I've wasted an entire hour trying to remove the Copilot icon that suddenly appears in the bottom right of my Word documents. None of the online instructions work, possibly because it's an institutional Office/365 account. I think it might be off, but it's still very visible and pissing me off.

We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)

Presidents past and present 🇮🇪 President Connolly was joined at the Áras by her predecessors Mary McAleese, Michael D Higgins and Mary Robinson.

It’s funny, I hadn’t been struck by Horowitz’s commitment to stern verisimilitude while he was in charge of Midsomer Murders for all those years.

It's wearing a POPPY CAPE!!!

Happy retirement Michael D. We’ve been very lucky to have him (and the dogs!) during the last 14 years. As someone who became a citizen during his term of office, he’s the kind of President who reminds you why it’s good to live in a republic.

Please appreciate this Bernese Mountain Dog (and friends) guard of honour for outgoing President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins! @weratedogs.com www.facebook.com/share/v/1GDY...

You know who else had trouble with Virgin Media and women of negotiable affection?

So, I'm opening a book on inauguration speeches tomorrow. How long? What writers will be quoted? What politicians/leaders will be name-checked? Will she mention Westmeath (or any place in Westmeath)? Like obviously she'll mention Galway.

Though it’s also just occurred to me that tonight might be Michael D’s last chance to claim the election was rigged, that he’s still President and encourage his supporters to storm the Àras. Baggsy I get to be the Shaman, I think that hat would suit me.

#speirgorm might be interested to see this, as we await President Connolly’s inauguration this week. A vision of what might have been 😬

Gasp 👀 Paul Klee’s work is what I would stage a Louvre heist for, these are amazing 🤩

I defy anyone to claim they haven’t considered this at some point.

Working class is when your parents don't support you after 16/18. Middle class is when your parents will financially support you for 1-2 decades longer.

This needs to happen at the next Rose of Tralee.

A rare photo from the ballet _Hornbill Lake_

He’s absolutely delighted with himself too. That outfit is definitely new.

This clarifies for me one of the key things about the English WW2 obsession that’s so disturbing - it’s the seamless alliance of unbearable tweeness with nationalistic jingoism. The combined effect is genuinely uncanny.

Give me a chance, it’s only Thursday. I’ll ruin it eventually I’m sure.

Even by Dublin standards, this is an absolute unit of a seagull. Proof that a solid diet of chips and spice bags is good for you.

Sound very much ON!!

I mean, I’d be fired (and I wouldn’t rule out arrested) after the first meeting I wore this to.

I’m not a lawyer, but I think the answer might be in the question.

Aer Lingus have just emailed me pushing their special deals on flights to the US, which include Dublin-LA or Dublin-Miami for approx €230 each way 😮 do you get the impression that there's been a drop in demand? 🤔

He's gone to a hotter place.

I can’t think why the Luas doesn’t also have a mascot to reflect the beautiful flowers along its line…oh, wait. I might see the issue.

In Stoneybatter, a seagull bonded with a local business owner. “Most of the music studios have cats; we don't have a studio cat, we have a studio seagull,” says Al Cowan, owner of Sonic Recording Studios.

*actually* she was an imaginary baby kangaroo called Katie, and I pushed her around in an equally imaginary pram. My mother still speaks with feeling of the time I made her help me lift the pram onto a crowded Nottingham bus, watched with interest by the driver and passengers.

📷 #Russian Church in Jerusalem, Palestine, 1886

There's something about this methodology that I just can't put my finger on...

Using the Mountbatten name isn’t exactly going to help him in this situation either, is it?

Amazing!!

I think this might be considered a shepherd’s warning in Dublin this morning!

Matron. (H/t Nick Cohen)

I'm begging @irishrail.bsky.social to stop using X for its real-time/crisis info updates. It's now the ONLY reason I still have the app but have no choice as a regular commuter. Surely you could use your own app instead of a fascist misinformation machine?

One of my neighbours has got an actual pine coffin standing up at their garden gate, with a life size skeleton + cobwebs inside. Full marks for effort obvs, but when I was 5 or 6 that would have absolutely terrified me. I do think some adults over-invest in Halloween and might want to rethink that

I just contemplated a sex robot designed by Microsoft and now I’m quite traumatised.

Well that's my central heating needs sorted for the winter, at least. My favourite bit of this message (which came to my work email over the weekend) is the last sentence, which talks about crude oil the same way that a supermarket talks about fruit and veg.

So far the press narrative has been to wrongly claim turnout was down and over focus on spoilt ballots when the winner got the most votes ever. So they’re really doing well.

Loughcrew passage tomb this morning. It was just us, the sheep and a man from the OPW up there.

Co parent spotted CC out cheering on the the runners today. #Dublinmarathon #speirgorm

Mother of god, Leni Riefenstahl would have told them to tone it down a bit.

📷 Topkapi Palace, #Istanbul, 1870

In case any of you were in need of a scallop fairy:

In case of emergency: A map of every capybara in the UK and France www.google.com/maps/@/data=...

I think we now know who spoiled that ballot paper in Cork

Catherine Deneuve holding a black cat #Caturday

Well Connolly is now going to be a key figure in Irish national life for at least the next 7 years. Micheál Martin…perhaps not so much.

The Lioness in Winter #caturday

My god.