Cork and Kerry keeping Ireland's lights on during Europe's worst energy crisis Green energy overtakes fossil fuels in February

And - of course - nothing about the vast potential for wind energy off our coasts that could see us become a major EXPORTER of energy and secure real independence #FuelProtests #SpeirGorm

You know this is Yank fascist bullshit infiltrating Ireland and pretending to be Irish nationalism when they talk about the military securing the border.

Lads, any actual Irish nationalist wants the border gone, not "secured". #Spéirghorm #Spéirgorm

In 1693 a slave trader observed that to a person from West Africa, the word ‘Barbados’ invoked a ‘more dreadful apprehension than we have of Hell’.

A very special kind of 'I told you so.'

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I mean there’s criticism … and then there’s attacking every EU treaty, calling the Germans Nazis and repeating Putin talking about the expansion of the EU and NATO.

I’d rather my president be pro-Europe than repeating Kremlin talking points.

Getting a touch of Stendahl syndrome looking at this particular painting

An incredibly satisfying article. I appreciate the GAA does a lot of good work but I cannot stand the sanctimony and hubris that so often accompanies the organisation.

2/2 Chien de Rolin: Pretty chuffed about being invited to the big event.

Maybe a whitewasher of imperialist Russian aggression in the Áras, similar to Clare Daly, is exactly what Ireland needs to wean itself off Kremlin propaganda.

This is at its worst when you look up a restaurant and cannot find a menu.

ladies if he’s a matador that is a huge red flag

Sir, a second Eoin Hayes has hit the Soc Dems.

When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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A heavenly glimpse of the nave through the west door at Beverley Minster #thread

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Lovely to hear Melvyn Bragg talking about the big idea behind "In Our Time": to get academics on the air, talking about the subjects they were most passionate & knowledgeable about, without worrying about whether they had "media training".

It's remarkable that this was (& remains) such an odd idea!

Particularly in the SW where last yesr I was at the chatting to a Tim O’Connor at the funeral of another Fr Tim O’Connor. Apparently we’d have all been Thadeus had another transliteration of Tadhgh not been more popular.

Not blaming you at all, I saw your comment and understand that you don’t choose the images. Regrettably though, this is a feature and not a bug of how a lot of British people imagine their country to look, including whoever generated the original image. It can be exasperating. That’s all.

I’ve yet to see an image of Italy used in similar circumstances where they include the island of Corsica yet many of our neighbours seem to be either profoundly ignorant of the borders of their own country or subject to Russian style ambitions for re-expansion.

Catherine Connolly may be basically a well-meaning person who has good positions on various things, but she has showed very poor judgement in important situations and doesn't seem to have learned from her mistakes or pulled away from those people or positions

Catherine Connolly says “the Ukraine” in every speech on the war. She opposes Ireland providing Ukraine paltry combat medic and de-mining training, and objects to all EU arms funding for Ukraine.

She took part in a PR blitz for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but wouldn’t clap for Zelenskyy in the Dáil.

If you asked me to imagine 2025 as a kid I might have come up with flying cars, space travel... Never in a million years would I have foreseen a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach giving a speech at the Dublin Pride parade to mark the ten year anniversary of Ireland’s referendum to legalise gay marriage…

The entire discourse around Zohran is like this

I remember seeing a study before where you were only considered a millionaire if your assets, excluding your primary residence, amounted to over a million in worth. Might be something like that.

647,000 from that list I think

Iceland: [none I could think up without looking] Northern Ireland: Michelle O'Neill Republic of Ireland: Michael Healy-Rae Scotland: Humza Yousaf Wales: Jeremy Miles England: Ed Davey Netherlands: Pieter Omtzigt Portugal: António Costa Spain: Yolanda Diaz Norway: Odd Roger Enoksen Sweden: Nooshi Dagostar Finland: Pekka Haavisto Estonia: Kaja Kallas Latvia: [none I could think up without looking] Russia: Mikhail Mishustin Denmark: Lars Løkke Rasmussen Lithuania: Ingrida Šimonytė Belarus: Paviel Latuška Belgium: Sophie Wilmes Germany: Philipp Amthor Luxembouurg: Xavier Bettel France: Gérald Moussa Darmanin Switzerland: Viola Amherd Czechia: Tomio Okamura Poland: Rafal Trzaskowski Slovakia: Igor Matovič Austria: Alexander van der Bellen Hungary: Péter Magyar Slovenia: Robert Golob Croatia: Andrej Plenković Bosnia: [none I could think up without looking] Ukraine: Denys Shmyhal Moldova: Maia Sandu Romania: Sorin Grindeanu Serbia: Ana Brnabić San Marino: [none I could think up without looking] Italy: Giuseppe Conte Bulgaria: Boyko Borisov Montenegro: [none I could think up without looking] Kosovo: [none I could think up without looking] North Macedonia: [none I could think up without looking] Vatican City: [none I could think up without looking] Malta: [forgot it exists] Albania: Edi Rama Turkey: Ekrem İmamoğlu Greece: Kyriakos Mitsotakis Cyprus: Fidias

porting this over: trying to name a current politician for every state (or in this case country) without looking their names up

Someone from the government of Commission needs to explain to Michael O’Leary very gently but firmly that Ryanair has to move to Airbus.

Reuters @reuters.com. 2m Boeing shares fall after plane crashes in India reut.rs/3ZrH5Tt BOEING Boeing shares fall after plane crashes in India Shares of planemaker Boeing slid in premarket U.S. trading on Thursday after an Air India aircraft with more than 200 people crashed near the ... Euronews @euronews.com · 3m An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London crashed on takeoff at Ahmedabad airport in India. Over 100 people were on board, no casualties confirmed yet. Air India plane bound for London crashes on takeoff at Ahmedabad An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London crashed on takeoff at Ahmedabad airport in India. Over 100 people were on board, n...

I love the the difference in reporting focus. American news focuses on the stock market effect. European news focuses on the lives lost.