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.

Many thanks to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, for their inspiration for my UK Budget analysis www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

A postscript of sorts to Dick Spring's comments last weeks, but asked him today at an event for his reaction to Ivana Bacik's call for a timeline on a border poll: "I think I might be meeting her next week. I think I might have a few things to say to her." www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I know Morgan McSweeney has Fine Gael connections. But all the No10 briefing and talk of a leadership challenge giving off very Fianna Fáil energy

Very fun, as ever, to be invited to chat to @thejournal.ie and @laurenboland.bsky.social about the crisis at the BBC www.thejournal.ie/podcasts/66f...

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

Richard Boyd Barrett returned to the Dáil today after completing treatment for throat cancer, receiving a standing ovation from TDs across the chamber. He used his first speech back to call for urgent investment in cancer services. jrnl.ie/6865492

“Bureaucracy has a purpose” (re Collison) “I'm always very conscious that it's easy to sit outside & look in & say everybody's doing it wrong. "Most of those organisations are focused in the right places to deliver infrastructure for the benefit of people” www.businesspost.ie/companies/bu...

Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Irish Supreme Court contraception case www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Completely normal website legitimised on the daily by politicos, hacks and people willing to turn a blind eye to what it is, and what its owner uses it for.

Stuns me that anyone can look at all the problems facing Ireland and think “y’know what’d improve things, first past the post” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

J.M. Kelly, original author of the keading Irish constitutional law textbook and later Fine Gael Minister and Attorney General, advocating an active presidency in 1966.

A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Breaking: Soldier F found not guilty of Bloody Sunday murder charges www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ireland disinformation update: Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”

This is the most interesting thing I've read in days on the presidential campaign

Journalist Ed Moloney has died aged 77, his family has said. He was known for his coverage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the activities of the Provisional IRA

“There’ll be a lot of significant work in respect of it” There was, in fact, not much work in respect of it

Sampling the election vibes

"As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day."

"At least nine Irish citizens have been detained by the Israeli military after an international flotilla trying to deliver medicine and food to Gaza was intercepted overnight, organisers have said." www.independent.ie/world-news/m...

A mad little story of brazen food PR nonsense, and a wider indictment of media context collapse in Ireland and everywhere else. Excellent work by @allthefood.bsky.social

❌ Offaly County Council DOES NOT nominate Gareth Sheridan for #aras25. An FG/FF-led proposal to back no candidates is carried by 11 to 5. That all but ends the 36-year-old’s presidential aspirations. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Would recommend reading some of the beautiful tributes to Conor Gearty on Matrix chambers' website. Really capture what an incredible person he was. www.online-tribute.com/ProfessorCon...

Just some sail+rail propaganda of a Sunday

It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL. Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is. www.aena.es/en/press/sta...

may as well pack it in UK. you're done

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Feels a bit odd to write a piece warning of musicians being silenced for political reasons, without mentioning the UK's current and ongoing prosecution of Kneecap. Odder still when your example is a Russian soprano who's working happily for the Royal Opera House and merely been subject to criticism.

Significant intervention from some of NI's leading civil society groups working on rights and peacebuilding in response to today's Policy Exchange report claiming that the GFA does not restrict the UK's from withdrawing from the ECHR and on the importance of the ECHR for NI:

We cannot stand by and watch more and more of our Palestinian colleagues being targeted and killed for doing their job. Without journalism, there is no accountability. We stand in solidarity with media organisation across the world in demanding interactional action for these atrocities in Gaza.

In joint letter after Israel double-bombed a hospital and killed their journalists, Reuters and AP question “whether Israel is deliberately targeting live feeds in order to suppress information”. The second strike hit “while journalists and rescuers were responding” reutersagency.com/media-centre...