yea, he really went to town on him.

same thing happened to douglas hyde if I remember correctly

It was some suspicious luggage which was later deemed safe...

The Defence Forces' Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit, aka the bomb squad, is on the way to Dublin airport following the discovery of a suspicious item in the lugagge of a departing passengers. Terminal 2 evacuated and flights suspended.

The cooperation between the UK & Irish militaries during Yantar's "visit" to the Irish Sea last November, gets a mention in this report. As has been well documented, Yantar spent at least some of its time within the Irish EEZ, while hovering over a critically important gas interconnector.

Against law, the Courts Service website published names of some people seeking asylum by “error”. A spokesperson says it has revised its processes to make sure it won’t happen again. But on Tuesday, some applicants’ names remained on its website.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

"Following careful reflection"

I'm so confused. I read on twitter he was the front runner www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Remember, it's very important you don't call them nazis www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

Gardaí investigating threats against Simon Harris and family seek Interpol assistance

Irish 'patriots' present for Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdom" rally in London. It takes all sorts (in this case, racist idiots)

Ireland’s military intelligence service has set up its own training school and is sending officers to US training camps to improve the Defence Forces’ “intelligence tradecraft” and enable them to operate more efficiently overseas and at home. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The new logo for the Irish Military Intelligence Service/Seirbhís Faisneise Míleata na hÉireann. Part of a general rebranding. I think (but am open to correction) that the fish symbolise the Salmon of Knowledge

Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X This should be a story. It should be a scandal. Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament

A Holocaust museum in Los Angeles is facing backlash after deleting an Instagram post that suggested the phrase “never again” should apply to all people – not just Jews. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Presumably all our brave patriots will be out again in a month's time to replace the Temu tricolours when they're in bits and blowing off the lampposts?

I listened to that Joanna Donnelly Drivetime interview. She made a fool of herself. But I also have to wonder why she was booked on in first place. If you or I just announced we were running without any preparation or platform we would be (quite rightly) ignored

43k likes. One million views That site is a clownshow

Why did An Garda Síochána give money to Cognyte, an Israeli surveillance company? www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

An Garda Síochána’s intelligence section paid substantial sums of money to an Israeli spyware company with a history of doing business with repressive regimes. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

I assume it doesn't need to be pointed out that they're putting up these flags in the hope that they're taken down, allowing them to play the victim. It's the 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵 same strategy being employed by their mates in the UK www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

I interviewed the new chief of staff Lieutenant General Rossa Mulcahy about the threats facing Ireland and the challenges facing the Defence Forces New Defence Forces chief: ‘Ireland has to be able to provide a defence to repel any initial invasion’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

that was some rosary!

Ireland wants to send troops to train the Lebanese Armed Forces as Unifil winds down its mission in the country www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Reminder that the famous pictures of the Nazi book burning that you’re used to seeing, show them burning books about trans and queer, people at the Hirschfeld Institute. (after which Ireland’s first LGBTQI+ community centre was named, until it burned down in 1987)

Simon Harris welcomes proposals to delay withdrawal of Unifil forces www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Seizure of drugs and assault rifles by the Garda Crime Response Team in North Dublin today. From the pics the weapons seem to be fully automatic, military issue rather than the civilianised versions available to the public in some countries.

Good campaign strategy. Everyone loves influencers

They couldn’t silence their stories. So they just killed them. Israel never comes back from this.

Ireland will continue sending troops on overseas missions even if the mandate for Unifil, the peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, is withdrawn at a crucial UN vote on Monday, the Defence Forces chief says. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Israel has accused a senior Lebanese intelligence officer of obstructing the investigation into the murder of Irish peacekeeper Seán Rooney, who was shot dead in 2022 while on peacekeeping duty with Unifil. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Piece in the Times today about the how Freeman of the Land types have taken over the IRB, and it's full of delicious nuggets like them operating under their own timezone: Irish Rising Time

“Former UCD professor Dolores Cahill, who claimed children who wore face masks would have lower IQ, was appointed as “chief justice” (she was later ousted from the role and replaced by a builder from Mayo).”

If only there was a cheaper and less crap way to add "a human element" www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/virt...

The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’ www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Your daily reminder that if you’re talking freely on the radio, being widely quoted in newspapers and properly interviewed in magazines, you’re not actually being at all cancelled.

This is shaping up to be one of the presidental elections of all time

This is what Trump’s election meant for Ukraine:

There is just one nurse remaining in the Defence Forces following a decision to let the service collapse and replace it with private contractors. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The Garda’s national security service has warned about the “ever present” threat from foreign spies intent on stealing sensitive political information and intellectual property. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

Catherine Connelly in today's Irish Times made my head hurt. “Then, as now, I was clear: our Defence Forces are defined by their civic duties at home and their peacekeeping work abroad. “They are not, and should never become, an army."

If we accept good policies save lives, it stands to reason poor policies cost lives. A total of 184 people died on Irish roads in 2023, 29 per cent higher than the pre-pandemic average. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Why are there suddenly loads of stories about me, wonders man who just announced he is running for president.

More shadow fleet vessels taking the long way around Ireland. Adding days to their journey and wasting huge amounts of fuel.