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so employees say hybrid working makes them more productive and employers are broadly neutral or positive, but you wouldn't have guessed that from the headline

“A consistent finding is that employees tend to report higher or at least equivalent levels of personal productivity when working remotely or in hybrid settings due to greater autonomy, reduced commuting time, better work-life balance and improved capacity for concentrated work,” it says.

“Employer perspectives, while mixed, have increasingly shifted towards a broadly neutral or positive assessment, particularly where organisations have gained experience in implementing these arrangements, adapted their practices and processes and invested in organisational capacity building.”

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

one of the scenes on Hibiscus Island features I GO TO RIO by the self-effacing and understated Peter Allen

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

watching for maybe the fortieth time. masterpiece

a TV screen with the opening credits of the movie Muriel's Wedding (1994)

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

someone shared this in the normally very dry neighbourhood whatsapp group and lmao

picture of Cher with the caption:

TURN BACK TIME
ONE HOUR THIS SUNDAY
CHER WITH YOUR FRIENDS

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

the slow pace of delivery of cameras in Ireland is inexcusable and is -literally- costing lives. look at what just one camera is capable of doing

AI cameras catch 297 drivers in three days in Cornwall
16 August 2023

image from the traffic camera. the driver is on their phone and a passenger is holding the wheel. text from the article reads:

Police were "disappointed" by the number of drivers not wearing seatbelts or using mobile phones

In the first 72 hours of use the AI camera system detected:

117 mobile phone offences
180 seat belt offences

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

where do you even begin with Dónal Lunny. he was part of everything good that happened in Irish traditional music, and a whole lot of other stuff, over the past six decades. you'd go see a musician at a regional theatre in Ireland and he'd unexpectedly be part of the band. laoch mór

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

wish I had time to phone but I also emailed my three TDs

Dear Darragh,

I'm writing to you and my other local TDs to express my concern about Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan taking a public stance this week against a recent information campaign run by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

The DRCC is an important advocacy voice and developed its We-Consent campaign based on feedback from younger and older people. The decision of the Minister to impose his own opinions on an organisation and a campaign that speaks for vulnerable people. and aims to highlight issues around consent, is not without irony. It is also a concerning over-reach of the Minister's authority and worryingly, has helped to fuel an online pile-on against an essential and important advocacy group. I can only imagine the pressure that DRCC's team is now under as a result.

The Minister should walk back his remarks and show his support for DRCC, its work, and the vulnerable people that it represents. I hope that you and your party colleagues will offer your full support to the organisation.

Best regards,

Alan Dunne.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

this is how Sean Canney thinks the average pedestrian should be outfitted

the power loader exoskeleton from the movie Aliens

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

meanwhile Ireland's National Safety Camera Strategy is stuck in cross-departmental multidisciplinary purgatory

Decision of the Road Safety Leadership Group
The WG completed the draft of the Strategy in May 2025. Following this, the Department of Transport then carried out a series of bilateral meetings over the subsequent period with the stakeholders who would be tasked with implementing the Strategy. The insights provided throughout this series of meetings then informed the deliberations and decision of the Road Safety Leadership Group (RSLG) in relation to the Strategy.
The RSLG is an inter-departmental, ministerial committee responsible for overseeing implementation of the Road Safety Strategy. It is chaired by the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Seán Canney TD, and includes the Minister for Justice, Assistant Secretaries from the Departments of Transport and Justice, the Assistant Commissioner for Roads Policing, and the CEOs of Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), the National Transport Authority (NTA), the Road Safety Authority (RSA), the Courts Service, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (MBRS), the Health & Safety Authority (HAS) and the City and County Management Association.
The following were agreed by the RSLG in its meeting on 17 February 2026:
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That the National Safety Camera Strategy’s Option 5 (Partnership of TII and NTA with AGS) is the preferred option for delivering camera enforcement going forward.
2.
The establishment of the Camera Enforcement Oversight Group to progress the objective of this Option.
3.
That National Safety Camera Strategy report will be updated to reflect the above decisions and be published.
4.
That the Camera Enforcement Oversight Group take overall responsibility for progressing the Strategy and that individual agencies and offices remain responsible for their core functions, including in the interim period before the Strategy is fully implemented.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

failing to invest in public transport when the demand and need and funding ability are all there will be one of the damning legacies of this cursed generation of car-brained don't-mention-climate politicians

‘Absolutely chaotic’: Passengers frustrated by overcrowding on Irish public transport
Irish commuters face the daily reality of jam-packed journeys, with some describing services as a public health risk

Opinion
Quiet scaling back of BusConnects is a travesty
We will be spending billions building a motorway between Cork and Limerick, bringing yet more traffic into cities that cannot cope
Eamon Ryan
Tue Oct 20 2026 - 06:00 •

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Go to your camera and search ‘boat’ and post one that you like. Mexican Navy tall ship Cuauhtémoc in Dublin in 2019

Mexican Navy tall ship Cuauhtémoc. it's docked on the Liffey in Dublin. no sails up but lots of colourful bunting

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

true facts 📷: www.instagram.com/reel/Deikpyv...

Caption:

Being in a band is 5% making music and 95% trying to find one day where 4 people are free

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

the childhood yearning for the mines, right?

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Tyler Glasnow who was pitching for the Dodgers last night is famously a dead ringer for Cillian Murphy but I learned today that he's 6'8" 👀 so yeah, they'll not be passing as brothers in a hurry

Tyler Glasnow, 6'8"
Cillian Murphy, 5'7"

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

me getting absolutely bodied in the group chat earlier (we were discussing Kala, the engineer on Instagram who's excavating a tunnel complex under her house)

me: clearly she just loves digging and engineeringing

me: like did ye never just dig a hole for the sake of seeing how far ye could dig

everyone else: no

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

our friends in India know how to make a spicy snack I can tell you that much

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

this is how you report on AI companies' PR. context and knowledge from an actual expert

“Despite the well-designed experimental setup, the study does not, on its own, establish that small models would autonomously choose to replicate,” AI researcher Xiaohan Fu said in an interview. “Providing reproducible agent setups, including the exact prompts and instructions given to the models, would help the research community better understand the findings and assess their implications. Such transparency is particularly important to avoid conflating the demonstrated capability to replicate with an emerging threat of autonomous self-replication.”

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

good riddance, hope it was painful

screenshot of story from Irish Mail on Sunday

Pervert Coughlan dies in prison at 90
By Debbie McCann
11 Oct 2026

A FORMER Christian Brother jailed for indecently assaulting children in primary schools in the 1970s and 1980s has died in prison.

Liam Coughlan, 90, was already in prison for sexually abusing school pupils in Kilkenny in the 1970s when he was sentenced in July to five years for sexual assaults on nine boys in a primary school in Portarlington in the 1980s.

Coughlan, who was terminally ill, died on Thursday after three years in prison. The Garda investigation into the Portarlington case began after a victim read a report in the Irish Mail on Sunday that his former teacher had been charged in Kilkenny in January 2022.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

the National Safety Camera Strategy that was published in April is a multidepartmental governance nightmare. for example:

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

having access to newspaper archives is doing nothing for my dissertation research or managing my distractedness I can tell you that much. anyway, dying to know what went on here

picture from the Irish Times, Saturday July 19 1958. It features Éamon de Valera and Cary Grant. The caption reads "The Taoiseach, Mr. de Valera, with Mr. Cary Grant, the American film actor, whom he received at Government Buildings yesterday"

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

whenever this branch of the O'Malley family comes up in conversation I unable to resist telling people that Donogh and Hilda's son Daragh played the violent Irishman in Withnail and I

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

even Microsoft Authenticator is at it now

screenshot of Microsoft Authenticator asking the user to approve a sign in by entering the number 67

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

the -first- serious attempt to make investment more appealing to the Irish public the first -serious- attempt to make investment more appealing to the Irish public

At the launch of the Telecom Eireann share offer price in Stephens Green in Dublin
were (l-r) Charlie McCreevy, Minister for Finance, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Minister for
Public Enterprise, Mary O'Rourke, Chairman of Telecom Eireann, Ray MacSharry and
Chief Executive of Telecom, Alfie Kane. (Pic: RollingNews.ie)

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

always enjoy seeing an inscription on a secondhand book. whoever she was I hope Mother Byrne enjoyed her Christmas present

cover of the book Gur Cake and Coal Blocks by Éamonn Mac Thomáis

handwriting inside the book cover reading:

To Mother Byrne

From John & Sinéad

Christmas 1991

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

disappointingly it looks like the occasion passed by without fanfare but 19 September 2026 was the 75th anniversary of New York's first parking meter

New York Times article from 19th September 1951

First Parking Meters To Be Installed Today

After thirty-two months of talk and preparation, the city will install today its first parking meters on. 125th Street, Only a few of the 270 meters to be set between Morningside and Park Avenues will be in use when a ceremony initiating the new pro-gram takes place just west of Lenox Avenue at 12:30 Р. М.

The remainder of the devices will be installed on 125th Street next week and, by the end of October, all of the 1,500 meters in the initial experiment are slated to be in operation in five selected areas in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

Pledging that it will do every-thing possible to make the test a success, the Metropolitan Garage Board of Trade announced that its members near 125th Street would offer special low rates of 50 cents to day-time parkers., Motorists using the meters will have to pay 10 cents an hour and legally cannot park for more than one hour.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

an editorial in the same publication today sums it up pretty well: sue their asses www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

The theory of strict liability is simple: If you own a tiger, and the animal bites a neighbor, the essential fact is that you own a dangerous wild animal. It doesn’t matter how cleverly the tiger was trained, or how carefully it was guarded. Bryan Choi, a law professor at the University of Colorado, notes that in the early days of aviation, lawmakers imposed this strict liability standard on the dangerous new technology. In the case of A.I., top executives themselves have spoken publicly about the dangers, up to the possibility of human extinction.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

the Irish Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets sets out a key principle for road designers which is: consider the most vulnerable users first road design aside, it's incredible and tragic that in our day-to-day use of language the vulnerability of users isn't recognised

extract from the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets. graphic shows a hierarchy of road users, which is:

1. pedestrians
2. cyclists
3. public transport
4. private motor vehicles

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

be funny to see what happens if someone tells him about the time President Niyazov of Turkmenistan changed the names of the months and days of the week

Turkmenistan: National Council Renames Days, Months
August 08, 2002 02:00 CET

Turkmenabad, 8 August 2002 (RFE/RL) -- The Turkmen National Council voted on the first day of a two-day session to change the names of the days of week and months of the year. By a unanimous vote, some 3,000 delegates approved changing the name of January to "Turkmenbashi," the title bestowed on President Saparmurat Niyazov by parliament. December is now "Neitralitet" (Neutrality) reflecting Turkmenistan's UN-recognized status as a neutral country, given to the country in December 1995.

The names of the week were changed to such new names as "first" or "main" day, Monday, and "Rukh" (spirit), for Saturday.

The council also dismissed any future talk of presidential elections with Safarmarmed Voliev, the head of the state gas and oil company, saying there was no need for any leader but the "beloved eternal President Saparmurat Niyazov."

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

only four weeks until we learn who is the winner of the 2026 FIFA Peace Prize, which means that their selection committee is probably deep into deliberations and voting as we speak. exciting!

screenshot from FIFA's website dated Wednesday 5th November 2025. text reads:

FIFA introduces the FIFA Peace Prize - an award to recognise exceptional actions for peace and unity

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

making practical use of Irish Rail wifi and an 8 hour time difference at 6am on a Thursday

a laptop on a train carriage table. the carriage is mostly empty. the laptop is showing action from the 8th inning of Padres–Brewers

laptop showing caption ‘Milwaukee Brewers 5th League Championship Series Appearance’

laptop screen showing final score MIL 3 SD 1

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

The Onion has made some direct hits on it

Headline from The Onion: New ‘Ted Lasso’ Season Aims To Teach Viewers About Shapes, Colors

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

people in Ireland who are indifferent to MLB will surely however appreciate the Big Irish Head on Brewers manager Pat Murphy (whose ancestors are from Louth)

Brewers manager Pat Murphy pictured during his time as head coach of Notre Dame baseball

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

I mean who couldn't enjoy amazing propaganda posters like this of Nazis getting punched

Republican propaganda poster from the Spanish Civil War by José Bardasano Baos showing a Nazi being punched

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

spent the weekend in Madrid and an afternoon in the Museo Reina Sofia which has one of the most stunning collections of modern art I've ever witnessed, and reminders everywhere of the horror of war

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Tim Fanning's book about the Irish in Latin America is a great read

front cover of the book ‘Paisanos: The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face of Latin America’

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

loling at Haughey's apparent hatred for McDowell

Haughey developed a particular animosity towards McDowell, who rivalled O'Malley as his pet hate figure in the PDs. 'I have seen fairly nasty pieces of work come into this House in my long career here and you are aiming well towards becoming one of the best, he told McDowell during one Dáil exchange. 'Wagging a threatening finger at me, Deputy McDowell, cuts no ice. I was about to say that I do not particularly blame you for your irresponsibilities but I do blame your colleague, Deputy Des O'Malley, because he has Government experience."

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

catching up on some CPD and the e-learning module is presenting me with this handsome guy every few steps

real image of a reddish-brown dog wearing black spectacles, with an open book in front of him. 📷: Jamie Street

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

sad to hear that John Farnham is in poor health. here's a reminder of that IN CREDIBLE voice: ‘Reminiscing’ with Little River Band in 1983. IN. CREDIBLE.

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

in many respects the 2026 Brewers are reminding me of Leicester in 2016. huge postseason ahead

TV screen showing the end of the Milwaukee Brewers game. a big screen inside the American Family Field stadium reads ‘103 Wins’

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