Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times Unsettling breathing, arrhythmic clatter, gloomy piano and military snares underpin a Beefheartian portrayal of a boorish warmonger on the band’s ominous return

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m people

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Totally agree, we're still a theocracy

Monster picks up Jam Media catalogue NEWS BRIEF: Irish distributor Monster Entertainment has acquired the sales rights to UK- and Ireland-based kids and family studio Jam Media’s catalogue.

Very excited about this! www.c21media.net/news/monster...

Help I'm trapped and I need a coffee

Jasmine is confused. Winter-flowering yellow Jasmine and Summer-flowering white Jasmine in flower together. Lá Fhéile Bhrīde

Good morning! Thought for the day

Daphne in flower in the background bringing some colour to these grey days

The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaged the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.

"Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed by a federal immigration officer, the Trump administration, backed by right-wing influencers, launched a smear campaign against the victim, labeling him a “terrorist” and a “lunatic.” www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Holy shit.

An American state has to take legal action to protect evidence from being destroyed in a murder case by the federal government: The US has officially joined the Shithole Country club.

#alexpretti
#minnesota

They keep showing us who they are.

Murdering our citizens for peacefully exercising their rights, ignoring our laws, gaslighting us for demanding justice…

They think their brutality will cower us into silence.

Into obeisance.

They clearly don’t know who we are.

They will.

How can we be sure that's him?

We've adopted this stray cat who dashes into the house every chance it gets. Thinking of calling it Enoch

Cabinet to consider major reform of Ireland's asylum laws Justice minister Jim O'Callaghan will bring the International Protection Bill 2026 to the first Cabinet meeting of 2026

In 2025 the country that Ireland received the most new asylum seekers from was Somalia. A country so dangerous that our own government's travel advice is, do not go there under any circumstances

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

I suppose there's something poetic in Eddie losing his marbles while all around him were losing their money

The Minister for Foreign Affairs should summon the US Ambassador and demand an explanation for this interference in our democracy

Eddie Hobbs, traitor

Post-mortems due on bodies of father, son found in Dublin Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out on the bodies of a father and son who are believed to have died in a suspected murder-suicide in Dublin yesterday.

I'm sorry but WTAF is wrong with men? Post-mortems due on bodies of father, son found in Dublin rte.ie/news/dublin/... via
@rte

Wicklow hillfort designated Ireland's earliest proto-town A hillfort in Co Wicklow has been declared the "largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain".

This is fascinating, completely changing our understanding of our ancient history www.rte.ie/news/leinste...

It's that simple

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say it's at the first stage as it hasn't passed anything?

It appears that the amendment to the GRA which they reference as having passed its first stage, hasn't, in fact, passed its first stage - www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bil....

Yes I wasn't happy to see them getting a mention but I presume they were going for "balance" and the Guardian's support for trans rights has been suspect at best

‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Daphne is back #WinterSolstice

Winter sun over Killiney Bay

In the future, it will be less about Trump White House Ballroom and more about Trump wings in prisons where all the corrupt MAGAs can be housed