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Given the time of year, I thought for this week's edition of our Monument Monday newsletter we might visit one of the places that always comes to mind when we think of haunted and cursed places in Ireland – the infamous Hellfire Club on Montpelier Hill in the Dublin Mountains.
 #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I got chiles They’re multiplying

Ireland has the shameful title as the puppy farm capital of Europe, with more than 122,000 dogs registered last year. No ban on surgical artificial insemination. No cap on the size of puppy farms. We need to ban this industrial farming of dogs. #BanPuppyFarming

@bskyplays.bsky.social yup?

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⚡️ Zelenskyy: European countries are developing alternatives to Starlink after learning the US can restrict access despite contracts.

Women shouldn’t have to live in alert mode. This month marks three years since the EU joined the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty recognising gender-based violence against women as a violation of human rights.

In solidarity with Sally Rooney’s commitment to a free Palestine, Books Upstairs in Dublin will be donating the rest of the weeks proceeds from the sale of all her books to Medical Aid Palestine #SpéirGhorm booksupstairs.ie/sally-rooney...

A thing which collapses before it materialises could otherwise be described as never existing at all.

*after watching the Friday the 13th prequel series* I understand Jason Voorhees now. He was right to kill all those people, even the ones he killed in space.

I like this one from this guy, mostly because of the reaction of the guys in the end: youtube.com/shorts/UVICS...

Poll: Which Sally Rooney Book Made You Join Hamas? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/15/poll-which-sally-rooney-book-made-you-join-hamas/

Credit where it's due, I cannot think of another Irish writer who has shown this level of integrity on any moral issue before www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

YEAH cos you know that 16 GB saftensor models is gonna magically compress itselt to like the 2 MB on the flash ROM chip that's in there using some super magical ultra ZIP technique and then the fridge is sentient and then skynet has your aubergines

Having just watched the Prime Time interview with Nikita Hand, and a PT report on endometriosis, and a lifetime seeing the shite the women in my life go through all of the fucking time, my hot take for the evening is that our society needs to start treating women - all women - better.

SIPTU has a clear message for public servants scheduled to work from home on Wednesday. Don't do it. Don't open your laptop. Don't check your emails. Don't teach online. Don't answer your phone. A strike only works when the work stops. Remote work is work. #UnionStrike

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The UK government, governed by the party of which Phillipson is chair, extended immunity for British soldiers engaged in extrajudicial killings in Northern Ireland yesterday. Yesterday.

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What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

…and Russia gets fresh revenue for its war effort

I really wish someone at RTÉ would sit Carl Mullan down and explain what a margin is. Every fucking morning with this shit.

"I’m going to be climbing Carrauntoohil in full drag to raise funds for Gaza Go Bragh.” 👉 buff.ly/Oo2TF0x #GCNnews

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

You can tell this is actually a fake cr*pto scam because no article about Glen Hansard in an Irish newspaper would ever feature the words "Sorry, he did what?" because they all knew damn well but never printed it.

Was lucky enough to see a preview of this tonight (in cinemas end of January) and it totally lives up to the hype - and Andrew is *spectacular*. Stunning performance. And I can't remember the last time I cried so much at the cinema. Bawled my eyes out, ugly wet face floods at numerous points. 🙌😭

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/

google's ai proving absolutely indispensable in dublin

Yates went to a boarding school called Columbas near Rathfarnham, the most expensive private school in the country at the time but one which rarely featured in top LC results lists. A teacher friend remarked that kids weren’t sent there to get smart, they were getting their stupid polished.

How many times do you have to hear a company’s ad before you decide you’d rather live with your new water feature? Asking for Topline.