Man famous for his role in the Moriarty Tribunal now an expert on government efficiency www.rte.ie/news/busines...

"Sogo & Seibu will offer bags in which customers can enjoy comparing various taste of basashi horse-meat sashimi." Well, I guess that is a horse-themed experience

You can’t create just one trillionaire. It’s cruel. We will have to build him a mate.

A rare photo from the ballet _Hornbill Lake_

Marry, shag, or push off a cliff

But it’s only $995 if you bring your own KeepCup

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

(Whispers) “F*** right off, Sandbar”

Is that in pounds sterling? Sounds way too conservative

Who said this place didn’t have the juice?

Are we sure that revenge is best served cold? Maybe it is better served at thermonuclear temperatures, like sticky toffee pudding?

Today is the 79th anniversary of a perfectly ordinary party at the Officers’ Club of the Army War College in Washington, D.C., to mark the disbanding of the task force that organised atomic bomb tests in the Pacific, at which the attendees enjoyed a perfectly ordinary cake

Not a shaggy-dog story jrnl.ie/6864779

I love the sea. If I do have one major problem with it, it's that it is always so full of sea bishops, constantly getting right up in your face and telling you how you can be the best version of yourself. www.tom-cox.com/can-you-plea...

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

This principle extended across the Atlantic too. Mary Peirce-Evans (later Lady Heath) was an astonishing early Irish aviator (and Olympian). First woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilots license. First person to fly non-stop London to Capetown. Trained a lot of the early Aer Lingus pilots.

Legendary wing walker Lillian Boyer at work. WW1, the availability of war surplus aircraft after it and the many flight schools that popped up, created an explosion of opportunity for female aviators. E.g. the schools that didn't want take women quickly discovered that economically they needed to.

Do Bluesky posts and contributions to WhatsApp chats count as research outputs?

"The scale of institutional ownership in certain places is staggering. In Ireland, nearly half of all units delivered since 2017 were purchased by investment funds." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #housing #profitcentre

Violences sexuelles : une pétition plaide pour des wagons réservés aux femmes dans les transports transiliens A ce stade, un peu plus de 11 600 personnes y ont ajouté leur signature. Lire 👇

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

There's something about this methodology that I just can't put my finger on...

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

It's going to be tough turning this into a Hallmark Christmas movie

The day to show some love to these beautiful bats #Halloween Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton Sea and Air Mammals, 1972

Fair play, obvs, but The Daily Express is digitized, and the story is signed, so am surprised nobody had found this before How the discovery of a lost Bram Stoker story has helped raise funds for vulnerable newborns jrnl.ie/6860672

Context: after Brexit, applications for 🇮🇪🛂 from 🇬🇧🇬🇧citizens went from under 4k p/M to over 20k p/m. Any or all of those new citizens could have turned up in Ireland with the cap out. How many was too many? Did they have criminal records? Could we afford it? Reader, those questions did not matter!

Basically, you don't get to pretend you're a neutral problem solver just lookin' at the numbers when you only look at the numbers you want. Especially if you use a general term like "immigration" when referring to one specific kind of it - no good can come from that.

Le Fanu's dad's library contained a copy of Jane C. Loudon's _The Mummy_ (1827)

“In Tuesday’s remarks, Soyinka reaffirmed that he no longer has his green card. “Unfortunately, when I was looking at my green card, it fell between the fingers of a pair of scissors, and it got cut into a couple of pieces.”

Kudos to those aliens if they can destroy the planet faster than we're doing

14 people murdered with impunity in international waters so that Hegseth and co. can show how tough they are

World Justice Project: An authoritarian push is eroding the rule of law in many countries. worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-... #justice #ruleoflaw #Ireland

I fired the subeditors— here’s what happened

Oh, those ungrateful shareholders!

And if a referendum shows that the majority are fine with the system we have, we will need to reform the referendum process too

Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in the history of the state. This kind of analysis is neither serious nor credible, and it has to stop. #Aras25

[spoiler alert] I found _A House of Dynamite_ pretty gripping, and it has quite the plot twist: a missile attack is launched by a nuclear power ruled over by a dangerous lunatic -- but it's not the U.S.

I think we now know who spoiled that ballot paper in Cork

Yes, the people have spoken, but they have said the wrong thing, so we need to rewrite the constitution to make it easier for far-right grifters to reach the presidency without ever running for so much as a council seat

See? Could a mere bubble do this? on.ft.com/4ngUBSJ

Irlande : soutenue par la gauche, Catherine Connolly remporte l’élection présidentielle Relativement peu connue au début de la campagne, Catherine Connolly a pris son essor en critiquant notamment la politique du logement, ce qui a séduit les jeunes électeurs.

Doubts? DOUBTS?!

I need every journalist to point out that even if steen got the finger out and got on the ballot (she didn't), and even if all the spoiled votes would have gone to her (they wouldn't), she would have still come last

The Lioness in Winter #caturday

From the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) in 1974

New resource on BNA for people interested in 1890s Ireland - 'The Illustrograph' (1894-9) Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...