I see ribbon development of bungalows all the way to the sea, populated by people who insist that they need three cars because there are no shops, constantly complaining about the lack of services along their low-density tendrils of concrete… … but maybe that’s just me.

a fun thing about getting older is all the sports injuries you get while sleeping

Fun fact: M50 users are the congestion on the M50

Ireland: These are incredible. What are they called? France: Paniers feuilletés au jambon et au fromage. Ireland: "Jambons." Got it. France: Non, Ils ne- Ireland: -We're going to sell them at Centra with wedges and coleslaw.

The Palestine FA has made clear in a statement today that it has not 'given its blessing' to the Ireland-Israel game. The PFA said today that 'respecting the autonomy' of associations 'should not be misconstrued as endorsement' jrnl.ie/7075053

Irish football fans watching Japan and Scotland fans get praised in the news for cleaning up after themselves at a World Cup

I wrote about this yesterday, you know. A brief history of 'legitimate concerns' (and who decides what those are) jrnl.ie/7069404

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

Wait'll he hears what the government have done

Because they're not good?

Leo Cullen saying the media are against Leinster, while Jame Tracey is in every outlet telling everyone that the IRFU failed to sign Leinster player James Lowe to the Leinster contract he's always been on, but seems Leo's definitely a head coach in this story not DOR looking after contracts?

Reminded of many rugby pods and fans mention still being on X/twitter despite the CSAM, Grok and far right bullshit.

See how X pays you now for popular posts? Is there a legal argument to be made that these payments now constitute terrorist funding? A foreign oligarch financially rewarding the whipping up of violence against people and the state. Surely worth a go in court?

Nothing I have seen since shakes my conviction that you can probably mark the moment the UK skipped the rails as the day Cameron took the Tories out of the EPP. It was the moment the UK centre right stopped saying no to the headbangers and crossed the firewall. From then, it was only going one way.

Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

The mental gymnastics the 42 lads get into when explaining away things around Leinster that they were lambasting Munster for not too long ago must be exhausting but, fair play, somehow they manage it.

U.S. authorities inspected SENEGAL’s national team players the moment they stepped off the plane. This was the FIFA WORLD CUP “welcome” for Senegal’s team in the U.S. FULL detailed INSPECTION.🤬🤬🤬

The dogwhistles are pretty loud here. The rest of the referees should refuse to take part until he is reinstated.

Iran's World Cup team blast US visa row on arrival in Mexico. the42.ie/7063305t

Paris frozen in time in May 1970 – in pictures

we were chatting last night following the sad news of Anthony Head's passing and remembering the Buffy episode where the book of spells was as Gaeilge and I spent a solid 2 hours hunting down the original source of the news about the bus route in Dublin and reader, I found it #speirgorm

Stormed discipline shitting the bed #LEIvSTO

#SeatWatch at the Aviva: lots of empty seats #LEIvSTO

Just noticed that there's 2 SA teams and 2 teams coached by South Africans in the URC semifinals

Franco Smith calling out David Nucifora there?

(Laughs in Munster at Glasgow)

I see the Leinster pods are back on the Sam train like the last 4 months and the long overdue dawning realisation didn't happen. Hard to see the onfield flaws when he's sitting next to Leo up in the stand I suppose

Michael wants back in the room in Dublin, and maybe even the government do too after recent by-elections, and so he must first disavow Danny, at least publicly. Watch him now, apropos of nothing, support the government from opposition benches on a few things

It begins

TBF the PSG fans were doing this win or lose

Any #seatwatch for the Aviva tonight, or is that just for Munster games? #LEIvLIO

Ugh #BULvMUN

Very soft try to give up #BULvMUN

Not the scoreline I was expecting after the first 10 minutes #BULvMUN

The Munster scrum #BULvMUN

Gwan Munster! To the brave and the faithful, nothing is impossible #SUAF #BULvMUN

But who will slap the teammates asses now?

Less than one hour between these two stories.

It is objectively funny hearing Leinster pundits say that they were unaware of Sam Prendergasts limitations until about a month ago, like they weren't plainly visible since he was ordained the only 10 that need apply by the same pundits

I can't believe that government policy of doing nothing about this hasn't worked. Ireland on track to deliver only half the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions needed by 2030 jrnl.ie/7052024

Spare a thought for anyone who lives in a house designed on Room to Improve today. Coming into your all-glass extension to discover that your kitchen is now a giant magnifying glass.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Narrator: They weren't, again.

Ref seems to have decided that he's going to level this up #UBBvLEI

Ridiculous #UBBvLEI

Park Canal and Shannon Fields in Limerick

First mention of the Northampton comeback by comms