The Irish Times has again procured a writer of a certain age to write that back in my day nobody drank water or brought water bottles around (Sean Moncrieff last time) without reference to the decline in thirst response as we age.
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Every so often I remember the Irish immigration system is so dysfunctional that the Brazilian community here had to set up a WhatsApp group to help find each other after the DoJ kept returning their passports to the wrong people #speirghorm
LET THE TRAINS SPEAK THEIR NATIVE TONGUE! TRAEIN GAN TEANGA, TRAEIN GAN ANAM
A billion a year, nearly two thirds of which goes directly into the landlord's pocket just to make the number right, while also massively de-risking their property speculation.
Landlords' rent-seeking is now so utterly divorced from the reality of employment earnings that on average, the State pays he rent for two months of the year for every registered private tenancy in the country (between HAP, rent supplement and rent tax credit).
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The former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has said he made a statement to gardaí that he was “being blackmailed” by a sitting senator in a bid to force him to reinstate a suspended senior employee.
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(then there is the subtle difference in meaning between the nouns 'attaché' and 'attache'; the latter denoting some sort of clip or fastener and not a specialist diplomat who goes to things in uniform)
So disappointing to see the word "attaché" deployed here without its accent. Looks limp and uninviting on the page, like a deflated balloon. Surely half the point of this story is the fun of getting to use the word "attaché" in a headline in all its daring, dashing handsomeness.
ireland needs to grow up and take responsibility for its own defense, the time of nato freeloading is over
we must scrap our entire education budget and instead buy 3 fighter planes to instantly get shot down in a friendly-fire incident
there is no "magic wand" to wave to make this not necessary
Fianna Fáil insiders have bemoaned the loss in recent years of the Total Cunt vote, and the feeling within the Parliamentary Party is that Jim O’Callaghan is the man to win those Total Cunts back. Micheál Lehane, RTÉ News
As I have mentioned previously, the current government is composed of the stupidest remnants of the ancièn régime running on momentum and reactionary muscle memory.
"Shelter in place" has been the government's response to every outrage perpetuated by the Trump regime.
Only three years since 1,000 homeless children was considered a scandal:
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A dismissed Aer Lingus flight attendant accused of refusing to let a passenger go to the bathroom on a delayed flight told his bosses he was under strain in his personal life and that the man "triggered" him by swearing, a tribunal has heard
"These pictures.. of the deputy leader of the Labour Party Lucy Powell.. you can see written on her face what Labour MPs have been telling me darkly for a few weeks now, which is that this exact scenario, a Green win, Reform in second, Labour in third, is their worst nightmare"
The first time I’ve seen “anything could happen 🤷🏾♂️” in chart form.
Patrick O'Donovan doesn't have to consider this, because when you're on a crusade against anything that looks a bit too urban for your liking, the question of holding anyone else to your exacting standards doesn't arise.
Patrick O'Donovan's low-wattage reactionary hardcoding clearly doesn't stretch to consideration of the precedent this sets. What's he going to do next time there's handbags at a big Munster club match? Defund the GAA?
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Much to be concerned about here, mainly that the Irish defence forces feels the need to prepare for an "on-island defence" but doesn't quite seem to think the need is pressing enough to buy any main battle tanks.
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Snow in New York. Ireland cut off.
There seems to be a blindness to what has been done to the hills. The places in these photos are part of a 'Special Area of Conservation' and are acknowledged to be in terrible condition and yet nothing is done, even when downstream flooding affects people's lives
I don't ever remember seeing ashes that dark on someone's forehead, not least at the end of a long day. Perhaps there has been a renewed emphasis by the church on the performative aspects of Ash Wednesday, which might explain this (and the instant I've-been-cancelled).
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Can confirm I come across exactly this smarmy in person
I suppose the money will have to start coming from somewhere some day or else all the people who invested money in these ventures will lose their shirts.
Controversial take: entry-level jobs in the near future will be where the young employee is paying the employer to gain critical first years-on-the-job experience as opposed to them being paid wages (or even as a free intern). This will be like a college education where prestigious learning opportunities will be pay-to-play. This might even become an extended curriculum to the regular college experience. The undeniable facts are these (and I speak from direct experience): the learning curves, the awkward lessons, the face-palm “wow this kid knows nothing” moments that were endured because you had no other choice in raising the future mid-level class of your company are no longer necessary. That same training energy now goes into another entity that 1) is soooo much smarter in the practical sense, 2) is an insanely fast learner, 3) doesn’t forget what you said once you say it, 4) doesn’t complain, take sick days, have other Gen-Z (or gen-alpha) issues, and 5) can scale so that if you teach it once it’s like you trained an entire cohort of analysts, not just one. There is NO legitimate reason to endure the fresh graduate. Except for this: we must train the leaders of tomorrow. But we won’t. We will take the easy immediate wins with AI. ROI and shareholder value. So how will we train the future HOTL’s (human in the loop)? The seniors smart enough to govern the outputs of AI? The only answer I see is the one I started this post with. We must pay for the experience. Gaining this early experience, despite AI’s advantages, means that we must pay out of our pockets to cover the value differential. And by the way, every talking head out there saying that the future rests on teaching our kids how to use AI properly: puh-leeze, that will come naturally, it’s like saying teach your kids how to use the internet. The bigger question is how can we teach them about their full potential as humans when they’ll have AI doing everything goddamn thing for them from day one.
AI company CEO: "There's no reason to every hire entry-level staff again, who will need training, complain and take sick days. Therefore, people should now start paying _us_ for entry-level jobs." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
As we all know, even one key figure on the No side in 96 saw the light (even though Barrett later told his followers something to the effect of 'there weren't no first marriage here and never was'.
It's noted that he was wearing high-vis even though the driver was making an illegal turn and even with high-vis and all it's only counted as careless driving and not dangerous driving: www.thejournal.ie/courts-cycli...
They assured us Marriage Equality would do nothing to undermine the traditional family. So why is Dunnes only selling "Valentine's Special" steaks in 3-packs!?! And worse, 4-packs!!!
I had to overtake a van driver this morning who was so engrossed with his phone at the lights that he failed to notice they had gone green for a good ten seconds -- time enough for me to go halfway up the street and through the junction. He then rocketed off up a bus lane to make up for lost time.
