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Would even Kilkenny get out of Munster?

Any chance the rural independents might do less defending of things like fox hunting and start fighting for issues that rural people ACTUALLY care about, like, oh, I don't know, rural provision of healthcare, affordable housing, public transport, jobs...

“The rules of Parliament don't really see or fit Māori people,” Maipi-Clarke says. “There’s a lot more resistance and advocation that we’re doing because, basically, our rights are being stripped left, right, and center. Read the full interview here ⤵️

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

It was all building to this massive, hopefully entertaining (and helpful?) piece: The 92 things I learned from visiting every Football League club in a season inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

More information on the L&SERWFL Trophy final between Clapton CFC Women's First Team and Dulwich Hamlet Reserves at Maidstone United today 🇵🇸✊ www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/05/25/c...

Interesting idea in theory, but good luck getting any practical alliance during a GE campaign: www.rte.ie/news/politic...

‘Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge’ labourlist.org/2025/05/blue... – via LabourList

To get an Irish passport for a baby girl born here, they thought they had done everything right. But the passport office said no. www.dublininquirer.com/to-get-an-ir...

There you are now... spotlight.ebu.ch/p/israeli-go...

Sorry................... what now?

Interesting analysis of CLR James's position on race and how it impacted West Indian cricket: cricketdescribed.au/2025/05/19/c...

World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza. Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians. Stop arming genocide, now.

Btw, the fact that Euroskeptic, far-right Simion quickly backed down from his initial claim he had won, conceded, and congratulated his opponent is the second sign that Romanian democracy is more robust than the American one right now.

New blog post: Wasted love?: broadcasting and fandom at a crossroads after #Eurovision 2025 bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/w...

HAI, HAI, HAI, this is basically top of my expectations. AGAIN, health warnings: pro-Simion error in first round, exit polls do not count diaspora who are a significant portion of the vote, but hey 10 points is not to be sniffed at.

Since dawn today, five Palestinian journalists were killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip: 1. Abdul Rahman Al-Abadleh 2. Nour Qandil 3. Khaled Abu Seif 4. Aziz Al-Hajjar 5. Ahmad Al-Zeenati

From the creators of "I don't like Rage against the Machine anymore, they've gone woke", we bring you a new, thrilling journey of self discovery:

Imagine starting a car that hadn't run in 21 years, that's 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. That's what the NASA team just did with Voyager's thrusters. People are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v...