Sam Tranum
@samtranum.bsky.social
Editor, co-founder @dublininquirer.bsky.social.
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
Can someone pls capture the world's actual largest threat and fly him off to stand trial at the international Criminal Court or wherever?
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Can someone pls capture the world's actual largest threat and fly him off to stand trial at the international Criminal Court or wherever?
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Ireland to deploy large numbers of undersea trackers to detect hostile submarines
Ireland to deploy large numbers of undersea trackers to detect hostile submarines
Project is part of effort to increase State’s ‘maritime domain awareness’ over concerns of vulnerability of subsea infrastructure
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January 1, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Ireland to deploy large numbers of undersea trackers to detect hostile submarines
"The NTA is awaiting the finalisation of the overall national camera enforcement strategy before proceeding with further camera installation development." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
Plan for cameras to catch motorists breaking red lights in Dublin is shelved
However, red light cameras will come into operation at the Merrion Gates level crossings in south Dublin by the end of January
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January 1, 2026 at 8:06 AM
"The NTA is awaiting the finalisation of the overall national camera enforcement strategy before proceeding with further camera installation development." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
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Very 2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Very 2025
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It's illegal to call something a sausage if it doesn't contain meat but you can call a sausage a cocktail even if it doesn't contain gin.
December 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's illegal to call something a sausage if it doesn't contain meat but you can call a sausage a cocktail even if it doesn't contain gin.
Is this the most Financial Times story ever?
Some of the richest Americans are confronted with a thorny question this time of year: is spending the festive season with family worth paying millions more in taxes? ft.trib.al/3nDA3ou
December 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Is this the most Financial Times story ever?
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What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration
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December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration
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Despite repeated complaints, a stretch of James’s Street remains hazardous for cyclists. They are shunted into a bumpy sliver of gutter between the kerb and the Luas tracks.
Despite repeated complaints, a stretch of James’s Street remains hazardous for cyclists
They are shunted into a bumpy sliver of gutter between the kerb and the Luas tracks.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Despite repeated complaints, a stretch of James’s Street remains hazardous for cyclists. They are shunted into a bumpy sliver of gutter between the kerb and the Luas tracks.
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Dublin City Council's new #BikeBunker service arose from a €4,500 BETA Project.
The first BikeBunker of the new service has now been installed, with an initial target of 1,800 BikeBunker spaces.
More info at www.bikebunkers.ie or from @bleeperactive.bsky.social
Live for your bike, not with it.
The first BikeBunker of the new service has now been installed, with an initial target of 1,800 BikeBunker spaces.
More info at www.bikebunkers.ie or from @bleeperactive.bsky.social
Live for your bike, not with it.
December 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Dublin City Council's new #BikeBunker service arose from a €4,500 BETA Project.
The first BikeBunker of the new service has now been installed, with an initial target of 1,800 BikeBunker spaces.
More info at www.bikebunkers.ie or from @bleeperactive.bsky.social
Live for your bike, not with it.
The first BikeBunker of the new service has now been installed, with an initial target of 1,800 BikeBunker spaces.
More info at www.bikebunkers.ie or from @bleeperactive.bsky.social
Live for your bike, not with it.
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What would become of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay if the council relocates? After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
What would become of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay if the council relocates?
After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What would become of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay if the council relocates? After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
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Wall Street Journal writers bully a vending machine into giving them free stuff and then hallucinating.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Wall Street Journal writers bully a vending machine into giving them free stuff and then hallucinating.
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Tom Lyons in The Currency: "There are many questions about moving DCC to Camden Yard. Let’s ask those questions openly, rather than dismissing the idea outright. This could be a good idea." thecurrency.news/articles/212...
From Wood Quay to Camden Yard: A chance to fix old mistakes - The Currency
David Dickson’s magisterial Dublin: The Making of a Capital City traces the capital’s remarkable history from its medieval origins to the dawn of the new millennium. The final chapter of his 2014 tome...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Tom Lyons in The Currency: "There are many questions about moving DCC to Camden Yard. Let’s ask those questions openly, rather than dismissing the idea outright. This could be a good idea." thecurrency.news/articles/212...
"Our involvement in this legal process does not oppose the Luas extension. Instead, it relates to a very specific and limited concern regarding the scale of land proposed to be taken from our rear yard..." www.thejournal.ie/luas-finglas...
Manhattan Peanuts has lodged a legal challenge to the Luas extension to Finglas
It’s the second legal challenge against a major public transport project in the capital in less than a month.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Our involvement in this legal process does not oppose the Luas extension. Instead, it relates to a very specific and limited concern regarding the scale of land proposed to be taken from our rear yard..." www.thejournal.ie/luas-finglas...
"The latest guidance from Revenue makes it clear that all social media income-generating activity is taxable," | I wonder if they've told the grifters earning from spreading lies and hate online about this? www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/1...
OMG! In the crosshairs of the taxman: what social media influencers need to declare
The latest guidance from Revenue makes it clear that all social media income-generating activity is taxable
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December 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"The latest guidance from Revenue makes it clear that all social media income-generating activity is taxable," | I wonder if they've told the grifters earning from spreading lies and hate online about this? www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/1...
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It’s winter solstice on Sunday, so get ready for Grianstad 🌞
- register for a free ticket
- you’ll receive an email on Sunday with the audio
- check your local sunset time, head out to watch the light, press play 30 mins before sunset
- listen wherever you are in the world, headphones ideally
- register for a free ticket
- you’ll receive an email on Sunday with the audio
- check your local sunset time, head out to watch the light, press play 30 mins before sunset
- listen wherever you are in the world, headphones ideally
Grianstad 2025
Sunday, 21 December, Winter Solstice Sunset, Everywhere.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It’s winter solstice on Sunday, so get ready for Grianstad 🌞
- register for a free ticket
- you’ll receive an email on Sunday with the audio
- check your local sunset time, head out to watch the light, press play 30 mins before sunset
- listen wherever you are in the world, headphones ideally
- register for a free ticket
- you’ll receive an email on Sunday with the audio
- check your local sunset time, head out to watch the light, press play 30 mins before sunset
- listen wherever you are in the world, headphones ideally
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Flynn Johnson’s debut album basks in beautiful nostalgia, writes Dean Van Nguyen. “And Johnson is a good rapper, fluid and multifaceted, ‘fresh like a two back and sides’.”
Dean: Flynn Johnson’s debut album basks in beautiful nostalgia
“And Johnson is a good rapper, fluid and multifaceted, ‘fresh like a two back and sides’.”
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December 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Flynn Johnson’s debut album basks in beautiful nostalgia, writes Dean Van Nguyen. “And Johnson is a good rapper, fluid and multifaceted, ‘fresh like a two back and sides’.”
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For some in Dublin, Christmas dinner still has to mean carp. “When you read the Bible, Jesus wasn’t eating chorizo, or goulash. He was eating fish,” says Rastislav Blazek.
For some in Dublin, Christmas dinner still has to mean carp
“When you read the Bible, Jesus wasn’t eating chorizo, or goulash. He was eating fish,” says Rastislav Blazek.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
For some in Dublin, Christmas dinner still has to mean carp. “When you read the Bible, Jesus wasn’t eating chorizo, or goulash. He was eating fish,” says Rastislav Blazek.
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Ooh, how do we get a council Christmas tree? some neighbourhoods ask. The council has put more up this year than ever, say councillors. The trick, though, is to ask early.
Ooh, how do we get a council Christmas tree? some neighbourhoods ask
The council has put more up this year than ever, say councillors. The trick, though, is to ask early.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ooh, how do we get a council Christmas tree? some neighbourhoods ask. The council has put more up this year than ever, say councillors. The trick, though, is to ask early.
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Car and house alarms should be time limited. And if you haven't come to rescue your car or house in the allotted couple of minutes, the car or house should be confiscated, sold, and the proceeds divided between the nearest 50 neighbours while you die a slow agonising death
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Car and house alarms should be time limited. And if you haven't come to rescue your car or house in the allotted couple of minutes, the car or house should be confiscated, sold, and the proceeds divided between the nearest 50 neighbours while you die a slow agonising death
I did not see *this* coming - Dublin City Council looking to leave its Wood Quay HQ/offices.
Dublin City Council will relocate from Wood Quay to Camden Yard if its bid is successful - The Currency
Dublin City Council (DCC) will seek to relocate its offices from Wood Quay to Camden Yard if it is successful in acquiring the stalled site at a prime location in Dublin city centre. The innovative ...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I did not see *this* coming - Dublin City Council looking to leave its Wood Quay HQ/offices.
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Brushing up: The story behind a monument to “Demolition” Dave Conway, who helped clear the way for the Luas’s Red Line. Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38. (2024)
Brushing up: A monument to “Demolition” Dave Conway, who helped clear the way for the Luas’s Red Line - Dublin Inquirer
Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Brushing up: The story behind a monument to “Demolition” Dave Conway, who helped clear the way for the Luas’s Red Line. Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38. (2024)
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Have you ever noticed how chipper vinegar tastes a bit different? There’s a reason for that. (2017)
The enduring appeal of chipper vinegar - Dublin Inquirer
Have you ever noticed how chipper vinegar tastes a bit different? There’s a reason for that.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Have you ever noticed how chipper vinegar tastes a bit different? There’s a reason for that. (2017)