The President will have to sign lots of pieces of legislation they disagree with. Is Connolly's work history not testement to her professionalism and suitability for the role? 🤔

Nobody has more faith in me than the Daft.ie 'Best Match' tab thinking that a €2.4 million gaff is within my budget

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.

"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/...

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

The journalist who asked Trump who his favourite Irish person was during the Oval Office press conference with Micheal Martin has a lot to answer for.

A pet peeve of mine is how every single proposed investment or development in tourism is labelled 'world class'. Not everything is or can be world class. Google "world class tourism" + your county name to see how many world class tourism offerings you've never heard of exist in your locality!

The most EU thing about the announced response to Trump's tariffs is they won't take effect until April because there needs to be a consultation phase.

More good news. The pile of 'things to worry about' is getting precariously stacked... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The amount of money sporting organizations in Ireland are leaving on the table on merchandise must be huge. Couldn't get any of the class gear during the Olympics. Now, Athletics Ireland signed a kit deal with adidas back in January and you can't buy it as their athletes are having their big moments

Hot take about the new Brennan's Bread ad: There is no way that Old Mr. Brennan watches the rugby. No way in hell.

A colleague has described the closing stages of the Trinity College #Seanad2025 election count as "lit" and they're not wrong tbqh docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Dáil now voting on the Order of Business, exactly 25 hours after it was originally meant to be debated for 1 minute and voted on.

The Order of Business, the row over which has led to multiple suspensions of the sitting of the Dáil - the latest until tomorrow morning, was originally scheduled for 1 minute of debate on the agenda

7.30am on my first day of 2025 in office and I've already lost 3/4 of the buttons off my jacket, with the 4th hanging by a thread. I hope it's not an omen for the day/week/year.

Ironically, the Greens in the European Parliament were European (and Irish) farmers' biggest allies against Mercosur. Farmers protested against environmental measures, Greens lost out in EU elections, the economy and competitiveness took centre stage, and now here we are. All very predictable.

Ah, very sad to hear of John Goodwillie's passing. John was a real gent, and an encyclopedia of knowledge. He was also the first openly gay candidate to contest an election for a political party when he ran for the Green Party in 1994. RIP

There is a video doing the rounds on X, viewed almost 1 million times, alleging election interference in the same language and style as US conspiracy theories, that hard nationalist candidates were on course to take seats until vote rigging took place. Obviously this stands up to no scrutiny...

You know I've had enough #GE24 coverage when my first thought here was former PBP, current independent Councillor in Killiney Shankill, Hugh Lewis

Workers and Unemployed Action Group (+1)

There you go 👇

Huge huge ask for Marie Sherlock to overhaul Gerry Hutch in Dublin Central. Said from the outset he was wildly underestimated, and I don't think he'll be caught here. #GE24

I know I said I'd had enough #GE24 earlier yet here I am, watching this one very closely...

Bad day for the Greens. Smyth was, by all accounts, a very capable and engaged Minister. #GE24

@gavreilly.com counts spreadsheets 🧵 #GE24 #CorkSouthCentral: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #DublinBaySouth: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #DublinCentral: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #DublinWest: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #DublinMidWest: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Think I'm reaching my #GE24 limit for the day. I'm not the man I once was.

Lots of chat about the Greens, who delivered policy is spades, being punished in #GE24 is missing a key point: the majority of Green voters are values/principles voters. It's not just about what you do, it's about how you do it, how you communicate it, and how you frame it.

Irish Times exit poll shows immigration was the most important issue for six per cent of voters, climate most important for four per cent. Two issues within the margin of error of each other, but one received a disproportionate amount of coverage while the other was barely mentioned. #ge24

Pretty happy with this tbh #GE24 #ExitPoll