Journalists are always trying to make fetch happen. Remember "the Gilmore gale"? The Irish Water bother being called "waterwatergate"? Some tool trying to rebrand the Liberties as SoHo (SOuth of HeustOn station)? Utter bollocks.

Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”

Man gropes Mexico president as she speaks with citizens on the streets

The Eastern Europeans that I worked in hospitality the from 2002 - 2010 (even during the crash they were the only ones that would stick working nightclub hours) and kept the shrunken social scene viable, now own a lot of restaurants, cafes and catering services. Bloody immigrants, keeping joy alive

So now the Taoiseach and the biggest opposition party are both saying “you’re not allowed to criticise immigration these days“. What overlords are holding their jaws shut exactly? Does “the woke mob” have 85 seats in Dáil Éireann?

“Ireland’s housing crisis to last another 15 years, Dept of Finance predicts” “estimate of future demand based on current demographic trends, growing preference for smaller households & pent-up demand that has accumulated in recent years” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

"live updates" — surely not anymore?

Watching this makes the recent Irish presidential debates on Virgin Media look like a primary school play

Why do the good always die so young

It’s ironic that European FP doves are so against an EU army, given how restrained it would likely be? National armies can act unilaterally. France fucking around in west Africa, or the UK joining US invasions in the Middle East. Imagine an army that needed EUCO unanimity to scratch its nose!

The attacks in two towns come a day after Israel threatened to escalate its assault on alleged Hezbollah targets.

Hold music? Fine. Holds music that interrupts every five seconds to apologize for the hold? Monstrous, how did we get here...

With respect what in gods gravy is a “non-militarised European security framework” and how would it stop 300 shahed drones bombing a city

Scary stuff with this Russia backed proxy war in Venezuela. Maduro needs to respect America’s legitimate security concerns in their sphere of influence. Don’t they know the USA has nuclear weapons? Do they want WW3?? I’ll be protesting at the Venezuelan embassy to demand PEACE not WAR 🕊️ #StopTheWar

My most basic trad Irish opinion is I just really love haunting uilleann pipes. Some auld fella kicking on the drone and just giving it his all.

A real test for politicians and gardaí. There's been a years-long campaign of arson/attempted arson at IPAS centres - even buildings rumoured to be considered for asylum seekers. We've had far-right instigated riots in our capital, at CityWest and Coolock; arson at TD's property... (1/2)

Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Government party that has failed to build houses for 14 years straight says the problem is actually too many people wanting a house.

i am a firm believer in the "you will pay your taxes and you will enjoy it" school of leftism i fucking love giving a part of my hard-earned paycheck to social security, education, the climate and healthcare, actually

I think Belgium approving use of frozen Russian assets would be a lot more useful than this tough talk tbh.

More than 80 people killed by the IDF overnight in Gaza, including many children. This morning: "Oh the ceasefire is back on."

Still incredible to me you‘re a wokescold cringelib or whatever if you think mainstream Irish journos and political parties shouldn’t be using a website run by this man

Having killed its quota of children and babies for the day Israeli government announcement ceasefire is back on, until it must kill again to appease the evil it has descended into.

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate "powerful" strikes in Gaza.

Do not give me bad non-urgent personal news at the start of my weekend. Leave that shit for me to digest during the work week, not in my down time you relaxation thief!

We filled a complaint against Ireland to the European Commission today. Ireland has appointed an ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner. This will be interpreted by the tech industry as a signal of impunity. The European Commission must intervene. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Hashtag Never Forget

Last week FPV footage of Russian drones was released chasing obvious civilian farmers around their tractors in a field and hunting them for sport. If you oppose giving Ukraine the means to stop drones like that, you actually do need to offer a better plan for stopping them besides “love wins ❤️”.

Sorry is this a *second* Jacobin article defending that guy with a Hitler tattoo

A group of sick Palestinian children have been evacuated from Gaza to Ireland to receive medical treatment, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health have confirmed

Sitting in the Dáil she was left of FF, FG, SF, SD, Lab, Green, Aontú and most indos. All her supporters would agree with that, and that’s largely why they like her. But that’s objectively way to the left of the Irish political spectrum! As is Michael D.

2025 Irish Labour being less left wing than 2025 Kier Starmer‘s Labour is not a take based in any sort of objective reality, if you even glance at either manifesto for 2 minutes. 100 miles apart on immigration & trans rights, and Irish Labour vanilla Nordic socdem Vs UK Labour right of Fine Gael

my man hitting em with the "ehhh heh heh heh"

I know Polish people who took Polish for the leaving cert in Ireland lol, wonder if they oppose that too!

UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have shot down an Israeli drone for the first time in an incident yesterday. http://jrnl.ie/6857590t

The idea that the nomination process in Irish presidential elections is too strict seems so laughable when recent elections featured political juggernauts like uhhh… Peter Casey and Dana.

Cackling at the “Buy European” app after scanning a bottle of ballygowan

Middle aged men love to drop that they’re “not exactly woke 😏” like it makes them some rebellious bad boy. What?! You’re a 43 year old Irish white fella who works in sales and you have similar opinions to Newstalk commentary no wayyy 😮

The govt would be really stupid to get into back and forths with the Áras when Connolly inevitably criticises them on housing or child poverty etc. FF and FG will have much less patience for her personally than Higgins but they’ll roll with the (probably softish) punches if they have any cop on.

Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today. Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k. His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.

This is no longer the case, and the Taoiseach is now on his way to Dublin Castle for the declaration

I became much more pro-Palestine when I saw how Israeli and Russian militaries & their boosters used the same excuses - down to the precise meme format - to murder children

Some people do just love Catherine Connolly but the big margin of victory is obviously due to the other two candidates a) literally dropping out and b) waffling like an amateur out of her depth in every TV appearance! A lot of “Kier Starmer is popular and ran a genius campaign!” takes going around.

It’s all long over and done with in the first 25 minutes of counting. A very comprehensive win for Catherine Connolly on the cards. Questions now are quite how big the margin, the time of the count and how high the number of spoiled votes turns out to be. #Aras25

I voted

Farcical

Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.

We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.