The Irish Guy

Now back home in Ireland after living in California under 3 US Presidents. Back teaching History and still loving Liverpool F.C., San Francisco 49ers and GAA

[Ken Mc Fadden @unspeakable28]

I think it’s outrageous the way Robbie Keane is being treated. He was in a job when the war started, he explains his and his staff situation very well here. He has done nothing wrong. He being labeled by a group of mentally unwell in this new cult for 🇵🇸

[David Quinn @DavQuinn]

@DaveLeGaeilge It's a deeply stupid question that doesn't belong in a history exam. It is green ideology leaked in from somewhere else

[The Irish Guy @theirishguy2016]

@DavQuinn It’s insane what they have done.
To any person of good faith interested in education, please compare the JC History paper from 2016 with today’s paper.
Backwards steps and dumbed down.

[David Quinn @DavQuinn]

The first question in today's Junior Cert history paper was about...climate change.

[Gerard Casey @Casey5122dark]

What distinguishes third-wave feminism from its second-wave predecessor is not an easy question to answer but some would say the difference is marked by the concept of intersectionality.

Second-wave feminism is criticised by feminists of a more radical stripe for what they see as its concentration on the concerns of middle-class heterosexual white women to the virtual exclusion of the problems of lesbians, women of colour and working-class women. Third-wave feminists tend to see the oppression of women, however broadly conceived, as just one aspect of a more extensive notion of oppression of people by sex, by race and by class, these categories intersecting at various points. If you are a worker, you are oppressed; if you’re black you are oppressed; if you are a lesbian you are oppressed. If you are a black lesbian worker, you are intersectionally triply-oppressed.

Where there are the oppressed, there must of necessity be oppressors. So, men oppress women, whites oppress blacks, heterosexuals oppress homosexuals, capitalists oppress workers, the so-called cisgendered oppress the transgendered and the able-bodied oppress the disabled or differently-abled.

The intersection of these categories gives rise to some apparent anomalies: if you are a black, lesbian company director you are at once oppressed (black and lesbian) and an oppressor (company director). If you are a man you are an oppressor; if you are white you are an oppressor; if you are unemployed, you are oppressed; if you are a worker, you are oppressed—if you are a white, male, unemployed worker you are at once oppressed (unemployed worker) and an oppressor (white and male).

So, then, one can be simultaneously privileged and oppressed but not in respect of the same category. Thus, a cisgendered white woman is privileged in respect of her whiteness and cisgenderedness but oppressed in respect of her femaleness. An able-bodied attractive homosexual is privileged in respect of his able-bodiedness and attractiveness but oppressed in respect of his homosexuality.

How are we to calculate the fine grades of oppression and rank them on a scale where they can be compared? How are we to determine whose victimhood is superior?

Whatever may be the correct answer to this question, if indeed it has a correct answer, one suggestion may immediately be dismissed and that is the radical idea put forward by many patriarchs (i.e. men) that we should treat people as individuals and not simply as tokens of various types. This superficially reasonable proposal is just another reprehensible exercise of patriarchal power designed to suppress the oppressed groups’ consciousness of their group identities which is what gives them their superior victim status. Such a deviously reactionary idea may be safely ignored. 😎🧐

[Morrigan celtic goddess @Nuly75]

@theirishguy2016 @danobrien20 @K02568 Seriously? That's insane, what possible reasoning do they have for doing this? It's fucking bonkers, how can students understand the foundation of the state if they don't have all the info? Doesn't make any sense.

[The Irish Guy @theirishguy2016]

@Nuly75 @danobrien20 @K02568 Thank you. I don’t get it. I can’t understand it. I’ve made submissions and I’ve sent emails. It absolutely boggles my brain.

[The Irish Guy @theirishguy2016]

@DavQuinn I really wish people recognized that the Draft Specification wants to split the story of the foundation of the state.
Students can study 1916 or the war of independence but not both
If they choose 1916 they don’t study the Treaty.
They then can’t study the Troubles (IT’S NUTS)

[The Irish Guy @theirishguy2016]

@johngibbonsblog @Tiberiusbce 🙏❤️

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.

Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.

Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.

As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

[Tony Evans @TonyEvans92a]

This has been bugging me all week. I’ve had to say it. It will no doubt annoy some of my colleagues but it has to be said. This is a terrible choice for footballer of the year https://t.co/aeAAx6Xt7q

[The Irish Guy @theirishguy2016]

@karldeeter @ConorTMcGrane I was going to say you don’t know what you are talking about - but you know exactly the nonsense you are peddling. The ASTI were vilified, threatened and punished financially when they rejected government proposals. But never let truth get in the way of the agenda

[Ruairi Fahy 🇦🇲🇬🇪🇬🇷🇨🇾 ⭐️ @ruairijfahy]

In essence they have decided to dump meritocracy and change the telos of the LC to social justice and equality of outcomes. A terrible destruction is being inflicted on the once fair, educational and objective JC and LC. I’ve had a ring side seat with 5 going through the “process” and it just gets worse and worse. I suggest young parents consider an additional objective assessment of educational competence for their teenagers.

[The Irish Guy @theirishguy2016]

@declanganley The junior cert reforms were a mess. Compare the 2025 History paper to the 2015 and ask which is the better test of historical knowledge and skills.
Clue- 45% of 2025 paper could be answered successfully having never studied history. A literate 12 year old could manage it.

[The Irish Guy @theirishguy2016]

@Casey5122dark Please notice that they also want to split the Irish Revolution.
Students will have to pick only ONE of the following Irish options:
(1) 1879-1918 (1916 Rising)
(2) 1919-1965 (WoI, Treaty, civil war)
(3) 1966-1989 (Troubles)
This is far inferior from current options.

[SimonBrundish @SimonBrundish]

107 presses attempted by Liverpool against Chelsea
206 in last Klopp game v them
Liverpool had 48% possession in both matches

#Standards

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

This is pretty special. 💚

At today's Liverpool game at Anfield, Sean Cox presented Mo Salah with a Dunboyne GAA jersey with his name on the back. 🇮🇪🤝🇪🇬

The jersey also had a special inscription under the crest with a message of thanks from the Cox family. 🥹

📸 St Peter's Dunboyne GAA

[Niall McCoy @McCoyNiall]

Mo Salah will leave Anfield with a bucket load of honours and a St Peter's, Dunboyne jersey after being gifted it by Sean Cox. It represents the lasting connection between Sean, the Cox family, Liverpool and Dunboyne.

[Robert @Eintrachtrob]

I have 44 Leaving Cert Chemistry students in fifth year, all of whom will be doing an AAC.
This will involve me having to arrange apparatus, reagents and a risk/safety analysis for 44 independent AACs in a laboratory with virtually no assistance or support from the State.
I then have to supervise & upload AACs to the State Examinations Commission.

And the ASTI want me to sign up for this?
Who exactly do the leadership of the ASTI think they're working for?
Senior civil servants/politicians or teachers?
Vote NO.