🤒 Very hard to watch families struggling to keep the lights on / food on the table, while this lad who greenlit the €3B+ !? National Children’s Hospital gets handed the keys to the Department of Finance. Zero accountability in Irish politics.

Data centres ‘may have used as much water’ last year in Ireland as more than 340,000 homes ✍️Ian Curran ▫️some 18.5 per cent of the total number of occupied dwellings in the Republic, researchers have estimated in a new report. Co-authored by academics from Maynooth University (MU), University College Dublin (UCD), and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the report uses publicly available data to outline “the widespread costs” of data centre development and its “disproportionate drain on public resources”. #datacentres #Water #HowIrelandWorks irishtimes.com/business/2026…

We don’t need any of this shit.

Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims The researchers say that the arguments offered by the industry and successive governments in favour of data centres “do not stand up to empirical scrutiny” and are “designed to inflate the economic value of data centres”. The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built, or tens of thousands of jobs created across education, health or social sectors, if the resources used expanding data centres were directed elsewhere. #datacentres #HowIrelandWorks #FFG thejournal.ie/government-dat…

I love how companies replaced their customer service departments with AI so we can spend 45 minutes explaining our problem, at increasingly louder voices, to a robot before it finally cant deal with us and transfers us to an actual human who's first questions to us is to explain the problem....again. What a time to be alive 😐

Government shamefully votes down our proposal for a €500 energy credit for every household paid for by a levy on energy usage of data centres. This 20c per kWh levy would just mean data centres paying the same as ordinary households. But that's too much for this government!

Ireland shouldn't play Israel. It'll be a stain on our island and our history. Don't normalise genocide. #StopTheGame

BREAKING: 🇫🇷🇮🇱🇵🇸 President Macron calls for sovereignty of Palestine and says shame on all of us for letting Israel destroying them: “Sovereignty for Lebanon. Sovereignty for Palestine. It Is Shameful. Shame on All of Us. We Recognize Palestine, Yet It Has No Sovereignty — There is No Peace.”

Kids deserve to grow up in a world where everything around them isn’t distorted by an unregulated technology.

🇹🇷🇮🇱 Turkish President Erdogan to the UN: “Today, Gaza is not only the world's largest graveyard for children. It is also the place with the highest rate of child amputations in the world. Gaza has become the most inhumane and shameful concentration camp of our time.”

Israel runs away from the truth, its biggest enemy. If it can't murder it.

Wrong address. The Hague is the place. They are waiting for you.

Shameless HEALTH Minister, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill was warned that increases in acute hospital waiting lists were 'particularly concerning', two days before her department publicly hailed 'significant progress' @TheNewsHughes Internal documents obtained by the Irish Daily Mail show Department of Health officials told Ms MacNeill in July that there had been 'no in-year improvements to demonstrate' in waiting lists under the 2025 Waiting List Action Plan. The press release did not include the 10.4% year-to-date increase in the overall waiting list, the 19.2% rise in long waiters or the fall in the proportion of patients being seen within the #Sláintecare targets. #FFG #WaitingLists #HealthCrisis #HowIrelandWorks

“They don’t really give a shit about the quality of it. It’s more of a quantity game.” More: rollingstone.com/music/music…

Students who use AI almost every day score lower in science reading tests, per FT:

The second the Irish team line up against Israel we have lost. And we'll have lost a lot more than 6 points. We will have lost our humanity, our history, our standing as Irish people. And no amount of "UEFA have put us in this position" nonsense will ever get it back.

The national team we’ll be supporting during this international break ☘

Oh god, this is comedy gold. Incredible.

Ich hasse es, dass ich bei Streaming Diensten nach Ende des Films nicht mal kurz ne Sekunde verharren kann, sondern in Panik zur Fernbedienung greifen muss, damit nicht nach 5 Sekunden irgendein anderer Scheiß Film startet. Ich will doch nur den Abspann laufen lassen

Micheál Martin returns from London.