great footnote in this decision on Gemma O'Doherty's motion to dismiss Jimmy Guerin's defamation suit against her www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco...

it is obviously problematic how many civil society groups rely on state funding to operate, but I'm so sick of the astroturfed "anti-establishment" right in this country painting organisations that receive public money as suspicious while they keep their own private sources of funding totally secret

I'm not sure how training with US Special Forces is meant to benefit the Army Rangers, unless they're looking for tips on trafficking drugs, covering up rapes and running death squads

John McGuirk would have you think calling the Women's Coalition on Immigration "fringe" is some kind of egregious slur, but when he has to actually deal with one of their founding members, he can barely hold back his contempt for her conspiracist nonsense

Hazbin Hotel is a TV show by and for hypersincere pansexual tumblr fanfic girlies who love children's cartoons and musicals because they were a bright spot in their emotionally difficult childhood (complimentary)

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

I'm so mad CRIMEWORLD is a website for pickling yer da's brain and not a Jet Li movie

So much so in Ireland that the Sunday World rebranded to CRIMEWORLD

Aramark is an international conglomerate operating in more than a dozen countries it caters workplace canteens, colleges, prisons, and most relevantly here, hospitals headlining and leading this story with its IRRELEVANT direct provision contracts is cheap, inflammatory pandering to reactionaries

anyway, I personally have long thought that left parties should run social welfare clinics specifically to help people navigate the system and make sure their constituents can access all the benefits to which they are entitled

There's a lot of talk about the effect that social media has on young people (some of it rightly, tbf) but there is comparatively less on the effect it has on adults and I think "fear of crime" is a big one. True crime podcasts, "danger tourism" to like, London. It's cooking people's brains!

Oh so we can hit the brakes on the rollout of tasers to Gardaí then, right? Right??

as a general rule, unclaimed and underclaimed social welfare benefits consistently outweigh the amount of fraudulently claimed social welfare benefits, yet the idea of a political party running on getting more welfare claimed – which would reduce poverty – is unthinkable

Begging the Irish media to stop reporting on every move of the Burke and giving them attention

Puberty blockers killed no-one and the UK rushed through emergency legislation because of the 'danger'. Yet, somehow, neither the AI nor the misogyny here constitutes an 'emergency'

Hello, this is the Department of Television, so sorry to announce that we have invoked the “Hallelujah rule”and will no longer be issuing permits for the soundtrack use of “Dreams” by the Cranberries. Last sanctioned use was Derry Girls, please make alternative arrangements

even if you put aside everything toxic about rowling, it can't be overstated: the harry potter movies starred basically every great english actor currently living, and the new series, to put it politely, does not

to me, Michael McDowell will only ever be one thing, and that's the architect of the 27th amendment, the most malignant wound that Ireland has inflicted on itself this century

my pope is so cool

Something funny about Seanad members calling for a cap on TDs.

"Its discovery last September" here refers to when I contacted the Courts Service about it and reported on it. But of course, no mention of our reporting in the Examiner piece.

A reminder that the bill currently going through the Oireachtas here to implement the European migration pact includes for the first time the provision to detain children seeking asylum.

Máiread McGuiness tried to give the religious lobby special privileges in the EU when she was vice-president of the European Parliament she should be nowhere near a role on "religious freedom" www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/reve...

his headline point is fine, but read on and it quickly becomes clear that Cathal Crowe, who is the chair of the education committee, thinks the point of museums is exhibition, rather than preservation, and that it is a waste to not have as many as possible on display at all times

This story does not just reveal the lack of transparency in our national media, it challenges the familiar line from prominent commentators that we need a 'serious' debate about defence and security. 1/3 www.ontheditch.com/daniel-mccon...

to r/micropenis—Just Saw An Edward (guy with normal penis size) Fuck Up Trying To Flatten A Cardboard Box By The Dumpster...They Are So Lost

I'm afraid if you're a writer in your 30s or 40s posting a blog about what Lindy West's marriage says about gender today you don't get to say it's an autopsy of millennial feminism. You ARE millennial feminism!

I feel like it's worth reiterating this analysis as people continue to engage in reckless speculation about Jeffrey Epstein that is disconnected from what we actually know about his life and crimes and obscures the systems of power in which he was able to operate leftinthelurch.net/2026/02/01/a...

I feel like a lot of online queer discourse is rooted in an idea that people are kinder to those who are suffering, so therefore you need to convince others that you are suffering in order to be treated better, and I cannot emphasize enough how much my life experience suggests that is not the case.

aside from all the more important reasons not to watch this, why is every aspect of it designed to look as much like the films as possible. why not use a different font. or another shade of red

the latest season of Dark Winds is so good. I was skeptical about the case taking them to LA, but it's been a blast

A controversial pro-Israel lobbying group made an “urgent suggestion” to Micheál Martin’s department about lines to include in a speech he gave – and the taoiseach complied. The Claims Conference said, “We realize that this is very short notice." www.ontheditch.com/micheal-mart...

Took two hours of the DOJ being hit over the head with a sock full of coins, mind you. Everyone including the Construction Industry Federation appalled at the idea of JR in the Circus. McDowell genuinely laughed at the idea.

Department of Justice has just told the Oireachtas Justice Committee that the proposal to send immigration Judicial Review to the Circuit Court will be removed from the Civil Reform Bill.

I was not aware that Mel Rodriguez had lost weight and I definitely did not expect him to look like every member of the Salamanca family combined into one

FFG's dogmatic opposition to the existence of any public housing whatsoever remains unmatched in its suicidal yearning for Ireland to be a worse place for as many people as possible

Generally for your blackmail scheme to work you need the material to be 1. not already public knowledge and 2. actually damaging to the person you're blackmailing

An impassible wrinkle in the 'Israel is blackmailing Trump with the Epstein files' theory is that the worst allegations are already all but confirmed and his support base evidently do not care

If you were wondering where all this empty talk of "cutting red tape" was headed, here is a big signpost... As per usual, SMEs are used as the wedge to open the door for big corporations to profit however they can. Every day in every way, Ireland gets a big more captured by corporate interests.

if only we'd previously had a period of global energy crisis caused by, in this order, a war between Israel and its neighbours, followed a few years later by a destabilising conflict in Iran

in the face of the deterioration of the international rules-based order, the Irish government has made its priorities clear: nothing is, or could be, more important than ensuring businesses can profit from it as easily as possible www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

“We do not publish exhaustive career histories alongside every piece,” said McConnell about an article calling for defence spending – written by a man who works for an arms consultancy that asks, “READY TO COMPETE MORE SERIOUSLY IN THE UK DEFENCE MARKET?” www.ontheditch.com/daniel-mccon...

what doesn't "stand up" here is Daniel McConnell simultaneously asserting that his contributors' "experience is precisely what makes their analysis informed" while defending not disclosing details of that experience to readers surely it should be advertised to inform readers of their credibility?

to me, the defining Bautista story is that when he found out he was cast as Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy, he wept with joy, then immediately booked acting classes. he entered popular cinema with gratitude and humility. he has received his career as a gift The Rock thinks he's the gift, to us

Incredible that there some leftists say there isn’t any antisemitism on the left (or is an issue in Ireland) when a lot of Irish leftists (and leftists in general) are going full Alex Jones in relation to the ambulance attack

get in the ground floor before i write woke pervert 2: radley metzger strikes back, or whatever www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sur...

For an article, @lokapila.bsky.social is looking at the rise of "landlord tech" in Dublin, from apps for building access and "digital butlers" to systems for rental payments and maintenance requests. Have there been recent changes in your building? She'd love to hear from you [email protected]

more directly: you're using the same logic the Israeli state uses to justify slaughtering Palestinians and dispossessing them of their homes

Me: Hello, the power is out on our road. ESB lady: I'm very sorry sir. It's an issue with one of the Transformers. Me *suddenly frightened*: It's not Megatron, is it?