help L Donaghy

I’m cold and I’m hungry and I’m in Dundalk

(Farron, Kelly, Flello, Teather etc). Possible exception might be JRM...? Although not quite the same category as eccentric fringe is his brand not his liability

I reckon a version of this holds true for charity sector employment too twitter.com/michael_merric…

You could improve social mobility overnight by removing the gradclass protectionism on jobs - especially in the public sector - that historically working class nongrads could always access.

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

Michael Merrick I’m with you. To some I’m too trad because I like Latin, to others I’m too liberal because I respect EF and NO. I don’t shop for a parish or service, I worship in my local church with the PP my Archbishop chose to send us and we all celebrate together respectfully

The reality is we cant have it all - so what do we really, as a priority, want to have? Snd why that? For me, I think the priority would be a greater variety of options, so smaller and diverse schools, but I know that would eat up vast amounts of funding.

For decades, social science has 'known' that women are more religious than men.

However, if you track the religiosity of young adults - something really interesting happened.

Women are more likely to claim no religious affiliation than men.

It started around 2016.

Here's a beautiful story of an Irish postman called Mike Sheehan, who cycled up to 30 miles a day for 42 years delivering post around Goleen in West Cork. While other postmen opted for cars and motorbikes because of the steep mountainous terrain, Mike never changed. His son…

Paradise! | “Bad times, hard times-this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.” - Saint Augustine