Alan Dunne

I can't think of a single business sector that this government would be prepared to properly regulate or piss off so, no, nothing is likely to come of this

passed through Castletroy earlier and my main observation is that O'Neills have the male student population of Limerick in an absolute stranglehold

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the WBC starts this week which makes me wonder why the GAA runs international compromise rules competitions with its footballers and hurlers but doesn't showcase the best that Rounders has to offer. and I want to see Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge try to homer off a sliotar goddammit

#speirgorm

Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran Refusal to allow use of bases in Rota and Morón follows Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of US-Israeli action

Fair play to Spain for demonstrating more bottle than any Irish Govt ever did!
“There is a deal with the US, but our understanding of the deal is that operations have to comply with international legal frameworks & there has to be international support for them,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

1000% this. same goes for using the full Sir or Dame title for those that have it

tweet from BBC Sport. text reads: @BBCSport This has never happened before Andre's goal for Wolves against Liverpool was the first time ever a team in the relegation zone has scored a 90th-minute winner against the reigning Premier League champions

how about that for a stat

a black hexagon with a white border on a yellow background Alt: animated version of the Wolves badge

🎶 2-1 to the Championship 🎵

#WWFC

a cartoon character with blue hair says so this is what it feels like when doves cry .. Alt: Milhouse from the Simpsons says to his Shelbyville counterpart "so this is what it feels like when doves cry"

João Gomes and Joe Gomez now both on the pitch

#WOLLIV #WWFC

there's a striking contrast between the respect he gives big businesses and international partners, vs his positions, language and behaviours when it comes to opposition parties and the people he has the privilege of governing. like the worst manager you ever had x100

A connected irk that I also have is the continued existence of British peerages derived from Irish places, like e.g. Charles George Yuill Seymour Dawson-Damer "8th Earl of Portarlington, in the Queen's County", who succeeded as Earl on 6th October 2024

www.thepeerage.com/p5459.htm#i5...

"I never thought leopards would eat my constituents' faces", says head leopard keeper of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

yes and no, if the names were imposed in the 'before times' and have neutral connotations then leave well enough alone. if they're named directly for an oppressor or a monarch, it seems a bit Stockholm syndrome that we'd still attach ourselves to them

Heytesbury Street is another one that merits a look, named after the man who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the start of the Great Hunger and who failed to stop the export of food

if there's a bright side to this, at least you and I don't live in Micheál Martin's world, utterly terrified of upsetting people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, prepared to debase himself with spineless interventions like this, and everyone knows it

No Way To Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Timelines given for Iran to develop nuclear weapons

If Minister Darragh O’Brien is looking for ideas to solve Dublin’s Congestion problems… we produced a document 18 months ago that’s a road map for doing exactly that!!

www.dublincommuters.ie/post/a-commu...

didn't Britain's Róisín Murphy do the same

if you could rename any street, road, square, park or place in the town or city where you live what would be top of the list?

asking because I managed to ragebait myself reading about Dublin's quays: Victoria, George, Charlotte, Hanover, and Wellington could all get in the bin to start with

The NYT style guide

generals gathered in their masses
popping corks and clinking glasses

there were laughs all around at the suggestion that the government might acknowledge the killing of Iran's head of state

the blood sacrifice (or even mild peril) suffered of a small number of Americans will justify any number of atrocities committed against the populations of their perceived enemies

so utterly predictable how quickly the "thank you for your service" crowd will line up compliantly to support any illegal imperialist war

the likes of this has been said for years in the context of Gaza but I'll say it again anyway. imagine if 57 students were killed in an unprovoked bombing on an American school

The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

contrast Micheál Martin's statement with that of Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “We reject the unilateral military action of the United States and Israel, which represents an escalation and contributes to a more uncertain and hostile international order"

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

disgusting statement. three whole paragraphs dedicated to reminding everyone that Iran deserves it

the year is 2026. civilians are murdered by the US and Israel on a daily basis and heads of state are now routinely kidnapped or killed, but you cannot say Free Palestine on the television