Sam Tranum
@samtranum.bsky.social
Editor, co-founder @dublininquirer.bsky.social.
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Dublin Bus are offering €15,000 for innovative ideas on how to improve their services
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Dublin Bus - Dublin Bus launches DBI – Dublin Bus Innovation
Dublin Bus
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January 26, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Dublin Bus are offering €15,000 for innovative ideas on how to improve their services
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A man in his teens, who was arrested in connection with the death of a teenage girl following a crash in Dublin yesterday, remains in custody
Man remains in custody following fatal scrambler crash
A man in his teens, who was arrested in connection with the death of a teenage girl following a crash in Dublin yesterday, remains in custody.
www.rte.ie
January 26, 2026 at 7:50 AM
A man in his teens, who was arrested in connection with the death of a teenage girl following a crash in Dublin yesterday, remains in custody
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Time for journalists to stop calling countries Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc the US's "allies". I still read it all the time in articles, and while the structures remain, America is no longer treating them as allies, that is saved these days for Russia, Argentina, Israel.
January 26, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Time for journalists to stop calling countries Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc the US's "allies". I still read it all the time in articles, and while the structures remain, America is no longer treating them as allies, that is saved these days for Russia, Argentina, Israel.
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I keep thinking about what DHS is asking of Minneapolis and all of us. Stay quietly in your homes while we break down your neighbor’s door and drag her out crying. Walk away when you see us chasing a child down the street. Say nothing, look away.
What an evil thing to ask for.
What an evil thing to ask for.
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM
I keep thinking about what DHS is asking of Minneapolis and all of us. Stay quietly in your homes while we break down your neighbor’s door and drag her out crying. Walk away when you see us chasing a child down the street. Say nothing, look away.
What an evil thing to ask for.
What an evil thing to ask for.
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Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland
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January 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Just reading this book, Quarterlife, by Devika Rege, and there's a moment when this guy, irritated, dismisses his cousin thusly: "He was weird as a kid. Now he's a journalist." I feel like that sums up a lot of us journalists.
January 24, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Just reading this book, Quarterlife, by Devika Rege, and there's a moment when this guy, irritated, dismisses his cousin thusly: "He was weird as a kid. Now he's a journalist." I feel like that sums up a lot of us journalists.
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Do you like maps? Have you an interest in suburban history?
We are excited to share that for the first time, the atlases of Clontarf and Rathmines are now fully and freely available to download. Originally published by @ria.ie with @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
Read more: www.ria.ie/2026/01/09/i...
We are excited to share that for the first time, the atlases of Clontarf and Rathmines are now fully and freely available to download. Originally published by @ria.ie with @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
Read more: www.ria.ie/2026/01/09/i...
January 21, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Do you like maps? Have you an interest in suburban history?
We are excited to share that for the first time, the atlases of Clontarf and Rathmines are now fully and freely available to download. Originally published by @ria.ie with @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
Read more: www.ria.ie/2026/01/09/i...
We are excited to share that for the first time, the atlases of Clontarf and Rathmines are now fully and freely available to download. Originally published by @ria.ie with @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
Read more: www.ria.ie/2026/01/09/i...
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🎶 TradFest 2026 lights up Dublin this Saturday! Enjoy free pop‑up sets from Declan Coles, The Knockadollys, Reylta and Seán Collins across the city. Follow the music and feel the energy of Dublin. Full programme: tradfest.com #TradFest2026
January 24, 2026 at 7:04 AM
🎶 TradFest 2026 lights up Dublin this Saturday! Enjoy free pop‑up sets from Declan Coles, The Knockadollys, Reylta and Seán Collins across the city. Follow the music and feel the energy of Dublin. Full programme: tradfest.com #TradFest2026
Not sure why the Irish national broadcaster is providing a US weather forecast?
Much of the US is braced for a winter storm that is expected to converge with bitter Arctic cold from the Rockies to the Eastern Seaboard.
Winter storm, sub-freezing cold descend on US
Snow has fallen over parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas in a frosty prelude to a winter storm that is expected to converge with bitter Arctic cold and engulf much of the United States over the weeken...
www.rte.ie
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Not sure why the Irish national broadcaster is providing a US weather forecast?
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"The breaking point only came when weary-looking cemetery workers arrived in refrigerated trucks to dump still more corpses on the ground. The body bags landed with sickening thuds in front of onlookers who had come to bury their children, siblings, fathers, mothers."
The Final Indignities Inflicted on Iran’s Protest Victims
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
"The breaking point only came when weary-looking cemetery workers arrived in refrigerated trucks to dump still more corpses on the ground. The body bags landed with sickening thuds in front of onlookers who had come to bury their children, siblings, fathers, mothers."
Dublin City Council CEO Richard Shakespeare says "I have now taken the decision to suspend all posting by the City Council on the X.com platform. This applies to all City Council X accounts and will be actioned with immediate effect."
January 23, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Dublin City Council CEO Richard Shakespeare says "I have now taken the decision to suspend all posting by the City Council on the X.com platform. This applies to all City Council X accounts and will be actioned with immediate effect."
And no one is stopping it.
It seems it's "complicated". ("Who has that power, and what they can do with it, is a deeply complicated question, and it’s tied up in the thorny mess of history that is content moderation and the legal precedents that underpin it." www.theverge.com/podcast/8652...)
It seems it's "complicated". ("Who has that power, and what they can do with it, is a deeply complicated question, and it’s tied up in the thorny mess of history that is content moderation and the legal precedents that underpin it." www.theverge.com/podcast/8652...)
A study on the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok embedded on X estimates it created 3 million sexualized images in 11 days in January, including 23,000 of children.
Grok could have produced 3 million sexual deepfakes in 11 days, says estimate
European regulators have yet to decide how to handle the explosion of nonconsensual deepfakes on the platform.
www.politico.eu
January 23, 2026 at 10:31 AM
And no one is stopping it.
It seems it's "complicated". ("Who has that power, and what they can do with it, is a deeply complicated question, and it’s tied up in the thorny mess of history that is content moderation and the legal precedents that underpin it." www.theverge.com/podcast/8652...)
It seems it's "complicated". ("Who has that power, and what they can do with it, is a deeply complicated question, and it’s tied up in the thorny mess of history that is content moderation and the legal precedents that underpin it." www.theverge.com/podcast/8652...)
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A new council sports forum looks to press schools and such to share their facilities. Amid a serious shortage of pitches in Dublin 8, the OPW only allows one soccer club to use its pitch at the War Memorial Gardens.
A new council sports forum looks to press schools and such to share their facilities
Amid a serious shortage of pitches in Dublin 8, the OPW only allows one soccer club to use its pitch at the War Memorial Gardens.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:06 AM
A new council sports forum looks to press schools and such to share their facilities. Amid a serious shortage of pitches in Dublin 8, the OPW only allows one soccer club to use its pitch at the War Memorial Gardens.
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The council’s latest plans for Mountjoy Square are being contested by those who want more sports facilities added. In 2019, the council abandoned a previous planning permission application amid similar tensions between Georgian restoration, and sports uses.
Council’s plans for Mountjoy Square contested by those who want more sports facilities added
In 2019, the council abandoned a previous planning permission application amid similar tensions between Georgian restoration, and sports uses.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The council’s latest plans for Mountjoy Square are being contested by those who want more sports facilities added. In 2019, the council abandoned a previous planning permission application amid similar tensions between Georgian restoration, and sports uses.
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In Coolock, a long-awaited regeneration of social homes is drawing nearer. The remaining residents in Cromcastle Court have been living under the shadow of regeneration for years.
In Coolock, a long-awaited regeneration of social homes draws nearer
The remaining residents in Cromcastle Court have been living under the shadow of regeneration for years.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 AM
In Coolock, a long-awaited regeneration of social homes is drawing nearer. The remaining residents in Cromcastle Court have been living under the shadow of regeneration for years.
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Councillors and residents have been railing against gaps in a Kilbarrack playground fence. They don’t understand how they can be taking so long to fix, they say.
Councillors and residents rail against gaps in a Kilbarrack playground fence
They don’t understand how the council can be taking so long to fix the fence, they say.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Councillors and residents have been railing against gaps in a Kilbarrack playground fence. They don’t understand how they can be taking so long to fix, they say.
"Speaking to the Irish Independent, Ms Heney said the idea would be to introduce a programme along the lines of the shuttered Rural Resettlement Ireland (RRI) scheme."
Dublin City Council housing chair suggests ‘encouraging people away from the city’ www.independent.ie/regionals/du...
Dublin City Council housing chair suggests ‘encouraging people away from the city’
The chair of the Dublin City Council (DCC) housing committee has suggested the local authority adopt a policy to “encourage people away from the city”.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"Speaking to the Irish Independent, Ms Heney said the idea would be to introduce a programme along the lines of the shuttered Rural Resettlement Ireland (RRI) scheme."
I would not be so confident as tk write "will" in this headline. Maybe "might"? "Planned to"? "Supposedly will"?
Contactless payments will come into effect on public transport in 2028, over a decade after the technology first began cropping up in European cities.
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Contactless payments to be introduced on public transport in 2028
Dublin is one of the last major European capital cities without the technology.
jrnl.ie
January 21, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I would not be so confident as tk write "will" in this headline. Maybe "might"? "Planned to"? "Supposedly will"?
So does that mean tens of thousands of properties are about to come back on the regular rental market?
January 21, 2026 at 5:40 PM
So does that mean tens of thousands of properties are about to come back on the regular rental market?
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A decade ago, the council stripped a playground out of Tyrrelstown. Now some residents want it back. The council said it was removed because of antisocial behavior. Councillors say having play spaces is how to prevent antisocial behavior.
A decade ago, the council stripped a playground out of Tyrrelstown. Now some residents want it back.
The council said it was removed because of antisocial behavior. Councillors say having play spaces is how to prevent antisocial behavior.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 AM
A decade ago, the council stripped a playground out of Tyrrelstown. Now some residents want it back. The council said it was removed because of antisocial behavior. Councillors say having play spaces is how to prevent antisocial behavior.
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Fingal should introduce hidden-disability parking spots, councillors say. These could make it easier for parents with autistic kids, for example, to park closer to where they need to go.
Fingal should introduce hidden-disability parking spots, councillors say
These could make it easier for parents with autistic kids, for example, to park closer to where they need to go.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Fingal should introduce hidden-disability parking spots, councillors say. These could make it easier for parents with autistic kids, for example, to park closer to where they need to go.
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Central government is looking at whether councils should be allowed to borrow more, to build more. The current restrictions do need to change, said a spokesperson for the Department of Finance.
Central government is looking at whether councils should be allowed to borrow more, to build more
The current restrictions do need to change, said a spokesperson for the Department of Finance.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Central government is looking at whether councils should be allowed to borrow more, to build more. The current restrictions do need to change, said a spokesperson for the Department of Finance.
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The council’s new tree strategy includes focuses on climate change resilience, biodiversity. There will also be a dedicated tree page on Dublin City Council’s website, to keep residents abreast of tree works in their area, the council's tree officer said at a recent meeting.
Council’s new tree strategy includes focuses on climate change resilience, biodiversity
There will also be a dedicated tree page on Dublin City Council’s website, to keep residents abreast of the programmed tree works in their area, the council's tree officer said at a recent meeting.
www.dublininquirer.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The council’s new tree strategy includes focuses on climate change resilience, biodiversity. There will also be a dedicated tree page on Dublin City Council’s website, to keep residents abreast of tree works in their area, the council's tree officer said at a recent meeting.