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Dungarvan, Waterford, Ireland
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Top class stuff from a TD here.
Did you know most TD's & many councillors , who aren't measuring outputs at Municipals & Counties, nor even asking for outcomes monthly?
If "what you measure is what you get", old lads & chambers "measure nothing, getting nothing, rattle nothing"
Every county council will vote on its 2027 budget in the next few weeks.
In August I asked the Department to release 14 years of those budgets in excel format. They did. Here's what it shows about how central government funds local authorities and where Galway County sits.
Data: data.gov.ie/dataset/local-au… (1/11)
Not a single policy maker nor councillor in any of Gaeltacht counties measures housing nor home ownership. It had to be a free site measure it.
In words of Sec General of Rural Hurley ‘stay out of housing’ & the Planning regulator says cows take priority over 12k 18-44’s not own
From dereliction to Airbnb, the Gaeltacht is being destroyed by the housing crisis - mailchi.mp/davidmcwilliams/m…
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JUST IN: Dutch government announces plans to eliminate 25,000 civil service jobs as it expands AI to replace administrative work.
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TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
You’d wonder how disconnected from reality those in Departments setting budgets are.
Real discontent brewing.
Outside the bubble of advisors and old yes men, young in dressing rooms across the country are giving up hope. Parents angry. SME’s crippled.
Old Lads : time 2 go
Anyone assuming T-rump acts in the interest of the US rather than acts in interest of his blind trust/deals for his children is working to the wrong assumption.
Oil & gas investments by T-rump just means oil / gas is to rise, not fall.
Billions to Kushner for deals. Corrupt.
US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
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A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
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Biz Post Red C polling for October. Coalition parties sink to a shocking record low.
businesspost.ie/politics/exc…
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Finally got round to reading this.
In any other administration it's something that would be a top 5 history-making story, published shortly before an election!
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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BREAKING: AI token spending grew just +0.2% MoM in September, the lowest monthly growth since November 2025.
This follows a +1.0% increase in August, marking two consecutive months of growth at or below +1.0%, the weakest streak in at least 18 months.
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Lower costs could unlock the next wave of AI adoption.
Irish old councillors, around decades with no delivery, no experience and no new idea will kill off pools in Waterford without understanding there’s ways to keep costs down to make them viable.
Lot’s of selfies. Very little delivery in Dungarvan and an awful lot of group think.
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Do you want free heat for your pool?
Tandem is looking for Irish pools, leisure centres, hotels and other sites with reliable year-round heat demand.
We deploy the compute infrastructure. The heat it produces can be put to useful work.
Tell us about your location.
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Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
This will really annoy civil servants and many councillors / planners that have all voted in Ireland in the NPF / county plans for housing costs to increase.
Solutions here.
White House: President Donald J. Trump Decreases Housing Costs For Americans
whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2…
