Will Derham

The author, Séamas O'Reilly on X: "Got my days wrong and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. https://t.co/gSjPY8WjKL" / X Got my days wrong and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. https://t.co/gSjPY8WjKL

Also, I think it was @seamas.bsky.social who told the most wonderful story of getting his days at work wrong and ending up in a room with Mary McAleese while high on ketamine. Peak Celtic Tiger 👌🏻

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David McWilliams categorising Irish society into a whole variety of new pigeonholes, most memorably “Breakfast Roll Man”.

A guide to Trumpspeak…

We should be building homes in Ireland, not making other people stupidly rich by renting them.

This is everything that’s wrong with Ireland - the market is not going to fix it.

#Housing #Homelessness #HousingCrisis #Ireland

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere

-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire

-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that

-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out

“We have sent many messages to the world, but no one has moved. We no longer know what to say. All I can tell the world is that we are dying slowly, save us from this tragedy.”
#Israel #Palestine
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This is brilliant

Delighted to hear this. The first series was wonderfully insightful 🤓
#History #Heritage #Ireland #Empire

All the while on the phone complaining about the quality of Lidl’s bread. She then politely turned to me + said “sorry”, apologizing for the delay she was causing, and blithely went on her way with a loaf (+ a bit) in her bag, leaving a mauled and unusable loaf behind her scattered over two shelves.

I’ve seen it all now. I popped into Lidl to get a loaf of bread. The lady in front of me was slicing hers. When sliced, she proceeded to leaf through the bread and remove several slices, then replace them with slices from a loaf she had clearly sliced before and left on the shelf …

The old equivalent of having too many browser tabs open

No words 😪

Over 300 derelict properties across Galway set to be turned into homes as funding of €2.1m approved More than €2 million has been awarded to homeowners in County Galway to tackle the region’s growing number of derelict and vacant properties.

Sounds positive but it says property hoarders in Galway can get grants but they don't have to pay dereliction taxes
Galway Co. Council have only 4 properties on Derelict Sites Register
So why aren't all 300 properties registered, paying levies?

#DerelictIreland

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When you’ve lost the daily express

Claims online, claims online, claims online … all false.

Until people publishing lies online can be prosecuted and fined (as they would if they published in print), there’s little hope of genuine, stable democracy surviving - only of international companies getting rich on advertising 🤦🏻‍♂️

A compelling read …

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Oh Jesus wept! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

🏛️ Continuing our Touring & Sharing journey with the collection, we’re stopping off at Doneraile Court in County Cork!

This outstanding Irish Georgian house is managed by @opwireland.bsky.social and features an exhibition on the celebrated Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, the subject of this portrait.

“It’s too hot, Sean: we’re melting!”

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

In solidarity & hope Today & every Saturday 1pm Grand Parade, Cork City Ireland

In solidarity & hope
Today & every Saturday 1pm
Grand Parade, Cork City Ireland

Practical water-saving advice from a Dublin watering hole …

Bayeux tapestry to return to Britain for first time in 900 years Tapestry to go on display in British Museum next year, with treasures from Sutton Hoo lent to France in exchange

Comment on dit “smooth operator” en français? 👌🏻
#History #Heritage #Culture #Bayeux #France #2027YearOfTheNormans

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Q.41 COUNCILLOR FELJIN JOSE To ask the Chief Executive for: 1. The total amount owed to the Council in derelict sites levies 2. The number of sites on the derelict sites register 3. The number of ongoing derelict sites investigations CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REPLY: 1. There are currently €10,111,370 outstanding in Derelict Sites Levies. 2. The number of sites on the Derelict Sites Register is 128 3. The number of ongoing derelict sites investigations/active files is 772. In 2024 635 investigations/inspections were completed. In Q1 of 2025 there have been 144 /investigations/inspections completed to end of March. Q.42 COUNCILLOR FELJIN JOSE To ask the Chief Executive for: 1) The total amount owed to the Council in vacant sites levies 2) The number of sites on the vacant sites register 3) The number of ongoing vacant sites investigations. CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REPLY: There are 34 vacant sites on Dublin City Council’s Vacant Sites Register. Currently there are levies in the amount of €17,161,350 owing to Dublin City Council. The Vacant Sites Unit raises demands for payment annually and reminders for payment are also issued. The Vacant Sites Levy has now been replaced with a new Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) which was introduced in the Finance Act 2021. The first liability date of the tax was 1st February 2025 and the administration of the RZLT is undertaken by the Revenue Commissioners. Any outstanding vacant sites levy charges will be registered as a charge on the land.

€10 million in derelict sites levies owed to Dublin City Council and €17 million in vacant sites levies -- that starts to add up to real money that could provide services, build things, fix things, etc.

I often wonder about this building, 176&176A St James’s St. What lies between that down-at-heel (literally) ground floor and that aloof first floor? 🤔
#History #Heritage #Architecture #Dublin #Ireland

I obviously can't speak for other jews, but to me the world's richest man tweaking his AI so that it now describes things it doesn't like on a scale of "bagel to full Shabbat" and "Peak Jewish" is a somewhat higher priority than people being mean about the IDF at Glasto.

I got an enquiry from a US academic about an exhibition held in Belfast in 1935. We had the catalogue in our archive. Who knew the Belfast Museum & Art Gallery @ulstermuseum.org
were so forward thinking! #WaltDisney

#DerelictIreland

A screenshot of an article from 2019 in which former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy talks about less space for less rent.

A screenshot of an article in which a renter in a small coliving unit is quoted 2,850 a month for a studio.

Oh great, smaller apartments for less rent, because that always... oh... okay then...