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Irish rebel songs (may offend)

The 2016 hacking

You were hacked a few days before the election and didn't restore full service for a good while afterwards, if I recall correctly (and I do).

Is there anything conclusive on what happened there?

I am very suspicious about that event, and the results of that election, and also the Brexit vote.

Why a Russian embassy expansion alarmed the Irish Government

Fascinating article:

By Louise Byrne
Prime Time Reporter

In early March 2020, Covid-19 had reached our shores and Ireland was just days away from announcing the first lockdown measures. But, while the country was consumed by the pandemic, serious concerns of a different kind were being raised in Government.

The Minister for Housing is not routinely involved in matters of national security, so it was unusual when Eoghan Murphy was called to a top-secret briefing with senior defence and security officials.

At the briefing, it was explained to the then-minister that a planned expansion of the Russian Embassy on Dublin's Orwell Road needed to be stopped.

Planning permission had been granted by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in 2015, but a closer look at the proposals had raised red flags. The Government had recently passed legislation allowing it to block applications on national security grounds – so it fell to the Housing Minister to act.