A recent visitor to the Irish EEZ. It was under surveillance by the Irish Air Corps last week.

“I thought: ‘Right, we’re going to have to use lethal force to stop the attack,’” Geraghty said. The soldiers aimed their rifles at the attacker. “Then, just at the last second, a thought popped into my head,” he recalled. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Chartered deportation flights are now a “routine” part of Ireland’s immigration system, as 8th flight took off last night It comes as former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned the Government may be engaging in “performative cruelty” in its new immigration law. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

At the shelter door, she said, an Israeli resident, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked their entry – and shut it in their faces. aje.io/yujgke

“Under this rubble, students are buried. The blood of our loved ones, our students, which you can see on their schoolbooks.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

Defence Forces push back on women-only officer appointments, warning of ‘disharmony’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

A failed asylum seeker has been charged with the murder of a well-loved Irish farmer and there's hardly a peep from the far-right. Can't think why.

Four years and 400,000 dead Russians later and they're still calling it a special military operation

The money comes from the National Development Plan 2026-2030 which has already been budgeted and has to pay for radar, sonar and new aircraft and ships, leaving little left over for armour. But you would know that if you read the article

The new armour programme will transform the Irish Army from a light infantry force, with limited armoured elements, to an heavily mechanised force equipped with modern armour and powerful weaponry. Where the money will come from is another matter. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

a year is a long time in politics

Dental Council unable to act against unregistered dentists

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike

More councils boycott X over Grok AI sexual images controversy www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

Reaction in the Dail to our investigation today www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

Irish Times journalism now fully funded by subscribers pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/iri...

Up to 144,000 Irish GPS chips were shipped in a single year. That is enough to make 36,000 Geran-2 kamikaze drones, a weapon that has become a central part of Russia’s strategy to wear down Ukraine’s will to fight by attacking civilian infrastructure www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Learned there's a marvel superhero from my hometown of Dunshaughlin. I wonder if she went to the national school en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamroc...

Russian ambassador says McEntee proposal to board sanctioned vessels is ‘piracy’

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Troy Parrott, saviour of European democracy

@lalabote.bsky.social hi there, Conor here in the Irish Times. might you be able to follow me for a quick DM?

The Naval Service is set to outsource the vast majority of ship maintenance to civilian contractors, the latest in a series of moves to privatise what were once core capabilities of the Defence Forces. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Government may fast-track citizenship for military personnel www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

“Go to therapy.” That’s the message Daye Gottsche, a trans woman, has for far-right provocateur Jake Lang after she helped save him in Minneapolis.

This is a breaking news story.

Today’s NYT investigation into what really went on after the killing of Renee Good is shocking. It’s centered on the apparent suppression, for political reasons, of a proper investigation. But there’s so much more. (Link below.)

Amazing photo www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Exclusive: Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage.

As Dean notes, a bizarre sovereign citizen style organisation claiming to be a continuation of the historical IRB could well become an issue during the upcoming by-election

I miss films were marketed with trailers and posters instead of whatever this shit is

A grand total of zero seats booked for tomorrow evening's screening of the Melania Trump documentary in Cineworld. You'd think the US ambassador would at least head along

"Kitchens across Ireland" my hole

It’s obscene, tbh.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

We need to set up a perimeter around Blackrock College asap

Defence Forces retires ‘disastrous’ armoured fleet as it looks to French replacements www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, said the child was removed from the still-running car and directed by an ICE agent to knock on the door of his home to see if anyone else was inside. www.thejournal.ie/minnesota-fi...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.

'Windmills are losers' - Don Quixote

The Irish man unmasking ICE agents: “This morning, I had someone who works at a Starbucks where ICE agents were getting coffee. They told me the names that were written on the cups.” www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Who were the Dublin rioters? What 82 prosecutions tell us about the unrest www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Irish man risks US retaliation for unmasking thousands of ICE officers online www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

‘This is what failure looks like’: Why Ireland is missing its military staffing targets www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

"warn" is a very strange verb choice

🚨 Breaking Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal. "We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"

Dublin City Council has rejected a repeated claim by Tánaiste Simon Harris that a significant number of people presenting as homeless do not have a housing right in Ireland. The tanaiste was defended by Malachy Steenson, who said "for once" he agreed with him www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...