Workers at outsourcing tech firm Covalen have voted in favour of strike action after the company announced that the jobs of 720 workers on Meta projects are at risk of redundancy. The firm provides AI annotation and moderation services to Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook. jrnl.ie/7032489

This. But simultaneously while gas lighting the residents about how the rental increases are to facilitate more maintanance.

I will never forgive all the media who made the Iona Institute a voice of authority instead of a shower of mad people who should create a trad Catholic theme park for themselves and leave the rest of us alone.

Is there not a swell of public in favour of a Lido that the city can actually use for this area? Instead we are being force fed this phallic wisdom for a giant Cock In The Dock? I wish we'd stop entertaining every dipso entrepreneur with a hare brained scheme. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

to take this further, most ppl genuinely do not fathom just how much alcohol consumption has reduced over the last 200 years or so. those mfs were downing ale at breakfast, beer at lunch, burgundy and spirits all night and between all of this they were doing glasses of sherry and claret

Following on from this years hit sensation Cheap Gaffs In The Sun, producers are rumoured to be developing a sequel called From Shed to Bed for the the autumn 2026 season.

Paying 25e to access George’s Dock for something like this is so daft. The space could easily create so many positive uses for the city - a modular pop up festival site akin to Urban Spree in Berlin would offer so much more than this tacky shit. www.thejournal.ie/mixed-views-...

Can’t even begin to imagine what 35m could do to kickstart multi-use cultural spaces. Alcohol consumption is plummeting, yet people obsess with it to the point of a puritanism - that completely kills the emergence of nightlife activities that can challenge the monopoly of traditional pubs and pints.

Calm down there Blondie… “Oh, I can't control myself Don't leave me hanging on the telephone Hang up and run to me”

“Yo ChatGPT, whiz me up some bullshit case studies and knock out a few click through courses. There’s ministerial dunces with wads of cash to waste trying to make themselves relevant. Needs a platformy name.”

Grim listening here that exposes the lost opportunity of the flexible work revolution. Grueling daily commutes and infrastructure that does not add up. The fuel crisis is bringing home how very real social and environmental benefits are being torched on the bonfire of mediocre and myopic rulers.

In 20 years time, young Dubliners will look at photos of the building this thing replaced and be aghast at how and why it was demolished, just as so many of us have looked at beautiful buildings knocked before it.

Whatever the “quality” of St Stephen’s Green SC, the replacement of a light filled almost botanical space where people could wander on a pissy rainy day, with a grim bunker to lock up 3k office workers - represents a real amenity loss for Dublin City. Just another #AssetOfCommunityValue gone!

If Kevin Barry wrote a sci-fi novel it would have places like this. The county of Death - where the great Whist happened. The break away neo-fuedal data centre dystopia of Loggoad. And poor auld Carlow wiped off the map - with a tactical nuke during the commuter rebellions of the 2040s.

Grim listening here about the lost opportunity the remote work revolution means for workers. Grueling descriptions of daily commutes and infrastructure that does not match. The fuel crisis is bringing the reality home of how very real real social benefits are being dramatically eroded.

Trade Union Fórsa has written to the Department of Public Expenditure calling for increased access to remote working for civil service staff due to the impact of the fuel crisis and continued congestion on Irish roads. jrnl.ie/7019025

The shed housing plan is the ultimate example of the governing Irish political ideology that everything must be set up for someone to make money from it. Here's a national crisis being converted into an opportunity for people who're unaffected by it to screw money out of those who are. A new low.

Aside from the fact that it still regulates how we socialise and dance, one of the enduring absurdities of the 1935 Public Dance Halls Act is its built in blanket exemption for any "recreation room" under the authority of the Minister for Defence or Gárda Síochána Commissioner!

It’s one thing fucking over requirements for arts or cultural spaces, but being dicks about providing actual usable crèche facilities in new housing developments is a real damning indictment of market led solutions and weak planning enforcement. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Gas the way they saw the Kerry King of Short Lets and multi-gaff-landlord traipse out of the Junta and only wake up then. They clearly have zero friends their own age. The diesel shit show was probably jeopardising their one good day out a year - where they meet fellow kids down at the ploughing.

From 1986

This is very good from Conor McCabe and one of the few piece's of analysis I have read that clearly links the fuel protests with Ireland's deeply unequal and dysfunctional grass-fed agricultural system. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Delighted to see the Knights Templar finally coming out against Trump. Proving once and for all, we’re all just minor characters and background details in what’s sure to be another epic instalment in The Omen franchise. variety.com/2026/digital...

Delighted to see the Knights Templar finally coming out against Trump. Proving once and for all, we’re all just minor characters and background details in what’s sure to be another epic instalment in The Omen franchise. variety.com/2026/digital...

Rarely tune into RTE but loving that most of tonight's programming seems to be encouraging people to buy cheap gaffs in the sun and sign up to botox injections. Celtic Tiger 2.0 for some.

One of the complexities of the fuel dispute for me is the use of company assets to block public infrastructure. I was stuck on the N7 behind rakes of gear from Flynn Cranes today. How would we handle it, if during a Dublin Bus strike - workers absconded with the fleet and did the same?

There should be an SEAI system whereby all households get solar and battery installation for free but have the cost to be paid back at a low monthly amount. Make each house as energy independent from the grid as possible.

Tesco made 185m in profits last year. I’m amazed the corporate food giants are escaping being targets in the fuel debate. The profits are clearly flowing upwards in a totally unsustainable industry that’s crippling producers and the logistics chain. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

A snapshot of our BDS Super Panel on Thursday night, brilliant speakers with a strong message to act in solidarity with Palestine and work to end our government's complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide. #BDS #FreePalestine

If there was ever a time for the so-called American deep state to make itself known, it's now.

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

I see providing more public transit is not in the plan.

Or how about some remote work legislation with actual teeth.

Why return to office policies are all pain and no gain. These policies have moved from being questionable to being a red flag and are now a strong indication of a badly run organisation, writes Kevin Murphy @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

The real winner from tonight's match is my local dodgy box supplier. Holy fuck that RTE Player still sucks baws. Sign me up Mr Piracy Man.

Flashback to July last year - with scenes and speeches from CATU Ireland's national demonstration. This Saturday, 28th of March, CATU are organising a march over DCC's ridiculous rent hikes. It's kicking off at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and making its way to DCC HQ at Wood Quay.

Fionnan Sheahan arguing that the free-market will fix sub-standard school meals is the most brain rotted crap I've ever heard on Irish radio. It's working in housing! Sure it'll work with nutrition too.

Millions of people are carrying on their everyday lives, totally unaware of what's about to hit them. If Trump blows up Iran's power stations, Iran will destroy energy infrastructure across the Gulf. This would be one of the major "before-and-after" events of human history.

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.