Agree with this, also worth noting that it happened in spite of what almost seemed like a vendetta against Heimir Hallgrímsson among certain "sensible football men"

Whoever hung up that AI-generated "You'll never beat the Irish 'til the end" flag should eat the damned thing after that prediction came true, it's a cursed object

If you enjoy any part of your job as much as Kristinn enjoys that part, consider yourself very lucky

The Icelandic commentator on Viaplay, Kristinn Kjærnested, has this particular delight in pronouncing "Joh-hny Keh-hny" every time he reads the list of names for the Irish subs bench

A TV screen showing tonight's FIFA Men's World Cup Qualifying Playoff Semi-Final between the Czech Republic and the Republic of Ireland.

Were you addressing one Mr Head? First name Richard?

I'm sure nobody would choose to be eulogised in a podcast (scratch that, plenty would) but there's something beautifully fitting about QAA carrying this. From everything I know about the man, Fred Brennan was a difficult person to grasp, but QAA and his partner were in a better position than most.

Wild how little coverage I’ve seen of Fred’s death, even six days after I’d first heard about it.

QAA did the best job so far, summing up a very contradictory guy with warmth and empathy: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/q...

If anyone is reading the replies to this, please tell me how many make J'Accuse/Jack Hughes jokes, because I'm not doing the legwork on this one

I've finally found a use for AI

The bubble is getting bubblier

It's like pop music's Rosetta Stone. Would never have imagined except for Bailey's demonstration of a segue from Canon to Lipps Inc's Funkytown and back.

About two years ago, Bill Bailey told me (and an audience of many others) that Pachelbel's Canon had inspired many pop songs.

Since then, every couple of months, a new song is added to my personal "Canon canon", where the influence is undeniable.

The latest: the Beach Boys' God Only Knows.

One of the more individualised tragedies of Brexit is whatever the hell it did to Goodwin. 10 years ago he seemed like a serious person, it's been extremely sad to watch him strip away his own dignity bit by bit since then. Now the final transformation into a Faragist glove puppet is complete.

Are we, as a society, ready to move on from "current affairs vox-pops in shopping centres" content? #kastljós

The way my heart sank when I heard the Irish accent on one of them, knowing that it would somehow be producing some of the most brain-dead content 💀 Of course he was going to be the one complaining about curry houses on Brick Lane 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Just found out about this free and straightforward QR code generator in R:

library(qrcode)
qr_code("add_your_url_here") |>
plot()

That's all! No registration or subscription required.
thierryo.github.io/qrcode/

So sorry for your loss. RIP Chelsea

If only there had been some way to know sooner, maybe like approximately seven years in advance? Though most of those people could be given seven decades and still wouldn't get their act together in time

Aside from anything else, right-wing and indeed reactionary candidates can and do already get nominated (see the 2018 ballot paper for evidence). The idea that the nomination process was the reason for a short ballot paper this time out is just ridiculous, it was the dearth of plausible candidates

This would be an incredibly stupid, self-defeating move. Ireland's nomination processes work perfectly well (though the age bar remains odious). If FF now feels like voters deserved wider choices on the ballot paper this year, it should reflect on how it selected its own dead-duck candidate.

Again, "stonking" territory. In 2011, having started with just over 700k, MDH had a bit over 1 million votes by the end of Count 4. CC got 91% of that just on first preferences (and with much lower turnout).

We can put this winning margin in the categories of "thumping", "stonking", etc. The spoils deserve analysis but the FPVs for Connolly stand independently of those. The abstention factor was much more significant than spoils but still probably wouldn't have changed the outcome based on this

Ólafur skiptir um buxur í dag - RÚV.is Ólafur Þ. Harðarson er einna best þekktur fyrir stjórnmálarýni. Klæðaburðurinn vekur þó gjarnan athygli enda klæðist hann stuttbuxum í öllum veðrum frá fyrsta sumardegi til fyrsta vetrardags. Í dag sk...

Meanwhile, in Iceland, we can confirm that winter has arrived because Ólafur has switched to long pants www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...

I have truly no idea why anyone is bothering to interview Declan Ganley today, or any day. If you really want a quote from an enemy of the environment who's wrong about everything, you've got so many AI chatbots you could ask instead

A screenshot of the RTÉ News live blog of the Irish Presidential election count. Text reads: "In Kerry, Ms Connolly is on 63%, Ms Humphreys on 30% and Mr Gavin on 8%, with 95% of boxes tallied. Not a single box in Kerry put Ms Humphreys in the lead."

Ooof

Presumably it will *not* be FF's people correcting the record, as they try to forget the whole thing ever happened, but perhaps a journalist might see it as their responsibility?

Following #Áras25 count coverage, it seems FG has briefed its people to push this line "we were the only party to put forward a candidate". Demonstrably untrue; FF's candidate was right there on the ballot, even if he didn't want to be. Is anyone challenging them on that narrative?

Would the secret ballot be in jeopardy under Baxter's beady eye?