The misinformation and lies about access to justice extends to criticising an access to information case about a wind farm whose planning permission was allowed expire by Coillte. Yet another article where lies are presented as facts and the people involved ignored

Looking forward to the Irish Times' view on the use of "populism" all the same though.

Peadar was vocally behind the "spoil the vote" campaign, but I guess it's mature to be writing "hang traitors" on the ballot and colouring in a handbag.

Simon Harris has suddenly used “the left” as a dismissive boogeyman three times in a handful of weeks (that I’m aware of) and if I were a journalist I’d be questioning the reasoning behind that a bit more than they are

Harris today: “I’m really quite shocked and taken aback by how reluctant politicians in our national parliament are to discuss migration." Holly Cairns in June last year when the government opted into the EU Migration and Asylum Pact:

Oh I appear to be really lacking in my knowledge of Churches in Dublin.

An excellent if infuriating read. "Some roads will need to be physically altered to encourage cars to drive more slowly on them, before it would make sense to lower the speed limit"

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

But why set targets.

People who spoiled their votes somehow getting more favourable treatment by some pundits than votes for 16 year olds. I guess they spoiled their vote and didn't vote for the "wrong" (left) parties though.

The Minister has decided that councils should not be allowed set a default 30km/h limit (so much for local democracy) and instead have to create exceptions to a 50km/h limit. This means 1000s of hours of detailed work for council officials instead of a single line item. It will take 18 months to do.

Whatever the merits of a State construction firm are, did people like Sheahan ask "how fast can the Land Development Agency be setup"? Likewise, we're creating a new body just to manage the Metrolink rollout. We love creating new bodies for things!

I'm not sure why some Irish columinists are fixated on the idea that speaking Irish has become some requirement to be President. Why that exactly, and not being a politician or barrister or any other trait.

Slightly related, one council was offering either cost rental or "affordable homes" but single people could only apply for 1 beds or studios, while couples could apply for anything, including a 1 bed or studio. We're not building enough types of housing and then restricting people even more.

It remains frustrating that so many British moderates are rotted by GCism to the point that they can clearly recognise a far-right agenda but neatly carve out an exception for the transphobia that's integral to that agenda—as if it's a stopped clock situation—without a moment's self-reflection

Also the basis for one of my favourite Frasier episodes: "You think the monkey was the killer?"

Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility

An article about the need for water charges coming days after news about bonuses at Irish Water is great timing tbf

My brother: that's a gay looking T-shirt you are wearing Me: well that's a coincidence because.... And that's how I came out to one of my brothers.

One of my favourite things about public transport in Dublin is the mystery of the "short fare" on Dublin Bus, which is seemingly decided by the mood of the driver you get.

Again, this is internet crackpots funded by a hateful, malicious squillionaire, combining with the national press to stamp fuck out of some innocent punter just quietly going about their life and work. An utterly malignant system, full of very bad people.

The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly? m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

How do we have a Land Development Agency and now a Housing Activation Office. I don't think there's enough debate about this nonsense

Related but the new F spine routes have been a massive step back in terms of frequency and run times. Maybe if you lived along the actual "spines" you'd get some benefit.

Suggest a Citizens Assembly and watch their heads spin.

Funny watching Paul Murphy and John Clendennen on RTÉ the other day. Clendennen keeps saying "we need a debate about migration" to which Murphy says "okay lets have a debate", and then Clendennen just keeps saying "we need to have a debate". Its very clear what Fine Gael are trying to do here!

This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Funny watching Ministers and politicians from Government parties line up to complain about bureaucracy. Half of that is designed so that politicians can never be blamed for anything

Very good reason for policymakers to quit X. They’ll end up imagining they’re living in a country far more right wing than it is. Inside their own angry micro public. Combine that with real threats and the impact must be toxic.

This plays on repeat in hell

A PR expert telling us not to focus on PR issues and actually we're not solving housing issues. Especially funny considering Yates was giving the Housing Minister media training

Yes, we know he isn't one for bureaucracy alright.

Plugging this one again. It’s the 2nd last issue of this series that I’ve had so much fun writing. If you’ve enjoyed (or not) the films A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, One Battle After Another, A House of Dynamite or Bugonia in the last two months, please have a read. Final issue out December 30th!

Irish Rail really does collapse when it has a single incident.

I see a few pundits asking how Zohran Mamdani will reach out to people who didn't vote for him. The right rarely get asked this.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I still think the Land Development Agency is going to cause some form of tribunal.

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

Coppinger says the first response of the Government to Drogheda was to float a move to charge rent to IPAS residents. "Why would they pay rent when they're not even safe there?" She's criticised Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin for 'ceding ground to the far right'. (2/2)

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

I'd be concerned the issue mutates from someone offering a Presidential candidate training and not disclosing it for a role they're to be independent in, and general media training. Because it diminishes the actual issue.

The Government is going to set up a system to make working asylum seekers pay for their accommodation, despite knowing it'll cost more to run the scheme than they'll make from it. Meanwhile, of course, it will incentivise people not to work, at a time when we are in desperate need of workers.

Yes journalists have to cover what senior politicans are saying on an issue, but much like the data protection issues around the Public Services Card, sometimes you really do need experts to call out their nonsense.

The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.

There exists a fantasy version of FF in minds of the faithful, that only really worked because the State had lots of empty land for housing in the 50s and 60s.

Not quite sure about the overlap of Irish opinion columinists who feel they are being "shamed" not knowing Irish but also feel Trans people shouldn't be able to use toilets. Good few words I could use though.

According to James O'Connor young people leaving Ireland are "ex-pats" while those with "non-EU" work permits who replace them are "costing us billions". How so James? Were the now "ex-pats" working for free? A cliche ridden school essay with a wee whistle for good measure.

Tánaiste saying that 80% of asylum seekers are refused - just not true. When you take the independent appeals into account, about 50% of people are granted status in Ireland. He wants a "conversation" about migration, but he's starting it off with an outright lie. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

This post from 2012 on Boards Dot Ie feels like some modern day papyrus scroll. No way the poster could have predicted it would still be very relevant and commented on years later.