I write for Tuairisc.ie and post in English and Irish. Iománaí ar an gclaí. Politics. 🎶 Ceol. Hurling. Cyclist. Deep down quite shallow. 🟩⬜️🟪
Well done @dlrcc.bsky.social, setting a great example to other councils of how to make active travel viable and safe for all. (And a big thank you from this frequent visitor.)
irishcycleIn images: Dún Laoghaire Central active travel route now partly open Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's contractors are making progress on the Dún Laoghaire Central active travel project, which includes sections of four roads linking into the town....
Lessons from the pandemic, based on UK experience but with obvious relevance to Ireland. 🧵
Prof Christina Pagel🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
Controlling AI in politics, one small step.
Gavan ReillyA couple of months on, an update: the current system allows TDs to lodge PQs simply by sending the text to an designated email address. After the recess they’ll have to use a gated online system to supply questions instead, making it more cumbersome to lodge multiple interrelated questions at once.
👀 ‘Happy to confirm’.
Marie Le Conteall happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article...
A reminder of why J K Rowling deserves praise, in Mandy Rhodes’ article about the Scottish reasons for her philanthropy.
HolyroodJK Rowling deserves gratitude not vilification, says Mandy Rhodes www.holyrood.com/editors-colu...
‘Sending inconclusive findings to the European Commission is an evasion dressed up as due process. The State should instead weigh the probabilities, as governments must, and act’’ irishtimes.com editorial cuts through convenient dodging of reasonable conclusions.’
The Irish Times view on Aughinish Alumina report: evasion dressed up as due processWorrying gap between Minister’s statement and what is actually in reportwww.irishtimes.comFAO anyone who thinks maybe X isn’t all that bad, here’s what the owner is saying on it.
Brandon FriedmanMusk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
“‘Cultural sensitivity concerning the Gaeltacht people of Ireland – A concept analysis’ is teideal don taighde úr.” Más maith is mithid.
‘Níor thuig mé i gceart riachtanais mhuintir na Gaeltachta sa tseirbhís sláinte go dtí go bhfaca mé féin iad’Léiríonn taighde úr gur féidir cúram níos fearr a thabhairt do mhuintir na Gaeltachta nuair a thuigtear a gcultúr agus a dteanga dhúchaistuairisc.ieOn condoning carnage. @shonamurray.bsky.social
Shona Murray: The EU has imposed sanctions on Russia, yet they fail to do so on IsraelThis week the EU rightfully proudly announced the passage of the 21st sanctions package against Russia. Yet the banning trade with Israeli settlements has yet to happenwww.irishexaminer.com?/100 Mo thuairisc. #Gaeilge
TuairiscTuairisc an tsamhraidh ar shaothar na ndaltaí i ‘scoil’ Shráid Chill Dara
Minister says there are ‘no adverse findings’ in Aughinish report that proves nothing and has not been published.
'No adverse' Aughinish findings, but lack of Russian dataAn independent review into Aughinish Alumina exports to Russia has made no "adverse findings" against the plant.www.rte.ieThe glaringly obvious truth about Israel’s intentions and actions which governments in the US and EU either condone or support. 🧵
Yair WallachWhile it is important to stand against rampant torture in Israeli prisons, bombing of children in Gaza, settler attacks in West Bank, there a thread connecting all of these. They are part of a coherent political project of destroying Palestinian society and existence between the river and the sea.
