@BigBoyler Id say you were put through the ringer today
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The Minister in Charge of Sellotape
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The Minister in Charge of Sellotape
@stephenkearney7
Stephen is my name and I'm the most wanted man on my island !
somewhere in ennis Katılım Şubat 2012
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Wouldnt mind but i was on an early ryanair flight with a very pissed up hen party behind me , and his cabin crew couldnt get the drink into them fast enough
G R I F T Y@GriftReport
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called for an outright ban on early morning pre-flight pints at airport bars. He said he “fails to understand” why anyone is served beer at 5 or 6am and wants alcohol sales restricted to normal licensing hours only. O’Leary has long demanded a strict two-drink limit per passenger. He revealed Ryanair is now forced to divert flights almost daily because of drunken and aggressive passengers – up from once a week a decade ago. The boss accused airports of “profiteering” by pushing early booze and exporting the chaos to airlines. Critics argue: "Drunks shouldn’t be allowed to board in the first place. Stop selling alcohol on board." and "Not just early morning. All alcohol should be banned at the airport and on the plane. It has no place in a confined space and full of people" Thoughts?
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@anishmoonka I lived there during a very hot summer. The heat caused the tracks to swell which caused delays of about two minutes. The swiss were outraged, writing letters to parliament etc. I believe the problem was addressed over the winter and hasnt happened since
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In 1944, a Swiss engineer named Hans Hilfiker designed a clock for train stations. Sixty-eight years later, Apple put it on the iPad without asking. Switzerland sent them a $22 million bill. Apple paid.
The clock has a red second hand that sweeps the dial in 58.5 seconds, then pauses for a beat at the top of the minute. It waits for an electric signal from one master clock somewhere in the country before jumping forward. Every clock at every station shows the same second.
This kind of obsession runs through every Swiss train ride. Two crews drilled through 35 miles of solid Alps from opposite ends to build the Gotthard Base Tunnel. After 17 years and $12 billion, they met in the middle, 3 inches off. Vertically, the misalignment was under half an inch. It is the longest train tunnel on Earth, and the deepest, with up to 1.4 miles of rock overhead. Nine workers died building it.
Switzerland has more train track per square mile than any country in Europe. Nearly three times more than the European average. The Swiss ride more trains per person than anyone in the world except Japan. The average is 1,500 miles a year.
Punctuality runs on its own scale. Last year, 94 out of every 100 Swiss trains arrived on time. And in Switzerland, "on time" means "within 3 minutes of the schedule." Germany gives trains 6 minutes. France and Italy give 5. Use Germany's gentler rule, and 99 out of 100 Swiss long-distance trains arrived on time. Germany itself manages 62.
The trains have been fully electric for decades. Since January 2025, all of that electricity comes from clean energy, mostly from eight hydroelectric plants the railway owns. A long-distance Swiss train carries one passenger 60 miles on about half the electricity an electric car would use.
Scenery like that takes work. It takes a country that spends $18 billion on its trains in four years, powers them with Alpine water, drills 35 miles through solid mountain, and treats a 3-minute delay as a national failure. The view out the window is what's left over.
hello dongwon@Hello_Dongwon
스위스 기차에서는 잘 생각 하면 안된다.
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@rugbyontnt Im with squidge on this one
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Andy Goode pulling no punches when replying to a fan after Bath's Champions Cup semi-final defeat to Bordeaux-Begles 👀
Bath boss Johann van Graan felt foul play incidents were missed in his side's first top-tier European semi-final in 20 years...
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@rosseireann Where they the same room?
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so it turns out some ppl are not aware of the lore around the gay cafe with the breastfeeding and hormone injection room…
ʀoss 🇵🇸@rosseireann
it’s 2026 and there are still no queer-inclusive cafes in ireland. where are the gay cafes?
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@EllzOnChain @nikicaga I think the libtards actually remove the lids or at least pull them back far enough so that they dont interfere with the drinking.
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The EU caps are an IQ test, no wonder conservatives hate them
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
Stupid EU bottle cap just spilt orange juice on me. Lots of OJ in the lid, gets you before you can even rip the bastard thing off.
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@dublin_damo Whilst i personally believe that the wee basket for the chips and the ramekin for the peas are absolutely unneccassary , we have become so used to them now , that no one is really annoyed by them any more
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The lack of grief over this post is frankly disappointing, normally, there'd be at least 10 replies about ramekins or micro pots, 7 about mushy peas being 'English', and another 10 about wine and notions 😂.
Damian@dublin_damo
Wexford fish 'n chips are the gold standard.
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@BBHerodotus @baseballcrank Much like our love of fry sauce, the origins are murky and probably ultimately undiscoverable. Yet it is true that we like jello. It's delicious - use pineapple juice with cherry jello and mix in grated apple - mmmm!
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There's a pretty clear correlation here.
Epic Maps 🗺️@theepicmap
The Jell-O Belt, where Jell-O is consumed at twice the national average...
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@Padraiccleary I lived in lausanne , the public transport is crasy good , metro going in a straight line through the centre of the city and a bunch of electric buses going in loops around the rest of the city, never once when i was there was one of them late
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Limerick, Ireland, is a city of 102,00 people and has buses stuck in traffic that serve 4.6 million passengers annually.
Be like Lausanne, better public transport for a more vibrant economy
Hayden@the_transit_guy
Lausanne, Switzerland, is a city of 140,000 people and has a two-line, 28-station metro system that serves over 45 million passengers annually. There are 180 U.S. cities with larger populations that Lausanne.
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What an odd year to choose
Globe Eye News@GlobeEyeNews
Germany plans to build Europe’s strongest military force by 2039.
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@ryanair in spain are usually fairly poor but the ground crew in reus airport are taking the absolute piss. Never seen such poorly trained , hopeless staff in my life
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@NiecyOKeeffe Yeah , i thought her hiking story said more about that part of dublin then ireland in general
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For what it’s worth, I thought Vogue came across as a lovely person on I’m A Celeb. And I thought she was a dote. I’m just having a bit of divilment. And if she said hello to me on a hill, I’d say hello back. Because we’re sound. #BeSound
Niecy O'Keeffe@NiecyOKeeffe
When Vogue Williams says hi to you on a hike.
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@Trickstersworld @dionfanning @declynchwriter The funny thing is , if it was a gardening book , i might actually buy it
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@dionfanning @declynchwriter A gardening book? Makes sense, I guess
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Working with Peter O'Mahony on this has been a lot of fun. Out in September but can be pre-ordered now
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@tracybarista Are you honestly giving out about a hard working entrepeneur taking a holiday in off peak times?
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The #VAT9 being put to good use.
Mairéad Ó Hagan Anderson.@Killybegsgirl
I’m turning 50 next year. Yes I know, hard to believe. 😂 I’m not even 49 yet. We normally close our restaurant in November. V quiet in Killybegs then. Can anyone tell me where is good to try and go for a really good exotic holiday in then. Sunshine a must. ❤️
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@NewsMurray Three days of competition in the ryder cup, not four, but yes , cost is too high
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If you wish to attend The Ryder Cup in Adare Manor next year, tickets across the four days will set you back 499 Euro per day.
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@rydercup @TheAdareManor Ye cheeky fucking bastards
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@Ryan38064935851 @JIX5A Hes scottish
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@AussieGuyTips @KyleMuirhead24 It was when ferguson won those titles with aberdeen
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@KyleMuirhead24 Scotland isn’t a top 5 league though mate.
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Counting 3 titles that Pep won in the Bundesliga with Bayern and not counting 3 titles that Ferguson won with Aberdeen in Scotland is quite funny
Kalshi EPL@KalshiEPL
🚨Pep Guardiola is one league title away from equalling Alex Ferguson’s record in Europe’s top 5 leagues, achieving it in 12 fewer years.
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Whats thos guy trying to prove . That rugby is popular in ireland? It is , its probably the fourth most poplular field game here. Irish people are sport mad, but to suggest that a local rival game is representive of average ameteur rugby attandances is absurd
Tier 2 Rugby@T2Rugby
Irish sometimes weirdly like to pretend rugby is a minority sport in the country as they want everyone to think they are plucky underdogs for some reason. Yet here is a crowd of 5000 for an amateur game.
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@stephenkearney7 @saracen1971 @ChampionsCup Not our call I’m afraid would have liked to have played in Glasgow however with the football still going on that might not have been an option
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Among all the poor decisions @ChampionsCup make, calling the Aviva a neutral semi final location is up there isnt it..
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