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Brutal times for Irish whiskey - Powerscourt Distillery goes into receivership two days ago and now the news breaks that Diageo have halted production at their Roe & Co Distillery in Dublin independent.ie/business/whisk… Hard to know where all this ends....

How to pay for NI’s overloaded, underinvested water system? The minister is consulting on an indirect levy on buyers of new build homes. Business groups suggest wider socialisation of costs. No political appetite for that. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Buzzard ready to strike

Boeing set to take over Spirit in Northern Ireland as buyer talks fail ft.com/content/a14a80… via @ft

Oystercatcher, Kinbane

Something unsettling about a blackheaded gull looking straight down the lense.

Population of the island of Ireland exceeded 7 million people for the first time in over 170 years cso.ie/en/releasesand… #CSOIreland #Ireland #Census #Census2022 #CensusIreland #Population #NISRA

The sea swimming-enjoyer.

Getting made redundant by Leslie Knope. (Via Financial Times )

Vivid

Car industry warning that the Motability scheme - which makes up a huge 42% of Northern Ireland's new car market - won't be able to support sea border changes Disabled people using that scheme will face a "challenge" under new Windsor Framework rules newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/…

Some delicious reporting from the Financial Times

Otter is back & has a pal with him.

Sadly seeing another round of discourse on Irish public policy where ‘spending as a percentage of GDP’ is being used as an international comparator as if that’s in any way a meaningful number.