99 words for rain. One word for sun. Today, we celebrate An Ghrian ☀️ And it was worth the wait. 💛

In the run up to Patrick’s Day 1965, the flight taking Che Guevara back to Cuba had mechanical issues and had to land in Shannon. He made his way into Limerick and joined a lock-in in the residents bar of Hanratty’s wearing sprigs of shamrock. Fck Trump, Ireland stands with Cuba.

Does anyone here actually enjoy retirement? Has the time come for me to hang up my apron?* But what would I do with all those empty hours. I can't sit all day. My husband has already mastered that art *Professionally speaking.

Happy heavenly 100th birthday to Kenneth Williams. Voiced one of the best cartoons ever (Willo the Wisp) and also once guest presented Tomorrow's World. How he didn't get this gig permanently, I'll never know. What a voice 😀 Just imagine if he'd been your science teacher.

The Victorian critic and artist John Ruskin believed all beauty comes from nature. Look closely at his painting of a Bleinheim Orange apple (1873), and you'll see how Ruskin's lighting and shadow animate and dramatise a simple object.

Can never get tired of this....

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I'm starting to think the problem is Thomas...

Shall I Stay or Shall I go? Our housekeeper Mrs Finnegan has a big Decision to Make. The butler wants to oust her from her position. Will she cling on, or fade gently away into retirement? bridgetwhelan.com/2026/01/28/sha… via Bridget Whelan

The first professional or semi-professional football club in the world to implement an equal pay structure also runs a cracking writing competition for everyone to enter. And it's free. .wp.me/p2EeQv-9RY

I’m Irish, I’ve lived in Ireland for over half a century, and I’ve never heard an Irish person greet another Irish person with the words, ‘Top of the morning to ya’ * * unless they’re taking the piss ☘️

"Équilibré" French Art Deco table lamp, designed by Eugène Gaillard and produced by Max Le Verrier, circa 1920s.

"Harlequin" - circa 1925. Art Deco figural lamp created by French sculptor Marcel-André Bouraine. Patinated silvered bronze, ivory and frosted glass on a marble base.

An Irish priest finished a wedding ceremony, pronounced the couple husband and wife, and moved straight on without telling them to kiss. The bride kept saying “first kiss, first kiss” until he finally understood what she was asking for. Father Healy paused at his lectern and

Just found out that A Tale of Two Cities was originally serialised in two local newspapers. It was The Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times. Morning you lovely people!

Today in 1979, then Minister for Health Charles Haughey introduced his infamous 'Irish solution to an Irish problem' by permitting the sale of contraceptives in chemists, albeit only with a doctor's prescription! The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1935 made it illegal for

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I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

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