Is it time "we forgot the past" and support England in the World Cup semi-final? #TonightVMTV Journalist Simon Tierney thinks we should. #TonightVMTV

It's "daylight robbery". There's a "lack of consent". Singer-Songwriter David Kennan on learning that his music has been scraped by AI. #TonightVMTV

Can anything be done to stop AI from using copyrighted work without permission? Singer-songwriter David Keenan reveals how he reacted after discovering his music had been scraped to train AI. He said there's a "lack of humanity here". #TonightVMTV

Because so many resources are being deployed to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, it's likely that Gardai will not get "pursuit training" until next year, says News Reporter Orla Ryan. #TonightVMTV

Who's "calling the shots" on e-scooters? The Government "or young yobs running riot"? #TonightVMTV

We need "stricter regulation around the sale of e-scooters. There's already a ban for under-16s, but where's the enforcement?" asks Social Democrats TD Daniel Ennis. #TonightVMTV

On #TonightVMTV with Shane Coleman: Are scramblers and e-scooters becoming an epidemic of reckless behaviour? Can Ireland protect artists from industrial-scale AI copyright theft? And as the World Cup reaches the semi-finals… is it okay to support England?

🗣️ “It’s naive to think now [sports and politics] are completely separate,” 🗣️ “There is probably a bigger moral case for having abandoned this game now than there would’ve been a few years ago,” @adrianweckler.bsky.social | #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Tonight’s [FAI vote] has placed a really difficult decision on the players... it’s probably a very difficult decision for some of them,” says Elaine Loughlin, Political Editor, Irish Examiner #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “What should’ve happened here was UEFA and FIFA expel Israel from its competitions,” 🗣️ “It’s not on any individual state’s Government to withdraw its own teams out of competitions,” @naoiseoc.bsky.social | #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Mr al-Wahidi, along with a taxi driver, a 10-year-old child and an 8-year-old child, were bombed just before that [World Cup] watch party began. "And yet, we have a Minister and a Government telling us that sports and politics don’t mix,” #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Any parents of children aged 6-8 — the thought of them going 8km away from home on [an e-scooter] doing 16km/h is frankly petrifying,” says Elaine Loughlin, Political Editor, Irish Examiner. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Everything needs to be on the table, because we’re playing catch-up on legislation and enforcement [on e-scooters],” says Aidan O’Farrelly TD, Social Democrats. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Not one member of An Garda Síochána is trained in pursuit training, never mind anything to do with e-scooters,” 🗣️ “We're finding a number of our members being brought before the courts, prosecuted under the Road Traffic Act, just trying to do their job,” #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “It’s embarrassing. Just get [Dublin Metro] done,” says @adrianweckler.bsky.social  🗣️ “Why do we find it so difficult to build these projects?... In other countries, they just build it,” says Shane Coleman. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “[Dublin Metro] will be a very important project, but this Government and successive Governments’ track record on delivering these types of projects stands to reason we don’t have trust,” says Aidan O’Farrelly TD, Social Democrats #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Do you accept your bona fides when it comes to delivering public infrastructure projects is pretty awful? 🗣️ How can we have any faith this project [Dublin Metro] will be delivered on time and anywhere close to its budget?” #TonightVMTV

On #TonightVMTV with Shane Coleman: 🚨 Metrolink is one step closer to its maiden voyage - but will increased costs make it another financial runaway train? 🚨 Can regulation catch up with dangerous use of e-scooters? 🚨 FAI Vote: Will the board get backing on Israel fixtures?

🗣️ “This is the unfinished business of the Irish people,” As Government TDs voted down Sinn Féin’s proposal to begin preparations for a united Ireland, the #TonightVMTV panel discussed whether we should begin preparations for constitutional change. 📺 https://f.mtr.cool/edqjvxkbnq

🗣️ “There are people in the party who are saying this could be quite embarrassing [for Nigel Farage]. 🗣️ The fight against the establishment turns out to be a fight of Nigel Farage against basically no one,” @annasophiegross.bsky.social  | #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The case of Mr Ivan Rosney... he ended up going into remand custody and died in remand custody in active psychosis while being restrained, without the treatment he needed,” Niamh McCormack, Legal & Public Affairs Manager at the Irish Penal Reform Trust #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Do you not think there’s any solicitors out there that would try and move things quicker because they’re getting one flat fee?” asks Shane Coleman. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “What he [Minister O’Callaghan] proposed - through a flat rate payment [for solicitors] - could be equally, if not more so, open to abuse,” says @matt-carthy.bsky.social  #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The Government was warned that the kind of changes Jim O’Callaghan proposed would lead to a decline in the quality of representation,” says Shane Coleman. 🗣️ “I think it’s worse than was actually warned,” says James Geoghegan TD, Fine Gael. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “I would counter the idea that there are not people coming from [Loyalist] backgrounds engaging in this conversation [on a united Ireland]. 🗣️"A lot of quiet work happens at a community-based level within civic society,” @emmadesouza.bsky.social  | #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “This is a big project. This is the unfinished business of the Irish people,” says @matt-carthy.bsky.social  #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Constitutional change in this referendum is not some sort of party manifesto item,” says @emmadesouza.bsky.social  #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “In the best-case scenario... a cost or a subsidy to run Northern Ireland of €12 billion a year,” says @morgenrothedgar.bsky.social #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The question I would put to Government parties who oppose this is... what do we gain from not beginning this process [on a united Ireland]?” says @emmadesouza.bsky.social  #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Micheál Martin has set himself up as the lone ranger in opposing any measures that would advance these conversations [on a united Ireland],” 🗣️ “If there was a different leader of Fianna Fáil at this moment, this motion would have passed,” @matt-carthy.bsky.social | #TonightVMTV