Well I certainly didn't expect solar output record to be broken on September Equinox in Ireland!

No. It's the election for the Head of State. The person should be known and have experience already. Getting 20 Oireachtas members or 4 local authorities isn't a stretch for anyone who should have the experience and knowledge to take on the role of Uachtarán na hÉireann. #Spéirghorm

Mothers of autistic children have a hard job. It’s unspeakably evil to tell them “Your child is autistic because you took paracetamol”, especially when it’s blatantly not true. These people are monsters.

Some people argue that 'the British Isles' isn't political and we shouldn't be bothered by it, which is why they're invariably so open to my suggestion that we should switch to 'the Irish Isles' for the next few hundred years while we work out a solution.

Report finds that 10 yrs after the Paris Agreement, govts plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C,... www.sei.org/publications...

The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

To jog people's memories, this person, talking about European "natives" & very anti-immigrant on X, claimed to be from Thailand & said it was running for election in 2016, but dropped out last minute, never accepted interviews, no one knows what was going on.

The massive success of the 20+ play streets across Dublin today will be entirely missed by the naysayers precisely because they only impact (positively) the people who live on the streets concerned - and no one else!!

Dublin City Council reaffirms plan for traffic-free College Green and east end of Dame Street irishcycle.com/2025/09/21/d...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Can't work out from this piece whether it's the coke, the fraud or the kicking of a police officer in the head that Liz thinks he's been unfairly demonised for. So I'll presume it's all of it.

Ok, I admit it. At 42 I'm the last in my family who needs glasses.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

In functional democracies, you shouldn't see high-profile commentators call for candidates to be arrested for just protesting:

If you're an IDF soldier who has murdered Palestinian children you're allowed to enter Canada on vacation. If you're a musician who opposes genocide you're banned

The flex post always inspiring confidence.

Carr’s most pronounced quality is his total fealty to Donald Trump — and he’s been busy weaponizing the FCC for the cause.

Was expecting people would be say this, I just got the candidate wrong...

PR-SPD

These are hardly unrelated facts -- "Census figures, though, show more households than ever in the city have at least one car that they need to store. The percentage of carless households in Dublin city fell from about 34 percent in 2016 to 31 percent in 2022." www.dublininquirer.com/with-new-hou...

That’s 3 cyclists dead in one week. 😲😔 And our government continues to roll back on meaningful road safety measures like implementing a 30kph limit in urban zones, or using technology, all because it might upset some drivers. It’s a national disgrace.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

How long are they going to keep this up?

This is why we need zebras everywhere:

"Joking" of murdering reckless e-scooter, e-bike users was "wrong choice of words", says Mayor of Tralee irishcycle.com/2025/09/15/j...

“How’s IrishCycle.com going?” Honest answer: It needs to be better sooner rather than later -- IrishCycle.com was funded by as low as 0.05% of total readers last year. -- The open-access, reader-funded model only needs a low percentage of readers.-- But your help is needed to make it slightly…

Trump said in July that he wanted Kimmel fired next. July. Kirk was still alive in July. This has nothing to do with Kirk. Nothing.

This is why they’re deleting studies

This is some questioning:

This is an unusually good cross for one of these committees. Short, targeted questions, marches him to a place where he doesn’t want to be and where he blows up, and then the question at the end which I’m reasonably certain will be held for future use.

Limerick residents "shocked" at contraflow cycling sign but council and campaigners say it safer than forcing people onto busy main road irishcycle.com/2025/09/14/l...

A large bundle of experts and groups have determined that the Israeli government is committing Genocide... so, how are any of is ministers not extremists?

Lots of right-wingers are going to be very mad about this article that just extensively quotes nearly every horrific thing Charlie Kirk has said. It's absolutely wild that simply calling a hate monger a hate monger is something bold and courageous.

I was thinking a day or so ago that the NY Times Pitchbot must be struggling to keep up these days...

“Ten years after Dieselgate, carmakers are again trying to pass off their vehicles as cleaner than they actually are — but this time they want lawmakers to make the practice legal" cleantechnica.com/2025/09/16/o...

Heat deaths. Let that sink in. This should be a wake-up call. It's the job of govts across the world to keep their citizens safe. Instead, from continuing oil and gas drilling to dragging their feet on making our homes and workplaces safe from extreme weather, they're failing.

Some prepaid commuters on Dublin’s public transport are finding they have to pay again www.dublininquirer.com/some-prepaid...

You don't have to read the full thing to get a sense of it, but given that I wrote it as a long read, I hope somebody reads it all. I hope it gives insight into how some local area meetings spend their time, and why the council then takes longer than you'd expect to install zebras/cycle routes etc

The Justice Department has removed a study from its website which found that "the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”, CNN reports.

For those who won't reach the end... Cllr Flynn added: "With all due respect, gentlemen, if this were your neighbourhood and all of a sudden there were two pedestrian crossings being sucked down the end without your consent...” The council adding zebra crossings to neighbourhoods? The horror!

Up to 37% actions for 2025 in Govt's Sustainable Mobility Policy are delayed or at risk of delay irishcycle.com/2025/09/10/u...

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

How long before they start to talk about closing Bluesky?

how it feels to post a joke on here

Today marks exactly 140 years since the first cycle path in the Netherlands was constructed on the Maliebaan in Utrecht. At the time, only those who had signed the request for its construction were allowed to use it. It wasn't until two years later that everyone was allowed to cycle on it.

Darker days ahead...

@conorpope.bsky.social there's a higher chance than you might think that these are the same three people...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

I wish I could say that I cannot wait to see how Irish fans of free speech and those who dislike cancel culture react to this but they have already twisted who Kirk was, so, I doubt if they'll see the light on this...