It is of course telling that we are informed the HSE has no stats at a national level on disciplinary matters. How then could the HSE's leadership have formed a clear view on the ills of the system?
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It is of course telling that we are informed the HSE has no stats at a national level on disciplinary matters. How then could the HSE's leadership have formed a clear view on the ills of the system?
The evidence was that the file had been waiting for attention from HSE HR for some time. "This case outlines a series of events that only served to benefit the harasser, the complainant’s rights seem to have been forgotten," the adjudicator found, awarding over €86k.
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The evidence was that the file had been waiting for attention from HSE HR for some time. "This case outlines a series of events that only served to benefit the harasser, the complainant’s rights seem to have been forgotten," the adjudicator found, awarding over €86k.
The Beckett Class has thermal imaging in its fire control optic system, so the statement the Yeats is "not equipped with night-time optics" is factually inaccurate.
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Beckett Class has thermal imaging in its fire control optic system, so the statement the Yeats is "not equipped with night-time optics" is factually inaccurate.
I didn't realize there was quite this degree of haziness about even the vague location these UFO sightings, as the Irish Times was reporting that the Yeats was on station in Dublin Bay. It'll be Berehaven next I suppose...
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I didn't realize there was quite this degree of haziness about even the vague location these UFO sightings, as the Irish Times was reporting that the Yeats was on station in Dublin Bay. It'll be Berehaven next I suppose...
That purportedly "patchy" video feed of the UFOs would be PAL supplied from a £2.5 million gimbal-stabilised day/night fire control system on the Beckett class ships with the capacity to track multiple aerial targets at once, on thermal imaging, at night, even 5km away.
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
That purportedly "patchy" video feed of the UFOs would be PAL supplied from a £2.5 million gimbal-stabilised day/night fire control system on the Beckett class ships with the capacity to track multiple aerial targets at once, on thermal imaging, at night, even 5km away.
Armoured Garda convoy through Ballsbridge, it must be assumed, for Zelensky.
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Armoured Garda convoy through Ballsbridge, it must be assumed, for Zelensky.
I'm not saying every Taoiseach needs to have a degree. I am, however, suggesting that if Simon Harris had completed his studies in journalism, he might have spent enough time grappling with social science to know what statistical correlation isn't.
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I'm not saying every Taoiseach needs to have a degree. I am, however, suggesting that if Simon Harris had completed his studies in journalism, he might have spent enough time grappling with social science to know what statistical correlation isn't.
In the 2022 census Ireland was 150k-250k people below the middle figures in these projections for 2021.
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
In the 2022 census Ireland was 150k-250k people below the middle figures in these projections for 2021.
It begged the question: what did the CSO actually predict on foot of the 2006 census? Well, it said population could grow by 2% per annum over a decade -- as it had just done up to then.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It begged the question: what did the CSO actually predict on foot of the 2006 census? Well, it said population could grow by 2% per annum over a decade -- as it had just done up to then.
It all started with wrong information being parroted in a national newspaper -- the oblique suggestion from Varadkar that the CSO got its population projections wrong in 2008.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It all started with wrong information being parroted in a national newspaper -- the oblique suggestion from Varadkar that the CSO got its population projections wrong in 2008.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
People are getting wildly bent out of shape about this and coming up with all manner of upsetting grammatical shenanigans to tell us the established hashtag is wrong, when the tyranny of anglophone publishing with Roman typefaces is the real villain. Clear solve: Bluesky must support Cló
Gaelach.
Gaelach.
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
People are getting wildly bent out of shape about this and coming up with all manner of upsetting grammatical shenanigans to tell us the established hashtag is wrong, when the tyranny of anglophone publishing with Roman typefaces is the real villain. Clear solve: Bluesky must support Cló
Gaelach.
Gaelach.
This greatly surprised me, as an observer to proceedings, as it would have involved perhaps three unnecessary tolls at the Westlink, the Port Tunnel, and maybe the Eastlink too, instead of just coming in the Chapelizod Bypass.
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This greatly surprised me, as an observer to proceedings, as it would have involved perhaps three unnecessary tolls at the Westlink, the Port Tunnel, and maybe the Eastlink too, instead of just coming in the Chapelizod Bypass.
Actually, the last government has been quite clear and consistent that it will not broach any fall in house prices full stop. It didn't stay clear. There were press releases in defence of the severely unaffordable.
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Actually, the last government has been quite clear and consistent that it will not broach any fall in house prices full stop. It didn't stay clear. There were press releases in defence of the severely unaffordable.
"if you're in a rent pressure zone" -- newsflash, nobody's not in a rent pressure zone any more. The whole country was designated an RPZ five months ago.
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"if you're in a rent pressure zone" -- newsflash, nobody's not in a rent pressure zone any more. The whole country was designated an RPZ five months ago.
No need for a commute to get business done, Denis showed us the way to rise and grind in 2015.
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
No need for a commute to get business done, Denis showed us the way to rise and grind in 2015.
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.
Get. It. Done. The Denis way.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Spotted this homeless camp of around a dozen tents being removed from the banks of the Grand Canal by what looked like a Waterways Ireland crew on Friday. International rugby at the Aviva today, of course.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Spotted this homeless camp of around a dozen tents being removed from the banks of the Grand Canal by what looked like a Waterways Ireland crew on Friday. International rugby at the Aviva today, of course.
If only there was a working app.
October 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If only there was a working app.
To paraphrase the official investigation report, it turned out the bungling Royal Navy sub commander decided to lash on up the Irish Sea at too high a speed, against guidelines, without sufficient regard for fishing activity, cos he felt like it.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57fe2e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57fe2e...
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
To paraphrase the official investigation report, it turned out the bungling Royal Navy sub commander decided to lash on up the Irish Sea at too high a speed, against guidelines, without sufficient regard for fishing activity, cos he felt like it.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57fe2e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57fe2e...
Here is why we should treat every utterance in this line with skepticism. In April 2015, everyone agreed that with its MoD refusing to comment on an ensnared submarine towing the trawler Karen backwards, the only logical conclusion was that sub Russian. www.bbc.com/news/uk-nort...
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Here is why we should treat every utterance in this line with skepticism. In April 2015, everyone agreed that with its MoD refusing to comment on an ensnared submarine towing the trawler Karen backwards, the only logical conclusion was that sub Russian. www.bbc.com/news/uk-nort...
"We now cross live to Galway, where presidential hopeful Catherine Connolly is pressing the flesh in Shop Street..."
October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"We now cross live to Galway, where presidential hopeful Catherine Connolly is pressing the flesh in Shop Street..."
A whole business day has now passed and there has been no suggestion from Fianna Fáil or Jim Gavin that he's even thinking about giving his ex-tenant the money back. €3,300 in 2009 money is €4,300 today.
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A whole business day has now passed and there has been no suggestion from Fianna Fáil or Jim Gavin that he's even thinking about giving his ex-tenant the money back. €3,300 in 2009 money is €4,300 today.
It's interesting that there's nothing at all at a Luas stop to tell you the Red Line to the Point is out of service.
October 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It's interesting that there's nothing at all at a Luas stop to tell you the Red Line to the Point is out of service.
In fact there is express provision in the Canal Bye-Laws of 1988 for a person to camp for up to seven days in a tent on canal land before moving on. Waterways Ireland is trying to get rid of this in new draft byelaws, but they haven't been enacted.
www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1988/si/...
www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1988/si/...
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In fact there is express provision in the Canal Bye-Laws of 1988 for a person to camp for up to seven days in a tent on canal land before moving on. Waterways Ireland is trying to get rid of this in new draft byelaws, but they haven't been enacted.
www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1988/si/...
www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1988/si/...