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Good think people only drink drive during bank holidays and a press conference on the side of the road wearing RSA high-vis vests is the best approach at reducing road deaths.

The Triple Lock was promised to the lrish people to safeguard our neutrality. The government plans to scrap that promise by year end without putting it to the people. Imperial Hotel, 75 South Mall, Cork This Friday. Clonan Gibney ní Bhriain O'Donovan Friday 30th October 7-9PM

Sinn Féin: We should totally base all our policies on this.

'Free Palestine.' 'Somehow, those words have become more controversial than the suffering that made them necessary.' - Macklemore

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Plump / Feolmhar

Throughout the entire Fare Hike saga, Government maintained this was a decision by the NTA We now know it was the Dept of Public Expenditure & it was decided 12 months ago Government lied to to the public, the did it repeatedly, & they did it intentionally

20% off everything in the shop over on Etsy (prayforpatrick.etsy.com) all this week and a flash sale starting over on Instagram with loads of out of stock and rare bits

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.

Ireland has some responsibility on this. One of the greatest contributions we could be making to collective EU & global democracy & security (far more useful then disastrous attempts to remove the triple lock) would be having the courage to step up to our role as digital regulator in a serious way.

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Face / Aghaidh

"Irish troops should be in new #Lebanon mission - McEntee" They're not even done dismantling the #TripleLock based on a lie, & they're already for deploying troops in a (non-UN) EU mission that'll support #Israel 's anti- #Hezbollah operations. #SpéirGhorm #IrishNeutrality www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

Go to bed Ronan Kelly, try again tomorrow.

this is such an accurate view of why Europeans are protesting against the status quo.

Irish troops to be deployed to participate in an Israeli instigated Lebanese civil war. We’ll have officially gone from peacekeepers to peace enforcers. But people worried about the removal of the triple lock are overreacting…

This year’s Irish Hallowe’en turnip, and a handful of those of from years past (they don’t always make it, if they rot before dessicating) #Hallowe’en #Samhain

"“Palestine Action are the only organisation – or the most effective organisation – in the UK that that has had some success in stopping arms going to a genocide. I’m very sure that I will be on the right side of history." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

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“The harsh reality is that State funding per student is now over 30% lower in real terms than in 2008. This country ranks 36th out of 37 OECD countries for investment in higher education as a share of GDP” #HigherEducation #Ireland #SpeirGorm

Far right protesters can walk into libraries to threaten people with a police escort and block roads asking brown skinned people for ID while the Gardai look on. The same Gardai will happily put a dozen leftie students in A+E for a week during an eviction protest. I hope this helps your analysis

"pedestrians should wear hi-viz" discourse is back

For this week for #calling353 at @thejournal.ie I looked at a small sample of Ireland’s spooky placenames and asked if the spookiness is warranted . jrnl.ie/7202846

They are both correct. I've been working on this issue professionally (not at DRCC) since around 2018 and the job is tough but simple: you have to communicate the facts as evidenced by mountains of studies and bitter experience. Your job is not to reflect government policy.

Hello all! Did you contact a TD over the FF,FG and SF’s denial of the right of children to consent to being touched? Tell me all about it!

I don't know which is worse, the politicians so hungry for votes because they have nothing else to offer bandwagoning on any culture war bollocks, or that large sections of the public are so brain rotted that they believe the culture war bollocks fed to them and actively advocate for it.

This is great, but also depressing that saying everyone is equal & nobody should be murdered has become a fringe stance among leaders that when one of them says it, we take note of how unique and brave it is. Viva España Saoirse don Phalaistín

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Take Aim / Amas a Thógáil

NATO lecturer Declan Power has an unintentionally revealing piece on Triple Lock in Indo today. He literally quotes the section of the UN Charter which makes clear that regional enforcement without UN endorsement is illegal under international law. He shrugs & moves on. #TripleLock #SpéirGhorm

In London for the weekend & I found myself behind a Waymo self driving taxi. It was odd watching it. The lidar above the number plate & on the roof spins wildly. However, it did come to a completely stop mid turn to ensure it didn't knock down a cyclist in a cycle lane, so that's good I suppose.

With the combined polling of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin exceeding 50%, the idea that the government shouldn't silence civil society to please their own voter base is now a minority position among the political establishment. NOW is the time to join a party. Not after we've already lost

The Taoiseach is now backing the Justice Minister's actions in intervening to silence a charity. I'm not exaggerating. The Justice minister boasted about his role in pulling the ad himself. The government are intervening to silence messaging they don't like. Fascism is at your doorstep #spéirgorm

As well as being a great piece making great points, mar is gnách, I would also like to applaud the application of the word idiot as a verb in the context of Matt Carthy, even though the described action could also be applied easily to the other main characters. #IrishPol

I don't generally write to my TDs in a personal capacity anymore but I have just written to my Fine Gael TD and made clear that unless Jim O'Callaghan, at a minimum, apologises unreservedly to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, no one in this government gets a preference from me for the rest of my life

While RT is back in the news I just want to vent a grievance. As the Toy Show -one broadcast, one day a year - grew bigger and more cinematic each year under his stewardship, the production of original children’s programming by RTÉ (where RT got his breaks) shrunk down to nothing.

The trajectory of my life has also been changed by...checks notes... low level HTML.

"Instead of abandoning the triple lock, a renewed effort should go into addressing the failing structures of the UN" ""The Board of Peace and Tony Blair. For God's sake," Higgins says, throwing his arms in the air" Michael D not holding back 👌 www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig... #IrishPol

I doubt a single national newspaper columnist this weekend will examine Jimmy Goebbels' descent into the far-right sewer, but if you're interested, I spoke to @tonygroves.bsky.social about it on the Tortoise Shack. If you want commentary unburdened by the cult of journalistic civility, subscribe

One for the history books, although those might not exist of course.