Colm

"It will be privately funded by the King."

Good one, BBC, good one.

This story is so well known now that Mary MacAleese herself must know it and possibly remember it.

4th November is the election and then they wait 8 WEEKS to appoint the person.

What will become of Bluesky without the permanent and stabilising presence of a New York Mayoral election?

H Humphreys's high horse jumping into a chasm:

'Asked whether she declared her status as credit union manager when speaking in the Dail about mortgage repossessions or the tracker mortgage scandal, she said: “I never stood up in the Dáil and spoke about any of those things, I can assure you.” '

For balance:

Heather Humphreys isn't a serial killer but if she did murder everyone with a hammer she would be even less likely to win.

Government deports 23 Romanian men with criminal convictions Regulations contained in a directive for freedom of movement within the EU were used to enact the deportations.

www.thejournal.ie/deportations... If there were 23 "threats to public security" caught by the DoJ sleuths, surely we have a right to know what security challenging conspiracy they were part of.

Alternatively if the minister is on a deportation drive to pad out the CV, we should know that too.

Caoimhín Kelleher will get the 4 nominations next time no bother. #PORvIRL

Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Can you imagine the cringe of the last 14 years (Assuming that if he lost in 2018 it would have been to an even more vacuous blandman.)

This time last week there wasn't a dry eye in FF HQ as they realised that Jim Gavin was Real Fianna Fáil after all.

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

Soemthing interesting about Center Parcs (to me, middle aged before my time) is that 2,500 people there on census night were counted as residents for the purposes of Dáil representation, and will be when LEAs are next changed.

2,500 being approx 1/12th of a TD, or 1 entire county councillor.

Looking forward to the various contortions that accompany the slow solidification of a Trump-Maduro axis (until it is abruptly interrupted and they trade missiles or something).

"Some terrible constitutional set-ups that plague actual democracies, ranked" is a substack post I could easily spend hours on if I had a substack, followers, a tendency to maintain those sorts of commitments...

Once again: Peru, like South Korea, needs to decide which arm of government is meant to be in charge. Another President 'impeached' by a Congress that always seems to find a majority for impeachment but never for governing. Would do very well to borrow muerte cruzada from Ecuador.

I bought a wholemeal loaf today and there was only bread in it. Dinner for 6 ruined.

That EU veg thing is a bit bonkers. A sausage is basically a bag of cheap bits picked up off the floor and packed together with a load of yummy salt or pepper, massive offal to veg to fruit to sawdust ratio variation from place to place. A veggie sausage is hardly very different.

The media are like, "No one realises just how BRUISING and INTRUSIVE presidential campaigns are."

Same media: In TODAY'S PAPER: 5 PAGES of PURE HONEST TO GOD MUCKRAKING. Next Week: A lofty opinion piece complaining that the responsibilities of the office have been ignored by young people.

Remember the time he revealed to Mick Wallace that he been forgiven a speeding ticket live on national TV.

And wasn't immediately asked about where he got that information and why did he think it was OK to reveal it like that.

Jim Gavin's fans are having a right meltdown.

Don't worry everyone, the government got over the Gavin thing by funnelling hundreds of millions of your € away from children and families to subsidise restaurants and fast food. #budget26 #speirghorm

Hold on while we try and pinpoint the exact time of the moment of mature recollection.

Every budget. Likewise with the RZLT. Yet another year of applications to mess around with zoning, consuming huge resources with the clunky process they made up for it, all to undermine "use it or lose it" policy. RZLT of course replaced the oft-delayed never-really-collected Vacant Sites Levy.

Kinda love Peadar Tóibín's visceral hatred of FF.
He left Sinn Féin over social issues and is busy building a rightwing project to shift Ireland's politics to the right.
∴ his natural enemies are the (growing and now united) left opposition.
But he really hates the empty husk that is Fianna Fáil.

Its difficult to defend Charlie McCreevy. If I knew why na Uachtaráin were responsible I would happily jump in to defend at least one of them.

I knew that was the case for soccer but didn't realise it was the case for football as well.