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Stephen Bourke
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Journalist in Dublin
No need for a commute to get business done, Denis showed us the way to rise and grind in 2015.

Wake up (in Haiti). Get briefed in bed. Plan over breakfast. Immediately instruct your lawyers.

Get. It. Done. The Denis way.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Spotted this homeless camp of around a dozen tents being removed from the banks of the Grand Canal by what looked like a Waterways Ireland crew on Friday. International rugby at the Aviva today, of course.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
If only there was a working app.
October 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
To paraphrase the official investigation report, it turned out the bungling Royal Navy sub commander decided to lash on up the Irish Sea at too high a speed, against guidelines, without sufficient regard for fishing activity, cos he felt like it.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57fe2e...
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Here is why we should treat every utterance in this line with skepticism. In April 2015, everyone agreed that with its MoD refusing to comment on an ensnared submarine towing the trawler Karen backwards, the only logical conclusion was that sub Russian. www.bbc.com/news/uk-nort...
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"We now cross live to Galway, where presidential hopeful Catherine Connolly is pressing the flesh in Shop Street..."
October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A whole business day has now passed and there has been no suggestion from Fianna Fáil or Jim Gavin that he's even thinking about giving his ex-tenant the money back. €3,300 in 2009 money is €4,300 today.
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's interesting that there's nothing at all at a Luas stop to tell you the Red Line to the Point is out of service.
October 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In fact there is express provision in the Canal Bye-Laws of 1988 for a person to camp for up to seven days in a tent on canal land before moving on. Waterways Ireland is trying to get rid of this in new draft byelaws, but they haven't been enacted.

www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1988/si/...
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't forget fear. House prices are also sustained by the fear of being left homeless.
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
(and you didn't tend to see tents pitched in the middle of Cork City)
September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I think my favourite part is where Dublin City Council has repeatedly used road markings in an attempt to engineer head-on collisions between cyclists on this stretch.
September 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
They should be selling folio prints and LPs of this like Dev's WW2 speeches.
September 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We're holding a table quiz next month in aid of our Gazan colleagues -- get your table booked ASAP, we're filling up fast!
August 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Some fairly suspect advice here from the Indo farming agony aunt to an absentee landlord about the applicability of the Public Order Act to trespass.

www.independent.ie/farming/lega...
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Specialist Special Detective Unit detectives
August 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"I have lived the pain in all its details... I have never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion. May God be a witness against those who remained silent"

Emergency demo tonight in Dublin to protest the assassination of the five Al-Jazeera journalists in Gaza.
August 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The enlightened readers of the Irish Times will of course understand this guff as O'Leary's trademark hyperbole. But shouldn't we in the press be seeking out the facts on the ground instead of these quick win hot take headlines?
July 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Unsuccessful media inquiries were made to two political parties about their candidates for the presidency. You'll never believe what happened next.
July 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Two signs promoting the Trans Pride march next Saturday cut down at the northeast corner of O'Connell Bridge
July 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
June 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Weather pic option 1: a local news agency photographer has a full roll of happy Irish beach-goers, fully captioned and brand new.

Weather pic option 2: let's see what the climate database has from Ireland... how about an eight-year-old generic of the Luas? We can't use the EV charger again.
June 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM