If Darragh O'Brien cancels a few more rail projects, we can aim for the number 1 spot next year! That must be his strategy..

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358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%. tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu ☑️Belgium 103% ☑️Finland 100.5% ☑️France 296% Ireland 58.7% Italy 79.8% Netherlands 31% Poland 51.4% ☑️Spain 111.9% Sweden 81.6%

Latest RED C @businesspost poll sees FF fall again, as SF & Soc. Dems make gains. Sinn Féin 24% +2 Fine Gael 18% +1 Fianna Fáil 15% -3 Independent 13% -1 Soc. Dems 10% +2 Labour 5% +1 Aontú 5% -1 Ind. Ireland 4% = PBP-Solidarity 3% = Green Party 2% -1 Net: Other 1%

Richard J. Evans: “The fascist project was to remake human beings into a new kind of ruthless, hard, pitiless entity [and] to expunge humanitarianism from the political system and from people’s consciences.”

Back out with @ipsc.bsky.social in Dublin. Enacting the OTB is a minimum at this pont. The OTB made sense as an action before the genocide in Gaza. Only a full boycott of Israehell makes sense now.

It is the paucity of imagination which is most striking about this Government. It somehow has no ideas, all bad.

Nobody should be forced to choose between heating and eating. Disabled people should not be forced to choose between charging their electric wheelchairs or keeping their homes warm. But Budget 2026 left disabled people €1,400 worse off compared to 2025.

So we have figures now. Grok created and shared 1.8m sexualised images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X. Overall, the Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4m images — 41% were sexualised images of women www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

🚨 Ireland will not join Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ “as currently constructed”, Simon Harris tells the Dáil (only an hour or two after Mícheál Martin said it was being considered) @virginmedianews.bsky.social

O'Leary was in the 'grabbing headlines by being an asshole' business while Musk was still sitting on Peter Thiel's knee, but we haven't heard much from him lately. This is like a serial killer coming to a small town and discovering there's an older serial killer already here, living the quiet life.

In the face of European leader after European leader meekly invoking “rules-based order”, “international law”, “closely monitoring”, “the UN Charter”… It’s almost alien to see someone say “yeah, no, that was a lie and we all knew it.”

🇵🇸 🚨 Breaking | Israeli occupation artillery is shelling Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, once again targeting one of Gaza’s most densely populated civilian areas.

Here's a starter pack of various accounts related to Dublin City Council on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/4naJbid Any missing? Cc @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social

Sure, since he has such a good record of keeping craft the air.

🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.

Will they learn or try to appease him again?

"The Government is talking out of both sides of its mouth, invoking human rights when it helps their argument, but undermining them when they become inconvenient." SocDems' Patricia Stephenson says any move away by Ireland from the ECHR would be reckless... jrnl.ie/6927673

There goes the EU-US trade deal. Always a humiliation to the European side, and now - it seems - an intolerable one.

The Europeans sending troops to Greenland were all very diplomatically saying that this was to counter possible Russian or Chinese aggression. We all knew that it was to counter possible US aggression, and one implication of Trump’s outburst today is that he understood that very well. And it worked!

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

3 hours ago, The Taoiseach posted photos on X of school children from a visit he made to Gorey. How is that not a severe safeguarding issue, given what can be done with any photo on X now? #IrishPol

Ah here. Please don't make us defend O'Leary.

The slow motion stage. Amidst the destruction and death, Israel has moved the yellow line another three hundred meters west.

Haha! Presumably Sammy didn't recognise him without the balaclava 🤣

And yes, the media did interview the Taoiseach in someone’s kitchen in Wexford because it was raining. Great little country.

eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/ Sign the #EU citizen's initiative for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights #Spéirghorm #FreePalestine

Once again, Niamh Smyth absolutely leading in not shirking the responsibilities of her portfolio. Rare I offer praise for any Minister but when her colleagues have equivocated on what's happened and what needs to happen, she has very strongly called it straight so far and hasn't bent to pressure.

The scene outside any Irish funeral.

Chair of the Media Committee Alan Kelly says the supposed moves announced by X today are "absolutely not" good enough - saying that, even if they were implemented, the use of VPNs render them next to useless. "Ireland needs to lead on this... these companies are headquartered here."

For the record: as of right now, the Grok app is still doing all the things they’ve said it is stopping, for users with free/unpaid accounts.

It's finally happening. The Swedish prime minister just announced that a pan-European force is arriving in #Greenland as we speak. No word yet on whether UK forces are among them.

Thank you @social-democrats.bsky.social . #speirgorm

🚨 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"

Yesterday, Holly Cairns directly raised the existence of an abuse image factory being set up in Fenian street with the Taoiseach. He responded by saying he didn’t know if there was any investigation into it by the polic

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns accused the Government of a 'muted response'. She suggested that social media companies were being treated with 'kid gloves' by the Government, and read out a series of 'vile' prompts to Grok by users of X in relation to uploaded photographs of women

The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. The gift is the largest in the organization's history. apnews.com/article/trev...

Hundreds of thousands of vile sexualised non-consensual images of women and children have been created by Grok, X’s AI tool. This isn't just horrifying – it's illegal. The Govt response to this has been muted and confusing. When will X be prosecuted?

Asked why he believes Minister for Communications and Media Patrick O’Donovan is afraid to tackle X head on, Social Democrats TD Cian O’Callaghan responded: “I don't know what the story is with him, to be honest with you.”

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up. Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views? Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

If the line isn't "I'm not willing to share the pitch on a site that is not just hosting, not just creating but also now monetising non-consensual images of women and girls" - then there is no line.

My mam was an operator. Once, a payphone making a call overseas was on a line that kept breaking. Mam kept monitoring and kept managing to reconnect them immediately. When the call ended, the person rang back to thank her, and put some money in the slot saying “There’s something for yourself”.

🚨 AI Minister Niamh Smyth says it isn't appropriate for the Government to maintain a presence on X and will speak to the Taoiseach on the matter. Says the European Commission should immediately suspend Grok while investigations are continuing. More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Let’s ask if anyone fancies a chat.

NEW: "Given Ireland's very significant history of deference to institutions... We don't want to allow a similar level of deference to large corporations to lead us into the same failure." @conorom.bsky.social on X and Grok and Ireland's response on @virginmedianews.bsky.social at 12.30

A day after he told @virginmedianews.bsky.social that it was the users creating images, not the app itself - the Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan has deactivated his Twitter account.

They have now monetised it? By isolating the function, it really shows that the ability to generate these images was always deliberate and in their control to block.