarious to see sinn fein, a party with 39 tds, being used and controlled by the smaller left parties. from forcing them to support connolly to the transfer left movement.. they call the shots, not mary lou. 🤣🤣

@MaryERegan Sitting on the fence is killing them. Also opposing policies in ROI & but implementing thdd EC same policies in NI.