2009 - transport policy identifies need to make public transport a realistic option to achieve modal shift 2019 - Bus Connects proposal identifies Orbital O route as route with highest frequency 2026 - O route shelved 2026 - Government Campaign urges people to make sustainable transport choices

Expected but never easy to accept that to most people, your life achievements outside of marriage and kids don't matter. Work success is unremarkable, personal development insignificant, the large pile of human bones procured from the fallen bodies of your enemies is merely a cause for concern, etc.

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

New preprint. I've been chewing on why bacteria have pangenomes for years. Most species carry a distributed gene pool far larger than any one genome holds. E. coli has ~163,000 rare genes across the species. Each individual cell carries about 5,000. Why? A 🧵👇

Every few months, like clockwork, another Ryan Tubridy article letting us know that he's doing great, amazing actually, a new podcast and a new something or other... Sometimes it just drops the least subtle hint that he would like his old job back.

Yesterday 55.4% of the electricity consumed on the island of Ireland was generated by wind and solar. There's a lot more to do of course. But a lot has been done in a very short space of time.

This isn't really a solution to the housing crisis. Airbnb will be absolutely *full* of these beds in sheds though.

the good news is i managed to purchase Enough Warhammer Models before the global economy collapsed, so now i only need to worry about getting food and fuel and other bullshit like that

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I see a lot of people who are rolling their eyes at this idea. And yeah, I get it, but right now the current tax scheme really only benefits people who speculate on property and become landlords. Putting money elsewhere has a lot more taxes and complexity.

there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Hook it to our veins 🌞

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

The bank has been robbed! Batcomputer, search for any people in Gotham with a surname like Reilly or Murphy, you know what I mean.

This St Patrick's Day is a good time to ask ourselves "why does Batman hate Irish people so much?"

There’s always money in the

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.

This is one of these ideas that both sides of the Atlantic are mutually baffled by. I think on one of my trips to the US Google said I walked less than 850 metres in the course of a week. Which blew my mind. I walk more than that to the train station on the days I'm in the office.

Ruling sheds a small light on opaque intel-gathering on some citizenship seekers. An Garda Síochána “has developed strong links with other security services, particularly those with whom the State shares common threats to national security”, it says. Read more: www.dublininquirer.com/ruling-sheds...

I have actually seen these birds in the wild. They're incredibly beautiful, but very loud. I normally follow this account to get use to reading descriptions in Portuguese. It's nice to see a familiar looking bird every now and then.

There’s still time to check seanadvoter.ie and get registered for the new Seanad Higher Education constituency before the February 26th deadline. Please don’t assume you’re on the list as voters on the previous NUI and TCD panels were not automatically added to this new register.

Prince Andrew arrested on his birthday of all days. How dare they. Don't they have any idea who he was?

hold on i gotta take this

The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin is free to watch on ARTE until the 6th of March. #spéirgorm www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...

Fresh Flood Warnings As Government Water Down Regulation Targeting Airbnbs

Seats currently marked as filled for today's Irish screenings of the new 'Melania' documovie: Vue, Liffey Valley: 0/344, 0/47, 5/47 Cineworld, Parnell St: 11/137, 4/137, 7/137

always odd when you ask somebody to keep a secret and they go "sure who would i even tell?" like that's not a comfort to me man. i don't want my secrets to be contingent on your friendlessness.

Non-lawyer chiming in here. My understanding is pretty much in keeping with what is written below. But the article mentions that points of law can be referred to a tribunal... where a judge would decide... So what is the point of having the appeal heard by a non-judge in the first place?!

It was a controversy when Catherine Connolly said she'd have to reflect on a hypothetical job applicant with a sexual assault conviction. Will the Táiniste face similar scrutiny for not already having a position on the CSAM website he actually uses?

Why is that even in the list?

Red light cameras were tested on one street in Dublin more than 10 years ago (guess which one). Proven to be effective and not a single person who was caught managed to successfully challenge it. ...and they turned it off... And did nothing with the idea until the green party was back in power.

wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life

It's always a bit nuts to me that the national rail company owns and operates a port that has both passenger services and freight from ships. But barely any rail services. I hope this improves in the future but this is still a positive development.

Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic

Spreadsheets are for amateurs. For Christmas dinner last year I used Figma.

I'm trying to collect all the rules for the main Irish Lotto, and have managed to find quite a few (see next message). Does anyone have copies of older rules, or any from this list that I am missing?

🎵 “We need to abolish DST. Keep Standard Time! It’s a practice so harmful and obsolete. Keep Standard Time! No more debating. Keep Standard Time!” 🎶

god sends his toughest battles (reading my posts) to his strongest soldiers (you)

I've never had deep fried turkey. First time someone told me about it I didn't think that it was real. And I'm still not entirely sure that it is real.

Great Tit - Birmingham UK - 25-10-25 #birds #ukbirding #uknature #ukwildlife #nature #ornithology #photography #birdphotography #canon #naturephotography