Have just learnt that couscous is really just semolina, rebranded. Is anything real?

And in today's #Brexit , 'Who knew that would happen?'
Maybe Jamie is right, and the Protocol does undermine the Union.

It's s not just Northern unionists who struggle with the idea that there's more than one point of view down here...

The name ‘Ireland’s Ancient East’ has already been taken.

Micheál Martin's leadership of Fianna Fáil has destroyed the party, and so has his abandonment of constitutional republicanism. Probably more than anything else, it has delayed the development of the North's position in Ireland as well.

“It was clear the SDLP didn’t fit in with Micheál Martin’s slow but inexorable abandonment of Fianna Fáil’s traditional republican stance on the north and northern nationalism.”
~Brian Feeney, The Irish News

☕️🥐

One of the great, unsung, heroes of Irish history ...

Let's just go over this again for those who were apparently sleeping at the back.
The EU's foreign affairs mechanisms are how we, in the EU, deal with you, outside the EU. That's you in the UK, for example. So no, no access. ft.com/content/7a8484…

Sashes were as much a military necessity as well as a fashion. First worn to distinguish opposing combatants on the battlefield, they became accessories for men during the middle of the 17th century. English, c. 1635-1642. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

[ALC, 1590] Brian Og, son of Brian, son of Ruaidhri, son of Tadhg, son of Ruaidhri Og, i.e., lord of Magh-Luirg, and Airtech, and Tir-Tuathail, the best man of his age, and estate, and high lordship, that came of the Gaeil of the West of Europe in his own time... 1/10

This is a bit technical but highlights the unreality of house values in the current market.
Discounted future cash flows represents the total possible future earnings that can be got by an occupant from a property. Even at current rents that's far below what's being asked.

Ireland had the third lowest rate of road traffic fatalities in the EU in 2022, according to last Friday's numbers from EU_Eurostat.

All the committee will get to consider is a short briefing from Helen McEntee...

Watch: 'This is constitutional level change....the people of Ireland are entitled that the parliament would not delegate to a committee the consideration of a highly important piece of law' youtu.be/7zGxKKi6bmM #EUMigrationPact

Say what you like, but Europe is brilliant for small businesses. When I see the number of small companies from over the border making deliveries or providing services here - impossible without open borders, CU, FOM and SM - you know Europe is working.

bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…

'Anti-tourism movements are multiplying in Spain, the world's second most visited country, prompting authorities to try and reconcile the interests of locals and the lucrative sector.'
rte.ie/news/world/202…

Figures...

And in today's #Brexit 'Who knew that would happen?'
Tell people they're not welcome, and...
ft.com/content/dfa60b…

This is bad.

Eir’s customer complaint manual:

'Under no circumstances are the complaints number or complaints webpage address to be provided to any customer. An agent found to be doing this will be subject to a disciplinary under call avoidance.'

Irish court fined it €7,500

This is infantilising of an electorate that voted for Cameron, Brexit, May and Johnson, all in accordance with the British constitution.

People knew well what they were voting for - becoming a third country.

They just assumed the restrictions (90/180) wouldn't apply to Britons