Two Days a Year
Meta settled with 52 attorneys general for up to $18 billion a week into its Oakland trial, with Mark Zuckerberg next on the witness list. …
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The Will
Ireland proved it has political will twice within living memory: a bank guarantee covering liabilities of twice the State's economic output approved by phone in …
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Nobody Fired Anything
Between October 2025 and March 2026 users of a far-right imageboard built and shared an autonomous doxxing agent, and produced dossiers on four private individuals. …
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Run Your Own Git: A Private Forge You Control
GitHub is Microsoft and GitLab answers to its investors. Your private code, your drafts, your plans sit on a platform that reads them, sets the …
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Run Your Own AI: A Local Model You Control
Every mainstream AI assistant is someone else's computer that logs you, meters you and can cut you off. A model you host yourself removes all …
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The Tell
Peter Cleere's rural-housing piece and Gary Gannon's Dublin city-centre piece read like twins and are opposites. One asks you to feel and gives you nothing …
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The Eleven Cookies
The grievance behind the fuel protests and the riots is real. The research says it is not personal poverty but a collective sense of lost …
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Weaponise the Welcome
A US export-control order has reclassified frontier AI as a munition, barring foreign nationals, including a leading lab's own immigrant engineers, from its most capable …
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Ireland Has No Buffer
Ireland's exposure to the 2026 oil shock is not that the tankers stop. The crude never stopped. It is that a country importing four-fifths of …
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The decision Ireland keeps not making
England's universities are closing departments and shedding thousands of staff, and the regulator's own figures say more than a third ran a deficit last year. …
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You Are the Transmission Mechanism
On 11 June 2026 the ECB raised rates for the first time since 2023, choosing the one anti-inflation instrument that works by squeezing mortgaged households, …
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The Plan That Never Says Ireland
The World Inequality Lab's Global Justice Report is the first fully quantified plan to treat inequality compression as a precondition for keeping the planet habitable: …
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