The Land Development Agency has always annoyed me. A way to get land for private developers for the most part. m.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

"They had a wide range of views"

I personally would prefer it if Burnham could be swapped in quickly and easily, and it’d probably be better for the nation. But I see no reason why the Greens should now help people who just spent two weeks calling them hateful racist cranks trying to give heroin to children.

The safe space of some Irish political correspondents is to act out their fantasy of being the SecGen of the Dept of Finance and DPER in their columns.

Is there some suggestion that there's a massive push back from FF against Ahern here? Because that's not the case. O'Callaghan certainly didn't.

This isn't really the main issue though is it? Though does continue the whole "Fianna Fail are useless" thread.

I'm not even sure there's that many people "jumping at Bertie Ahern" or whatever victim route he's taking. He's not exactly being denounced from the pulpit here.

Discovering there's a tier below "As Seen on TV"

"The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter’s use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were “in line with audience expectations for this channel" Wow.

GDPR issues for council tenants? Not likely.

O'Callaghan knows the score!

The thing is though, is contactless payments going to make any difference to public transport really? Is the Leap card that much of a hassle? Will we still end up with two queues on a bus and interaction with drivers. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Bertie should have said we need to have an "a serious grown up conversation on immigration" which isn't a dog whistle for anything of course.

When I watched the golden age of The Simpsons, I wondered when we'd have a live action comedy that matched it. 30 Rock is probably the closest though I'd accept Arrested Development (S1-3) too

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

So the State is going to create a panel of IT Project Managers available to state agencies to help them here? Most of the time the agencies end up tendering for project managers in anyway

Sinn Fein couldn't run fast enough to try and get a UK Supreme Court ruling implemented, and are asking about the legitimacy of Irish TDs introducing bills in the Dáil. A clown show.

Foiled once again by the Green Line Luas taking approximately 6 hours to get from Westmoreland St to Dominick St and clear O'Connell St.

They're so quick at introducing any law that makes renters lives more painful, but other things take time you know.

Patrick O'Donovan could do something useful and try and ban these, not focus on nonsense like blanket bans for U16

Liked this review. One thing about this game is that it's much better to play the game in one sitting.

Fuck Bertie, obviously. But it's also a good example of how no amount of appeasement will ever be enough for far right weirdos. He'd barely agreed with her racism before she was already going on about her Transphobia and in the end she still hated him.

They just want to move and all these pesky questions are really annoying them now!

The FT data guy was sneering at people's concerns about Palantir's involvement in the NHS a few years back. Yeah I kept the receipt

Oh , and did we have "future technology" (which didn't exist) will solve the border issues too?

They're all going to have to have a one on one interview with the Potter author aren't they.

Going to see Ash, Garbage, Placebo this year and on the way home from work will pickup a copy of the NME and Kerrang

Terry Prone in the Examiner saying, "it's frightening how clever the reaction of the far right to the Dublin Rose of Tralee has been." Clever wouldn't be the word that comes to my mind. But then again I've never been Padraig Flynn's PR adviser.

This story is about British Muslims supporting the Green party. That’s it. You wouldn’t know it from the headline though. It’s all about a grand conspiracy. The paper that once glorified Hitler is now recycling antisemitic conspiracy theories for the 2020s era.

Dublin City Council and probably all councils here, seem to operate under a structure that no public or civil service body would be able to.

Moving Dublin City Council’s Civic Offices away from the Liffey Quays into a speculative office block is the wrong decision. A phased renovation is more appropriate, and doesn’t have to cost the earth, a letter to my council colleagues:

fair play to Martin, using RIP dot ie the way the lord intended #speirgorm

"Yep, here’s your problem. Someone set this thing to Evil."

News used to be better

There's a new game called Mixtape which capture the "last day of high school, 90s America" vibe. It's fun, but it features a David Gray song in a scene that practically grabbed me and sent me back in time.

It’s an absolutely open and admitted policy of the Department of Justice that non-EU/UK citizens without either a Stamp 4 or an employment permit should NOT be facilitated to integrate. The fewer roots they put down the fewer rights they have under Article 8 ECHR and the easier they are to deport.

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

For a Government who threw out "Putin's Puppets" when it wanted, it's reluctance to do anything here is unfortunately expected.

There are at least 10 trans councillors elected so far today according to the trans greens Instagram account which is nice ☺️☺️☺️

Condolences to the faculty and students being asked to come up with individual solutions to the structural problem of admin having outsourced higher ed to for-profit, PE-owned third-party tech companies

“Neglecting its progressive flank” isn’t even a thing. The main sales points for the project were that actively dismissing and attacking the progressive flank would lead to unspecified wins. That appears not to have worked, however

Randomly decided to see Akira in the IFI. Haven't seen it in decades but still incredible how much that late night viewing on Channel 4 is seared into memory.

"The Switch is so old," you all said. "I need better graphics," you demanded. "Wah wah," you cried. And now, you sit here before Slippy Toad, the slippiest he's ever been, slippier than a fucking banana peel under a kart wheel, all thanks to the raw power of the Nintendo Switch 2—and you reject him?

For all the talk of a "grown up debate", I doubt there's a single member of FF or FG (and others) who would suggest whether people who are disqualified for driving should have to take their driving test again before they can drive.

€3 million for a temporary platform which will be torn down We can’t find money for catering or to run earlier or later services but we can fund a service for a commercial event which costs €499 a person No spare carriages available either… www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2...

"be safe, be seen" as a national strategy for road safety is an absolute joke

If somebody is disqualified for driving for any amount of time, are they required to do their driving test again or can they just drive again? www.thejournal.ie/court-cyclsi...