Reporter Paul Byrne case against his employer, Virgin, adjourned to June to allow mediation. Virgin appears to have been heavy-handed over an error contained in a report.

Separately, five BBC presenters, taking age discrimination cases against the BBC to start in London shortly

Even Elon Musk is scoring off the I Ran Away!

Any word at all from N Ireland First Minister on passenger checks at Derry/Belfast airports and Larne/Belfast ports, what with the alternative threat of a hard border on the island?

Interesting to see this tweet by Isabelle Flanagan subsequently copied verbatim by some dodgy Twitter accounts, and then the stream of half a dozen identical tweets being used to discredit what Isabelle was originally saying.
Are people taken in by this?

Is United Against Racism, whose website is registered at an address in Bergamo, Italy and which organised the counter protest at the GPO in Dublin today, at all linked to Italian migrant organisation Bellafon Societa which is funding Irish-based asylum organisations?

Doesn't get much better over at RTE
This is their online report with 1:58 minute embedded video for march on 2 March 2024
rte.ie/news/regional/…
This is their online report for today's march
rte.ie/news/dublin/20…
No embedded video, but it got 30 seconds on the Six One TV news.

First we had the Hong Kong-based BNN news which is creating AI-generated news with horrible results, like falsely accusing an RTE presenter of child sex crime. Now we have TimesNowNews which is doing the same thing and publishing AI-generated rubbish.

Irish Times reckons 'several [that is, three or more] hundred' marched through Dublin today
And 'about 200' counter protested outside the GPO, right
So, it was roughly even, then????
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Sindo poll yesterday on 'issues of concern'

Housing 54% (-5% in a month)
Immigration 41 (+15)
Healthcare 29 (-2)
Cost of Living 25 (-2)

Echoes the Irish Times polling, below left Feb and April 2024 right (it says Dec but it's Apr). Recent EU poll appears to be an outlier.

6 May 2024
Medical doctor and journalist, Dr Muiris Houston at the Irish Times delivers his advice on attending the emergency dept at University Hospital Limerick

No wonder people in Limerick are opting to die alone at home instead.