Nigel Farage’s ‘turquoise wave’ set to crash on Norfolk shores

More than 6,600 employers have not yet signed up to the pensions auto-enrolment scheme, but the vast majority have – 108,894 eligible employers. 768,381 eligible employees have been auto-enrolled. Savings contributions from employers, employees and the State stood at a combined €158m last week.

This a whole new level of madness from a country that is technically insolvent. US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.

Pete Songi on Donald Trump’s changing stances towards Iran – cartoon

If Credit Unions are to increase their share of the mortgage market the Central Bank restrictions on members savings of €100k must be eased. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Martyn Turner

Spring is in the air in Lucan

This is essential reading. It makes clear that the Conservative government had left the NHS in a precarious position by starving it of funding and that its inept handling of the pandemic almost saw it collapse completely

UKRAINE: Russian Forces Attack Trade Union Office and Bus Carrying Miners in Dnipropetrovsk Region kvpu.org.ua/en/trade-uni...

Martyn Turner www.irishtimes.com/opinion/cart...

"The killing of a reported 168 people, primarily schoolgirls, in the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab in Iran has shaken to its very core the conscience of the world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you watched this already you should now www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdIw...

We bombed a girls’ school and killed 175 kids based on his feelings?!

The Trump administration is warehousing pregnant child rape victims in a Texas facility, away from adequate medical care, in a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the US, so that these child rape victims won’t be able to get abortions. www.throughline.news/p/the-trump-

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

Hilarious!

USA: Union membership soared to 16-year high in 2025 despite Trump assault www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

U2 stun fans with surprise release ‘Days of Ash’ featuring six politically-charged tracks www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Listen closely to every word. This matters. Rep. Ted Lieu, a military lawyer and constitutional officer, is laying out facts the media is ignoring. Watch. Share. Democracy depends on it.

The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal which have been carbon dated to 1170. Likely built by shipwrights so essentially an upside down boat. www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/sain... #speirgorm

Fabulous review "I would recommend this book for ages 9 to 14. If you love adventures, mysteries, bookshops and stories about sisterhood, make this your next read! I am giving this book 9/10." @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social & The Bookshop Sisters will join us @ WCLF in July @theobrienpress.bsky.social

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

This ICE officer tried to meet a 13 year old girl for sex. Many ICE agents are being arrested all over the country for a variety of crimes.

Invested in solar panels a few years ago ( there great) but with all this incessant rain this winter I wonder if I should have gone old school and installed a waterwheel!

“It’s time to get aggressive and get the fuck out because they’re trying to box us in.” DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different.

We are looking for outgoing people to join our team of volunteers. We'd like to hear from you if you can spare one morning or one afternoon per week to welcome visitors to our historic library. Find out more here: marshlibrary.ie/call-for-vol...

We think the flourish after '25' in this inscription signifies 'deniers', indicating the cost of the book, anyone have any different ideas? We've come across this symbol a few times on books owned by our first librarian, Élie Bouhéreau, a Rochelais Huguenot #bookhistory

A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol was found guilty on Tuesday of multiple child sexual abuse charges in Florida. He had been pardoned by Donald Trump. Anyone else see a pattern here? Anyone ???

People died for your right to vote. Black History Month By most estimates, a total of 30–80 black people were killed during what has been considered the "single bloodiest day in modern American political history".

Y'know... she kinda looks like she could take a stab at Michael Myers with the outfit on the right Also no one caught the Boomtown Rats reference!!! I'm so sad youtu.be/Ks_HIeRo7fU?...

Maine: Nurse & co-worker (US citizens) passed ICE vehicle - followed them, rolled its window down "I’m gonna arrest three more families today, just for you, ha ha ha – and this evil, sinister laugh,” the nurse said "We were both stunned and shocked" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

"On this day 100 years ago, The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey premiered at the Abbey Theatre."

Still some shame this side of the pond? youtu.be/7CyDNxPnvhw?... Preview of Private Eye.

James Joyce - born on this day #botd 1882: “Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Congratulations to Public Service Credit Union who are moving in to their new building on Lincoln Place Dublin 2 this week.

‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs

Brilliant