Matt Williams: This is not a game – Ireland must match Australia and stand up for children

The FT writes: ‘In Trump’s interview with GB News, its correspondent, Bev Turner, gave North Korea’s broadcasters a run for their money. “It feels much safer here,” Turner said, contrasting Washington to London, though the chances of being murdered in DC are around 26 times higher than in London.

You’d get an awful sense of Deja Vú, it’s like the run-up to the housing crash: ignore warnings, pretend things are different here, put all of our faith in a “soft landing” in spite of the evidence. The govt and civil service don’t seem to have learned anything from 2008.

Has the north become so inured to violence that placing explosives on cars at a sports facility only warrants a 3 year sentence ? www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

Maybe a change at Board level would be a lot less painful and likely more productive. Time to start walking the walk for this government www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Leaving aside the rights / wrongs of this particular incident, it’s pretty clear that we do not have our shit together with regards to our national security. We are waiting for a calamity to occur it seems. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Given that the negatives to online anonymity VASTLY outweigh the positives, don’t the Digital Rights/ Civil Liberties folks need to have a long hard look at their default positioning on this type of stuff??

2nd tier teams continue to bear 3rd tier teams shocker

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Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU

Groan…..

Not a word of this mentions that she crashed into a guy on a scooter and fractured his neck vertebra

Good to see this story (finally) covered on Off the Ball tonight.

Comical. Wasn’t sure that this appointment could get any worse but there we are

Not a second before time

Kinda gas how ‘honesty in politics’ is the big deal in the UK right now for so many people who couldn’t give the proverbial “two fks” about it when Boris Johnson was leading the country… 🤷🏻‍♂️

www.independent.ie/sport/womens... Paul Kimmage: Silence from Sport Ireland is deafening but it’s not an old story and it’s not going away

If you rename Herzog Park while leaving up a statue of a Nazi-collaborationist who died on a bloody Nazi U-Boat, then, frankly, you're just giving an awful lot of justification to accusations thrown at this state. It's dumb past words.

There’s no limit on the amount of stupid penalties that Munster will give away it appears. Can’t learn lessons, won’t learn lessons 🤷🏻‍♂️

UK Labour’s decision to not be a Remain party will surely go down as one of the great political errors of the last decade anywhere. Getting slated for a lack of economic growth while they have one hand tied behind their back.

lol

These fucking people www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

I’m always fascinated that these articles re: planning objections rarely carry much detail as to what the nature of the objection(s) are and who precisely is doing the objection. There should be no expectation of privacy here.

As long as Bruno Fernandes is in the #MUFC team, we will never rise above the mediocre.

Maybe one of the dumbest mistakes I’ve seen at that level.

There are no words

I say again

Extraordinary decision

On the board, signed off the annual accounts, and was humble enough to allow the trust to be named after him. That’s three reasons why he should explain why he wasn’t paying more attention when taxpayers money was being squandered.

That’s not how uncorrelated assets are supposed to work, btw

Does the Irish broadcast media still see Peter McVerry as an expert on all things Housing Strategy, Policy and implementation I wonder???

“Commentator of the year” - Jesus wept 🤦‍♂️

The only revelation left to us is that the federal grand jury didn't actually exist and DOJ prosecutors simply decided to pretend that it does.

It’s really fascinating how people expect that a large complex sports organisation doesn’t want the random thoughts of every delegate splashed all over the newspapers. Incredible it lasted so long.

Another SF/SD/LAB/PBP sleeper in FG. Absolutely ridiculous that Irish political media continues to refer to FG as a “centre right” party. There’s nothing remotely centrist about them now.

Is Simon Harris Ireland’s least qualified Finance Minister ever? Certainly the least qualified in 50odd years. Between him and financial novice Jack Chambers in the public expenditure portfolio we are entering into an extremely challenging phase with a very weak management group.

Extraordinary story. Huge questions to answer for Sport Ireland and the CEO of Rowing Ireland. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

(Missed tackles and giving away idiotic penalties were not considered as part of the exercise) 😂😂

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

No issue with that penalty but really wish Karl Dickson would referee both offside lines. Australia encroaching all night with no penalty whereas we’re being nitpicked off the park

Considering the insane reporting by the likes of Haberman and Co back in 2015/16, who on earth could be in the least bit surprised by this???

Insane the lack of media attention that this article is getting. If you replaced ‘Rowing Ireland’ with ‘FAI’ there’d be half a dozen Dáil committees saddling up and Prime Time etc. would be licking their lips.

www.independent.ie/sport/other-... Paul Kimmage: A journey inside the toxic world of Irish rowing and the true cost of Olympic medals

Spoke to a guy working in a large Cork hospital recently and he told me two things: 1: the NTPF process has been engineered as an extraordinary gravy train i.e. if you just paid O/T you’d save millions. 2: there is no desire within Hospital management to change it www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Very debatable as to how good a speaker she was but her ability to play the stock market will never be beaten. Good riddance 😐

Another insane team selection. Looks like Farrell will flog the usual suspects for the next couple of years and will be cheered along by our sycophantic rugby press pack. The team will BOMB and the usual guff about cycles and continuity and blah blah blah

The insanity continues… modern day journalists are just a joke

Two very big stories dropped yesterday: A Commission for Taxation projection on the long term trends for the country’s tax base, and a Dept of Finance projection that we’ll have a housing crisis for 15 years. Neither will generate a fraction of the commentary that Ivan Yates has over the past week.

Someone help me here - exactly what is the problem here for FF? What’s the difference between hiring Ivan Yates or hiring Terry Prone??