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They're all gone 'far right' now. irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

The entrance to the historic 40 foot bathing area has become a signage hellscape?

What’s wrong with the word ‘abolition’?

How Ireland Voted 2024 apparently flying off the virtual shelves. Due in physical form in the bookshops very soon.

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Maybe DJ Carey should have repeatedly stabbed his victims instead.

I’ve covered a few heaves but this just got real. Rebels using a medium to get some heavyweight support from the Afterlife! #aras2025 #heave

It’s good we made fireworks illegal.

Remember when it was argued that we need directly-elected mayors so that there’d be someone in charge? Well it doesn’t work like that.

My letter in today’s Irish Times

Eoin O’Malley: What the by-election for Catherine Connolly’s Galway West Dáil seat will teach us independent.ie/opinion/eoin-o…

Fianna Fáil TD James O’Connor: Only an urgent change of leadership can save our country’s soul independent.ie/opinion/fianna…

Odd analysis there via Brendan O’Connor… Fianna Fáil should stick with Micheál Martin as he is not as unpopular with FF voters, as he is with the majority of voters… though FF voters is a declining cohort! As Matt Fenlon highlights in the Irish Mail on Sunday

≈ 40 % of UK graduates under 30 earn within ±10 % of the full-time minimum wage

In today’s Irish Times, I write of the need for greater urgency in the delivery of housing, infrastructure, disability services, and my frustration that we are accepting too many excuses and a lack of ambition.

Sad news this morning as Sr Stanislaus (Stan) Kennedy has died at the age of 86. WATCH: From 40 years, 'A Day in the Life of Sr Stanislaus Kennedy' looked at the work Sr Stan did with homeless people. rte.ie/archives/2015/…

This has to be the least scandalous of scandals in the history of Irish political scandals.

Someone was wrong on the internet!