Oh c'mon, FIFA allowed the Argentine dictatorship to fix not 1 but (at least) 2 matches in 1978, including the Final. FIFA allowed stadium workers in Qatar to be killed in droves. Trump's petty assholishness is trivial in comparison to that.

The Belgian federation said it was “astonished” by the decision, that it was in “direct contradiction” with the competition regulations and said it is exploring “all potential options”. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Same here. We need employers. I remember seeing lots of plumbers carpenters sparks and labourers in the dole queues in the early 90s. When jobs became available they all took them. It's not rocket science.

100% I'm not even in the cla scheme - I'm on the civil one this is going to mirror and it's just uneconomic. 3 solicitors are doing this work in north tipp and two in south tipp. Thats what the Department wants of course.

Christie Moore on Sherkin Island Folk Festival in 1976 in his biography One Voice. #WankerYachtie #ChristieMoore #Speirgorm

W, ., 1, ., W AND IRELAND BEAT INDIA BY 34 RUNS! *WHAT* AN OVER, KID!

Saved....Europe? How? In fact all he has done is cost me money becuase of his dumb war.

All the attention on the screwworm is making RFK Jr.'s brainworm jealous.

Had no idea she was there at all

Go the whole hog and treat domestic abuse as the assault cases they are. If you are making the names public it moves outside the in camera provisions of family law anyway.

We all remember him from How. In this house though he is the ubiquitous voice of many a British murder on those true crime documentaries.

The last gen x movie was the matrix.

A big problem is that Gen-X includes people who came of age in the big-hair-and-cocaine Reagan '80s and people who were teenagers in the grunge-and-heroin Clinton '90s. This is why the final Gen-X movie is both Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) *and* Go (1999)

If you don't know about what the Garda Heavy Gang did in the seventies, read up about it. A stain on those who sanctioned it and a state which has never apologised for it. Some of those involved would later pose as hero cops in the media. They ruined lives.

He lives in a pineapple under the sea.

i (79M) made a work excuse to skip my son's (48M) wedding but i'm definitely going to an nba finals game later this week. AITA?

It's a damp and misty start here in South Tipperary, but that can be beautiful too

This has lived in my head for 2 joyful years 🙏🏼 @jonnymorris.bsky.social

Nobody who has ever spent more than ten minutes around actual cows could possibly want anything to do with raw milk

Jackdaw stuck in the chimney. Our house is 2 storey but chimney is 3. Sent 17 rods up with a plunger at the end and no joy. The sheer number of jackdaws outside was unreal. Tried again with brush. Success!! Mrs S said it it came out of the chimney like it was riding an elevator and flew off.

I figure, based on no evidence, that the tech companies basically say to the Irish govt, if you want the jobs and the corporate tax windfall, you have to take all these data centres no one else wants, in exchange.

Am gasping for air at the sheer recklessness and utter stupidity of this article. You wonder why we’re absolutely and totally fuc#ed as a species? This is why. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2026...

Delighted to announce that my first book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is due for publication on September 4th next via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.

In other news, a large number of security experts were among the thousands laid off by #Meta last month.

It’s like the mindset that says Soros bought the support of every global public health and human rights org for sex work decriminalisation, yet he couldn’t buy more than the tiniest handful of elected legislators

"Your feed is not Ireland. It is a slice of Ireland that has been assembled by an algorithm optimised for engagement, not accuracy or balance"

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Péter Magyar victory speech: "Hungary wants to be a European country again. We want to return to Europe." The crowd immediately chants "Russians, go home" in response.

"Europe! Europe!" - chants the crowd. This is great to see.

christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"

Trump will deny ever knowing him becuase he actually conceded.

Man I miss when there was some class, some subtlety, when we fucked with other countries' elections.

The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks. Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December. So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland. #fuelprotests #speirgorm

Artemis II astronauts pose for a group photo in front of the Orion spacecraft, in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha flic.kr/p/2s6NyEN #Artemis 🧪🔭

2023.

Take the research to Europe.

Ireland is about to find out who puts food on the table. And, largely, it's not those who have been claiming they do.

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

American Christians when they talk about the Pope

Wait no more! Your LIONEL BLAIR STICKER SHEET is here! adarrenrileypainting.com/products/lio...

Like I get what he's saying but Ireland actually mostly exports high value luxury items like dairy and meat and ingredients like milk powder. We actually import most of what people actually eat

While thats a pain the blockade of fuel depots is a lot more serious. A presenter from Galway bay fm on rte said the protesters were looking for no vat or carbon taxes and euphemisticaly "other issues" yeah we know what they are...

All you have to do is look at the posts on x. The rationale is "giving money to Ukraine and ipas instead of us"

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

When your diesel is 1.20 cheaper than eveyone else's you can afford to drive up to Dublin to complain how hard your life is...

Yes its almost easter #parkrun time

It was noticeable how much quicker it was off the pad compared to #apollo with the solid fuel boosters.