The responses to the @dublininquirer.com survay, which indicates that serious crime in Dublin City Centre may not be as bad as it is hyped up to be, make me even more sure that those who spread fear about the city centre are mainly people who visit it less than I do (I live in Mayo).

“Do you think Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza?” That question, which the EU spokeswoman declined to answer, gets journalist Gabriele Nunziati fired.

I'm a bit of a nerd about this - but it's hard to quantify just how popular Local Link buses have been in 'rural Ireland' - new one will link villages from Cork to Kerry that haven't had a bus service since the 1960s... www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

Just read the US venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale's VERY long blog on bringing back the 'aristoi' - by which I think he's suggesting that billionaires like him should be handed the reins of power ... because democracy is stopping a new gilded age. Such jumbled garbage that I had to read it twice.

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

Just pausing for a moment on 'you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID" like wow free country, gotta show your papers to get fucking cereal

Watch how Irish political parties try to pivot and capture the Mamdani social media “magic” while studiously ignoring the underlying policies that made his campaign so appealing to voters

🗣️ "One in every five workers were not born in this country. Migration, to the greatest extent, has been here to serve the economy.” - Special Correspondent, Irish Examiner Mick Clifford #TonightVMTV

Nearly all of the #Gaza Strip’s residents have been displaced. Following the start of the ceasefire, many families tried to return to their homes, most to find only rubble. According to the United Nations Satellite Centre, around 81% of all structures in Gaza are damaged.

Perhaps, and this is just a suggestion, don't participate in the transphobic hate site that encourages bigotry. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/05/o...

Had to share this from twitter just because

April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed. November: Housing crisis here until 2040.

79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords. This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.

If you're wondering why a load of Irish people are freaking out over the new NYC Mayor, it's because they follow these kinds of accounts and "news" sources:

Moody moon.

There's a conspiracy theory that the person who set fire to the Ipas centre was a resident because he was "in his socks" but the video shows them wearing runners with white soles. It's desperate this has to be debunked but someone even posted this to Facebook to try to help the idiots understand:

Mattie McGrath now says supporting Martin and his govt was a mistake. interestingly, in the interview, he says he was promised access to ministers, but when Fran Curry asks if he got the access, Mattie doesn't answer, he just says the govt's own TDs say they don't get access

Not banning disposables shows a real lack of care for children, the environment and risk of fires at recycling plants etc

Freedom of speech isn't that when you don't have the freedom to criticise (aka "shut down debate") when a leader says something so reckless -- key context missing in this article is that Harris made his comments not in general terms but to a question re rioters attacking Gardai and an Ipas centre.

Transport de cadre (untranslatable pun)

I mean 765,000 isn't even nearly a million...

Just in

Dublin is in the process of leapfrogging Copenhagen in terms of removing the dominance of traffic in its city centre, while the Danish capital is sitting on its arse obsessing over the idea of new motorway tunnels to remove traffic. Dublin already has nothing comparable to H. C. Andersens Blvd...

I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think

The amount of idiots/bots on Facebook claiming it was (1) just an accident, or caused by (2) an electrical issue, (3) residents cooking, and/or (4) residents burning rubbish is unreal to start with but even moreso shitty given this...

FF and FG members need to ask if their leaders are up to the job but they also need to look at the UK, US or the Netherlands etc to see that being sympathetic to the far right doesn't work out well for centre-right parties:

Avant / Après la piste cyclable protégée sur le Pont de Verdun à Longeville-les-Metz en Moselle. Elle a été réalisée en 2022.

Were they from Cork, like?

Meanwhile a growing chuck of polictal and media commentators in Ireland are focused on crushing wokeness and/or are blaming refugees migrants generally for our problems:

If you cannot see children trick-or-treating, maybe consider not driving tonight?

Witches, monsters and ghouls: On your bike for the IBikeBoo cycle in Dublin City Centre tonight Tonight's IBikeBop music-filled critical mass cycle around Dublin City Centre is the group's annual IBikeBoo -- the normal route around the city with a Halloween twist. The IBikeBoo cycle is being…

This is by far the most brilliant take down of the Gates memo that I’ve read. It utterly dismantles the false choice between poverty alleviation and climate mitigation that Gates advances — and not even just by saying “climate makes poverty worse.” I won’t spoil it here — you must read it!

Happy #Halloween from Ireland where a carved turnip started a craze. We celebrate ‘Samhain’ from sunset as an ancient Celtic tradition to mark the end of harvest and beginning of winter. Plaster replica of carved turnip in National Museum of Ireland - Country Life #samhain @nmireland.bsky.social

In an incredible turnaround, D66 - the Liberal Democrats' Dutch sister party - look to have won the election. Rob Jetten will get the first go at forming a governing coalition. If successful, he'll become both the youngest and the first openly gay Prime Minister in Dutch history.

Phew... the point where you're about to say go ahead and pay Revenue and then think there's a conflict with cashflow with paying for website hosting, and then you realise your annual hosting renewal was moved to a different month... anyway, taxes paid or they should be soon... 😅

Oh, wow, this is Claire Byrne's last show and she let they go... The rioters were trying to attack refugees in Citywest, and, when blocked, they flung bottles and bricks en masse at Gardai. These are thugs. They don't speak for most Irish people. They should not be influencing Govt policy.

The Friday panel on Today with Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio is unreal. When Govt and others react to rioters who were trying to attack refugees and instead fling bottles and bricks on mass at Gardai, there should be questions about why Govt is giving in to violence.

Fake a moon landing... ON THE MOON? youtu.be/P6MOnehCOUw?...

The horror!

Transphobia harms all women, part 4,586

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Watch this space -- FG and SF in Government with each other...

This is a strange way to react when asked about a policy in light of a riot by a mob looking for blood which attacked Gardaí with bottles and bricks... www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Just looking back on photos of Utrecht and the beauty of the Dom Tower after the scaffolding was removed... I know it's been removed for a while but since 2015, I've been on more trips to Utrecht with the scaffolding in place than not...

There's another argument against the deposit return scheme gone...

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

Would love to be as oblivious to the world as those who scroll on their phone in public with the sound on and no headphones.