Now this would make a great film

ireland has had self-id for a decade and there has been no increase in violence against women and there has been no erosion of women's rights or safety it's a success story @theguardian.com: ireland has had self-id for a decade. here's why that's a danger to women, children, and your grandma

Did the big Christmas shop by 2 of us getting the luas into dunnes in ilac and luas home.

I sort of think that the Covid times for many people utterly killed any sense that we all live in this world collectively and that you are actually obligated to be mindful of other people, and I think it’s a problem that goes well beyond just the Covid denialists.

Dublin City Council's new #BikeBunker service arose from a €4,500 BETA Project. The first BikeBunker of the new service has now been installed, with an initial target of 1,800 BikeBunker spaces. More info at www.bikebunkers.ie or from @bleeperactive.bsky.social Live for your bike, not with it.

Massive thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social for shout out to Digital archives in her latest column, to recent comments I made at launch of #ExploreYourArchive campaign with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social as our new ambassador, and for encouraging all to 1/2 www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Lovely high-res digital version of John Rocque's 1756 map of Dublin city virtualtreasury.ie/item/LBC-Roc...

Make no mistake, this is fascist rhetoric from the Justice Minister. I would argue that 2/3 of adults under 34 stuck living in their family homes is far worse for "social cohesion", than the immigrants who come here seeking a better, safer life.

They aren’t dog whistling anymore, this is more like an airhorn, but then dare to clutch their pearls when racially motivated violence happens on the street

The first 50 bike bunkers have left the factory in The Netherlands bound for Dublin!

Came across this note to myself after the summer holiday inter-railing around European cities with the kids: 'Reject Anglo culture - not just about language. Outsourcing, cities built by procurement, default to managing out the worst'

The type of jobs we desperately need in Ireland.

Call for more Garda foot and bicycle patrols on Royal Canal after attack on Deliveroo rider A local councillor is calling for increased Garda presence on the Royal Canal Way after a Deliveroo rider was seriously injured when he was attacked -- the attackers also hijacked his e-bike and stole his…

They were 8 and 11 years old

Procuring multiple systems with locked in data and no APIs is costing the county billions and probably killing a lot of people. When will we spend the money instead on building and maintaining a single common government platform.

I sure can! 🟨

Tip for presenting your work, share the solution first. I'm interviewing a lot at the moment, and I notice a lot of people both in their portfolio and presenting live, focus 90% on background and 10% on the solution. It should be the reverse.

Ireland: The number of housing sites where no building works had started despite a commencement notice being lodged has almost trebled. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Looking to talk to anyone in linkedin who might be able to help. I've been hacked and appear to be locked out of my account. recovery emails etc not working and the account might have been deleted. Any contacts really appreciated.

Is there an issue with LinkedIn? locked out of my account this morning...

Sadly been there done that.

@emmet.quiddity.ie hey. Just fyi that hunt for the house at the back of blaquere bridge came in handy yesterday as I able to direct a colleague the best way to get a look at it!

The absolute obsession with marketing everything into a brand means no one can contribute an important resource to the commons without having to try and create a mini cult of personality around it, and I think that might have been *not great* for our society overall

Banal observation, sorry, but conversations in Prague really brought home to me that while countries come and go, cities have a historical existence and character that typically is far more resilient.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Catherine Corless is the absolute hero.

We had to listen to people talk about how terrified they are to walk through Dublin City, while also dismissing any significant rise in far right threat. Why not focus on real threats rather than imaginary ones, see how that goes

We've written about the 5 things that are needed in any scenario to create an organisation that can design and deliver services well This is for all the people stepping into leading service design, whether it's in their title or not. good.services/writing/comm...

Pace layers - or where / how do we store big files so we know we can access them in 10-30-50 years.

Timmy Dooley is a landlord and has declared income from properties in Rathfarnham and Ringsend. The cheapest one bed listed in daft in these places is 1600 a month. He also owns land in Co. Clare. #speirgorm

A major barrier to NHS productivity is that it thinks of cost cutting in silos not value adding across systems. This means that lower costs in one silo can cause huge waste in other silos making the whole system far less productive...

“Ireland is full” is something that people say in the only OECD country with a smaller population than it had in 1840

Lovely detail about DCC lands buried in a council report - "This plot...granted by its owner to the Monastery of All Hallows for pious purposes and then seized to the Crown by an Act of Parliament passed in the 28th year of King Henry VIII...

One candidate literally couldn’t submit a form on time. If people can’t put in any effort - why should they get a shot. We all see the sheer graft tds & part time councillors put in years before a run but presidential candidates can rock up a few weeks beforehand. Total nonsense.

If Maria S started in good time, she’d probably have been on the ballot. She left it to the wire to get what she needed and, if she has that little respect for the job, she doesn’t deserve it. Her Respectable Veneer will be used to push this agenda, but scratch her and she’s just as bad as Conor Mc.

I 100% endorse this message. The spoiled votes are a 3rd or 4th order story in this election and disproportionate attention and airtime is a measure of the level of editorial discomfort with talking about Connolly’s success and FF/FG failure.

Yes. There is a very big difference between potential candidates who fail to get nominated and think “I must prepare better next time” and those who think “The system must change to meet the level of effort I’m willing to put in”.

The correct response of course would be to see this as a wake up call that more needs to be done to combat the rise of the far-right. Build civic literacy, media literacy, and most importantly build a fairer society so people aren't drawn to the politics of hate and resentment. #speirgorm #aras25

Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline. It’s… shocking

As Barney's body lay out in the street in a pool of blood, the Derry Civil Rights Association banner held by marchers that day was used to cover him. Damien O'Kane's father (@mckanedj on Twitter) kept it and donated to the Museum of Free Derry, where it is now on permanent display.

As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found - the killings were unjustified - none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns - no warnings were given - no soldiers were under threat - the troops were the first to open fire

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,” Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

It's very hard to fathom the strategy of the Humphreys campaign and the newspaper commentariat here. Is there no-one in the room advising damage control, restraint, looking to the future, trying to behave with maturity, sense, and decorum? Folks, there's a song by Kenny Rogers you should listen to.

That quote is exactly why slop-trough lovers will never be creatives. they dont understand the first and most fundemental poitn of being creative in the first place.

In practical terms, if you live in Dublin and have any interest in what is going on in the city, get a subscription to the @dublininquirer.com and support real independent journalism.

He should be aware of his own personal safety and take steps to be as safe as possible at all times.

Great visit to 11 North Great George's Street for OpenHouse. If you get a chance go to see a lovely restored (but lived in) Georgian gem. Now down a rabbit hole researching the Mount Eccles estate that was here (not Gardiner land as I always assumed)...

To create joined up services, government must fix the data plumbing: establishing shared standards, infrastructure and governance across the system. The UK Government's proposed National Data Library can drive this quiet revolution. public.digital/pd-insights/...