All a bit blurry. My late FIL used to go to all services of.every denomination.
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All a bit blurry. My late FIL used to go to all services of.every denomination.
Graham Linehan is a one-man argument against the Common Travel Area.
I implied it was the extension rather than the original build because of the location of the photo. Should have been more explicit. Apologies.
Yep. He fought the extension north from Stephen's Green because of TCD. In the end it was just easier to wait for the opposition to fade away. (Small numbers of people can stop stuff - see the level crossing issue which has stopped the upgrade of the green line to Metro status).
Today’s the final day at London Centric for @rachel-rees.bsky.social. For some reason she’s decided to leave one of the nation’s leading news outlets to go work for a niche business publication called the “Financial Times”. She’s broken loads of stories and is a star who’s worth following.
He’s quite good at this isn’t he
Yep If you look at the old Class 423 (4 VEP) it has a lot of doors compared to the trains which replaced it (e.g Electrostar/Class 377).
Dwell time is a big headache with train service planning particularly when you have a high frequency service with many stops Looking at YOU, Victoria Line
I note that the Daily Telegraph has published one of the hardy perennials of UK transport reporting: "Journeys on x railway line are slower than x decades ago". A thread on why these stories are misleading on the state of the UK's railways.
A reminder that Simon Case was appointed by Johnson as Cabinet secretary
Right, the debate has been opened to the floor, and we're going off-piste. Rupert, a Reform member from Reading, says a video exists of Klaus Schwab, the former WEF chief, saying he "is controlling and training up all the world leaders". Um, really?
To be fair: in line with Trump Who delights being offensive.
Of course, forcing NI in any capacity has worked out tremendously well for Westminster over the last century.
I agree with Chris.
Mrs On-Sea is a very understanding woman.
"It's become clear to all of us that it is a cabinet of wholly unqualified people to run our country" says Reform leader Nigel Farage, whose own leading ministers in waiting include the likes of Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries and Darren Grimes.
"We are the patriotic party" says Nigel Farage, who just spent the past few days slagging off his own country to a foreign superpower, while encouraging them to impose sanctions on our economy if we don't do what they say
No British govt has had "full control" since 1690. Frost needs to be dropped into a West Belfast pub so he can understand this.
My powerline just about manages (notionally 2 gig actually 40 meg) through two breaker boxes. One day I will dig up the garden and run fibre to the outhouse. One day.
When you can't do basic maths.
I think also that after going after the likes of Nadhawi shes open to allegations of hypocrisy.
Owen Jones wants to be their BFF in 3..2..
Here you go...
Scanned and published on Facebook from which I have borrowed/stolen. Or stollen if you look at this in December in Germany.
It's a nice sunny day, so I thought I would share these. Drawing by mother's father, Sean McManus done in the Dublin in the 1930s. Published in the Capuchin Annual (yes, I don't understand that either). My grandfather added the extra 'A' in his surname for reasons I'm not entirely clear on...
Doesn't mean Reform isn't out to get you...
Copayments not compartments.
The problem with compartments is potentially unlimited liability. When I worked in the Gulf briefly I went for medical insurance with a high excess (£1k per year) but no copays. Proved wise when I collapsed with gallstones. Capped my liability.
Buy gold because they will crash the economy?
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
As someone who became a lot fatter when I stopped walking to the bus stop and started working from home, I am not sure what the downside of walking to a bus stop is...
That's going to make life interesting when prescription charges have been abolished in Scotland, Wales and NI...
@garethdennis.uk
But in true Irish fashion this could only be built once a former Taoiseach* was no longer around. (* Garret the Good).
2016: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Sun tells ITV News that multiple sources say the Queen backs Brexit 2025: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Times publishes an article saying the Queen was a Remainer
I was not kidding
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Also a few Irish people with Huguenot ancestry. (You get a WTF moment when you get a very non-Irish surname appearing when doing the research...)
Still. We should pay attention. The man knows how markets will react, as this piece on the Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget-maxi-catastrophe proves. ~AA
What's this "we"? I am a dual UK/Irish national. I retain my freedom of movement. You however don't. Enjoy your blue passport.
A reminder Heath was a Brexit cheerleader. Why can't he be happy?
"Block chain?"
You have FoM in one country out of 27. Before you had FoM in 27 out of 27. Still, I am sure if your pay was cut so you only got 1/27th that would be fine with you.
Her analysis on things not accounting for women is fine. The problem is that she knee-jerks.
She got very cross about Turing saying the note should have had a (black) woman on it. 30 seconds on Wiki reading about Turing's achievements and then how he was treated could have saved her a lot of stupidity. Fundamentally not a serious person.
Some of us remember her tweets when the Turing £50 came out.
That's covered by the Common Travel Area. It won't work for you as a UK national in any other EU country.
Apart from the Daily Mail. Wait for screams from pensioners who are funding their retirement...
This means opposition councillors can slag him off to the local press and he has denied himself right of reply
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Good morning. Say hello to the companies scrambling for lucrative work flying immigrants around and out of the US (but too chicken to keep their branding on the planes) ig.ft.com/us-deportati...
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Initially Assembly measures had to be confirmed by Westminster. They don't any more.
It was a start. This stuff is incremental
Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
Labour tried. Remember the referendum on the Assembly for the NE? The one that Cummings cut his teeth on in terms of stopping it?
Given that ministers’ housing portfolios are back in the news, here is Sir Alec Douglas Home in the 1963 Kinross and West Perthshire by-election: ‘When asked if he intended to buy a house in the constituency, No, replied Sir Alec, “I have too many houses to live in already.”
The most popular sport for Carribbean people would have been cricket. So you would have a very different view for a crowd at an England v West Indies match.
This would be the same Daily Telegraph which had people putting their pensions into drawdown in terror. Which they then tried to unwind?
That animal thinks irony is something you set to three dots when doing cotton shirts
Apologies top right.
Bottom right photo has young black men. Standing at the front.
...its expats, not economic migrants...
Irregular verb. I am an expat You are an immigrant. She is an illegal.
Another Kilkenomics regular.
Katie, I am so confused. The Daily Mail taught me that rapidly rising house prices are a good thing. I mean they always make reference to the notional value of someone's house in every article. Now they say people are leaving because of them....
Camps. A concentration?
Join. A. Union.
I'm a solicitor. Too many people make the mistake of not recording anything during redundancy procedures. Many redundancies do not follow the correct legal procedures, but unless you're recording everything you have no way to prove it in a tribunal. HR are not your friends.
Tesla is toast.
Turns out the poshness of a university doesnt correlate with commercials.
Perceptions have real effects www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...
Fun software developer thing: we use personal access tokens which remove the need for passwords when pushing or pulling code. The maximum period before one expires is 365 days. Every time mine expires I spend 5 minutes why I can't push/pull and another 10 mins trying to get a new one.
You have to show your passport when you start a job. The employer has to keep a copy. This has been the case since about 2011. Target employers not workers.
Much to my pleasure (as a non-Irish speaker) there was a translate link on your tweet.. It actually worked!
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." Les Etats-unis, c'est moi.
It might do, but every PM from 1969 to 1997 had a target on their back from the Provos Close but no assassination. PIRA was much more clued up than the Loyalists.
No that would give the Government of Ireland a headache
Related to Godfrey Bloom?
Factual and succinct.
Farage would love Irish unification. Offload a headache.
Sounds a bit French...
He is like syphilis only less fun to catch.
Tyne and Wear Metro but yes otherwise.
Thank goodness Searchlight is still going
Playing cat and mouse.
It is utterly surreal that while the Defence Forces are used to advance Irish soft power as a priority they are ill paid and ill equipped. Its even worse than Ken Whittaker's speech.
Sadly most of them are no longer with us but this would be a time when the children of the Kindetransport standing up would be good.
Or The Professionals. Some of the episodes (not all of them) are actually good. (Found them on YouTube. Saw them aged about 8. Aged 54 I see the humour).
Please get this man back to Kilkenny again in November @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
I miss Janey.
It really isn't.
Yeah, any credibility Corbyn may have had went bang at that point. Defence of the Realm is the first duty of the monarch and PM. (And for any holier than thow Irish person... would you want the Brits back in Dublin Castle? No? Then STFU).
Road Traffic Act 1991 Pretty sure there is an offence in there.
