Tracey O'Connell

🚨🇮🇪 My God, now they're dragging farmers out of tractors in the middle of the road. What is happening to our country?!

If the public are left behind, it’s a NO deal… @independent_ire

Donal Byrne and John Dallon said they expected to be in today’s netting. They say now the protests will continue.

The price of a barrel of Brent oil was $107 this morning and has now fallen to $91, and it is likely to continue dropping. Let us see how quickly petrol stations and home heating oil companies reduce their prices. Last week we were told they were not price gouging and that their prices more or less follow the live price of oil. If that is true and they are not lying to the public, we should see prices fall tomorrow. My guess is that there will be no reduction for weeks while these companies, along with the government, continue to rake in the profits.

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone. Workers in Kenya are watching the footage. Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents. The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything. Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now. The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not. Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated. Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter. This is not a bug. This is the business model. The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design. Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed. Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it. Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process. The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces. Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock. The glasses are selling faster than ever. The contractors keep watching. And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

Landowners have until end of February to cut roadside hedges before seasonal restrictions begin. Report overgrown vegetation to your local authority. csalert.ie/neS84n

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️

Cork County Council launches pedestrian safety campaign with focus on school gate areas in partnership with Gardaí and RSA. news.corksafetyalerts.com/cork-county-co…

@IrishWater Need to update your post

Crews are working to restore water supply to impacted customers following a major burst to a water main in Cork City. The burst is impacting water supply in Mayfield and surrounds. Repair works are expected to be completed by 1pm Monday 29 December. brnw.ch/21wYGd8

@LATMofficial @itsfiveofficial @alliesherlock Is there any presale happening

★ ★ 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗗 ★ ★ After a hugely successful world tour, boy band @itsfiveofficial have just announced a date for Cork on 24 June 2026 joined by special guest @alliesherlock! 🤩🎪 🎟️ Tickets on sale This Monday at 10AM

Wow

@JohnBishop100 Two cousins from Cork ready 😂

Dublin… Night two… Ireland, you are my second home 🇮🇪👏 #comedy #standup #comedian

Martin Lewis gives O2 & Ofcom both barrels after O2 hikes prices by more than it’d told customers & regulators do nowt to stop it! For full info and how to beat the rise see: moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10/o… Courtesy of @GMB

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🚨 NEW: Netflix secretly recorded an interview with Dr. Jane Goodall in March, set to air only after her death. In it, she says she wishes Trump and Elon Musk could be blasted into space… and closes with: “Don’t lose hope.” Now that’s a final message.