People in positions of power and influence should mind what they say. Words carry meaning and affect how people behave. In a country where 14 cyclists were killed on the roads last year, it's not right for a judge to call cyclists a "nightmare". He should withdraw the remark.

“In jurisdictions where it’s illegal” - shows it’s trivial to disable this functionality, and also that they’re determined to continue to offer it wherever they can, for some reason

siopa caife álainn i sráidbhaile Tamhlacht, nach raibh fhios agam roimh an lá seo a bhfuil ann. bhí seans agam mo chuid bheag Gaeilge a úsáid, agus bhí patience mór acu liomsa #speirgorm

there's a townland in Offaly called Chevychase

a really important piece of research which will unfortunately do little to change the minds the iRisH pAtRiOts as long as every social media platform is allowed to be a wild west of mis- and disinformation

These people are absolutely insane with power grapevine.is/news/2026/01...

there's a townland in Offaly called Chevychase

finished Pluribus and ... I hope the next season is good

honestly think that MM is terrified of what might be said to him when he goes to doff the cap in Washington in two months' time

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

ahhh, it's unimplementable. forget about it so

Cycling Ireland responds to comments made in the Circuit Court. Full statement: https://shorturl.pulse.ly/rpmgslvbvv

d'Unimplementables

ahhh, it's unimplementable. forget about it so

seems like the campaign of harassment and intimidation against Simon Harris has worked exactly as intended, judging by who he's now apparently bedfellows with

Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me

a Susan McCann cover of a Waylon Jennings song, no less 🤘🏻

If humanity somehow manages to make it through the upcoming nuclear winter, historians of the future will probably go insane trying to understand the stupidity of our current era

The upper course of the Barrow, one of the three sisters and the second-longest river in Ireland. Had (maybe still has) some lovely spots for swimming.

karma's a bitch 😂 #LIVBAR

Szoboszlai whipping out the rarely-spotted disrespectful respectful no-celebration #LIVBAR

The curse of great wealth is that slowly your money comes to own you, not vice versa. California's billionaires are demonstrating this to everyone. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/prisoners-...

now that Christmas is over Dads everywhere will move on from mentioning 'Kirsty MacColl was killed by a speedboat' every time they hear Fairytale of New York to saying 'Xabi Alonso was a Spanish Student in Kells' every time he's mentioned in the news

Good to see that Labour TD Duncan Smith has updated his X profile to say he's 'no longer using X under current ownership'. Darragh O'Brien, however is still stubbornly posting away

national slow down day for the speed at which the Tánaiste is moving the overton window

Seems like a good time to post this again.

Have your say by January 15 deadline. In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair. For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han... #environmentaljustice

to add to this: An Post's financial services arm is profit-making but it doesn't cross-subsidise mails and parcels because it treats them as separate businesses. An Post Group made €10m net profit in FY2024.

The post office is a public service, and making it pay for itself is an abdication of responsibility by the government. Fund the bloody thing so it doesn’t overprice itself into a death spiral. #speirghorm

Elon Musk is going to burn the world down rather than go to therapy about his trans daughter

In Our Time returns this week. Thanks for waiting patiently and/or impatiently www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is an example of why mandatory age verification is nigh on impossible. During a week when X's status as a child sexual abuse image factory was exposed, the issue of requiring children to upload photos of themselves to the internet under the guise of child safety is abundantly problematic.

the duali-DEAN of man

great interview. looking forward to seeing Emmylou for the first time next week in Dublin. she's a legend

From 1979

COLOURSCAPE: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the sonnet.

Elon Musk is going to burn the world down rather than go to therapy about his trans daughter

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

Idk I just feel we should be making a bigger deal about members of the Oireachtas speaking at an event run by anti-semitic conspiracy loon Eddie Hobbs

This week on Martin and Harris Investigate the detectives suspect a rich man has committed a crime so they stand there shrugging for an entire hour.

this article gives the name of the man accused of this awful attack and the address of his hostel accommodation (as given to the court presumably) and, guess what, there have been no mass protests or riots like there were at Citywest last October. interesting.

great piece, and this bit is particularly nail-on-head. classism is the enduring imprint that colonialism left on Ireland. FDI (previously catholic church) -> Irish politicians -> people who vote for them

I guess the centrist equivalent of this in Ireland is condemning a race riot at Citywest and then talking for weeks about an invented 'far left' problem to counterbalance it

TMZ reporting the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir has died. Oh man. www.tmz.com/2026/01/10/g...

My favourite of John Hinde's postcards of Ireland: the Montague Motel, located on the old N7 between Ballybrittas and Portlaoise. Every other wedding or debs in and around Laois took place in it. Love all the vintage detail but the Martini-branded parasol is 😗👌🏻 📷 P. O'Toole, John Hinde Studios

#BlueSkyArtShow #Holiday From the Wonderful World of John Hinde

this article gives the name of the man accused of this awful attack and the address of his hostel accommodation (as given to the court presumably) and, guess what, there have been no mass protests or riots like there were at Citywest last October. interesting.

re-watching Where Eagles Dare (1968) and learning from imdb trivia that British actor Derren Nesbitt who played the evil Major von Hapen was one of the founders of the Our Price record store chain