6,000+ km on mine in 18 months of ownership. Annual running costs, including charging and servicing, average out less than a single tank of diesel costs for our car.

Witness Appeal – Serious Injury Road Traffic Collision, N15, Cashelgarran, Grange, Co. Sligo- 19th April 2026

Interestingly the Garda press release is consistent, referring to both vehicles having collided. It's @independent.ie that reframes that as a collision between an inanimate vehicle and the person controlling the second vehicle. www.garda.ie/en/about-us/...

Most likely not. The Garda press releases normally make it clear if the driver fails to remain at the scene. And they call for dashcam footage or witness reports in pretty much every fatal collision.

This line "almost led to a scarcity of fuel" has been repeated on Morning Ireland too. Did Michael Martin actually use those words or is it @news.rte.ie editorialising? Either way it comes across as a very Dublin-centric view as there was no 'almost' about the empty pumps in the west and south.

Most of those one a day have me scrolling past quickly, as they come across as yet more 'AI slop', but this one stands out in a good way. It really captures a vibe.

Report finds that gardaí violated garda policies and human rights obligations when policing protest - Irish Council for Civil Liberties The new Irish Network of Legal Observers has published its first report on the recent protest at Dublin Port on Saturday, 4 October.

Indeed! Protest genocide on foot, and the Gardai will pepper spray and baton you to prevent delays on a single road. But protest fuel prices in tractors and trucks and they will let you bring multiple cities to a standstill without intervening.
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Indeed. In terms of 'what song was No. 1 when you were born', "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry (UK charts) has always seemed more relatable to me than Dermot Hegarty (who he?) as someone born in 1970.

We received the same letterl in Galway so it seems like it is a nationwide effort. But I was struck by how scooters were deemed by the Gardai to be worthy of this effort but not the dangerous driving behaviour by many parents in cars outside local schools.

team of professional table quiz sharks. Our table of 14 year olds would have beaten them if they hadn't been given a point for Jim Diamond. Instead we had to settle with a draw. Still bitter 40+ years later.

a different chart on Top of the Pops as the BBC of course used the UK charts. The quiz master eventually accepted either answer as correct. We still felt very hard done by as it was a fundraiser to buy instruments for teenage musicians. All of the attendees were friends and family except one (2/3)

What song is No. 1 on Top of the Pops this week. The correct answer was the Power of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood but the quiz masters answer was I Should Have Known Better by Jim Diamond because he had heard the Irish chart countdown on 2FM that afternoon and didn't realise it would be (1/3)

So you can't actually point to any supporting numbers. Unsurprising but nice to have it confirmed.

Which of the figures in that article supports your claim about danger to pedestrians?

Meanwhile in Galway we're enjoying our third week in a row of mild spring weather. 😉

apology or explanation, not even an acknowledgement that dozens of kids were left standing in the cold by the side of the road worried they were going to miss their exams.

If we want more people to use public transport our providers need to do a lot better than they currently perform. (3/3)

bus is already 35 minutes late for an earlier stop by the time my kid called me in panic. Cue multiple parents scrambling to drive in to city centre schools. Then @bus-eireann.bsky.social compounds the issue by sending an email simply saying the bus "will operate this afternoon" with no (2/3)

It's not just scheduled buses that discourage users due to unreliability. School transport does this too. A bunch of kids waiting in the cold for the bus to take them to school to sit their mocks and the bus just doesn't show up. No notification from @bus-eireann.bsky.social even though the (1/3)

with no apology or explanation, not even an acknowledgement that dozens of kids were left standing in the cold by the side of the road worried they were going to miss their exams. If we want more people to use public transport our providers need to do a lot better than they currently perform. (3/3)

by the time my kid called me the bus was already 35 minutes past its pick up time for an earlier stop. Cue multiple parents scrambling to drive in to city centre schools. Then @bus-eireann.bsky.social compounds the issue by sending an email simply saying the bus "will operate this afternoon" (2/3)

@aljazeera.com has a regular daily update on Ukraine and also covers breaking news there.
@markgaleotti.bsky.social commentator/academic banned from Russia has good insights
@meduza.io opposition media banned from Russia with sympathetic reporting on Ukraine

Anything above the 25km/h limit e-bikes already needs a helmet so they're either 'announcing' something already in place, to be seen to be doing something, or they intend to apply it to 25km/h limit e-bikes. It's performative BS from them either way with no genuine intention to improve road safety.

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High Court criticises judge for using ‘derogatory’ language about Travellers The High Court has criticised a judge for using ‘inappropriate and derogatory’ language about Travellers.

The same judge found himself in hot water, and had his judgement overturned by the High Court, for not unsimilar behaviour in another case.
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Poland 17/9/1939
Finland 30/11/1939
Lithuania 15/6/1940
Estonia 16/6/1940
Latvia 16/6/1940
Romania 27/6/1940
Hungary 7/11/1956
Czechoslovakia 20/8/1968

And that's just within living memory. And the WW2 invasions only include the expansionist ones when USSR was still allied with Nazis.

Wonderful selection today. Thank you for all the rekindled musical memories and new discoveries over the years. Hope you have a new outlet for something similar soon.

Decided tonight is the night to crack open my very last can of Blacks Brewery's 2021 World's End Imperial Stout. Still tastes gorgeous. As the blurb on the can says, 'suitable for aging but do try to drink before the end of the world'.

If I had failed a responsibility to deliver housing and infrastructure for decades, I too might try to build a narrative blaming my failure on third parties (courts, lawyers, citizens, The Goblin Prince Under The Mountain).

But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.

Yes, but that was supposed to be open air in the RDS rather than the Point. They were way too big for the Point by that stage.

@cathalreilly.bsky.social Teenage Fanclub were the highlight on the night though.