Brian D

I’ve slept on it now and when I woke up, I was still still mad about it. This morning, I’m going to ring the constituent office of my local FF TD and tell him just how mad it made me. Then I’m going to call the constituency office of my local SF TD, and ask if Matt Carthy’s support is their view.

These companies are truly hideous.

Seems bizarre that the platform can’t be modernised and everything now has to go through the private internet now.

Perfectly good and working hardware downgraded in the pursuit of “growth”

McEntee to raise Sally Rooney book sales withdrawal with UK foreign secretary

Of course they would …

Useful link (via The Gist) specifically about this: noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD (fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE

'Are EU Kidding Me?', my critique of the EU KIDS Act, the EC's chaotic social media ban, is now forthcoming in the excellent Georgetown Law Technology Review. It's updated w/ some extra bits here files.michae.lv/papers/veale... (You can also respond to the consultation: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...)

The General used to this to their petrol cars as well …

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

Step in the right direction. AirPods and similar are an environment disaster. A product with a short life that contains three sealed batteries.

And now for some good news: "Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.

🧵1/ The government has announced that it will raise Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) screening thresholds for certain developments to further cut “red tape” in the planning system. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

it is also extremely revealing that, a generation later, the Orange Order are still intent on marching down a road where they are unwelcome. they have learnt nothing, they have matured not a jot, every day of peace and tranquility has been entirely wasted on them #garvaghy #drumcree #speirgorm

How will Pricewatch and @conorpope.bsky.social deal with this one?

Clearly writing the words Palestine Action is a major threat to society unlike hundreds of men in balaclavas taking over a couple of towns, threatening first responders and slashing boats at sea …

I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government.

The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision

It’s very hard to enforce or adhere to stupid performative law.

It should be “people” as opposed to “children”.

Worth noting that the NFL are active in supporting their sporting code across the Irish primary school system.

Here we go …

We roast very high quality coffee really really well. Our staff are well paid and get good benefits. We've given up over 30% of our profits in each of the last 4 years to organisations including Women's Aid and Solas project. If you need coffee imbibe.ie/pages/shop #speirgorm

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

Alongside our international INCLO colleagues, we wrote to @ec.europa.eu President Ursula @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and the Hague Group this week, urging them to respond immediately to the newly imposed US sanctions against International Criminal Court judges.

aside from the more significant issue of their patron also supporting a project run by someone who promotes rampant racism and calls for mass deportations, but if Progress Ireland’s whole deal is promoting building, is it not fair to expect their head to read the Development Plan?

These guys would be the first to talk about third world corruption. They are truely a regime that is rotten to the core.

If Gardai get proper tactical training to stop cars they will be replacing more of their own cars due to damage. Any “road wars” tv viewer will tell you that.

The real reason is to install more cameras. It’s all a poor substitute to dealing with the problem.

Are these things somehow related?

Let the US President pay for his own security. This is a promo visit for his golf course and not a State visit.

But the EU and their fines …

Trumps visit is not a State one but rather a promotional tour for his private property. The Irish taxpayer foots the bill. It is important that no serving government meets with him there. Plenty of conference rooms in Shannon airport.

There are no studies that support that more cameras result in lower crime rates. A modest reduction in car parks is about it. You only have to look at the UK to see if has almost no effect. Pillaging of stores, mobile phone theft …

Weirdly the author does not state the name of the duo once in the article …

Dingle is hosting a GoFundMe to create a new Fungi from this DNA. They did it with dinosaurs so a dolphin should be no problem.

Jim O’Callaghan wants a surveillance state. He will do anything other than increase Garda numbers.

New Gist: Ireland's Biometric Laundromat Ireland quietly passed a law in July potentially undermining every EU citizen's protections against law enforcement use of biometrics. Jim O'Callaghan's Irish 'biometric analysis' wheeze has gone international. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ire...

There is a growing problem with media liking a good headline and then not covering the reality very well.

Accurate headline: a suffocating and injured animal, caught by hunters, manages to bite one before being killed.

Every house in Dublin now has bags of breakfast cereal sitting around kitchens. Corn flakes? Crunch nut? Who knows.

Large companies created last-minute pension schemes to keep thousands of workers out of State’s more lucrative auto-enrolment plan. Our latest FOI post available to read at: www.thestory.ie/2026/08/12/l...

Government paper said large companies employing thousands of people had plotted a scheme with financial advisers to push staff into pension schemes that would yield very little in return (underline is mine). Our latest set of FOI records available at: www.thestory.ie/2026/08/12/l...

Maxing out at at 27.5 C in the back yard today.

@livedrive.dublincityfm.ie there is/was a broken down Ferrari blocking the bus lane on the N11 inbound at Stillorgan. The 1% at it again 😂

Kinda like Taylor Swift arriving on stage …