The Cork Choral festival must be one of the happiest events in the annual calendar anywhere. Choirs everywhere, singing everywhere. Loads of it in Cobh too
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Some really fascinating insights in this latest release from the CSO about urban and rural lives. The categorisation of different areas is very well done - and very crucial to understanding it
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Palantir's 'manifesto' has been described as an 'AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and 'technofascism'.
Fergus Finlay: On both sides of the Irish Sea, political leaders are in troubl
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Ireland is addicted to contracting away all kinds of State capacity
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The Crown was a psyop to humanise the Royal Family by having charismatic actors play them.
Could not watch it for exactly this reason
It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Y'all are gonna lose your minds when you hear about horses.
It’s brilliant and she’d be excellent in it I think, Fontine was good practice
I’m listening to Yesteryear on audio book and it is quite something. Sharp sharp sharp
Have a listen to the pod - some good suggestions proposed by the emergency services
Latest episode - why Ireland’s drink drivers are getting away with it, with Liz Dunphy
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"The one thing saving our society from chaos is that none of these other suffering groups would conduct a similar blockade because they are committed to an ethic of care."
Are you doing this every day Gareth because this is a a real public service!
The Strait of Hormuz: closed
I’m writing in today’s Irish Examiner about the need to reclaim our flag from those who seek to divide us, rather than unite us.
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Amazing writing from Jennifer Horgan”: Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on” #speirgorm
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Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
#DIBLives In December 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed, allowing women admission to the legal & other professions. 46 days later Dorothea Heron became the 1st woman apprenticed as a solicitor & #OTD 1923 she became the 1st woman solicitor in Ireland. www.dib.ie/biography/he...
This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.
🤣🤣🤣 this is why Cork people don’t welcome the motorway idea. Hordes of climate refugees from Limerick
Nope, having lived in both, Limerick rain doesn’t come near Galway rain. Frank McCourt would’ve had it way worse further up the west!!! West Kerry I am unable to comment on but I will say ALL the fuss about Cork is justified on the simple basis of less rain
