Tusla inspectors found problems with the use of physical restraint in seven children’s homes. In two cases, inspectors found that staff were using restraint to try to manage children’s behaviour, and one of those children was restrained 78 times.
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
One of the extraordinary features of the Irish Coroners' Courts system is that Gardaí are actively involved in recruiting jurors – sometimes off the street
The Gov made a specific exception for the second Stardust Inquest: www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bil...
But that was a once-off
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
She was almost 90 before she received any recognition for her work. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...
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Second comes right after first Del
I am normal and can be trusted with An Garda Síochána's PULSE system
I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.
They have my FULL RESPECT
The handful of typically-2:2 students who still write from scratch are the bravest people in academia, the massive cultural pressure on them to use this crap, in the full knowledge that they're not maybe the most confident writers. goddamn 🫡
Yearning for the messy, syntax free 58% essay
Man chatgpt is so depressing. Grading essays, and even the ones without overt usage are all monotone, non descript, and robotic.
That's numberwang!
Extinction Rebellion's Roger Hallam on climate catastrophe and our pre-revolutionary moment
Kicking off today's Climate MESS seminar; panel on Data Centres, Dependency, Ecology and Inequality with Donal Lally, Deirdre Duffy and Dylan Murphy, moderated by Ciara Graham
As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/
A research group I'm part of is hosting its first conference this Friday. Free to join, set to be thought-provoking and engaging!
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1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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Ugh gave up after three goes so clinging on in the comments
Freelance Forum Autumn 2025 — for Photographers/Writers/PR NUJ Dublin Freelance — Supported by Coimisiún na Meán
#FreelanceForum -20 OCTOBER
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* Laura Davison NUJ
* Yvonne Hogan (Independent), Amy Forde (Farmers Journal), Deirdre Reynolds (Sunday World+)
* Sound+Vision; Democracy & Courts Reporting schemes
* Simon Cumbers fund, Lyra McKee bursary
Copyright Briefing - Samantha Holman, ICLA
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Thanks Eoin!
Ah that's so lovely thanks Peter! And same ✊️✊️
