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We’d like to say a massive thank you to them for the countless hours they put in behind the scenes all year round 🚂 Our crew and Róisín are now taking a well earned rest before turning their attention to our next running season! 🚂

Not a bad way to mark my last driving turns for the foreseeable!

Documents show renowned Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu privately lobbied European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, seeking up to €15 million in funding from the EU to plug a shortfall in a planned world tour. Link my (slight mad) The Irish Times story below 🧵

(this is like dangling a steak over a pit of starving GoFundMe bots, but here we go...) gofund.me/f093902d

Merry Christmas to all our passengers, friends and followers from everyone at the railway and the Irish Steam Preservation Society 🚂🎅 See you all again in 2025! 🚂🛤

How Brussels turns its vacant office buildings into housing irishtimes.com/world/europe/2…

One from the middle of nowhere at the bottom of the world Whangamomona Letter: The idea for a tiny republic started in the pub but has brought a community together irishtimes.com/world/asia-pac…

Damn. I was worried the accidental launch would prevent YouTube from sending out a notification when I uploaded the correct version and it seems I was right. Any shares would be appreciated! youtu.be/YF6cEPdoP1Y

I wrote this about anti-wokeness, which is nothing more than a rebadged do-over of the tedious political correctness panics of my childhood. On how anti-woke, like 'politically incorrect' before it, is just a politically correct term for 'a dickhead'. irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-colu…

Today I start a new position in The Irish Times as a housing reporter. I hope to cover all aspects of the Irish housing crisis, bringing our readers onto our pages and sourcing expert views on where things are headed. Please get in touch with anything I should be covering.

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The Metrolink from Dublin Airport to the city centre could cost almost twice the highest previous estimate of the long-delayed project at more than €23 billion. That’s according to a new estimate given to Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien. irishtimes.com/transport/2025…

There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

From model railways to building fantasy lands - the world of miniature is a big business. Síofra Mulqueen has been speaking to the model makers getting lost in their work. Glen Murphy Dublin Bricks

Delighted to contribute to this brilliant package for The Business on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday on model trains and model making 🚂 Listen back from the 49 minute mark here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c… Thanks again to Síofra Mulqueen for having me on!

At one point on Saturday morning hundreds of first-time buyers queued to try and secure one of dozens of new properties going on sale in Dublin. What was it like being in the queue, and if you went to hear how we got on, you can LISTEN here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 newstalk.com/podcasts/the-a…

Ireland’s young adults on the future: ‘We are lost, forgotten about, no prospects’ irishtimes.com/life-style/202…