Tom Gleeson

It’s handy that we have pre-named a major Dublin railway station for our new president
#aras2025

Lily Allen has mounted a *feral* millennial girl comeback and I’m absolutely here for it 🔥

Utopia In Cork Cork people give their reaction to Utopia the first adult shop to open in the city.

“Granny, what was 1990s Ireland like?”

Ringleader behind Wagner-directed UK arson jailed for 17 years LONDON - The ringleader of an arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London last year was on Friday jailed for 17 years for what prosecutors described as \"a sustained campaign of terrorism and ...

1. European low-lives, criminals, and political radicals doing Russia's bidding across the continent.

The ringleader of an arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London last year was on Friday jailed for what prosecutors described as a sustained campaign of terrorism and sabotage on UK soil ⬇️

Criticism as Reform-led council set to spend £75,000 on new flags The council says union jack flags will be flown in 82 locations in a bid to foster

75,000 on 150 flags? Some vendor (I am sure, entirely unconnected to the Reform councillors) is making a very patriotic killing.

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It's so funny how much the aggressive pro-Starmer people on here are in a very real sense, just Keir Starmer: successful people in or past the third quarter of their careers who don't really like or understand politics.

Use it or lose it
#DerelictIreland

Von der Leyen hints at ‘trade bazooka’ against China’s rare earth chokehold “Europe cannot do things the same way anymore. We learned this lesson painfully with energy; we will not repeat it with critical materials”

Von der Leyen hints at ‘trade bazooka’ against China’s rare earth chokehold

You'd think that the Mad Max setting would know better than this

Ceremonial role (but public vote, unusual for powerless Presidencies) so no hard choices to be made (fix my road, lower my rax, tax that fellow), also unlike our power politics it's STV, not PR-STV, so vital and much valued proportionality of our politics is missing.

‘Dodgy-box’ users to face direct fines for first time under plans by rights holders Irish dodgy-box users would face direct fines for the first time under new plans being considered by broadcasters and copyright authorities.

Up to 400,000 Irish dodgy box home users may soon face direct fines for the first time.

Broadcasters here looking to copy Italy, which has a new fine system of €154-€5,000 per user, imposed when subscriber data in seized in police raids on sellers.

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Called it at 9:13, which is a new record I think. Connolly by 60%+. Spoiled votes may outpoll Heather Humphreys.

FF/FG will listen to the spoiled tally but what they’re going to hear and act on is “Be more racist”

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

ECDC: Europe’s Salmonella outbreak likely linked to Sicilian tomatoes Health officials believe cherry tomatoes from the Mediterranean island are the ‘vehicle of infection’ in the years-long outbreak.

Health officials believe cherry tomatoes from the Mediterranean island are the ‘vehicle of infection’ in the years-long outbreak.

Asshole mode

To go from "Who is Katie Lam?" to "Everybody hates Katie Lam, the Tory Idi Amin" in less than a week is exemplary "rising star" behaviour

Community alert

"the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure"

A tweet from No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen says, “This is not satire, by the way.” It quotes an earlier tweet from the same account that claims, “The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.” Below are three images: a serious portrait of a man in a suit, The New York Times logo, and Mike Lindell (the MyPillow founder) holding one of his pillows and smiling.

We’ve become a bad joke.

The GoAhead Ireland's S8 route continues its decent into ghostbusdom, yesterday westward from Sandyford, there were no buses running between 17:30 and 18:48, this is on an every 15 minutes route, two buses cancelled, one
just disappeared and the final one was 20+ minutes late. #speirgorm

Always enjoy talking to Hannah on here, but this observation in particular is a real missing tooth of a “I really wish I’d thought of this and written it”, on how Brexit accelerated so many parliamentary careers.

My crush on McGyver has grown exponentially since learning he more or less quit acting at 49 to be a full-time single dad to a surprise daughter.

“After MacGyver ended, Anderson stated ‘MacGyver was seven years of being in virtually every frame that was shot and having absolutely no life at all.’”

This Coolmoyne is in Cashel RC parish I think, across the parish boundary lie the Rathcool (Ráth Cúla, the Fort of the Faggots) Coolmoynes (Taylor & Pommel).

Rathcool civil parish is split between Killenaule and Fethard RC parishes with these two townlands in Fethard parish.

I saw a comment earlier that if Maria Steen was president they would be able to buy a house - so they are spoiling their vote. How their brain stretched to that conclusion I dont know

This is a really exciting French-Irish dialogue on European maritime security at @ucddublin.bsky.social Please register below if you wish to attend. Many thanks to the French Embassy in Ireland. @bentonra.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

Nations tend to become enfeebled by sugar-daddy free money, the USSR kept Cuba afloat during the Cold War, the subsequent cold-turkey withdrawal showed that the country was ill-prepared to fend for itself.

Audio equipment are some of the only electronics not exempted from Trump's tariffs, and thus they've been hit extremely hard by the trade war

Prices are up 14% over the last year, the fastest pace in the nearly 50 years for which official data exists

Search: ‘Bailey Street’ Search results including similar and related streetnames.

There's now a Sráidainm alongside Logainm. I always suspected my hometown's Bailey St. was fairly unique. Was it named like Waterford's Bailey's New St. after a Bailey, or a bailey? It leads to a moated rectangular site, maybe the medieval unwalled town's refuge in times of attack? #speirgorm

Our rhubarb gave us a 2nd flush this year but I tried some remaining healthy looking stalks - long past normal season - last week and they were woody when cooked, disgusting; so I'd stick with the apple tart.