19 Things That Could Only Happen In Irish Politics

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The World’s Best Burger According to Robin Gill

Robin Gill: The Irish chef behind acclaimed London restaurants returns to Dublin for a burger pop-up collab with Dash Burger This Saturday at Hen’s Teeth from 17:00 Robin Gill’s voice carries the easy lilt of someone who grew up within earshot of Dublin Bay, though his culinary career has largely unfolded across the Irish Sea. […]

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Should camogie players be allowed to wear shorts?

A Skort by Any Other Name On a humid afternoon this weekend at St Peregrine’s GAA Club Blanchardstown, west of Dublin, thirty camogie players took the field not in the sport’s traditional skorts, but in shorts. They weren’t in war paint or waving placards but they may as as well have been. The Kilkenny and […]

Dublin

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We Need to Talk About the DART

The once-reliable rail line is now making people late, miserable, and poor. For months now, regular passengers have faced delays, confusion, crowding, and rising fares. At the core of the problem is a pattern all too familiar in public transport systems: big-picture ambition undercut by everyday mismanagement.What happened in Dublin over the past six months […]

Dublin

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19 Things That Could Only Happen In Irish Politics

1. This genuine election poster

2. This truly harrowing campaign video

3. A senator raising a debate about fraping

4. This homage to the X Factor

5. An anti-austerity TD 'dabbing' in The Dáil

6. This poster of Luke Ming Flanagan firing up an enormous spliff

7. An unruly politician refusing to believe that climate change exists

8. This absolutely maddening Progressive Democrats poster

9. A riot kicking off in the chamber due to someone dressing in a jumper

10. A politician challenging a minister to drink a glass of piss

11. A TD screaming 'Fuck you' to a deputy, while at work

12. This

13. These genuine promises for the youth of the country

14. A prospective party member inviting all of her voters 'round for tea

15. Everything about this masterpiece

16. A senator making animal noises in The Dáil

17. A trad sesh kicking off outside The Dáil

18. A TD leaving their big important speech on the floor of the bathroom

19. And finally, a teenager telling Joan Burton to shove her water bill 'up her fiscal space'

1. This genuine election poster

2. This truly harrowing campaign video

3. A senator raising a debate about fraping

4. This homage to the X Factor

5. An anti-austerity TD 'dabbing' in The Dáil

6. This poster of Luke Ming Flanagan firing up an enormous spliff

7. An unruly politician refusing to believe that climate change exists

8. This absolutely maddening Progressive Democrats poster

9. A riot kicking off in the chamber due to someone dressing in a jumper

10. A politician challenging a minister to drink a glass of piss

11. A TD screaming 'Fuck you' to a deputy, while at work

12. This

13. These genuine promises for the youth of the country

14. A prospective party member inviting all of her voters 'round for tea

15. Everything about this masterpiece

16. A senator making animal noises in The Dáil

17. A trad sesh kicking off outside The Dáil

18. A TD leaving their big important speech on the floor of the bathroom

19. And finally, a teenager telling Joan Burton to shove her water bill 'up her fiscal space'