How does Watt keep getting these posts?
When he started in the Civil Service, he was known as Forty Watt, (i.e. not very bright)

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Up to four in a room in Dublin 2 house as landlord says it's a hard time 'to make money' A former Clare Street office now houses up to 22 people paying up to €890 for bed spaces, despite no registration with the RTB.

A former Clare Street office now houses up to 22 people paying up to €890 for bed spaces, despite no registration with the RTB. jrnl.ie/7007748

I’ve be involved in various capacities in counter disinformation and counter hate speech activity on Irish online spaces for over 8 years.

I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse directed at Senator Eileen Flynn… it’s gamergate levels of targeted & coordinated harassment.

This will devastate Ireland FYI and you never hear anyone in the Irish government talking about it #Spéirgorm

Police officers stand in the street, as tractors block Dublin's O'Connell Street, as part of a protest over the high cost of fuel that clogged up busy thoroughfares and motorways across Ireland for a second successive day, in Dublin, Ireland April 8, 2026

The meta, Meta and meaning of the Irish fuel protests - a longish read about what more than 20 years of studying and covering the far right has taught me about these political moments.
#speirgorm
philipoconnor.com/the-meta-met...

Neoliberalism and The New Fascism Click here to download this article as a pdf Tim Goodacre, Canberra, Jan-Feb 2026 Once Upon a Time The world that we all grew up in is gone. It won’t be back. The shadow of fascism once against rea…

Here is my first long piece in a long time - "Neoliberalism and the New Fascism."
This has been a labour of... not quite love, but necessity for me. It's been a very long time in gestation, pulling together a lot of my thinking over the last 20 years.

timgoodacre.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...

I wonder how much of the cut will be passed on at the pumps.
Is there a record of daily fuel prices. Or any way to highlight the stations that have jacked up their prices this evening?

Let disabled people get married or even just move in with their partners without it affecting our disability allowance.

It wasn't means tested based on my parent's income when I lived with them, it shouldn't be means tested based on my partner's income. It sets me up for financial abuse.

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused.

Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

The rise in fuel bills is too high. But so is the rise in rents.
TDs asking for a cap on the former are the very ones who just voted to remove restrictions on the latter.
Renters abandoned to the mercy of the market. Businessmen apparently need protection from it.
The Irish caste system at work.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Inside Deal - josimarfootball.com Ahead of the World Cup, Fifa has signed a prediction market partner. But the company, ADI Predictstreet, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi royal family, has no working product yet, is unlicensed in alm...

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Fifa's new prediction markets partner has no working product, is unlicensed everywhere except Gibraltar and its CEO paid a six-figure sum to Indian regulators last year to settle allegations of serious insider trading.
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I visited London recently and while passing Cromwell Road I involuntarily bristled, if that's any indication of the sentiment. It's not even named after Oliver afaik.

Presumably he placed the appropriate bets just before he made the announcement which affected oil prices and the stock markets

The Irish government (of which Micheál Martin was a member) was told years ago how Finland solved homelessness through implementing Housing First.
Ireland chose not to do the same, and now has more than 17,000 people in emergency accommodation, with tens of thousands more "hidden homeless".

Taoiseach lied to journalists about US soldiers at Shannon The claim “there are no weapons” was a lie.

Micheál Martin lied to journalists when he said armed US soldiers weren't landing at Shannon Airport.

Martin said there are “no weapons” passing through the airport – but his colleague Darragh O’Brien authorised US troops carrying guns to land there.

www.ontheditch.com/ag-insint-br...

Your reminder that @finegael.bsky.social MEPs voted for this and the far right celebrated.
May the dead haunt every moment of their dreams, in this life and the next.

My testimony at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Justice Committee yesterday evening: new documents reveal serious problems in the recruitment process for Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Did he say anything about petrol stations adding on the 22c/17c already, before it's reduced tomorrow

Trump, Vance and Rubio lectured Micheál Martin and the media on:

Their justification for murder in Iran
Their blockade of Cuba
Scaremongering about mass migration
Climate denialism

Micheál Martin nodded along while our national day was used as a backdrop for US imperialism.

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I was born in #Bessboro in the early 70’s.
A baby with dark hair & brown eyes had been ordered by a couple.
I fit the bill.
At 7 weeks old I was placed with the couple.
My adoptive mother was a cold, unloving woman, I was bought to complete the ‘family’.

So this is where we are .... A genocide enabler & a rapist is a "gracious and courteous host"

So this is where we are ....

A genocide enabler & a rapist is a "gracious and courteous host"

The Irish state holds shares in Palantir.

Kids in the Hind Rajab Centre playing football

Children playing in the Hind Rajab Centre

Kids in classes

Kids playing

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Dozens of our readers say they were evicted shortly before the new rental rules came in “I received an eviction notice on Friday – just one week before the change. I’ve barely slept since,” one reader said.

This law to increase rents has had the completely foreseen side effect of also increasing evictions (so the landlords can put up rents).

www.thejournal.ie/your-stories...

US war planes stopped at Shannon on way to Iran war hub The state allows these aircraft use of Irish territory. It prosecutes Irish people who oppose this.

Two US Air Force aircraft stopped at Shannon Airport before flying straight to the main European hub used to transport weapons for use against Iran

They arrived in Ireland the same day a US-backed Israeli airstrike killed more than 150 schoolgirls in Iran

www.ontheditch.com/us-military-...

Sporstwashing is when a bad actor uses sports to distract from its negative, or outright appalling actions.

Israel being allowed to compete in the UEFA Nations League is a textbook example.

The FAI, RTÉ and the govt must make a stand and boycott Ireland's fixtures against Israel later this year.