New Gist: The End of the 100 Year Government This week’s Gist takes a longer view to try to explain some otherwise inexplicable choices our Government is making. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

We've been bought and sold. The country is run for the benefit of American multinationals. Already clear from the overbuilding of data centers to the regulation of anything digital, they call the shots, the government acts accordingly.

"Verify your age" We had a phone like this in the first place I worked after college. Our phone number was Gort 19. I was one of the last towns in ireland to lose its local operator exchange and get those new-fangled dialling phones!

First midge bites of the year. Is it midges or mosquitoes, never sure? I overreact to them so now have big red itchy swellings on my arms and ankles. I hate those little fuckers with the same intensity as they seemingly love me.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

I can hear the collective sigh from the judiciary from here.

Against a ban as it might drive coursing underground. But in favour of (unspecified) regulation as if that would be observed to the letter. Struggling to imagine what kind of regulation would make this cruel 'sport' in any way acceptable.

Why is unfit in parentheses? And I can think of many reasons why you might be unfit to attend an office but fit to work from home.

Barely surviving the heat today and only because of anticipating the blessed relief of 20⁰ tomorrow. It's really worrying how fast and intensely climate change is coming. We are not ready.

We don't spend enough, we save too much and don't max out our credit cards. We are bad bad little economic units.

AI hallucination in search. Searched for local stockist of a brand, get places I know don't stock it, at least two of which do not exist. Looking for something cat related - unasked for shown a list of 3 Vet clinics in Kilkenny specialising in cats. Address, phone, everything. NONE of them exist.

On a pretty short drive around Kilkenny this morning saw four large vans or small trucks with trailers parked up outside some place they were working, completely blocking cycle lanes and in one case the pavement also. All on busy roads. There is an unshiftable "doesn't apply to me" mentality.

Just came across "...it can work but is not full proof." Love seeing these in the wild!

So it's not them, it's us? Bitta good news whatever the reason.

Please help a researcher with her degree by filling out this short anonymous survey on ocean literacy 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It is infuriating that some people are still not allowing their children to have this vaccine. Know a mother of three daughters who told me she refused it in the school programme because she had "heard the stories". It was all I could do not to physically shake her.

A south of France #painting. Once upon a time a friend on holidays punished the rest of us back in Ireland by posting nice photos online. To get him back I did a painting of one of his photos and surprised him with it as a birthday present. That'll learn him. #SpéirGhorm #TidesOutTuseday #ArtYear

There was a swallow trapped in Lidl today. Flying desperately along the high windows under the ceiling clearly looking to get out. Then swooping and flying around the shop, calling all the time. I can't get the poor wee mite out of my head

Good start to Monday, 22 year old Micra sails through the NCT first go, as it has done every year since I can remember. Love that wee car.

Coffee and a sausage roll in the car for breakfast and this guy wants his share.

The funniest part of the over yonders posting their takes on NI, is that the over yonders calling them out for their ignorance are almost all equally ignorant. A full spectrum of bad takes.

Lived for years on Parnell St, the Summerhill side, about 20 yards from O'Connell St. With the terminus of about 6 bus routes outside the door. Very noisy but an amazing place to live. A fair trade off. The legacy is the ability to completely block out noise at will and sleep through any racket.

My son’s girlfriend, teaching in Germany, asked her class what they think of when they think of Ireland. What these 17-18 year olds came up with is 🤔🤷‍♂️😬

Well, this is a little out there - a Russian (?) acapella group styling themselves as '8 sisters from SpokanLand' doing a traditional Irish song about gathering seaweed. Dúlamán!

Doctor found guilty of misconduct over Covid-19 misinformation posts on social media

Had someone going up North stock me up with Paracetamol. Less than £2 for two packs of 32 tablets in Boots. It's mad how much we pay here - usually around €3 for 24 in a pharmacy. And that's your lot.

Just driving though Kilkenny and passed a women who looked dead, lying on the ground surrounded by pools of blood. Happily also surrounded by many cameras - they are making some TV series here. Kilkenny must be a proxy for some English town, there is also a red phone box on John St.

this is a cat check point. relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

When I was waitressing around Dublin in the early 80s Captain Americas was known for two things. One, you had to be very good looking to be employed there (I never worked there!) and two you would be constantly groped and this was basically considered part of the job.

For reasons unknown to me Google on my phone has decided I am Polish. And that I have a flight to catch from LA to Lima on Monday. Other apps all good, desktop & laptop all good. Very odd.

I had a conversation today with a young Tanzanian man who said much the same. His girlfriend is currently in Tanzania and it was in the mid to low 20s there today. It is not normal temperature fluctuations we are dealing with here.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

There are few greater things about summer than taking in a load of bone dry washing from the line.

Daniel Ennis has won more raw votes, despite a lower turnout, in the 2026 by-election than Gary Gannon did in the 2024 GE. An objectively huge performance by the SocDems in the capital.

I can never see any advertising about dental health without remembering this sketch. Old but a masterpiece. youtu.be/NwmwB-biQpc?...

Out on the farm of a friend of a friend where there are three generations of houses in the yard. Two now storage, but fully intact, and the modest 'new house' built in 1910 where they live and the current occupant, and his father before him, grew up. A magical place, want to stay and move in!

Looking for images of trains, at least these gave me laugh but still, AI is a pox.

this is from a few years ago and the first 3 minutes explains ver well what's happening: We're witnessing the end of the UK Union. TL;DW: "the english want to be english again".

66% of people agree "Immigrants contribute to our culture and we're all the better for having them here", up from 64% in 2024. - 77% believe people seeking international protection should be supported to become part of the communities they live in.

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

New Gist: Sunshine and Lollipops “McGregor, whose fondness for squashing his size M body into a size S suit makes him a sort of avatar for the phrase 'battered sausage'…” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

This is great. Little explanation of various political systems. However... youtu.be/PS9Bc_GQBEs?...

There's a fair? Tomorrow? In the county of Clare? No, you CANNOT go. You're still very young and I'm worried that you might marry a

Also employment in the small & 3 star hotels and B&Bs AirBnB killed. A single 3 star hotel with 70-80 rooms could replace about 40-50 AirBnBs. A typical 4-5 bedroom B&B at least 2 or 3. It's an extremely inefficient way of accommodating tourists.

The light this evening is just gorgeous, everything looks like a painting. Wish I was a better photographer.

Michael Jackson, a trailblazer in so many ways Funny how all these pricks attempted the same bullshit when arriving to court

When slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1834, the following Irish surnames were present in the long list of compensated slave-owners: Barry, Bourke, Boyle, Brady, Brennan, Broderick, Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Carey, Carroll, Codd, Coleman, Collins, Conway, Corbett, Costello, Cowan, Creighton, Crowley

Micheál Martin brings his wishy washy to Europe.

Does anyone know where this is? I think it's in a graveyard at some monastic site.

Looking at a screen this morning thinking "oh my God these things are destroying my eyesight". Cleaned my glasses, grand now.