There really should have been no coming back from this.

Nearly 100 unnamed individuals found in Tuam - in a relatively small, and known, area of careful excavation. Meanwhile In Bessborough one can only ponder how many will be found by diggers working on the foundations for developer led apartments.

everybody buckle up for the sentence "very few engineers working today fully understand the systems" to become more true for the rest of our lives than anyone can imagine yet

If Kazakhstan doesn't work out for him then I'm sure he could try out John Collison's back garden in Abbeyleix. www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/laois-m...

Some *marketing* is happening.

Big Jim now bravely standing up to the … Ombudsman for Children #speirghorm

Ministers and prime ministers will come and go but it's very difficult to shift an infestation of monorail salesmen when they're as well established as the ones in Whitehall and Westminster.

Revisionist history complete. "It is also fitting that a building so central to Ireland’s political emergence is now an engine room for our digital and economic future." Micheál Martin www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Useful to have McDowell set out the bounds of Irish 'sensible centrist' establishment political imagination. What is his fantasy, his dream, his utopia? A land of limitless parking.

Dystopian Future Enjoyers' Association Warns Against Any Future Dystopia Not Controlled By Them.

Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

A twelve thousand percent increase in articles about "the trans probem" in a decade. Manufacturing "the trans problem" out of thin air and bile.

As with every other problem facing the state, the solution to the housing crisis is to get FF and FG out of government, and to keep them out for a century.

I hate to say ‘I told you so’, but I told you so.

Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES

Historically, fascism has been most enthusiastically brought to power by corporatism. Google is no exception.

example number 1 bazillion of this phenomenon where the Irish government cannot conceive of a policy response to a social problem other than banning something www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

lmao the “go into detail about your baby genitals” job application was for The Guardian because of course it was

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And if you’re wondering about the “delicious diversity” that Skerries has got a taste of … the man charged is named Seán McGlone

this man almost started weeping on a podcast because he was gently asked about something he put on the back of the book he was there to promote, but thinks it's just fine to clap and cheer because a man hit some teenagers with a car. the crybully nonpareil

This is shocking but not surprising in neoliberalised Ireland. The LDA effectively exists for the State to underwrite development industry risk. Now they are dispensing with any pretence that its objective is to provide affordable housing. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Anyone making this argument should be asked to explain how the increased load of 25,000 public servants going back to full time commutes to central Dublin will be absorbed by the public transport system.

If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...

"Could a brick feel pain?" "What if the electric drill has object permanence?" "Mightn't vacuum cleaners have a concept of zero?" this is how these headlines sound.

Ah the article is by William MacAskill, the effective altruism guy who disappeared when his friend Sam Bankman-Fried got jailed. Remember that his thesis is that humanity's betterment depends on techbros becoming unimaginably wealthy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

When crops are failing & the country is battered by more storms, floods, & heatwaves every year, let's ask Jack if building new critical infrastructure roads & LNG terminals instead of electric public transport & renewables did indeed "cut the crap". This is climate negligence. #IrishPol

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

Your party leader and colleagues will always be delighted when there's a story in the paper about you and it contains the dangling line "The Minister has been approached for comment."

Ginormous Jim just making things up? Surely not.

When even anecdotal evidence lets you down: Legal aid system did not delay Kerry football fan’s three-year case flagged by Jim O’Callaghan. Man’s prosecution singled out as example of ‘unacceptable’ delays caused by old criminal legal aid system. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

No riots for Natasha. None for my two friends who separately had male family members abuse them and both got less than 3 years custodial. One judge said he didn't want to ruin the abusers life as he began the abuse while he was also underage. He was also a cadet.

It's going to be fascinating to watch the reaction of the Irish government of the day when one or other of the Collisons hits the 'grifting cult leader' phase of the tech libertarian billionaire arc.

Rapid unscheduled disinvestment

A pretty important note here imho especially for lot of reporters and decision makers in DC who continue to misread the outsized influence of Musk’s fascist friendly platform. Outside DC’s corrupt bubble it often fails to land any real impact.

Axel Springer is a German media giant — with Bild & Welt — which has become a major international player — with Politico & Business Insider. Its leadership is a prime example of radicalization of the mainstream right and of the enabling of the far right. Their newest award winner: Peter Thiel.

Given the direction of travel on trans rights this is quite the statement from the Anglican Church in Wales. "We are not called to the legal minimum of hospitality. We are called to the radical welcome of the one who sought out the excluded and the overlooked."

Multiple Irish State agencies are using software for internal messages that runs directly on the computers of companies they are tasked with investigating and regulating. Most of them come from a country with a history of global surveillance, unjustified military aggression and genocide enablement.

Excellent piece by Mick Clifford: Jim O'Callaghan's crusade against legal aid will damage access to justice www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

John Foster Dulles waving around a copy of the famous 1898 Skibbereen Eagle editorial in 1953 and warning we should all be keeping an eye on Czar Nicholas II.

Coming soon to Ireland courtesy of Jim 'Juvenile Sophistry' O'Callaghan. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-hum...

can you see why when starmer talks about ‘leaving the country in a better way’ people want to throttle him

Asking the Minister for Stepping On Rakes questions about awkward situations outside of his brief could yield great results and I'd like to see more of it.

You can learn a lot about the state's priorities by simply noting what it does and does not attempt to make legible. Every single trip taken on the Free Travel Scheme? The state wants to know. Alarming levels of resource usage by corporations? A mystery. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

The guy who lives in the Taoiseach's house and uses quarter of the Taoiseach's electricity also runs the taps constantly but that's grand, there's nothing to see here, it's actually very normal.

Happy days for the economy! The 'Temporarily Storing Picks And Shovels' and the 'Re-routing Picks And Shovels For Tax Reasons' sectors are booming.

#Spéirgorm I'm glad Holly Cairns preempted the Taoiseach's go to distraction tactic. Watching the contemptupus way he speaks to her and indeed women in general, mirrors the misogyny that enabled this horrific tragedy. Accountability has already been delayed too long.