team of professional table quiz sharks. Our table of 14 year olds would have beaten them if they hadn't been given a point for Jim Diamond. Instead we had to settle with a draw. Still bitter 40+ years later.
a different chart on Top of the Pops as the BBC of course used the UK charts. The quiz master eventually accepted either answer as correct. We still felt very hard done by as it was a fundraiser to buy instruments for teenage musicians. All of the attendees were friends and family except one (2/3)
What song is No. 1 on Top of the Pops this week. The correct answer was the Power of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood but the quiz masters answer was I Should Have Known Better by Jim Diamond because he had heard the Irish chart countdown on 2FM that afternoon and didn't realise it would be (1/3)
So you can't actually point to any supporting numbers. Unsurprising but nice to have it confirmed.
Which of the figures in that article supports your claim about danger to pedestrians?
Meanwhile in Galway we're enjoying our third week in a row of mild spring weather. 😉
apology or explanation, not even an acknowledgement that dozens of kids were left standing in the cold by the side of the road worried they were going to miss their exams.
If we want more people to use public transport our providers need to do a lot better than they currently perform. (3/3)
bus is already 35 minutes late for an earlier stop by the time my kid called me in panic. Cue multiple parents scrambling to drive in to city centre schools. Then @bus-eireann.bsky.social compounds the issue by sending an email simply saying the bus "will operate this afternoon" with no (2/3)
It's not just scheduled buses that discourage users due to unreliability. School transport does this too. A bunch of kids waiting in the cold for the bus to take them to school to sit their mocks and the bus just doesn't show up. No notification from @bus-eireann.bsky.social even though the (1/3)
with no apology or explanation, not even an acknowledgement that dozens of kids were left standing in the cold by the side of the road worried they were going to miss their exams. If we want more people to use public transport our providers need to do a lot better than they currently perform. (3/3)
by the time my kid called me the bus was already 35 minutes past its pick up time for an earlier stop. Cue multiple parents scrambling to drive in to city centre schools. Then @bus-eireann.bsky.social compounds the issue by sending an email simply saying the bus "will operate this afternoon" (2/3)
@aljazeera.com has a regular daily update on Ukraine and also covers breaking news there.
@markgaleotti.bsky.social commentator/academic banned from Russia has good insights
@meduza.io opposition media banned from Russia with sympathetic reporting on Ukraine
Anything above the 25km/h limit e-bikes already needs a helmet so they're either 'announcing' something already in place, to be seen to be doing something, or they intend to apply it to 25km/h limit e-bikes. It's performative BS from them either way with no genuine intention to improve road safety.
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The same judge found himself in hot water, and had his judgement overturned by the High Court, for not unsimilar behaviour in another case.
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Poland 17/9/1939
Finland 30/11/1939
Lithuania 15/6/1940
Estonia 16/6/1940
Latvia 16/6/1940
Romania 27/6/1940
Hungary 7/11/1956
Czechoslovakia 20/8/1968
And that's just within living memory. And the WW2 invasions only include the expansionist ones when USSR was still allied with Nazis.
Wonderful selection today. Thank you for all the rekindled musical memories and new discoveries over the years. Hope you have a new outlet for something similar soon.
Decided tonight is the night to crack open my very last can of Blacks Brewery's 2021 World's End Imperial Stout. Still tastes gorgeous. As the blurb on the can says, 'suitable for aging but do try to drink before the end of the world'.
If I had failed a responsibility to deliver housing and infrastructure for decades, I too might try to build a narrative blaming my failure on third parties (courts, lawyers, citizens, The Goblin Prince Under The Mountain).
But I see no reason, bar abject power worship, for anyone to repeat it.
Yes, but that was supposed to be open air in the RDS rather than the Point. They were way too big for the Point by that stage.
@cathalreilly.bsky.social Teenage Fanclub were the highlight on the night though.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
The Waterboys
Therapy?
Nirvana
Suicidal Tendencies
The Go-Betweens
Presumed it was the Golden Horde and that was why it got a 'heart' from me. Some of my most enduring musical memories are from their gigs.
Despite the click-bait headline my contribution has been accurately reported in this piece by @eithnedodd.bsky.social unfortunately on the industry side the wool has been pulled over her eyes by the usual self-serving rhetoric
By way of followup a short 🧵
A picture of a boy dressed as a Bike Lane for Halloween beside a picture of an elderly couple. With the text Local Kid Prepare To Dress Up As Bike Lane For Halloween To Really Frighten Elderly Neighbours.
Stolen from boards.ie. Funny because it's so true (and not just elderly neighbours).
Strange arithmetic on @news.rte.ie. By my count this is 82% for @catherinegalway.bsky.social in Renmore rather than 11%. www.rte.ie/news/post/10...
So John McGurk is admitting to being so colossally disorganised he can only conceive of bringing bottles back individually as soon as he finishes them. A separate journey for each bottle. Putting them aside and bringing them to the supermarket next time he shops is beyond his meagre abilities?
ATHENA (IMO 9624988, MMSI 241784000) Offshore Support Vessel
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Last Night in Galway's Westend was absolutely magic as a choir of kayakers floated on the Eglinton Canal, accompanied by live music and choreographed canoeing ✨ 🌊
'Voices on the Water' is part of Westend Theatre & Arts Festival and was dreamt up by the brilliant Tracy Bruen and Galway Kayak Club!
