BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇨🇺🇺🇳 U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz threatened Cuba’s ambassador “You understand who you’re dealing with? This is America. Back up!”

This is a big move - story by @aflchambers. thecurrency.news/articles/24…

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

Irish Sunday newspaper #frontpages - for Oct 25th derekmooney.ie/2026/10/25/ir…

Son: Dad, I thought this was just a song about Vietnam. Dad: Son, listen closer. It's about the sons of powerful men getting a free pass while everyone else's sons pay the price.

The Hughes’ Band performing “The Bucks of Oranmore” Hughes’ Pub, Co. Galway (1990) With Dónal Lunny on bodhrán, Steve Wickham (The Waterboys, In Tua Nua, Drowning Man) on fiddle, Máirtín O’Connor on accordion, and Adam Clayton (U2) on bass 🎥 BBC - Bringing It All Back Home 🙏 thank you so much for this clip jonathan__callan

⚡️ Statement by the Embassy of Russia in Ireland (October 23, 2026) The much-publicised discussion in Ireland of the issues with the “Triple Lock” legislation and Irish neutrality includes continuing references to Russia made by the leaders of the Irish government, which contain unfounded allegations, as well as misrepresentation of the way the UN Peacekeeping mechanism works. In the course of the debate in the Dáil on October 21, Helen McEntee, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, strongly objected to the current “Triple Lock” legislation on the grounds that it presumably allows Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, “to have a say over which peacekeeping missions we can send our troops to”, or even to veto Irish participation in such missions, and that ostensibly does not sit well with the Minister who believes that Russia is “attacking European member-states, including Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland”. We strongly believe that any decisions on the matters of neutrality or any other policy matters are sovereign issues to be discussed and decided solely by the Irish government and the Irish people. At the same time, it is obvious that such decisions – whatever they are – should not be made under false assumptions, which is exactly the case with the Minister’s statements. Contrary to her assertions, the UN Security Council does not vote on what countries take part in a peacekeeping mission – its composition is agreed in the course of multilateral consultations conducted by the UN Secretariat and the interested UN member-countries. Also, there is no known record of Russia being against Ireland’s participation in any UN peacekeeping mission. Consequently, the allegations by Minister McEntee are reprehensible and misleading, grossly distorting the substance and the meaning of procedures provided by the UN Charter. ❗️In the same manner, the Minister’s speculations over Russia’s “attacks” on the EU countries are totally baseless, dangerously provocative and unacceptable. This kind of rhetoric is unthinkable for any responsible member of a government. It is regrettable that the Irish government has chosen to deliberately question the workings of the UN – despite its much-advertised commitment to the central role of the UN in the international order – with the aim to promote domestic policy agenda. It is also incumbent upon Irish leadership to realise that exercises in Russophobia cannot make up for a serious failure in its approach to relations with Russia and issues of peace and stability in Europe.

The definition of a masterpiece...you play it in your house and the neighbors complain that it's too loud. The police come and arrest the neighbors...