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“I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners”
Maybe one of the dumbest mistakes I’ve seen at that level.
There are no words
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There are no words
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I say again
Extraordinary decision
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Extraordinary decision
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Len Dowling
On the board, signed off the annual accounts, and was humble enough to allow the trust to be named after him. That’s three reasons why he should explain why he wasn’t paying more attention when taxpayers money was being squandered.
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Len Dowling
That’s not how uncorrelated assets are supposed to work, btw
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Does the Irish broadcast media still see Peter McVerry as an expert on all things Housing Strategy, Policy and implementation I wonder???
A Dáil committee has heard that a major homelessness charity used donors’ money to build an enclosure for peacocks. The Public Accounts Committee was told the Peter McVerry Trust had been “on the brink of collapse” before a government bailout two years ago.

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November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“Commentator of the year” - Jesus wept 🤦‍♂️
It’s hard to read this stuff from doctors without cringing at how wildly out of touch it sounds (and how little self-awareness). £100k+ income is, to most of the public, beyond our dreams. Entitlement and class privilege is not the best way to win people over to your cause!
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Reposted by Len Dowling
The only revelation left to us is that the federal grand jury didn't actually exist and DOJ prosecutors simply decided to pretend that it does.
🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.
In Stunning Admission, DOJ Says Grand Jury Never Saw Indictment Against Comey
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It’s really fascinating how people expect that a large complex sports organisation doesn’t want the random thoughts of every delegate splashed all over the newspapers. Incredible it lasted so long.
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Another SF/SD/LAB/PBP sleeper in FG. Absolutely ridiculous that Irish political media continues to refer to FG as a “centre right” party. There’s nothing remotely centrist about them now.
New Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence Helen McEntee has said that the Occupied Territories Bill will be one of the very first things she will raise with her departmental officials when she meets them later today.
McEntee says she will raise Occupied Territories Bill
The new Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence has said that the Occupied Territories Bill will be one of the very first things she will raise with her departmental officials when she meets t...
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Is Simon Harris Ireland’s least qualified Finance Minister ever? Certainly the least qualified in 50odd years. Between him and financial novice Jack Chambers in the public expenditure portfolio we are entering into an extremely challenging phase with a very weak management group.
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Extraordinary story. Huge questions to answer for Sport Ireland and the CEO of Rowing Ireland.
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Ep 1| ‘They’re messing with his head’- Paul Kimmage’s journey inside the toxic world of Irish rowing’s High Performance Unit
Podcast Episode · The Indo Daily · 17/11/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
(Missed tackles and giving away idiotic penalties were not considered as part of the exercise) 😂😂
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Reposted by Len Dowling
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
No issue with that penalty but really wish Karl Dickson would referee both offside lines. Australia encroaching all night with no penalty whereas we’re being nitpicked off the park
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Considering the insane reporting by the likes of Haberman and Co back in 2015/16, who on earth could be in the least bit surprised by this???
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Insane the lack of media attention that this article is getting. If you replaced ‘Rowing Ireland’ with ‘FAI’ there’d be half a dozen Dáil committees saddling up and Prime Time etc. would be licking their lips.
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
www.independent.ie/sport/other-... Paul Kimmage: A journey inside the toxic world of Irish rowing and the true cost of Olympic medals
Paul Kimmage: A journey inside the toxic world of Irish rowing and the true cost of Olympic medals
It started with an email on a Tuesday evening in February, 2023. The timing wasn’t great. I was severely jet-lagged from a two-week trip to Los Angeles, and about to have surgery on my hand, but the w...
www.independent.ie
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Spoke to a guy working in a large Cork hospital recently and he told me two things:

1: the NTPF process has been engineered as an extraordinary gravy train i.e. if you just paid O/T you’d save millions.
2: there is no desire within Hospital management to change it
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Dublin hospital paid €1.44m for services to company owned by staff
St James’s Hospital paid radiologists for additional imaging services due to ongoing surge in demand
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Very debatable as to how good a speaker she was but her ability to play the stock market will never be beaten.

Good riddance 😐
The greatest Speaker of all time.

Thank you for your service to the people of San Francisco and to our country, Nancy Pelosi.
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Another insane team selection. Looks like Farrell will flog the usual suspects for the next couple of years and will be cheered along by our sycophantic rugby press pack. The team will BOMB and the usual guff about cycles and continuity and blah blah blah
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The insanity continues… modern day journalists are just a joke
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Len Dowling
Two very big stories dropped yesterday: A Commission for Taxation projection on the long term trends for the country’s tax base, and a Dept of Finance projection that we’ll have a housing crisis for 15 years. Neither will generate a fraction of the commentary that Ivan Yates has over the past week.
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Someone help me here - exactly what is the problem here for FF? What’s the difference between hiring Ivan Yates or hiring Terry Prone??
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM