I disagree because irish farmers would lose out on Mercouser& taxpayers may demand that they pay for all the state quangos like Bord Bia, Teagasc etc not workers! thathttps://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0222/1559755-irish-agri-organisations/

London was set a target of building 88,000 new homes pa over the next decade. In 2025 building started on just 5,891 — 94 per cent below target, a 75 per cent year-on-year decline, the steepest drop in the country, the lowest in 40 years and lowest in any major city in developed world this century.

President Trump is using East Potomac Park in Washington as a dumping ground for the remains of the East Wing. He also wants to turn its affordable golf course into a luxury destination. “It’ll be a real loss for a lot of people in the city,” a local resident said.

For President's Day, Donald posted a picture of himself trying to look tough (he looked like my grandmother, but she never wore that much makeup), and this quote: "I was the hunted. Now I’m the hunter." Another reason to stop celebrating this holiday.

Corruption aids de -Regulation of EU skies. Top EU transport official allowed Qater Airlines into EU open skies after favours ( per FT). Unions & airline bosses not happy with this. Reverse it now.

This should enrage the economic Fool Trump:-Ireland exported more than twice as much goods last year to the US it’s important €3 .5 billion as against €1.7 billion in imports

My take on the EU’s Dragi Report

Neutrality has to be reviewed by real Progressives in the New World Order:- For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Brexit means Britain exited EU ! Come back fully or not at all!

Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Europe should do the same immediately! Screw Trumps Americas dominance! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A v good review by a centre right politician:- Paschal Donohoe on Capitalism, A Global History by Sven Beckert: Demanding but magisterial www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Dublin’s endless rain by the Dodder

'The price of our dignity': Ukraine athlete disqualified from Olympics over memorial helmet f24.my/BjeI.BS

The Leaders of the EU of the Right want to emulate the US business practices of “hires & fire” of 2 jobs, of gross inequality!

Rodik shows the errors of Dragi & the EU elite! The World Needs Europe to Get Its Act Together – Fast www.socialeurope.eu/the-world-ne...

Back to the Future: Resisting Fascist Capitalism's Great Reset www.socialeurope.eu/back-to-the-...

Big Tech bosses became much richer in the year since Trump took power: Jef Bezos of Amazon is $15 billion richer; Subaru Pichai became a billionaire; Elon Musk Tesla by $234bn; Mark Zuckerberg Meta $1.9bn!

If cutting “red tape” means less protection for workers to give even more national income to Capital then it must be resisted! www.rte.ie/news/europe/...

Progressive? No! In solidarity? No! SF votes against helping #Ukraine! www.rte.ie/news/ukraine...

European alternatives to American owned & controlled Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief per FT. ASAP

8 February 1921 | A Polish man Józef Laksy was born. He arrived at #Auschwitz as a police prisoner of Gestapo from Katowice on 12 February 1943. On 16 March 1943, he was registered as no. 108536). He was later transferred to KL Mauthausen where he was liberated on 6 May 1945.

Now Starmer should follow:- www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Broliarchy of gassillionaires are making loads a money but not creating jobs as the chart shows! Where is the investment going?

Ireland’s ‘tax hedge’ set to continue. And Apple iPhone sales are soaring in China and this will boost Ireland’s tax revenue substantially in the future. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e... Also a focus on costs alone esp labour costs detracts from key areas like good infrastructure, corruption, reasonable professional services etc

Deregulating Workers' Rights Will Not Save European Industry — It Will Only Deepen the Crisis www.socialeurope.eu/deregulating...

According to Euro barometer 51% of Europeans think Trump is an enemy with only 3% thinking he’s a friend. Time for Europe to get its act together.

Sad to see Jef Bezos sacking top Washington Post journalists even when they’re in Ukraine and far away places. social media is destroying good journalism but ownership can do it quicker

Has the Editor of the Irish Times not realised that Neo liberalism is dying despite his support?

Disgraceful journalism & biased report by a government department against the principles of good taxation ie horizontal equity. Whither the Irish Times ?! “harsh’ tax penalty undermines Ireland’s ability to attract top executives www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

It’s ironic how it took a Corkman to teach UK’s Labour to sound like English patriots. Weird confused opinion on some “friend”! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand? Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

#AIB must sort out it’s pathetic log in and phone authentication- rarely works for computer

Real Socialists / Social Democrats hope it will bring down Starmer!

Walmart is now in the top league of 12 US companies by market capitalisation of over 1 Trillion. Its shares doubled in the past two years as it spent billions on e-commerce and it is now a credible competitor to Amazon -though still less than half its size.

Trump promised to slash electricity prices in half within a yr in office. Here is what happened. “It’s the economy stupid” we hope!

Would this happen in Ireland ?https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/03/french-headquarters-elon-musk-x-raided-paris-cybercrime-unit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Soggy unreadable deliveries

#irishtimes -“the way we say it” eh a soaked soggy utterly unreadable paper delivered my door in the green bag several times these wet days. If ur readers who pay can’t read it - the paper won’t last!

Golden silver have surged in the past year but both plunged on Friday with silver falling by 25%. What will happen on Monday?

Elon Musk has donated $75 million to the Republican Party for the midterms. Does this mean that there will be midterm elections in the under democratic US of A? He has decided not to proceed with his competitor right wing party.

Disappointing to hear it’s all about money! Rte overpaid a few while for years it had many on insecure contracts

1 February 1928 | A Polish girl, Maria Matlak, was born in Łodygowice. In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1943. No. 39847 She was transferred to the camp for Polish minors in Litzmannstadt. She was liberated there on 19 January 1945.