
2025-07-15 01:09:26
Excavation of Children’s Remains Begins at Irish Home for Unwed Mothers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/world/europe/ireland-excavation-children-tuam.html
Excavation of Children’s Remains Begins at Irish Home for Unwed Mothers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/world/europe/ireland-excavation-children-tuam.html
"Ireland to meet 2030 target of 8 GW solar, claims Wood MacKenzie"
#Ireland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
"Disappointed" at chickens coming home...
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/09/12/john-boyne-disappointed-at-withdrawal-of-ucd-james-joyce-award/
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
New Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail
On Bluesky's introduction of age verification, selling us to the Fortnite guys, and how the arrogance of Ireland's regulator has seen it deliver the very outcomes it once called "bonkers".
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age-verifi…
Respect for Irish broadcaster RTÉ
"Ireland threatens to withdraw from Eurovision if Israel participates"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvd8158ywo
Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0911/1532957-rte-eurovision/
“It is RTÉ’s position that Ireland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if the participation of Israel goes ahead … RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza.”
https://about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/rte-st
Dug out a 1975 Burroughs leased line data set, an IBM PC Convertible, and a Morrow Decision Master system to bring back to Ireland.
I'm still trying to figure what to do with the Compaq Portable, TRS-80, Z89 disk drive, SGI Indigo², 7011 POWERstation RS6000 system, DEC PC, and (oh God) the monitors. And I'm pretty sure there are full Amiga 1000 and 2000 systems in there. Atari 1040STFM (2x). A full Burroughs financial system. Mainframe terminals. More C64s than any person eve…
Saw #eurovision trending. Checked out why.
It's just the Irish doing the right thing.
https://flipboard.com/@eveningstandard
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Hackers calling themselves SafePay. carried out a ransomware attack on the five-star K Club resort in Co Kildare as it prepared to host some of the world’s top golfers at the Irish Open this past weekend.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-wor
New Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail
On Bluesky's introduction of age verification, selling us to the Fortnite guys, and how the arrogance of Ireland's regulator has seen it deliver the very outcomes it once called "bonkers".
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age-verifi…
Northern Ireland on its bullshit again. Sure, why not light a giant fire as part of an annual set of racist gestures beside an electricity substation that serves two major hospitals?
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
‘This Is the End of Coal in Ireland’: Country Shuts Down Last Plant Ahead of Schedule #Ireland
Forgot a potential client is in Ireland and it just complicated all of the power requirements for a project I may be taking on.
Damn you power differences between countries!
I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.
Just a reminder that if you're on a computer running American software that that offers a "UK public holidays" calendar (eg Apple), you can switch it off and subscribe to a more useful .ics here:
https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays
"Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant, Becomes 15th Coal-Free Country in Europe"
#Ireland #FossilFuels #Coal
Mediahuis Ireland, which owns the Belfast Telegraph, Irish Independent, and others, says it has 100K digital subscribers after launching paywalls in 2020 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/mediah…
Dealing with frustration with the Irish economy and society. Counting sheep by Merryl Streak #ireland #music #merrylstreak
‘Swashbuckling and cheeky’: island festival celebrates Ireland’s ‘pirate queen’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/29/grace-o-malley-pirate-queen-ireland-festival-achill-island?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…
Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland has a serious cyanobacteria bloom problem and doesn't look like it will improve anytime soon. The system is hypereutrophic, with more than half of the phosphorus load coming from agriculture, but also a large contribution from aging wastewater treatment plants.
#Ireland #lakes
Ireland in 2057: Projections using a Geographically Diverse Dynamic Microsimulation
Se\'an Caulfield Curley, Karl Mason, Patrick Mannion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01446 htt…
Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/327112/kraken-license-europes-new-rules
Re-publicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/ireland-county-limerick-kilteely-syndicate-villages-last-pub
On another note, it's good to see Rory Carroll many miles away from Latin America where he …
I think I just read that Ireland expects a heatwave up to 26° and now I know I'm ready to leave Berlin.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ChoralEvensong
- St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh
From St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, during the Charles Wood Summer School, with music by Bairstow, Blair, Rutter and Dupré.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hlh0
The Love Ireland? Hate Racism March is building fast! United Against Racism have brought together unions, civil society groups fighting inequality & building community and opposition groups fighting the government day in and day out.
🗓 June 22nd at 1:30pm on Dame Street central Plaza Dublin.
#Ireland #Antiracism
Fijn..... 🙄
"The system was built to sit on Microsoft’s servers behind enhanced layers of security developed by the company’s engineers with Unit 8200’s instructions. The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland."
I go on Facebook
An Irishman in Ireland has posted a picture of his Irish flag flying outside his house (in response to some sports thing, apparently?)
The comments are exclusively full of Irish people spouting vitriol about the United States
...
The Anglosphere mind has been fully reverse-colonised by its biggest boi. They define themselves in opposition to it; without it, they would have no identity at all. Very sad state of affairs.
What the fuck? This fucking government, I swear! Read the fucking room, you toffs!
#Ireland #Palestine #sports
Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1977, Tim Severin landed on Peckford Island, Newfoundland. Severin had set sail from Ireland on May 17th with a five-man crew in a boat built using only techniques and materials available in sixth-century Ireland. The arduous 7,300km journey was meant to prove that St. Brendon had discovered North America almost 1,000 years before Columbus. I'm sure we were polite and didn't smirk when we welcomed him to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Myth
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/07/the-brendan-voyage/
Covariance based estimates of near-boundary diapycnal upwelling in a submarine canyon
Kurt Polzin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05679 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…
Bare-Metal RISC-V NVDLA SoC for Efficient Deep Learning Inference
Vineet Kumar (School of Electrical,Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Electronic,Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland), Ajay Kumar M (School of Electrical,Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Electronic,Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland), Yike Li (School of Electrical,Elec…
#Listeriosis #death heightens spectre of Irish #FoodSafety concerns as "extensive outbreak" of bacterial pathogens found in island food supply.
While
Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (Blathnaid O'Dea/pv magazine International)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p124#a250620p124
An interview with Mediahuis Ireland CEO Peter Vandermeersch on the Belfast Telegraph reaching 100K digital subscribers, plans to reach 200K by 2030, and more (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/pa
Small #Caint update tonight. If a hashtag on a new post (not reply) on Fedi contains a county (or province), the post will automatically appear in that relevant category. eg: `# Dublin` or `# Cork`. If you just use `# Ireland`, it will place it into the main 'Regional' section.
There is a limitation though, it will only catch the first hashtag that matches the rules on Caint. So if your…
🚨 Listeriosis outbreak update - Ireland
Salad leaves and spinach added to list.
Nothing like cooking and enjoying a lovely HelloFresh meal and then reading the latest listeria notice that it now includes the McCormack Family Farms Irish Spinach Leaves you just used in the sauce.
I did cook it well and it was steaming hot so 🤞
"'Let's go fly a kite': Capturing wind for clean energy in Ireland"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Ireland #Energy
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
John Ireland, John Lenehan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & John Wilson:
🎵 Piano Concerto in E Flat
#JohnIreland #JohnLenehan #RoyalLiverpoolPhilharmonicOrchestra #JohnWilson
Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/coinbase-eu-license.html
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampland Programme
Kay Lehnert (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02632
Divisibility by $p$ for Markoff-like Surfaces
Matthew de Courcy-Ireland, Matthew Litman, Yuma Mizuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02187 https://arxiv.org/pdf…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Rún:
🎵 Terror Moon
#Rún
https://run-ireland.bandcamp.com/track/terror-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/2APT3zySwyFlS15xR9L5FM
Romero Games here in Galway has announced the redundancies of a large amount of staff.
If you have been affected and need support, please reach out to me so our union Game Workers Unite Ireland can help support you.
Connect with me at contact@denmanrooke.com or the union advice centre at https://www.fsunion.org/member…
From Fluctuation to Polarization: Imprints of $O(1-10)\, \mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ Curvature Perturbations in CMB B-modes from Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves
Aurora Ireland, Kuver Sinha, Tao Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02044
Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…
Crosslisted article(s) found for gr-qc. https://arxiv.org/list/gr-qc/new
[1/1]:
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampla...
Kay Lehnert (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
I still don’t know how to translate “freddoloso” in English and that is severely impacting my conversations about the weather in Ireland
TIL that the social.bbc (@…) instance is hosted in Ireland according to @…
…
Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampla...
Kay Lehnert (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
The story behind the GÉANT Community Award
At TNC25, Ronan Byrne (CEO, HEAnet) was honoured with the GÉANT Community Award, recognising his lasting impact on the European R&E community.
The award itself tells a uniquely Irish story. Hand-crafted from cables dating back to the 1800s—the ones that once carried the first transatlantic messages between Ireland, the US, and the UK, it’s a tangible symbol of Ireland’s legacy in shaping global communication.
📖 Read the story: …
Global Group, the same threat actor that has purportedly hacked Ireland's RTE, is laying claim to another media giant hack, this time, Spanish-language Albavisión.
https://hackread.com/global-group-ransomware-media-giant-albavision-breach/
Dramatic increase in number of Russian 'shadow ships' in Irish-controlled waters (Conor Gallagher/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/07/21/number-of-russian-shadow-ships-in-irish-controlled-waters-rises-dramatically/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p55#a250721p55
🚨 Ireland prepared meals listeria recall
How centralised is our food production?
Here’s the list of prepared meals from the current listeria recall in Ireland – nearly every supermarket’s “own” brand is listed, along with others, including independent vegan darlings Happy Pear:
https://www…
But I owe a duty to Ireland:
I held her honour in my hand,
This lovely land that always sent
Her writers and artists to banishment
And in a spirit of Irish fun
Betrayed her own leaders, one by one.
James Joyce, Gas From a Burner (1912)
http://www.ricorso.net/rx/library/authors/classic/Joyce_J/Poetry/Gas_Burn.htm
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
27°C (80°F) today, the warmest I've seen it in Ireland. The house remained at 18°C (64°F) downstairs with the doors open and obviously without air conditioning. Something to be said for a metre of stone on each side.
You'll never become a NATIVE English speaker
No matter how hard you try, the years in the UK or Ireland, the effort in your accent, or the AI applications you might use to fake it
There is a language wall, made of accents, cultural references and seemingly illogical phrasal verbs and idioms, that we cannot jump
But IT DOESN'T MATTER.
90% of your interactions are probably with other non-native speakers. As long as you understand each other, you're good.
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
TIL that the social.bbc (@…) instance is hosted in Ireland according to @…
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
John Ireland, Orchestra of the Swan & David Curtis:
🎵 A Downland Suite - III. Minuet, allegretto grazioso [arr. for strings by Ireland]
#JohnIreland #OrchestraoftheSwan
https://open.spotify.com/track/2AJowUVrjeG9b3QqHP2j7C
A pair of red Fiats on a car transporter.
#WeirdCarMastodon
New Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers wants to lower the aesthethic value of our entire public realm, as a matter of policy, because he thinks that will make it look like he is controlling costs.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-price-of-ugliness/
Internal memo: Indian IT services giant TCS forms a new unit for AI-based operations and names Amit Kapur, who led TCS' UK and Ireland business, as its chief (Sai Ishwarbharath B/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias
Crosslisted article(s) found for hep-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampla...
Kay Lehnert (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
From Ireland but generally relevant.
The key of course is far fewer cars altogether.
An extra tax on SUVs would reduce deaths on our roads
https://www.echolive.ie/corkviews/arid-41688066.html
Some years ago (2023) my office, on behalf of Digital Rights Ireland, lodged a mass complaint about the Government’s use of the Public Service Cards.
This wasn’t the first such complaint we’d made, but it was on behalf of the most people- over 1000, if memory serves.
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Hey 2D artists (based in Ireland preferred)! JOB ALERT! 📣 Especially those who do cozy cartoony or pixel art.
I have some game dev friends here in Galway from Psychic Software (Just released Necromancer's Tale) that are looking for an artist to team up for their next game.
Send your portfolio over to psychicsoftware@gmail.com
Trump’s tax policy encourages the very offshoring that his tariffs are intended to stop.
Take the more than $600 billion pharmaceutical industry.
Over the past few months, Trump and his associates have repeatedly criticized companies’ moves to offshore much drug making,
particularly to Ireland.
“We can’t be beholden and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that we need,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on April 13.
But the tax incentives i…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- Live music and chat with classical artists
Petroc Trelawny with live music from countertenor Hugh Cutting and pianist George Ireland. Conductor Sian Edwards talks to Petroc about conducting Falstaff at Glyndebourne.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g22x
"First climate action plan targets increase in electricity from renewable sources in Northern Ireland"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
#peat
Another artist JOB ALERT! 📣 This time for a Game Artist Generalist. (must be based in Ireland).
My friends at Biscuit Factory Games are looking for someone who can do a bit of concept work & 3D test-models to try & validate an art direction too.
Send portfolio to community@biscuitfactorygames.com
#WWE #SmackDown is live from the 3Arena in Dublin, #Ireland next week.
These are currently advertised for the show (more will be added throughout the week)
* John Cena returns
* Aleister Black vs R-…
Today, in Ireland.
#Ireland #youNeedToBoycottIsraelNow #israel #genocide
People in Ireland really think a banged-up 20-year-old Dell server rack is worth €800! When I was in the DC business *we paid asset recovery firms to take excess racks away.*
Fine, you convinced me: I'll buy new. Absolutely ridiculous country.
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
http…
Brütal Legend is available for free for the next 666 minutes (from midnight UTC 1), it will be available until 11:06am UTC 1 (UK/Ireland)
#gaming
Things you don't need to do to run a successful business in Ireland (based on my observations):
-Show up on time
-Deliver the agreed product
-Do better the second time around
-Communicate clearly
-Respond to E-mails
-Be proactive
-Have a website
-Accept electronic payments