the only reason people can endlessly complain about how public money is spent is precisely because it's not secret. if an NGO draws on public funding to run an event, they have to put it on their posters. not so with whoever funds Gript, The Countess, Free Speech Ireland, Edmund Burke Institute, etc

it is obviously problematic how many civil society groups rely on state funding to operate, but I'm so sick of the astroturfed "anti-establishment" right in this country painting organisations that receive public money as suspicious while they keep their own private sources of funding totally secret

There's a lot of talk about the effect that social media has on young people (some of it rightly, tbf) but there is comparatively less on the effect it has on adults and I think "fear of crime" is a big one. True crime podcasts, "danger tourism" to like, London. It's cooking people's brains!

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

of course he did haha

Why do I suspect that this will get fuck all attention in the Dáil and media compared to the "FEAR of crime has increased" stories. www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

Begging the Irish media to stop reporting on every move of the Burke and giving them attention

to me, Michael McDowell will only ever be one thing, and that's the architect of the 27th amendment, the most malignant wound that Ireland has inflicted on itself this century

accepting a bag of mystery tea handmade by a French dude in my neighbourhood

"Its discovery last September" here refers to when I contacted the Courts Service about it and reported on it. But of course, no mention of our reporting in the Examiner piece.

Breaking News: Meta and YouTube harmed a young user’s mental health with addictive design features, a jury found in a landmark trial.

After Nikita defended this plan agressively for hours, Musk has stepped in and "suspended" it.

laundry I put outside to "dry" on Tuesday, right now:

Retail sale assistant is explicitly classified as a role ineligible for a work permit by the Dept of Enterprise. Bother to fact-check your assumption once for god's sake (enterprise.gov.ie/en/what-we-d...)

I cannot tell you how much the requirement to advertise jobs before applying for work permits is a pointless exercise aimed at placating racists, which does nothing but delay and prevent jobs from being filled with people qualified for them who happen to be non-EEA citizens

Trained teachers of in-demand subjects shut out of jobs because of where adverts are posted. Schools don’t advertise vacancies on platforms the Department of Employment's work permit scheme requires for those from outside the EEA. More here www.dublininquirer.com/trained-teac...

Town cryers should be reintroduced, but for telling everyone what bin night it is.

Department of Justice has just told the Oireachtas Justice Committee that the proposal to send immigration Judicial Review to the Circuit Court will be removed from the Civil Reform Bill.

lil slug I met this morning

If you're in Ireland looking at the arson attack on Jewish community-owned ambulances & saying that maybe they should have spoken out against the genocide in Gaza, congratulations! You're using the same logic the British used to persecute Irish people in the 70s & 80s, and you're also an antisemite.

Why'd people open someone's green and brown bins to dump the most random dubbish in when a black general bin is right there with plenty of space. Now I have to carry those bins in and out of my place as I don't have the space to easily roll them because people keep doing this.😔

Generally I think AI is a negative but there is something additionally insulting about a public representative using it. Absolutely insulting to the people who elected you. Too lazy or too wilfully incompetent to even represent them yourself, why are you even there except to ride the gravy train?

this one really resonated with me

When a post goes beyond the same 5 people who like everything

How it started for this American flag at Delaney's pub how it's going

Bravo. It also occurred to me that the bigoted idiot Nick Timothy is effectively calling for the prohibition of faith-based funerals. A thought prompted by a horrible story I will post as a reply to this one… www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Guy stopped me to say: "I think you speak Spanish".

Eoin Lenihan was invited to speak in Washington DC the day before Paddy's by the Ireland-US Council, a business lobby. he also recently gave a talk to MCC Brussels, a think tank funded by the Orbán government shoveling state assets into its hands Eoin Lenihan is a willing stooge of the ruling class

cancelling virgin broadband

Free speech news

Ken O'Flynn throwing his staff under the bus with an obvious lie why would the original image that was posted – with the AI errors – have his signature on it while the replacement image doesn't if the former was genAI and the latter the real thing? www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

-> you've seen a massive spike in GEO companies that are the equivalent of SEO for LLMs. They spin up 100k web sites, and then will saturate Reddit and Wikipedia to saturate a specific message that will be used to train the bots to deliver that message.

As U.S. and Israeli airstrikes continue across Iran for the third week, the Iranian government has imposed a near-total internet blockade for most of the country’s 92 million people while increasingly criminalizing and shutting down alternate methods of connecting to the web. trib.al/DZPEDG5

There is something deeply disturbing, as well as blatantly incorrect, about reporting on people seeking asylum as a criminal matter. Yes, there is likely to be an increase in Iranians using small boats to seek asylum, because it is pretty much their only option. It is not illegal to seek asylum.

God the Cesar Chavez stuff is just…men really should start out six feet under and work their way up.

41 people have died in ICE detention since January 2025. Twelve since January 1 alone, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I built a beta of an interactive map of detained deaths using ICE's own press releases. 🧵

Gardaí likely knew Kurdish woman, whose body was returned to Turkey, wished to be buried in Ireland. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/gardai-likel...

Gardaí likely knew Kurdish woman, whose body was returned to Turkey, wished to be buried in Ireland. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/gardai-likel...

exactly this

Got ID’d yesterday in real life as being Pierre’s mam. Can’t imagine why this little goofball is famous

The three girls say that the nonconsensual nude images were created by a perpetrator who used AI company xAI's image generation tools.

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

Lads.. #speirgorm

Good. An excellent use of taxpayer money.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”