Galway serves up a month of flavour this November - Galway Daily www.galwaydaily.com/life-style/g...

Consider what these organisations could be doing with funding if they weren't using it to pay off private citizens for an object from our shared past. Why is this hobby being allowed to divert such large funds?

Collison's piece is a prescription for a bonfire of regulations intended to increase margins for developers, at the low, low price of stuffing people into accommodation they themselves wouldn't keep their dog in. So of course they love it.

The amount of people, the Justice Minister included, that tried chalking this up to youthful misadventure, and not pre-meditated murder, tells me that the Irish centre-right is contorting itself into pretzels to avoid doing the right thing about fascism. #spéirghorm #ireland

A 200,000-year-old Denisovan genome reveals multiple ancient Denisovan populations, unexpected Neanderthal contacts, and hints of a mysterious hominin lineage. Human evolution looks more tangled than ever. #paleoanthropology #ancientDNA #humanorigins #Denisovans www.anthropology.net/p/ghost-line...

Exceptionally rare iron saber, arrowheads and jewelry discovered in seventh-century warrior's tomb in Hungary www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Bad enough the Gardaí gave free run to the far right for years. Bad enough arson against immigrant centres became standard practice for racists. Bad enough we've already had race riots. The Taoiseach & Táinaiste poured petrol on all the above during the week, & we shouldn't be shy in saying it.

News - Neanderthal Bone from Crimea Identified - Archaeology Magazine archaeology.org/news/2025/10...

Collisons piece in the IT is wrong on so many counts. He specifically mentions delays in electricity infrastructure - Grid West and the NS interconnector. GW was deemed unnecessary as a planned major windfall didn't proceed, NSI got planning in 2016. Delays to NSI AFAIK lie in the North.

Architect Robin Mandal, Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance in @irishtimes.com “observations on planning applications cause no delays & small proportion appealed decided in a set time..tiny numbers of judicial reviews are what holds power to account. The thread of accepting corruption is shocking”

Yet again “deregulate Planning” & “restrict access to courts” (as called for by property lobby) … & not an interrogation of procurement policy, lack of funding, risks of market capture & regulatory capture “Government seeks emergency planning powers” www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

If you’re wondering why archaeologists were upset about the Lost King film, you should read this and ask yourself how you would feel if someone misrepresented your profession and professionalism in this way. I also recommend @pittsmike.bsky.social book Digging for Richard III.

Charlie and Naga being put to shame by their guest who knows how to giant poppy *properly* 8/10

In fact, I’ll save you the click.

"when history judges us, it won’t ask how 'agile' we were. It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck. ...a republic is measured...in who it chooses to help, and who it casually hurts". 👏 👏 👏 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

It took less than a week. These people are so transparent even my dumb ass can predict what they're gonna do #spéirgorm bsky.app/profile/iris...

“These remarks from the Tánaiste are disgraceful and extremely dangerous,” said Mr Ó Ríordáin. “When the Tánaiste says ‘numbers are too high’, it sends a message that the Government itself is buying into divisive rhetoric. cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/a...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Since Catherine Connolly's election, the anti-democratic rhetoric from UK and EU commentators concerning Irish foreign policy has spiked. Today the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, think tank for the centre-right European People’s Party. www.politico.eu/article/angl...

"In an apparent reference to last week’s presidential election, which saw Catherine Connolly TD win in a landslide, Mr Stirrup said Ireland’s “individual tailored partnership programme” (ITTP) with NATO “is coming increasingly under threat with recent political shifts in Irish leadership”.

Whole of Ireland goes ”what do you mean a relative like that isn’t his aunt, of course it’s his aunt”

Glad to see it - a film company and Coogan had no right to portray a decent man who clearly acted with integrity into a weasley, misogynistic, smug creep for the purposes of selling movie tickets and their own greed

This Is One Of The Only Groups Of People Outside Africa Who Had Virtually No Denisovan DNA www.iflscience.com/this-is-one-...

Sum up #Aras25 media coverage in one pic.

Ireland hopes for a discount for missing EU climate goals www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

The striking Swedish workers taking on carmaker Tesla www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well now.

That'll be 21 yrs of Galway Presidents when CC finishes her first term. I'll be in my early 60's by then.

So, this really happened ;)

Apparently he thought better of his sulk and is now going to be there for the declaration of Catherine Connolly as the next President of Ireland #aras25

This is no longer the case, and the Taoiseach is now on his way to Dublin Castle for the declaration

Remarkable result. Is the City to County migration having an effect?

Unless he is unwell, or has a family emergency, this is a very bad look.

An island nation, everywhere africasacountry.com/2025/10/an-i...

Collison ignores that Irelands boom - bust economic cycles have come from elites concentrating power & wealth. Handing more control to neo-liberal politicians risks repeating the same mistakes. We needs accountability, not another elite “efficiency fix” www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Will have to get the ST and the Sindo tomorrow. The Ionians will be livid...

Absolutely delighted for our @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social alumna, Catherine Connolly, on her likely election as President of Ireland! Gach rath ort, Catherine! #Áras25 (Photo by Aengus McMahon, taken at our conference on Replacing the Offences Against the State Acts in 2024)

"Despite the heroism, steadfastness and dignity of the Bloody Sunday families and wounded, a coward walks free from the dock today"

Collison asks who signed up for a bat roost blocking a planning application. The answer: we all did, that’s democracy. Framing sustainability as a barrier misses the truth: economic development depends on sustainability, not the other way around.

The Ionas are going to claim ownership of the entire wad of spoiled votes, and the old firm parties are going to interpret that as a sign they need to move further to the right. That should not be the lesson to learn from a left-wing landslide. But just watch 'em.

I think the real story here is Catherine Connolly getting 55% of the vote.

The caption made it look like the Green leader was taken aback by the sheer size of the Connolly lead in this tally.

Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide. The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump's proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House. https://cnn.it/47yWmpP

Why one of the world’s greenest countries is betting its future on oil grist.org/internationa...

€466,000 for Community Climate Action Projects in Galway City - Galway Daily www.galwaydaily.com/news/e466000...

Join us or else. #Áras25

How devastating for Derry and communities across the North who have not received justice. And yet it is, as suggested here, a moment of pride for those who refused to abandon the pursuit of justice. Now is a time to centre their voices first and foremost. www.derryjournal.com/news/courts/...

A former paratrooper has been found not guilty of the murders of two men and the attempted murders of five men during the events of Bloody Sunday in 1972. jrnl.ie/6852291

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat www.bbc.com/news/article...