White supremacist billionaire and thin-skinned man baby Elon Musk has weighed in on the Irish election, with hateful content I won't link here. Suffice to say it's just further proof of what a tool he is.
The Irish Times reports that almost 1,000 prospective homebuyers have applied for just 51 houses costing up to €495,000 in the State’s most expensive “affordable purchase” housing scheme built to date.
Elsewhere, Dublin City Council chief executive Richard Shakespeare and councillors have complained the council is facing significant shortfalls in funding in several areas, including from the HSE for the Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance service. In response to the funding shortfall, one FG councillor said State bodies such as the Health Service Executive (HSE) see Dublin City Council as “the excrement on their shoes” to “boss and bully.”
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A quick search for songs about elections threw up a wide range of options (and this morning you've narrowly avoided a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band...but we'll come back to them.) Here's a bit of Creedence instead.