Reposted by Stephen BourkeSaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I actually love billions going to subsidise fossil fuel companies instead of long term solutions. It's class that we can afford to prolong the issue of fossil fuel dependency indefinitely. I love it 415052
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The work to rule by primary teachers is going to set back corporate Ireland's return-to-office drive at least a year. They're not going to let the kids in til 08.50am. 130
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It seems Barry Heneghan was at the pictures. Anyway, I believe that if it must be renamed, it ought to be De Valera Avenue, because that would annoy all the right people and correct the wrong of not having something named for him. www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...irishtimes.comRename part of Phoenix Park’s main avenue after Charles De Gaulle, TD urgesBarry Heneghan calls for move to commemorate cultural and diplomatic links between Ireland and France 020
Reposted by Stephen BourkeSimon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Aka freezing public transport fares for nearly 5 years. 1145
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is yet another example of Dublin City Council refusing to accept that its difficulties are not unique and have in fact already been solved repeatedly all over the world and that no further recourse to outside consultants is required. 020
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026(pictured: domestic waste disposal arrangements at the Sheridan Court council flats on Dorset Street, one of the very streets where Dublin City Council wants to extend the bin bag ban) 100
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dublin City Council says it can't possibly set up communal dumpsters to let city centre residents avoid keeping wheelie bins in their kitchens. Meanwhile Dublin City Council only uses communal dumpsters at the flat complexes it manages directly. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl... 131
Reposted by Stephen BourkeThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 28/09/2026School book salesman wins €60k over no-warning redundancy from job of 10 yearsirishtimes.comSchool book salesman wins €60k over no-warning redundancy from job of 10 yearsTermination notified by email to man in his sick bed as company battled losses under free school books scheme 001
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The pop chart really just doesn't have the cut-through it used to have. 'Espresso' came up on a pub quiz music round fundraiser for an amateur choir I was at in summer 2025 and two of the gals on my team (mid-30s) hadn't heard of Sabrina Carpenter. 071
Reposted by Stephen BourkeJamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026More than half of the original €100 million subsidy given to placate these clowns wasn't even claimed 45617
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The media narrative that landlords are "fleeing the market" has always seemed to me to be poor analysis. I think landlords have been calling the top of the market. Soft labour market for big-salary tech jobs, global shocks, and demographic factors all biting at once now. 010
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It was quite telling that this morning both London and Dublin media presented the procession of the Orange march as an inevitability this morning. People power is a big, big blind spot for the news. 011
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the standard of in-house talent in comms at the moment is absolutely shocking. 010
Reposted by Stephen Bourketimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As a note: having been prosecuting agricultural cases in West Cork recently, this is no more than a sober recounting of what’s happening. Claims that this is only a Dublin issue just are not true. God knows how we get things back on track now after this ends. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...irishexaminer.comThe cases are still coming — but West Cork solicitors say they cannot finish themSolicitors say criminal cases are piling up as a dispute over a new flat-fee legal aid system continues 084
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There is a Biggles book set about that time in which he goes off in a huff in his plane and starts shooting whatever he can find, including a "stationary train". I misread this as "stationery train" at first glance and didn't question it since the administrative needs were no doubt vast. 000
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We do have to address the local authority institutional culture that fails to punish local officials who permit it to be announced on their behalf that X is so and then come out and say say words to the effect of "well actually the truth is in fact Y and was never X" www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...rte.ieDublin Winter Lights in December 'not a U-turn' - DCCHead of Events at Dublin City Council Tony Smithers has said that the capital's Winter Lights programme was always intended to run in December as before, and had been extended to February, after Lord ... 032
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There's a business with the very same model running sites in Manchester, Birmingham and all over London. It costs more to employ staff in the UK, so no excuse there. Ireland doesn't have the same geographic concentrations of big money used to big ticket domestic service costs. 001
Reposted by Stephen BourkeSarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819... 39618137
Reposted by Stephen BourkeLyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience 1116861
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The fact that so many other people are mad about it being news is a point in favour of its newsworthiness. 111
Reposted by Stephen BourkeThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23/09/2026Sacking of Paddy Power worker with sick child for ‘theft of company time’ upheld at WRCirishtimes.comSacking of Paddy Power worker with sick child for ‘theft of company time’ upheld at WRCCompany says worker had been paid for 11 hours’ more work than her time sheets recorded 122
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026No blank cheques. Rationing of subsidised supply. France has managed to target supports for low income workers with driving duties (by using an online portal to take a statutory declaration). 010
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026will nobody point out the moral hazard of an unlimited subsidy on fuel 1136
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If it's so strategically important, it can't be left to the whims of the Irish private sector construction trade. It would be more appropriate for CIF members to focus on projects of more limited scope, like housebuilding, and leave big industrial projects to specialist international outfits. 010
Reposted by Stephen BourkePhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For those who have forgotten: Former Palestine captain Imad Zatara - whose teammates and extended family members have been killed - has asked Irish players, coaches, fans and broadcasters to boycott the games against Israel. 06039
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026youtu.be/s-vCJQ5lLPk?...youtu.beDeputy Michael D Higgins speaking on reducing the minimum wage during the Labour PMMYouTube video by Labour 000
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This was perhaps Fianna Fáil's most shameful act of the austerity period, in my view. 100
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026(and putting it that way serves to gloss over the seven months in 2011 when the minimum wage was cut for the first and only time in Irish history) 100
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Can't help but feel personally aggrieved by the €100 culture voucher for 16 year olds. When I was that age they supported young adults by freezing the minimum wage for nine years. 120
Reposted by Stephen BourkeDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nigella joins Bake Off and immediately there's a gay throuple on it. Cause or effect? 112416
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Every moment spent talking about the Israeli FA is a moment spent not talking about the Israeli military's actions in Palestine. An 11-year-old boy died in hospital on Monday from wounds he suffered when Israeli tanks opened fire on refugee tents near Khan Younis, according to officials. 020
Reposted by Stephen BourkeEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Correction: windthrow is only the biggest threat to deadzone tree plantations. Windthrow is massively ecologically enhancing to actual Irish forest ecosystems. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...rte.ieHow windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish forestsWindthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them 611221
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Object lesson in news selection and framing here. Same research findings, completely contradictory news framings. 041
Reposted by Stephen BourkeThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 22/09/2026Case of Aer Lingus pilot sacked over campaign on alleged ‘toxic fumes’ is longest WRC hearingirishtimes.comCase of Aer Lingus pilot sacked over campaign on alleged ‘toxic fumes’ is longest WRC hearingEmployee pursuing complaints under whistleblower penalisation, unfair dismissal and non-payment of wages 001
Reposted by Stephen BourkeThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 21/09/2026Start-up which sacked worker who complained about failure to deduct tax from salary ordered to pay €10,000irishtimes.comStart-up which sacked worker who complained about failure to deduct tax from salary ordered to pay €10,000WRC told she had repeatedly brought issue to her employer’s notice 001
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There is no way of avoiding that fate, the man says. Varadkar was only just saying the CSO didn't warn them how fast population would grow. Thankfully, the political press will never require Fine Gael to account for this. 000
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The case of an Aer Lingus pilot sacked for a social media campaign on alleged “toxic fumes” on airliners has now become the longest-running employment rights case since public hearings began at the WRC. courtsnewsireland.ie/case-of-aer-...courtsnewsireland.ieCase of Aer Lingus pilot sacked over campaign on alleged 'toxic fumes' now longest-running WRC hearing - Courts News Ireland(File Picture: Mr Tom O’Riordan. Photo: Collins) The case of an Aer Lingus pilot sacked for a social media campaign on alleged “toxic fumes” on airliners has now become the longest-running employment ... 000
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It turned out the proffered appointment was 10.50pm. Can you imagine the hassle of having to go out across the M50 a second time 12 hours later, after taking the morning off work to attend? Hassle hassle hassle, unless you're constantly on guard for this level of incompetence. 000
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026and the figure drops to 11% when that's factored in. 040
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Even if a figure of 20% going uneaten is correct (anecdotal accounts suggest older kids and teachers eat a lot of spare lunches), that still means the school dinner programme staggeringly outperforms households, which are regularly said to waste 33% of food bought. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...rte.ieSchool meal review includes portion size and cold optionsThe Cabinet is to discuss proposals to overhaul the free hot school meals programme after two Government-commissioned reviews revealed shortcomings in the service. 23614
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Street parking permits should be available on the same basis to everyone living in any given neighbourhood. If there are push factors to be imposed they should be imposed on house and apartment residents equally instead of drawing classist distinctions like this. 000
Reposted by Stephen BourkeSaoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hahahaha a pro greyhound racing guy on liveline saying that the protestors at a greyhound race was paid to be there. Some people literally can't imagine doing anything because they care about it 65812
Reposted by Stephen BourkeNicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...nicolakelly.substack.comThe RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroesI have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like. 341522492
Reposted by Stephen BourkeRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17/09/2026RTÉ has confirmed that Ireland will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest and that it will not broadcast the competition.rte.ieRTÉ will not take part in or broadcast Eurovision 2027RTÉ has confirmed that Ireland will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest and that it will not broadcast the competition. 1731992
Reposted by Stephen BourkeDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I literally said "whoa" when I saw the headline 001
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026there is an anti-Dublin aspect to all this which is thrown into sharp relief by the allocation of central government road maintenance funding www.independent.ie/county/dubli...independent.ieRevealed: Dublin gets less than €150,000 a year from Government for road maintenance while other counties get up to €78mDepartment of Transport says the capital is ‘self-funded’ due to Local Property Tax 000
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026meanwhile, an entirely voluntary 13% increase in exchequer funding for roads last year drove allocated spending for 2026 over €1.5bn. 110
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a commercial radio station doing this is a whoah moment 2133
