I don't need a push note telling me Tim Cook is retiring. Why is that worth making me take my phone out of my pocket

248 US military flights over Ireland went unreported due to ‘administrative error’ Irish Times investigation finds almost 250 more overflights than previously disclosed by Department of Foreign Affairs

There were almost 250 more US military aircraft flights over Ireland than previously disclosed by the Government since last summer, an Irish Times investigation has found

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Why are they only changing their minds at the last minute? Are they looking at british naval activity? Or just getting cold feet?

The last thing I need is another bill but I've just subscribed to Wired, which seems to be offering the best coverage of the US right now. Just €2 a month for the first year

Two children among at least 11 Palestinians killed by Israel in separate Gaza incidents Israel has escalated attacks on enclave’s Hamas-led police and security forces since beginning of ceasefire last October

Two children among at least 11 Palestinians killed by Israel in separate Gaza incidents

The name of that manager? Albert Einstein.

At the risk of sounding overly defensive, we reported from the start that the intervention was limited to towing vehicles

As the post mortems begin, I feel not enough attention has been given to the fact that the minister for justice announced the Army had been called out before actually telling the Army

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Fuel protests reveal flawed relationship between farms, fertilisers and food Farmers have warned of food shortages but Ireland imports most of what it eats

Farmers and agri-contractors tried to stress the link between the fuel protests and food production but the reality is, it's already broken
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Based on activity on the ground, it seems this is timed coincide with forcible clearance of the blockade at Whitegate. Dozens of public order gardai and one heavy lift army vehicle positioning nearby.

I'm so tired

Just learned there actually is precedent for using the Defence Forces to remove protesters (in this cases, protesters boats)

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How the fuel protests brought the country to a standstill The seeds of this week’s disruption were sown in meetings in late March and fomented in online forums and WhatsApp groups

“There’s not one fucking oil truck moving in this country until we get what we want,” Duffy announced to cheers in Thursday night. “We have the country by the balls.”

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RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Kind of wish reporters would stop letting the protest leaders get away with saying shit like "it's not us blocking the roads, it's the government blocking the roads"

We're not idiots

Tomorrow morning we'll have a deep dive about how a militant group of outsiders managed to take control of a national movement and bring the country to a standstill. There's a lot of swearing in it.

Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments

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I'm off to fill up the tank (my belly) www.independent.ie/business/dow...

Lads, bad news

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

The videos of Army vehicles on the roads this morning are unrelated to the protests. It's the 128th Infantry Battalion training for Unifil.
In fact, the Defence Forces only received a formal request for assistance in the last few minutes. This is despite DOJ saying at 8.30 it had already happened.

“I hardly know how to use my bleedin’ phone, so I’m afraid cryptocurrency and AI is beyond me.”

PSA: It is absolutely *not* lawful to target electric plants "because destroying them could foment civil unrest, complicating Tehran’s path to a nuclear device."

That's not a 'definite military advantage'.

That's collective punishment of civilians.

Russian-owned Aughinish Alumina plant in Limerick records profits of €103m Accounts just filed show it returned to the black in 2024

Revenues rose by 50 per cent or $292.25 million (€253 million) to $875.36 million in 2024.

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Elsewhere in today's paper, in a rare interview, an senior Irish intelligence officer warned of the environmental danger posed by these vessels
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Convoy of Russian shadow-fleet tankers monitored off west coast Five of the vessels travel through Irish exclusive economic zone in likely bid to discourage boarding attempts, say military sources

A large number of “shadow fleet” oil tankers were detected off the Irish west coast during the past week, forcing authorities to send up both Air Corps and Coast Guard aircraft in shifts to monitor them.

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Casual use of term ‘autistic’ demeans those with condition, charity says Report from charity AsIAm finds perceptions are changing but there is still a lot of misinformation around autism

Casual use of term ‘autistic’ demeans those with condition, charity says

‘It’s not Top Gun’: Irish Air Corps pilots to receive ‘dogfighting’ combat training Organisation has lost the ability to conduct in-house combat training due to departures of trained pilots

‘It’s not Top Gun’: Irish Air Corps pilots to receive combat training

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