An excellent piece on the virtues of sad sandwiches by Misato Okaneya.
"Boterham demands no love or effort, and keeps the day going. I feel there is absolute trust in a boterham, not necessarily because it is excellent, but because it is simple and unpretentious."

At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same thin sandwich every day. I kept wondering, "Don’t they ever get tired of it?". This blog is a brief participant observation of that daily ritual.
Irish Examiner: Government bodies need to get off X, now
"Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed"
"... most Government departments continue to use X for their outbound comms with the Irish people, with several, including the HSE, An Garda SÃochána and the Department of Transport (via TFI and the TII) providing essential real-time updates via this now-niche third party platform — some exclusively so."
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41787647.html