“This trial shows that this intranasal, shelf-stable H5N1 vaccine could play a major role in pandemic preparedness, offering a practical and scalable way to help protect people from evolving strains of the virus.”

The best zero-emission data centre is the one that doesn't get built. Second best is the existing one that gets decommissioned.

I think I'm going to be preemptively expelled from France for crimes against (ready-to-fucking-bake!) croissants.

RTÉ Radio 1 is so bloody good when it's not oversaturated with current affairs and political debate programmes.

There's more evidence that the Covid-19 vaccine lowers risk of preterm birth, hospital stays and death.. 🧪🦠 www.sciencenews.org/article/bene...

these three ghosts could've been an email

Watch out, the Dubs are coddling their sandwiches now.

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

- The risk of transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in emergency rooms is high, posing a severe threat to the health of healthcare workers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards

HSE & Public health must tell us the truth about airborne viruses & how to avoid them. www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...

There is a century of data from scientists and engineers showing masks work, and a century of science denial by physicians who deliberately design studies that ignore the known fact of aerosol spread. It's long past time to be done with aerosol science denial in health care.

This is a wonderful project from @hometreecharity.bsky.social for the restoration of upland native oak forests www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...

Two days ago Patrick O'Donovan bemoaned (or blamed the public for?) the low uptake of the flu vaccine, and today it's reported that the HSE has run out of child flu nasal vaccines - at 21% uptake, when the target is 50%. Maybe Patrick should direct his fire at his own government?

As an Irish filmmaker, knowing tax funding is going to this boils my blood to a dangerous temperature.

In Ireland this flu surge is well underway, and we know worse is coming, but the HSE is only introducing piecemeal "restrictions" at hospitals as each one gets overwhelmed. They should have introduced mandatory masking in ALL healthcare a few weeks ago, but they should definitely do it *RIGHT NOW*.

📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm

There's another article in the Mayo News this week about a menswear business in Westport closing "after receiving an offer for the building from The Mariner Hotel that they were very happy with" so I think my point about the overdevelopment of hospitality is valid. www.mayonews.ie/news/westpor...

Mayo CoCo sold part of a public park in Westport to a hotel so that they could expand, including building a car park. There were community protests against the sale of public land. And yet, our planning system is so passive that I'm the only person who made a submission on the planning application.

Evil PR Inc. headquarters: "Alright everyone, listen up! Most of our top clients are about to be outed for raping tweens. Anyone got any ideas?" "How about we soft-launch hebephilia? It's just pedophilia but by a different name that most people have never heard of." "Love it!"

Patrick O’Donovan went out on the national airwaves with a half-baked, bad set of ideas about linking access to online spaces to our PPS numbers. If he had these ideas himself, it would be a Christmas miracle. But in fact, they are the Zuckerberg lobbying aim across the world.

This article doesn't get into the details of it, but a key point of my planning observation was that because Mayo CoCo isn't enforcing planning around AirBnBs, it cannot accurately judge whether hospitality is being overdeveloped in Westport or not. www.mayonews.ie/news/westpor...

40% of flu hospitalisations in Ireland last week were in 0-14 year olds. This means flu is ripping through childcare and schools, all while the official public health advice to schools & parents is to send kids into school “even if they have a minor cough, runny nose, or mild sore throat.”

#StormBram ‘The waves were so great that in their troughs the shallows of the shore were almost visible, and the schooner, with all sails set, was rushing with such speed that, in the words of one old salt, "she must fetch up somewhere, if it was only in hell".’ #Dracula #SpéirGhorm

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

Most news outlets are just regurgitating the government line about "speeding up infrastructure" instead of interrogating the overt attack on democracy that this government is engaging in.

I'm kind of wondering how far the US regime is from a defenestration outbreak.

These memecoins are just money laundering operations which enable wealthy individuals (or foreign powers) to funnel money to Trump in return for ???

Vinted is out of control.

Flu is spreading earlier than last year, with children heavily impacted. We call on the Minister for Education and the HSE to update public health advice to schools to account for airborne transmission of flu. Press release is available here: www.cleanairadvocacyireland.org/clean-air-bl...

📆 Dáta don Dialann https://bit.ly/44Bkwho

Switzerland has banned the construction of new holiday homes. Should we do the same in Ireland? But we can't if we don't even know which new homes are actual homes and which ones will be left empty for most of the year. #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome #Speirgorm

New slur for vegans just dropped.

Quick question; what led to this clause being added to the Terms of Service?

Keep in mind, we could have already advanced so much in this field if, for political reasons, mRNA vaccines were not severely attacked over the past 5 years. We are closer than ever to a cure for #MultipleSclerosis, and that involves preventing #EBV from damaging the brain.

So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)

Croagh Patrick has its winter cap on this morning.

AI is making us into morons and subverting democracy, Ireland’s parliamentary (Oireachtas) Committee heard today. Full story: www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Judicial reviews are very often the last resort local communities have in defending nature against greedy corporate interests + rotten planning. The gov. wants to undermine that via false blame for the housing crisis, etc. Must read by @attractaub.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

A new #painting. "Cill Chiaráin". Kilkieran if you prefer. One ridiculous perfect day in South Connemara I was painting by the side of a road. Everywhere I looked I saw more paintings I knew I'd paint later. This is later. I love this part of the world. Love it. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #MountainMonday

Between the clocks going back, the shorter evenings, and the change to the RTÉ Radio 1 schedule, I don't know whether I'm coming or going.

Well this is just flagrantly anti-democratic, isn't it? Only those of significant financial means would be able to afford a judicial review of a planning decision. The "Critical Infrastructure" argument being put forward by the government is bullshit. www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

Is that a lot? That sounds like a lot.

OpenAI is an evil corporation. The reports about suicides (plural!) related to ChatGPT are absolutely harrowing.

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