If Ireland is so rich then why does it feel so poor - and where has all the money gone … open.substack.com/pub/butthist...

After Micheál frogmarched his cabinet out to endorse an unknown seat warmer for his own tilt at the Aras, he has zero credibility to now force his backbenchers to gift the blueshirts their first ever president 🤷‍♂️ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

So Scotland has managed to build out 172 times more offshore wind power than Ireland - presumably because our feckless government would rather just waste billions on burning imported fuels www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

Most media say nothing at all or just report on pieces of the jigsaw but when the whole picture is assembled …

play this on the jumbotron at the next democratic national convention youtu.be/-ndswC8hiN0

the best take I’ve read on the dumpster fire that is US politics - would love to hear @scaramucci.bsky.social or @kattybkay.bsky.social views on it 🤔 @restispoliticsus.bsky.social substack.com/@sanderson15...

our do-nothing FFG government have now made us the worst per capita emitter in the EU facing billions in fines … maybe you voted for them but did you really vote for that 🤷‍♂️

the common thread between inappropriate spinal ops, unwarranted hip ops, a culture of malpractice & cover-ups & dodgy pay deals is criminally negligent governance - so the idea that we’d now give these same people “the most expensive hospital in the world” is frankly obscene 🤷‍♂️

will any government politicians bother to question @cifireland.bsky.social about how they let this happen or @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social about why they didn’t collect the unpaid €140k in dereliction fines 🤷‍♂️ their silence makes it impossible to believe they even want to fix our housing crisis 🤦‍♂️

Today's front page 📰 'Echoes of Enoch Powell': Keir Starmer panned over immigration speech

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

This, from those notorious Leftists on the…Financial Times editorial board…is bang on the money.

The British Goverment response to Kneecap

Beltany Stone Circle • Donegal Set high on a Donegal hilltop with extensive views over the surrounding landscape, Beltany Stone Circle is one of the places most associated with this time of year, as its name is thought to derive from An Bhealtaine. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

Absolutely teeming with fucking aliens, fuckers are everywhere

Happy Easter

#Chinese meme videos about #USA are brutal

In economics, as in geopolitics, Trump fundamentally misunderstands the limits of American power. It is at the centre of everything he does. The markets, the only real impediment to him now, may be about to teach him how wrong he is. New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

45 years ago on April 5, 1980, the band played their first show at friend Kathleen O'Brien's birthday party. Sandra Lee Phipps took these photos that historic night in Athens at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Oconee Street.

have to admit this made me chuckle

Sums up the day. #LowrysLackeys #FakeOpposition #HowIrelandWorks

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy telling him it’s not true he has become more right-wing… it is me who has become more left-wing 🫠

Scum And Scummer.

A very Happy 15th of March to one and all.

Religion does NOT belong in our schools! Agreed? ✋

One of these things is not like the others

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

“A colossal missed opportunity” - a clear message in a new report from from Ireland’s fiscal and climate advisory councils. Instead of taking action to cut emissions (making energy cleaner & more secure, & diversifying farming) we face €26 billion in compliance costs to meet EU targets

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

It’s time now surely for the ex Presidents to get off the bench and push back 🤷‍♂️

Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.

This is Munich the last time we let far-right ideas go way too far in Europe. Let's not cross the point of no return once more. 📹British Pathé

It’s suspicious how so many local councillors & TDs seem to be turning a blind eye to the proposed destruction of Kenilworth Square, an environmental & heritage asset that urgently needs protecting 🤔 youtube.com/shorts/KashN...

This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else. Constantly reevaluating and learning.

The extent of Storm #Eowyn’s impact on forests cannot be seen properly from the ground. This drone footage taken today above a stand I visited in Meath shows how wind hardened trees around the edge remain standing while the centre has been flattened.

It is sinking in: technofeudalism is already our reality

Ireland’s governing coalition got off to a rattled start today as its new member, a loose-cannon group of rural independents, insisted on holding positions in both the government and the opposition.

THAT is a subhed for the ages.