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Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.
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“access to justice” is a core right of citizens in a democracy, & a core principle of the Aarhus Convention
Why aren’t Irish media interrogating proposals to restrict the democratic rights of Irish citizens.. the very questionable evidence put forward .. & the motives of those pushing for this?
Why aren’t Irish media interrogating proposals to restrict the democratic rights of Irish citizens.. the very questionable evidence put forward .. & the motives of those pushing for this?
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“access to justice” is a core right of citizens in a democracy, & a core principle of the Aarhus Convention
Why aren’t Irish media interrogating proposals to restrict the democratic rights of Irish citizens.. the very questionable evidence put forward .. & the motives of those pushing for this?
Why aren’t Irish media interrogating proposals to restrict the democratic rights of Irish citizens.. the very questionable evidence put forward .. & the motives of those pushing for this?
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The government has STILL not cleared out the highly partisan decision-makers imposed on the BBC by the Tories. Starmer and co are so amazingly spineless and feeble.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak
Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The government has STILL not cleared out the highly partisan decision-makers imposed on the BBC by the Tories. Starmer and co are so amazingly spineless and feeble.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The result would be:
PAYE @ 45% = £29m
Employee NICs @ 2% = £1m
Employer NICs @ 13.8% = £9m
TOTAL: £39m
The same amount HMRC are claiming.
Gosh, what a coincidence.
PAYE @ 45% = £29m
Employee NICs @ 2% = £1m
Employer NICs @ 13.8% = £9m
TOTAL: £39m
The same amount HMRC are claiming.
Gosh, what a coincidence.
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The result would be:
PAYE @ 45% = £29m
Employee NICs @ 2% = £1m
Employer NICs @ 13.8% = £9m
TOTAL: £39m
The same amount HMRC are claiming.
Gosh, what a coincidence.
PAYE @ 45% = £29m
Employee NICs @ 2% = £1m
Employer NICs @ 13.8% = £9m
TOTAL: £39m
The same amount HMRC are claiming.
Gosh, what a coincidence.
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A spooky Samhain single for the day that’s in it by my sister Molly May. Amazing what she’s achieved with a budget of zero. Check it out mollymayoleary.bandcamp.com/track/ghost?...
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A spooky Samhain single for the day that’s in it by my sister Molly May. Amazing what she’s achieved with a budget of zero. Check it out mollymayoleary.bandcamp.com/track/ghost?...
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We all used that line a week ago.
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We all used that line a week ago.
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Gardaí are investigating criminal damage to a Rathmines tree. “Dublin’s streets are crying out for more trees but in parts of the city, the ones we have are being hacked to bits,” says Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan.
Gardaí are investigating criminal damage to a Rathmines tree
“Dublin’s streets are crying out for more trees but in parts of the city, the ones we have are being hacked to bits,” says Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan.
www.dublininquirer.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Gardaí are investigating criminal damage to a Rathmines tree. “Dublin’s streets are crying out for more trees but in parts of the city, the ones we have are being hacked to bits,” says Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan.
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Still incredible to me you‘re a wokescold cringelib or whatever if you think mainstream Irish journos and political parties shouldn’t be using a website run by this man
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Still incredible to me you‘re a wokescold cringelib or whatever if you think mainstream Irish journos and political parties shouldn’t be using a website run by this man
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We’re constantly hearing about online radicalisation, yet the UK tabloid rags, including their Oirish editions, brazenly spread anti-Palestinian hatred & Israeli misinformation like confetti.
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We’re constantly hearing about online radicalisation, yet the UK tabloid rags, including their Oirish editions, brazenly spread anti-Palestinian hatred & Israeli misinformation like confetti.
The ULEZ expansion is helping to improve the health of millions of Londoners.
Harmful NO2 concentrations are estimated to be down across London compared to a no-ULEZ scenario.
Central London - 54% lower
Inner London - 29% lower
Outer London - 24% lower
Harmful NO2 concentrations are estimated to be down across London compared to a no-ULEZ scenario.
Central London - 54% lower
Inner London - 29% lower
Outer London - 24% lower
October 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
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USA “concrete does not want to be white”
www.nytimes.com/video/reales...
www.nytimes.com/video/reales...
Video: A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
Designed to be the crown jewel of Billionaires’ Row in New York City, the supertall tower at 432 Park Avenue is now facing serious problems. Stefanos Chen, a reporter for The New York Times’s Metro se...
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
USA “concrete does not want to be white”
www.nytimes.com/video/reales...
www.nytimes.com/video/reales...
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Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram.
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
From pigs’ heads to arson plots: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe
The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine
www.irishtimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram.
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
I have just seen that Gabija Gataveckaite is the BBI NI correspondent, reporting on the Presidential election. The same journalist who made a name for herself by repeatedly asking Tony Holohan if he wanted to apologise to women affected by the Cervical Check ‘scandal’. I am dismayed.
October 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I have just seen that Gabija Gataveckaite is the BBI NI correspondent, reporting on the Presidential election. The same journalist who made a name for herself by repeatedly asking Tony Holohan if he wanted to apologise to women affected by the Cervical Check ‘scandal’. I am dismayed.
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Jilly Cooper, I later discovered, wasn’t just unspeakably kind to useless young gossip columnists charged with bothering her at home or pestering her at a party. She was lovely to absolutely everyone. What a gorgeous legacy.
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Jilly Cooper, I later discovered, wasn’t just unspeakably kind to useless young gossip columnists charged with bothering her at home or pestering her at a party. She was lovely to absolutely everyone. What a gorgeous legacy.
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A *proper* Fianna Fáil presidential candidate is obviously
> gift of the gab
> mild alcoholic
> corruption allegations
RETVRN
> gift of the gab
> mild alcoholic
> corruption allegations
RETVRN
October 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A *proper* Fianna Fáil presidential candidate is obviously
> gift of the gab
> mild alcoholic
> corruption allegations
RETVRN
> gift of the gab
> mild alcoholic
> corruption allegations
RETVRN
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“The Office of Public Works spends around €1.2 million every year leasing car parking... spaces for the Revenue Commissioners cost over €100,000 annually. Parking for Leinster House itself runs to a similar figure each year. These are recurring bills, quietly signed off without any outrage”
Those outraged by a €100k bike shed should look at the annual cost of renting out car park spaces
www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-...
www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-...
Opinion: Those outraged by a €100k bike shed should look at the annual cost of renting out car park spaces
We have completely normalised investment in congestion, pollution and the continuation of car-first planning, writes Ciarán Cannon.
www.thejournal.ie
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“The Office of Public Works spends around €1.2 million every year leasing car parking... spaces for the Revenue Commissioners cost over €100,000 annually. Parking for Leinster House itself runs to a similar figure each year. These are recurring bills, quietly signed off without any outrage”
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Imagine if in 2006 Saddam was giving speeches at the UNGA and receiving billions in arms and finance from China while the US Marine corp announced it will be deploying horses to Mosul.
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Imagine if in 2006 Saddam was giving speeches at the UNGA and receiving billions in arms and finance from China while the US Marine corp announced it will be deploying horses to Mosul.
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I see car brain is an international condition. You wouldn’t know it from the below post, but the it was the scooter rider who was killed, hit by a motorist. And other reports say the motorist was drunk and fled the scene
As another person died following an accident with an e-scooter in Brussels last weekend, calls are rising to reduce the maximum speed to 20 km/h.
Higher speed means greater impact: e-scooter speed limits under scrutiny after another death
Higher speed means greater impact: e-scooter speed limits under scrutiny after another death
www.brusselstimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I see car brain is an international condition. You wouldn’t know it from the below post, but the it was the scooter rider who was killed, hit by a motorist. And other reports say the motorist was drunk and fled the scene
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I wonder what attracted him to a party led by a massive Putin fan…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I wonder what attracted him to a party led by a massive Putin fan…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reading the Turkish submissions to a UN panel of inquiry into the Israeli storming of the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla in 2010 :(
September 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reading the Turkish submissions to a UN panel of inquiry into the Israeli storming of the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla in 2010 :(
Maybe not but she’s playing right into theIsraeli PR machine’s hands by talking about this. I hope she loses m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Race to the Áras: Connolly says it is not up to Starmer to decide Hamas’ role in Palestinian state
Follow the latest developments in our live blog:
m.independent.ie
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Maybe not but she’s playing right into theIsraeli PR machine’s hands by talking about this. I hope she loses m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Courts do not decide merits of a Planning application
Courts determine if the law was followed correctly in the Planning process
Access to the courts to uphold laws ~enacted by politicians~ is a democratic right, & it is exercised by both citizens & developers
www.independent.ie/irish-news/j...
Courts determine if the law was followed correctly in the Planning process
Access to the courts to uphold laws ~enacted by politicians~ is a democratic right, & it is exercised by both citizens & developers
www.independent.ie/irish-news/j...
Justice Minister slates ‘abhorrent’ way judicial reviews are frustrating vital housing projects
The Government is to introduce legislation to tackle the "abhorrent" way judicial reviews are being abused to frustrate strategic housing and infrastructure projects.
www.independent.ie
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Courts do not decide merits of a Planning application
Courts determine if the law was followed correctly in the Planning process
Access to the courts to uphold laws ~enacted by politicians~ is a democratic right, & it is exercised by both citizens & developers
www.independent.ie/irish-news/j...
Courts determine if the law was followed correctly in the Planning process
Access to the courts to uphold laws ~enacted by politicians~ is a democratic right, & it is exercised by both citizens & developers
www.independent.ie/irish-news/j...
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Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco
The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.
sfstandard.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...