It's actually good when people online refer to figures they don't like as "fat fucks" or insults about their body type rather than their character, because it lets me know they'd quietly think the same about me and those with a similar body to me if we ever met in person, which means we never will.
Shocking decision. Government are clearly doing this to ensure they can avoid scrutiny. Backbench government TDs will get much more speaking time as part of a confidence. They are making every effort to give the opposition as little time to speak Tommorow as possible.
It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️🌈
Notification from Instagram that someone has joined the MetaAI app and asking you to join them now. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
"Person is sitting in sewage. Join them now!"
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
An assessment of a drug for a rare muscular condition was removed from the website of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, at the request of the Department of Health
🗳️ Gorton and Denton turnout: 47.6% (+0.8)
This is HIGHER than in the 2024 general election!!
Huge gratitude to our sisters + brothers in @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social, @ibike.ie, @dublincommuters.bsky.social, @cyclingireland.bsky.social + others for fronting to giving real evidence to Oireachtas Committee this morning!
⭕ 30km/h limits DEFAULT
🦺 RSA not fit fur purpose
🚨 Enforcement FAILING
Labour calls for action on Shannon oversight.
“Blind trust is not oversight. Ireland needs real inspections at Shannon Airport now.” @conorsheehan.bsky.social
➡️ labour.ie/news/2026/01...
Net wealth tax as important for our democracy as our economy
“The Oxfam report exposes a reality that Ireland has become a country of extremes, where obscene levels of wealth sit alongside poverty, insecure work and families struggling to get by.” Ged Nash TD
labour.ie/news/2026/01...
EU must stand up to Trump extortion on Greenland - @georgelawlor.bsky.social Labour Enterprise spokesperson.
“Ireland and the EU must prepare for the risk of a chronic breakdown of relations with the US and ensure measures are in place to support businesses and workers.”
labour.ie/news/2026/01...
I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole.
This is great news. Well done Seán Binder 👏
"If I am guilty, then you're guilty too.”
You can listen back to an interview that he did with Labour Youth after being awarded the 2023 Cormac Ó Braonáin award at @labourpartyireland.bsky.social conference.
shows.acast.com/the-bread-an...
🚨 X refusal to attend Oireachtas Committee is disgraceful - Labour's Alan Kelly TD.
“The manner in which X have operated over the course of this debacle is disgraceful.
Full statement: labour.ie/news/2026/01...
Incredibly disappointing. What a bad look for a government that claims to care about road safety.
FF TD detected at 190km/h convicted of dangerous driving www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...
🚨 Breaking
Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal.
"We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"
Not to oversimplify, but: IF there is ambiguity around whether the mere generation of sexualised deepfakes is illegal, a one-line amendment to Coco’s Law would fix it. Stipulate for the avoidance of doubt that intimate images include artificial likenesses. Then Grok cannot transmit any such material
FF TD Michael Cahill says he will not appeal his dangerous driving conviction and will step back from his role as member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration.
Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
Pharmacists have said nobody entering a pharmacy should expect to be questioned on whether they are transgender.
One pharmacist said the Minister for Health has “a gross misinterpretation of the role of a pharmacist" amid confusion over eligibility.
www.thejournal.ie/free-hrt-sch...
@labourpartyireland.bsky.social are launching a private members bill in support of improving transgender healthcare across Ireland to get the gender reaffirming care that trans people desperately need.
Email your TD to support the bill:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Our panel line up is finally confirmed!
- Richard Boyd Barrett TD (PBP)
- Cllr Hazel Chu (Green Party)
- Cllr Daithí Doolan (Sinn Féin)
- Rory Hearne TD (Social Democrats)
- Ciarán Ahearn TD (Labour)
- Sen. Eileen Flynn (Independent)
Join us on the 8th of December in The Grand Social
Can we please just build this and stop listening to billionaires who probably don't even take public transport telling us it isn't needed.
When the evidence shows that not building Metro Link will cost the Irish economy money in increased congestion, health impacts from increased driving, etc.
The Irish Times headline: AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot Desmond Businessman says Government should abandon project as AI will lead to rise in self-driving buses and cars
Paragraph from the article: "However, Mr Desmond is scathing of the plan, believing that public and private transportation is on the cusp globally of the biggest changes for a century or more on the back of the growth of AI. The billionaire said he had believed that the Department of Finance should veto the MetroLink. “I think it will be useless, out of date in 10 or 15 years’ time. This is something that is not going to be required, it shouldn’t be planned.”"
Sorry why is @irishtimes.com devoting an entire news item to random rants of a boomer from the disney villain reject pile?
That entire piece is just a collection of quotes. What makes it newsworthy? He is just a banker with a creepy stache.
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When the news is overwhelming, it can be helpful to have an emotional support puppy. Today, we thought you might need two.
Once more for those in the back - Metrolink is not only an airport line
It serves 15 other stations, connecting 127 schools, 3 universities, 5 hospitals, and making over 175k people and 250k jobs accessible by foot to a stop. An estimated 18% of passengers will use airport stop
