A more verbose updating of "Lots done, lots more to do."

That's just one step short of "The Teletubbies lied to us."

Optometrically speaking, the opening lyrics of this pretty much capture how I'm feeling
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In a happily weird turn of events, after almost 40 years of wearing contact lenses, then contact lenses & reading glasses (specky 6-eyes), then just one contact lens & reading glasses (specky 5-eyes), today I was told I no longer needed a contact lens at all (specky 4-eyes). Nature is healing.

No surprise, a year after the Boundary Commission. Obviously not a question on the census form in 1926, but how many pondered, "If we're in the Free State, are they in the ------ State?"

Those creatures will never declare a ceasefire in their class war.

It also means a whole swathe of the Irish population can't engage in the kind of tracing a lot of us have been doing over the weekend thanks to the great work of the NAI team. Once more stories from the North are marginalised in national narratives. We should be conscious of this.

The main guy in this? Brilliant film.

You, Dev and Big Audio Dynamite

Tymon Park North, Greenhills. Never saw anything like this before. Nature is healing.

Was running very slowly for me earlier, but not totally down

As the League of Ireland enjoys its greatest level of popularity in decades, we caught up with three historians about its heyday, the wilderness years and what happens next. jrnl.ie/7013248t

You, me and Brendan O'D. Only one of us actually got the Vespa, but.

Years ago, I went looking for my grandma in the 1901 & 1911 Censuses, her first name was Nora according to my da's birth cert. It was only later that a long-lost relative told me the family knew her as Nan. And then when I did find her in the censuses, she was down as Honora, so three first names!

If he was in the Guards early enough to be a Superintendent by 1927, it's very likely he was in the IRA before

Thanks for the kind words Brenadn, much appreciated

If so, bang goes any chance of - as @ciarab.bsky.social mentioned in her article - quantifying how many northern Catholics fleeing sectarian violence settled in the south.

Wow. Just discovered something I'd completely missed before. My grandma on my da's side was a year older than my granda.
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FTP

Hurricane Gilbert come mash up de place. Sit out on my hotel balcony in Montego Bay, skinning up some of Jamaica's finest. Watch the palm-trees flying flat horizontally, right to left, and embedding themselves in the hotel walls. Not sure if I could handle another hurricane without a spliff.

On a bus in Spanish Town, Sunday morning, all the locals wondering why the white guy is crying laughing. Cos the driver's radio is playing Dana, "All Kinds of Everything."

Other surreal Jamaican moments: in a cab in Kingstown when it ran out of petrol. Guy left me in the middle of a dual carriageway minding his cab while he went off with a jerrican to get fuel. Can't remember if he let me off the fare afterwards.

Mugged at knifepoint in Kingstown, Jamaica. Asked the guy if I could keep the film from the camera he was gonna rob. Then absolutely bollocked him out of it for trying to open the camera with his knife, screaming at him he was gonna expose the film. A very brief, very surreal, role-reversal.

Think Trump should keep him. For the good of the rest of the world.

A sink without a basin is just a very small bath.

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused.

Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

Great spot!

I'd start with checking to see how many of the tractors parked on O'Connell Bridge have green diesel in them. Not much agriculture going on in D1.

I paid €2.25/litre for diesel on Ninth Lock Road less than half an hour ago

Union boss says 'double standards' in way union protests treated compared to farmers | BreakingNews Minister for Transport says it was not acceptable that people were not being allowed to go about their daily lives.

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