Irish dental schools produce 8 dental hygienists a year. EIGHT. They also stuff their dentist classes with high paying foreign students who all go home upon graduation so we only get about 40 Irish dentists a year. No workforce planning. Stephen Donnelly David Cullinane T.D.

Poll for a post I'm mulling. You're with a friend / family member / partner. At a lull in the conversation they produce a book / magazine & start reading. Would you feel differently if they'd started looking at their phone, & if yes, do you think this feeling can be justified?

If I were the manager of Manchester United I would consider, every now and again, playing a specialist left full back at the left full back position.

You've got to give the Sunday Indo a round of applause for getting 1,800 words out of a story about Sinn Fein hiding some replies to its tweets on twitter.

I wouldn't call myself a pop culture expert but I think she has a song about that.

The race today was super. This is what F1 has lacked for too long - guys driving pretty evenly-matched cars past their limits.

Hello new followers, my car is a stupid piece of shit which has broken down again and I have a hospital appt tomorrow. Both these cars are for sale in a garage near me. I can pick either up tomorrow if you just call and pay for them for me please. Many thanks.

People will hail this (correctly) as a victory for free speech, but it's also a victory for Ursula Von Der Leyen, as she continues to wield power over the membership of the commission that her office doesn't grant her.

I normally believe in relationships across divides but I would struggle to love someone who found this funny. x.com/flywithkamala/…

JOHN MCGUIRK: As a desperate mother pleaded - again - for aid for her son with Scoliosis, the Government announced it's eighth and ninth separate proposals to ban something - this time vaping - since the start of the summer. gript.ie/vaping-ban-non…

Tweet posted on June 21st.

Huw Edwards gets a six month suspended sentence for viewing child abuse images involving boys as young as seven. It's a good job he didn't send an intemperate tweet during the recent UK riots, or he could have been facing up to three years in prison. Two-tier justice is real.

This is true. It is also of course true about the consumption of cocaine, but people care less about that.

Gript are livestreaming New Direction's Irish conference from now until Thursday. Excellent lineup of speakers, excellent array of topics. youtube.com/live/TiReSIHFE…

JOHN MCGUIRK: The idea that a court would stop somebody being named on the basis of "the climate in the country" is preposterous and troubling for several reasons, not least the idea that people should stand equal before the law: gript.ie/the-climate-in…

JOHN MCGUIRK: The EU Commission President is slowly but inexorably transforming her role into a position with far more power than ever officially intended - including, apparently, the power to effectively appoint her own cabinet. gript.ie/the-ever-incre…

That exploding pager story from Hezbollah territory has the feel of one of the most sophisticated intelligence operations of recent years.

You've got to imagine that Hezbollah - which boasts a claimed fighting force of 100k - doesn't just hand out a few thousand pagers to random footsoldiers. Whoever did this (LOL) likely just took out a good chunk of the officer corps.

Opposition clearly not up to much, but for the first time there are some sights of positive Ten Hag Ball in this United side over the last two games.