This kind of nonsense is a massive own goal. It doesn’t actually appeal to the masses, while among those who take politics seriously it reinforces the view that he’s not a serious politician.

Impacting Houston just as Portugal are playing DR Congo

Peacefully? He broke someone’s back with a sledgehammer

Either she doesn’t understand the consequences of the government making the decision for the FAI or shes grandstanding Its fine to call for the FAI to take action (even though that has consequences) but its not ok to tell the government www.rte.ie/news/2026/06...

Politicians who said nothing about the initial incident and then go Loyalists Bad on last night contribute as much as the far-right. They ignore communities, their worries and insecurities if it doesn’t align with their pre-formulated views. Ignoring a group is a great way to get a violent reaction

www.rte.ie/news/2026/06... I agree. And it should be the case for all termini where it currently only is for Dublin and Cork. However throwing out clearly dubious stats like this undermines the case “90% of respondents surveyed said they would use a rail service arriving in Sligo before 9am”

’m very confused. Is he saying the immigrants are good like the allied forces? Or does he regard the allied forces as bad (maybe considering his tattoos)? Or is he just babbling incoherent nonsense.

The cost is the least of the issues. Much bigger are 1) the fact they replaced a green area with a concrete plaza. 2) the zero maintenance since it opened; all that money and it’s covered in graffiti.

I’ve been to 5 of these and honestly there’s a reason they are cheap. Strasbourg is the only one I would go back to.

Everyone at Cork City FC is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Bobby Tambling. A footballing icon, Bobby enjoyed an outstanding playing career in England, most notably with Chelsea, before later lining out for Cork Celtic.

I’m old-enough to remember when there was a cottage on the cross that was demolished to make room for a roundabout. I think it was late 80s or early 90s.

There’s an awful lot of people of all political persuasions who seem to believe that they shouldn’t have to live with the consequences of their actions.

One thing not mentioned is what brought Ted Tynan to my attention as a kid - the Old Head of Kinsale I agree with him more than disagree but we have some divergence of politics There’s a reason he was still on the council in his 80s Cork will miss his energy www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

The Democrats seem determined to blow the Presidential election again without a Republican fiddle. Their shortlist should be - Andy Beshear - Gretchen Whitmer - Josh Stein (and he barely scrapes the list). Only one of the three appears in the poll and he at 4%.

But what do ordinary Greeks think rather than just those who are alcoholic?

Will thisbe the new self service validator on Cork buses. If so it’s a typical dogs dinner. Those self-serving will be in the same queue as those who need to talk to the bus driver about a different fare. This was done properly in Dublin a decade ago but the wheel is reinvented as an oval

Its somewhat amazing the way RTE have written when the big story is that the largest party in Wales is a nationalist party for the dirst time ever www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026...

The judge made him make an agreement to stay out of Cork city Centre then insisted he reside at a city centre hostel and sign in at a city centre Garda station

My gut feeling is that this will Improve traffic rather than cause disruption (provided they adjust the sequence on the traffic lights) Biggest risk is it will turn use of Old Blackrock Rd and Douglas St into a rat run around it www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

I thank Michael D Higgins for this but I’d also note that Adolf Hitler did the same so of itself it’s not a sign of virtue www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

www.rte.ie/news/courts/... When the fine is €8000 and the remedial work costs €1m, it makes sense commercially to put the fix off until you’re caught. As with many other areas, it’s somewhere where the level of the penalty needs to be looked at.

I’m not sure I remember this level of alarmism when they took gardens to widen the road from Broadale to Garryduff. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Cork City Council doing their bit to promote walking as a way to get around the city #doasisaynotasido @corkbeo.bsky.social @horganp.bsky.social @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social For context I was walking my 6 year old daughter to her music lesson. I really wanted to be forced into the road.

A bit strange for a local councillor who would know the history of the place. I wonder do many local Councillors in Fukushima call for the reopening of the nuclear power station. Also there was never a refinery there, just a terminal.

It is simply insulting that the Healy Raes, Richard O’Donoghue, Micheál Collins and the Independent Ireland to say the farmers, contractors, hauliers, and other protestors are the “real people of Ireland”. What are the rest of us? Don’t we count? Are we less Irish? #SpeirGorm

Michael Healy Rae not being a minister is an unexpected bonus of the protests

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This is the price tag of the bus service Cork commuters have been promised — and promised, and promised...

So he’s going to do Iran’s job for them. Winning strategy.

If the protesters were really the plain people of Ireland they wouldn’t have organised the Cork protest to coincide with Cork playing a Championship match at Páirc Uí Chaoímh.

A small bit of history made in the Bundesliga as Marie-Louise Eta becomes the first woman to become head coach of a club in one of Europe’s big leagues even if it is on an interim basis.

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼 #Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism 🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d

What’s needed after the protests 1) Tractors banned from motorways + N40 2) Revenue check of Agri contractors to check for cash in hand work 3) Spot checks of tractors hauling construction loads to check they aren’t using green diesel 4) Road tax significantly raised on Rangers, Hiluxes etc.

I think if the government hands ivermectin only to farmers Willy Billy I might leave my car parked across the gate of a creamery. Who’s with me?

You can only blame the far right blockades so much, at some point it falls on the government for doing fuck all to stop them

In honour of the Integrity landing, here’s a strange fact about the early Soviet program. As they hadn’t mastered soft landings, Vostok cosmonauts had to parachute to earth from 7km up. Valentina Tereshkova was selected for her parachuting prowess rather than piloting or scientific

I think I might have solved the protests. We just get Declan Nerney to play a free gig.

My top 5 most listened to songs for March. In one month my kids have destroyed 10 years of building algorithm data to suit my tastes.

Article 39 of the constitution

This raises more questions than answers like why we only one of the two people having sex before the court.

www.rte.ie/news/politic... Whatever about standing off breaking up the protest, allowing new vehicles to join in Whitegate is negligent. I have no confidence in senior garda leadership.

We’ve hit an issue where the need for quick decisive action (whether it’s negotiation or enforcement) has come in conflict with Micheál Martin and Simon Harris’s inclination to try to keep everyone happy and we are all suffering.

What’s interesting here is thetowtruck.ie appears to be associated with Sonny Boyd who gives a discount to gardai www.thebriefing.ie/who-is-fundi...

Trying to make a list of those businesses involved in the protests so we can avoid them in future. So far I have Mulcahy Agri Services, Leamlara AA minibuses, Athboy Monroe’s Tavern, Galway. I’d appreciate any more. And we can be petty enough just to give them 1* reviews.

Over two hours after the State's only Oil Refinery has been blockaded, Zara King of VM News reports from the scene that there are no Gardai present.

The Guardian might look closer to home. The British obsession with trying to find fault with France is weird. Plus I’ve never found the French slow to celebrate French people of colour from Dumas to Mbappé, but they tend to be celebrated for what they achieved rather than their colour.

Blocking other motorists while burning expensive diesel is not an effective protest IMHO. Motorists and indeed the government, did not cause fossil fuel prices to soar. We know who started this war and we know that he owns an asset in Ireland. That is where the protest should be. Just a thought.

“In France, serious accidents involving high-speed rail lines are rare compared to traditional railways.” And this was a TGV operating on a traditional line, so it falls in the latter category. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Mostly I get the bus to work because of the prohibitive cost of parking. Cycling would probably suit me better but the biggest barrier isn’t hills or rain, or even bad drivers, it’s that I would like somewhere secure to leave my bike knowing it will still be there in the evening.

www.rte.ie/news/middle-... You know what would really help to bring down world oil prices? Blowing up all Iran’s oil producing capacity. just because he can’t say “I fucked up”