Today is the 11th anniversary of the Gender Recognition Act here in Ireland. I will always celebrate this day as the State finally recognized my gender. Decades of campaigning led to the Act. I owe a debt to those who went before me We were the 4th country in the world to bring in such legislation

Looks like plan b is go Suburban system, all lines through Dublin Connolly to be replaced entirely, unclear who the vendor is but this critical path for DART+West Mainline system to be partially replaced, unclear, this is the most unreliable bit www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

A Government that can't manage e-scooters is a Government that can't do anything else.

This is never going to work. Everything in Ireland is designed around owning your own house

I don't know what ESB road works are happening at Hart's Corner but they're an absolute pain for commuting.

Phil lost the game in the headline 2-0 and was fired the next week

Really good piece and yes, the Irish version of Cost Rental is designed so it wouldn't have the same impact on rents that Cost Rental in other countries did. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

I don't think Data Centres use a huge amount of water, certainly not compared to the electricty they use, but you still need to answer how many people use hose pipes would be the equivalent of one data centre's water usage.

This is of course about Varadkar saying the US Ambassador shouldn't have gone to McGregor's pub. But it's far better for the Gov for this to be turned into political melodrama (and the Daily Mail loves that) to avoid the actual issue.

The Galaxy. Then the Sunshine. Then 64

Articles like this which don't mention Data Centres aren't going to help. Irish Water is going to have to wade into that discussion at some stage

Deeply saddened to read about the passing of Sam Neill, my John Trent, who lived life to the fullest, with grace and gusto, who I had the privilege of delving into the great beyond with. What a profound loss for the world. imdb.com/name/nm00005...

Star Trek began airing in the UK on this day in 1969 with 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'.

There was a report last week about how Irish Prisons are dangerously overcrowded and a health issue to prisoners. Barley registered on Irish media. When one Trans person was in prison, it was on Irish media constantly. Newstalk had three different segments about it in one day

You can't "solve" O'Connell St in Dublin without reducing the traffic there.

One more comment on this. It is interesting how pretty much the only thing that ‘woke’ means these days is not wanting to erase trans people.

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

The other thing is that the far right will time a rally on the same day so some of the more lazy media types will go a both sides in their reporting

Paradoxically Count Binface is now funny, but only because of people reacting like this.

Belfast-based people of colour in online chat forums asking for best ways to be safe on the 11th/12th. They’re getting helpful tips from other locals (mostly “stay indoors”) but it’s surreal how normalised this is

Not quite sure about this The Journal article. It's not mass surveillance but every message will be judged by an algorithm www.thejournal.ie/explainer-ch...

Exactly right but DCC seem allergic to the idea of trees and looking after trees

These people are playing to an American audience with dreams of a future as far right grifters in a market where there are far bigger rewards than dominating Great Yarmouth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you love Dishonored and similar games, then Jeremy Peel is one of the best to read. Cracking stuff.

Not overly keen that they're all cost rental units. Cost rental is meant to try and reduce private rental, not become replace other types like social or affordable housing

lol, it’s like this post was developed in a lab specifically to enrage this website’s users

Everybody blames Farage, yet - It isn’t Farage who is deporting him. It isn’t Farage who has introduced the policies that allows his deportation. It isn’t Farage who could stop it We all agree Farage is despicable. That he set the agenda. But this government willingly chose to follow it

You'd be dreading what College Green is going to end up like. DCC seem incapable of managing shared spaces like this. irishcycle.com/2026/07/08/c...

Allowing people to cancel services like broadband via email would be such a quick win for the Government. Really surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Reuters: JUDGE AUTHORIZES PAYMENT OF $5 MILLION AWARD TO E. JEAN CARROLL IN TRUMP CASE -FILING

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

This close to mentioning immigration

This could still be reversed if Tutankhamun calls up Infantino

Some of the shelters are just glass. Burning alive here.

That Youth Defence rag is definitely going to try and ask Pico Lopes what he thinks about Trans people

The report is extremely damning.

There's a reason why Arkane is a separate line both here and in the Xbox statement when compared to other studios French labor law requires a consultation process with the studio’s works council to ensure there is actual justification for the move and that all alternatives have been exhausted first

Getting pretty tired of all this football in my beloved politics.

Doing roadworks at Hart's Corner on a Monday evening so traffic on the Whitworth Road slows down to a crawl in this weather, is surely against the Geneva convention.

It just seems incredibly weird to me that this decision has to go to Cabine. Maybe it has to but seems like a waste of time. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

It shouldn't be hard to make people like Tommy look like complete freaks for talking like this, but when the media has it in for the trans community as much as he does it's somehow a huge challenge

Still remarkable that for all the charges of "Putin's Puppets" labelled at everyone else else, the criteria for the Government on this is whether they support Russia's army

This is not a "judge a lawyer by their clients" thing. Fashy Jim here though was a counsel on the Fyffes Vs DCC case which involved the claim that Jim Flavin engaged in insider trading and committed a €83m fraud. That single case involved ~€20m (in 2006!) lawyers fees magill.ie/archive/bigg...

A Sunday morning briefing about solicitors is it.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

According to Popbitch Harry Kane has played in three successive World Cups and the UK lost a Prime Minister each time. Impressive