To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h ago

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

There are 279 parking spaces, for its planned 1,046 homes in the Montpelier (O’Devaney) development. All streets around have / will have residential parking. People in Montpelier will be dependent on the worst Dublin bus service (the No 11)-Fintan is right on this www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Fintan O'Toole: Dublin 4’s version of Marie Antoinette’s ‘let them eat cake’? Let them get the bus

The northside is a different country – especially when it comes to transport options

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On the new Dunsink town, people are suggesting the Luas to Finglas extenstion will help with public transport there, which A) it won't unless they're driving or getting a bus to the Luas and B) I thought the Luas extenstion to Finglas was to help the Finglas area with public transport.

It’s easy to forget this happened. People who knew who he was and what he’d done lobbied for it.

Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · yesterday

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

Certain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of

Those in the commentariat and politicians that don’t love Rod Liddle, however, either choose to express their love for him, or keep silent on who he was, because they will suffer immense social consequences for doing so: they will not be invited to the Spectator Garden Party

Remembering when the election of Catherine Connolly was going to destroy Ireland and possibly lead to us declaring war on the US.

Aidan Fitzmaurice@fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In the final week of campaigning the Indo decide to go all out on a theme

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

Irish Government should sue for stealing its one idea

Dublin City Council chap saying people will be fined if they leave wheelie bins outside the "presentation window". How long is that? He does realize some people go to work or elsewhere? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Dublin City Council official ‘sick of people’ saying capital ‘filthy’

Wheelie bin users face fines for leaving waste containers on street after collection times

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Is this a psyop to get people to talk about how great the Irish Passport service is? Cos Irish people love talking about how great it is.

Dr Neutopia@oceanclub.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sinead O'Sullivan has written an article on how the only way to get a passport quickly in Ireland is to contact your TD. This sounds like the kind of thing you'd write if your most recent experience of getting a passport in the late 1970s.

'A company town in all but the brass band'. Superb and depressing.

Karl McDonald@karlusss.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hate to admit this person from Non-Dublin has some points here. Nowhere is the Dead Dublin Theory better illustrated than the proliferation of new pubs done up to look like old pubs imo. Toxic to native fauna but serving the customer base it seeks. www.westernpeople.ie/opinion/dubl...

RTE's focus on Ceuta seems to be more about how this looks for Ireland and it's a crisis, and how will Ireland step up.

If we’re discussing covid, back in August 2020 the Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, introduced a programme that subsidised £850m for people to congregate in enclosed spaces and get infected with the disease that killed people, then the state broadcaster depicted him as a superhero

Looking forward to Jim O'Callaghan coming up with a new definition of biometrics so he doesn't have to worry about it

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 3d ago

🔹 AI-generated media, ‘deepfakes’ must be clearly labelled as such 🔸Chatbots and virtual agents must explicitly state they aren't human 🔹You must be told when AI is actively analysing you, like biometrics, emotion tracking → link.europa.eu/gTvhRX

Only way to settle this is at the Royal Rumble

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

Dying. It continues. SUSAN ORLEAN

Obviously he doesn't bring anything personal to his work in the Dept.

Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 4d ago

Noel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel Farage. Department of Agriculture confirms his attendance at the event but says the Minister of State for Agriculture was present in personal capacity. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Now the Government are on much more firmer footing in ignoring environmental concerns

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5d ago

Arsenic 133 times above legal level found in Aughinish Alumina groundwater

Something very retro about a bus inspector at Parnell St telling the current bus driver that he hasn't a clue where the other bus driver (who is due to take over) is.

This is why it’s helpful to have credentialed establishment figures making the same points: because the likes of Andrew would chuckle his way through ten thousand lower-order scum getting arrested but shits his loafers when the same thing happens to a good sort of chap who went to the right school.

I will always-and I truly mean always-share this story the Rubberbandits shared about a competition held in Cork to see a classic movie screened by him (which sounds like they're offering water boarding as a prize) and this was the recounting

Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 5d ago

Once I was at a Christmas party where George Hook was the compère. He began by saying "before I begin, an important news announcement - a truck of viagra has been stolen. The gardaí are on the lookout for a gang of... hardened criminals". A woman sat next to me said "is this some sort of joke?"

The State effectively acquired this site for €412 million and NAMA sold it off for around €130M+, with the massive hundreds-of-millions deficit socialised onto the national debt. The State is now paying €82.14 million just to buy back a single 176-unit block of apartments www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Apartment scheme at Irish Glass Bottle site sold to CHI

Property development and construction company Lioncor have sold a 176 unit apartment scheme at the Irish Glass Bottle site in Dublin 4 to approved housing body, Co-operative Housing Ireland (CHI) for ...

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Our Age of Bronze is collapsing, Liz Lemon

Did this person accuse Amnesty of spying on her a couple of years ago. She a vocal anti-Trans person.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6d ago

The business of the British press is recruiting and promoting cranks and wingnuts who can support the papers’ own malicious jihads against domestic and foreign enemies

Just surprising we still seem to be granting housing permission on the basis that public transport in the area might be improved at some stage. www.echo.ie/car-parking-...

Car-parking demands in new housing estates is partly because of delays in Dart South West and BusConnects | Echo.ie

SDCC has ensured that its Planning and Transport teams are actively examining a range of measures to assist in managing parking demand in new housing estates. This statement was made following a quest...

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Instead of asking the NTA why multiple buses were cancelled in a row, I asked them if they could improve their service, which based on their email response seems to be a foreign country. Nothing will still happen of course, but found it funny.

We all know the reasons for this and I'm not against it, but also somewhat bemused that one of the States' first actions around the "efficiency of AI" is to make a process more cumbersome.

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · 7d ago

A couple of months on, an update: the current system allows TDs to lodge PQs simply by sending the text to an designated email address. After the recess they’ll have to use a gated online system to supply questions instead, making it more cumbersome to lodge multiple interrelated questions at once.

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.

Just astounding: 'the applicant "has not sufficiently explained ... gaps in their education/employment career". One of the students explained that the gap in their education is accounted for by the war and destruction in Gaza over the past two and a half years.' www.rte.ie/news/educati...

Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students

Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

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