To the uninitiated, Twitter can be a bit of mine field. It's where memes and news stories are often born and, in many ways, it's a language in and of itself. And then, of course, you've got the specific subculture that is Irish Twitter which is a whole other ball game.
We here at LADBible understand that it can be overwhelming trying to stay on top of a platform that feels like if you blink, you'll miss something crucial. That's why we've put together this nifty guide to the best of what's occurred on Irish Twitter this week - the funniest memes, the hottest takes and the moments that just made us say WT actual F.
So grab a cuppa, sit back and catch up on all the best tweets you might have missed this week, safe in the knowledge you can regurgitate them all to your friends as though they're your original thoughts in the coming week.
LOL - This week's funniest tweets
Last week's Euros Final feels almost like a distant memory now. Let's cast our minds back to the brief period of time we realised we were Italian.
It's hard to a beat a Dublin taxi driver for the one liners but this encounter Twitter favourite Holly Shortall recently had takes the biscuit.
We've truly had bigger fish to fry since then Sean.
There's been an abundance of discourse around the upcoming reopening of indoor dining and so-called 'covid passports', the rules seem to change every time we check but this week's announcement that GPs might be in the position to write people a note to go for drinks left many doctors unimpressed.
Tinder screenshots are always offer a wild insight into what other people genuinely believe will be seductive.
TBH - The tweets that made us go 'Hmm...'
Another week, another Irish public figure gets royally taken down by the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account for their utterly stupid, offensive remarks. This week it was TD Mattie McGrath comparing the rules around indoor dining to Nazi Germany. We've said it once and we'll say it again - leave the Holocaust out of it for fuck's sake.
We heard a few too many ignorant English folk waxing lyrical about how 'disrespectful' Irish people were in their support of Italy, Denmark and other England opponents in the Euros 2021, and to that we say - you know what's disrespectful? Genocide by famine.
There's been much talk about the soon to be launched Work Placement Experience Programme this week, and almost none of it is positive. After crunching the numbers, it was revealed that workers on the programme would be working for just €3.43 an hour on top of their standard jobseekers allowance. Tell us, in what world, is that a sustainable wage for anyone to live on? And how exactly does the government think that allowing employers to avail of labour in this way is going to improve wages and employment conditions in any meaningful way?
WTF - An ode to the tweet we just didn't see coming
A perfectly valid point being made here by DJ Mango - what we didn't see coming was the utterly bizarre photocall Fine Gael arranged to illustrate the bill to ban ticket touting in Ireland. A disgruntled TD is seen holding a comically oversized 'touted ticket' next to what appears to be a pimp-like character smoking a cigar in a gold chain and a sheepskin coat holding tickets. Has anyone at Fine Gael ever purchased a ticket to something?
Topics: Ireland
