Sam Tranum
@samtranum.bsky.social
Editor, co-founder @dublininquirer.bsky.social.
Icy morning in Dublin.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Icy morning in Dublin.
Juat getting set up for the @dublininquirer.com pub quiz this evening.
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Juat getting set up for the @dublininquirer.com pub quiz this evening.
Mr Rojas said, I'm alright Jack, so fuck everyone else.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Mr Rojas said, I'm alright Jack, so fuck everyone else.
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Kinda floored me to hear a council official say recently they had not really been trying to collect the Derelcti Sites Levy (but now that would change)
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November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Kinda floored me to hear a council official say recently they had not really been trying to collect the Derelcti Sites Levy (but now that would change)
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This is brilliant. Gonna take kids ("housemates") to RTB over the same issue.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This is brilliant. Gonna take kids ("housemates") to RTB over the same issue.
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I don't want to get your hopes up: looks like maybe 5 of 66 appeals went the resident's way?
(In 11 cases speed limit found not to have been set in accordance with guidelines. Of these 11 findings, councils appealed and won 6. My read is this means the remaining 5 went in the residents' favour?)
(In 11 cases speed limit found not to have been set in accordance with guidelines. Of these 11 findings, councils appealed and won 6. My read is this means the remaining 5 went in the residents' favour?)
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I don't want to get your hopes up: looks like maybe 5 of 66 appeals went the resident's way?
(In 11 cases speed limit found not to have been set in accordance with guidelines. Of these 11 findings, councils appealed and won 6. My read is this means the remaining 5 went in the residents' favour?)
(In 11 cases speed limit found not to have been set in accordance with guidelines. Of these 11 findings, councils appealed and won 6. My read is this means the remaining 5 went in the residents' favour?)
What's up with the China number? Who in Shanghai is reading Dublin Inquirer? Gotta be bots, yeah?
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What's up with the China number? Who in Shanghai is reading Dublin Inquirer? Gotta be bots, yeah?
Kid loses ball in tree branches in park. Magpie sees opportunity and builds nest on top.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Kid loses ball in tree branches in park. Magpie sees opportunity and builds nest on top.
Every month we get a bunch of big sacks from An Post to put our newspapers in to deliver to the depot to be sent out to subscribers. Not infrequently someone else's post is left in the bottom of a sack or two. Here is this month's haul. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Every month we get a bunch of big sacks from An Post to put our newspapers in to deliver to the depot to be sent out to subscribers. Not infrequently someone else's post is left in the bottom of a sack or two. Here is this month's haul. 1/
Stock images used in DCC presentation planning PR campaigns to promote active travel and use of cycle lane (left), vs images of actual cycle infrastructure in the city. "Only 36% of respondents felt safe cycling in Dublin City". Hmmm.
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Stock images used in DCC presentation planning PR campaigns to promote active travel and use of cycle lane (left), vs images of actual cycle infrastructure in the city. "Only 36% of respondents felt safe cycling in Dublin City". Hmmm.
The Irish Times is hiring for this job, Head of Data Architecture and Machine Learning, but I can't understand what it is and how it relates to running a newspaper. Can you explain it to me please? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Irish Times is hiring for this job, Head of Data Architecture and Machine Learning, but I can't understand what it is and how it relates to running a newspaper. Can you explain it to me please? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...
It's amazing to see the FF/FG government, faced with a challenge from the right, begin to emulate the Tories' response to a similar challenge from the right. How can they look at the current state of the UK, and of polling, and think, let's do that, that'll work out well for the country, and for us?
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It's amazing to see the FF/FG government, faced with a challenge from the right, begin to emulate the Tories' response to a similar challenge from the right. How can they look at the current state of the UK, and of polling, and think, let's do that, that'll work out well for the country, and for us?
I believe it's this tree you can see here. Not sure when the Google Maps image is from
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I believe it's this tree you can see here. Not sure when the Google Maps image is from
Love that the Burke family are such a national problem that the Irish Times has published an advice column on what to do if you're doorstepped by one of them -- because it could apparently happen to any of us, at any time.
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love that the Burke family are such a national problem that the Irish Times has published an advice column on what to do if you're doorstepped by one of them -- because it could apparently happen to any of us, at any time.
The waste incinerator in Copenhagen -- their Poolbeg incinerator equivalent -- has a climbing wall, ski slope, park/hiking trail, and rooftop cafe.
October 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The waste incinerator in Copenhagen -- their Poolbeg incinerator equivalent -- has a climbing wall, ski slope, park/hiking trail, and rooftop cafe.
But hotting up now. 8.30pm.
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
But hotting up now. 8.30pm.
As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/
October 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/
Looks like the anti-immigrant crowd are trying to organise a riot based on the reports that a man raped a 10-year-old girl at CityWest. Looks farcical atm, but who knows how it'll develop. 1/
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Looks like the anti-immigrant crowd are trying to organise a riot based on the reports that a man raped a 10-year-old girl at CityWest. Looks farcical atm, but who knows how it'll develop. 1/
Just reading an academic paper and it has this disclosure at the end, which I thought was interesting, first time I've encountered it.
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Just reading an academic paper and it has this disclosure at the end, which I thought was interesting, first time I've encountered it.
I made a map of development in the Liberties, including hotels and student accommodation, and new apartment complexes. What did I miss?
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October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I made a map of development in the Liberties, including hotels and student accommodation, and new apartment complexes. What did I miss?
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"Experience Heather"!? Are thry doing this on purpose so I'll share it with a !?
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Experience Heather"!? Are thry doing this on purpose so I'll share it with a !?
This is really really not good.
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is really really not good.
50%!? That seems awfully high. That means every second post I put here is AI generated yeah? I'm not great at stats.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
50%!? That seems awfully high. That means every second post I put here is AI generated yeah? I'm not great at stats.
www.theverge.com/news/799003/...
www.theverge.com/news/799003/...