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'Deeply disappointed’: Ministers question 'surprising' refusal of Rotunda critical care unit ‘Health infrastructure is critical infrastructure. Simple as that,’ says Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Those drawing up and submitting these plans could surely anticipate they were going to be refused on these grounds. I can’t understand this pattern which repeats in Ireland again and again. www.thejournal.ie/rotunda-hosp...

Just logged into Instapaper for the first time in 10 years.

This is why we had to remove the passenger cap 🤪

Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like.

It is still a yellow weather alert.

#SpeirGorm

I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Belfast when I saw that photo.

Couldn't agree more, also the prioritisation of Greenway reveals the official view that cycling is a recreational activity to be monetised and not a routine mode of transport

Cyclist crushed twice by SUV in Dublin city centre recalls ‘the worst day of my life’ in court Andrew Brett told the court that he was ‘convinced he was going to die’ during the incident.

“Gda Galvin said Brett was wearing a high-vis jacket and helmet. It was a dry day, the road conditions were good and there were no obstructions.” Turns out high vis and helmet may not save you from SUV drivers taking an illegal right turn. www.thejournal.ie/courts-cycli...

As a newly minted (well, since 2020) Irish citizen, I hate to watch what happened to America start to repeat itself here.

The media has a HUGE role in normalizing fascism in the US.
Trans kids were the low-hanging fruit, both in 🇺🇸 & 🇬🇧.

Noticing both professional and personal scenarios where emails are not arriving into different Gmail and Microsoft accounts. Mostly mailing lists of sorts, including identity provider one-time passcodes. The baby is being thrown out with the bathwater?

Shame nobody could join the dots prior to shutting down their previous venue? Some of these buildings were in fine working order within the last decade but have been wilfully left derelict since by the government.

We’d a good show last night on @tonightvmtv.bsky.social, digging in to the case of Irish citizens detained under ICE in the US and whether the government’s own policies undermine its efforts to address them.

Mind boggling at people I thought I knew going on “badly-needed” winter breaks to Florida in 2026…

Oh boy, we are so spoiled for choice once again… His buddy Ray going to go for FG I assume?

Another day, another IT journo bemoaning how boring Irish politics is compared to UK politics. All he seems to want is carnage and entertainment value.

The Olympic Games should not be behind a paywall, even if the paywall is low.

The luge: on a fertiliser bag going down a frosty hill #IrishWinterOlympics

Trains are just great. Even our limited network of diesel-chuggers beat the car any day. I don’t think I’m ever as focused as I am on a quiet train pootling along. Tay optional.

Based on a data set of one taxi journey today, the “make all cyclists wear helmets and high vis because they are the road safety issue” narrative has emboldened the “cyclists shouldn’t be on the road” class of taxi driver. Same lad couldn’t believe there were trains to & within Co. Clare either.

We need to do something to waterproof the An Post carts. Letters and packages have been absolutely chewed by the rain this week.

Could someone pass this on to Mr Shakespeare? I think you’ll find him in his ivory tower…

I dare not think about it for too long some days

All getting more and more Trumpian with each week that passes

Where are we watching the curling?

What can we do to try head this ridiculous plan off? Write to TDs?

This is cycling in Copenhagen.

No hi-vis. No helmet mandates.
People cycle because it’s safe — by design.

This is what cycling should look like.

Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...

what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not

“The plans come following a renewed focus on road safety and the use of e-bikes, scramblers and scooters from the Government in recent weeks following the death of 16-year-old Grace Lynch, who was hit and killed by a scrambler bike.” How the hell did the focus end up here?!

Can we also get a mandatory high-vis stripe on every single vehicle on the road? Or maybe just some enforcement of existing road traffic laws and get thousands of drivers off their damned phones while driving?

Re-turn to engage with council after criticism of scheme Re-turn has said that it is willing to engage with Dublin City Council on the operation of the Deposit Return Scheme in the city centre.

DublinTown, some DCC councillors and DCC’s CEO are only criticising the problematic scheme because it literally brings the poverty, homelessness and neglect they wilfully ignore into the clear light of day. www.rte.ie/news/environ...

Dug out the spreadsheet and got cooking. Energia seem to be coming out as an option worth considering (day, night, peak, gas from top to bottom). I’m a dope for not checking the bill sooner, I just checked what was Yuno’s peak rate at the time of going out or contact and thought I’d get that 🫠