Elon Musk did that.

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

All aboard the golf train to Adare, Ireland’s answer to North Korea www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

@fotoole.bsky.social “But it is not too late to stop this madness. The sun itself is sending us its message: protest and survive.” @irishtimes.com #climatechange #climatejustice www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Work this one out: €207 million is the actual clean-up cost for an 88-acre pharma site in Co Clare. €31 million is the EPA-approved fund/provision for future remediation of the 1,300-acre Aughinish site in Co Limerick.

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

Appalling abandonment by Bus Éireann in Cork. Bus broke down at Blackpool, waited an hour for next bus, it came & was full. No provision made for extra bus, no mechanic, no communication. Eventually, people just walked back into city (some old and vulnerable). PT needs serious investment & change.

CMAT magic in Cork tonight!

Nice start to the weekend when these were both waiting on my porch! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social @songlinesmagazine

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

Ecargobikes are a great way to move around the city 4 shopping, leisure, work or schooldrops. Our campaign has 2 types of ecargo bikes available for families/individuals to trial out. Contact [email protected] for queries #limerick #ecargobike @irishcycle.com @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social

Thanks @kennyailbhe.bsky.social for the company today! Day 6 fundraising.breastcancerireland.com/fundraiser/C...

We had an incredibly engaging roundtable at #esai26 discussing so many issues with inclusion and diversity in classrooms. So great to re(connect) with so many at ESAI this year and share findings from the MUSPACE project @researchireland.ie @iesjournal.bsky.social #educationalresearch #esai

Less than one hour between these two stories.

From Simon Lewis: “we have a situation where parents who don’t believe send their children to teachers who don’t believe to prepare them for a sacrament many of them don’t believe in” -every year we have this conversation in Ireland…nothing changes @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

An open letter to Minister for Further and Higher Education, James Lawless regarding Concern at Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan. At the time of posting this letter has amassed over 1,000 signatures and more are sought. Consider signing and circulating. openletter.earth/concern-abou...

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

RIP Desi Wilkinson. Desi worked with us for many years in @micireland.bsky.social sharing his enormous talent and extensive knowledge of trad music. What a privilege to have known this incredible man who was also so generous, humble and kind. youtu.be/UDqFAWupCuE?...

Rainforests being pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says. The living biosphere is being murdered on *our* watch, so every one of us is living at probably THE most crucial moment in human history. Get into the fight to save nature 💪🏽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Overproduction of meat and dairy creates unmanageable amounts of manure, ruining streams and rivers The biggest lake in Ireland is so heavily polluted that it poses serious dangers to people's health and local wildlife It's time to stop farming more animals than the land and waterways can support

Honestly, if you are NOT following these Limerick city and county council meeting threads, you are missing out! Highlight of my day - thank you for your service @seamusryan.bsky.social

Limerick Cycling Campaign were out in force today to spread the good news! Lovely group spin around the city and let’s hope it helps create more awareness of the need for greater cycling infrastructure @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social #activetravel #bikeweek #cycling

🌟 New publication in BJME Special Issue on Music & Inclusion. “Musical participation and nonparticipation at the intercultural school: a study from Ireland”. 🔍 critical questions around: - Who has access to music in schools and who does not - Where, why and how (non)participation happens

Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter Comment & Analysis: There's never money for people on the front line, says Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance Pearse Doherty when he's complaining about a secure…

If you are whinging about a secure safe bicycle storage facility at a hospital which cost about what you'd imagine it would cost, we can't be friends

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

Bike Week in Limerick kicks off on Sat 9th of May. The highlight is Limerick Rolls on Saturday 16th, a street party and group cycle All events here: www.limerick.ie/discover/wha... @pedestrianlk.bsky.social @limerickecargobike.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social 🚲

The personal toll the slashing and burning of large parts of the Higher Education sector, especially in Arts and Humanities, in Britain and now the North of Ireland on our colleagues should not be underestimated. This is horrendous but grimly unsurprising.

Listen. Can you hear it? That's the sound of masses of insect pollinators, feasting on the blossoms of a wild apple tree in the sunshine, amid naturally regenerating native rainforest. Rewilding's soundtrack.

Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️

No idea who this bloke at the WHCD is, but I like to think that someone with a gun multiple floors and half a building away wouldn’t keep me from my food either. (video from the Straits Times: they haven’t posted it on BS and no idea where they got it from)

"A bicycle needs no fuel. It requires no oil refinery, no pipeline, no tanker route through a contested strait. A worker who cycles to the office has removed themselves entirely from the chain of geopolitical dependency that currently makes Ireland vulnerable." www-tinyurl.com/1b95e30a

🌟 MUSPACE project findings now in Ukrainian! Olha Lukianchenko and I have a new journal article in 'Mystetstvo ta Osvita' (Art and Education). Collaboration funded by Research Ireland Fund for Displaced Researchers. @researchireland.ie 📄 The article is available here: artedu.com.ua/index.php/ad...

New open access pub in Teaching and Teacher Education from Ruth Nic An Bhreithiúnaigh & I. This is a systematic lit review article of 40 studies (2010–2025) examining teacher communities that support arts education. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @miceducationfac.bsky.social

So, happy 120th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth to all who celebrate

The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks. Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December. So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland. #fuelprotests #speirgorm

We have been continously asking An Garda Síochána to prioritise routine enforcement around schools. Principals' appeals are being ignored & children are put at risk. Reckless behaviour around schools and where children play should not be tolerated. www.independent.ie/regionals/du...

Article now out in the Journal of Intercultural Studies, open access - ‘Navigating Professional Musical Identities While Forcibly Displaced: A Narrative Inquiry with Ukrainian Women’. #migration #music #identity #ukraine #intercultural www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Half of the children in one school in Dublin are #homeless. No roof over their head. Nowhere to do homework. Nowhere to play. No where to be a kid. This should offend us all. It’s a national disgrace at the hands of Govt inaction & now 4000+ children in #Dublin alone are the casualties.

New article, open access: 'Searching for spaces of encounter and disorientation: Teachers’ lived experiences of music in diverse classrooms' in RSME with long-time collaborator @supergyda.bsky.social @researchireland.ie journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At least two pedestrians knocked down in Cork today by motorists & a person on a bike killed by a motorist in Dublin. Yet the spinmasters in media keep spinning that bicycles & ebikes are the problem. 3 months into 2026 & already 41 people dead on the roads.

Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #UrbanTruth

While we're doing our "the problem with university teaching" takes, mine is that it should be more shocking that in basically every UK university, the crucial decisions about teaching and assessment are made centrally, by fiat, and are almost never guided by active teaching staff or subject experts.

Wuthering Heights at 11 years of age 😬!

Why do surveys show strong public support for cycle paths, but Facebookers call it “fake news”? -- "Leadership means pushing past the noise — and over the Hill of Hysteria," says a leading mobility academic. The National Transport Authority has just published the latest findings of its Walking and…

Listen! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social spoke to @kennyailbhe.bsky.social about the hugely important "Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music" newbooksnetwork.com/music-refuge

Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.

'Data centres will take a third of power by 2030' Ireland's government wants to make us a digital slop farm. And in the process, almost certainly miss climate targets. Very few jobs or tangible benefits, but easily wowed and awed by big tech. www.independent.ie/business/iri...

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹 m.independent.ie/business/per...