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.

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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”

This is depressing. Tourist towns like Cobh and Kinsale are overrun with cars compared to those in France, Spain, Portugal etc. And yet councillors are looking to find extra on street spaces for those too lazy to walk the 10 minutes to the massive town car park. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... It’s a good thing we didn’t close the railway line between Rosslare and Waterford.

I might have to develop a drug problem as it appears to give you a Get Out of Jail Free card if you ever have to go to court.

I am very tempted.

Someone might have to explain to me how Kharg Airport is a military target. A quick look at Google Maps shows it has six helipads and space for 6 or so narrow body aircraft. Clearly too small for an air base. Also no military aircraft to be seen in the satellite view.

The first time a friend dies through natural causes rather than an accident or an overdose is very numbing.

I doubt the Gulf States will return to genuine normality for several years. This should present opportunities for East African countries to insert themselves as key hubs in Europe-Australia aviation. Given Africa needs the boost more than the Gulf States anyway I hope it is being worked on.

At least in the Iraq war the lies about the reason for starting it were consistent.

In all honesty it’s why I switched from ChatGPT to Claude and Mistral. Claude is significantly better than GPT, although I’m more comfortable sharing data with Mistral.

This is a massive site in a very central Location. It is more than likely too big to be taken over by an Orthodox or non-traditional Protestant denomination. I hope someone in City Hall is thinking about how to avoid it being a problem for the city. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

There’s no need to double track from Midleton to Youghal. A single track with passing possibilities in the stations is cheaper, supports 2x hourly trains to Youghal and would preserve the Greenway. Even Dublin-Galway is single track.

This is fairly straightforward. They either allow all political speech up to “Expel all immigrants” or they allow none. You can’t just say only political speeches that you like are acceptable.

If any political party made road safety a big issue in the next General Election they may find it a winner.

They went with Twin Peaks when Devil’s Throat was literally set in and filmed in a. Fountains area of Bulgaria.

In the absence of an accepted name I may request Cork City Council rename the area between Capwell Rd and Tramore Lawn as Roadworks after its most prominent feature. Today:3 separate roadworks on the Douglas Rd, Rosebank, Ballincurrig and Rhodaville all dug up. Thankfully I was on foot

People who moved their votes away from Labour and The Greens because they weren’t pure enough in their stints in government should really be enjoying this one…

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic... It’s in the third last paragraph, but I should have known Patrick O’Donovan was involved in the stupidity of suggesting providing our PPSNs to the world’s biggest data abusers. To be consistently Ireland’s dumbest politician is an achievement.

I brought the family to Bluestone a few years ago and honestly the price difference to CenterParcs more than paid for the cost of the ferry. One slight downside is the site is very hilly. It’s car free but don’t expect the kids to be cycling round it.

It’s time to require US visitors to produce vaccination certs.

YouTube is clearly hosting animal cruelty videos that have been made to make money. If their AI is as good as they claim they haven’t a leg to stand on.

I’ve just realised I’m going to be in France for World Cup final day. Based on my record in 94,02, 04 and 10 we can expect France to lose it. Can I curse a 5th team?

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... One reason we are so poor at improving public services is that we roll everything out in Dublin first. The sensible approach is to pick a small city where the implementation is quicker. Find the problems faster in a more quickly fixable way and then roll out nationally

American Anti-Fascists are fairly pathetic really. They’ve spent a decade protesting about things and calling them Fascist. Now faced with actual Fascism they’ve hardly reacted.

I think I may move to North Korea as it’s probably the only place in the world you can avoid KPop Demon Hunters.

Rather than whining about people still being on X maybe people should think about what keeps people on that platform. I still go over there because it’s still better for specialist content like football, music and local news. Get those posters here and I can ignore it altogether.

So Patrick O’Donovan has no problem with an app making this picture.

He finally did it. Said something so obnoxious that even MTG could take the moral high ground.

That hardly covers the land acquisition costs even if they can pull a strike that lets it be built in agricultural land.

“He said that though the cycle route would increase in terms of distance, much of this would be downhill so it would not be a huge addition to journey time” It’s a very handy cycle lane if it’s downhill in both directions. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...