This is bound to happen at some stage "Yes the Wifi is down. No we can't feed your child"

And yet, approx one in five people who live here can't vote for a TD because we restrict the franchise to Irish and British citizens. I'd argue that too many TDs is less of an issue than too few voters.

Slightly related, but I find it frustrating that the Land Development Agency is providing cost rental homes with private developers. Cost rental is good, don't get me wrong, but some of the units should be affordable or social housing. Not all blocks of cost rental

Wow how kind of them

Before my Mam passed away she was entitled to the fuel allowance. When she passed away, my Dad wasn't eligible, despite being the sole earner in the family and living in the same house. So he needs to pay fully from his pension. Always being frustrating with the eligibility here.

All of the 90s Trek shows we adore so deeply took at least 40 episodes to really become great. You gotta let shows cook, man.

When did all these fucking boilerplate airport fiction novelists get put in charge of determining public heath in this country for fuck sake.

removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines

Just watched the 19 pass a bunch of people waiting on it to get to the Airport at Parnell Square because another bus was waiting at the stop. A frequent occurrence unfortunately, with too many buses waiting at that area.

Is #bbclaurak interrogating the govt minister over why the UK govt is allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran right now? Nah. Laura wants to know if Iran could bomb London. Because hypothetical bombs are more important that actual bombs, I guess.

Is #trevorphillips interrogating the govt minister over why the UK govt is allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran? Nah. Trevor wants to know why we aren't bombing Iran too.

sometimes you see something so stupid and so funny that it feels like god is giving your brain a high five

Was he also a former member of U2 who grew up in Glasnevin?

Ok fine , get Maria Steen to review this in her next Irish Times column.

Guardian reporting on Leo Varadkar's article on attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. Varadkar mentions trans rights 5 times, but Guardian 0 times. Leo points to the toxicity of US and UK debate, but Gaurdian ignores. Their silence is GC* Ideologically driven journalism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Every time I saw this image it brought me back to getting my first PC in the late 90s. It came with some random applications for creating images and other things. That was fun for a little bit but again it was in the late 90s.

Surely Maria Steen could do a follow-up to her Paddy's Day article and talk about that Epstein float? But it's no rainbow snake.

Again some Irish reporting on the meeting omitted what Trump said about Connolly. Very odd unless it didn't fit in with the "didn't Martin do well" schtick.

I do find it odd that a few articles don't even mention Trump's remarks about Connolly. This is just one example.

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

Does Broken Sword 1 have the best Irish pub in video games?

Admittedly it's slightly funny we got some "President Connolly's words will damage our relationship with Trump and the USA" opinion pieces to Trump going "I don't know who that guy is".

This is very good and oddly I'd say some Irish diplomats and politicians hated it (which isn't a bad thing at all)

Almost convinced you could delay any ban to scrambler bikes if you showed people this.

The fact that so many people working in media truly believe that medical institutions are biased *in favor* of trans people is going to make my head explode

The establishment news just stopped reporting on Palestine about a year ago but the pre-emptive silence on Lebanon has been shocking

This would seem more likely to annoy Trump than anything Connolly said?

It's really annoying watching some columnists talk about "Ireland's interests" because it's painfully obvious now that record homelessness doesn't impact these "interests", unless, of course, it might lead to increased support for Sinn Fein.

Once again I'm slightly annoyed that the Ballymun/Finglas bus corridor does very little for the Finglas F bus routes because it doesn't tackle the Whitworth Road.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte less than two weeks ago www.reuters.com/business/aer...

I wish I could find that series of headlines from Repeal which was basically: Pat Leahy: the people would not support Repeal Pat Leahy: the people would not support UK abortion system Pat Leahy: the people would not support 12 weeks Pat Leahy: once again the people are ahead of politicans.

Of course the gender party are tied to the anti-abortion parties too.

Got the 40e bus to Broombridge. As the bus pulls in the Luas departs. Wait 10 mins. Then the Maynooth to Docklands train arrives. The Luas departs. They have to wait 10 mins now. I know the Luas can't be waiting around for late buses or trains but still think they could coordinate it better.

Adam Baldwin was literally *the* guy who named GamerGate and made it go viral. It was just some loser 4chan/incel YouTuber shit before then. They spammed him to get his attention because they knew he’s also a psycho loser and they wanted to make it go viral, and he did it. And it worked.

I don't think the question to ask Martin about ICE is if he's concerned about them operating during Patrick's Day. It should be whether he thinks Ireland's immigrants policy is headed that way.

What I found really annoying was that she was (if my memory is correct ) referencing a story from Canada, where a school "banned" Mothers Day, but only because a student lost their mother and they wanted to be compassionate.

Ok I need a jacket that can cope with this weather , i.e. the coldness of the morning, the sun and warmth at midday and that can also deal with rain any minute now.

how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter

You'd have to wonder what Trans people in Ireland did before Mick Clifford discovered them in 2022 and branded himself the only sane man on this topic.

I do wonder what the cost is of upgrading and maintaining public transport payment systems, including validators, multiple ticket types, ticket machines, support etc, versus not. We also give free or heavily subsided transport to people up to 24, taxsaver ticket, free travel passes etc

This should like those burger CEOs trying to eat a burger. Off you go Pete.

The article was since updated and the child has died. Damn.

the president of the united states just said he found out the country he started a war with had boats sometime after he started that war

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Two things. One was getting hooked on Greek Mythology as a kid and wondering why those Gods were no longer Gods. But really it was when the animated X-Men cartoon started to be shown on a Sunday morning here and I decided I'd rather watch that.

Oh it's the President's views that problematic. Finally they can talk about the Middle East in their favourite language, avoiding it and looking at whatsapp messages from politicans.

Stark media classification of human lives: 400 Lebanese: Dead 175 Iranians: Dead 2 Israelis: Killed 6 Americans: Killed

Another entry for my graphic novel: The Illustrated Guide to Silicon Valley Super Villains