Deckie Jordan (He/him)

Celbridge primary school closes over safety concerns A primary school with around 400 students and staff in Co Kildare has told parents it is to close temporarily because of safety concerns.

Ireland 2026. A moder, wealthy country. www.rte.ie/news/educati...

You’ve read the Twits? “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly”

It was only going one way when they made Biff Tannen the Secretary of War.

The Iranian ambassador was not, for the record, on American soil.

I’ve never seen an admin more full of juvenile man-children openly projecting their juvenile man-childness every time they open their mouths and try to come across as “tough.” (And yes, I know Waltz’s background: still juvenile.)

Mother, sister of Enoch Burke found in contempt of court The High Court has ordered the immediate arrest and committal to prison of teacher Enoch Burke's mother, Martina, and sister, Ammi, for contempt of court.

Great examples of the difference between ‘more educated’ and ‘better educated’ www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

UCD Faces Renewed Scrutiny as Dáil Debates Medical Student’s Refused Resits Following Rape by Fellow Student

UCD is obviously a place where rules are more important than justice and kindness. universitytimes.ie/2026/03/ucd-...

UCD management also need to take a long hard look at themselves. Taking this to the high court and looking for costs after the images circulated. A place where rules are more important than kindness and justice.

For UCD colleagues who are on campus tomorrow (Wed 4th March), please join this call to action put out by members of the Student's Union, asking for staff and students to mobilize outside O'Reilly Hall in protest of UCD's treatment of a sexual assault survivor and to call for accountability:

The medical student at the centre of this @ucddublin.bsky.social University Observer story is bravely speaking out to demand change.

Assaulted by a fellow student, she speaks of facing a profound lack of support, with the exception of @ucdsu.bsky.social.

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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

YouTube video by ThePrint At the Michigan rally, members of Muslim community endorse Trump for president

Remember the Muslims for Trump in Michigan? Apparently because he was going to bring peace to the Middle East. Where are those guys now? Still spending their fees? youtu.be/5ospt40av4M?...

The EU and UK are like those cowardly boys that hang around with the bully, sniggering as he picks on others. All the time hoping he doesn’t turn his attention to them.

The NYT style guide

Adding extra car parking along Cork active travel project led to increase in trees to be cut down — Councillors unanimously approved Knockpogue Avenue and Knockfree Ave project.– New semi-mature trees to be planted to outnumber trees felled as part of the work.– 22 trees to be…

And related... Adding extra car parking along Cork active travel project led to increase in trees to be cut down irishcycle.com/2026/02/28/a...

Cork cycle lane objector set up GoFundMe for “legal advice” and “battle”, but project followed long-established planning process — Footpath renewal work called “Gaza destruction project that is active travel”. “They just do not want this place turned into a building site for Green Party or whatever ki…

Cork cycle lane objector set up GoFundMe for "legal advice" and "battle", but project followed long-established planning process irishcycle.com/2026/03/01/c...

More bad news for the UK. Net migration will fall again.

‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.

At the shelter door, she said, a Jewish Israeli, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked mother and daughter from entering.

“I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’”

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If protection of civilians and international humanitarian law is a priority, why will the EU not at least criticise the US & Israel for attacks on Iran. Is the repression of Iranian (or any other) regime now accepted justification for US attacks, including on civilians, sanctioned only by President.

So that’s two heads of state that Trump has removed in military operations. This is the president of peace that was going to stop the US getting involved in foreign wars.

But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.

Mick Lynch: Farage didn't build a political career, he built a bonfire out of migrant families and called it leadership. #UKPolitics

Minister O’Donovan regularly gives impression that he despises soccer.

What happened in Dundalk was a disgrace & the days of pyros at matches must be over.

However O’Donovan seems almost gleeful at administering collective punishment.

Will the same happen after a GAA or rugby melee?

FFG have opposed the recording and streaming of Limerick Council meetings for years. Now, it's back on the table in a very public way after media coverage of the latest goings-on.
#LimerickCity

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Minister O'Donovan's remarks a 'massive over-reaction' Minister for Sport Patrick O'Donovan's comments about pausing all astroturf investments into the League of Ireland in the wake of Friday's scenes during the Louth derby at Oriel Park are a "massive ov...

When you have a Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media who seems to know nothing about any of the parts of the brief - and definitely not sport. I’d wager his first league of Ireland match. How many matches played on Astro pitches with no issues? www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

There are sketch shows that would use material like this to make fun of HR policies. Think Ricky Gervais created a comedy franchise. Now David Brent is President.

I think he knows tariffs are regressive. He just doesn't care about telling the truth. Seems he'd rather lie and appear an idiot to keep his job.

Let me get this straight, we've built a venue that serves alcohol to 80,000 people, surrounded it with a moat of deadly asphalt, and made walking back to your hotel illegal?

Moran accuses cllrs of strategically undermining term Limerick's directly elected Mayor John Moran has launched a scathing attack on a number of councillors, accusing them of a deliberate strategy to ensure his term as mayor is not successful.

The mandate from the citizens of Limerick was clear. The mandate John Moran got from the citizens of Limerick for his mayoral programme was clear. The councillors have no mandate to frustrate the mayoral programme or undermine the office of mayor. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Which would be least bad? That he knows he’s bulshitting but doesn’t care or that he doesn’t know this is bulshit.

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 & 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐬

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