These books are all absolutely woke trash and they're on deep discount now.

You have to wonder if Costa has been taken hostage by Micheál and Simon to come out with nonsense like this. Maybe ask Max Schrems how much store Ireland places in international rules. www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...

the Grauniad seems to be now engaging in press release journalism, where the press releases are from (checks notes) gambling machine companies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How very Irish Times to illustrate their article with a picture of the wrong courthouse. This is the Washington St Courthouse, where Family and Civil Law matters are dealt with. Criminal cases, OTOH, are dealt with over in Anglesea St., as they have been for the last EIGHT YEARS

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We have reached maximum Guardian. I repeat, we have achieved maximum Guardian.

Public procurement is pretty much a racket, a continuing series. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Terror acts orchestrated and carried out by the proscribed UDA & UVF. No COBRA meeting and a whitewashing of terror involvement because the North of Ireland isn’t seen as somewhere deserving safety, never mind human & civil rights. Paramilitary groups are still celebrating their pogrom operation.

FF and FG have placed too much emphasis on individuals making changes to improve emissions, while dawdling on large scale projects. We now have less offshore wind energy production than we did 20 years ago. It's time we stop going backwards, and fast track the country's reduction in emissions.

The voluble incompetence and inadequacy of this man to any public office is simply staggering.

The Government is refusing to provide funding for maintaining greenways and active travel routes.

This is nearly Cork Examiner levels of county pride. www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/cocaine...

Are you a 15th century king? Do you want to show that you’re down with this humanism stuff that your scholars keep talking about, but you’re also terrified of your own people & the damn French? Ask your architect if Fancy Renaissance Gate Sandwiched Between Existing Medieval Towers is right for you.

Counterpoint... Aeon Magazine's owner is hopelessly enmeshed in the AI Bullshit ecosystem.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: dog days "dog days" is one of my favourite english phrases, and personally i prefer it to its hungarian equivalent "kánikula" ultimately they both come from ancient rome ("canicula") where a period of extreme heat was associated with the rising of the dog star, sirius

The Irish criminal justice system has been essentially shut down for a week, and the Minister hasn't said a word about it. The only time he's come out of hiding is to say that he thinks we shouldn't decriminalise drugs. He's a strange man.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Not the first time this week that Reports are being edited by the FFG regime before being published. Certainly not the last.

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

I love Tasha's writing and cannot wait to read this book!

A decade or so from now, Joe Biden's long-awaited second term will see him finally pull the last U.S. forces out of the Reflecting Pool. they suffer heavy casualties.

Unlikely as it seems, a magazine called Liberal Currents has published the best U.K. writing on why and how Starmer failed. He failed because he was *a very bad PM*. www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

If you think Keir Starmer is a 'decent' person, you need to speak to the many, many minorities his government has targeted mercilessly. You can't speak to all of them, however, because many of them are dead because of choices Keir Starmer's government made

a man who looked at a sweeping mandate to bundle up everything the Tories stood for and dump it in the dustbin in favor of a new direction and said "I'm going to Tory harder than ANYONE HAS EVER TORIED, that'll win over those Mosely-types that keep defecting to Reform"

This article is a good take down of his career www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Don't want to be picky, but isn't the Pope "America's most powerful Catholic" being as he is both American and - how to put it? - the actual Pope? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Donald Trump is an actual miracle worker cos if you'd previously told me that one day - even if only very temporarily and in very specific contexts - I'd be rooting for Giorgia fucking Meloni and the fucking Iranian Revolutionary Guard, I'd have had you taken into care

Reprinting the press releases of industry lobbyists has gotta be the lowest form of "journalism"

Either masterful trolling or an astonishing coincidence for the French to arrange for a humiliating instrument of surrender to be signed at Versailles.

Kiddo asked for his sandwiches to be cut into triangles. He did not specify that they had to be congruent.

Finally legislation to get rid of the three day waiting period has passed, despite a majority of Fianna Fáil and a lot of Fine Gael TDs voting against. This "wait" was patronising and dangerous and resulted in some women being forced to travel to Britain to access abortion.

Cork solicitors will be walking out of the criminal courts on Monday coming, with the withdrawal of services to last indefinitely. If Big Jim thinks the profession will blink first, he's going to have some land, as we say in the Rebel County.

I dunno, personally I think it is good when the imperial power who started a war of aggression is humbled and forced to accept humiliating terms. Its not even like these terms are particularly crippling. It's just that people think it is too embarassing for the US to take (another) much deserved L.

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

amazing

Love all the USians in the comments pretending that tailgating is some sort of unique cultural invention of theirs, and ignoring their colossal drunk driving related death count.

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For the Irish government to be announcing this, in the midst of everything going on in NI, really shows that there's not much distance between the LVF and FFG. These people are integrated into local society, workers in local business. Kids in local schools. www.thejournal.ie/ukraine-irel...

Leader of an all-island Nationalist party going "the loyalist gang members have a point when it comes to matters of race", like can we just stop pretending these people are worth listening to

The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist thugs is particularly weird, given that they sign their work! The LVF spray tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, migrants or refugees. They've done this for decades!

As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant. I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

The wall of silence around Claudia Sheinbaum in the US & particularly US-Jewish press is astounding: you wouldn’t know by reading the NYT or FWD that she is perhaps the most popular leader in the world, not only but not least bc she is clear about US imperialism & Israeli genocide

Here we gooooo.

Meanwhile, pensioners who sat on pavements holding Palestine Action placards are being prosecuted under the Terrorism Act.

Important to remember:- Centrists are always reactionary. Centrists always ally themselves with the right. Centrists will sit there and cheer on the fash until the minute those brownshirts turn up at their own door.