Gavin Nugent

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I was only saying yesterday that Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin might be a good shout for SF? Genuinely historic figure - involved in GFA negotiations, and first SF TD to take Dáil seat. Gaeilgóir, softly spoken... A Republican Michael D?

I don't think the winning candidate has emerged yet, and it will be very interesting to see where FF and SF land.

Humphreys is only 1% ahead of Connolly and only 4% ahead of Bertie in the early polling, for whatever that's worth.

My take - Heather Humphreys is much more popular with the FG faithful than she will be with the wider voting public. She will poll respectably but will not win.

Glad we're all focused on the critical issues

Forgot my headphones. 2 hours of public transport. Unimaginable pain.

Arrived at the train station to discover that my regular service now departs 5 mins earlier on a new timetable. Which was two minutes previously. Superb.

Utility wildfire risk now includes fish falling from the sky.

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

"They are criminal... I have never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Including the courts

Train from Gorey cancelled this morning, bus transfer to Bray DART station, DART into town at rush hour... The urge to be back commuting by bike has never been stronger

Marty Morrisey talking about a Tipp player about to turn 31 like it's some sort of miracle the decrepit old fart is even on the pitch. #AllIreland

Needs to pay those legal bills somehow

True! His bigger concern will be every Cork constituent he's ever met coming out of the woodwork looking for help with tickets!

This is, quite simply, not an issue that the Taoiseach should be dealing with or even concerned about

EU proposes major cut to farm subsidies The European Commission has proposed a significant cut to the EU’s flagship farming support scheme, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in its draft long-term budget for 2028–2034.

After the carry-on of the farm lobbies across Europe over the last 18 months, I gotta say, my sympathy is low for them in the face of the new CAP proposals.

www.independent.ie/farming/news...

Oh, I actually really enjoy Seamus' reporting. He approaches it with the right spirit and tone, though. I just can't deal with off-the-wall comments being reported straight without interrogation or challenge anymore!

The Local Democracy Reporting Scheme, which supports local media to report on Council meetings, has to go.

The ignorance was bliss. I'm simply seeing too much nonsense chat from Council chambers now. Off the wall stuff. We need to go back to a simpler time when nobody cared about Council meetings.

"He can"

Mairead McGuinness is a fine politician and a serious operator, no doubt about it, but I suspect that Fine Gael are about to find out (the hard way, again) that Financial Services and Capital Markets Union won't butter many parsnips with the broad Irish electorate.

Angling banned at two rivers and concerns over drinking water supply as dry spell continues Angling has been banned at two famous fishing rivers because of concerns the fish are suffering from heat stress.

Fish in heat stress and more water supplies in drought - the prolonged dry, warm spell is creating challenges
www.independent.ie/irish-news/a...

You'd be hard pressed to find an economic or societal issue today that doesn't have a foundation or a massive amplifying effect by the austerity years - a penny-wise, pound-foolish economic experiment that did more harm than good.

Trail of compost led gardaí to garden centre burglar A burglar who fled a garden centre with a trolley full of stolen shrubs and flowers and left a trail of compost behind him to lead gardaí to the man's home nearby has been jailed for six months.

Absolute Looney Toons level crime www.rte.ie/news/munster...

A classic between Clare and Cork in the Munster Championship on Easter Sunday. Just as the Good Lord would have wanted.

Hospitality businesses not opening on Sundays - especially Bank Holiday Sundays, just boggles my mind.

The next generation will absolutely not believe how good pre-AI Google was.

Now that #TheMasters is over and our boy McIlroy won, can we all admit that the green blazers are stupid looking?

Good news, this

Fuel prices aren't nearly high enough if the number of parents idling their cars outside the creche is anything to go by... 🤢

6.43 train Gorey - Dublin packed with casuals. Wouldn't see these crowds on the hard winter mornings on the 5.50 train.