Thought for the day. Exactly the same applies to politicians who oppose or drag feet on #climate action. pic.x.com/k3rJx8sM0Z

🏟⚽️📢 "Ladies & gentlemen, to get Lee #Carsley out of a media bind and prevent any booing of certain turncoats, in place of England's (actually UK's) national #anthem, please stand with your half-and-half scarves 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 aloft for Thin Lizzy's 'The Boys are Back in Town'." #IREENG

Reading through today's Draghi report on the future of Europe's economy. A piece which won't surprise, but should concern an Irish audience, on permitting for renewables Ireland called out for having amongst the longest timelines for both solar and wind.

Am available this morning in my official 🇪🇺capacity to head up the hill to 🍎 HQ to pick up the cheque.

On closer inspection, I think it may be the case that there's something in the water in this #SpringfieldOhio place to make people believe pets 🐶😺are being eaten.

Yet again (despite what the app says) the (hourly) Bus Éireann #Cork 212, running late outbound to Mahon, has decided NOT to come back into the city centre along Ferney Road. 2 minutes saved 👏👏👏, making it marginally less late. And 4 passengers stranded. A joke of a service!

Will we even know when Bus Éireann #Cork (officially) reduce services? Just been through the bus-is-so-late-we-can't-be-picking-up-passengers stunt, again. 212 driver -embarrassed, apologetic, under orders- stopped to let people off. But not on. "I'm literally turning around".

👏Cork City FC stewarding at Turners Cross St.Anne's end for tonight's 🇮🇪U-21 game. Ticketmaster Ireland🙄 app & site inexplicably shut me out of my account with some nonsense. No access to tickets. Stewards made big effort to see it was legit and ushered me from queue past turnstile.

For posterity. #BlowitupRef!

Hey Ticketmaster Ireland any chance you'd "unpause" 🤔 my browsing activity? Keeps happening and I cant resolve it. Almost made me miss an event 2 weeks ago. What "unusual behaviour"? Password is ok. So much so that I could buy tickets today. But not much use if I can't access them.

Well this is going to be awkward for somebody to explain...

So, now that age and cognitive function (never mind moral fibre) are no longer considered electoral factors, American voters have made JD Vance the US President-in-waiting. ...

10 states still to declare but reckon this could end up with exactly the same electoral map and result as 2016. For Clinton read Harris. Some day Americans will elect a woman as President. But, ironically, a Republican woman.

"As a woman of colour, I was so hopeful...I think it [the vote] had nothing to do with policy...this was a referendum of cultural resentment on this 🇺🇲 country" is as good a summation as I've heard.

Something, hardly escapism after this week, drove me to finally open this⬇️ classic. As [spolier] climate disaster, economic misery & enforced migration get set to befall the ordinary folk of middle 🇺🇲, Steinbeck's opening words seem chillingly prophetic: "To the red country..."

First Kilkenomics festival of wknd and already suspect my plan to engage in a personal drinking game 🍺 whenever a panelist mentions the "T***p" & "M**k" words may need watering down. [📸Tom Burgis on how the well-oiled dirty money 'kleptopia' isn't just a 🍌republic phenomenon]

One of the less obvious Democrat missteps highlighted Kilkenomics...not only keeping but increasing Trump Mark 1's (economically dubious) trade tariffs, contributing to the inflation that was in large part their downfall among working-class voters. 🫣

.Cormac Lucey Kilkenomics: "🇮🇪's indigenous SME sector lags notably behind our Western European peers. Our dependence on FDI for national productivity is akin to our famine-era reliance on a potato-based diet. And now there is a blight heading our way from across the Atlantic."