Daniel Gleeson

The Irish government in 100 years will invest in the mecha James Connolly only for the Brits to immediately shoot it in the leg

Media’s pro-Western bias is often blatant, sometimes subtle but always omnipresent.
Below is an example of the latter.

Deputy @rodericogorman.bsky.social puts it to the Minister for Transport that while infrastructure takes time to build, the new BusConnects bus timetable for Galway already has many of the bus lanes - it just needs funding for buses and drivers.
#galwaybusconnects

🎶 NAMA NAMA, NAMA NAMA, hey hey, goodbye 🎶

By election candidates and the left are releasing this joint statement of solidarity with Cllr Helen Ogbu following disgraceful online abuse.

Hazel Chu, Niall Murphy, Roderic O’Gorman and Janet Horner holding their hands up in joy

A winning team @niallgalway.bsky.social @greenparty.ie

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

Legislation is cheap virtue signalling. Actually trying to solve problems is hard and the actions required don’t necessarily get headlines

You know you’re getting old when you need a pre SuperBowl nap

So in a week of catastrophic flooding the government have decided to move climate from its own section to a subsection under infrastructure and lift the Dublin airport passenger cap. Mighty

Flood Prevention Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming F...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”

How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Morgan McSweeney was described by the Dublin media as “Irish” when he was winning elections but this week, he’s suddenly a Corkman. This anti Cork bias cannot continue 😝

Minister disbands department’s climate division in move branded ‘reckless’ by Greens Jack Chambers has moved climate to unit within new infrastructure division

Implications of restructuring at DPER questioned by @rodericogorman.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

My thoughts on Grox/X and AI in today's @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social

Have been contacted by some victims of deepfaking / non-consensual manipulation of their images by AI - about their experiences.

If anyone else in Ireland has a story they'd like to share on the issue, please feel free to contact me.

This now means that Patrick O’Donovan will drop the digital ID plans here because that man has never had an original thought in his life

Judge's comments show bias against cyclists is 'deeply embedded' in Irish society There are five actions we can take to save lives on our roads, if we choose to implement them

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... Worked with a team in Finland re active travel, they genuinely could not fathom why people objected to cycle lanes here. "But you are making their lives better?" Ah no, you see, we hate cyclists.

The chair of the Legal Aid Board has just told a FLAC conference that the government is refusing to properly fund the Board to deal with the asylum process under the new Pact, and that it's at risk of driving "an organisation in perpetual crisis to actual collapse"

#speirghorm

The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

If there's one thing the irish government loves it's refusing to punish sexual abuse

Got this book for Christmas, which from the title, I assume is about the Galway Ring Road 😝

I didn’t think I’d ever pine for the days when Sepp Blatter ran FIFA

A new Ireland Thinks poll, commissioned by An Taisce, reveals Irish public appear at odds with Government’s application for a derogation from EU Nitrates Directive.

It comes days before a crucial EU vote on the derogation expected on December 9th.

Full results:
www.antaisce.org/news/public-...

Thanks! Hadn’t seen that

The other thing notably absent from the minister’s release is what % of these JRs are successful. If the process is being used for pure obstruction, then you’d expect a large number of unsuccessful JRs.

I think the 43% number the minister mentioned in particular is ALL judicial reviews, not just planning JRs.
www.courts.ie/docs/default... (page 75)

Operation “Blame anyone apart from government”

“While people have a right to access the court, what they don’t necessarily have an entitlement to is an open-ended checkbook on behalf of the Exchequer.”

Does Harris not realise that many people will not be able to afford to access the court due to this power grab?

After all who wouldn't trust a government of FF and Michael Lowry with complete dictatorial powers in planning?

Micheal Martin just a few weeks ago at COP complained that he world’s attention has been "drawn to other threats and crises" and right now is literally and figuratively driving a bulldozer through environmental and climate protections here