Trade Union Fórsa has written to the Department of Public Expenditure calling for increased access to remote working for civil service staff due to the impact of the fuel crisis and continued congestion on Irish roads.
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The shed housing plan is the ultimate example of the governing Irish political ideology that everything must be set up for someone to make money from it.
Here's a national crisis being converted into an opportunity for people who're unaffected by it to screw money out of those who are.
A new low.
Aside from the fact that it still regulates how we socialise and dance, one of the enduring absurdities of the 1935 Public Dance Halls Act is its built in blanket exemption for any "recreation room" under the authority of the Minister for Defence or Gárda Síochána Commissioner!
Hahha. That's kinda epic!
It’s one thing fucking over requirements for arts or cultural spaces, but being dicks about providing actual usable crèche facilities in new housing developments is a real damning indictment of market led solutions and weak planning enforcement.
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Gas the way they saw the Kerry King of Short Lets and multi-gaff-landlord traipse out of the Junta and only wake up then. They clearly have zero friends their own age. The diesel shit show was probably jeopardising their one good day out a year - where they meet fellow kids down at the ploughing.
Workers Solidarity with the headline "Armoured Cars and tanks and Dunnes"
From 1986
This is very good from Conor McCabe and one of the few piece's of analysis I have read that clearly links the fuel protests with Ireland's deeply unequal and dysfunctional grass-fed agricultural system.
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Delighted to see the Knights Templar finally coming out against Trump.
Proving once and for all, we’re all just minor characters and background details in what’s sure to be another epic instalment in The Omen franchise.
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Delighted to see the Knights Templar finally coming out against Trump.
Proving once and for all, we’re all just minor characters and background details in what’s sure to be another epic instalment in The Omen franchise.
variety.com/2026/digital...
Rarely tune into RTE but loving that most of tonight's programming seems to be encouraging people to buy cheap gaffs in the sun and sign up to botox injections. Celtic Tiger 2.0 for some.
Unfortunately, the Irish state is pisspoor at creating a sense of public goods. Wealth redistribution takes place in tax relief and credits. A crippled public transport system, healthcare waiting lists and a chronic underfunding of community infrastructure would 100 per cent lead to this attitude.
One of the complexities of the fuel dispute for me is the use of company assets to block public infrastructure.
I was stuck on the N7 behind rakes of gear from Flynn Cranes today.
How would we handle it, if during a Dublin Bus strike - workers absconded with the fleet and did the same?
There should be an SEAI system whereby all households get solar and battery installation for free but have the cost to be paid back at a low monthly amount. Make each house as energy independent from the grid as possible.
Tesco made 185m in profits last year. I’m amazed the corporate food giants are escaping being targets in the fuel debate. The profits are clearly flowing upwards in a totally unsustainable industry that’s crippling producers and the logistics chain.
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A snapshot of our BDS Super Panel on Thursday night, brilliant speakers with a strong message to act in solidarity with Palestine and work to end our government's complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide. #BDS #FreePalestine
Comparisons with the yellow vests are lazy too and fail to recognise the genuine mass character of what went on in France with demands that stretched to solidarity taxes on wealth, with pension and minimum wage bumps.
There was a meat factory owner speaking from these protests on RTE last night!
If there was ever a time for the so-called American deep state to make itself known, it's now.
Shocking weather for drying!
The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.
Sure people might get ideas. And use it.
I see providing more public transit is not in the plan.
Or how about some remote work legislation with actual teeth.
Why return to office policies are all pain and no gain. These policies have moved from being questionable to being a red flag and are now a strong indication of a badly run organisation, writes Kevin Murphy @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...
The real winner from tonight's match is my local dodgy box supplier. Holy fuck that RTE Player still sucks baws. Sign me up Mr Piracy Man.
Flashback to July last year - with scenes and speeches from CATU Ireland's national demonstration.
This Saturday, 28th of March, CATU are organising a march over DCC's ridiculous rent hikes.
It's kicking off at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and making its way to DCC HQ at Wood Quay.
Fionnan Sheahan arguing that the free-market will fix sub-standard school meals is the most brain rotted crap I've ever heard on Irish radio. It's working in housing! Sure it'll work with nutrition too.
Millions of people are carrying on their everyday lives, totally unaware of what's about to hit them.
If Trump blows up Iran's power stations, Iran will destroy energy infrastructure across the Gulf.
This would be one of the major "before-and-after" events of human history.
Well essentially the moment before smartphones and Facebook. So it does mark a big breech in how people were using the net and where it went.
