We have a huge problem with speeding in Ireland. The majority of motorists, many in our legal system, many TD's and Cllrs see it as people's right to break the posted speed limit on any given road. They see enforcement as an attack despite the fact that enforcement saves lives.

This bird is clearly wearing Chanel

Catriona has worked for more than a decade now in many ways to advance migrant/refugee rights, women's rights, children's rights etc. (in Brussels and in Ireland) She has long been a passionate advocate for those in need. She is also a talented musician (we were in orchestra together).

I saw a video yesterday of young New Yorkers all talking about their apartment rentals. Reader, they were all cheaper than this.

About once a week LinkedIn emails me to tell me that X number of employees at my workplace have played games on LinkedIn. That number is always embarrassingly high.

It's not just rural Ireland. Dublin Central canvass has shown me hundreds of lock boxes near doors in Stoneybatter, North Strand, Phibsboro, Drumcondra. Nobody home, short term let. Could be someone's home but unfortunately that would make the landlord a tiny bit less money so nope.

I LOVE SAND BATTERIES.

I've always felt the best way to get people subscribe to @dublininquirer.com, is just to publish good articles and wait and hope. But I'm told, that people are busy and might have other things on their minds than us, so I'd better make a pitch, better ask. So here goes. 1/

Rob O'Sullivan: My partner and I are worth more to our town than short-term tourists www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Gave the approach mentioned in the article a go this morning in a Bristol shopping centre. Had conversations with people with very different perspectives & backgrounds. Not seeking to persuade just listen & understand. Moving how ppl share their life stories to some random guy from a local charity!

"Successfully transitioning to decarbonized energy systems requires broad public engagement, yet citizens often remain disconnected from transition goals." You don't say? Might that be because 'transitioning to decarbonized energy systems' is a soulless sterile cold vision of our future?

Yup CMAT!!! Fuck Bertie Aherne!!

This is amazing, and I love that they basically threw up a few floating ropes and let people get on with it.

An 18-year-old student from Ireland has been named as the European winner of a global environmental sustainability competition

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

An email update from MSF - I give them a few bob every month. A medic in a Gaza hospital checks on a low-weight newborn, another victim of man-made malnutrition. You'd hope there are enough places left in hell for all the monsters.

It's disgraceful that Helen Ogbu, currently lying third in the polls for the Galway West by-election, hasn't been selected for the RTE live debate which contains six candidates. In fact it's downright sinister and makes RTE look like they're attempting to sway the course of the election. No excuse.

Bike Week in Limerick kicks off on Sat 9th of May. The highlight is Limerick Rolls on Saturday 16th, a street party and group cycle All events here: www.limerick.ie/discover/wha... @pedestrianlk.bsky.social @limerickecargobike.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social 🚲

The people in Shannon having their early morning fry with a pint of Heineken always seem so happy. Like they've already started their holliers, despite being only 30 mins from Limerick city in a large windowless room. It's EMANCIPATORY, that's what it is.

A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.

The reason we suffer the highest electricity prices in the EU is because FF/FG have shaped our energy transition around the needs of US FDI (data centres) not social need and decarbonisation. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-high...

Frustrating that the migration question is so general. I think the EU's fortress approach is taking it in the wrong direction. But results of this q being reported as "concerns about migration" as if everyone automatically anti.

Always nice to start the day with some good news 🫠 #EGU26

Remember when the UN came up with a plan to end world hunger for $6 billion and Musk said nah, I’d rather buy Twitter? Nobody’s taken the UN up on that deal. All the billionaires, including the one below, keep making that same choice. Tax the mothercustards out of existence

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

Low cost bikes for sale from Limerick Community Island Partners (beside King John's Castle) www.facebook.com/share/p/1E75...

There's been a major change in advice for those with bird feeders in their garden, with the public now being urged not to feed birds between May and October. The change in advice is due to a disease called trichomoniasis, which impacts greenfinches and other finch species. jrnl.ie/7028601

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

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oh look, there's Ireland's future destruction starting to show up on maps

Sometimes these summaries make me a bit sick. Today! Enraging ongoing tragedy, crime, and kooky thing designed to make you click!

Here’s an example, now, that just popped up: apparently the new Surgical Hub in Limerick, specifically designed to some of the pressure from UHL by covering elective and day procedures, is going to get just HALF of the required operating budget. 🤷‍♂️ www.limerickpost.ie/2026/04/29/s...

Today is the day our group of judges meet to decide the winner of this year's annual Mary Mulvihill award for science communication (in memory of Ireland's great science communicator) and I think this is one of the finest years for entries ever (theme is: 'time'). So, so many excellent submissions!

Let me tell you what the prick who hoards housing in your rural community is taking from you by forcing my family out. The guy who runs your kids' after school chess club. The couple who bring young people back into the local pub to play board games on your quiet nights. A yoga teacher.1/n

Simple plug-in solar is a reality in several European countries, and there you can buy them from Ikea. Minister Darragh O’Brien needs to cut the red tape and let Irish households save money on their bills. www.greenparty.ie/news/green-p...

“The report found that 90% of protected habitats are in an unfavourable conservation condition, with Ireland being one of the lowest ranked countries in the world for intact biodiversity.” We need to wake up to this and urgently need to fund nature restoration.

Physical media is vital for ownership and art conservation. www.tomshardware.com/video-games/...

“Almost 30c from every €1 spent on National Lottery games goes back to thousands of incredible Good Causes in communities…” Yikes. That’s quite a wedge NOT going to Good Causes™️. www.lottery.ie/good-causes

The answer suggested here is to focus more on the assessment of people and their careers, bringing back interviews. At EU level, they're trying the opposite - banning re-application & streamlining the assessment process as much as possible. It doesn't bode well.

I absolutely do not want to get up to speed on the AMOC because it is the scariest thing I can imagine and there's nothing I can do to stop it happening, with increasing certainty, in my lifetime. But you should read it and join me in dread.

Yesterday 55.4% of the electricity consumed on the island of Ireland was generated by wind and solar. There's a lot more to do of course. But a lot has been done in a very short space of time.

Exhibit A: in a recent antitrust filing, Meta argued it isn't a social media monopoly because it isn't really a social media company anymore. Only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.

I've been homeless since Jan. I'm lucky enough to have friends who let me crash at their places but I have nowhere to unpack, nowhere I don't feel like I'm in the way. I'm not included in these figures but I am homeless and I'm far from the only one...the problem is so much bigger than these figures

While little of value was lost, still a reminder to live your life in a way that means, when you die, millions of people don't conclude that your death was both amusing and deserved. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

That's a decent sized town. 17,517 people, including children, suffering in a way that will damage the rest of their lives.

Amazing how they find an extra €100 million or so when they need it. www.dublincity.ie/sites/defaul...

LOVE this. Once I was walking in the Phoenix Park with a visiting college friend. A passing jogger tutted in disapproval and said, as only a Dub can, ‘Ah here, would you ever hold her hand.’ We laughed but he took my hand. Some shenanigans ensued; our 20th wedding anniversary is in September.