Today’s podcast will be on (what else!) the Middle East, with my colleague Colin Sheridan who served with UNIFIL in Lebanon and lived there for a number of years afterwards, and an Irish broadcasting working for Saudi owned Al Arabiya in UAE… some interesting takeaways
The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature.
You'll never sing that, etc...
One commenter on X said: “I looked at the screen with intensity because I was certain I could hear Jamaican (I’m Jamaican) … but saw this white gentleman … soooooo confused”.
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Seven people were killed in road crashes on the island of Ireland on Saturday, including a 16-year-old girl.
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The list of towns in Ireland with a 20,000 pop. can fit in a single post:
Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Drogheda, Dundalk, Swords, Navan, Bray, Ennis, Carlow, Kilkenny, Naas, Tralee, Newbridge, Balbriggan, Portlaoise, Athlone, Mullingar, Letterkenny, Greystones-Delgany, Wexford, Sligo.
You're gonna smash it!
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“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed”
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Big yikes.
I probably won't make many better decisions in 2026 than not staying up for the Super Bowl last night
'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.'
This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.
A lovely piece about an absolute gentleman
Sales of tickets to watch 'Melania' in Boston are so disastrous that they'll now pay you $50 to sit though it. From Craigslist:
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
Nobody messes up 118 corners in a row!
The drop-off in quality in the last two seasons has been incredible
Coming from the group who named a stand after Joe Delaney
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How on earth did they let Rachel get away with that slip-up?!
"If I was a Faithful"
#TheTraitors
After a closure that lasted 10 years, the Savoy in Cork is to be reborn as a live music venue and cultural space
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US president Donald Trump will stop in Shannon Airport on Thursday as he returns from the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
More here from @hosford.bsky.social
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Said the same to my partner while watching it pop up in each category!
Jessie Buckley gets her Oscar nomination for Hamnet!
What a headline, an amazing summary
always a lot of panic about right wing young men, the second most progressive demographic in britain
Off to the Hague with you sir! Adam has definitely never misspoke in his entire life!
Currently reading:
(And a hat tip once again to the Irish library system. Manged to get this reserved and sent up to my local library in Meath from Clare County Council within the space of a week)
When you read it like this, I think Trump could be turned away from Greenland simply by showing him a Peters Projection map.
Brooklyn and his siblings have grown up in the limelight, and this has certainly been predominantly orchestrated by their parents. The recent Netflix “documentaries” about David and Victoria can barely be described as such, so cherry picked was their content.
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"For all the hyperbole that comes with GAA exceptionalism, for all the familiar tributes trotted out to parish and place and identity, the reality still holds."
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No chance. He'd have just whacked it wide/over in that case
