I’m now on the Limerick Junction to Cork train, which is full.
The onboard reservation system isn’t working meaning everyone like me who got on at the junction and had seat numbers assigned online now have to find any seat available on any carriage as it’s now free seating.
Some people are standing and an argument has arisen between a man and two women who technically are sitting in his seat but won’t move.
All this for €25 
3/
As it’s the weekend there’s no ticket office open in Clonmel or Limerick Junction train stations and no ability to buy tickets onboard.
The only way to purchase a ticket is online with a credit/debit card. This is both ageist, ableist and classist. It’s excludes people with no internet connections or bank accounts.
2/
Getting a train from Clonmel to Cork.
To drive, it takes approx. an hour. To train, it takes 2 hrs 30mins. I have to take two trains, changing at Limerick Junction. It’s costing me €25 return.
To drive Clonmel to Waterford takes approx. 45 mins. To train takes 50 mins and costs €6 return. The difference is crazy!
Ireland’s rail network outside Dublin is completely inefficient and so expensive. If we are going to stop relying on cars we need a much better national network. #Mastodaoine
The #DUP #TUV and loyalist activist 
continue to waste massive sums of taxpayers money arguing that Ireland’s national language shouldn’t be on signage in Ireland; meanwhile there’s insufficient housing, agricultural pollution affecting much of our AONB and water bodies, prices are about to rise exponentially because of Trump tariffs, a UK ETA for visitors to six countries of Northern Ireland that will cost tourism and hospitality a lot in discontinued bookings, and a likely rise in unemployment as the effect of tariffs impact around the world.
But two languages on a signboard……. Pass the smelling salts.
#NIPolitics #UKPolitics #MastoDaoine #Think32 #UI
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9vjqz93v9o
Praxis, the artists' union, has written to Minister Patrick O'Donovan calling for protections for artists' livelihoods, funding stability and a transparent review process. We need your voice to make sure that no artist or arts worker is put at risk.
Please sign and share this petition:
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Hey #mastodaoine did you go to London for a few years and work? Are you also bereft of a private pension pot? The broke UK government are letting us pay up to 10 previous years' worth of National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and it'll bolster your meagre existence after reaching pension age.
It's a financial giveaway, and the deadline is tomorrow.
BUT if you lodge a request for a callback, they'll contact you within 8 weeks(ish) and consider that as being before the deadline.
Friday Cartoon: Gardai Facial Recognition Technology https://www.caricatures-ireland.com/gardai-facial-recognition-technology/ #mastoart #mastodaoine
Irish 5-point Likert scale:
Cat - Middlin' - Grand - Savage - Mighty altogether
Inspired by https://mastodon.ie/@Tarbh/114273783046794813
Jazz Symphonic Orchestra
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Jazz Symphonic Orchestra of Sao Paulo
Orquestra Jazz Sinfonica de Sao Paulo
Sketches done live during a concert, watercolour completed later.
#JazzSymphonicOrchestra #SaoPaulo
#OrquestraJazzSinfonica #BuyIntoArt #concert #watercolour #FediGiftShop #doublebass #violin #woodwind #MastoDaoine #Mastoart #guitar #trombone #jamesmccormackartist
There are two tiny islands by Newfoundland that now have the highest US tariffs in the world as they have all of 5800 people and no industry so they basically sell some fish to the US but don't buy much in return.
Thing is, it used to be a french territory so legally, they're France. They're all French citizens, they're in the EU, they're part of the Eurozone, all that fun stuff.
So the EU has three different tariff rates applied to it because the US is bad at geography.
Measles on a train - with a 2 hour potential airborne period after the infected person has left - is already nightmare fuel, but the most shocking thing about this is the HSE advice to avoid spreading measles does not include wearing a fucking mask https://www.thejournal.ie/hse-warns-people-travelling-on-dublin-to-sligo-train-last-friday-may-have-been-exposed-to-measles-6666105-Apr2025/
So let's see.
- The tariff texts all seem to have come from chatGPT
- They made up what they thought other countries have as their tariffs by dividing the trade surplus by the exports instead of actually looking up what the tariffs were
- They tariffed their own military base
- And they tariffed two islands solely occupied by penguins.
And this is what is going to mangle our economy? Well, I can't wait for all this to show up on the six-one news, right? 
#mastodaoine #notUSpolAnyMoreIGuess
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Watercolour.
A busy coffee shop in São Paulo, Baristas serve expresso, café, coffee, to couples, families, the general public.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/cafe-james-mccormack.html ]
#coffee #cafe #café #coffeeshop
#BuyIntoArt #art #MastoArt #MastoDaoine #FediShop
Lighthouse Open Days
Kinsale Sat 5th, Sun 6th
Lusitania museum funder
Welp. RTÉ Radio is playing Great Depression-era ballads, in case anyone's wondering how we're taking things in Ireland.
And.. hand-job gestures..?
Annnnd we're back to the stream of falsehoods and wittering.
20% tariffs against the EU.
Yet to hear of any other tariffs, such as on products.
Ah, right. His speech is just a stream of falsehoods and wittering.
Beul na h-oidhche, beul na h-aibhne.
Some braws sunsets on the Firth.
Mask up 
