Magyar says his government will work for a ‘free, European’ Hungary in break with Orbán era – Europe live Tisza leader thanks voters in Facebook post and says his administration will be ‘well-functioning and compassionate’ Programme director of the CEU Democracy Institute, and author of Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary Magyar’s improbable rise was made possible by the government’s worsening economic record and growing anger over its pro-Russian, anti-European stance. For years, Hungarian voters had felt trapped between an authoritarian government and a feeble, fractured opposition. Magyar broke that deadlock. Removing Orbán from office is one thing. Dismantling Orbánism is quite another. Continue reading...

Magyar says his government will work for a ‘free, European’ Hungary in break with Orbán era – Europe live

Cute little girl in Dunnes earlier.

Mother (to partner): what about these tortellini – tomato and goat's cheese?

Little girl, genuinely shocked: ghost cheese!

Fears and could are strange word choices.

He speaks so cryptically. Perhaps we'll never crack his code

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.

Interesting one to watch. Moves by the EU to reduce the addictive qualities of social media.

#SpeirGorm

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Fair enough. It’s often unclear how “popular” a lot of populist policies actually are a lot of time, like hardline anti-immigrant stuff.

And I’d say FF/FG definitely can be populist too especially with tax cuts.

We are getting reports that it is Not Raining.

It seems impossible, I know, but they are coming in from all sides.

I repeat- Not Raining is what people looking out of windows are saying.

I often don’t agree with takes on that podcast but I didn’t think they were overly unfair to SF here? Doherty’s contribution re: Ukraine in the Dáil the other day was quite bad imo. More of a concious appeal to the “I’m sick of Ukraine, Ireland first” Twitter cohort rather than the usual abstention.

Police raid Elon Musk’s X office in France Paris prosecutors described raids as part of a ‘constructive approach’ to ensure platform complies with French law.

(ireland) lord i have seen what you have done for others 🙏

I find myself nostalgic for the days when evil people had to pretend not to be evil, because being evil was considered socially unacceptable.

Spain to regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants Spain's left-wing government approved a plan to regularise around 500,000 undocumented migrants by decree, the country's latest break with harsher policies elsewhere in Europe.

Spain's left-wing government approved a plan to regularise around 500,000 undocumented migrants by decree, the country's latest break with harsher policies elsewhere in Europe

Ireland' hills are also a sheep denuded wasteland.

I will die on that there hill.

I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.

Northern Lights from Phoenix Park now. #SpeirGorm

Definitive action plan on AI tools needed - Kelly - The Labour Party Definitive action plan on AI tools needed - Kelly - The Labour PartyChairperson of the Oireachtas Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport Committee and Labour Party TD Alan Kelly has urged Gove...

Definitive action plan on AI tools needed – Alan Kelly

“It is extremely important that all of Government is on the one page about this issue.

Full statement: labour.ie/news/2026/01...

Completely agree with Niamh here, overdue.

🗣️ “6,700 images were being generated in this way every single hour.”

The Group Chat examines the scale of the Grok deepfake crisis, the numbers behind it, and what the Irish Government can do.

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All Irish political parties continue to use X every day, despite the far-right CEO, sexual harassment as a service, and now even rampant CSAM.

Really bizarre that most people just accept this as normal tbh. Especially so for left/progressive parties like my own (Labour), SocDems, Greens, PBP etc.

Come on

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

Even if you think the odds of this happening have risen from 1% to say 20%, this is *insane* on a level that's hard to process.

changing our transport system is also crucial for breaking some of the influence that arseholes like trump and putin have over us – the less oil we burn, the more free we are

Asked Enterprise Minister Peter Burke if it’s appropriate for the Govt to have a presence on a site not just hosting but creating CSAM.

He said: “If it continues, it would be something I’d be hugely concerned about. This has to stop.”

Christmas can be a stressful time of the year for many. So please remember (if you have to) to step away from your family and spend more time doomscrolling on your phone.

I don’t think there’s even a straightforward set of policy prescriptions for antisemitism because its both concurrent with and downstream of like 15 other massive societal problems we’re doing hardly anything to solve

Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, placing his head in his hand in distress

accidentally did more washing than I have drying space

Syria calls Israeli incursion, strikes that killed 13 a ‘war crime’ Two Syrian children are among those killed by Israeli strikes following the incursion into the town of Beit Jinn.

Unbelievable. When will countries ever pressure Israel to stop this behavior in a meaningful way? If not, why will it ever stop?

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