the Limerick Leader should act like a real newspaper rather than some random twitter goon

huge if true

ESRI says AI use in Irish firms likely lead to job losses www.rte.ie/news/busines...

FT scoop - Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz. One official says it could be equivalent to $1 per barrel of oil www.ft.com/content/02ae...

People who talk like this, man.

“A former Meta employee suspected of downloading around 30,000 private images of Facebook users is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.”

Good headline writing.

Iran says no to temporary ceasefire proposal. Donald Trump threatens war crimes. The Strait is likely to stay “closed” as long as Tehran wants it for the time being - analysis.

Genuinely flabbergasted (and intrigued) that Nate Silver has noticed this *now*, in that 'Twitter is downrating links in a way that makes it hostile if you want people to actually pay for your journalism' has been true for such a long time now. What has changed for him to notice?

Thanking @garethoconnor.bsky.social @newschambers.bsky.social and the Thursday @virginmedianews.bsky.social crew for offering a whirlwind tour of Studio 1 to my newshound 14yo son. #AuthenticStories vimeo.com/1180081836?s...

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Supporters of farmers in Lismore, Co Waterford occupied a London bookshop owned by the Duke of Devonshire today. The farmers are locked in a standoff with the aristocrat over rent hikes. www.thejournal.ie/duke-of-devo...

🚨 EU fuel rationing on the cards: Financial Times report

EC opens formal investigation into Snapchat

Metrolink's €550k-a-year boss has quit the project for family reasons. Comes at a pretty crucial time for the project... updated cost estimates, and a lot of contracts to tie up before construction begins in earnest next year.

Good lord, some of you people need to read the calendar.

President Catherine Connolly has appointed the following to the Council of State: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Linda Ervine Colin Harvey Kathleen Lynch Donncha O’Connell Conor O’Mahony Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh

A brief round-up of developments in Gaza and the West Bank while the world looks elsewhere ⤵️ www.instagram.com/p/DWgrLNhjCZE/

Spain closes airspace to US flights involved in the war with Iran. www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

Shortest Tudor reign since Lady Jane Grey

The circle on the Czech fans is very funny. www.thesun.ie/sport/167409...

The magic thing about this campaign though was rebuilding the connection between the national team and the wider Irish public. What we’ve experienced since November is lightning in a bottle. We haven’t had anything like it in a decade and beyond. Let’s build. I love this team.

That’s on us. We had it. Ridiculous penalty to give away. We shouldn’t have been under the cosh for 70 minutes. Absolutely duffed it.

Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn!

Just fucking win boys. Godspeed.

Young Ireland fans are experiencing World Cup fever for the first time as kick-off in Prague approaches. At St Mary’s National School, excitement has been building all week, with pupils backing the team ahead of the crucial play-off against Czech Republic. #VMNews

COYBIG.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

So the *leading* candidate for the Democrats in 2028 is a lad whose press office is making 'haha u r gay' jokes online?

Ireland you will always be famous

Some big warnings from the Central Bank and ESRI today on how households might feel the impact of the energy crisis.

Irish Daily Mail: “Private jets to get fuel tax cut”#TomorrowsPapersToday

I’m in an endless vortex of Ireland football edits on Instagram and can’t get out. Keep me here.

historic moment with potentially enormous ramifications: Meta and Google found liable in landmark legal case that social media platforms are designed to be addictive to children, opening up the tech giants to penalties in thousands of similar claims filed around the US www.ft.com/content/d3d8...

You know, once a jury has made its decision you are extremely justified in dropping the "allegedly"

Breaking: Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

I see. Robots to deliver meals in new children’s hospital – but half of rooms still not ready. www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

German President says Iran war is a breach of international law and hammers the German government for not calling it out as such.

Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast.

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650

Airlines are bracing themselves for an oil crisis — and experts say they’re a canary in the coal mine for the rest of the global economy:

Spoke to some Republicans on Capitol Hill who made it very clear that their concerns about “censorship” of Big Tech is on their radar and could be the next big push from the Trump White House on Ireland and the EU.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Nearly a week on from the Taoiseach’s White House visit, concerns remain over the future of the US-Irish relationship. Trump used the occasion to criticise Ireland’s economy while congressional allies warned that Ireland’s role as a regulator for Big Tech could create tensions with DC. #VMNews

📝 Punk Rock, Cow Pins and Stephen Moylan Inside the Taoiseach's mission to the Trump White House. open.substack.com/pub/newscham...

Have to re-engage my writing muscle for something a lot of you may have interest in in the months ahead. For now, here’s this inside track on how the White House meeting played out in the Taoiseach’s orbit.

Israeli settlers carry out series of West Bank attacks as security forces stand by