25+ years derelict. In Dublin City Council ownership since 2019. No funding from the Department of Housing to rebuild.
The two derelict houses on 19 & 21 Connaught Street have been abandoned by the state. They're now structurally compromised and a risk to the neighbouring houses on the terrace.
France’s former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for sanctions against Israel and the US over their attacks on Iran:
“We say clearly to the United States that their war against Iran is illegal, illegitimate, and dangerous.”
A small red dog in deceptively serious looking profile
Because of racism and the class system Bréifne wasn't allowed compete at Crufts. A spectre is haunting the fancy pedigree dogs of Europe: the spectre of all the barky little brown jobs.
"Is maith an t-anlann an peach habanero" - ancient Irish proverb
Homer: They're defending themselves somehow!
Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.
On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.
#Infograph
Almost all the cultural spaces and restaurants I've been in recently have switched to gender neutral toilets. It's indicative of how Labour's rabid hatred of trans people feels bizarre to so much of civil society which is asking itself, 'what drugs is Labour on, and how do we ban those?'
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
You work at Bluesky? That must be interesting. You like the job?
Yeah! All day long I delete the accounts of desperate Gazans who are just trying to survive in horrific circumstances! I really love it!
Ooh Stephen Collins is snivelling about how you gotta hand it to this week's leader of the UUP, has his finger on the legume that lad
Galactic brain David McWilliams has taken to the Irish Times to tell us that we may not think it, but oil is actually quite important to the world economy.
It was invented by Robert Heinlein in "Stranger in a Strange Land" but it's pointless, it just means "to understand", there's no particular nuance to it.
President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".
Two veteran journalists made a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, but the BBC later refused to air it.
This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to investigate why and what it says about the future of journalism:
Jhostynxon García is a baseball player whose nickname is "The Password"
I assume that when Wrexham acquired Callum Doyle from Norwich the headline was CANARY IN A COALMINE but can we trust today's subeditors?
Jeffrey Sachs spoke to an audience in Dublin today.
As the Govnt fails repeatedly to call out the brutal, illegal wars of the US+Israel, he reminded us of JFK's speech to the Dáil in 1963.
'From Cork to Congo, Galway to the Gaza strip', Ireland must be the voice of the weak.
In addition to being the unelected and unaccountable "chief executive" in whom all actual local government power rests he also voices his "legal concerns" about motions passed by the elected councillors which have nothing the fuck to do with him
Jesus TFI's Seachtain na Gaeilge effort is cringe inducing.
Yours doesn't
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
morals of others were inferior to those of Christians, and that they therefore had every right, and could use any means, to change them, the collision, between cultures-and the schizophrenia in the mind of Christendom-had rendered the domain of morals as chartless as the sea once was, and as treacherous as the sea still is. It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is pos-sible; I think we must believe that it is possible). must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. “— James Baldwin
they lie every single time
it’s always murder, they’re always smearing the victim in order to cover for themselves
DHS statements should be treated, presumptively, as the exact opposite of the truth
not exaggerations, not inaccurate - brazen, total lies
"Robin of Sherwood" was the high water mark.
Robin Hood is a game of the Minister's Cat -- every new feature has to be retained. So Naseem the Saracen became Morgan Freeman as Azeem in the Costner version, and now it's just a plain fact there was a Merrie Man from the other end of the Crusades.
Taoiseach Michel Martin statement on Lebanon I strongly condemn the reckless strike on a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon that has left a number of Ghanaian peacekeepers seriously injured. The role of peacekeepers is sacrosanct, and all should go above and beyond to prevent them from coming into harm's way. I would like to pay tribute to the courage, resilience, and professionalism of the Irish peacekeepers who came to the aid of their Ghanaian colleagues today. I have been briefed on the latest situation, and all Irish personnel serving in Lebanon remain safe and accounted for. Michel Martin Taoiseach na hÉireann
Who I wonder launched this ‘reckless strike’ against UNIFIL peacekeepers, because this statement would seem to indicate it came from an unknown source or is a known ‘unknown’, eh!! Someone should really inform the Taoiseach! #nameandshame #weallknowwhodidit
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
It's mad that many ideas and concepts in linguistics -- "poverty of the stimulus" and "language faculty" or "universal grammar" -- are fundamentally based on an argument from incredulity, that this shouldn't or can't be possible, and yet, we're doing it.
Sets up a superb final day next week
Whatever happened to
All the "two-tier"-os
#ScoFra
They're so fragile
