Heartbroken to read this. Marjane & her voice will be deeply missed 💔 www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

people in the commuter belt will do anything but take the bus or train. don't get me wrong it's great to see the uptake in EVs but they're still primarily a -private- vehicle that takes 1 or 2 people (usually 1) from a to b, adds to congestion, and takes up road space

jfc very obvious AI here

petition for the return of square match programmes

The Irish Times view on the Government’s data centre argument: how not to make the case

AI slop will never emulate the creativity of an insane human with a paintbrush

the kids are starting their exams today and one of them got a card in the post from their nanny saying ‘you do the thinking I'll do the praying’ best of luck to all the LC JC houses, you got this ✊🏻

important piece of writing here by Conor Gallagher. the Barretts and O'Brien/Woodses of the world should remain pariahs but more people than the terminally online should know who they are, what they believe, and importantly, the extent to which their views are infecting mainstream policies

this is not exactly how I remember Into The West (1992)

petition for more GAA matches to be played at Cill Chartha's Páirc Tamhnaigh, tis spot álainn leaids

‘he is a very important person and could not be without a car’ is so much the default paradigm in this country that it barely even needs to be said by the people who are silently ok with illegal and dangerous driving

answering a different question here but a person I know recently described the sign language accompaniment on a TV show as ‘woke’. absolute brainrot

someone in the neighbourhood WhatsApp shared a photo of a planning permission notice for a new development nearby. send thoughts and prayers

someone in the neighbourhood WhatsApp shared a photo of a planning permission notice for a new development nearby. send thoughts and prayers

researching the history of pay parking in Ireland and came across this Irish Times editorial which was published the day that parking meters were launched in Dublin in 1970. it's a very reasoned take and arguably more progressive and less pro-car than a lot of the discourse you read in 2026

hope to live to see the day when road traffic enforcement neither requires a special Garda operation nor counts as news

in a country with a piss-poor track record of managing and improving road safety outcomes, and of regulating technology providers, the idea of ‘self-driving’ cars is an absolutely terrifying proposition

love this movie because it's pretty much the only one I can think of where most of the action takes place in Laois

left and left-leaning parties 21%. there's a mountain of work to be done

death and taxes and Arsenal winning 1-0 with 22% possession

all killers no fillers would be an inaccurate way of describing Brandon Flowers these days

it's on YouTube! probably nigh on impossible to hear this tune and not have a violent physical reaction if you're a rugby supporter who's not from England but I swear you won't regret giving this a listen, especially when it kicks in from 2 mins onwards

what's notable also is the -type- of external pressure that makes change happen in this country. pressure from you and me the voter, from communities, from the poor, from the disabled, doesn't register or doesn't matter to a govt with a solid majority for 4 out of 5 years of the election cycle ...

when I was a kid we used to sit up in the gallery at mass and when I was bored I'd count the number of headscarves in the congregation down below. it's just the foreign ones that are different and scary for our snowflake racists I guess

Xavi Alonso wondering how soon is too soon to have irreconcilable differences with the owners

fair play to BBC4 showing the 1974 Sonny Rollins gig at Ronnie Scott's the week he sadly passed away. it's tremendous

I never posted about this at the time of the launch, so this is late, but here's a really cool project I got to work towards the end of last year, with Laois and Longford County Councils, with funding from Creative Ireland. It springs from two ideas, working with the elderly . . . 1/6 #SpeirGorm

most mortifying thing a friend ever said that you never let them live down? mine is when I was going for a pint in Bruxelles on Harry St. with a mate who is Irish but has no interest in music, and he asked why is there a statue of Jimi Hendrix outside

the economists are wrong the planners are wrong the academics are wrong the advisors are wrong the homeless people and families are wrong the Government is Working Very Hard and we should Give Them More Time

Thwaites Glacier collapsing, AMOC weakening, ‘Super’ El Niño impending. there should be a Nuremberg for the people who have actively fought back against climate science these last decades

Richie on the ball

Ivana Bacik proposal to SocDems and Greens to come together to negotiate with FF/FG is simply an invitation to repeat the same old mistakes of Labour. It would be a disaster. People want rid of FF/FG, not to prop them up. All on left should rule out coalition with FF/FG. #VoteLeftTransferLeft

Locking in for decades more driving, more sedentary lifestyles, more car dependence, more unserviced septic tanks, more loneliness in old age, more heart disease, more expensive services, more pollution...

how in the sweet hell did I not realise Billy Gibbons is playing Ballyshannon this weekend 🤦🏻‍♂️

‘this TV series could have been a single Black Mirror episode’ looking at you, Severance

Micheál Martin's time as leader of the country will be pretty much remembered as this on repeat

Car modal share into Dublin City Centre drops below 25% for the first time Overall, the number of people travelling into the core of the capital at peak morning times in 2025 increased, with the heavy lifting done by public transport, while the number of cars entering Dublin City Centre is in a…

thoughts and prayers to all my cnidophobic brothers and sisters trying to stay professional in this weather

Ok this is a truly great tweet

thoughts and prayers to all my cnidophobic brothers and sisters trying to stay professional in this weather

I can't be the only person named Al who constantly does a double take at these headlines

‘Doing the Right Thing Just Too Difficult’, Says Country's Most Powerful Politician

I can't be the only person named Al who constantly does a double take at these headlines

public sector bodies have leases on THOUSANDS of parking spaces around the country with minimal transparency on the spend as they're rarely procured through an open tender. also: employers subsidising parking (this equally applies to private sector) is demonstrably a taxable benefit

a magnificent soul ✊🏻

Mongolian throat singing and American bluegrass in a pub in Ireland (@bataajambaldorj and @taylordallasvidic on insta)

Rodrigo y Gabriela at the National Stadium tonight was simply 🤘🏻🔥

spending a stunner of an evening queuing in traffic because you chose to drive to the beach/park, this is car brain manifest

I have seen a District Court judge give a 3 month driving ban to somebody who was illegally parked in an accessible space and tbh that should be the starting point for offenders. simply no excuse for it

when they make the podium finishers watch the race highlights #F1