Mark Dennehy

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• Commented on The coming storm
  SF are probably still a couple of years away from gaining a working majority in the Dail Well, not really that far out; had they run more candidates in the last general election, every analysis so far has said...
• Commented on The coming storm
  The Irish election bit gave me a small start because I thought you'd seen something I'd missed :D We don't have general elections in March, just a referendum to pull Yet Another Bit Of DeVelera's Theocracy out of the constitution....
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  I'll just leave this here from the Irish Times because it deserves to be run out anytime this topic comes up: Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed...
• Commented on A death in the Firm
  The thing is, this is a very UK take on how funerals and mourning is a private affair. It doesn't even hold across the Irish sea. Irish funerals are a very very different affair and mourning is a very social...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
  Y'know, between idiots on Question Time suggesting that Ireland reunite into one nation as a solution to Brexit, and the ex-Northern Ireland secretary quoting Michael fecking Collins in the Commons and hoping he didn't share his fate, there really isn't...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  reads comments about Irish ports Ah, here, lads. 1) Yes, we have loads, we're grand. 2) Ireland is highly (as in 98%) pro-EU and honestly, after the last six months of the UK press, not really very pro-England right now...
• Commented on Ask me anything!
  Have you not maybe noticed Amazon's AWS and S3 businesses /looks up from firefighting a kubernetes issue in AWS Yeah, kindof. But it doesn't do anything we weren't doing in '97, it just does it at a much larger...
• Commented on Ask me anything!
  We've not had a real space program for a few generations now (SpaceX is very pretty but it's basically delta clipper done commercially on some billionaire's whim). What we've had is the Amazons and the Alibabas and the Ebays and...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
  Also, Berkow won't allow a vote on Mays deal without an extension, so it's catch22 unless you turn Parliment off and on again......
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
  Well, Macron has stated he will veto the extension request so it does look like it's now down to crash out or revoke A50......
• Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
  (4) The Good Friday Agreement gets applied in reverse and the UK, unable to achieve consensus in the house of commons, reverts to direct government. In this case, since Belfast is currently U/S thanks to the DUP crashing the Stormont...
• Commented on On hold
  Well, if you're going to attach a TCP link using the FIN flags......
• Commented on A bright and shiny hell
  On a slightly positive note, this may not be evenly distributed globally; compare the US attitude to data protection and privacy versus the EU attitude as codified by the GDPR, which contains nuggets like section 22, which introduces a new...
• Commented on And the Rabid Nazi Raccoons shall inherit the Earth
  The best we could do would be to lob H-bombs at it in an attempt to break it up Not in the "best we could do" position on the list of things to do to incoming impactors using H-bombs;...
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  The news. And wincing every time....