Sam Tranum
@samtranum.bsky.social
Editor, co-founder @dublininquirer.bsky.social.
What's up with the China number? Who in Shanghai is reading Dublin Inquirer? Gotta be bots, yeah?
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What's up with the China number? Who in Shanghai is reading Dublin Inquirer? Gotta be bots, yeah?
Kid loses ball in tree branches in park. Magpie sees opportunity and builds nest on top.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Kid loses ball in tree branches in park. Magpie sees opportunity and builds nest on top.
Every month we get a bunch of big sacks from An Post to put our newspapers in to deliver to the depot to be sent out to subscribers. Not infrequently someone else's post is left in the bottom of a sack or two. Here is this month's haul. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Every month we get a bunch of big sacks from An Post to put our newspapers in to deliver to the depot to be sent out to subscribers. Not infrequently someone else's post is left in the bottom of a sack or two. Here is this month's haul. 1/
Stock images used in DCC presentation planning PR campaigns to promote active travel and use of cycle lane (left), vs images of actual cycle infrastructure in the city. "Only 36% of respondents felt safe cycling in Dublin City". Hmmm.
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Stock images used in DCC presentation planning PR campaigns to promote active travel and use of cycle lane (left), vs images of actual cycle infrastructure in the city. "Only 36% of respondents felt safe cycling in Dublin City". Hmmm.
The Irish Times is hiring for this job, Head of Data Architecture and Machine Learning, but I can't understand what it is and how it relates to running a newspaper. Can you explain it to me please? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Irish Times is hiring for this job, Head of Data Architecture and Machine Learning, but I can't understand what it is and how it relates to running a newspaper. Can you explain it to me please? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...
It's amazing to see the FF/FG government, faced with a challenge from the right, begin to emulate the Tories' response to a similar challenge from the right. How can they look at the current state of the UK, and of polling, and think, let's do that, that'll work out well for the country, and for us?
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It's amazing to see the FF/FG government, faced with a challenge from the right, begin to emulate the Tories' response to a similar challenge from the right. How can they look at the current state of the UK, and of polling, and think, let's do that, that'll work out well for the country, and for us?
I believe it's this tree you can see here. Not sure when the Google Maps image is from
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I believe it's this tree you can see here. Not sure when the Google Maps image is from
Love that the Burke family are such a national problem that the Irish Times has published an advice column on what to do if you're doorstepped by one of them -- because it could apparently happen to any of us, at any time.
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love that the Burke family are such a national problem that the Irish Times has published an advice column on what to do if you're doorstepped by one of them -- because it could apparently happen to any of us, at any time.
The waste incinerator in Copenhagen -- their Poolbeg incinerator equivalent -- has a climbing wall, ski slope, park/hiking trail, and rooftop cafe.
October 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The waste incinerator in Copenhagen -- their Poolbeg incinerator equivalent -- has a climbing wall, ski slope, park/hiking trail, and rooftop cafe.
But hotting up now. 8.30pm.
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
But hotting up now. 8.30pm.
As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/
October 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/
Looks like the anti-immigrant crowd are trying to organise a riot based on the reports that a man raped a 10-year-old girl at CityWest. Looks farcical atm, but who knows how it'll develop. 1/
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Looks like the anti-immigrant crowd are trying to organise a riot based on the reports that a man raped a 10-year-old girl at CityWest. Looks farcical atm, but who knows how it'll develop. 1/
Just reading an academic paper and it has this disclosure at the end, which I thought was interesting, first time I've encountered it.
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Just reading an academic paper and it has this disclosure at the end, which I thought was interesting, first time I've encountered it.
I made a map of development in the Liberties, including hotels and student accommodation, and new apartment complexes. What did I miss?
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October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I made a map of development in the Liberties, including hotels and student accommodation, and new apartment complexes. What did I miss?
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"Experience Heather"!? Are thry doing this on purpose so I'll share it with a !?
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Experience Heather"!? Are thry doing this on purpose so I'll share it with a !?
This is really really not good.
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is really really not good.
50%!? That seems awfully high. That means every second post I put here is AI generated yeah? I'm not great at stats.
www.theverge.com/news/799003/...
www.theverge.com/news/799003/...
October 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
50%!? That seems awfully high. That means every second post I put here is AI generated yeah? I'm not great at stats.
www.theverge.com/news/799003/...
www.theverge.com/news/799003/...
From mountain of commercially illegally dumped costruction and household waste, to neighbourhood park. There's a huge transformation going on in a north Dublin neighbourhood. (File photo from before cleanup started.)
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
From mountain of commercially illegally dumped costruction and household waste, to neighbourhood park. There's a huge transformation going on in a north Dublin neighbourhood. (File photo from before cleanup started.)
"At least nine Irish citizens have been detained by the Israeli military after an international flotilla trying to deliver medicine and food to Gaza was intercepted overnight, organisers have said." www.independent.ie/world-news/m...
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"At least nine Irish citizens have been detained by the Israeli military after an international flotilla trying to deliver medicine and food to Gaza was intercepted overnight, organisers have said." www.independent.ie/world-news/m...
Hopefully not but ...
September 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Hopefully not but ...
This is bad of course, but also awfully ungrateful on Trumps part -- this is the thanks Comey gets for getting him elected in 2016 is it?
September 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is bad of course, but also awfully ungrateful on Trumps part -- this is the thanks Comey gets for getting him elected in 2016 is it?
Find myself thinking this a lot lately.
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Find myself thinking this a lot lately.
The description of him in the Irish Times was pretty entertaining.
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The description of him in the Irish Times was pretty entertaining.
Happy 6th birthday to The Currency, always great to see a media startup thriving! thecurrency.news
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Happy 6th birthday to The Currency, always great to see a media startup thriving! thecurrency.news