Stepped out of Futura for the Photo Walk and met two of Limerick's finest on Bedford Row 👮‍♂️ They lent me the cap for one photo. Not the job. Safe streets, friendly faces, a city full of ideas 🇮🇪 #FuturaInnovationLIMK #FILimerick

youtube.com/shorts/uMc7KnibL… What is happening in the world? USA lifted sanctions against Russia to allow its diesel to be sold until April 2027. Trump is saying Zelensky is bad president. October is the month to change what will happen next. We will see events unfold. History is made

You downloaded the car app to unlock the doors. Four GM apps also sent the car's VIN to Google, Meta, Microsoft and Snap. You can reset a phone's advertising ID. Nobody can reset a VIN. Source: Northeastern University and Consumer Reports. Forward and true.

Fewer than half of Irish founders would start their next co in Ireland. @stripe's survey: Sweden 47% Ireland 44%, level with Italy Germany 40% Netherlands 38% France 33% Spain 25%. No EU country reaches 50%. 26,533 new Irish companies were registered in 2025. Forward and true.

Irish prices: +24.5% in 5 years. Rent: +39.5%. Energy: +69.8%. RSM Ireland: inflation risks lie firmly to the upside. A 5.6% minimum wage rise vs 3.1% forecast inflation looks generous. For a renter facing 4.5%, the real raise is ~1%. Forward and true.

The ECB gave banks a digital euro on 21 September. It's called Pontes. Tokenised trades now settle in ECB money. XRP? One operator uses XRPL code privately. No XRP token. Public version: 2029 at the earliest. Forward and true. #DigitalEuro

Revolut handed customer passports to a fake request sent from a real government email domain. Your supplier's "new bank details" email works the same way. Call the number you already have before you pay a new account. 🚨 Forward and true.

1908-1913: Europe's great powers raised military spending 50%. 1914: war. 2025: $2.887 trillion on arms worldwide. Leaders rarely choose war. They drift into it. Deterrence buys time. Diplomacy decides what you do with it. Forward and true.

Irish data centres used 23% of the grid last year. Every home in Ireland used 28%. Households are asked to conserve. The biggest new load connects first. New York banned short term lets. Rents rose anyway. Solve it or delete the rule. lnkd.in/dfmUSSCY

He had never run a marathon. He entered the Olympic one anyway. Helsinki 1952. Zatopek asked the favourite if the pace was too fast. Peters bluffed: too slow. Zatopek accelerated and won by 2:32. Capacity is built before the day you need it. Forward and true.

In June 2020 Nike cut back on 50 retail partners to sell direct. Foot Locker filled the shelves with Hoka and On. $220bn of market value gone. Out of the S&P 100 on 21 September. Cutting distribution takes a quarter. Rebuilding takes years. Forward and true.

In 2011 a New Jersey filmmaker grew a beard, faked an Indian accent and invented a guru. 14 devoted disciples in 3 months. Invented philosophy. Invented yoga poses. He never manipulated them. He listened. That was the whole trick. Forward and true.

MEPs voted to label gene-edited food. The label did not survive. EU Reg 2026/1388 applies from 16 July 2028. The seed gets a label. Your dinner does not. The logic was stupid: if we can't test it, let producers hide it. Forward and true.

19. Blueprints, Limerick. UL founders, into Y Combinator this summer. $500k 20. Vedi.ie (Chern & Co.) Limerick. Business intelligence on 800,000 Irish companies. €500k 21. YourSecret.org (Farnora) Limerick. Privacy-first AI app for the US market. €250k