There are moments in Leinster House when the weight of politics feels heavier than the noise suggests. This was one of them. A Government Minister had come to the chamber not with a fresh policy or a clever soundbite, but with the visible exasperation of someone who had watched a serious debate curdle into something cynical. The subject was the triple lock, the dense-sounding phrase that governs whether Irish soldiers can be sent into dangerous places. But the Minister’s anger was not aimed at the mechanics of that system. It was aimed at his opponents, and the charge was withering:…

In a week when crypto markets were already on edge, OpenAI dropped a headline that sent a very specific kind of panic through Crypto Twitter: “OpenAI says its AI has proven that ETH is false.” If you are a person who spends any time watching Ethereum price charts, your heart probably skipped a beat. Did an artificial intelligence just somehow invalidate the second-largest cryptocurrency? Did Vitalik Buterin get caught off guard? The jokes came fast and furious. One user named Takumi posted, “Damn algo traders just slaughtered $ETH,” while Andrew Jiang quipped, “Vitalik has been real quiet since this came…