The sun setting over Bremore Castle, Balbriggan.

#bremore #bremore castle #balbriggan #ourbalbriggan #sunsetlovers #sunsetphotography #silhoutte #castle #irelandseastcoast

A woman at an anti-government protest in Tbilisi

Thirty members of a single family were among those attacked by settlers in the village of Al-Mughayyir in the West Bank in April.

Their descriptions of those terrifying moments indicate that this was anything but a spontaneous attack / Amira Hass
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

America was supposed to be Art Deco.

Here's how an age of optimism sparked a golden age of design.

And why it's coming back... (thread) 🧵

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

Same news, two different stories.

Sailing❤️ #galwayhooker
200cm x 180cm...do cheiliúradh na hardteistiméireachta #graduation Scoil Phobail Mhic Dara

What does the latest European Court of Human Rights climate judgment mean for Ireland?
- Dr Órla Kelleher and Dr Andrew Jackson
Dr Orla Kelleher (she/her) Andrew Jackson
rte.ie/brainstorm/202… via RTÉ

Such odd takes around today. The truth is:
- on any objective measure these are terrible results for the Conservatives
- Rishi Sunak was always going to make it the general election. A few MPs wishing for one doesn't get you a coup just months out from a GE

Kyiv can use British weapons inside Russia - Cameron bbc.in/3WlPze5

🚨 #BREAKING

Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans

📌 Dr Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist at the WHO, said that the virus has an extremely high mortality rate among humans already infected with it.

🚨🗣NEW: dFM Emma Little-Pengelly BL says information she has shows 'vast majority of people presenting for asylum in NI, come through the Republic of Ireland.'

🗣She says it is 'a complicated picture' and further discussions are needed.

🎤Political Reporter James was there.

Look how much hotter it is today than it was in 1998.

I remember 1998. Scientists were looking at the temperature and saying, 'whoa, it's really hot.'

Now '98 looks downright cool.

In 20 years, we'll be looking at 2023-24 and saying 'Man, I wish it were that cool again.'

This is what our lovely planet is called across Europe. Source: buff.ly/3y0EnJI

If very likely a lot more countries around the world need to start using GNI* to fully understand their local economies, GDP was always problematic at say sub-national/small-open-economy levels but now it's problematic at the level of even quite large nation states.

'Israeli officials said Netanyahu, who is extremely nervous about the possible arrest warrants, spoke to several Republican and Democratic senators in recent days and asked them to press the ICC prosecutor not to move forward with issuing arrest warrants.' axios.com/2024/05/02/isr…

UK's Labour claim big early win over PM Sunak's Conservatives reuters.com/world/uk/labou…

#FlowersOnFriday the blossom is profuse on this tree. The colours eminently satisfying

My pink cherry tree still goes well with brown slurry! 😂 Happy slurry spreading to all the farmers, in between silage cutting time! 🚜

Old Irish rebel song 'Oró, Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile' (about ending British colonial rule in Ireland and sung by Irish freedom fighters during 1916's Easter Rising and the Irish war for independence) being sung at the pro-Palestinian encampment at GW University.🇵🇸

(h/t Zein El-Amine)