So can the ‘protesters’ planning to have their day out tomorrow listen to what people who actually work for the betterment of the country think

This is who we are dealing with as a nation

200 people holding the city to ransom

Where are the clampers when you need them?

“WE ARE GOING to put a gun to the government’s head” -a fuel protest organiser A price cap is an unquantifiable state subsidy in perpetuity Lots of interests want state support We can’t decide our national finances based on who has a gun - on who owns 15 ton truck & can hold the country to ransom

If only they took their demands turned them into a manifesto and ran for election - nope that would be actual work - much easier to just park up and do nothing.

Indeed this is great reporting but the stand out paragraph for me is this. So Geoghegan is framing this as rural versus urban - and those of us needing to get to hospital are liars - what a hero!

You’d really wonder to what extent the ‘protestors’ can be trusted when they break their first promise - also do they understand how representative democracy works?

Someone put this on a billboard on O’Connell Street and

If only we knew who their representatives are? Farmers organisations and haulier organisations say it’s not them - or are we missing something? #IFA #ICMSA

To all the MEN protesting on O’Connell Street and the surrounding area - any chance you could consider the WOMEN your are endangering?

Any mainstream media like to add to this analysis - do some investigative journalism instead of telling us what they ‘feel’ about the situation and what ‘people on the ground’ are telling them. @virginmedianews.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social @independent.ie @irishtimes.com @news.rte.ie

Looking forward to the weekend papers and the gender analysis of these protests - I suspect instead they’ll take the usual lazy rural/urban divide as their hot take.

So now they're not content with buses being able to move at all, these 4 men, and the 2 in front of the white van have blocked all traffic moving down the quays at the Capel St. junction

Peadar Toibín trying to carefully make his way from 'Main stage attraction on O'Connell Street' the day before yesterday to 'Responsible mediator' today is some excellent sleeveenery. But I'd expect nothing less from him.

A take away from these so called ‘organic’, ‘spontaneous’ and ‘local’ protests is that anyone who thinks Sinn Fein is a party of the left is clearly mistaken. They’ve hitched their wagon to Independent Ireland and Aontú - the progressive left should remember this in any future dealings with SF

And what is the penalty for ‘national sabotage’? If only the government knew!

Mattie McGrath clearly NOT ‘getting the job done’

It’s not a traffic disruption - it’s an illegal blockade of a national road that the Irish government refuse to police as they would any other illegal blockade - @garda.ie

Dublin City Centre has been shut down for going on 36hrs now and there are groups of Gardai standing around just looking at the machinery parked across the streets cos apparently people can do anything they want whenever they want now as long as they pretend they represent farmers. It's bizarre

The disparity of approach by the state to protest is blatant and staggering. I ask you to consider if this road protest was in the cause of ending genocide in Gaza or the homeless in our midst. Public Order laws would have been invoked and multiple arrests made, possibly including cavity searches.

The assembly of tractors is causing the sort of chaos & damage to businesses in the city centre that business groups said was only possible with the introduction of bicycle lanes.

Any Irish politician in government going to call out the fact the country is coming to a stand still - and can the 17 year old tractor drivers go back to school asap - @fiannafailparty.bsky.social @fine-gael.bsky.social

The people of the USA are governed by a genocidal lunatic and the ‘separation of powers’ has been shown to be utterly useless in the face of the worlds most dangerous human.

Interesting piece in @theguardian.com on Ireland's 1926 census being digitised. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Ireland is the 5th freest nation in the world, with full political rights and near-ideal civil liberties. The country sits alongside Finland, Norway, Sweden & New Zealand. At a time when global freedom is in decline, Ireland is a beacon of positivity. 🇮🇪 freedomhouse.org/report/freed...

"If you jumped into a pit with a baboon, tried to convince it to have tea with you for 40 minutes, and sat nodding sagely at its baboon remarks the whole time... people wouldn’t say ‘Well done navigating that baboon situation’, they would say ‘Why do you do that every March 17th?’" New column:

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” - Omar El Akkad

My letter in the Irish Examiner last Saturday about a nasty political incident regarding fake news. Also a bit on Hannah Arendt.

'At least 32 out of Africa's 54 countries have laws on the books prohibiting and punishing same-sex relations'. #LGBTQ #Senegal www.france24.com/en/africa/20...

It always amazed me that more higher education leaders didn’t break silence on this blatant manipulation of the ‘points system’

European (and NATO) leaders must stop with the pious fraud and provide unequivocal support for Sánchez’s truth-telling

Most people do.

Marking International Women’s Day, she said the violations of international law being witnessed are “shocking and numbing”, [2/2]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has delivered a strong rebuttal to US President Donald Trump's threat to end trade with Spain by declaring his opposition to war and what he called the "breakdown of international law". www.bbc.com/news/article...

"including, with this morning’s drone strike on a British base on Cyprus, on EU territory". The British base is part of a British Overseas Territory and is not legally part of Cyprus or the EU. The UK went to lengths to ensure this was the case. @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/five-things-...

'Irish citizens in UAE could be bussed to Oman if Dubai and Abu Dhabi flights remain restricted' #Iran #UAE #Dubai #Oman www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

U.S. State Department issues “Depart now” alert for American citizens in over a dozen countries

Soft skills aren't neutral. Who gets credit for "leadership" and "resilience" depends heavily on class, race, and whose experiences the hiring process was built to recognise. #Sociology #Bourdieu #SocialClass #Employability #GraduateRecruitment

Statement by President Connolly following strikes on Iran president.ie/en/media-lib...

"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

Applications for the Sanctuary Scholarship is now open! The online application form for this scholarship is now live and the deadline to submit this form is 5pm on Friday 20th of March 2026. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/edi/excellen...

When ministers defended Starmer over Mandelson’s links to Epstein this week, they rushed to X - a platform that lets users strip photos of women and girls. Is it surely time for the government to log off X? And is social media too toxic for all of us? My col: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Liz Carolan: Big tech is profiting from deepfake videos of celebrities selling face cream and Bitcoin

The endless rain in Irish

And some evidence of releasing micro particles into the air / though that is emerging rather than definitive research

‘In respect of’ everything and ‘in terms of’ anything we need a magic wand ……..

Any chance our national broadcaster might report on this @news.rte.ie - and perhaps our other broadcasters could also @virginmedianews.bsky.social @newschambers.bsky.social

Welcome to the USA in 2026 - #Woke #Absurdism #TrumpsAmerica

Florida seems to prefer the worst aspects of medievalism to sociology - North Korean levels of anti intellectualism #Sociology #Florida #TrumpsAmerica