David Ó Muircheartaigh

David Ó Muircheartaigh

@davidmoriarty.bsky.social

Ireland, Music, Sport, Politics, all the usuals really. Medecins sans Frontieres - Gaza Emergency - Donate what you can, if you can. https://www.msf.ie/issues/gaza-emergency

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Dublin Marathon Expo total shit show. Just post the numbers out. Who has time for this messing!!! Most people will run a faster time than the time it took for many to get into Dublin, queue up for their race number, get back into Dublin's Friday afternoon rush hour traffic to get home again.

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Dónal Lunny 🕯️ 1947 - 2026 Cuimhní cinn de Dhónail Lunny ag Fleadh na bliana seo 🤍 Chas sé 'The Wren's Nest/The Roscommon Reel' i dteannta Zoe Conway agus ba léir go raibh an lucht féachana faoi gheasa aige ✨

This government seems to think the public will take its side in these disputes. Were they not paying attention to the broad support the public services strike received last week? Dial it down, and talk it out.

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AP1s and AP2s have an allowance of €10,728 and €4,747 respectively. The vast majority of teachers do not hold one of these posts. Principals and DPs allowances are worth more (a more complicated calculation), but even fewer of these positions are held in a given school, naturally.

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"As such, the Trump administration’s Western civilizational discourse should be seen as the flip side of its 'anti-woke' domestic agenda: the outwardly directed backlash to the intellectual and social mobilizations that culminated in the BLM protests of 2020." Here it is. Gift link.

worldpoliticsreview.comRubio’s Vision of Western Primacy Is Just Empire by Another NameThe Trump administration’s civilizational turn will alienate potential partners and undermine America’s interests.
Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social

I just worked up a piece about the geopolitical inconsistencies that make this call for a Western civilizational crusade self-defeating. But there are glaring inconsistencies between the civilizational pillar and the nationalist pillar he also celebrates, esp given Trump II's treatment of Europe.

Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social

Sally Rooney's books will no longer be distributed by Faber & Faber due to her support for Palestine Action. This is absurd, and part of a broader ludicrousness in British society where solidarity with Palestine is punished in increasingly nonsensical ways, while genocide goes unpunished.

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Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

This interviewing style should be met Christopher Hitchens-style with the interviewee asking "Did you invite me on to give my views, or to listen to yours?"

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

Open AI again trying to suggest that its software has agency, thereby attempting to remove liability from itself. That's why these things are called 'agents' afterall.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/4y5MY7n

"The general manager of Ashford Castle has warned that if you don’t have your helicopter already booked for the Ryder Cup at Adare Manor Hotel in Limerick next September “you are not going to get it”." Feck it anyway.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com

Ashford Castle manager warns over difficulty in booking helicopters for Ryder Cup