When your name is all over the Epstein files, but you don’t want your reputation tarnished by being associated with Glinner

“Huh? What are you doing? No! Stop! Don’t you dare! I have bed hair!”

By lifting the Dublin Airport passenger cap, delaying funding for public transport that has planning permission and opening the door to commercial LNG, Minister @darraghobrientd.bsky.social's message to his constituents seems to be: prepare for much more climate chaos. www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

Mise ag an am seo.

I love this in Tallaght University Hospital. One day all hospitals will have libraries for bored patients and their families. All credit to South Dublin Libraries. That’s the kind of innovation we like to see.

On the one hand I think there are several structural factors that have brought Orbán to a reckoning; on the other, I choose to believe the prospect of a re-democratisation of Hungary is down to Troy Parrott.

Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie

Laughs in Northern Irish…

I guess Michéal's solicitor has gotten in touch.

I heard you guys were sick of the rain, so we decided to mix it up

Yesterday: we exposed the terrifying extent of corporate capture in British politics Three Labour select committee chairs came out calling for urgent action in response Today: Labour government's Elections Bill lands. Does almost *nothing* to tackle any of the issues we exposed. 🤦

The addictive design of social media is a major problem with serious impacts on public health and endangering democracy Our new report reveals intense #lobbying by Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap to block or water down EU measures against social media addiction 🚨 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised | A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture | Marie Shrewsbury

Someone really needs to take Michéal Martin aside and remind him why exactly we named it O'Connell St and why there's a fucking massive statue of the man who led a national rent strike at the top of it.

Of course, being on it (for a few more days) I'm in a unique position to criticize, but I'm actively mad they're just doing the exact same scheme and took forever to deliberate on doing that. It should be bigger, it should be longer, and the pay needs to increase (overall, not just BIA)

Failed and disgraced ex-MP Ian Paisley Jr wants a N. Ireland branch of Turning Point USA. Turning Point UK have embraced 'unapologetic street fascism'. This article shows exactly who an NI Turning Point would target and by what means. Erica Kirk, TP USA and their far-right ideology are not welcome.

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

More detailed, highly informed analysis of the industry push for deregulation in the European Union. It's clear that this wave of corporate lobbying has nothing to do with being fit for the future. It's just giant incumbents trying to bolster their profit margins by offloading harms onto people.

We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

We’d a good show last night on @tonightvmtv.bsky.social, digging in to the case of Irish citizens detained under ICE in the US and whether the government’s own policies undermine its efforts to address them.

To clarify, they're not doubling it. The 2000 people currently in receipt can apply to be one of the new 2000 recipients in September

The point of a pilot scheme is you test a policy with a small (say, 2,000 people) project as test, to evaluate whether the concept is worth widespread adoption. Basic Income for Artists was a demonstrable success. Doubling the size of your pilot scheme, is *not* widespread adoption.

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

New: The Government may “plough on” with its own national age limits for social media, after some European countries decided to try to ban children under 15 or 16 from certain social networks. This would be a change in approach from previous plan to do it via EU www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Two completely unrelated headlines…

I came out of retirement to write this story, because what the actual what ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

This website has everything...

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

Big tech companies have been lobbying EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath, in advance of his bringing forward a law that could crack down on addictive apps and targeted online advertising. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Each of these thirty failures to take climate action reads like an episode description for each of the thirty programmes in the RTÉ Radio series Hot Mess. All available to download for free. Link in next post. #Climate #SpeirGorm www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Headline in "The Echo": Unemployment in Cork rises.

Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection. If you take that away, what do they have left?

Wow. Don’t want to hear another “good billionaire” or “they were such nice kids” stories about the Stripe boys. Sitting down for a 2 1/2 hours(?!?) interview with Elon Musk and not challenging him on his political ideology, racism, the death toil from Doge +++ is just moral cowardice…

Lookit, #speirgorm we’re doing this wrong. We need to stop compulsively correcting the British on this kind of nonsense, it’s clearly pathological. Instead, we should just shut up and not say anything. Worst case scenario is they end up building some transport infrastructure in Ireland by mistake…

If you were holding out any slim hope of this tech billionaire being any different because he's relatively young and Irish (used to be local to me), the content of this 2hr 45 min podcast with Elon Musk should put an end to that for you. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

Do you want to listen to a BBC radio documentary about the birth of the original Muppet show? Is that a trick question? Yes. Yes it is...

One other point: This is a FAR more effective way to ‘make social media safer for kids’ than u16 bans. Bans sound good to many people but don’t work very well and may not actually change anything. E Commission says TikTok now has to change the app — MUCH more effective than any u16s ban

Stories like this will be used as further justification for an under 16 you social media ban. But the reality is people don't magically become more resistant to social media addiction at the age of 16...

"We are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s." A damning reality laid bare in this piece of well-researched analysis.

Interesting to note that @irishtimes.com has changed it's headline from "Irish regulators 'censored' social media coverage" to "tech giants are the victims of 'harassment' by Irish and EU regulators. It's testimony to how flimsy & unsubstantial the claims in the House Judiciary report actually are.

Interesting to note that @irishtimes.com has changed it's headline from "Irish regulators 'censored' social media coverage" to "tech giants are the victims of 'harassment' by Irish and EU regulators. It's testimony to how flimsy & unsubstantial the claims in the House Judiciary report actually are.

Ireland will not follow other countries and pass a law creating a social media ban for children in the short term, even as European Union member states advance their own plans for age limits. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Everything is the Transitive Property of Bad People and the mental stopword “censorship” with these clowns because they know their audience is low-information and won’t actually understand why this makes no sense.