Crucially, these are measures that will apply to *all* motorists and fuel users, not just those in industries of high fuel usage

Picture of the century. 😍

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Of the 70 protests attended by the network in 2025, only one was considered non-compliant with human rights-based policing guidelines – a Palestinian solidarity event in Dublin on October 4th. On the day, Wall says, a smaller group of about 150 people broke away from a large demonstration in the city centre and rerouted to Dublin Port. There, they were stopped by a line of gardaí. Wall says the group linked arms and tried to push through Garda lines, and that officers responded by using pepper spray and drawing batons. Protesters withdrew and gardaí followed them, Wall says, continuing to use pepper spray. A standoff ensued and, according to the claims, the protesters marched back around the block attempting to get to Dublin Port from a different direction. This time they were greeted by members of the Garda National Public Order Unit (GNPOU), who used pepper spray and batons “from the outset” as protesters again attempted to break through the lines. “They beat a number of people [and] pepper-sprayed a number of people,” Wall says. In a statement issued on October 4th An Garda Síochána said its members “attempted to engage with the protest group over the course of the afternoon to disperse the protest in a voluntary manner”. “Despite this engagement there was a co-ordinated and concerted effort to physically breach the Garda cordon. In accordance with procedures An Garda Síochána deployed an escalation of response.” The statement said members of the GNPOU and frontline uniformed gardaí “intervened to prevent a breach of the Garda cordon, which included the use of incapacitant spray on protesters”. Wall says the network’s findings on October 4th were that “gardaí, in the first instance, had not given any direction to the protesters not to keep coming. The protesters were pushing and shoving, and the guards, in response to that, pepper-sprayed them and beat them”. “There is perhaps a discussion about whether or not that initial interaction was legitimate,” he s…

An interesting report today on the Garda response to an attept by a pro-Palestinian group to march to Dublin Port. Just by way of a compare and contrast.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Sorry, what now?

You want the carbon tax abolished and VAT and excise cut, but it transpires that you don’t actually pay your taxes.

Right so.

Genocidal Intent:

“There must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

- United Nations

Exhibit A:

A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

The magic thing about this campaign though was rebuilding the connection between the national team and the wider Irish public.

What we’ve experienced since November is lightning in a bottle.

We haven’t had anything like it in a decade and beyond. Let’s build.

I love this team.

I'd say he's kicking himself because apart from that he put in a great effort. Was just such an easy way back into the game before they even built any real pressure on us. Just a heartbreaker of a match

And I want to see the foul for that free kick for their 2nd because it felt generous at the time. The officiating 2nd half was very generous to the Czechs in general #COYBIG

We gifted them a way back in it with that penalty for 2-1 though. Manning will be kicking himself because he just didn't need to do anything there as Collins had him covered. #COYBIG

Czechia has us under huge pressure 2nd half but still think we had the better chances to win it - the Parrott header, Molumby hitting the post, Collins header in first half and Collins hitting the bar. #COYBIG

Will be there on Tuesday though because the effort and performance of the team/squad has been absolutely massive over the last few months. Just awful it had to finish on a penalty shootout. #COYBIG

Heartbreaking 💔 #COYBIG

Penalty shootout. Czechia has an unbelievable record in these. #COYBIG

Really hope Szmodics is ok here. A lot of medics out there and the Irish med team were getting the stretcher to hurry up. Best wishes with him there

That was an unbelievable start to get 2-0 up. Very annoying that Manning made such a stupid error for penalty to give Czechia an easy route back in because they were rattled. We've kept it steady again since then though and battling hard. Same again 2nd half #COYBIG

BBC doing their best to make me turn against the Team GB athletes again. Back to the Virgin Media coverage so can enjoy Kate O'Connor's pentathlon performance

Unbelievable run by Charlton in the 60m hurdles. Stumbled at the start and still matched her own world record

The sound levels were awful on that Wet Leg performance. They've been dodgy on a good few of the sketches too #SNLUK

will never stop marveling at the efficiency of the writing in the Peak Simpsons years. this joke is escalated like five times in three lines of dialogue across ten seconds. the last letter escalates it. it's so perfectly tuned and there's like a few dozen of these little runs per episode. fuck off

Seventh with zero goal difference is basically the platonic ideal of an Everton team to me.

OH. MY. GAWD.

Has there ever been a better statement about Ireland by a US political leader?

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

If you don’t understand that there’s a generational crisis of rightwing extremism, and it’s amongst old people, I don’t know how to help you…

Incredible Tom & Jerry scenes here.

Cover of Last Night at the Lobster. It shows a snow covered car park at night lit up by lampposts.

Cover of Number Go Up by Zeke Faux. It shows a digitally glitching coin with a side profile of Sam Bankman-Fried on it along with the initials SBF and "Nihil Valet" (It is worth nothing) written on it.

I've got Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan and Number Go Up by Zeke Faux on the go this week #BookSky #AmReading #TBR

Not the key point, but all the 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' coverage shows how quickly and easily the entire UK media complex can switch to someone's new name/title, even after using their old one for decades, when it's an incredibly pampered white male deviant. So, you know, it's not *that* hard...

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

Tomorrow's Headlines

The Telegraph: Starmer Next!

The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!

The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role

The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home