Merry Christmas to PayPal, who own Honey, who are fighting a legal battle to try to stop you viewing this video.

youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88

Our GDP is $113,135 per capita, and yet there are over 20,000 homeless.

Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.

The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.

They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.

A desperately needed paper on the power of fossil capital to repress civil liberties around the world.

New Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.

It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...

John Collison was talking utter garbage and it says so much that so many politicians fell over themselves to fellate him for writing a pack of lies

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

Residents in Enniscorthy, Youghal, and Tramore are all asked to interact with the platform, tell us what the challenges and opportunities in their towns are, up-vote comments, upload photos, and help us co-create sustainable mobility solutions in each town. Here's the link: www.townsmatter.ie

#journorequest looking to talk to people from Dublin who moved to a smaller town, ideally Waterford, Sligo Carlow, Drogheda, Dundalk, Athlone, Tuam or Monaghan in recent years. Perhaps still doing am occasional commute. DM asap if any thoughts. Shares appreciated.

Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels

You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.

www.ft.com/content/0f61...

I’ve just published my first Substack piece — my dream for the Glenmalure Valley.

It’s time to breathe life back into the Glenmalure valley, where the wind once sang through ancient trees, and where it should sing again.

I’d love for you to give it a read — and if it resonates, please share it.

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Strong words from Ella McSweeny comparing the government's cowardly move to avoid restoring our rivers to "a doctor unfit to practice"

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

The worst case scenario is a fine of over €26 billion - the equivalent of 11 National Children’s Hospitals given that the final cost of that project is forecast to come in at around €2.3bn.
http://jrnl.ie/6716603

The word "antisemite" has become so meaningless that now whenever someone uses it you have to ask them "What kind? The Hitler-was-right kind or the stop-bombing-hospitals kind?"

The operations manager for a group that lobbies government for Lockheed Martin is also director of flight operations for an Irish airline shipping weapons to the Israel Defense Forces.

www.ontheditch.com/arms-lobbyis...

LaNdloRds aRe FLEeiNg The MarkET
'The number of private landlords increased by 4.5% to 105,594 last year.'
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

@fctwentebenson.bsky.social, I see Michael Lowry is now slang for something (not sure what but I'll go put on a limb and say it seems derogatory)