Hugo Brady Brown's avatar

Hugo Brady Brown

@aodhbc.bsky.social

557 followers 481 following 64 posts

Reads the odd book, flicks through the newspapers and listens to the wireless. A graduate only of the University of Real Life Eastern Ireland

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

'Customers find the writing style well-written and the content thorough,'

I like a well-written writing style, I do.

amzn.eu/d/01cP4nnp

0 replies 1 reposts 5 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

A neighbour from a distant country and a different culture has been trying to process his astonishment this morning that the work on refitting / restyling / re-tiling his bathrooms wasn't finished yesterday, as promised. Nor half-finished.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Oh, it is to us too. Few places are quite so foreign to us.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

He seems to be a decent, reasonable person and an effective politician.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

"Whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation" Parliament Act, 1911

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Someone needs to stamp out this nonsense of writing 'fewer' when 'less' is meant.

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

If only there were a cure for this.

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Hilary Benn has said he is a 'Benn, but not a Bennite.'

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

"No, I did my doctoral work on the Slovak New Wave instead."

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Do they in Westminster still quake at the prospect of new Irish members going over?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Clearly Richard Shakespeare, DCC CEO, is a busy man.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Phil Hogan is on the way back.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

British dualism.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Hugo Brady Brown

Enda o Dowd's avatar Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social
[ View ]

It’s wild to me that a football match between France and Portugal takes precedence over BBC’s main news on the day of a uk election. There’s a growing wave of nationalism but it can’t compete with football.

0 replies 1 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

The last serving British prime minister to be a knight was Sir Alec, nearly sixty years ago.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Too few ordinary state-funded schools invest in the game, despite the character-building, socialising and networking advantages that exposure to rugby gives boys who go far. Some form of state subsidy is called for to spread rugby down into the middling middle class.

0 replies 1 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Simon Harris was the first international statesman to talk to Sir Keir Starmer after he became prime minister? This sounds like a Great Re-Set in relations.

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Nothing for Sir Chris Whitty?

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Ian Paisley 'did more for Sri Lanka than he did for Ballymena’

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano should count himself lucky that the Holy Father hasn't also reduced him to the lay state.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Now I hear that Labour's election victory yesterday was loveless and even pyrrhic. Journalism is what shapes our understanding.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Could he not get a real job? And yet, wasn't Winston in that post at one time, or do I misremember?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

We will soon enough forget who Rishi Sunak was, but oddly not Liz Truss.

1 replies 0 reposts 10 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Boris Johnson never failed to ask for more.

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

I understand that, countervailing any blemish on his record, he has family connections amounting to a sound Fine Gael (EPP) hinterland.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

"Is it good for the Irish?" The colonial cringe: make any news story parochial.

2 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Hugo Brady Brown

Dreams~2~Realization's avatar Dreams~2~Realization @platinumray.bsky.social
[ View ]

Braved the rain to see this Bronze Age standing stone on Bere

0 replies 1 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

“They’re supposed to be this big macho culture when actually all they are are whining babies." 'Off The Ball' presenter Ger Gilroy on Newstalk

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

This microblogging site last night showed once again that posting what seems too obvious to utter even to oneself will lead to many reposts, likes and replies praising the exceptional insight (iff the poster is somebody). Just like Twitter.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

I'm lucky in that all the most interesting people have crossed over and have gone silent on Twitter.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

I understand that on Channel 4 last night, in passing and without pausing for breath, Alastair Campbell corrected Nadine Dorries on the less/fewer rule that's dying out. I further understand that it was sexist.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Who hasn't felt like this even when the notifications become torrential? I, for one.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

While making no comment whatever on the instant case, it is in principle undesirable ever to jail convicted policemen. In the ordinary prisons they could find themselves sharing cell space with real criminals they had been obliged to fabricate against or plant evidence on.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

"Call it the hellsite to seem virtuous in front of us Bluesky schoolmarms if you like, but you're still contaminated by it if you're still playing there for the likes and the dopamine." Wise words indeed.

1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

It's interesting to see nationalistic Irish people who claim not to do so in fact treating Britain as the mainland. It's evident in their deep interest in the minutiae and personalities of British electoral politics and in their transference of their political emotions to the politics of Britain.

0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Nadine Dorries and the truth.

1 replies 1 reposts 1 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Sir Keir Starmer will lead a government without ideology.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

A reverse takeover of the rump Tories by a private company is just what a man in the City would arrange.

1 replies 1 reposts 3 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

What possessed the Official Unionists to run a candidate who had gone native in England like Colonel Tim Collins OBE? They needed people as Irish as old Lord Brookeborough - people who know all about potholes, hedges and hunting, and who seem to know nothing much about Rolls-Royces.

0 replies 1 reposts 3 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

It's back to the lake for Penny Mordaunt, Lord President of the Council.

0 replies 0 reposts 11 likes

Reposted by Hugo Brady Brown

Eoin McFadden's avatar Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social
[ View ]

Glorious walk down the Lagan Valley Park after the storms

0 replies 1 reposts 3 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

People who call it 'the Bad Place' are usually still playing there. Sensible people who don't need a fake distancing effect for themselves call it simply Twitter.

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

Socialism in Two Countries

0 replies 1 reposts 4 likes

Reposted by Hugo Brady Brown

Raul Duke's avatar Raul Duke @drraulduke.bsky.social
[ View ]

The dog now demands a bowl of tea every time we get back from her walk. Not entirely sure who’s training who tbh.

4 replies 5 reposts 27 likes

Reposted by Hugo Brady Brown

Eponymous for now's avatar Eponymous for now @polyeclectic.bsky.social
[ View ]

On July 4th, 1826 John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, two members of the Committee of Five, authors of the Declaration of Independence, died 50 years to the day after its adaptation in 1776.
I found their dual obituary randomly folded deep inside my copy of book published in 1757. (1/2)
#c18th

1 replies 4 reposts 4 likes

Hugo Brady Brown's avatar Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social
[ View ]

It's fascinating that there's far less believing going on here today than usual. It does seem to depend on who it is.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Hugo Brady Brown

Wyl's avatar Wyl @wyl.bsky.social
[ View ]

Tinahely Wicklow Ireland. I think these few nights around June and July, when a few rays from the sun linger long into the night, are slightly magical. It's 11:30pm.

1 replies 2 reposts 10 likes