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...

Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

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I spoke to @newstalkfm.bsky.social yesterday about fires, land use and the urgent need for native forests on our hills www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

What needs to be done to prevent future wildfires? | Newstalk

A wildfire on Slievenamon in Co Tipperary has "reduced significantly", according to Tipperary Cou...

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Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · last wk.

Here’s a puzzle. Why do people still think immigration is "out of control" when the numbers tell a different story? Economist Jonathan Portes explores the gap between statistics, trust and public attitudes. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Barry Heneghan is just pulling the same old stunt that Mattie McGrath and the Healy Raes always do. 1. Say something stupid. Ideally in the summer when the papers are hungry. 2. Everyone talks about you non-stop=🙌attention🙌 @ciaraioch.bsky.social had a perfect diagramme of this for the Healy Raes

Rebecca Black was right, it’s Friday.

No riots for Natasha. None for my two friends who separately had male family members abuse them and both got less than 3 years custodial. One judge said he didn't want to ruin the abusers life as he began the abuse while he was also underage. He was also a cadet.

Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨@unaminh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cathal Crotty is to be freed from prison next week. Crotty brutally beat Natasha O'Brien and has just served 1 year and seven months of a two-year jail sentence. Crotty beat her unconscious. He boasted about it on socials: "Two to put her down, two to put her out" www.corkbeo.ie/news/ex-sold...

It was encouraging to see Irish political leadership from Simon Harris, Mary-Lou McDonald, and @cianocallaghantd.bsky.social. It was gratifying to hear all three cite my work on the subvention as well as the work of my colleagues in Ulster University, the ARINS project and ESRI's Seamus McGuinness.

Orchids in the heat wave

The Dáil is currently giving statements on the fiscal implications of a United Ireland, Táinste Simon Harris opened with a positive message that well received by Mary-Lou McDonald who spoke after. Both referenced research by myself and others from DCU and Ulster University on the all island economy

the excommunication of the convert JD Vance

I've gotten so used to video formats, I don't feel like I'm funny in writing anymore

Even as Ireland gets harsher with people seeking asylum, anti-immigrant groups rail against new asylum law Academics and politicians say that’s because, for a small cohort, there’s an existential risk in admitting to their audience that the rules have hardened. www.dublininquirer.com/even-as-irel...

Even as Ireland gets harsher with people seeking asylum, anti-immigrant groups rail against new asylum law

Academics and politicians say that’s because, for a small cohort, there’s an existential risk in admitting to their audience that the rules have hardened.

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How many would support the idea of handing over your passport or your child's passport, or other ID, to a tech company. That's the real question and not one likely to be asked in polls like this

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2mo ago

Almost three-quarters of Irish adults are in favour of a social media ban for under-16s, according to new research.

"lobbyist says that doing what their clients want is the most important thing in the universe" is not news. It would be news if they said anything else

You could address the environmental impact of AI and I still wouldn't use it because of the plagiarism. You could pay those whose work was stolen and I still wouldn't use it because it's unreliable. You could make it reliable and I still wouldn't use it because I value my cognitive abilities.

screwfix dot ie you have ideas above your station

Tragic to hear that all the journals in the world spontaneously disappeared and British parents are being forced to work out their homophobia towards their own adult children in the national press

Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What TERFism does to a country’s media. You … you printed this! In 2026!

Sinn Féin will bring legislation to the Dáil next week to remove the mandatory three-day waiting period before having an abortion. jrnl.ie/7070114

Sinn Féin to bring legislation to scrap 3-day wait for abortion after Soc Dems bill failure

Party leader Mary Lou McDonald said the proposed legislation would be brought to the Dáil on Tuesday.

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"In the culture wars, there is no space for the middle ground" is a weird framing. There is plenty of middle ground, which is what many other countries occupy where they balance data centers against electricity capacity, prices and emissions. The government have chosen to make us a huge outlier.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2mo ago

Cliff Taylor: Ireland is caught in a data centre trap and there’s no easy way out

How dramatic is too dramatic when it comes to marine litter?

Happy Pride from Westport💚

"economic activity cannot claim to solve social problems simply through the expansion of a commercial mentality, but must be ordered toward the common good, for which the political community bears its own irreplaceable responsibility."

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

How do they rise up.

Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is the glorious 25th of May. How do they rise up?

Were constantly told by the forestry industry that commercial plantations are good for carbon when undisturbed native forests are so much better

Svante Thunberg@svantethunberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them." This study is "shocking" - as in "we've been lied to by the forest industry" and... it's not in our climate models. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

Wood bitter-vetch, milkwort, tormentil, ribwort plantain etc #Wildflowerhour ##Wildflowershow @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

I've always had a special place in my heart for thrift flowers #wildflowerhour

Thrift on Achill with the Atlantic wind #wildflowerhour

Fly Orchids on the Stroud Commons, Gloucestershire. Smaller with the dry weather but doing well. Bee Orchids coming up strongly, their first flower buds just colouring. @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social