REUTERS LIVE:- Pope Leo calls war in Middle East a 'scandal' to humanity - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

IRELAND apparently needs to have a grown-up debate about committing 5% of our GDP to this fucking moron

Two paragraphs that will make your eyes water! I'm speechless about the cost of health insurance. And how many years are these "average" mortgages paid over?

William Shatner is 95. Here’s what was going through his mind as he boldly went where a small group of people went before. Humble & haunting.

Great to see Gilbert O'Sullivan on The Tommy Tiernan Show. It boggles the mind that many, if not most Irish people have never heard of him. One of our greatest singer/songwriters. youtu.be/OGE6gzkMAfw?...

Does Trump write these? I think he might. Is there any time referenced evidence that shows Trump doing one thing (playing golf, say) at the same moment one of these is posted? Should be easy enough to demonstrate if so. It's not the most organised administration after all...

On this day in 2025, Eddie Jordan passed away at the age of 76 after a battle with cancer. From founding Jordan GP to entertaining millions as a BBC pundit, EJ brought colour, chaos and charisma to F1. Forever missed. 💚 📸: Paul-Henri Cahier

Watching an interview with John Major. His father was born in 1879!!!

Sorry, what...!? www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Martin's framing of the Iranian situation isn't quite what he believes either. While he certainly believes the Iranian regime is not desirable, inferring that Trump is interested in Iranian freedom is unlikely to actually be a belief that Martin holds. So, why pretend otherwise? Why not avoid it?

This was going somewhat well, all things considered, until he got to the "...and you're [Trump] doing your bit there [peace] in terms of Gaza." Martin doesn't believe that, so why did he say it?

A little music for St. Patrick's Day. An English choir sing an Irish prayer composed by an Estonian composer. youtu.be/Ir3htl3UlBk?...

“Mother, father & brothers aged five and seven shot in the head, face as they returned from shopping trip” Just another everyday massacre by Israeli “police”, one atrocity among countless others as US proxy Israel spirals into ultra-terrorism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

F1 will only return to these countries when democratic reforms, including freedom of expression and respect for human rights, are undertaken. Wishful thinking, of course. F1 will return when the respective dictators cough up another big bucket of money.

Okay, normal service has resumed.

I'm going to say it once, and once only. COME ON, ENGLAND!!!

The European Union needs a leader whose interests are European, not merely German.

If I didn't know what I was talking about, I would hesitate to write about it in the paper of record... www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster... "And anyone with Outlook on their personal phones had their phones wiped."

Well, Paul. You only had to wait 9 minutes...

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...

@atrupar.com listens to a tremendous amount of bullshit all day, everyday. But not just any bullshit, really really stupid bullshit. And when it's not bullshit, it's absolutely psychotic. Or its absolutely psychotic and total bullshit. I don't know how he does it, day in and day out.

“Europeans had weeks of notice that US president Donald Trump was about to trigger a war in the Middle East,” notes @ecfr.eu. “The conflict is now wreaking carnage in the world’s most energy-rich region on an hourly basis, increasing the direct costs to Europeans and boosting Russia’s war coffers."

"What we have witnessed...are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years. We must name them as such, without euphemism and without equivocation." www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

“I wish I could say how cavalier, obtuse and hopeless Secretary Hegseth is at leading the Pentagon. I can’t even muster the words to describe his self-adulation, matched only in scope by his apparent moral depravity.” And this is what his own mother said about him👇

Trump and Netanyahu are salting the earth.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Descending down a Wikipedia rabbit hole l came across the Iffland-Ring. "The holder of the [ring] is considered to be the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre", in the opinion of the previous holder who has passed it to him by will." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iffland...

I hope Vance remembers to say thank you. Pentagon eyes Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iran - www.ft.com/content/d077... via @FT

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

There's any number of things you could say about this maniac. But what's with Warfighter? It sounds like the name of a really terrible Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.

It’s a Special Military Operation.

news.un.org/en/story/202... "Clutching pearls and hemming and hawing about the use of force..." "No politically correct wars..." "No stupid rules of engagement..." Maybe some day, in some utopian future, this will be key evidence in a war crimes trial.

The destruction of the East Wing of the White House is an apt metaphor for how Trump's America can destroy yet cannot build

The NYT style guide

You don't need an economist to tell you that Spain's tax base is not as exposed to American multinationals as Ireland's. You must have to listen to this...

The Irish Times and RTE, and almost every other media outlet is reporting on the assassination of Khamenei and his successor, but there appears to be scant coverage of an appalling atrocity in Iran yesterday. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

**NEW POST** LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap. This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT. leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...

Fun fact: In German, Mar-a-Lago is pronounced "Berghof".

The people who hate asylum seekers are cheering on an illegal war that will create millions of refugees…

The most peaceful American president in history and the most moral military in the world, ladies and gentlemen. aje.news/oxml6j

Sorry, what's this I hear? Yet another American president with slurred speech. (Don't mention it though!) This meandering, confused and nonsensical jabber reminds me of this little gem. youtu.be/UaMoX-wEdfQ?...

Watching the ice hockey at the Winter Olympics. So, what exactly constitutes a foul on your opponent in this sport? #icehockey #winterolympics

Who ever came up with this idea should be fired. Then rehired so that they can be fired a second time. Nobody wants this. Nobody. (Nice car though). First drive: The new VW Passat is coming to Ireland, making the case for estates over snake-oil SUVs www.irishtimes.com/motors/2026/...