Just feels like every material representation of masculinity for 12 year old boys, all crammed into a tiny digital space that will fit your screen. So farcical that I don't know how anyone working on or watching this production doesn't feel like their intelligence is being insulted.

How Ireland Works 101

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

The number of eviction notices surged at the end of last year: up 41% year-on-year to 5,207. Today’s official data gives us the first clear picture of the rental market ahead of the Government’s major changes that took effect this month

What a surprise. The billionaires paying an academic to write some Ayn Rand inspired bullshit about how they are “geniuses.” YAWN!

Yeah, if only small businesses and workers here could learn to take advantage of the Irish tax system to launder profits through the country. Super productive shit. Real galaxy brain academia. How is this even getting an ounce of credible coverage. www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

The Irish Times loves nothing more than to give a platform to these absolute bores.

McCarthyism is back with a vengeance on both sides of the Atlantic, with major government clampdowns on people challenging official narratives. Yet we hear not a peep from those who get so exercised about students not wanting fascists to speak at universities. Cos that's the real threat, isn't it?

Those mocking Hannah the Plumber’s clothing would do well to know their history.

A collective of musicians from the North of Ireland’s underground and alternative scenes has come together for Occupied Minds, a genre-spanning solidarity compilation featuring David Holmes, RÓIS, Phil Kieran, Elaine Howley, Huartan, Rory Friers and more. www.theransomnote.com/music/news/u...

Gift the damn things to Bohs. In sure the Climate Co-Op there would apply the type of imagination to the buildings DCC lacked. Could be perfect for training locals on retro-fitting homes and all the rest.

Residents of Connaught Street in Phibsborough have painted a mural drawing attention to two long-derelict homes after plans to redevelop them as social housing were scrapped due to rising costs. jrnl.ie/6984183

This is Ireland but it must be similar numbers in some parts of Scotland. In central Edinburgh it’s probably way higher. Only bombing would do a better job of killing communities than AirB&B

They just changed the law to massively favour institutional landlords over tenants. Their plan on housing delivery is to get foreign money to deliver overpriced build-to-rents. They want to turn the Irish population into a cash machine for foreign investors. It’s outrageous.

Thanks to @michaellanigan.bsky.social and the DI crew for this piece. Blessed be the foxes and seagulls of the city.

"Recording The-Vices Fitted To Air-ee-el Platfourums" must be the new "VEHT-icles"over in Nardai land. Can they just not call it a drone like normal people?

I mean look, evicting 36 families so landlords can raise the rent by 25% will benefit "the rental sector" in the very short term too, as long as you understand that by "rental sector" he exclusively means "landlords who just got a 24% payrise" rather than "families who just got evicted overnight"

Labour have such a miserable opinion of us. They think that, deep down, we all basically agree with the dumb shit some voters come out with and we're just pretending to be better than that. Probably because, not even that deep down, that's how they think too.

Can't wait for the breakdown of the Green insurgency across the pond on @novaramedia.com. It cuts across much of our received political wisdom. Great storytelling that connected complex issues with daily life. Stop treating people as “thick” and you win them over! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEM...

They’re calling the Gorton and Denton By-Election the greatest victory by a Plumber since Mario rescued Princess Peach from Bowsers Castle.

A victory for decency, reason, empathy, equality, and justice is a victory for these things everywhere. As with Mamdani in New York, the Gorton and Denton result provides inspiration, and shows we *can* build a better world, wherever we are. Great news from the UK 👏

I heard it was set in a Star Trek season where the halo deck had just been deployed across fleet.

Largest landlord in the country: "Mmmmmm I love feasting on the juicy profits from these new rent rules!" Opposition: "Hey look at that guy feasting on the juicy profits from the new rent rules" Government: "How dare you, quit scaremongering!"

Hard to take Simon Harris and his concerns about tax payers money “going up in smoke” in Oriel Park seriously - given how his government just pours cash into private landlords as if it was starter fuel for a BBQ.

These are great little deep dives into various spots around the city. Well worth reading back on.

Writer Alan O'Gorman, accepting the IFTA for best film for Christy, talked about the importance recognising and destigmatising the experience of being in the care system, said "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Saoirse don Phalaistín, get the US army out of Shannon." RTÉ cut this part of his speech..

I’m loving Talbot Streets neon awakening. Looks sick in the gloaming of late February.

OUR LAND A film about the Right to Roam campaign. Preview screenings from March - April. Cinemas nationwide from May. Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-... Screenings: www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...

The first Mayday March was in Dublin in 1890 for an eight hour day. 136 years later and we really need to build a wall against this American nonsense that being worked around the clock is either productive or worth it. On any level. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The Steel City. ✊❤️

They've also been in breach of their planning permission over the last five years for incredibly bright lights shining into people's houses and using fake trees instead of real landscaping. The people here have had enough and they want safer streets.

The kids are alright.

As another person who built the thing the government didn't bother to do, and then tried repeatedly to engage with them on it, I can predict that they will ignore the existing solution, and then ultimately build one that's probably worse and hopelessly late...

Looking forward to see this on Sunday

Someone from the Kemmy Business School on @news.rte.ie just spoke about #remotework harming cities. Social policy shouldn’t hinge on huge chains like Costa keeping your lunch money. Good local independent cafes are thriving right now. People's leisure time wasted on the M50 is what kills a city.

Educate. Evict. Emigrate. The Irish way

Eoin McLaughlin and Richard Mc Mahon crunched the numbers on evictions for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social earlier this month. The authors concluded that: “It is not unreasonable to suggest that we are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s.”

Niall Stokes and RTE pouring on the U2 apologia this morning as the band release new "politically charged" music no one wanted. Laundered irrelevance if ever I saw it.

Pls note: we do not have an advertising regulator. We have an industry body which they hold out as an effective self-regulator.

If anything, the use of Ai like this is just going to create more and more friction in human experiences. Just like it’s fucking up searches and research. Giving us things we weren’t quite looking for or pawning off fever dreams as utter fact. It’s a fatty plaque build up that’ll kill the web.

Derelict Ireland. Landscapes pockmarked with decay. This isn’t a weather event. It’s not a natural feature. It’s a market-made blight. #DirelictIreland

When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home Me at Oireachtas #speirgorm

Nothing sums up what’s wrong with our property system more than landscapes pockmarked with decay across #DerelictIreland. What many see as failure, Trinity’s Cian O’Callaghan shows can function as strategy.

FF have given us all a right belly laugh with that farcical culture card video. What’s less hilarious is the failure to deliver on the promises on licensing reform and the scourge of dynamic pricing. It’s a vote bribe that’ll take funds away from actual institutions and projects that need them.

Vacancy Watch: While neighbours sounded the alarm, a 19th-century villa in Sandymount slid into dereliction. “I think it's so sad that a beautiful little house was destroyed,” says Rosita Sweetman. “It seems we are incredibly bad at managing our housing stock.”

How to fucking god how can the possibly getting slow? @frankoconnor.bsky.social @judesherry.bsky.social #derelictireland #IrishPolitics

All out this Tuesday, 6pm against #ThePoxtonHotel injunction! A British hotel group seeking to silence a neighbouring club. Izakaya isn’t noise pollution. It’s part of Dublin’s cultural fabric. Hotels rise. Rents climb. Venues close. The city dies. Image from Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin's Instagram.

Picked up one of these! Giving me serious 2004 vibes!! When a certain @culturalfatwa.bsky.social would be nudging my musical DL binges to Buckfast fuel like The Bug and DJ Rupture. Pioneer have a lot of explaining to do as to why this plays FLACs flawlessly, but half of their range can’t - jokers!

Musk is today pouring petrol on the launch of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain project, with its slogan “millions must go.” There's a serious crisis of radical media if we still rely on that platform for air. It’s like claiming you can wage a battle of ideas in the letters page of Das Schwarze Korps.

Apocalyptic rains and baby Cthulhus washing up on the beaches of Ireland. There’ll be parades of people self-flagellating through Phibsboro, saying rosaries in sackcloth by March to ward off the end times.