Irish Red Setter – from screen to paper(s) :)

#AnimalsOfIrishNameBook #IrishIndependent #IrishBooks #WildlifeArt #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

Many thanks to Rick O'Shea at the Irish Independent for including GREYHOUND in his top reads of 2025!

#Greyhound #reviews #nonfiction #memoir #irishindependent #notamiserymemoir #fitzcarraldoeditions #softskullpress

Is he in Slot's first-choice 11? Salah was the first substitute Slot sum monedon Saturday.Itwasscarcelyalike- for-like switch when he came on for the injured.Joe Gomez, so it was an attempt to involve him. Nevertheless, Salah has not started any of Liverpool's last five games: he was not taken to Milan, was named on the bench for the other four and left there twice.

This might be the worst football journalist take of all time, and that's saying something! How could Slot do a like-for-like sub when there were ZERO CBs or RBs on the bench, and the only option was already playing in midfield!?

#LFC #Liverpool #IrishIndependent

Enoch Burke to resist paying school’s €600,000 legal bill Jailed teacher Enoch Burke will resist paying hundreds of thousands of euro in legal costs he owes and has indicated he intends to bring his dispute with Wilson’s Hospital School all the way to the Supreme Court.

Note that an apparently identical report by Shane Phelan also appears in the #IrishIndependent at www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/enoch-... / https://archive.is/CwWj7

Three individuals stand smiling in front of a Bowel Cancer Ireland banner inside a conference venue. The banner reads “Awareness, Advocacy and Peer Support for Colorectal Cancers.” One person wears a colourful headscarf, another wears glasses and a light green blazer, and the third wears red trousers and a white jacket. All are wearing blue lanyards, suggesting they are attendees or speakers at a bowel cancer awareness event.

A major news story in the Irish Independent highlights an urgent call from health experts and campaigners to lower the age for bowel cancer screening in Ireland. The country now suffers the highest mortality rate for colorectal cancer in Europe. The article notes a worrying trend: nearly one in five people diagnosed in 2024 were under 60, and one in ten were under 50. Organisations like Bowel Cancer Ireland and the Marie Keating Foundation are urging the Government to lower the screening age from 59 to 50—or even younger—for higher-risk individuals. Bowel cancer survival rates dramatically drop when diagnosed at a later stage: 97% at stage one, but only 14% at stage four. Despite the benefits of early detection, screening uptake remains low compared to European norms. The article also cites a study by RCSI and the HSE’s National Screening Service, which found that mailing test kits directly to people significantly increases participation. Campaigners say the Government must act faster and more decisively to address this emerging public health crisis, particularly the rise in early-onset colorectal cancers linked to diet, lifestyle, and delayed diagnosis.

This editorial underscores the importance of earlier bowel cancer screening as a life-saving measure. It argues that earlier detection leads to better outcomes and fewer aggressive treatments. Early-stage diagnosis offers a five-year survival rate of 97%, compared to just 14% at stage four. The editorial points to a sharp rise in bowel cancer cases among younger people—especially those under 50—and attributes this trend to poor diet, low fibre intake, lack of exercise, obesity, and increased consumption of processed foods. One in five diagnoses in Ireland now occurs in people under 60. Despite these alarming trends, Ireland’s screening programme currently starts at age 59. While the Government plans to lower this to 55, the article advocates for a more urgent, population-wide shift to self-screening and earlier age thresholds, particularly for high-risk groups. It concludes that earlier screening not only improves survival but also enhances quality of life by catching cancer before symptoms appear.

A belated post after last week's Bowel Cancer in Ireland conference at the @rcsi.bsky.social - prompted by some very welcome coverage and support in the #IrishIndependent today. Fingers crossed for the final HIQA report on lowering the screening age, whenever it's finally published!

Historical fiction roundup: Four novels of struggle, loss and intrigue spanning 300 years of history If historical fiction is your genre of preference, there are some gems here.

"If historical fiction is your genre of preference, there are some gems here" #AnneCunningham #IrishIndependent www.independent.ie/entertainmen... #newbooks #historicalfiction #tbr

A third of mortgages held by non-bank entities in Ireland carry interest rates above 5%, with some exceeding 6.5%, placing a heavier burden on vulnerable borrowers, according to the Irish Independent. This is pure usury. reinstate the medieval prohibition on usury.
#money #irishindependent

One is educating the young, the other is playing a game. #irishindependent did you do this on purpose? If you did, well played! He’s always been a tone deaf gob shite!

The Louth social circle breaking the pandemic of loneliness Ireland is the loneliest place in Europe, according to a survey by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre which found that over 20 per cent of respondents declared themselves “lonely”. This i...

Wow wee #MnaAwesome mo chairde Janet, Biddy, Gerry, Annette & Susan are now national superstars🤩 🤩 🤩 🤩 🤩

From Saturday's #IrishIndependent

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#SocialCircle #MuirhevnamorCommunityCentre #Dundalk #Louth #ByTheCommunityForTheCommunity

RTE: Mediahuis klaagt X in Ierland aan om nepadvertenties

www.transport-online.nl/75995/rte-me... #Ireland #IrishIndependent #Mediahuis #X #nepadvertenties

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Just spotted this on the aul Insta. FAO @rickoshea.bsky.social @unamullally.bsky.social #dublin #irishindependent

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Good article in #irishindependent attributing their failure in elections count to facf they promise anything to get elected suggesting this works for younger voters but not older voters. Hence they will push hard for diaspora Irish to vote. A lot of Irish youth are working abroad.

Editorial: Cop29 climate summit is indeed like a ‘dark joke’ given the lack of buy-in from world leaders Amid alarming climate and humanitarian crises, another “authoritarian petrostate is hosting Cop29”. Campaigner Greta Thunberg was clearly not concealing her chagrin at Cop29 – the UN climate ­summit b...

#IrishIndependent view on #COP29 (IMHO: entirely accurate; very dispiriting...)
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Tess Finch-Lees: If parents don’t fight to protect children from Covid in schools, nobody else will “It’s not your fault,” I told 16-year-old Cara, whose mother died of a SARS-CoV-2 infection she gave her. To be clear, the doctor confirmed Cara (not her real name) had passed on the virus and Covid w...

"Se os pais não lutarem para proteger as crianças da #Covid nas #escolas, ninguém mais o fará"
"... mais de 70% da transmissão do #Sars-CoV-2 em domicílios começou com uma #criança.
incidência mais alta durante o #ensinopresencial não-mitigado.
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#TessFinch-Lees

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Officiel : l'auteur de l'odieuse agression au couteau à #Dublin le 23 novembre (1 mère et 3 enfants blessés) est un #Algérien de nationalité #irlandaise. Il sera interrogé dès qu'il sera médicalement apte. Cela n'excuse en rien les émeutes après cette attaque. #IrishIndependent