“We need to have a connection with the pretty places… but with the shadow side too, the wild places” Manchán Magan #ListenToTheLandSpeak | Thursday | 10.10pm | RTÉ One & RTÉ Player

A UK court has thrown out a terrorism charge against a Northern Irish singer from the punk rap group Kneecap which had provoked an outcry among their fans. Cheers erupted from supporters Friday as the judge found there had been a technical error in the case against Liam O'Hanna

Recent feature I shot for AFP The world’s last linen beetling mill eyes strong future kuwaittimes.com/article/33678/…

"History is told by those who report it": BBC, AFP, AP and Reuters call for Gaza access youtu.be/76LEapYQw7o?si…

Up to €500k down the drain, grassroots annoyed for weeks, and backbenchers going out on a limb for Jim Gavin because of pressure from the leadership and are now “hopping” - The fallout in Fianna Fáil will be big.

A video showcasing Heather Humphreys’ visit to Belfast has been deleted from, and reposted to, her social media accounts - after the original version included an image of the Bundestag instead of Belfast’s City Hall. The video aimed to showcase the FG #aras25 candidate’s links

Celebrations at Belfast City Hall this lunchtime as Belfast City Council adopts the first Irish Language Policy in its 400-year history. School children gathered and danced to Irish music and Irish Language group - An Dream Dearg addressed those gathered. Belfast Telegraph

Congrats to Hungary’s second Nobel literature prize winner László Krasznahorkai, also to his brilliant translators ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social and George Szirtes yahoo.com/news/articles/… AFP News Agency

As on BBCNI #NolanLIVE on 8/10 (with Stephen Nolan & Suzanne Breen), here are the Feb25 Belfast Telegraph LucidTalk NI Border 'Aspiration' poll results: "Would you support a united Ireland in the future?" by (1) Total NI results, (2) 18-34 yrs, (3) 35-54 yrs, & (4) 55+ yrs. Here is (1):

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Protesters in Saggart, Dublin set a police van alight outside a hotel housing migrants following allegations that a 10-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on the grounds youtube.com/watch?v=ognuFE… AFP News Agency

Six people arrested at protest outside an asylum seeker hotel in Dublin, following allegations that a 10-year-old girl was sexually assaulted u.afp.com/Ss7f

FINAL POLL - President Connolly (IND-Left): 44% (+8) Humphreys (FG): 25% (nc) Gavin (FF): 10% (-2) Unsure: 21% (-6) Via RED C Research #Ireland #Poll

Bloody Sunday victims familes arrive at court in Belfast ahead of the verdict in the ex-paratrooper Soldier F’s murder trial AFP News Agency

🇬🇧 🇮🇪 A Belfast judge has acquitted a British ex-paratrooper of killing unarmed civilians during the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, a verdict condemned by victims' relatives and Northern Ireland's political leader. ➡️ u.afp.com/SsRp

Left-winger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland's presidential election, comfortably beating her centrist opponent in a contest marred by record numbers of spoilt ballots.

Sincere congratulations, Catherine Connolly, on your election as President of Ireland. Thank you, President Michael D. Higgins, for these years of shared work and friendship. France, Ireland’s closest EU neighbour.

I absolutely love when you hear people from different parts of the world (or who have come from families from other countries) go in and out of their Norn Iron accents with their native ones... Wee twinges of eastern European coming through here 😂 it's very nice to listen to.