Barry O'Sullivan

engineer, lucky husband and dad, hillseeker #andacyclist, former dragons' den investor, product guy. Founder Altocloud. ❤️Ireland.

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Maybe get the Bearna bus working first

[Galway Advertiser @galwayad]

County councillors from east and west reunite behind Gluas.

https://t.co/yscXgE93n6

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

Darragh Ó Sé Seems Supremely Confident That Kerry Will Beat Mayo In All-Ireland Final

He's not shying away from it anyway 👀
https://t.co/rHi3eo4uDW

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Effectively no tax cuts planned for 2027.

The @TaxFoundation ranks Ireland’s personal tax code as the worst in Europe and the second worst in the OECD.

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Kerry hype in overdrive

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

🔺Darragh Ó Sé: The more I think about Sunday’s All-Ireland final, the more straightforward it looks

🔺I might turn out to be wrong. If I am, it wouldn’t be the first time or the last time. But you have to break these games down to known metrics and you can only go with what’s in front of you before a game

Read here: https://t.co/LTJn7qJ1k8

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

U.S. data centers require:

30x less water than U.S. golf courses.
100x less than California almonds.
200x less than U.S. home lawns.
2,500x less than U.S. crop irrigation.

Who is protesting almonds? Golf courses? Lawns? Nobody.

China does not feel threatened by your lawn.

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Looking forward to the football tonight and next weekend. Hurling is now a game of swarming, pulling and dragging. Having said that, Limerick are the most skillful team in the country.

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Time to give young people a break. Most graduates end up on the higher rate of tax within a few years of leaving college. Let's encourage them to stay in Ireland by giving them back some of their own hard-earned money.

[John Lee @JohnEdwardLee]

🔴Front page @IrishMailSunday … Tanaiste Simon Harris unveils tax cut bonanza

[Michael Barry @Michael54325847]

Sinn Fein opposes 18,000 new homes in Dunsink Dublin. But the Government had better solve the housing crisis says Eoin O Broin.

[Billy Kelleher MEP @BillyKelleherEU]

Why are EU countries still granting visas to Russian nationals.
Allowing Russians to swan around EU sunbathing while Ukrainian are still scurrying down air raid shelters is wrong.
EU needs to reduce number of visas given to Russian citizens.

https://t.co/5UhP6jUDGs

[Napaleo @newpeteV1]

EU : Irish translation is available - at significant expense - but now it seems you can't actually speak Irish and want to proceed in English. Is that right?

Lynn Boylan : um, yeah

EU :

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Kerry hype in overdrive. Editor of Kerry Examiner reposting.....

[Tony Leen @tonyleen]

Hmmm. Between Killarney and Killorglin. #kerryness?

[Conor Gallagher @ConorGallaghe_r]

Multiple Irish State agencies are using password software with deep links to a Russian technology company licensed by Moscow’s intelligence service, an Irish Times investigation has found.

https://t.co/ccgf0RW02w

[David W. Higgins @higginsdavidw]

"Huge" data centre use revealed to be 0.13%. Even accounting for issues raised in the piece, it still isn't "huge".

1) "38% of the country’s supply is lost through leakage". Ok, so 0.13% rises to 0.21% of the *delivered* water supply (0.13 / (1-0.38)).

2) "93% of Ireland’s data centres are located in the Greater Dublin Area" (GDA). Let's be generous and say it's 100%. The GDA counties are ~40% of total population. Assume that's the same for water use.

3) The 0.13% baseline is 2021 data, so let's add a 9% increase (89/82-1) for some additional data centres since. (0.21 / 0.4) * 1.09

That gives you 0.57% water consumption in the GDA. There's no way this number jumps to 5% or 20% (like electricity consumption). Let's have official *regional* estimates, as the piece calls for, but the number is highly unlikely to present a "huge" draw anywhere.

CC @BiddyEarly @ChristineBohan @SineadOCarroll @paulmurphy_TD @Toibin1

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @IrishPoliticsNL]

This is shocking.
At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Modern cars are much safer than cars were in 1992. According to the RSA, road deaths in Ireland in 1992 were 415 compared to 183 in 2025. This, despite there being almost 3 times as many cars on the road today.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Our motoring columnist Paddy Comyn spent a day driving a Mercedes-Benz 500E built in 1992 – and says that the experience “rearranged something in my head that I’m still trying to put back together”.

https://t.co/3gym1NGoRv

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Our Uachtarán loves a Galway gig on a Friday or Monday

[Galway Advertiser @galwayad]

President Catherine Connolly will make a keynote address on the importance of the arts as a medium to speak truth to power at the opening of the 2026 Galway International Arts Festival next week https://t.co/kT7RHh321W

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

@irishexaminer no he doesn't - read the article Kerry Examiner people

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

Nailed on hurling all-star

[Clubber @clubber]

Thursday Clubber Classics 📼

Brian Hayes' goal gives The Barrs a two point lead in the Cork SFC county final, setting up a dramatic finish to the game 👀

We’re bringing back the best Clubber games from years gone by in full, free on https://t.co/yMkMTpFmTc 🎥🔙

[Barry O'Sullivan @siliconbarry]

@JoeyCan88 Good article Joe - glad I read it and ignored the headline - which I am sure was written by a sub-ed. As a disappointed Corkman I will be supporting Galway on the 19th.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Letting Russia return to Olympics is to collude in slaughter of Ukrainians https://t.co/ZgWotpCRE2