John McGuirk I think rage is mild. As a 33 yr old living at home with 0 chance of owning a home anytime soon, we were told by a candidate my only option is to apply for social housing. That's the solution it seems rather than change the fact people working full time can't afford a home.

The really interesting figure, and the one we've never been able to get, is how much public money flows into the Irish media when you include ad buys from publicly funded NGOs, semi-states, entities like the HSE, etc.

The true scale of the hidden media subsidy:

I really like the portrait of King Charles by Jonathan Yeo - the go-to artist for slightly edgy but convincingly recognisable contemporary portraits; before photography, to have a great painter capture your real appearance you accepted the revelation of your flaws and your…

I'm hearing tales of absolute rage being directed at candidates across the country on the doorsteps. And it's not hard to understand why:

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Trinity College is a cesspit. Solidarity with Rachel, who has done that bravest of things: Speaking up when it would be easier for her to stay quiet and 'keep her head down'.

The lecturer she speaks of has no place in any academic institution, in my view.

My statement on my meeting with TCD yesterday.

I want to be very clear that the matter is resolved and I do not want to take it further.

I am sharing this merely to express my feelings regarding this process.

Poor Arsenal.

This Dublin Portal story is so dumb that it honestly feels like a crime for it to be news in May.

That's a story that was tailor made for the dog days of August. Media could have gone ALL OUT on it then.

If you wish for Ukrainian refugees to leave Europe and return home, you should have the consistency to acknowledge that military aid to Ukraine is the right policy. Unless you think that 5 million Ukrainians will ever return to a Russian-occupied country.

I confess, as a citizen, I'm actually livid about this Ukrainian welfare cut.

Not because of the policy necessarily, but because of the stinking awfulness of the people who govern us.

For years we have been told that the 'far right' are people who'd brutalise and discriminate…

Between steps like this and the conversation about lowering the voting age to 16 we're well on the way to creating a class of people who are trusted to vote, and so exert control over the lives of others, but not trusted to live their own lives.

Zionism: The belief in a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

If you believe in a two state solution which includes a Jewish Israel, then you are, de facto, a Zionist.

The Irish Government, and every Irish political party in the Oireachtas bar People before Profit are Zionists.

If, six months ago, you had called for welfare for Ukrainians to be slashed by 80% or more, and for them to receive €200 less per week, you'd have been the most heartless far right extremist bastard in the country.

It's now Government policy.

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This map was once presented as a Zero-COVID solution

Police the border with checkpoints and buffer zones into the Republic

Thousands of cross-border livelihoods would have been shut down and food supply impacted

More Brexit-y than Brexit itself

A green, a lefty journalist, and a left wing professor from DCU.

RTE is not public service media. If you pay for it, you're a sucker.

This has nothing to do with where the portal is. Moving it to leafy south Dublin won't make a blind bit of difference.

It's much more related to our tiresome, borderline psychopathic national obsession with being gas craic altogether.

We have viewed the email sent by Trinity College Dublin.

It's a disgrace that a student flagging a lecturer who implicitly called into question established facts about the barbaric attacks of October 7th was not only not properly supported, but called in for questioning herself.

Obscene.

1) Not so much of a boycott

2) Ah, c'mon.