Brendan

What kind of statement is it to make that actually the views of the government are that kids CAN be touched without their consent?

The Venn diagram of people who will nod at the words "you have to spend money to make money", people who think Donal Murphy is making a good point and people who cannot see the contradiction between the two is a circle.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is probably related to chronic understaffing in the HSE...

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If one of the most toxic employers on the planet is touting AI as having a potential boon to worker conditions, you can only read it as an act of desperation from a man who has sank too much money into a bubble that is about to pop and desperately wants to push the inevitably off a few more months.

Is anyone keeping track of how much we're spending on all these groups for keeping track of how much we're spending?

Radical Unreasonable Communist Unions Demand Wages That Match The Job https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/30/radical-unreasonable-communist-unions-demand-wages-that-match-the-job/

Oireachtas committee hears the Ireland WNT (on Nations League trip in 2023) were stalked in Budapest, to extent that a man wearing only a towel walked into a room where a player was due to receive a massage. FAI's Aoife Rafferty says she has no recollection of the FAI being contacted over this.

'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:

It is though. It's entirely based in the mistrust of people perceived as different.

His tenure as Justice Minister has been, cruel, racist, and utterly contemptible.

Was able to do a little artwork last week and finally got this one out of my head and on the screen. A 'pints around the world' piece to celebrate the Choctaw people. Aithniítear cara i gcruatán - a friend is recognised in hardship. #Choctaw #Ireland #Pints #Stout www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1834...

For any newspaper columnists and opinion sheets editors who might be listening: you know don't have to publish something about that Channel 4 show that suggests beating kids is better than treating them for ADHD?

Think data centres use a lot of water? But these two useful industries use way more water than the CSAM generation machines!

"Ireland for the Irish" lot copying their worldview, behaviours and ideology wholesale from the Americans again. It's what Pádraig Pearse would have wanted...

"What is striking is not just that deprived areas host some data centres: it is that they host almost all of them. Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are located in economically-deprived areas."

Trading with the Occupied Territories is illegal under international law. He's not only refusing to sanction Israel, he's refusing to uphold our basic responsibilities as a nation.

You would think that at some point while you're ironing out the GDPR implications of discrimination your conscience would kick in and you'd give up on the whole thing.

They killed him. They knelt on his throat. There is no way to sell that other than intending to do serious harm. There needs to be prosecutions and Arnott's needs to explain what kind of training their security is getting.

In its case for leaving Wood Quay for new HQ, the council is ignoring a government retrofit grant, says councillor. The Department of Environment has said it will fund up to 50 percent of the costs of retrofitting projects for public buildings.

Hard to argue with him here.

Watching the British local elections results come in and really regretting wishing on a monkey paw for Starmer out.

The Stephens Green redevelopment is just another in a long list of developers attempts to ruin the city, and it demonstrates a need for greater public oversight in the planning process. There's something broken with the management of the city when things that make it unique are cast aside so easily.

I hope to never meet the kind of pathetic egotist this vision of AI appeals to.

I am convinced the number of times car alarms have prevented theft is infinitesimally smaller than the number of times they've been set off for no reason. If it was even 100:1 I would be shocked.

Ballroom Grift. By all accounts, super lax security at last night's WHCD, gunman gets in, gets neutralized, Felonious Pedolf calls a presser to push his ballroom grift, and BOOM, right wing Twitter immediately goes to work in chorus. What a crock of shit

Having had to walk by these protests to get to work, we shouldn't touch them with a ten-foot bargepole. I'll just say I was unsurprised when I heard there was an incident with people related to the protest abusing the MSoE and leave it at that.

No other group in the country could block O'Connell Street all day like the IFA has. The fact they can get away with it shows they have the political clout to have their demands met without ruining everyone else's day.

As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health? "I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.

In my capacity as a communications professional I would advise against making an argument on the character of others after you've hired Peter Mandelson.

That a vast swathe of our commentariat feel emboldened to complain about our President having called out war crimes as war crimes is a sign of social and moral decay. Too many have bought into the idea that pragmatism is the same as being callow and callous.

Merz joining Trump's attacks on Spain typifies Germany's attitude to the EU. They prioritise their own short term interests over the integrity of the EU. We need to deepen our ties with Spain and form a bloc to be a counterweight to german power within the EU before their stupidity tears it apart.

I honestly think taxing the super-rich out of existence is for their own good. That amount of money seems to do something deeply unpleasant to human brains.

It is shocking how competent they've made the Bush administration look.

Anyone who thinks positive regime change is possible in Iran should remember the US-Israel axis replaced Bashar al-Assad with an Islamic State remnant in Syria.

Interesting to see what the current EU regime will do. Do they prioritise their neo-colonial ambitions or protect the integrity of the union by backing up an uncooperative member state. One of their greatest foreign policy goals is now completely at odds with the continued existence of the union.

Quite probably the most despicable person in Irish politics that never identified as a citizen journalist.

I'm not surprised, but I'm still disgusted by the eagerness of western powers to repeat the Iraq War with Iran knowing exactly what happened last time, and knowing it will be far worse this time if the US and Israel are allowed to continue to escalate.

Those who fail turn learn from history (Israelis attacking French fans in the Stade de France a little over a year ago) are doomed to repeat it.

Sunday Independent...

The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.

It's one of the greatest failings of the age that extreme incompetence is generally accepted as a decent defence from the people running the world. "I didn't know what the lads cooking the burgers were up to" would get an assistant manager fired from McDonalds, but it's fine for world leaders.

'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.' This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.

As anyone who has tried to get neurodiversity support from the state can tell you, our mental health care system is inadequate. I would still be waiting for ADHD treatment if I hadn't been able to put together the money to go private, and I would still be suffering from constant, crushing anxiety.

God, he's filleting out the most cruel and incompetent of the Conservative Party. I give it two years of a Reform government until even the DUP want to leave Britain.