Some great details from this latest @tommygreene.bsky.social piece on the Dalradian gold mine inquiry in Tyrone www.thedetail.tv/articles/roy...

The Dillon case is available at the following link. It effectively reduces the Windsor Framework's rights and equality protections, as litigable measures, to the Six Annex 1 Directives. Any broader UK Government pledges are just ashes in the mouth: supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since the CPJ began documenting them in 1992.

stats for Irish politics watchers: applications from students in the south/RoI to study for their undergraduate degree at Queen's in the north/NI have steadily climbed from 1,279 in 2021 to 2,275 in 2025. This year, that figure is looking to be another *40% higher*...

Government plans to cap legal fees in planning and environmental cases were opposed by 98 percent of more than 1,400 respondents to a public consultation. A review of responses said changes could weaken “fundamental legal safeguards” for taking cases: www.thestory.ie/2026/04/21/p...

Closed doors and open questions: inside week one of the Sperrins mine inquiry Here's my wrap of week one of the Omagh goldmine inquiry as week two set to commence at Strule Arts Centre this morning. I'll be reporting for @thedetailtv.bsky.social again this week open.substack.com/pub/thedetai...

Carol Nolan now speaking under 'Other Members' Questions' - the contentious modern-day creation to give speaing time to TDs who are ostensibly government supporters. Nolan yesterday voted no confidence in the government.

Latest from the Omagh goldmine inquiry - cyanide still referenced in the planning application. I'll be writing on the issue for investigative and long-form journalism outlet @thedetailtv.bsky.social this week. Read all about the proceedings here.. www.thedetail.tv/articles/cya...

"The result of the election is clear and painful" Orban concedes defeat in Hungarian election (BBC). www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Speaking of, please enjoy this deranged AI slop 1916 banner from the blockade that just gets worse and worse the more you look at it

The paid ads promoting the #IrishFuelProtests blocking Irish ports and streets are being funded by a tow truck company At least the one we could find is; we can't know who else is putting money behind this because Meta "banned" ie. hides, political ads www.thebriefing.ie/who-is-fundi...

What's interesting as a long-term Brexit-watcher is the distinct lack of outcry from Eurosceptic voices over Labour calling for "closer ties" to Europe. Essentially rowing back on the "hard" we-make-the-rules deal of Johnson and May and admitting we need economic integration.

Something else very fucked up about the whole Grok story in retrospect, as relates to Ireland at least, is that the government's approach was to stick their fingers in their ears and hope people would stop caring and... it kind of worked?

Britain is sliding into a really, really dark place We seem to look at the US with a ‘could never happen here’ attitude, meantime long accepted tenets of life in a liberal democracy are thrown out in real time Needs concerted pushback now

To celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day, we explored the story behind the Saint Patrick for Ireland mosaic in Central Lobby 👇

Because it's nearly St Patrick's Day, wrote about the Irish guy involved in the bitcoin outfit Nigel Farage has invested in www.businesspost.ie/companies/ir...

Montenegro’s president Jakov Milatović says his country helps to conclude EU accession this year - and expresses a wish to “replace the Brits” at the Council table. Yes, those were his actual words.

This is a beautifully, carefully written piece of journalism

The Home Office is using facial recognition technology to locate people within their “Population of Interest.” Thousands of passengers travelling from Dublin to Holyhead will be scanned by controversial technology this week as part of a trial, raising surveillance and discrimination concerns

🚨 Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received £150,000+ from Labour think tank Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation' New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... 🧵

I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

How much land and power would it take to decarbonise Dublin Airport? Check out our new RTE Brainstorm article: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

It's too on the nose that one of the judges in the Palestine Action decision is called Jonathan Swift

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

Taoiseach Martin said Kenova "sheds essential light on the harrowing pain and loss caused to individuals, to their families, and through the systematic exercise of terror, to communities at large by the Provisional IRA...It shows the complicity of British state forces in allowing this to happen.”

The Taoiseach has named former IRA man Freddie Scapaticci as the British informant 'Stakeknife'. Micheál Martin was speaking during Dáil statements on the Report of Operation Kenova, in which he called on UK authorities to formally confirm Scapatticci as the informant. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Oh well! To host the last game, the Irish gov spent €4.2m on a licence fee to the NFL, and another €5m on infrastructure and “operational costs”. DCC spent €350,000. Imagine if that money was spent on local sporting initiatives? A lot of kids in Dublin City don’t even have a pitch to play on.

Seeing Irish media prominently and in detail covering Andy Burnham and NEC shenanigans is just kind of unreal. Obviously we follow UK politics so much more closely, but it’s kind of like opening the BBC or the Times and expecting a story about Jim O’Callaghan on manoeuvres or something

Dublin City Council CEO Richard Shakespeare says "I have now taken the decision to suspend all posting by the City Council on the X.com platform. This applies to all City Council X accounts and will be actioned with immediate effect."

Peace in Gaza - Israel killed three journalists there yesterday, plus two children and six other people

Burnham becoming a figure of fear for the bond markets was not on my bingo card for 2026

This closing line gets to the heart of the Trump project – a magnified, everyday evil that is only unique due to its scale.

Banning X would not 'betray free speech', just as breaking up or closing down corporate giants that seriously violate competition or criminal law would not 'betray commerce' (for anyone reading an Irish Times opinion piece today who might be unsure)

But there's more As I wrote at the time, NESO said net-zero "Holistic Transition" was the "cheapest option", once you take account of the economic damages from CO2 adding to climate change It said a fossil energy system is only “cheaper” if we “ignore” carbon costs www.carbonbrief.org/... 9/10

“Government ministers cannot be making policy announcements in a space that hosts AI-generated, near-naked pictures of young girls. Journalists cannot share their work in a place that systematically promotes white supremacy.” This x 1,000

Statement from the UK Technology Secretary, whose most recent post on Twitter was 9:10am yesterday

🚨 AI Minister Niamh Smyth says it isn't appropriate for the Government to maintain a presence on X and will speak to the Taoiseach on the matter. Says the European Commission should immediately suspend Grok while investigations are continuing. More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social

X using Grok to produce CSAM by request through its platform is no different to someone taking indecent photos of children by request through a forum or by email In the latter, we would never say 'it's the user breaking the law, not the person taking the photos' - why would it be different for X?

the day today tier paragraph

Meanwhile, MEP Billy Kelleher says the powers exist right now to temporarily suspend Grok while the Commission investigates. "Our political leaders must grasp this issue once and for all. We have the power to act but it seems we don’t have the bravery to act."

Heard someone say recently - before the most recent grimness - that they knew X was terrible, but would miss the craic on it. No idea what reason you could give now

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As I said recently in The Guardian: "Despite their hopes to the contrary, anti-trans campaigners have not won the hearts and minds they believed the Supreme Court would give them" So they turn to this; desperate, fascistic calls for the destruction of those they hate (framed as ideas, not people).

Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers may die without Lammy’s intervention, lawyers say

OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉 In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊

So one of the most viral British aggregators @PolitlcsUK (the second “i” is an L) is actually run by a former Tory MP turned lobbyist and Andrew Rosindell’s office manager? And they interview Rosindell? Such a great era.