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The Gist: Ireland's Biometric Laundromat
As readers will know, in the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Act 2026 the Irish Department of Justice is trying to drive a coach and four through the EU AI Act's limits on police surveillance. It just seems like yesterday when I wrote about
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The Gist: Who Will Lead FF Next?
Fadó fadó in Éirinn, becoming the leader of Fianna Fáil was the same thing as becoming the Taoiseach. If you got one job, you were going to get to do the other. Every Fianna Fáil leader has ended up as Taoiseach, no exceptions.But Fionn Mac Cumhaill no lo
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The Gist: The End of the 100 Year Government
The Irish State has spent most of its 100-plus years as both a startling success and an embarrassing failure. It's important to acknowledge both of those things because if you ignore one or the other the behaviour of its electorate will always seem inexpl
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The Gist: Humpty Dumpty's Wall of Biometric Bamboozlement
This week Jim O'Callaghan, the Minister for Justice, stood up and explained why his plan to give the Garda Síochána powers to use AI to surveil the public didn't need the safeguards set down in EU law.You see, he said, all of those EU limits were on the u
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Guest Gist: Everything Everywhere All at Once: Crime and Justice in the Age of Total Surveillance
In the classic detective story, a rumpled investigator paces a crime scene, notebook in hand, squinting at a cigarette butt or a smudged fingerprint. Columbo tugs at his raincoat and asks one more question. Miss Marple notices something out of place in a
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