Aston. Villa. Football. Club.

Taoiseach and Ministers cancel a trade mission to Canada due to fuel protests. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

The problems with a protest like this from a tactical level are: - With no clear structure or demands, the Government isn't going to meet a group of independent hauliers/farmers - If your opening move is to block streets/fuel depots, you don't really have another move

Absolutely insane that anyone is arguing against professional footballers practicing penalties ahead of knockout games. I played kicker in the lowest level of American football imaginable, but I obsessively practiced so that when there was pressure, you had faith in your mechanics.

That is a disgusting, intentional foul on Szmodics that has been coming in football for too long. Sees the guy in the air, sizes him up, never looks at the ball and hits him.

Started in the Irish Examiner 6 years ago today. Glad the weekend followed that six-year trend of being calm and precedented.

Can't wait for the read pieces on what Bad Bunny means for Trump or something.

What the hell dictionary does the NYT Crossplay use?

Today's column is more personal than usual and is one of my strongest beliefs: the conversation about mental health has to evolve to the same place as the health system. It can't be about mental wellness if there are staffing and access issues. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

The Cabinet's St Patrick's Day destinations are to be announced shortly. One spoiler: Taoiseach is going to Washington.

Of course, Ireland is exposed to the whims of the US president, but at what point does one ask the glaring question; is an ally that you have to allow do whatever they want for fear of retribution an ally at all? www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

When you read it like this, I think Trump could be turned away from Greenland simply by showing him a Peters Projection map.

Not great, this.

"I talk to hundreds of families all the time online, and they have, especially in the countryside, they have kids getting on buses in Cork and going to schools in Kerry." www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Only in rugby could a ref ignore a shoulder to the chest off the ball, then stop the game because players are shouting for decisions and be praised by the commentators.

Munster absolutely robbed, there.

Long read from myself and Alison O'Reilly in today's paper on those spending Christmas in emergency accommodation.

I have a Black Friday deal going on right now where you can get a year of TRK for 40% off. So the supersub tier for €25. Three podcasts and three in-depth articles a week, plus access to the TRK Discord.

Singing Sweet Caroline down 11 with 8 minutes left. Rugby does not help itself at times.

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/

My own take on this and the De Blasio/Mamdani story is that deletions are nowhere near good enough. The link has to go to an explanation. It's actively harmful to our own cause as media to pretend we don't get things wrong. We cannot talking about misinformation and not hold ourselves accountable.

This is great and all, but I live *in* Dublin, on a train line and can't get a train on the weekends.

Lazy, lethargic, disorganised, ill-disciplined, scared, non-dimensional, can't defend set pieces, can't attack from them. The absolute nadir. Sack him before he hits the dressing room. #COYBIG

Cork.

Reuben Hahahahahahahamorim

All the talk of VAR improvements and it's taken 13 minutes for them to drop an absolutely outrageous mistake, lol.

Controversial senator Sharon Keogan helping presidential candidate Gareth Sheridan get councils' support www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Gonna try and be as fair as possible here. Journalists are not prosecutors and the bar for what we say or print is not as high. But. If one side admits knowingly killing 5 journalists but says that one was terrorist, if you carry those words they have to be caveated with "without offering proof".

Once again home from Croker and gutted. But this time, in a completely different way, thanks sport!

The latest spate of attacks on Indian people is simply the outworking of a renormalisation of racism within our public discourse.

Home from Croker. Gutted, gobsmacked. Still no idea what I witnessed second half. Tipp absolutely flawless for 35 minutes. Literally not a misplaced pass or ball at least spoiled if not won. Cork absolutely frozen. A breakdown of tactics and basic execution in the face of Tipp's swarming.

Generally a big fan of the new football rules, but the hooter is awful. Meath v Galway was an incredible game that was decided by waiting to take a free until it was about to blow.

I'm nearly 40, so even though I still play American football, the most taxing thing I can do to my body is stand for a full gig.

Hurling, what? Bloody hell.

It will surprise you to learn that the ticketing for the NFL game in Ireland has been a shambles. I got allocated position 5,919 in the queue at midday. I'm not at 543 with an estimated wait of 40 minutes and rumours that pretty much all of the tickets below €225 are gone.

I love Cork. I love hurling. I love Cork hurling.

"X is racist. The only thing up for debate is whether this is a feature or a bug for those in charge," writes Charlie Warzel.

People have no idea how to be at gigs anymore. Game's gone.

One of the coolest* things about X is how when a major tragedy happens, blue tick accounts scrape videos to upload as their own because the algorithm pushes them to the top of your newsfeed and then they get paid for impressions. *most inescapably grim

The Irish Examiner front page today.

Aston Villa Football Club.

Third goal a kick in the stomach. Probably game over, but we just have to go for it next week. #AVFC

Pro tip: if a person with a blue tick on Twitter is being awful and you're spending time arguing with them, they're making money off your time and effort.

Nearly one in five TDs is a landlord, while one junior minister is part of a singing trio. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

A Brief History of Speaking Time – what is Govt Hawking & why isn’t Opposition buying? What new insights did the Dáil get on health and housing? And Volodymyr’s visit to Shannon – what happened at the Zelensky stopover? Martin Kenny, Maeve O’Connell, @padraigrice.bsky.social @hosford.bsky.social

Been at two gigs in the last week and it seems it falls to me to make this PSA: The reason you have to shout to have your conversation above the music is because you shouldn't be having a conversation above the music.

Former Arts Minister Catherine Martin breaks silence on IT spending scandal www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

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