Over half of Irish people said they would support the Occupied Territories Bill, even if it caused us economic harm. Makes me proud to be Irish. ☘️ 🇵🇸

(From the print version of today’s Sunday Independent)

Panda waste will now photograph bin contents and email you if you put general waste in the recycle bin.

Likely a big deterrent effect on the minority who abuse the green bins. I wonder if it will nudge regular customers into doing it properly, or to under-use recycling for fear of doing it wrong?

2040: The Greater European Union

My favourite piece of writing this week was from @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social about the 1 million US teenagers joining RedNote open.substack.com/pub/infinite...

Another interesting proof point that we have capacity problems in Ireland which we can’t solve by throwing money at.

Vacancy rates in public sector jobs (via PWC great quarterly digest www.pwc.ie/issues/the-l...)

A remarkable outcome from #GE24 is that the Social Democrats have continued their run of (approximately) doubling seats in every Dáil and Local elections since forming

How does Ireland even begin any sort of sensible, long-term fiscal planning when you’re looking at such a wide spread of potential outcomes, mostly outside of our control? (Graph via @lizcarolan.bsky.social )

Hello from a misty Cavan