Cian Gallagher

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[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Cape Verde becoming the smallest nation by population (525,000) to qualify for the World Cup knock-out stage officially means that the Cape Verdean Football Association’s cold DM to defender Robert Lopes on LinkedIn is the only legitimate use of a cold DM in LinkedIn’s history.

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

Make Quarter-Final weekend an all-timer. Saturday, Sunday. Four epic games. Make them events. Why not sell it out. This sport is unreal. Market it that way. Let’s go.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Apparently, Lamine was a bright-eyed boy until he held up a Palestine flag. Then, he became controversial.

The journalists who make a living romanticising athletes like Muhammad Ali are the first to punish those who try to use their voice for something meaningful today.

[Niall ₿urke ☘ 🪉 @nialljburke]

We've just published this in Energy Economics:

Sarnecki, M. & Burke, N. (2026). "Bitcoin Mining as Supply-Side Flexibility in Irish Wind Energy Integration"

In 2024, EirGrid dispatched down 10.1% of Ireland's available wind. In 2025, 11.4%. That is clean power we could have generated but were not able to use.

Can a co-located Bitcoin miner turn some of it into revenue?

Paper below 👇

[18for0 @18for0]

Great opinion piece in the @IrishTimes by Dave Kirwan, country chairman of Board Gais Energy and managing director of centrica power

"Ireland imports nuclear-generated electricity every day. It just bans itself from generating it"

"Public opinion has shifted, the ban has not"

[United Extra @TheUnitedExtra]

No feeling will ever top this Cameraman had Arsenal fans on screen celebrating before Cunha ruined the script 😭

[18for0 @18for0]

This week, a 680MW gas plant was approved for Dublin 11

Gas is 95× more dangerous to the public health per TWh than nuclear.

K. Devereux @echolivecork asks: what community on the island of Ireland would accept a nuclear plant in their vicinity.

Would you support a gas plant?

[Ireland's Energy Mix @XEnergyIreland]

If the transition is going to cost us, then so be it. Just need to be honest with ourselves. Moving from cheap fossil fuels with a wind & solar & batteries "on top" of the older grid could not possibly result in cheaper electricity ..as long as its the billpayer is the one paying for the grid AND pays gas prices for the wind and solar gov supported contracts. The best thing an individual could do is more microgeneration like rooftop solar with high export tarriffs, and skip the grid.

[IFB Media @IFBMedia]

Small-minded thinking is killing the League of Ireland.

Think back to 2009, Bohemians were knocked out of Europe by Red Bull Salzburg.

That same year was Bohs’ last league title. Sixteen years later, Salzburg are Champions League regulars and serial Austrian champions.

Though Bohs have become a PR machine that income can only bring them so far.

When I raised this before, one commenter piped up that fan-owned Barcelona was vindication that the model works.

Without a hint of irony. Barcelona. €800m in revenue. Playing in one of the world’s most financially incentivised leagues.

The comparison would be funny if it wasn’t so revealing.

Every club has a financial ceiling. With a total prize fund of €770,000 spread across three divisions, ours is among the lowest in Europe.

That’s not a foundation for survival, not to mention genuine growth.

The truth?

A significant section of diehards would prefer their club wins a few leagues in a stagnant pond than see Irish football genuinely progress.

Local bragging rights over the bigger picture. The league stays small. Their club stays relevant. They call it loyalty.

Be careful what you wish for.

Without a financial incentive structure, tangible progress is not feasible.

Ireland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The money exists. The ambition does not.

Clubs cannot even collectively agree to remove release clauses.

Every club knows it damages the league, and yet plenty do it anyway. A textbook tragedy of the commons. Moses Dyer left for €30K. Nothing changes.

Bodø/Glimt had a weekly wage bill of €140k and went on a historic
Champions League run.

Yet? Ireland are one of the few UEFA nations never to reach that stage. We are told to be satisfied with a few qualifying rounds.

Domestic broadcasting may have improved, but if we don’t have a major TV deal like the A-League does with TNT, we’re missing out on valuable revenue.

Journalists get banned from grounds for accurate reporting.

Players refuse interviews.

Cork City left X.

Clubs block fans for criticism. A league that shuts out the people talking about it is destined to never reach its potential.

We need a reality check, and no area is safe.

[Cian Gallagher @ciangallagher24]

Why is he such a child

[utdreport @utdreport]

Roy Keane on Instagram:

[Bruno Fernandes @B_Fernandes8]

how can I assist you? ☕

[Joe Smyth @JoeSmyth10]

Btw if the UK has a grid issue, Ireland has a serious grid issue. We are at the precarious end of both gas and electricity interconnections. A situation caused by the Greens but not being addressed quickly enough by the current government.

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

The utter recklessness of successive governments on energy security is well captured here. People will die if the gas pipeline from Scotland stops functioning. Homes wouldn't be heated and businesses would have to close. This is all clearly understood in government.
Yet still no storage facilities and no LNG import capacity exists, and it will be many years before this changes.
All of this reflects the failure of the political class to understand that the first duty of government is to protect citizens and the state. More widely, it explains why another vital strand of national security - defence force modernisation and resourcing - is not treated as the emergency that it is.

https://t.co/AxWHXFjVY9

[Everton @Everton]

Thank you, Seamus. 💙

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

It's Carrick, you know ❤️

🇾🇪 We are delighted to announce Michael Carrick will continue as our head coach, having signed a new contract.

[18for0 @18for0]

73% of Irish people support removing the nuclear ban.

Less than 20% want to focus only on renewables.

Nuclear can create jobs, reduce electricity prices, improve grid reliability and enable Ireland to meet our climate commitments (see our report below).

https://t.co/Af9ChLMCNj

[James O'Connor TD @JamesOConnorTD]

I am proud to announce my first bill with the ambition to legalise nuclear energy in Ireland. 101 years ago, Ireland broke ground on the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme. In our past we had an ambition to do what was necessary. Now we must do so again.

https://t.co/jgQouzFEvw

[Ireland's Energy Mix @XEnergyIreland]

🛑Wasted Wind Record:
Eirgrid released their monthly dispatch down figures for March 2026. Wind saw a record high of 348GWh dispatched down (242GWh in R.O.I and 106GWh in N.I.)

A new record high of 19GWh of solar occured (mostly curtailment not grid constraint)

For context, Turlough Hill can store 1.6GWh of energy

[Kieran Burke 🏇⚽🎙️🎱 @Kieran_B_Sport]

Meath v Westmeath not live anywhere today. What is the point of GAA+. This idea the GAA have that they're protecting attendances is nonsense. Every single LOI game streamed and attendances never better. Only 1200 at Longford v Westmeath last week. Put more eyeballs on the games.

[Daragh Cassidy @DaraghCassidy]

I’d always thought my first letter to the Irish Times would be a diatribe against DCC and bollards. Alas, it was about energy policy 😂