Police were warned for months about addresses targeted in Belfast riots
Exclusive: PSNI repeatedly warned by monitoring group for eight months after a so-called hitlist of addresses began circulating in far-right networks
A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots.
The Accountability Project Northern Ireland, a volunteer group formed last summer to monitor anti-immigration activity online, sent dozens of reports to police between November 2025 and June 2026. Continue reading...
Always nice to read and hear about the impact my dad had (and continues to have!) as an English teacher.
Some lovely words from Fiachna Ó Braonáin here.
If you're heading to Beyond the Pale this weekend, I'm doing a bunch of stuff:
- Friday: Grianstad: the Trip (8.30pm)
- Saturday: Sliver Salon (3.30pm)
- Sunday: Seán Ronayne's birdwatching walk (11am) and Untold Sounds talk (1pm)
Weather forecast is looking good, and the lineup is excellent.
Interesting piece by Megan Specia on Ireland's defence, shadow fleets, spy ships, and spending.
Great imagery from Paulo Nunes Dos Santos as usual.
Today, I'll brief the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence on a new working paper which quantifies the potential energy and emissions from data centres into the future under the new Large Energy User Connection Policy, should 5.8 GW of new capacity (estimated through a market survey) emerge.
‘Staggering’ Irish slump pushes Eurozone economy into reverse
The musician and broadcaster sat the exams in the summer of 1984
Why does the Irish government insist on telling a uniquely positive story about the scale and impact of data centre development?
I wrote about how Irish exceptionalism underpins this attitude, while common sense tells us something different.
Rusal, the company that owns the Co Limerick industrial plant Aughinish Alumina, continues to be controlled by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to a confidential report by Swedish tax authorities.
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Caribou, Soulwax, Father John Misty headline Beyond the Pale In Glendalough, just 30 mins from Dublin, Ireland this June.
Immigrants make higher fiscal contribution than Irish-born, ESRI study finds
You simply cannot attribute that many jobs to data centres, no more than you can attribute every job in Ireland people commute to by car to the existence of traffic lights
Oligarch Oleg Deripaska is under EU sanctions over his role in supporting the invasion of Ukraine
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Hannah Daly
The Irish Times
Una Mullally
You're going to get so sick of me soon. I'M sick of me. Here's an essay I did for the Guardian about being the hip young gunslinger of Irish literature:
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Data centre electricity demand could exceed power usage of entire country
Conor Gallagher
There are some advantages to being an older debutant, including knowing what it’s like to fail and not having your new novel overshadowed by early literary promise
