If Trump suggested such a thing, notwithstanding that it is a domestic measure of no relevance to us, we’d be hearing about it regularly. But when such a proposal is made here?
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If Trump suggested such a thing, notwithstanding that it is a domestic measure of no relevance to us, we’d be hearing about it regularly. But when such a proposal is made here?
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The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
m.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Costs against a *successful* party?
Any idea proposed by a man wearing a chain of office is a bad idea
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
www.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Costs against a *successful* party?
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Sorry, but Enoch Burke is an unwitting and unwilling comedy gift.
You can’t tweet breaking news about yourself and report you are excellent as part of it. It’s gold!
You can’t tweet breaking news about yourself and report you are excellent as part of it. It’s gold!
Have just seen Enoch Burke’s latest self-pitying, lying video. His behaviour towards two extremely civil & professional security guards at the school was obnoxious. The man is a bully. A self-righteous, bigoted, bully. Pathetic!
(Not linking to the vid).
(Not linking to the vid).
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sorry, but Enoch Burke is an unwitting and unwilling comedy gift.
You can’t tweet breaking news about yourself and report you are excellent as part of it. It’s gold!
You can’t tweet breaking news about yourself and report you are excellent as part of it. It’s gold!
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When is a Guarantee not a guarantee?
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
When is a Guarantee not a guarantee?
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Ireland, for different reasons, doesn’t look at the EU this way either.
I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Ireland, for different reasons, doesn’t look at the EU this way either.
Amazing. What could go wrong. The business geniuses have done it again.
Things are worse for OpenAI, who needs more than $1 Trillion - $500bn in operational costs + $625bn-$800 billion in data centers - to fulfill their obligations. They cannot afford to survive, nor can they build the data centers to unlock NVIDIA's investment.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Amazing. What could go wrong. The business geniuses have done it again.
Enough of the think pieces - it’s quite clear what the government parties are up to
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Enough of the think pieces - it’s quite clear what the government parties are up to
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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
One wonders how many new builds he has been in.
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
One wonders how many new builds he has been in.
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The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Great thread. I heard earlier this week that about 0.2% of planning applications are caught up by judicial review, which seems like a fairly reasonable number that can't really explain the housing crisis after all... ?
Despite the click-bait headline my contribution has been accurately reported in this piece by @eithnedodd.bsky.social unfortunately on the industry side the wool has been pulled over her eyes by the usual self-serving rhetoric
By way of followup a short 🧵
By way of followup a short 🧵
The rate of judicial review in Ireland is "off the charts," the Director of Housing and Planning at the Construction Industry Federation has said
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Great thread. I heard earlier this week that about 0.2% of planning applications are caught up by judicial review, which seems like a fairly reasonable number that can't really explain the housing crisis after all... ?
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“what is a republic worth if the nurse can’t afford rent?””
"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.
That’s the only kind of fast that matters."
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
November 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
“what is a republic worth if the nurse can’t afford rent?””
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Furthermore public transit teaches you how to live with temporary minor annoyances and cars teach you that you're god's most special baby and your moment-to-moment comfort is the only important thing in the world
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Furthermore public transit teaches you how to live with temporary minor annoyances and cars teach you that you're god's most special baby and your moment-to-moment comfort is the only important thing in the world
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The doings and transprirings of the "Royal" families of more backward nations are of no consequence to us citizens of free republics
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The doings and transprirings of the "Royal" families of more backward nations are of no consequence to us citizens of free republics
Hahah I saw everyone getting excited about this weird robot and lo and behold it is both not as impressive as first thought and also a further massive invasion of domestic privacy for no real reason.
Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Hahah I saw everyone getting excited about this weird robot and lo and behold it is both not as impressive as first thought and also a further massive invasion of domestic privacy for no real reason.
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We keep hearing that our shared reality is at risk from social media, online disinformation etc, and while that's true, some newspaper people columnists have been shaping their own reality for a long time. Too much of what's in Irish newspaper columnists wouldn't even survive basic fact checking.
Seriously when will the pundits move on-the story, the real story, of the election is Catherine Connolly’s amazing win-followed by the story of FFG implosion and a distant third are the spoilt votes-and of no interest to the story is the failure of far right candidates to get nominations #speirgorm
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We keep hearing that our shared reality is at risk from social media, online disinformation etc, and while that's true, some newspaper people columnists have been shaping their own reality for a long time. Too much of what's in Irish newspaper columnists wouldn't even survive basic fact checking.
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Nothing I've seen has made an at all compelling case for why it's some kind of crisis that a woman with no government experience who showed up all of 5 minuted before the deadline failed to make the ballot
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Nothing I've seen has made an at all compelling case for why it's some kind of crisis that a woman with no government experience who showed up all of 5 minuted before the deadline failed to make the ballot
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Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in the history of the state.
This kind of analysis is neither serious nor credible, and it has to stop.
#Aras25
This kind of analysis is neither serious nor credible, and it has to stop.
#Aras25
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in the history of the state.
This kind of analysis is neither serious nor credible, and it has to stop.
#Aras25
This kind of analysis is neither serious nor credible, and it has to stop.
#Aras25
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Anyway, Gareth Sheridan (remember him? Pharma Bro?) was on RTÉ yesterday and complained that he received a lot of hate online. He then was uninterrupted while he said that you should need a government ID to use social media (because someone might be mean to a failed presidential candidate).
October 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Anyway, Gareth Sheridan (remember him? Pharma Bro?) was on RTÉ yesterday and complained that he received a lot of hate online. He then was uninterrupted while he said that you should need a government ID to use social media (because someone might be mean to a failed presidential candidate).
“[T]he elevated level of spoiled votes is an invitation for Ireland's Greatest Losers to claim that, actually, every spoiled vote is a vote for whatever voter-repellent position they want to push.”
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“[T]he elevated level of spoiled votes is an invitation for Ireland's Greatest Losers to claim that, actually, every spoiled vote is a vote for whatever voter-repellent position they want to push.”
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This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!