Most countries would aspire to increasing by more than one post per year …

The naval service has been underfunded for decades. Putting what we have to sea with better tech and buying more surveillance aircraft (or drones) is very straightforward short term goal. Yet we have these ridiculous ideas of buying a token squadron of jet fighters.

Sad to hear this. I used tickets.ie for events before and met with the then owner. It was great to see an Irish company go up against the established (almost) monopoly in event ticketing.

“Helps secure” is a telling circumlocution. I, for example, “help secure” the distant grasslands of the Steppes, by constantly not deciding to build a huge Bowling Alley for Giants on them.

This won’t solve the housing problem and comes at a huge cost to both to the environment and at a massive financial cost to the taxpayer. All of those dwellers will want the same services as those living in sustainable communities from sewage to schools.

It seems that the problem of energy prices is being put back on the shoulders of consumers. If only you switched …

We give 1% of all of our earnings to @womensaidireland.bsky.social all year, every year. On bank holiday's, we increase this to 10%. It's a bank holiday imbibe.ie/pages/shop #speirgorm

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

Garda body worn camera and software contract advertised. €150m over 15 years. Good money in surveillance www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/pre...

It has been a feature of the Irish State for the last 100 years that it peruses policies- I mean, it really goes at them hard- without ever stating those policies at the political level. This leaves our political debates weirdly unreal, as they never get to addressing what the state is doing.

This is a long-shot but I'm desperate. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this noise. Residential area D5. I can't locate the source. It's coming from another house somewhere in the area. All day & all night. Varies in intensity. Wakes me up at night. Utterly maddening. 😡

The reality of Prjvate Wires …

Surely he means politicians … they will take no risks particularly if it could go wrong within an electoral cycle.

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

See through local AI lies with Irish eyes

Ask Boris Johnson …

This politician is onC, a known Csam site, because he didn’t want to “cede the ground”.

Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!

This is very welcome news today that the Oireachtas Media Committee has recommended that recommender algorithms be disabled for children and turned off by default for adults. ICCL has long highlighted the dangers of algorithms and campaigned for them to be switched off.

I have no doubt that this is going to be used for disinformation campaigns by certain people trying to undermine the electoral process.

Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter irishcycle.com/2026/05/08/t...

Tax cuts yet there are so many public services requiring investment.

Exclusive footage shows the White House Correspondents Dinner security.

I wonder what the Republic of Ireland pipeline is like?

If you’re in town, Dublin Castle’s Coach House has a truly fantastic exhibition on the 1926 Census on, for free.

The Apple Maps team are in town going down the streets that no cars go as Arcade Fire would say. maps.apple.com/imagecollect...

A private sector company is doing this and just about every other public project. Why are they getting it so wrong all the time?

This is going to end badly somewhere…

ID card anyone)

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

The meta glasses have no socially justifiable purpose to exist. They only exist for Mark Zuckerberg's purposes and they can only sell outside of a novelty capacity to people who want to use them for socially hostile purposes. 5/x

Being a member of a national parliament does require you to ignore your base a lot of the time.

First Irish reporting that I'm aware of on bogus copyright claims to takedown Google results for news stories. Let's hope this Streisands the Rob Heneghan stories - www.irishtimes.com/tags/rob-hen...

Regime change …

Save the date for the 4th Annual Sandymount Bike Week Fun Cycle. Suitable for all ages and abilities. No booking required. See below for a taste of last year's event.

Happy Record Store Day!

The well trod Irish tradition of ignoring the law and then resorting to it with the greatest of energy and detail…

🚨🚨Welcome news: European governments are getting #WhatsApp and #Signal out of their system in a move which is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

The council should look, again, at a London-style system to force companies to use safer trucks in the city, councillors urged. The death of Johnny Santos Xavier De Abreu while cycling in the city recently was a reminder of the risk posed by HGVs, a motion said.

The slippery slope to mandatory ID cards. This will also feed the Garda facial recognition systems.

More than *70* orgs are warning Meta that integrating facial recognition into smart glasses is a terrible, dangerous idea. Five years from now, when the consequences are abundantly clear and prevalent, people will point at this warning (as has happened with Meta and Big Tech, time and time again):

A lot of people are quick to say they *can't* give up Amazon. Okay, don't. Just don't make it your default. That thing you threw in your basket that you can get elsewhere? Get it elsewhere. If everyone still buying from Amazon reduced their spending by 20%, Bezos would be screaming bloody murder

RTÉ reports the protest at Whitegate oil refinery has ended

There's a GoFundMe link for anyone who would like to support the family of Johnny Santos who was killed while cycling in Dublin this week. www.gofundme.com/f/johnny-san...

So this is who Trump was talking to all along …

I am trying to understand why anybody would want an Internet connected coffee machine, kettle or cooker.

Remember there is no free parking in Dublin today. It’s a bank holiday and not a public holiday. A feast day for the clampers.

They are so lucky

As Ireland prepares for its 2026 EU Council Presidency, ISD's new Dispatch looks at how foreign actors targeted Irish political and social issues in 2025—especially on migration and the presidential election.