This is an eye-watering tax cut that will go directly into the pockets of big chain restaurants. This tax cut would fund the equivalent of building Luas Finglas every year.

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

In a thread full of gold, taitníonn an cómhra seo níos mór liom.

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

Sorry that I got drunk at the BBQ and spent 45 minutes tearfully explaining the plot of The Lives of Others to your dad.

This is the result of not investing in capital infrastructure post crash. We are continually paying for the bad decisions taken over a decade ago.

Unlike Bono, I pay my tax and baby you best believe I just got my tax bill, so there’s never been a better time to pick up something from the shop. Use the discount code SUMMER for 20% off as well.

Can I get my Irish friends to amplify this please?

Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!

If I were a billionaire and the president of a country I don't think I would care about what any comedian says about me. Anyway welcome Rosie!

I need assistance with a sticker. Do you or anyone you know draw for commission? Please boost for visibility!

Two judicial reviews for the DART+ West project linking Dublin city centre and Maynooth and the M3 Parkway have been withdrawn, paving the way for work to begin on the project next year

I dislike Grammarly for a number of reasons but mainly because traditional computer spelling, grammar and style checkers were starting to get good and grammerly basically took over that space. Alas the suggestions of Grammarly trulyn't oft not nothing but a pile of AI horse manure.

The Irish people are getting screwed by Americans in more ways than one. This is a people full of magical storytellers, they don't need this shit

It's Leaving & Junior Cert time, so I'm trying to keep the exam archive up to date: archive.maths.nuim.ie/staff/dmalon... We've a lot of (STEM) exams going back to 1925. A recent edition is exams from the Primary Cert, which ran up to the 1960s. Let me know If you know where to find more of these...

Toucan! I mainly follow this account to practice Portuguese by reading the alt text. But that's a beautiful toucan. And it's sitting on bunch of unripe açai berries, how Brazilian is that?

First off congratulations @wendylyon.bsky.social, I hope your client will now have their needs met. Secondly it just boggles my mind that parents are still having to take the HSE to court to make them follow the law. Surely it would be easier to just follow the law in the first place?

What I find frustrating about these articles is that they focus on the environmental concerns and yes they are valid concerns but they don't look at anything else. I feel like there's never an attempt made to talk to anyone from the IT sector about these concerns.

My one bit of near universal career advice is that if something is hard to understand or hard to read people will just give up.

Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".

Dublin/Ireland based bluesky peeps! I am running out of ways to beg for donations for my Palestinian friends, BUT what I do have are skills. Skills I can charge money for. Money I can then donate. Would you like help decluttering your wardrobe/craft stash/life in general? I can do that. Hit me up.

The three kinds of posts

Ancient Irish proverb.

oh good, eight years since The Incident That Still Sometimes Keeps Me Awake At Night

Long delays on the DART all evening due to someone driving into the Sandymount level crossing. Again. We need to fine and punish people who do it but, really, we need to remove these level crossings in the city. Traffic and trains don't mix.

This is the correct decision. The British Government and the British Museum (who both bare responsibility for the "punitive expedition" aka a genocide against Benin in the first place) should also return the stolen property and should help facilitate the return of the artifacts they sold.

share the money pigeon for 10,000 years good luck 💸🍀🤞

(I'llstopnowbut) Good afternoon from the Kingdom 🌞

I'm totally in favour of attracting international talent. But given everything @aidanosullivan.bsky.social has pointed out and the numerous other problems i don't think that it's going to work.

...Gnocchi is a great name for a cat.

Thunderstorms out over the Irish Sea. The wind is easterly....

Wednesday S2 drops August 6 - trailer looks like it'll be fun (shot in Ireland of course!) youtu.be/uQx8jKiIDTI...

There's nothing unusual about newspapers laundering terrible ideas that become government policies. That's been going on forever and in many places. But the Irish Times really seems to have an outsized influence.

Speaking from personal experience no it's not like this... But it isn't too far off. I kinda want to be the dog to be honest.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

"There is very little public support for ­McGregor in the poll, with an overwhelming 90pc of ­respondents saying they would not vote for him if he ran for public office. Just 7pc said they would vote for him, while 3pc said they didn’t know." m.independent.ie/irish-news/j...

England regularly says this about Ireland. It was a common topic about how selfish Ireland was for causing problems during brexit, a problem entirely caused by the UK.

This or classical music where they cut off the last few notes so it never resolves.

biblically accurate parrot

Yeah. That tracks.

Hundreds of people are currently staging a sit-down protest in support of Palestine on O'Connell Bridge in Dublin city centre, with major traffic disruptions expected jrnl.ie/6654117

President Higgins has called on people in positions of influence to "break their silence" and appeal for the ceasefire in Gaza to be respected, as a number of world leaders have condemned Israel's renewed attacks on the territory jrnl.ie/6653490

during social distancing times, MERL had a life-size cardboard standee of this dude by the entrance with the slogan "please stand one absolute unit apart" 😀

@sentimentbot.bsky.social I know that I haven't posted a lot but do your sentiment analysis thang please and thank you.

This, except it is even worse in Ireland sometimes. Because people give the most detailed but vague directions based on local folklore. ...and our postcode system is just a unique code for every address.