The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Yikes. Even in Sheffield.

Replacing Sunday Miscellany's distinctive and effective opening tune with something from a suite of narrow sounds fails to recognise that one of the value diversity.

The programme could be moved to Lyric FM which handles diversity within a shared identity much better than Radio 1 does.

3/3

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Well at least they’ve kept the original music for the end. But why not also for the start? This is a silly change that should be reversed

This needs to be discussed on Brendan! Awful decision

Why does Sunday Miscellany have a new theme tune? I'm bereft #SpéirGhorm

Dear @rte what the hell was that new theme to @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social !!!!?? Reminds of when someone thought it a good idea to change the Archers tune on the BBC. That was a mistake as most certainly is this. #reimstateSunmisctheme #speirgorm

Shane Coleman: An Irish Trump and economic crash are no longer so far-fetched

Agree with @shanecoleman.bsky.social here

Shane Coleman: An Irish Trump and economic crash are no longer so far-fetched

www.businesspost.ie/politics/sha...

Eileen Culloty: Patrick O’Donovan’s attack on RTÉ was wrong, but he had a point about the media It is fair to ask if news media do a good job of capturing and representing a range of public views

Good read by Eileen Culloty

Patrick O’Donovan’s attack on RTÉ was wrong, but he had a point about the media

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Spotted in @ucddublin.bsky.social yesterday the annual sign that we’re reaching the end of teaching for another year

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”

POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”

Tempus vulgarus

The congregation cracking up at the priest mistakenly wishing god would take Trump ....

Michael Lowry, Gillian Toole and Barry Heneghan all vote confidence in the government; Michael and Danny Healy-Rae both go overboard

US doctors defend Trump, “This is how we all dress now” Donald Trump has been defended by the US medical industry, with thousands of doctors insisting they all dress now like a deity who dispenses medicine like it’s all a magic trick.

NEWS! US doctors defend Trump, "This is how we all dress now" newsthump.com/2026/04/14/u...

Morning foxy

I don’t think I have ever been so happy to be wrong!!!!

On the train back home from Warsaw right now, and two Ukrainian women across the carriage from me are absolutely delighted about the Hungarian election result. One is in tears and the other is laughing. This is what it means to get rid of the cynical, kleptocratic prick.

Ciarán O'Connor: Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland? Recent analysis highlighted an Iranian information operation targeting Ireland, while accounts linked to Russia and China posted about the fuel protests

Good thing we’re neutral so

Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland?

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

I asked 3 of the big AI chatbots:

"What is happening in the Irish fuel protests? Why are they sending in the army?"

Claude jumps right it with its first two references being... Russia Today

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The fart of the deal

And reaping nice dividends playing the markets while you’re at it

😂

And take the rest of us with them

Getting up at 330am was all worth it for this 😊

For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.

Innsbruck-bound to @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions.

Fintan O'Toole: Trump’s random gibberish is more terrifying than lies. It is a sign of derangement The US president isn’t making this stuff up – it’s making him up

Just about sums things up

Trump’s random gibberish is more terrifying than lies. It is a sign of derangement

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...