Wildfires across Europe, record high temperatures and rows over data centres; wrote about how this summer might be the one to put climate politics back on the map dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Climate reality gives way to climate politics

Wildfires threatening major French and Spanish cities, record-high temperatures in the United Kingdom, and forest fires raging across Ireland; could these conditions help climate politics make a comeb...

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Wildfires across Europe, record high temperatures and rows over data centres; wrote about how this summer might be the one to put climate politics back on the map dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Climate reality gives way to climate politics

Wildfires threatening major French and Spanish cities, record-high temperatures in the United Kingdom, and forest fires raging across Ireland; could these conditions help climate politics make a comeb...

dublinpeople.com

The new American version of "smoked salmon socialist" doesn't quite roll off the tongue, does it

I live near the Royal Canal in D15 - science isn't my strong suit, can folks explain what is causing this algae to stick around like this

This was the first United shirt I had as a kid. Santa got it for me in 2002. Van Nistelrooy on the back. Must try dig it out, because apparently it's my pension fund if these prices are anything to go by

Putting a Zidane and Ronaldinho shirt side by side is a grave offence to people born in 1996

Booting up Football Manager 13 for the bank holiday weekend (wanted to avenge post Ferguson-era United and sign Thiago, Bale and Fabregas) and had a brainwave. Is Daniel Ennis the first-ever TD to be included in the Football Manager database?

How long before we have the same conversation about Facebook? This kind of thing is shoved down my throat, despite me not commenting, liking, or sharing anything on there since 2024

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5d ago

How Musk transformed Twitter from communal town square to right-wing conspiracy hub

Reading up on how someone becomes president of FIFA and have found out it's easier to be elected Pope or as the president of the USA. It's a total closed shop deal, absolutely no room for an outsider or a reformer to come in and change the system. That's why Infantino can get away with it

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif

Tommy Lee Jones on Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive

ALT: Tommy Lee Jones on Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com@inkskratch.com · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Nu-Metal Roy Keane isn't real, he can't hurt you

I RUN A HOME IN DUBLIN THUMP THUMP THUMP CASTLEBAR THUMP THUMP THUMP BRUSSELS THUMP THUMP THUMP I WANNA TELL YOU SOMETHING... TRY IT SOMETIME

I am so annoyed at Spider-Man: Brand New Day wasting my time that I am carving out a chunk of my review encouraging people to go see Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie instead. That is a movie worth seeing. Not more key-jingling Marvel dross

Nirvanna The Band Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

ALT: Nirvanna The Band Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

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Wrote about whether Andy Burnham's brand of "Manchesterism" could work in the Irish political system dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Could Manchesterism serve as a blueprint for Dublin?

Our neighbours across the sea are now living under their 7th Prime Minister in a decade. Andy Burnham is the […]

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Wrote in my review for The Odyssey that any work of adaptation is a compromise and not everyone was going to be happy with Nolan's vision. The fact the movie turned out as well as it did is proof that it worked. Enjoying this current wave of Watson discourse though dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...

The Odyssey makes the epic leap from page to screen

Christopher Nolan pulls his greatest trick yet - he picks up from where he left on Oppenheimer and made The Odyssey his greatest film to date

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Faith No More coming out of hiatus is huge news for me, specifically, because they are my favourite band of all time pitchfork.com/news/faith-n...

Faith No More Reunite

The group will head Down Under for their first live shows in a decade, alongside System of A Down

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The new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm looks great!

Larry David's Exasperated Reaction

ALT: Larry David's Exasperated Reaction

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The Journal@thejournal.ie · last wk.

A mishearing in a courtroom led to reports a bomb suspect had spent years in "Syria". She actually had been in Saoradh, a political group named after the Irish word for liberation. jrnl.ie/7114590

Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices https://theonion.com/woman-who-doesn-t-use-facebook-completely-out-of-touch-1819579007/

Galway gets another one of our own in the Áras, but Mayo wins the All-Ireland the very next year. What a bum deal

Back home in Galway for the weekend to see the family. TG4 are showing Heat at 10pm. I don't know how many iconic movies I saw in my home growing up, all shown by TG4 on a Saturday night, but I'm glad they are still carrying on that proud tradition.

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Watched the video of Christopher Nolan in the Criterion closet. He takes 4 box sets. He is robbing them blind, someone blow the whistle for god sake

Guy who listens to the new Charli XCX album because it has a David Cronenberg spoken word part (me)

Musk just has a hard time wrapping his head around a story where a man’s wife and child care if he comes home

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Musk seethes as ‘The Odyssey’ conquers at the box office www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Fantasy Football won't let me name my team One Ballack After Another because team names can only be 20 characters. I am being restricted for my art, much like Peter Bogdanovich

Talked to Aodhán Ó Ríordáin about the difference between being a TD and an MEP, how housing is his main mission as an MEP, and how the government parties are "killing Dublin."

Housing and haircuts: 30 mintues with Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

“There is no vision and no mission from this government; they are killing Dublin" - Labour MEP Aodhán Ó Ríordáin spoke with us about what progressives can do to beat the far-right, life as an MEP, and...

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Spoke to Lynn Boylan about the far-right's influence in the European Parliament (and how progressives can fight back) and how data centres have become a political issue. dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Far-right only interested in "punching down" says Boylan

"The far-right are only interested in punching down" - we spoke with Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan about the government doing things "arseways", being ahead of the curve on data centres and the “militaris...

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Just before the Dáil broke up for the summer, members of the opposition put pressure on the government to protect Irish artists from the age of AI. Sinn Féin TD and arts spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh said "theft is being rewarded, and creativity is being punished" dublinpeople.com/news/southsi...

Irish artists need protection from AI age, Dáil hears

Sinn Féin arts spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh said "we are living through the greatest art heist in history," as members of the opposition call for artists call for greater protection against AI

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Now online - my review for The Odyssey. A film that is on track to be the biggest film I've ever reviewed in terms of cultural status, box office and (this is a not so bold prediction) awards season clout. dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...

The Odyssey makes the epic leap from page to screen

Christopher Nolan pulls his greatest trick yet - he picks up from where he left on Oppenheimer and made The Odyssey his greatest film to date

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Mike Finnerty@mikecjf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Over on Instagram, I broke down how my chicken scratch handwriting from The Odyssey press screening turned into a finished 1200-word review that appears in print. I've filed over 100 film reviews since moving to Dublin in 2022, but I haven't revealed my secrets until today www.instagram.com/mikecjf/