Just paid the Teaching Council another year's registration - €65. At least they've shown themselves to be effective, with my past payments; from managing the teacher shortage crisis to dealing with professional standards issues like Burke. Definitely not a bunch of brazen bluffers. 😀😄😃😃😃

Will the educational sciences ever grow up? #Edusky open.substack.com/pub/paulkirs...

Tron Ares was baaaaaaaaad. When compared to Tron Legacy it was worse than this.

This ref is really making it an enjoyable game! #IRLvNZL

Piardi isn't at fault here. It's all the complicated rules. What do people think he should do? Read them? Remember them? How unreasonable! #MunvCon

12th* place. Which is nothing to sniff at! Still above Dragons, Scarlets and Ospreys! And only one of those will be cut next year! #LeivMun #Leinster #Leinsterrugby

Subscribed to URC as they claim I can stream from a browser and cast to TV. Cast function not working. Support useless. Now I discover 8/18 Munster games won't be live on it... Begining to just lose interest I won't pay a second subscription.

Why is the URC always so hard to watch?... It's like they actively want people to give up. Their new app isn't compatible with any device I have... The explanation on the website is woeful and as best I can tell I'd have to buy a new TV to subscribe.... Big brain business people

It wouldn't hurt the SEC/NCCA to listen to this. youtu.be/S9ieF7LVbyI

Sky Ireland customer service has really gone in the toilet. Poor management? Intentional sludge? I remember when their CS was the absolute peak

If Irish hotels want a VAT rate cut then they should be regulated to demolish this gouging.

Georgia have a pretty good anthem in fairness. An ominous start.

Feels like couriers don't even try these days. Every second parcel they straight up lie about attempting delivery.

End of year reflection of the state of English as a subject in Ireland right now: open.substack.com/pub/juliangi...

V good explanation of issues to do with AI and AACs in new Leaving Certificate. ASTI members have voted to reject proposals. #edchatie

Absolute joke of a Junior Cycle English paper today. I can only imagine the SEC rubbing their hands together and cackling "Gotcha!" again. What a great parter in education they are. What a sense of a capacity for success they have developed in students and teachers. What a load of....

Irish Department of Education and NCCA need to wake up. Leaving Certificate reform is being jammed through at the worst possible time in the worst possible way and they refuse to pause and reflect.

Finally pulled the trigger and replaced Windows with Linux. Don't see how I'll miss it at all.

Officiating has made a farce of this game. #MunvBul

from the new TY Programme... does this mean the NCCA have a sense of humour or...

This verve needs to be matched in funding. Reductions in class sizes, increases in SNA numbers and massive infrastructure investment. You can't have a class without a classroom. Anything less isn't solving the problem. It's shoving them into a room and closing the door. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

The book I ordered, the book I received 😑

Heading to the France game on Saturday and thought I'd look at buying a new jersey... The only thing available is the one covered in wax drizzle 🙄😒 that's a hard no.

Attempted to book a Cork-Dublin train for two different days. Defeated and discouraged by price and availability. I cannot fathom a reason not to add extra carriages services that are close to capacity, other than a surge pricing policy when you have a "1st class" option. 🚗 It is unfortunately!

No way. I'm sorry. Beirne, Lowe, Gibson-Park all contenders for player of the match. Prendergast is being allowed to grow but there's no question this 6 nations is being treated as a development year. He's grand but made too many mistakes for me.

At least LC poetry can't be dismissed as irrelevant in this political landscape. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...

Just saw the prescribed material for Drama, Film and Theatre Studies. Absolutely does not inspire any interest in teaching it. There's such little choice and it's set like this for a full 3 years. On top of a waffle laden specification, the whole thing is very disappointing.

Every year the Teaching Council rob me of €65. So, I like to have a little whinge. This year it's website design and readability. What is the point of having an English and Irish version if you plan to assault my eyes with both on each page regardless. Wasteful. Unnecessary. Teaching Council.