Met Gala outfits as book covers.
(A one-off thread as it's way too much work 😂)
I have no idea who most of these people are, btw, but the books are fab!
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One child on midterm and two at school is just so fantastic.

I would like a way to combine reading a book with listening to it without paying twice. Caledonian Road is excellent but I am making such slow progress.

“One of the most basic obligations of a state is that it should properly investigate the murder of its citizens, yet the terrible pattern of the Troubles is that it has failed time and time again.” Fine piece by ⁦Freya McClements⁩ on cynical UK Legacy Bill

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The *weight* of this extravaganza from the Bread 41 truck in St Anne’s Park.

Gonna feel like such a victory if we get through to the final.

Bambie Thug: ‘If I’d never been traumatised, and stayed in Macroom, I probably wouldn’t have been able to find myself’

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What a terrifying thing.

‘My life before the crime has gone forever’: Woman was ‘bundled’ into bushes and sexually assaulted while out walking

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Love this 🐦‍⬛ fact learned on Today with Claire Byrne – blackbirds start the dawn chorus because their relatively bigger eyes mean they see the light first.

There’s a real sense of a season turned out there.

‘Doomsters should be free to dislike the prospect of a united Ireland, but, on current evidence, they are not right to suggest it is likely to lead to the mutual ruin of the North and South.’
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‘His greatest fear is that Mary will die while he is in prison. Mary’s greatest fear is that he will kill himself in prison.’

Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it? theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Northern Ireland inquests involving 74 deaths during Troubles will not go ahead after Legacy Act takes effect

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The wild garlic is out in St Anne’s Park.

This is happening a fortnight from tonight. Come along and join us in the Croke Park Hotel.

Finally able to join the 2021 conversation, thanks to Dublin City Libraries

You’d have to wonder how bad this has to get.

Two young people killed in crash on A5 in Tyrone via @RTENews rte.ie/news/ulster/20…

‘In other words, the 80 per cent estimate is a guesstimate.’
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Orla Tinsley: Competing to stay alive should not be our reality, but it is

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