@rorymeakin I’m not endorsing the cyclist at all, but a civilised society can only act like you say when that kind of rule-breaking isn’t endemic.
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Andrew
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In a civilised society when someone misses something like this we extend our grace to them rather than shout insults
Greg N@n00dles71
Michael Gove just wandered out in front of my bike against a red light. What a remarkable commitment to proving @MPIainDS wrong. Turns out the biggest menace to cyclists is middle-aged politicians ignoring the Highway Code As the song goes, he ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
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Indeed.
But with RTE it goes a bit deeper.
RTE was infiltrated by reds very early on. A lot of high up people in RTE (Charlie Bird, Marian Finucane, Eoghan Harris) though the Ned Stapleton Cumann were involved in pushing it to where it is today.
Peter Donnelly@PetersReceipts
There is a very clear ideological belief system shared amongst the managerial classes who manage the communications and other institutional infrastructure. I believe the only way to truly understand this is to view this as a new class that has emerged out of the liberalisation and third level education expansion of the 1960s.
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Greetings on #Bloomsday from the crew of LÉ JAMES JOYCE #P62!
“...And will again, says he, when the first Irish battleship is seen breasting the waves with our own flag to the fore...” - #JamesJoyce, #Ulysses
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@DavQuinn @CNaM_ie @Casey5122dark @OdohertyI64991 @MaryKenny4 @declanganley So biased are they that they can’t even conceive that a reasonable person could object to that.
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One of the main organisations undermining my trust in the media is @CNaM_ie which is openly committed to pushing a DEI agenda on our media. (See below from its mission statement). @Casey5122dark @OdohertyI64991 @MaryKenny4 @declanganley
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@DaraghCassidy Someone from DCC was disputing it on Drivetime this evening. “We have x number of workers, we clean x miles of road” etc, etc. They just don’t get it. To anyone who knows what the city *could* be like, it’s utterly maddening.
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“You’re having the EU presidency...in July. A little bit of cleaning up of Dublin would go a long way. It’s really inexpensive to clean & power wash a little bit. It’s not a lot of money."
Exactly—you'd swear we're an impoverished 3rd world city sometimes. businesspost.ie/politics/us-am…
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@AnMailleach And inevitably she will be nostalgic for this decade in the future.
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So was the late 2010s some kind of golden age in Dublin?
Somehow I remember Mullally moaned her way through that time as well.
Irish Times Opinion@IrishTimesOpEd
Una Mullally: The band and their late manager grew up in public when the city offered an affordable life and latitude to experiment irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…
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I just saw this question in 2023's C19th 'History of the British Isles' Finals paper.
"What impact did the Irish famine have on the rest of Britain?"
You have to laugh, in the bleakest way possible.
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@willsolfiac She needed ideological reassurance. Well done for speaking up. She mightn’t have stopped, but I’m convinced that the next time she’s on the train, she will feel an instinctive reluctance to play sound aloud.
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She of course did not stop, but changed the topics of the videos to American black grievance ones
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Interesting experience yesterday on a train asking a woman to stop playing TikToks out loud:
"Mind your own business"
"Stop harassing me"
"Call the police if you don't like it"
"White people always tell black people what to do"
"You're devils sent to target me"
"I'm going to put you on Facebook live"
"Black people can't be racist against white people. They told us that"
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@realhansard Where someone else died, or where there was a substantial risk of death. But unfortunately it’s a lost cause. Ten/twenty years from now it will have been universally adopted.
The last few years have taught me that most people just passively adopt the language around them.
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I find the modern, widespread use of the word “survivor” to be completely excessive.
I think you are a survivor if you live after an incident where someone else died. e.g. a plane crash.
But not for other accidents or criminal events.
Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ
Under a Reform government, foreign nationals in social housing will be given three months to find private accommodation or face being deported. British military veterans, long-term local residents, domestic abuse survivors will be given priority.
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Switzerland is voting on whether to back a proposal to cap the country's population in a referendum, which could have far-reaching consequences for the economy and its relations with the EU rte.ie/news/world/202…
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@OHanlonEilis Brave article. For a long time you couldn’t say anything critical of immigration in Ireland. Then you could, but only about asylum policy. We are gradually moving towards talking about the infrastructural consequences, but the final step must be the cultural consequences.
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Mass immigration is destabilising societies everywhere, but those in charge believe that pretending it isn't will make the problem disappear. Putting a lid on the volcano does not mean that it won't explode. This week's column on what happened in Belfast
independent.ie/comment/opinio…
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@EmbrayHotay What I find incredible is that the media repeated the claim endlessly that the scheme has dramatically improved littering, until suddenly DCC announced they’ve had to spend half a million euros cleaning up after it.
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The 'bin surrounds' fiasco is an example of how a stupid decision, like DRS, creates problems that, in turn, lead to even more stupid decisions. The root of the entire problem is the retarded DRS, which MSM insists is a great success.
Caoimhe@caoimhe90000
€155,000 of ‘completely useless’ bottle holders removed by Dublin Council.
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@fitzfromdublin He’s making the age-old jibe against Protestants, but then covering himself with the tiresome claim that we’re all immigrants.
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I can’t figure out Turner thinks the Protestants of NI are an immigrant community in the modern, scared sense, or that 21st C immigration constitutes a plantation, as of old? Because it’s one or the other. Either way, surprising opinions for an Irish Times cartoonist to hold
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@thejournal_ie How I loathe the Gaelic lobby. My sympathies are with the unionists who have to put up with it.
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Despite noisy opposition from a tiny minority in Northern Ireland, the Irish Language Commissioner Pól Deeds is making progress. #Gaeilge jrnl.ie/7064058
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The “HR lady” archetype is a stand in for any woman with the power to tell men “no.”
Xenocrypt@xenocryptsite
Kind of baffled with how "HR Lady" is a recognizable archetype to people on here. How much do most people interact with HR.
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@TullMcAdoo You mean, the part that turns it into the tedious left-wing argument that no one is native to anywhere?
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If political satire is not vicious, then it is dead. I see a lot of the usual outrage perverts and minuscule-brained gobshites focusing on the main picture and ignoring the bottom right corner.
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So according to this report, the worse the humanitarian situation in the home country, the fewer checks are made. This is madness. The more violent the home country, should lead to greater scrutiny. This can’t go on.
“Hadi Alodid, 30, only had to complete a Home Office questionnaire rather than attend a face-to-face interview because of the “security and humanitarian situation” in Sudan.”
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…
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@LaveenLadharam I remember the Economist style guide saying that military should only be used as an adjective.
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One subtle Americanisation that has crept into the UK is the use of "miltary" to describe all armed forces when in British English "military" is used as a synonym for the Army
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@KitMurray @MichaelPTKelly “Borders do not apply to people seeking international protection. That would be a contradiction in terms.” Only because of ludicrously outdated laws. People like you cling to that dogma as though it is a metaphysical fact.
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@MichaelPTKelly Borders do not apply to people seeking international protection. That would be a contradiction in terms
The challenge is to sort out the genuine cases from the rush
Open border is no longer a problem for Ireland. Each and every person seeking asylum will have to undergo full/
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The open border on the island of Ireland is a vital non-negotiable. For everyone’s sake we need to ensure that our sea and airports are not weak links. The island should be a fortress from those who want to illegally exploit our kindness.
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