Sneaky swans.
They never make it easy to photograph them. 😂
And guess what…?
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#ireland #stormhour #ThePhotoHour #sunrise #wicklow #dogsoftwitter #greystones #ireland sancienteast #KeepDiscovering

OED #WordOfTheDay : witches' knickers, n. colloquial (chiefly Irish English). Discarded plastic bags or shreds of plastic bags that have become snagged in trees, hedges, etc.

View the full entry, here: oxford.ly/44cSZln

This is the getaway driver who has avoided jail for his role in a “terrifying” hate-crime attack on a refugee hostel that left the residents bloodied and traumatised.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/ne…

The far right are becoming more of a toxic influence on this island with every week that passes.

'The particular character, as well as the purity of the language, of the Prussian Lithuanian deserves to be preserved.' On his 300th birthday, a reminder that in his last publication Kant turned from all that philosophy stuff to the more important matter of LITHUANIAN PHILOLOGY

Of the many flaws in this, the most egregious is the claim that the NI Protocol was a 'temporary fix'. And if 'too many Conservatives seem to see Brexit more as an embarrassing secret', well, there's an obvious reason for that.

I have nothing done for #EarthDay so here's a bit of earth under the Spire

This is… quite something
‘ Dutch academic fired by UCC after struggling to find housing awarded €300,000’
irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

American man, 73, jailed over false passport applications (he arrived 35 years ago and apparently never left).

rte.ie/news/2024/0422… via RTÉ

UK psychodrama continues #Rwanda

Q: What would a defeated Russia look like?

Professor Timothy Snyder answers.

This is extraordinary news for #Kerry and evidence of the benefit of having Green Party Ireland in government.
Well done, Minister Malcolm Noonan T.D. and thank you.

This review I wrote of Daniel Dennett’s autobiographical book I’ve Been Thinking is no longer behind a paywall - I hope it shows why he was such a force for good in philosophy ⁦The TLS⁩ the-tls.co.uk/articles/ive-b…

The context of this oft-shared image is the legend of Theophilus (prototype of the Faust legend): Theophilus prays to the Virgin Mary to free him from a Satanic pact he made to become an Archdeacon. The Virgin returns the pact to Theophilus, thus freeing him

Two men charged with spying for China under Official Secrets Act, London's Metropolitan Police say
bbc.in/3xLXuap

'The German Federal Prosecutor's office on Monday said three German nationals were arrested under the strong suspicion of having worked for Chinese secret service...may have been involved in research projects useful for China to expand its maritime power' dw.com/en/germany-arr…

Always struck by the enormous naval pride of the people of Cobh / Cork Harbour. Whatever the obstacles / neglect of the navy over successive governments ... the respect, sense of the past and importance of the Irish Naval Service today is always there.

“While the grass is not entirely greener in the Republic of Ireland [health service], if you speak to anyone there, it’s probably not as frantic.
They’re not dealing with the fallout of the crumbling NHS,” says a Belfast General Practitioner.

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