I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

This is an excellent analysis of the structural issues behind the fuel protests from Conor McCabe www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The videos of Army vehicles on the roads this morning are unrelated to the protests. It's the 128th Infantry Battalion training for Unifil. In fact, the Defence Forces only received a formal request for assistance in the last few minutes. This is despite DOJ saying at 8.30 it had already happened.

The artist's disclaimer, courtesy of William Kentridge

Business Editor Lorcan Roche Kelly warns rising gas prices could trigger a global fertiliser shortage, with costs already surging. Farmers face higher inputs and reduced yields later this year. More on #VMNews

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon over the past week. More up here: www.instagram.com/p/DWPjaZSjUv...

This is the conversation you don’t want to miss. Set your clock ⏰ Monday with Gavan Reilly, tonight at 10pm on Virgin Media One & Virgin Media Play. #MondayGR

“I am not sure that the depth and the consequences of the situation are well understood” - Fatih Birol, IEA chief tells the FT

✨ Some personal news… ✨ A new adventure begins next week. My panel and I break down the news and the news-to-come. It's Monday, and I'm Gavan Reilly, so this is 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲. Live, at 10pm, on Virgin Media Play and Virgin Media One.

📣 New Research just published. Adoption of EVs, solar PV, and heat pumps in Ireland is driven by affluence. Current grants favour high-income groups, risking a "green divide." Policies must focus on equity and lower upfront costs. Open access: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

“Every day that Donald Trump doesn’t call out that so much of the US tax base is in this jurisdiction is a lucky day for Ireland,” says Aidan Regan, Professor of Political Economy, UCD. #TonightVMTV

Today's evacuation orders in Beirut displace 100,000s - including elderly people, children, people with disabilities, etc. etc., all having to leave in a hurry with no idea what will happen to their homes. This kind of mass forced displacement is illegal under international law.

Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

🗣️ “It's going to create a real challenge both politically and fiscally,” says Barra Roantree, Assistant Professor of Economics at TCD. #TonightVMTV

🌍 As extreme weather worsens, what can Ireland learn from Rwanda’s response to deadly floods and landslides? Richard Chambers reports on early-warning systems, rainwater harvesting and tree planting already saving lives. #TruthMatters — cutting through misinformation

🗣️ “There needs to be support from Europe, working with the Gulf States, for that deescalation,” says Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, UCD. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “We'll get some gas generators when there's an electricity crisis...they'll go online and there'll be a few photo opportunities and we'll roll into the same thing in about 7 or 8 years,” says Prof Aoife Foley. #TonightVMTV

www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-is-a-bu... AI is a bureaucratic technology. So is war.

www.bunniesontrampolines.com/ai-generated... Something I wrote on the impact of AI and graduate jobs in what is, by the government’s own admission, one of the most exposed labour markets in the developed world.

"Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

A perfect storm of poor planning and climate breakdown awaits us

It's a monsoon And the rain lifts lids off cars Spinning buses like toys, stripping them to chrome

Excerpt from Hilary Mantel’s review of Robocop archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th...

ICYMI: #TonightVMTV 🚨 Irishman held in US ICE facility for 5 months – calls grow for Taoiseach to act.  🚨 Govt backtracks on short-term lets amid new rent rules.  🚨 Keir Starmer vows to lead his party into the next general election 👇

Some notes on last week's Media Committee engagement with Big Tech bunnies-on-trampolines.ghost.io/the-harms-ra...

Do not adjust your cathode ray tubes, your LCDs or your burnt-in plasmas... Presenting The Tonight Show on VMTV for the next couple of nights only. Will try not to break anything.

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

Ken Adam’s original design for the Board of Peace

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Emergency Call Transcripts Record a Crisis Unfolding in Real Time. By @poojasalhotra.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

'A shutdown of the AMOC “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore in view of the evolving science over the past years,” said @rahmstorf.bsky.social , a physical oceanographer and climatologist who has studied the AMOC at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social '

If you though the housing deficit numbers were depressing…

As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well

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/

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/

#aras25 poll: Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks (Oct 2-3, MoE 2.6%) Catherine Connolly 32 (+12 in four weeks) Heather Humphreys 23 (+3) Jim Gavin 15 (-5) Undecided 31 (-8) After Gavin’s elimination and transfers, Connolly would win 53-47 www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision on Wednesday, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits. www.politico.eu/article/top-...

AI is transforming the Irish job market — fast. Watch Mark Kelly, Founder of AI Ireland, on #TonightVMTV as he warns of a future where entry-level roles dwindle and grads are left behind. 📺 Full discussion: youtu.be/LWLTj5Cpfs0 | @virginmedianews.bsky.social

What do you do when the sea ice is at its lowest level on record? In Trump’s America, you turn off the recorder.

There's something very...visceral about the idea of Anthropic ripping books from their bindings and feeding them to the machine. Also makes me wonder: who did this physical ripping and chopping work for millions of books? Where do they live? how much were they paid?

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

Bleedin’ typical

a significant part of facebook these days is literally just organising pogroms