Pinboard (jm) https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm Auditing AI Chatbots During the Galway West and Dublin Central Byelections 2026-05-26T11:27:42+00:00 https://www.ucd.ie/connected_politics/blog/auditingaichatbotsduringthegalwaywestanddublincentralbyelections/ jm We asked each chatbot a set of 194 questions covering a range of relevant topics on two separate occasions, 14 and 7 days before voters go to the polls on 22 May. Our aim was to assess: - Do they provide citizens with accurate election information? - Which sources do they rely on, and how does this vary across chatbots? - Who do they platform when they answer questions, and who is left out? .... The largest share of citations is directed towards mainstream news sites, and this is where the first evidence of source curation by chatbots can be found. While the Irish Times is a common source across all providers, ChatGPT and Gemini never refer to RTÉ. Meanwhile, despite not ranking among the top three news sources for the other chatbots, Gript is the number one news source cited by Gemini. We find that xAI’s Grok is the most likely to use social media in responses, while Gemini most frequently refers to YouTube and content from Reddit. ChatGPT appeared less likely to rely on social media compared to the other chatbots. IMO, this points to an undesirable side effect of paywalls in the news media. While it's vitally important for media companies to protect their means of income, an unwelcome side effect is that the introduction of paywalls has resulted in AI chatbots sidelining mainstream news media sources which they cannot access reliably, in favour of what is effectively disinformation from less trustworthy sites like Gript.]]> grok ai llms xai web news media ireland irish-times rte chatgpt gemini reddit youtube elections politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:743f7d4c93e1/ The "Rapture" was an Irish invention 2026-05-20T11:23:38+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1thwvm8/just_found_out_the_rapture_was_invented_by_a_lad/ jmJohn Nelson Darby, the fella who came up with the concept of "the Rapture", was a Church of Ireland curate in Co. Wicklow. Always assumed it was a yank. If you've ever seen American televangelists ranting about Jesus secretly swooping down to save the righteous before destroying the earth, this is where it comes from. It’s not actually normal Christianity apparently, it’s not really in the bible anywhere but this headtheball popularised it in the 19th century. The Yank fundamentalists absolutely lap this up. The history of it is even more interesting: He was born in England and then studied in Trinity and was a Church of Ireland pastor here. He famously converted a load of Catholics in the village but ended up resigning because the church only accepted the conversions as legitimate if they swore an oath to the British King. Despite being English himself, he seems to genuinely have believed in religion as separate to the politics of the time, which I kind of admire tbh. So he quits, and shortly after, he's out riding in Wicklow when the horse sends him flying. He suffers a serious bang to the head. While he's recovering from the concussion, he starts coming up with this mental end-of-the-world theology that eventually took over the US. TL;DR: We could have been spared an unbelievable amount of absolute bollocks if some 19th century prod hadn’t been flung off a horse in rural Co. Wicklow. ]]> history ireland rapture fundamentalism apocalypse theology end-of-the-world 19th-century wicklow concussion horse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2b1dc2220d25/ Far-right narrative not the majority view in Ireland 2026-04-30T09:08:50+00:00 https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0430/1570978-hate-survey/ jm A report by the Hope and Courage Collective, which works to build resilience in communities against rising far-right hate and disinformation, has found a widening gap between public attitudes and political discourse [in the media]: a relatively small number of far-right actors disproportionately influence public political debate through online amplification, visible protests, and repeated narratives. Public attitudes are becoming steadily more inclusive, but political rhetoric risks legitimising scapegoating and that the far-right ... "is shaping the conversation". But on the other hand, these survey results are downright heartwarming:
Year-on-year datasets tracking changes in public sentiment in Ireland between 2024 and 2025 show that 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, which is up 2% up from 64% in 2024. 79% believe working-class people are struggling due to systemic inequality which is also up 2% from 77% in 2024. Those who believe wealthy people are successful because they were given more opportunities than others has risen from 63% in 2024 to 69% in 2025. The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024. 80% agree that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities face greater barriers to success than white people, up 5% up from 75% in 2024.
]]> ireland discourse far-right right-wing politics surveys culture culture-wars propaganda disinformation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:999981c39571/ The Blockade Is the Message. How a Fuel Price Spike Became a Fascist Audition 2026-04-12T22:20:02+00:00 https://forlouth.medium.com/the-blockade-is-the-message-20eb93493849 jmThere is a particular tell, when a “spontaneous people’s protest” isn’t quite what it claims to be. It isn’t the placards. It isn’t the high-vis vests. It isn’t even the tractors. Ireland has plenty of legitimate reasons to bring a tractor to town, and a country built on agricultural grievance has every right to express it loudly. The tell is something subtler. It’s the moment someone in the crowd, their face contorted with what is supposed to be anger about diesel, screams “What’s a woman?” at a passing TD. ]]> fuel prices cost-of-living demonstrations ireland politics far-right farming blockades https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d83784937d7a/ Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 2025-11-05T12:51:01+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons#History jmWithin the framework of the United Nations, the principle of nuclear non-proliferation was addressed in negotiations as early as 1957. The NPT process was launched by Frank Aiken, Irish Minister for External Affairs, in 1958. (via Gerard Cunningham)]]> via:faduda history ireland un nuclear nukes non-proliferation frank-aiken https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:70bda1e4dab1/ Google just erased 7 years of our political history 2025-09-29T10:05:24+00:00 https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/ jm google advertising ads politics ireland eu europe youtube elections history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7fb87f1a868b/ Revealed: The stark difference in smartphone usage among eight-year-olds in less-advantaged and wealthier backgrounds 2025-06-16T08:20:43+00:00 https://archive.ph/2025.06.16-055422/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/revealed-the-stark-difference-in-smartphone-usage-among-eight-year-olds-in-less-advantaged-and-wealthier-backgrounds/a319792577.html#selection-4431.0-4455.166 jmAccording to the research, 53pc of eight-year-olds attending Deis schools [in less-advantaged areas] own a smartphone, compared with just 22pc of children the same age in non-­Deis schools. The figures also show that 93pc of eight-year-olds from less advantaged areas have created a social media account, compared with 69pc in middle-­class neighbourhoods. ]]> schools education class ireland phones children parenting social-media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e75ddec353f2/ EU’s new rules will shake up Android update policies 2025-06-05T10:03:37+00:00 https://www.androidpolice.com/eu-new-rules-will-shake-up-android-update-policies/ jmStarting from June 20, 2025, smartphones and tablets sold in the European Union must adhere to the following design requirements (via European Commission): - Resistance to accidental drops or scratches and protection from dust and water - Sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity - Rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after the end of sales of the product model on the EU market - Availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model) - Non-discriminatory access for professional repairers to any software or firmware needed for the replacement I'm really looking forward to the improvements in right-to-repair; some of the recent phone models have been an absolute shitshow, using glue etc.]]> repair phones right-to-repair eu ireland smartphones mobile-phones devices hardware software-updates support https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b458cbf38b47/ Corporate memory loss 2025-04-03T08:59:01+00:00 https://www.bradyheywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/52fa7d_fad1676492ec4e6f82619f16c05d8420.pdf jmThis failure is a reminder of the mundane but typically critical role played by human factors in structural collapse. By 2009, it appears that the knowledge and information relating to the scour susceptibility of the Malahide Viaduct resided in the heads of a number of individuals who had left the [Iarnrod Eireann engineering] division, rather than in a formal system that was accessible to the engineers responsible for the structure. In an era where the concept of a ‘job for life’ is becoming more uncommon, and with engineers moving ever more frequently from job to job and role to role, often taking corporate knowledge with them, this failure highlights the very real risks faced by asset management organisations, due to the threat of corporate memory loss. (via Brian Scanlan)]]> memory-loss memory institutional-memory corporate companies organisations history malahide iarnrod-eireann ireland rail engineering post-mortems via:bscanlan reports https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7a96735d951c/ The history behind "Assassin's Creed: Valhalla" 2025-03-05T11:09:37+00:00 https://pca.st/cdx8ls7x jm history podcasts ireland britain vikings assassins-creed videogames games https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5fff2a3a6e7e/ Building Materials Price Tracker 2025-02-07T14:39:32+00:00 https://mybuildingsupplies.ie/building-materials-price-tracker/ jm building-materials construction costs ireland prices building https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c057738bcf0b/ Irish spider zombies! 2025-01-31T17:08:00+00:00 https://phys.org/news/2025-01-newly-fungal-species-zombies-cave.html jm cordyceps fungi ireland spiders zombies fungus nature gross https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:98a6958984d8/ GTFS-Realtime API 2025-01-14T17:32:36+00:00 https://developer.nationaltransport.ie/api-details#api=gtfsr&operation=gtfsr-v2 jm public-transport buses trains transit nta gtfs apis open-data dublin ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d1fb613012e8/ Kaffekapslen 2024-12-10T16:09:49+00:00 https://www.kaffekapslen.ie/coffee-beans.html jm shopping coffee ireland denmark coffee-beans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9cb4e3198dac/ EUMETNET OPERA 2024-08-23T11:08:11+00:00 https://portail-api.meteofrance.fr/web/en/api/RadarOpera jm eumetnet meteorology weather rainfall rain forecasting eu europe ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:61efef3273e3/ Deep dive into "Irish" troll accounts on X 2024-05-27T10:05:34+00:00 https://www.thejournal.ie/x-irish-anonymous-accounts-influence-operation-6385526-May2024/ jm twitter x ireland politics trolls disinformation russia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c2b17df8359e/ Far-right conspiracy theorists are having a hugely destructive effect on the Irish political system  2024-05-17T11:22:09+00:00 https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41396350.html jm But what is new in the research is that about a quarter of voters combine anti-establishment opinions with beliefs in strange conspiracy theories that have been especially amplified on social media. Some 34% of voters believe a small, secret group of people is responsible for making all major decisions in world politics; 28% believe groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate, or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public; and 24% believe experiments involving new drugs or technologies are routinely carried out on the public without their knowledge or consent. There is absolutely no substantive and verifiable evidence for any of these conspiracies and that so many people believe them is deeply troubling. It raises serious questions about where Irish people are getting their information and how reliable it is. ]]> social-media politics ireland news disinformation conspiracy-theories far-right https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e56573cc8fc4/ Ordnance Survey Maps Six-Inch Ireland, 1829-1969 2024-05-13T13:41:54+00:00 https://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-ireland/ jm ordnance-survey ireland history 19th-century maps mapping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a29948666f10/ We’re headed for big problems if gardaí get facial recognition technology 2024-03-20T12:29:53+00:00 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/03/20/were-headed-for-big-problems-if-gardai-get-facial-recognition-technology/ jmFRT mislabels and miscategorises faces with dark complexions. In the US alone, six people have so far been wrongfully arrested and detained due to errors, all of whom are black. It is unknown how many misidentified people may have taken plea deals. Robust scientific research confirms higher error rates of FRT identifying darker-skinned people. Yet, Mr O’Sullivan claimed FRT has a 99 per cent accuracy rate, citing a US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report, at the pre-legislative hearing. For this 99 per cent claim, Mr O’Sullivan cherry-picked the best-performing algorithm out of hundreds of algorithms that NIST evaluated, an algorithm called “cloudwalk_mt_007″. This algorithm is developed by CloudWalk Technology, a Chinese company known for aiding mass surveillance of the Uyghur population. Crucial information on how their algorithms operate is kept secret. NIST evaluated the algorithm using high-quality, clean images collected from US visa applications, border kiosks and mugshots. But An Garda Síochána’s stated intention is to use any imagery it legally holds or can access. The gardaí's input images will be drawn from CCTV (unreliable due to camera angle, distance, position and lighting), often containing multiple faces in a single image (a major challenge for FRT algorithms), and blurry images. To cite NIST’s laboratory study for the proposed Irish real-world use is, by accident or design, misleading. Still, even with clean test data, the “cloudwalk_mt_007″ algorithm fails on border kiosk images, which are the closest to real-world application of FRT. The algorithm also shows discrepancies by ethnicity. West African women are by far the most affected, meaning its use could have a catastrophic impact in misidentification of black women. For relevant studies of FRT’s performance, audits of deployed FRT in contexts similar to Ireland should be considered. Audits from Cambridge researchers have found that deployments of FRT in England and Wales failed to meet all minimum legal and ethical standards and requirements. ]]> legality legal frt facial-recognition ireland gardai law surveillance cctv racism accuracy false-positives https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10709cf75eb1/ Trinity team discovers underlying cause of brain fog linked with Long COVID 2024-02-26T15:58:29+00:00 https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/top-stories/featured/trinity-team-discovers-underlying-cause-of-brain-fog-linked-with-long-covid/ jm Now, the findings reported by the Trinity team in the top international journal Nature Neuroscience showed that there was disruption to the integrity of the blood vessels in the brains of patients suffering from Long COVID and brain fog. This blood vessel “leakiness” was able to objectively distinguish those patients with brain fog and cognitive decline compared to patients suffering from Long-COVID but not with brain fog. The team led by scientists at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and neurologists in the School of Medicine have also uncovered a novel form of MRI scan that shows how Long-COVID can affect the human brain’s delicate network of blood vessels.  “For the first time, we have been able to show that leaky blood vessels in the human brain, in tandem with a hyperactive immune system may be the key drivers of brain fog associated with Long COVID. This is critically important, as understanding the underlying cause of these conditions will allow us to develop targeted therapies for patients in the future,” said Prof. Matthew Campbell, Professor in Genetics and Head of Genetics at Trinity, and Principal Investigator at FutureNeuro. Apparently, this is the first study to correlate blood-brain barrier disruption with "brain fog" symptoms of Long COVID, using an enhanced MRI procedure. This is a very significant step towards the discovery of biomarkers and therapies for neurological manifestations of Long COVID. Great to see this kind of significant research from TCD! Full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01576-9]]> tcd dublin ireland trinity long-covid covid-19 research papers neurology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:38ed6bd500ad/ The EU should support Ireland’s bold move to regulate Big Tech 2024-01-04T11:49:17+00:00 https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4380369-the-eu-should-support-irelands-bold-move-to-regulate-big-tech/ jm ...a simple, easily enforceable rule that could change the game: All recommender systems based on intimately profiling people should be turned off by default.  In practice, that means that the big platforms cannot automatically run algorithms that use information about a person’s political views, sex life, health or ethnicity. A person will be able to switch an algorithm on, but those toxic algorithms will no longer be on by default. Users will still have access to algorithmic amplification, but they will have to opt in to get it. Great idea. The toxicity driven by "personalized feeds" has been extremely harmful.]]> cnm regulation ireland tech personalisation algorithmic-feeds tiktok instagram facebook twitter social-media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:aece7c98ad57/ Toutless suspends new user regs 2023-12-18T10:50:59+00:00 https://www.toutless.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42783 jm tickets resale toutless gigs music ireland dublin scams https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f29f26451857/ Far-right agitation on Irish social media mainly driven from abroad 2023-12-05T11:16:22+00:00 https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/12/05/most-ireland-is-full-and-irish-lives-matter-online-posts-originate-abroad/ jm The research showed the use of the phrases increased dramatically, both in Ireland and abroad, once word started spreading that the suspect in the knife attack was born outside Ireland. “Users in the UK and US were very, very highly represented. Which was strange because with hashtags that are very geographically specific, you wouldn’t expect to see that kind of spread,” said Mr Doak. “These three hashtags have been heavily boosted by users in the US and UK. Taken together, UK and US users accounted for more use of the hashtags than Ireland.” Other countries that saw use of the phrases on a much smaller scale include India, Nigeria and Spain. ]]> ireland politics far-right agitation racism fascism trolls twitter facebook tiktok instagram https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2114c2e28b5d/ EnergyPal.ie 2023-12-04T20:37:40+00:00 https://energypal.ie/ jm analysis electricity ireland smart-meters home esb power hdf open-data https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d3cda2f4854c/ How Elon Musk changed Twitter’s Dublin operation: ‘He broke the culture in a week’ – The Irish Times 2023-10-27T15:06:05+00:00 https://archive.ph/20231027115521/https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/28/he-broke-the-culture-in-a-week-how-elon-musk-changed-twitters-dublin-operation/#selection-1905.0-1926.0 jm“We were, in many ways, an afterthought ... the decisions he made and how he made them, were made as if they were only impacting America,” says the source. “I think one of the toughest things for a lot of the Dublin people was [that] we were spectators at our own demise. We were like collateral. [Musk] was attacking Twitter in the US, and we were collateral damage -- which was a strange feeling for a place that had been so integral to the global footprint of the company.” ]]> elon-musk twitter ireland dublin working business acquisitions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fcd2b76984fe/ ESB HDF Reader 2023-10-04T16:42:26+00:00 https://github.com/dresdner353/energyutils/blob/main/ESB_HDF_READER.md jm formats json csv hdf esb power feed-in-tarriff ireland open-data data https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4cd7358f7373/ GDPR and the Catholic Church 2023-09-18T10:08:57+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-saves-catholic-double-dipping-baptism-rule-fred-logue/ jmSo to conclude, the Archbishop is a data controller and he needs to be more transparent, for his penance he will have to handle data subject requests but virtually all of these can be safely refused. Go and announce the Gospel of the DPC. Thanks be to the GDPR. ]]> gdpr fail dpc ireland catholicism religion data-privacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d8473aa48901/ Some libraries in Ireland are restricting access to young adult LGBTQ+ books, employee says • GCN 2023-07-25T13:24:50+00:00 https://gcn.ie/ireland-libraries-restricting-access-lgbtq-young-adult-books/ jmOur source shared that roughly one year ago, the [Irish public library] staff received training about how to provide young LGBTQ+ people with information and support. Now, this staff member feels that the library policy is restricting the same supportive material. Another anonymous source from a different library branch had this to say about the re-classification of young adult books as adult: “It is utterly galling that some Irish libraries have decided to capitulate to what amounts to terror tactics, and in a way that creates a hostile working environment to all LGBT staff who now have to work under these conditions, and are told they are not allowed to talk about it.” ]]> lgbtq books reading education sex-education nazis far-right politics ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:afde0d88edf6/ Status quo bias 2023-06-22T11:56:49+00:00 https://irishcycle.com/2023/06/20/nta-hires-behavioural-scientists-to-look-at-how-status-quo-bias-affects-opposition-to-active-travel/ jm“Status quo bias is a little bit different, it’s quite fascinating actually. It sounds like a fancy piece of academic language to say that people don’t like change, and there’s a bit of truth in that, but it’s more subtle than that, he said. “It’s like this — if you say to somebody ‘We’re going to change the way your town is laid out, we’re going to make it more friendly for pedestrians and cyclists,’ let’s say and you say there’s a plan to do it. A lot of people instinctually resist that. Actually, these sorts of policies are typically fairly popular but there’s a substantial minority who will really quite resist it,” he said. Lunn said: “If instead of telling them that it is a plan you say ‘oh, there is this town that has this layout, do you like it or not?’, you get completely different responses. It is as if when something is a plan for change we instinctually, psychologically react to it more negatively.” He said that if somebody else is proposing a plan some people will look for the negatives while they are less likely to do so if they are being asked a question in a more open way. ]]> status-quo bias behaviour planning future nta change ireland esri objections https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:16be7993fda0/ Early Irish Web Stuff 2023-06-19T10:43:27+00:00 https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/early-web.html?s=03 jm history ireland 1993 iona web http www https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:577a1bb6e660/ systemd on Proxmox freaks out at Irish DST 2023-03-26T18:59:25+00:00 https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/systemd-100-cpu-hang.124767/ jm via:kiall proxmox dst daylight-savings timezones ireland systemd https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f82ab75435cc/ My Smart Data  2022-11-21T11:22:30+00:00 https://www.esbnetworks.ie/existing-connections/meters-and-readings/my-smart-data jm smart-meters esb electricity consumption monitoring ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:279cc28c14fe/ Irish consumer law gives 6 years of repair/replacement rights 2022-11-18T14:43:05+00:00 https://www.apple.com/ie/legal/statutory-warranty/ie/ jmUnder Irish consumer law, consumers are entitled to a free of charge repair or (depending on the circumstances) may be entitled to a replacement, discount or refund by the seller, of defective goods or goods which do not conform with the contract of sale. These rights expire six years from delivery of the goods. ]]> consumer-rights law ireland consumer rights repair https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c03c21772dd/ foreigners of dublin, where in dublin can you get the best and most authentic food from your home country? 2022-10-05T22:17:15+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/Dublin/comments/xuooan/foreigners_of_dublin_where_in_dublin_can_you_get/ jm dublin ireland food restaurants eating nightlife https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b7bb31fca3c/ Mobile 3G / 4G / 5G coverage in Ireland - nPerf.com 2022-08-23T16:52:20+00:00 https://www.nperf.com/en/map/IE/2964574.Dublin/5328.eir-Mobile/signal/?ll=53.04596042811769&lg=-7.870416976511479&zoom=7 jm country ireland rural internet network coverage 3g 4g 5g nperf crowdsourced maps via:itc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9e88543878ed/ Sectoral Budgets must align with legal requirements | An Taisce 2022-07-29T12:28:41+00:00 https://www.antaisce.org/News/sectoral-budgets-must-align-with-legal-requirements jm“By agreeing to these sectoral ceilings the Government is potentially signing up to something which is not aligned with the Climate Act from the very get go. Where has the 2025 budget gone? Why does it only add up to 43% when the law itself requires 51%? It seems like they’re making it up as they go along, but this whole process has to be aligned to the legal requirements of the Climate Act, you can’t simply fudge it. This is a truly chaotic way to budget for the future”  Well said.]]> an-taisce climate-change co2 ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:af89dda028b7/ Range Extenders for Nissan Leafs 2022-07-25T10:50:18+00:00 https://rangetherapy.org/ jm nissan leaf cars driving ireland evs range muxsan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1d68e1ced8b7/ The Greatest Unsolved Heist in Irish History - Atlas Obscura 2022-05-31T08:23:44+00:00 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irish-crown-jewels-theft jm heists thefts ireland crown-jewels whodunnit scandals https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e575f8026ffc/ SARS-CoV-2 variant trends in Ireland: Wastewater-based epidemiology and clinical surveillance - ScienceDirect 2022-05-31T08:11:25+00:00 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722029254 jm dublin ireland diseases monitoring sars-cov-2 covid-19 water poop sewage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8c6b4f4274f5/ Dublin Airport Security Wait Times 2022-05-21T10:56:37+00:00 https://dublinairportwait.ie/ jm security-queues queueing dublin-airport travel airports dublin ireland holidays https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9d7d46ddadd9/ Ireland by land quality 2022-05-03T14:29:38+00:00 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Classification-of-Irelands-land-area-into-four-categories-in-relation-to-availability_fig1_292988995 jm rewilding rural land ireland maps geodata fishery agriculture farming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c8b099c84ff/ An Post & OSI company “GeoDirectory” uses Census data to profile every Irish home 2022-05-03T08:39:42+00:00 https://www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-data-complaint-an-post-osi-company-profiles-irish-peoples-income-and-homes-and-sells-data-to-data-brokers-and-insurance-companies/ jmThe Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) reveals that An Post & OSI use Census data to profile every Irish home and sell ‘location intelligence’ to data brokers and insurance companies. ICCL has lodged a complaint with the Data Protection Commission. In particular, buyers include Experian, one of the world's biggest data brokers. There's no way this meets the spirit, if not the word, of the GDPR, there's no data privacy here.]]> data-privacy data-protection iccl experian an-post osi census data privacy ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f47b892b723f/ The three big myths about Omicron 2022-03-31T09:03:41+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/30/uk-near-record-covid-cases-three-myths-omicron-pandemic jm covid-19 uk ireland omicron sars-cov-2 pandemics health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:24e43840b81b/ Identification of Distinct Long COVID Clinical Phenotypes Through Cluster Analysis of Self-Reported Symptoms | Open Forum Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic 2022-03-23T11:51:14+00:00 https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/9/4/ofac060/6543845?login=false jmCluster 1 had predominantly pain symptoms with a higher proportion of joint pain, myalgia, and headache; cluster 2 had a preponderance of cardiovascular symptoms with prominent chest pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations; and cluster 3 had significantly fewer symptoms than the other clusters (2 [IQR, 2–3] symptoms per individual in cluster 3 vs 6 [IQR, 5–7] and 4 [IQR, 3–5] in clusters 1 and 2, respectively; P < .001). Clusters 1 and 2 had greater functional impairment, demonstrated by significantly longer work absence, higher dyspnea scores, and lower scores in SF-36 domains of general health, physical functioning, and role limitation due to physical functioning and social functioning. ]]> long-covid ireland covid-19 paddy-mallon papers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4c3627976e60/ the economics of DIY solar in Ireland 2022-03-21T12:12:19+00:00 https://twitter.com/duncmat/status/1504728778903371776 jm solar-power diy electricity power green-living ireland solar-panels https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:af1524623b02/ Human Life International operating in Ireland 2022-03-21T11:44:19+00:00 https://the-beacon.ie/2022/03/19/irish-branch-of-us-anti-abortion-catholic-group-has-income-of-nearly-e1m-per-year-and-runs-rogue-crisis-pregnancy-agency/ jm human-life-international hli ireland abortion gender-rights ask-majella contraception politics right-wing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b2d12ec7439d/ Primary schools & childcare services antigen programme - HSE.ie 2022-03-21T11:33:09+00:00 https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/schools-antigen-testing/ jm hse ireland covid-19 testing antigen-tests free https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10c8d816d313/ Excellent Twitter thread on the current COVID-19 situation in Denmark 2022-02-18T11:00:15+00:00 https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1494497740700540929 jmSo looking at this report - and only focusing on population-based acute effects - I see several trends that concern me. Are these acute consequences acceptable? For me, no, but politicians need to decide. Are we making decisions based on a realistic outlook? I'm not sure. All of this also applies in Ireland at the moment, IMO... ]]> covid-19 endemicity pandemics denmark ireland omicron public-health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4c9e81d617ea/ DeliverMe.ie 2022-01-21T12:07:06+00:00 https://www.deliverme.ie/how-it-works jm delivery brexit uk parcels shipping ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c3d79e29a965/ CableMonkey.ie 2022-01-06T10:25:40+00:00 https://www.cablemonkey.ie/ jm cables networking networks ireland hardware shopping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e4e7283f9aaf/ Consumer warranties and statutory rights 2021-12-16T14:13:25+00:00 https://www.eccireland.ie/ecc-ireland-issues-advisory-on-consumer-warranties-and-statutory-rights/ jmStatutory rights are provided for by legislation (Irish law and EU law as transposed in Ireland). These act as a kind of “legal guarantee”, entitling consumers to seek redress where an item is faulty. Consumers may rely on their statutory rights regardless of whether an item has a warranty or not. Under Irish law, consumers have up to six years to seek redress for faulty or defective items (both new and second-hand). If the product is defective, the seller is generally responsible for providing redress. If a fault arises within six months of purchase, it is presumed to have existed at the time of purchase. For this reason, the consumer should not have to provide proof of the defect. If the fault arises more than six months after purchase, the seller may request that the consumer prove the fault did not arise as a result of misuse – for instance, by obtaining a report from an independent expert. Where an item is faulty, the seller may first offer a repair or replacement item. If this is not possible or fails to correct the problem, a refund may then be provided. Remedies for faulty goods must be provided free of charge. ]]> rights repair support defective-goods guarantee warranty defects ireland eu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:229b03a343b0/ The Irish family who added to the Australian vernacular 2021-12-09T10:58:53+00:00 https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/the-irish-family-who-added-to-the-australian-vernacular-1.4749025 jmWhen the first World War broke out in 1914, Furphy water carts were used to bring water to Australian troops in Australia, Europe and the Middle East.. Soldiers would gather round the Furphy to get a drink and to have a chat, telling jokes and tall stories. That gave rise to the use of the word Furphy as a rumour or a false report which continues to the present day. The two companies, Furphy Foundry and J Furphy and Sons remain after five generations in family ownership and continue to produce many products including watercarts, all of which proudly bear the name “Furphy” in prominent lettering. ]]> furphy ireland australia etymology words history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:abd41b8007a3/ National Townland and Historical Map Viewer 2021-11-19T16:54:58+00:00 https://geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9def898f708b47f19a8d8b7088a100c4 jm maps mapping history ireland osi archaeology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:37383afa1bce/ It can feel like the world’s most spectacular wilderness; the savage beauty of Connemara 2021-11-17T15:37:38+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/nov/17/it-can-feel-like-the-worlds-most-spectacular-wilderness-the-savage-beauty-of-connemara jm connemara ireland nature wilderness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:335af88ece6c/ Ireland's climate change advisory council's _Technical Report on Carbon Budgets_ for 2021 2021-10-26T09:28:18+00:00 https://www.climatecouncil.ie/media/climatechangeadvisorycouncil/Technical%20report%20on%20carbon%20budgets%2025.10.2021.pdf jm co2 ghgs carbon climate-change ireland ccac future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3dcd9c0cf35d/ GNI report on biomethane generation in Ireland 2021-10-22T08:48:05+00:00 https://www.gasnetworks.ie/biomethane-sustainability-report-2021.pdf jm biogas biomethane methane fuel ireland sustainability climate-change gni farming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5e21011430d2/ _Endgame: A zero-carbon electricity plan for Ireland_ 2021-10-05T08:44:17+00:00 https://windenergyireland.com/images/files/20210629-baringa-endgame-final-version.pdf jmReducing power sector CO2 emissions in Ireland from around 9 million tonnes today to a target of less than 2 million tonnes of CO2 per year is very achievable by 2030, using the approach currently underway to achieve the ‘70 by 30’ target, and implementing more of existing and proven technologies; The current Programme for Government renewable capacity targets of 8.2 GW of onshore wind and 5 GW of offshore wind by 2030 should be maintained, with an additional target of 5 GW of solar PV. This target can be achieved at a lower cost to the end consumer in Ireland, compared to delivery of the less ambitious ‘70 by 30’ target. A zero-carbon power system is possible by 2030 and represents an achievable target in the 2030s.]]> wind-energy energy ireland future 2030 climate-change co2 solar-power carbon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:229f76663cf8/ ComReg SiteViewer 2021-09-27T14:46:14+00:00 https://siteviewer.comreg.ie/ jm comreg telecoms 3g 4g 5g networking isps coverage ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ac78c6a46d97/ Build-To-Rent (BTR), Aparthotels, and Irish housing policy 2021-08-31T10:36:42+00:00 https://twitter.com/RobJCurley/status/1432612719530762242 jm living ireland apartments rental btr aparthotels housing policy fg https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:698589bedb94/ DCC's greenwashing PR 2021-08-11T09:05:26+00:00 https://twitter.com/robbiesemple/status/1425166523451289605 jm pr greenwashing dcc ireland via:robbie-semple net-zero fossil-fuels climate-change emissions scope-3 scope-1 scope-2 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a73b50aca50f/ Half cooked & half raw: the Irish tradition of spuds with a moon 2021-07-30T14:11:31+00:00 https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0728/1237809-potatoes-with-the-moon-ghealach-potatoes-with-the-bone/ jm[...] a method of cookery practiced by the rural poor in the early to mid 19th century Ireland [...] Parboiling or half-roasting rendered a potato that was at once half-cooked and half-raw, with the inner core hard to the bite. Potatoes cooked in this way were called potatoes with the moon (an ghealach) or potatoes with the bone. William Wilde, father of Oscar, describes the practice in some detail in his essay, ‘The Food of the Irish’, which was published in 1854 in the Dublin University Magazine. Here is his explanation of the practice: "the heart of the potato was allowed, by checking the boiling at a particular point, to remain parboiled, hard and waxy; when the rest of the potato has been masticated in the usual manner, this hard lump, about the size of a walnut, was bolted; and in this manner nearly a stone of the root was taken into the stomach of the Irish labourer per diem… it was grounded on a certain knowledge of physiology. "The stomach digested the well boiled farinaceous portion of the potato within the space of a few hours, and that having all been disposed of, the half-boiled lumps remained behind, and a second digestion was commenced to assimilate this portion of food, and convert it into nutritious, life-sustaining material; which latter process lasted some hours longer, and thus the craving of hunger were warded off for five or six hours after the original meal." ]]> parboiling potatoes history hunger ireland rural spuds moon physiology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d46a8ca1c0e8/ Outdoor Swimming Pools in Ireland 2021-07-28T09:50:50+00:00 https://www.mykidstime.com/travel/outdoor-swimming-pools-in-ireland/ jm swimming ireland outdoors heated pools kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:84e3ef7210f1/ “Brides to be” & Bullshit – A case study in Irish astroturf 2021-07-28T09:31:39+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/osw7ce/brides_to_be_bullshit_a_case_study_in_irish/ jm protests ireland pr astroturf https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10fc878870d9/ A potted history of IONA Technologies' early years 2021-07-01T11:34:21+00:00 https://techarchives.irish/anniversaries/ jm iona software dublin iona-technologies history 1991 startups ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6b79f45482d4/ The model used to simulate the Irish COVID-19 response 2021-07-01T08:39:12+00:00 https://twitter.com/President_MU/status/1410315246791802884 jm modelling data-science statistics epidemiology pandemics covid-19 sars-cov-2 ireland philip-nolan seir https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:21e859682f26/ Met Éireann's IREPS weather forecasting system 2021-06-02T13:53:38+00:00 https://www.met.ie/upgrade-to-met-eireanns-weather-forecast-system-april-may-2020 jm harmonie met-eireann weather forecasting modelling ireps ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b4aa80d975a/ Dr Rory Hearne: The Government does not want you to be able to afford to buy a home 2021-05-06T08:43:47+00:00 https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/ireland-investment-housing-5428746-May2021/ jm The Government has been called on to do something to stop this. Even Fianna Fáil politicians have come out crying crocodile tears of outrage. But the truth is the investor purchase of housing in Ireland on a major scale is actually Government policy and has been for the last decade. The Government does not actually want you to be able to buy or rent an affordable home. They have created an unaffordable housing system that is focused on delivering housing as an investment asset, not a home.[...] This current crisis has been brewing for a long time. It goes back to the Celtic Tiger days of the late 1990s and early 2000s when the Fianna Fáil-PD Governments encouraged the shift from housing to be treated as a home, to people buying it up as an investment asset. They told people to speculate in the property market and gave tax breaks for landlords to buy a second, or third, home to rent out. These became the ‘buy-to-let’ investors. The banks lent out massively which added fuel to the fire of rising housing prices, and the inevitable crash happened in 2008 and 2009. As their response to the disaster they had created, Fianna Fáil turned to global ‘vulture’ funds to buy up the bad loans and failed housing projects. They set up the ‘bad bank’ NAMA, which went on, under the Fine Gael Government from 2011 to the current day, to sell off (at a discount) huge land banks and billions of euro worth of properties to vulture and real estate investment funds.
]]> reits real-estate ireland politics housing homes rory-hearne https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c23143f1035d/ Medieval Archaeology of Ireland – Google My Maps 2021-04-28T11:19:06+00:00 https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1cDpanER1f_Ssf_xJWJylNWh7jfhCk-4i&ll=53.44876031050477%2C-8.30744351749999&z=7 jm via:its maps ireland history monuments castles archaeology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5ef9309bbf9e/ The lost art of 'booleying' in Ireland's uplands 2021-04-28T09:17:39+00:00 https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0422/1211486-the-lost-art-of-booleying-in-irelands-uplands/ jmby the 1800s, it was mostly young people and teenage girls especially who had the job of looking after cows at these seasonal ‘boolies’. This gave rise to a vibrant but now largely forgotten cultural scene in Ireland’s uplands. Oral history collected in the 1930s and 1940s in Connemara, Mayo, Donegal, and the Galtee Mountains makes clear that booleying facilitated the transmission of a lot of important cultural knowledge. One man from Cloch Cheannaola in Donegal states that his mother had learned her songs from other dairymaids in the hills, while another account from Iorras Aintheach in Galway outlines how the girls not only sang but played musical instruments and danced as well. [....] The small degree of independence which young women gained as participants in booleying was sometimes missed later on in life. There is an unmistakeable sense of loss in songs like Na Gamhna Geala and Aililiú na Gamhna, in which married women reminisce about their time looking after cows and calves in the hills.
]]> transhumance booleying history ireland rural achill galway donegal mayo connemara https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:df8e9bd34c46/ Green Atlantic at Moneypoint 2021-04-12T10:00:12+00:00 https://www.esb.ie/our-businesses/generation-energy-trading-new/green-atlantic-at-moneypoint jm moneypoint ireland green energy emissions carbon future wind-energy hydrogen https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:75ab0ac2c424/