I hope Christian retires lives a long and happy life

Delighted to hear the Silk Road Café at Dublin Castle secured an interim court injunction against its landlord the Chester Beatty Library. It is deeply unfair (and hypocritical) this 25 year old business was being forced to close, leaving over 20 people unemployed for 6 months just because of Ireland's presidency of the European Union! Incidentally this is no reflection on the staff or management of the @CBL_Dublin Chester Beatty Library, which is one of the greatest institutions in Europe. It's a treasuretrove of history, art and culture full of passionate and brilliant people who have feck all to do with this Kafkaesque crap. It's also free to visit and highly recommended! Silk Road Café holds a valid licence agreement, but it seems ordinary people's lives and legal rights often count for very little when the Office of Public Works does its bean counting. The casual destruction of people's livelihoods is not over yet, so keep fighting. This is a prime example of bureaucratic, livelihood destroying nonsense our goverment and certain County Councils hope you dont hear about. Not exactly an edifying look for our European Union presidency....@EU_Commission @eurireland

Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia has unleashed an angry tirade on Gwyneth Paltrow, after the actor and wellness entrepreneur appeared in an advert for a housing development in Israel.

RT @SJAMcBride: Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s wife Eleanor “was aware her husband had a sexual interest in pre-pubescent girls” and "must have kn…

Arlene Foster says Fine Gael supporting a United Ireland is the worst thing to happen Unionism since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 3,000 years ago.

Almost half of people don’t know about the pharmacy scheme that is cheaper than seeing your GP independent.ie/irish-news/he…

The HSE, Children’s Health Ireland, the state: all have refused or failed to publish the report. Here it is. An internal audit exposing how child patients on public lists are forced to wait for vital surgery – those with private health insurance don't. ontheditch.com/the-unpublish…

Ray D'Arcy says since being sacked by RTÉ, he's really struggling to find another job that pays €10,000 per hour.

🚨 Fox Sports showed a graphic during the match vs Paraguay claiming the United States have 9 wins, 8 draws, and 0 losses in World Cup history. If they're supposedly undefeated at the World Cup, how exactly do they still have 0 World Cup trophies? 🤔🏆

12 June 1981. The Specials released their classic No 1 single, Ghost Town in the UK, in the midst of the worst economic recession since the early 1930s.

RT @ipsc48: Apartheid Israel's Football Association is so clued in that it's tagging the *wrong* Football Association. Along with a 'warnin…

The match – for now – will go ahead at a neutral venue. The campaign against it continues. Israel shouldn’t be treated as a normal nation, least of all by one that intervened at the ICJ in support of a case accusing it of genocide. ontheditch.com/comment-the-p…

Matt Williams: Mindless hatred of Leinster will hurt Irish rugby in the long run dlvr.it/TT0nj3

We just bumped into these legends - John, Brian, Bob and Hugh from Aberdeen - who stopped off in Dublin on their way to the USA to cheer on @ScotlandNT at the @FIFAWorldCup. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Easily our best dressed passengers of the day! 👌

Jack Chambers urged every major Irish sporting body to use their "influence and authority" to enforce bans on Russia and Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine. Yesterday government defeated proposals calling for the Ireland-Israel match to be stopped. ontheditch.com/jack-chambers…

RT @ipsc48: Ireland must not play apartheid Israel in the UEFA Nations League. The FAI must respect the Palestinian boycott call and not cr…

Ireland has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in Europe and - importantly - unemployment among those who did not complete secondary education is similar to that who completed a degree. That's very different elsewhere in the EU. Excellent social equality and fairness 🇮🇪👍

Why the Sagrada Familia has taken 144 years to complete As the church nears completion after nearly 150 years, @kirancmoodley looks back through its journey and asks if the extra visitors it may attract will make Barcelona's “overtourism” issue worse. Read our latest newsletter: channel4news.substack.com/p/…