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"Come for the atmosphere, the message says. Come for the songs. Come because you always have. But don’t look too closely at the scoreboard".

Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.

gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/w...
World’s Biggest Wetherspoons Awaits to See Whether Wales Gets Wooden Spoon
“Are Welsh rugby fans starting to turn their back on the national side?” wrote BBC Sport Wales this week. Perhaps — but for an organisation that currently appears to be wavering between upholding t…
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February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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TV guide for this weekend's action:

✅️Six Nations
✅️U20s Six Nations
✅️Super Rugby
✅️Ireland Club XV v Scottish Club XV
✅️Top 14
✅️RE Championship
✅️PWR
✅️Champ
✅️PREM Rugby Cup
✅️League One
✅️Celtic Challenge

#SixNations2026 | #GuinnessM6N
February 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Dublin’s MetroLink myths, misinformation, and misdirection: “They did not look at other options”

Comment & Analysis: Years ago, I read or scanned nearly every public Metro North document when it was in the planning stage. With MetroLink, its replacement project, I've stuck more to key documents.…
Dublin’s MetroLink myths, misinformation, and misdirection: “They did not look at other options”
Comment & Analysis: Years ago, I read or scanned nearly every public Metro North document when it was in the planning stage. With MetroLink, its replacement project, I've stuck more to key documents. But still, I regularly smile at how many of MetroLink's detractors are not even aware of one of the key documents: the Fingal/North Dublin Transport Study report.
irishcycle.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.
February 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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This was worse, it was in slow moving traffic and the van driver was creeping forward...
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
@rugbybroadcast.bsky.social 8:05pm – Stade Français v Toulouse (Top 14) – Premier Sports Rugby & Online / Unavailable live in Ireland
- this makes me sad - really I would pay for it but now driven to.. Alternative providers
February 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Tolka burst its banks
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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College Green and Dame Street plaza disregards connected GDA cycle routes

-- Lack of clarity in how people cycling will access the cycle route in plaza area.-- Access route to Bank of Ireland car park to be maintained across the plaza.-- DublinBikes station removed from beside the former Central…
College Green and Dame Street plaza disregards connected GDA cycle routes
-- Lack of clarity in how people cycling will access the cycle route in plaza area.-- Access route to Bank of Ireland car park to be maintained across the plaza.-- DublinBikes station removed from beside the former Central Bank building. Dublin City Council's Grow College Green Project -- which is a plan for a low traffic area between George's Street and the Luas line on College Green, where buses will also continue to go north-south -- is expected to go to planning this summer, but many of the design elements for cycling and even pedestrians seem to go against guidance and best practices.
irishcycle.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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CONFIRMED: Sky to broadcast Super Rugby Pacific until 2028 in Ireland and the UK.
February 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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It's noted that he was wearing high-vis even though the driver was making an illegal turn and even with high-vis and all it's only counted as careless driving and not dangerous driving: www.thejournal.ie/courts-cycli...
Cyclist crushed twice by SUV in Dublin city centre recalls ‘the worst day of my life’ in court
Andrew Brett told the court that he was ‘convinced he was going to die’ during the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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I am in the Irish Independent today looking at at how Spanish police files place a Dublin fintech company at the heart of a sprawling drugs money-laundering investigation spanning Europe, the US and the Middle East. An operation implicating a cousin of Spain's King www.independent.ie/business/iri...
Spanish police file sets out alleged links between aristocrat’s Dublin fintech and drug cartel’s money laundering operation
Just days before Spanish police arrived at his Marbella villa, Francisco de Borbon was celebrating his birthday on a luxury Nile cruise in Egypt with his family, before flying home for dinner with fri...
www.independent.ie
February 12, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Related: I'll be heading to the National Digital Awards this day next week. I suspect I won't take home the prize, I'm in a tough category with some very deserving winners, but this (plus the above) is a good reminder that I'm making a difference even when it feels like I haven't.
February 12, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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An absolute corker of a letter to the Welsh rugby clubs from Hayley Parsons 💥
February 12, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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Fingal County Council has decided to stop using X for its communications, except for emergency communications, @michaellanigan.bsky.social points out to me, after watching the meeting.
February 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Scramblers already illegal on public roads, Department confirms after misleading media coverage irishcycle.com/2026/02/03/s...
Scramblers already illegal on public roads, Department confirms after misleading media coverage
— Charges to release a seized scrambler are to be increased.– Extended ban to make any use of scramble in parks and car parks illegal. — “It must be emphasised that using th…
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February 10, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Streaming access to TNT Sports is moving from discovery+ to HBO Max in the UK on March 26th.

As things stand in Ireland, TNT Sports will remain on NOW and will not be moving to HBO Max.
February 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Some highlights from this week's newsletter:

– Major Ireland internationals on FTA TV until 2029

– RPTV secures Super Rugby in 🇺🇸, still no broadcaster in Ireland or UK

– Despite rumours of cancellation, Against the Head returns

– In-play ads: yay or nay?
www.rugbybroadcast.com/p/the-rugby-...
The Rugby Broadcast Report Issue 26: Rugby Media Rights Update & TV Guide – Virgin Media Secures FTA Nations Championship Rights in Ireland
Six Nations coverage updates, Virgin Media securing the Nations Championship, alternative feeds and more this week.
www.rugbybroadcast.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Hurling results 07-08/02

Rd 3 games now completed in every division of the hurling league

Cork & Tipp the top 2 after their meeting, Galway & Offaly the only sides still without points in Div 1A

Back in 2 weeks time with a Tipp/Limerick Saturday evening clash in Thurles
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Swords to Malahide route gets two walking and cycling-friendly roundabouts irishcycle.com/2026/01/30/s...
Swords to Malahide route gets two walking and cycling-friendly roundabouts
A project starting construction and forming part of the Swords to Malahide active travel route will include two pedestrian and cyclist-friendly roundabouts. The Dutch-like roundabouts are to be ins…
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February 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Video: Why are these gates being added to Irish greenways?

This is a clip -- with more coverage to follow -- that looks at the gates and signs being added to Irish greenways, including at this example on the Great Western Greenway in Mayo:
Video: Why are these gates being added to Irish greenways?
This is a clip -- with more coverage to follow -- that looks at the gates and signs being added to Irish greenways, including at this example on the Great Western Greenway in Mayo:
irishcycle.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Crazy how much better as the ref correspondent on comms JP Doyle is than Nigel Owens. Just explaining decisions for confused fans instead of starting a pub debate that doesn’t make sense.
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”

How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Flood Prevention
Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming F...
www.rte.ie
February 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Thousands of sea animals needlessly killed as bycatch of crayfishing industry in practice Dr Nick Payne of @tcddublin.bsky.social says is shameful
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters
Seals also among the animals killed as by-catch of growing crayfishing industry
www.irishtimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Politico notes that Europe is holding people accountable for their chummy ties with Epstein, but the US is not.

The last two ¶¶ are about Bannon.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.
As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
www.politico.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not
February 5, 2026 at 9:12 AM