The world-cracking insanity of Trump unconstrained—with no "adult in the room" to push back, with no Republican possessing spine sturdy enough to stand up to him, with many Democratic leaders unwilling to admit the peril, with Wormtongues like Stephen Miller affirming his every base impulse.

“Selling a machine that can go at a speed in excess of what is allowable is a huge anomaly” Seán Canney, Minister of State for Road Safety 👏👏 hear, hear Oh wait, that was for e-scooters. Where are these calls when it comes to private motor vehicles?

Hello and welcome to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas BlueSky page! The IHTA is a long-term research programme housed by @ria.ie with the aim to record the topographical development and history of towns across the island of Ireland. To date, 32 atlases have been produced with many more in the works.

My hot take on this is that the human species spent 1000s of years on two feet, and our brains cannot logically cope with using shiny, fast self-propulsion devices. They trick our brains into thinking we're effectively gods. This is why e.g. people go crazy at a speeding or parking ticket.

Lucky there's no important stuff going on elsewhere, otherwise we'd have missed this "man arrives too late for flight, has to take another one" story www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Delaying the 2026 Climate Action Plan is deeply concerning. Efforts are already way off-track & the CAP is the main tool for closing the delivery gap this decade. Saying we must wait for post-2030 carbon budgets is conceptually backwards - delay now makes future targets harder and more expensive.

DoB is just doing the job he was given, to delay & defend. MM doesn't think #ClimateChange can be mitigated against. He has given up, or maybe he never even tried. The solutions are there. All that is missing is political will. This failed gov is failing Ireland now & in the future 3/3 #IrishPol

Pathetic. We’ll never have meaningful climate action in Ireland until we get FF and FG out of office.

As always, a fantastic response from @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk : wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/response-to-...

The way the RTÉ weather guy is saying "outbreaks of rain" as he goes round the provinces reminds me of Caroline Aherne's "scorchio"

Step 4 is super easy, too. On Android, just search for X in the Play Store, click the 3 dots in the upper right corner, and you can flag as inappropriate.

Excellent Gist. I had forgotten about the Garda visit to Today FM about the Brian Cowen painting. #IrishPol

Slightly diminish a band Public Nuisance

'What is that supposed to mean? That the law is obsolete in the face of a white supremacist sexual exploitation material-generating machine?' It's the first column of the new year and it's grimmer than ever before, my friends.

Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot

Shifting focus from the failed gov for a sec, why has Garry Gannon been the only Soc Dem to publicly leave X? (fair play to him for doing it like he did) Why haven't Soc Dems, Labour & other left parties not held a presser to leave X en-masse, & stick it to the gov? It's an open goal #IrishPol

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

Read the argument today that people should try to influence the narratives on the other website rather than abandon it. I respect the view but - you're not influencing anyone. Legacy media views throttled to death. Someone gave this example. @BBC - 2m followers. Meg IP. One retweet. 12k views.

As of today, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties will no longer be posting or monitoring our account on X 👇

I love videos that are "the lyrics in this song are so deep and excellent that you might not get it so we're going to spell it out for you" #totp

Ralaghan Idol • Cavan This striking figure was hewn from yew around 3,000 years ago. It was found deep in a Cavan bog on what was once an ancient boundary. It is now on display in the Kingship and Sacrifice exhibition in the @nmireland.bsky.social #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

Automatic red light cameras: for the love of the gods why do we not have this very simple technology yet? #NoStoneUnturned www.instagram.com/reel/DTSu__4...

Folks, @womensaidireland.bsky.social have closed their X account on principle. Follow them here, give them some real engagement to acknowledge both the rightness of that decision, but also of letting go of high follower numbers (even if the algorithm meant that no longer signified actual reach).

The U-turns on road safety by this government would make your head spin. Lower default speed limits, RSA reform and red light camera pilot all abandoned while deaths and serious injuries are rising. independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Some hard questions for the Minister for Road Safety on why, with roads deaths so high, he’s failing to take key steps to reduce them. Great piece by @feljin.ie www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

So despite all denial we're now openly facing up to failure on emissions targets and massive fines. The industry of spin through last year on denial on impact of data centres, nitrates etc and lack of media challenge on Government has failed our future #climate www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

One of the eternal truths seems to be that people sitting in traffic in cars blame traffic on lack of allocated space, rather than the number of cars. Folks, I have news for you.

Gosh, it looks like Ireland is in for some “stark” weather, just perfect, apparently, for lounging around in the park, catching some rays. Come on, media, you could at least make an effort at trying to communicate the disaster that is #climate change.

Article: climate change is driving more extreme and deadly weather. Accompanying image: people basking in the sunshine in Merrion Square. Editorial judgement: nonexistent.

Powerful vested interests and their allies in government just hate judicial review being available to the great unwashed. Ireland's government is trying to cut people who are not rich out of Court by changing the law so that even if they win, their legal costs are not recovered. #JudicialReview

I'll never understand why motorists are given the locations of speed vans. Can they not just pull in & set up a speed trap at any location? Why the need to advertise in advance where they are located?

These stones?

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

"No stone will be left unturned" says Minister that has left all stones unturned

But there’s more to it. Our sense of community has maybe led us to discount the importance of good governance, so we have allowed successive governments to shirk their responsibilities. When that happens other forces move in and take over on their own terms: first the church, then US corporations.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

The Netherlands is not a pedestrian paradise, but I’m confused why anyone thinks Ireland is better Comment & Analysis: Ireland and the Netherlands differ in how pedestrians are treated, but claims that the Dutch pedestrian environment is overall worse than in Ireland just don't stack up. But as…

190 lives lost on Irish roads in 2025, and a government that are choosing to do something worse than nothing. They are abandoning road safety interventions planned by the previous government.

Happy New Year! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

"The NTA is awaiting the finalisation of the overall national camera enforcement strategy before proceeding with further camera installation development." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

The government has paused expansion of public transport. BusConnects in Dublin, Cork etc. along with new LocalLink routes for rural areas are all now at risk. Happy New Year from FF, FG & Lowry!

Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true. Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?

This government abandoned lower speed limits and abandoned reforms to the RSA. Is this what "deeply concerned" and "doing everything" looks like? Red light cameras were supposed to be installed early this year. Where are they?

I wrote about AI and stuff www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Devastating.

Some people say the political cultures of the 26 and 6 will be hard to integrate. The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.

In other words, policy and planning working exactly as intended. This is not an accident. This is what happens when you prioritise cars above all else, paired with urban sprawl, while ignoring active and public transport infrastructure for decades.