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‘You can’t eat a flag’ - John Hume. Galway #speirgorm a bit all over the place really. Help Palestinians - https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project #galway
Please spread and make Jeremy Clarkson shine like a brown dwarf star 🟤 #justBRILLIANT #jeremyclarkson "That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them." "And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm."
Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d agoBrilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
The cost of public & active transport infrastructure gets scrutinised within an inch of its life while motor vehicle infrastructure spending at whatever cost is treated as an unarguable necessity, if not ignored entirely. As here, motor vehicle infrastructure is overwhelmingly a terrible investment.
IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 2d agoBike parking enabling 60 hospital staff to cycle to work is a win for the taxpayer Comment & Analysis: A cost of €85,000, or €1,416 per space, for a secure bicycle shed for the National Maternity Hospital is cheap compared to building car parking, which is estimated to cost €5,000 to €85,000 per…
OTD in 1914 Pro German began to annex Belgium due to Kaiser's legitimate security concerns. The plan to was supposed to ensure quick victory but led to stalemate, slaughter and the eventual abdication of Kaiser....
Unlike what Minister Jack Chambers claims Ireland has one of the lowest per capita ratio of civil servants among EU member states. And significantly fewer than other high tax member states like Sweden, Finland and Denmark
Helen Ogbu got two weeks of shit for never lying about her life ever, incited in no small part by Michael McCarthy, but the pol corrs are no more likely to pull Ken O'Flynn up on this association than they were to pull Peadar on welcoming a climate change denier into Aontú as a new councillor
if you’re only just finding out (like me) that, e.g., glen hansard was kind of a prick then I think it’s forgivable to have mourned him and thought better of it. nobody — *nobody* — is just finding out that rod liddle was a world-class shithead
"#GlenHansard is no Irish hero", writes Rosemary Mac Cabe. Rose,ary says she'd like to file this under “things I may regret writing”. But then again, maybe she won’t. (She says "if you’ve been personally affected by the issues raised in this piece, I’m so sorry. And I believe you.") […]
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Nothing like a good Irish beatification to regret at length in the future. #speirghorm
In amongst all the tributes of Glen Hansard, I’ve come across posts about his behaviour around teenage girls, saying many people, including those writing tributes, knew of this behaviour. Would those who wrote the tributes care to comment? #speirghorm
Wonder how many more stories like this (or worse) we’ll hear about Hansard. The most charitable reading of the real life events on which he based his movie is that he groomed a teen to become his partner as soon as it was “legal” nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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In amongst all the tributes of Glen Hansard, I’ve come across posts about his behaviour around teenage girls, saying many people, including those writing tributes, knew of this behaviour. Would those who wrote the tributes care to comment? #speirghorm
We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists
![Photo of sticker on a street pole, signed: ROVÉLO CREATIVE.
Sticker is black, divided vertically by a white line, somewhat resembling stylized pavement.
Text on the left side of the line reads:
THINGS KIDS HAVE SACRIFICED FOR DRIVERS:
-RANDOM PLAY
-CROSSING THE STREET
-PLAYING AT NIGHT
-INDEPENDENCE
-QUALITY STREET LIFE
-AIR QUALITY
-A PLANET
-THEIR LIVES
-PLAYING ON THEIR STREET
-SAFE SCHOOL STREETS
-WALKING TO SCHOOL
-BIKING TO SCHOOL
-WALKING TO THE PARK
Text on the left side of the line reads:
THINGS DRIVERS HAVE SACRIFICED FOR KIDS:
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The speed limit in any city should be 20 mph.
@khon2news.bsky.social · 4d agoThe city said recent sign installations have already been completed along Kalaheo Avenue in Kailua, Hawaiʻi Kai Drive, Waipahu Street and Hoʻomaeʻmae Street in Pearl City. More here: https://www.khon2.com/traffic/new-20mph-school-zone-signs/
Ireland Thinks poll. Why are kids cycling less? Um, the answer I want to give isn't there.
✨🏳️🌈 Galway Pride 🏳️🌈✨ Come to Galway city and march with us in the annual Galway pride parade! ⏰ When: August 8th, 1pm 📍Where: Eyre Square maps.app.goo.gl/PiP9iUnFWfWq... ☎️ Points of Contact: @phoenixredtail, @grayhowls (1/3) #ifmeet
When there is nowhere to live because all the houses are let to visiting tourists, a group of activists decided to turn this situation into a tourist attraction itself www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
First tour of ‘zombie’ Galway
When there is nowhere to live because all the houses are let to visiting tourists, a group of activists decided to turn this situation into a tourist attraction itself.
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Where's the data on data centres? How much water the sector consumes remains unclear 'We don't know how many of these facilities draw from freshwater rivers and lakes, and what impact this has on our already stressed flora, fauna and aquatic ecosystems' www.thejournal.ie/readme/data-...
With most of the forthcoming titles for the remainder of the year now announced, there are a number of big titles due on Irish politics and recent political history - always a popular genre with meaty political biographies and autobiographies - here's a listing of a few which stand out #spéirgorm
Wow, it's almost like all those protests weren't really about fuel... www.independent.ie/county/wexfo...
Fuel Support Scheme for farmers ‘under subscribed’ despite €87m budget and nationwide protests over costs
The deputy president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) says she does not know why the Fuel Income Support Scheme for farmers and agricultural contractors was significantly “under subscribed.”
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