USA citizens applying for Irish passports has increased dramatically. US law places no restrictions on holding citizenship in multiple countries. The Irish passport demonstrated its immense value by ranking tied for second in the world for 2026. ☘️ 🇮🇪

The whole thing is a nothing burger. Did Starmer personally gain from Mandelson’s appointment? No. Did he break the law? No. Breech the Ministerial code? No. Sack Mandelson soon as? Yes. Apologise? Yes. This whole thing is a political journalistic w⚓️ fest. Who cares? Let him run the country.

They sold their souls so cheaply, and, yet, they still got ripped off by the Thief in Chief.

UK: Wes Streeting’s links to private health and tech companies under fire in wake of Mandelson texts. [BMJ] www.bmj.com/content/392/...

And they say she was a patriot.

Im going on holiday in August... I am dreading it 😞 brexit is and always was a lie created by the rich ( and corrupt) in order to avoid tax.. something YOU AND I would go to prison for!! #ToriesGone653 #HopeNotHate #RejoinEU #NeverVoteReform

🇫🇷 Goodbye SFR. After months of wrangling, Bouygues Telecom, Free-Groupe iliad, and Orange have submitted a joint offer valuing Altice France's SFR targeted assets at €20.35 billion in enterprise value. Altice's owner has agreed to an exclusivity period running until May 15, 2026. [REUTERS]

Microsoft: A researcher known as "Chaotic Eclipse" has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a second Microsoft Defender zero-day, dubbed "RedSun," in the past two weeks, protesting how the company works with cybersecurity researchers. #CyberSec share.google/5MqJPpqrJKPO...

🇪🇺 The European Commission on Friday awarded a €180 million ($212 million) tender for sovereign cloud computing services to four European providers for a period of six years, as part of an initiative to reduce the European Union's dependence on non-European technologies. [REUTERS]

Gibraltar is to align with Schengen area before the summer to facilitate holiday travel to mainland Spain. Northern Ireland enjoys different rules than mainland UK. Brexit was, is and always will be a disaster and one that Labour STILL allows to continue.

🇪🇺The European Union just announced that it will soon roll out a new online age-verification app. The app, a Europe-wide measure of government-approved age verification, would be a significant step towards an eventual EU-wide social media ban for minors. share.google/0e8vHELEWHYo...

🇺🇸 Amazon allegedly “bricked” its first and second-generation Fire TV Stick devices by cutting off software support and upgrades, according to a suit filed in California state court earlier this month. [NYP] share.google/ucPo4JoKerIM...

🇭🇺 🇪🇺🇺🇸 CPAC lands in new Hungarian PM’s crosshairs politi.co/4caFHv8 via @politico

Trump doesn’t have to withdraw from NATO to wreck it – he already has. Simon Pease unpacks how when trust goes, alliances crumble. Europe must now learn to stand alone, stronger, and on its own terms.

🇮🇹 🇪🇺 US families contest Italian law restricting citizenship | AP News share.google/rL0GwAYh3sKM...

Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops. 🥳 🇫🇷 Not only that, but they have also moved 80, 000 National Health Insurance Fund Employees to open source alternatives replacing U.S owned Big Tech platforms like Microsoft Teams & Zoom.

🌎 It is remarkable. The universe is remarkable, Earth is remarkable. The fact that there is sentient life on Earth is amazingly remarkable. The fact that we treat it like shit is utterly unremarkable.

🇺🇸 There is only one way to make a country capitulate in one hit and that's to nuke it. Hardly a precedent for the US and maybe not unthinkable for the current nut job president.(?) 🤔

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20... #CyberSec

🇵🇪 Municipalities in Satipo and Nauta, Peru, have approved ordinances that recognize native stingless bees as legal subjects with rights to exist, thrive, and be defended in court. It is the first time any country has granted legal rights to an insect species. share.google/GdeNKwUEkyJB...

This is such a sad read and a reminder that the last decade has been vandalised by people with nothing more than a slogan, a chip on their shoulder or a grift ... and usually all three

That was fantastic. A shared story for all of us, that's positive and uplifting. (And best of all, a space mission without Katy Perry or Space Karen being involved 👍). Inspiring.

AI takes your desk job! Tech giant Oracle has laid off thousands of its workforce in massive job cuts that could reportedly impact 30,000 employees (20%) globally amid the company’s push to fund more artificial intelligence infrastructure.

I never want to hear a British PM refer to “our special relationship” when talking about USA while Trump remains President or any of his Cabal remain in power.. An “ally” who threatens us, penalises us with tariffs, accuses our veterans of being cowards, insults our PM.. is an untrustworthy rat❗️

Well, tbh I didn't see this coming. AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history | TechSpot share.google/7H8S5L0Ok4Vf...

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Putin must be pissing himself laughing.

🇬🇧 Nothing to do with the Iran War but everything to do with Donald Trump and his ongoing tirade of unwarranted insults towards the UK and Europe. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🇬🇧 King Charles’ US visit ‘an embarrassment’. Call it off.

Trump's signature to appear on US dollars in first for sitting président. I've found a suitable sitting use 🚽

🇪🇺🇮🇸 Kristrún Frostadóttir said her government has agreed to hold the EU referendum on 29 August 2026. EU commissioner Marta Kos welcomed the announcement saying "A significant decision now lies ahead for the Icelandic people." Iceland is heavily integrated into the EU via the EEA and Schengen.

🇳🇴🇪🇺BRUSSELS: Norway should reapply to become a member of the European Union in light of their shared security challenges, namely Russia, the leader of the country’s conservative opposition party told POLITICO #RejoinEU www.politico.eu/article/norw...

Chinese experimental artificial intelligence agent broke free. Why did this Bot decide it needed to mine crypto 💰😂 www.livescience.com/technology/a...

A Date For Your Diary! #RejoinUK @marchforrejoin.co.uk

🇺🇸🇮🇳 AppWho Is Matthew VanDyke? A US citizen has been arrested in a major investigation by Indian security agencies, alongside six Ukrainian nationals in a case involving alleged drone warfare training, illegal border crossings, and links to armed groups operating near India's Northeast. [NDTV]

🇬🇧 #Brexit UK should rejoin EU, says Sadiq Khan as France opens door to return to Single Market. The capital’s economy is £30 billion smaller than if the UK had stayed in the EU, says the London Mayor. #RejoinEU [The Standard] share.google/77nhSf3fCOHx...

Even with all the news organizations and their taking-heads, this is still the best explanation for Trump's predicament I've seen so far.🗽

🇬🇧 Landlords race to evict tenants before 'no-fault' evictions ban share.google/rcz1AVlPLkO9...

🇫🇷 The three-way takeover of SFR risks up to 8000 jobs across France as Orange, Free and Bouygues finalise the process. Altice, the owner of SFR, has more than €60bn in gross debt across its global operations.

🇬🇧 Baroness Smith confirmed the government would offer life peerages to the Conservatives and crossbenchers, meaning some hereditaries are likely to remain in the Lords. Why? 🙄 Dr. Jess Garland, : "No part of Parliament should be a gated community from which the public are excluded."

🇪🇺 Investors poured a record €42.5bn into mergers and acquisitions across Central and Eastern Europe in 2025, as fewer but larger transactions signalled renewed confidence in the region's economic prospects, according to a new report by Forvis Mazars and Mergermarket. [Euronews]

🇪🇺🇮🇸 Iceland: The government is proposing a referendum on August 29th on resuming accession negotiations with the European Union. #Brexit #RejoinEU share.google/0mvJ1ujNxjip...

🇪🇺🇮🇸 Iceland: The government is proposing a referendum on August 29th on resuming accession negotiations with the European Union. #Brexit #RejoinEU share.google/0mvJ1ujNxjip...

Ticket sales for the new route start on 17 March 2026.

What a great story.. In 1962, man buys deserted island, plants 16,000 trees, creating a refuge against the wealthy - 3DVF 3dvf.com/en/in-1962-m...

Source: Financial Times The wonderful world of #Brexit #RejoinEU search.app/GZmT9

🇮🇳 India Sent Vessels To Help Sinking Iranian Warship Near Sri Lanka: The Indian Navy launched search and rescue operations following a distress signal from the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena, which sank in the Indian Ocean after being struck by a torpedo from a United States submarine. [NDTV]

🇪🇺 Launched in 2024 in Germany, WERO is the first digital wallet and insta-person-to-person (P2P) payments circuit “made in Europe”. Founder European Payment Initiative (EPI) plans to make it a fully-fledged alternative to US-payment by 2027. wero-wallet.eu