- yes Gardaí should be trained on how to pursue vehicles - no they should not have an indemnity against negligence (if trained) - yes it's insane to expect a police force to operate without pursuit training - yes escooter controls are pointless without enforcement - yes nothing is going to change

if the proposals take effect as planned, it will be legal for a 17-year old to drive any type of car and illegal for them to use any type of e-scooter autodependence locked in from an early age 👍🏻 👍🏻

Even if requiring licenses & registration wasn't effectively a ban. Who and how will they be checked? This issue constantly circles back to the enforcement shaped elephant in the room

Make no mistake… Government have today decided to effectively ban e-scooters in all but name A decades worth of advocacy goes straight down the toilet because Government refused to stop retailers selling illegal vehicles to children This is a massive step backwards

by the time the 2023 law on ’powered personal transporters’ was passed the country had been flooded with illegal e-bikes and e-scooters. very little has been done since to address that fact the outcome of this current debate is going to be something so blunt and stupid it'll make your toes curl

gas how much begrudgery persists in elements of the management classes about remote working because of the belief that it: 1. is an employee benefit 2. is a negative for employers and organisations 3. was given away without anything being given in return

red cards in World Cup finals: 🇦🇷 Pedro Monzón (1990) 🇦🇷 Gustavo Dezotti (1990) 🇫🇷 Marcel Desailly (1998) 🇫🇷 Zinedine Zidane (2006) 🇳🇱 John Heitinga (2010) 🇦🇷 Enzo Fernández (2026)

both Spain and Argentina have a Little Ginger Lad on the bench. discuss.

well we still have the trophy presentation to look forward to

can't wait for the Extra Time Half Time show, curated by The Script

FIFA graffiti seen in Jerusalem

Shakira is to FIFA as Joss Stone is to Jools Holland

the movie of Argentina's World Cup journey and every player is a Muppet except Messi

R9 looked so happy to be there it made me happy

people all over the timeline surprised that a show curated by Chris Martin could be anodyne and lame

it's giving Late Late Toy Show tbh

Any distance is walkable as long as it’s from a parked car.

saw a fella in an Offaly jersey down the shops earlier, do they think they're at The Open or something

wondering again have Liam Sheedy and Pietro Savastano ever been seen in the same room at the same time #speirgorm

My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden

i am begging venues & bands to rediscover clipart

willing to bet ‘monopoly on compassion’ came out of the government parties workshopping an alternative way of saying ‘virtue signalling’ because when they say it that's basically what they mean

you can't even make a stir-fry in a shallow flat-bottomed pan any more, because of wok

while this is very much not my idea of a good time 😀 my cousin who's a guide dog user and fundraiser talked me into doing it, so good vibes and any wee donations would be hugely appreciated! the latter will help a really great Irish charity donate: www.tinyurl.com/4G4IDG #speirgorm

every few months I go down a Re-turn / DRS rabbit hole and come away scratching my head. its raison d'être is to ensure that Ireland meets -recycling- targets set under the Single-Use Plastics Directive but it's bizarre* that it has no remit to reduce the proliferation of SUPs in the first place

you can't even make a stir-fry in a shallow flat-bottomed pan any more, because of wok

In her latest bit, Sinéad O’Sullivan talks about everything from the makeup of our State to the delivery of a metro in Dublin, as if no choices had been made by politicians. But these were documented choices. And 20% of the workforce being employed by the State would not be outside EU norms, so...

football was apparently coming home after a run of games like this 🇭🇷 4–2 (pre–World Cup FIFA ranking: 11th) 🇬🇭 0–0 (73rd) 🇵🇦 2–0 (34th) 🇨🇩 2–1 (46th) 🇲🇽 3–2 (14th) 🇳🇴 2–1 (31st)

football was apparently coming home after a run of games like this 🇭🇷 4–2 (pre–World Cup FIFA ranking: 11th) 🇬🇭 0–0 (73rd) 🇵🇦 2–0 (34th) 🇨🇩 2–1 (46th) 🇲🇽 3–2 (14th) 🇳🇴 2–1 (31st)

Messi though. At 39. I mean we’ve seen great old players who you think “give him the last 20 and he might get you something” - but there’s never been an old player like this. Just like there was never a young player like him. Or any player like him. Boggles the mind. What a thing to see.

Dan Burn coming in as an 8th centre half

big respect for them at all times but fair play to the guys doing waste collection in that weather. not nice

it honestly feels like we'll cross a dangerous threshold if this hosepipe ban for households is allowed to stick while businesses and data centres continue consuming as much water as they want. why wouldn't electricity cuts be next

We call on Ireland to recuse itself from digital and fiscal files during its presidency of the European Union due to the State’s ‘questionable track record’ on digital policy and corporate tax www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The rising anger at data centres is a big bear and this is poking that big bear with a big stick

Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill

I noticed Molloy wore sneakers... For sneaking

it is very much not coincidental that people with a history of sexual predation have been at the vanguard of neoconservatism and the political rightward shift over the past 10 years

no doubt the ‘Sam Neill was born in our kitchen’ bed & breakfast in Omagh will be inundated with bookings for the next while

it almost feels redundant making the ‘any other context’ argument, and I know the issues with bonfires are about more than this: but in what other context anywhere in the world would a fire hazard like this be tolerated. jfc

if somehow our human civilisation survives another 100 years and something like the internet still exists by then, the 2126 Wikipedia entry on post-independence Ireland has just been written ⤵️

New Gist: The End of the 100 Year Government Protecting the property-owning class has been the water that Irish politics swims in, invisible to its participants. It is why our housing crisis exists. Solving it needs a political evolution on the scale of growing legs. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

remember Lindsey Graham's multiple interventions in which he vowed to make an example of Ireland for daring to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal actions in Gaza. well the threats worked, but now he's dead, and the people who he successfully scared are still running this country

This is the second viral video that McGregor featured in where an old man who can't defend himself is hit repeatedly in the head by a professional fighter.

it is 100% morally correct that people who dealt in hatred and suffering throughout their lives are not afforded a dignified public send-off when they die. speak as much ill of them as you want folks