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American applications for Irish citizenship jump 63% Trump administration policies spur demand for ‘plan B’ passports, lawyers say

Applications for Irish passport from US citizens have jumped dramatically*- especially from members of the LGBTQ community, keen to escape the US. Ireland’s citizenship by descent is generous by EU standards.

Sure you could develop your housing policies using evidence, examine the pros and cons, the potential environmental, infrastructural and social impact of such a decision, or…

You could ram through legislation for the beds in sheds program just because a billionaire funded “think tank” asked you too

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Jack Chambers signals Fianna Fáil support for income tax cuts amid backbench pressure as budget surplus grows to €9bn Income tax cuts are firmly on the table for October’s budget after Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers signalled a softening of the Fianna Fáil position on supports for workers.

Fuck off with the tax cuts and build some shit for the future, light rail, housing, water infrastructure, off shore wind, a decent home upgrade scheme, maybe even a little nuke plant

thread on Galway West by-election candidate Noel Thomas (II), who is brazenly lying about the extent of his involvement with the sovereign citizen group styling itself the Irish Republican Brotherhood

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

Press Release: Irish Wildlife Trust calls for urgent action over misleading Sitka spruce forestry materials in schools - Irish Wildlife Trust Irish Wildlife Trust calls for urgent action over misleading Sitka spruce forestry materials in schools IWT Press Release 21 April 2026    The Irish Wildlife Trust is calling for immediate action from...

“The @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social is calling for greater safeguards to ensure that commercially aligned messaging is not presented to children as environmental education.”

I found this👇surprising when I read it this morning. Surely messaging to children is regulated?

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What's the going rate for confirmations these days? For a nice this weekend...

Lynn Scarff, James Eogan and Fiona Eogan in the stacks. Image by Emma Skarstrand © National Museum of Ireland

📚Newly catalogued: The George Eogan Library
Former Museum Librarian Connie Bettison reflects on cataloguing Prof. George Eogan’s working library-2,000+ archaeology books & journals in the National Museum of Ireland Library
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#Archaeology #MuseumLibrary #RegistrationCorner

Noticed that...

That's in response to the 'Central Perk' tweet....

Well, I just learnt that now. I thought it was 'benefit'...

A nation of slumlords.

Go Alice!

Ahmed Shafick - 25 - Egypt - Mohammedan - Doctor Lewis Brumberg - 23 - Cape Town - Hebrew - Student Monis Shapiro - 24 - Cape Town - Hebrew - Student

Best part of the 1926 Irish census (apart from everyone having 11 kids) has to be the boarders. Look at these lads

Actually a general rule of thumb is that the more certain someone is that they have deciphered megalithic art, the more wary you should be.

Even contemporary art can be difficult to fully understand, let alone 5,000 year old art!

Also liked the idea of Noah Moore.

Found lots of Annie Moore's in Kilkenny. I wanted to name my then unborn child (now 16) Annie if he'd been a girl and Myles for a boy. I wasn't allowed. He is not Myles...

Adding a wafer thin vineer of civility onto this racism shouldn't fool anyone, but gan dabht it will.

Again for those than can only see a meter in front of their face, pressure the gov to fix the system instead of blaming immigrants & asylum seekers!

Ind Ire are codding you.

#IrishPol #Speirgorm

Palantir put plans for techno-fascism in a document. Like a techno-fascist manifesto with themselves at the center. Features fascistic distortions of language and declarations of inherent superiority that should be acknowledged and made permanent, but driven by and with a more central role for tech.

So.

How many Irish people heard about the extent of their family involvement with the IRA for the first time today because of the 1926 census?

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I think I might have some tan in me.

After a deep dive into the 1926 census and earlier ones, found and visited my Great Great Great Grandparents resting spot in Castlejordan, Offaly. I asked around whether any Montgomerys still lived there. No luck...

"Iran is ruled by religious fanatics!"

Meanwhile Trump's spiritual advisor:🤪🤪🤪

I love that the touring exhibition for #1926census is going to be at the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Co. Offaly. 🇮🇪
Also London and Boston. #Ireland #FamilyHistory #genealogy
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Why the Hungary result is a 'slap in the face' for MAGA, and far-right politics everywhere | The News Agents Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is out, losing his seat in a landslide election defeat. What does this mean for populism, the right-wing, and the MAGA movement to lose the poster boy…

"Viktor Orbán allowed Trump to imagine a country of white-only migration, where you just said no to immigrants or Muslims – or to anything culturally diverse," says Emily Maitlis.

"The fact he has now exited is a slap in the face for the MAGA movement"

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The primary function of anonymity in journalism is to protect the vulnerable from the powerful, not to give a platform for political points-scoring from the ditch.

News - Nazi Ammunition Depot Identified in Slovakia - Archaeology Magazine BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA—According to a report in The Slovak Spectator, the site of an ammunition depot […]

News - Nazi Ammunition Depot Identified in Slovakia - Archaeology Magazine archaeology.org/news/2026/04...

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll A cross-border investigation has revealed how industry lobbying is shaping data centre regulation in the EU.

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll www.thejournal.ie/investigates...