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Seems kinda odd that Pat Leahy moonlights as an Education journo but only when the topic is pronouns in schools.

Very amused at the Dublin City Council van sitting in the bus lane on Dorset St forcing the bus to get into the other lane. Then by the time the bus could it back into the bus lane, the DCC van had scooted further up the bus lane forcing the bus out again.

Just felt a bit Seinfeld

The point of a pilot scheme is you test a policy with a small (say, 2,000 people) project as test, to evaluate whether the concept is worth widespread adoption.

Basic Income for Artists was a demonstrable success.

Doubling the size of your pilot scheme, is *not* widespread adoption.

I know it's not the main issue but sometimes I'm surprised how Irish politics works. If they just proposed the 20k limit first and that they'll review the limit down the line, it would be "a good start". But now it's obvious they just caved into pressure from the tourism industry

I see we're neutering that short term let ban before it even gets off the ground.

“In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs.”

Ah I see Ireland's only political analyst for America has issues with Bad Bunny's halftime show. Of course he does.

#TrevorPhillips has been best friends with Peter Mandelson for decades and he recently confirmed they remain friends. Here he is today fronting Sky News's flagship Sunday morning politics show. How is this tenable, you ask? Thats the British mainstream media, folks.

You all aren't ready for when Enoch Burke gets the Ryan Tubridy Rehabilitation treatment.

Half the time I think it's because they drive to work and don't want to lose a parking spot.

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

I'll be charitable and say it's linked to US influence on Ireland but there are so many more examples than that.

What will Ireland do to keep children safer online? In this digital age, how will Ireland respond as more countries move to ban children from social media, asks Brian O'Donovan.

The oddest thing about this article is that halfway through it mentions an ex comedy writer wanting the USA to "open a debate" on the Gender Recognition Act in Ireland.

www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

The Irish Government's answer to this would be to just join your local GAA club

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

No magic wand to fix everything but there is a judical review to blame everything on.

There are literally 100s of flood relief schemes in place, and only a handful have been judicially reviewed. Enniscorthy hasn't even got planning permission but judicial review is being blamed for delay.

Once Sue Gray became the story, it was clear she had to go Starmer had to choose between his chief of staff and the architect of Labour’s election victory, Morgan McSweeney

i mean read this. "once sue gray became the story" what the fuck are you talking about, you made her the story because morgan was telling you to
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Awful stuff and that area really tries to jam every form of transport into one confined space

Ah I was thinking more about Greek mythology and 12 Olympian Gods. Seems to be the modern equivalent sometimes.

Ancient Greeks tbh

He's some joker. He simultaneously held two Cabinet positions in 2023. How is he possibly acting like this is all the fault of the last lot?!

Hugh Linehan wrote an article which echoed Bankhurst here and I really wonder why Trans people are such an acceptable target for most of the media here. They're not even offering anything original to say.

I love Irish public transport discourse that boils down to

"why haven't we done this"

Then as it looks like we will, we get

"This is going to cost how much?"

Oh yeah. There's a few news articles about the Garda successfully tackling this in other areas and plenty of excuses why they can't tackle them in other areas.

I'm not sure it was intentional, but it did seem like a flurry of media articles about scrambler bikes was mainly to provide cover for the Garda than anything else

Can't criticize USA, can't tackle Twitter, can't "fix housing overnight", can't fix public transport or congestion, can't tackle climate change, can't tackle scrambler bikes, can't tackle anything but the triple lock

So funny for him to travel down to Enniscorthy just to be like 'now of course as you know, I can't do anything about this'