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Driving the wrong way up the M50 yesterday afternoon in broad daylight, and the TikTok algorithm is still pushing it into my feed.

A man in his 60s was arrested under the Public Order Act after an altercation with Michéal Martin.

They're lionising the dead criminals.

Not Sinn Féins first Irish language faux pas.

Blackrock Dart station in serious trouble. They'd want to be building some sea wall to protect it going forward. There's no where else for it to go.

I've clipped the audio here. Bit to unpack. Bryson is not a lawyer. I phoned around, and he didn't meet any reps from the DFA on behalf of Donaldson. He didn't meet any EU ambassadors to Ireland; they don't exist. Also, there wasn’t even an EU ambassador to the U.K. then.

One of the social media ring leaders of the current fuel protest says, "fuck them c*nts" about people struggling to get to the hospital for appointments or get urgent medical care.

One of the great endings to RTE's Reeling in the Years. Bertie saying he would take great pleasure in watching non-compliant taxpayers go to jail - 'cause that's the kinda person I am.' To the background music of "I Got Friends in Low Places". (1993) #aras25

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Simon O'Donnabhain/ Simon O'Donovan, deputy facilities manager at Collins’ Barracks in Dublin, explaining what got him interested in history. He has been charged with possession of an explosive device in connection with the alleged discovery of a bomb in a car in Co Monaghan.

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This is shocking. At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."

The time Jerffery Archer got the HIGNFY treatment.

Michael Healy-Rae TD has been hospitalised after being assaulted in Dublin City Centre. Audio removed because what was being said was not true. He was taken by gardaí to Kevin Street Garda Station, and an ambulance was called, after which he was taken to hospital.

The N3 at Blanchardstown. Pure badness and madness.

Isobella Perrie Sullivan/ Ní Shúileabhán speaking at Saoradh event outside the GPO. With hundreds of Gardai looking on......

Ye won't believe this. After making a holy show of herself in one meeting over Irish. Boylan popped into the next meeting to demand EU treaties in Irish. She couldn’t read her own speech as Gaeilge but apparently will be able for dense legal texts in Irish. WTF?

Michéal Martin absolutely scalds Richard Boyd Barrett in the Dáil. Someone call a burns specialist. "It's great to be virtuous, deputy, but for the workers’ representative, you lack all virtuosity when it comes to protecting Irish workers."

Don't remember an Irish EU commissioner doing something like this before?

Protesters almost coming to blows with people trying to get to work.

Pick your jaws up off the floor for this imbecility. Cathy Bennett, Sinn Féin TD, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Asks how much Ireland has put aside to find a candidate for the upcoming EU presidency. She had to be told it was Irelands turn to host the EU presidency.

For those of you defending Lynn Boylan for not being able to fire off a cúpla ceist as Gaeilige. Ni Mhurchu demonstrates how it is done here, provided you can actually speak the language. And I'm sure it's just an incredible coincidence that she posted it this evening.

Go pick your jaws up off the floor after watching this. Footage of Catherine Connolly telling the Dáil that the attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal should be seen in "context" because of the EU and NATO building missiles right up to "Russia's borders". #aras25

A housing activist challenges Catherine Connolly as being the "barrister for the banks" in Galway. "I don't understand how you can make speeches about homelessness if you're partly responsible for evicting people out of their homes" #aras25

Probably the most devastating take down of Sinn Fein tonight came from Deputy @podonovan The 22 children in the this state that grew up fatherless because of the dead gardai, put in to early graves by yer sister organisation.

Woahhh. Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD calls out Sinn Féin for playing both sides of the argument on the ground when it comes to the far right. She says she witnessed it in Ballybrack this summer. By a long shot the strongest speaker from the Government benches tonight.

Dwyer the ghoul, disaster touristing gets a "Belfast" welcome.

Old dear takes on a protester blocking the road as she's trying to take sick children to hospital.

Wow, Boylan really did go viral all over the world. Lynn Boylan wins Wally OF THE WEEK on an Australian News show.

Gardai arrested far-right agitator Philp Dwyer just now. Philp Dwyer to Garda - "I'm a citizen journalist". Garda - "No you're not, you're a prisoner now".

Have they tried more community outreach? That's the way to go, ya? More community outreach instead of arresting them so they're not a menace to society.