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Working in Public Affairs. Media and politics junkie but really lovin' literature, tunes…..and rugby! ‘Fail we may, Sail we must’.
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The sight of Gavin Hastings and Michael Flatley sat together and chatting away #LionsVArg at the Aviva has made the Lions for me Results against Australia are secondary now @tg4.bsky.social

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Just coming away from the Dublin launch of Theo Dorgans novel 'Camarade' @mercierpress.bsky.social It is exactly what you would expect Wonderful and full of wonder @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social

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For the day that's in it, as they say youtu.be/A29dy9lBiLo?...

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This weekend I will mostly be in the company of some of jazz greats Thank you Livia Records

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'Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart' William Butler Yeats BOTD 1865 #yeatsday

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Totally captivated by 'From that small island' @rteone.rte.ie Imagery, script, George our soundtrack from Colm Mac Con Iomaire Hat tip Bríona NicDhiarmada

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The torchbearers for one of Spain's most famous artists, Joan Miró, are promising a year-long fiesta of events honouring the surrealist - and the foundation he set up half a century ago

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Arnie accidentally helping join the dots on California and Trump @bbclaurak.bsky.social this morning Strictest enviro laws in the US and still the top performer economically, top that with a successful Democrat (Contender) Governor Must be hell down there :)

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Dan Snow you hero @bbclaurak.bsky.social Britain's greatest battles won as part international collaborative efforts.....like the EU The History Guy nails it Again @thehistoryguy.bsky.social

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Powerful image All that technology and brute force used and used uselessly against a skater kid

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Here’s a short clip of Martin Hayes playing for Colin Greenwood of Radiohead at the Borris Festival of Writing & Ideas this morning - part of a truly memorable interview during which he recreated a scene practising a tune in the bathroom at home when he was a teenager

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Really Peter #BBCLauraK is that the project 'smaller government' ??? Surely most would settle for Government that works for them @bbclaurak.bsky.social

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Listen to the voices of the people of Dublin through the words of Stephen James Smith. Talk To Me by Stephen James Smith youtu.be/teHSzPsZHc4?...

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I have shut my windows. I do not want to hear the weeping. But from behind the grey walls. Nothing is heard but the weeping.

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Finally caught up with 'Blue Road The Edna O'Brien Story' thanks to Sky Arts Oh what a wonderful piece of work @sineadoshea.bsky.social

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I always wanted to be Caesar for a bit and I almost was!

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You're on hols in the Algarve and a word from another place comes as a jolt

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Just what the Doctor ordered, via the postman Cheers @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Hey Gavin Reilly you are about to become a beach read

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Dropped into Gorey's Market House this morning to say a farewell to the Chamber where I laboured as a young reporter back in the day. Big nostalgia, many memories and where I learned so many lessons on life and politics Sad farewell but excited to see it moving on to a new life as a town civic space

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Hat tip to you @ronanhession.bsky.social for this mornings signpost @irishtimes.com to further reading I've loved what I've read of Mathias Enard, especially 'The banquet......' so I'm off to find him and Elias Levi

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Can you be inspired by a building? Well I find that Liberty Hall regularly does the trick for me Keep hanging out your loudest colours folks

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'Deep and dramatic social change is possible...' the legend that is Rory O'Neill inspires as he kicks off tonight's event #GPO marking the 10th Anniversary of the Marriage Referendum @pantibliss.bsky.social Privilege to be present

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And yes he was brilliant Headed home now with a bagful of books, a head full of images and ideas and filled new hunger for literature and reading #JavierCercas @ilfdublin.bsky.social

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Waiting for the man #JavierCercas @ilfdublin.bsky.social

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Really excited to be attending this, author of one of my favourite novels 'Soldiers of Salamis', my favourite political work 'The Anatomy of a moment' the Terra Alta not too bad either #JavierCercas @ilfdublin.bsky.social

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Are you in Madrid on Friday 30th May? Come see Alan McGuire launch his new poetry pamphlet "The Last Days of Alicante" in conversation with Eoghan Gilmartin They will also be recording an episode of the podcast live🎙️ Address: CS Pasillo Verde Ferroviario, Martín de Vargas, 46. Madrid Time: 19:30

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The first Irish woman to win the accolade, and a truly fitting player to do it

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'Ireland isn’t full. But too many of our communities are running on empty.' Straight and honest from Gary Gannon, well said www.thejournal.ie/readme/immig...

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Bob Dylan played the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, #OTD 1966 prompting a shout of ‘Judas’ from the audience for playing an electric set. Dylan replied: ‘I don’t believe you, you’re a liar!’ Photo by Mark Makin.

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About to head out to the Wexford County Fleadh (kinda like a local Eisteddfod) this morning Have to leave @cerysmatthews.bsky.social behind for a bit Town surrounded by sound for the day @bbc6music.bsky.social

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"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?" Said Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises The Hemingway Review landing in my hallway is part of my strategy for keeping connected and caught up

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“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another." Studs Terkel, born on this day in 1912

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The bliss of going rogue. A wonderful interview with Patrick McCabe in the @irishtimes.com on the publication of GOLDENGROVE by @unboundsocials.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Well that's novel Sprinklers to dampen @fcbarcelonabr.bsky.social celebrations One way of filling the #LaLiga trophy I suppose

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Catalan Derby Win over Espanyol will give Barca the League title @fcbarcelonabr.bsky.social #LaLiga #EspVBar

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Eye catching shortlist I'm nodding towards Elif Shafak and giving a tribal hat tip to Donal Ryan @orwellprize.bsky.social

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📢 2025 Orwell Prize Finalists Announced! The Orwell Prizes celebrate the year's best political writing and reporting, inspired by George Orwell's values of clarity, courage, and fidelity to truth. Explore this year's shortlists & judges’ reflections: open.substack.com/pub/orwellfo...

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Former Uruguayan president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, the quiet revolutionary, dies at 89

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Yes I'm in the Despard corner #UniversityChallenge

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Raphinha, the man who almost left, leads Barcelona to verge of dream title | Sid Lowe

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Gary Snyder who turned 95 a few days back (born May 8, 1930). “As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”

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Albania looking quite the picture #Giroditalia2025 #Giro2025 Wonderful scenery providing quite the setting for some great racing #Cycling

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Always impressed by Yvette Cooper but this compulsion to appear as best Manager Minister at the cost of vision and aspiration leaves us so short @bbclaurak.bsky.social

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Well that landed well Bowman Sunday 8.30 consistently excellent listening This morning, on the post VE Day broadcast exchange between Churchill and de Valera, thought provoking, quality radio @rte.ie

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Books do find you This copy of John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces' fairly screamed to me from the window of a Wexford bookshop It was a long way from my last encounter with Ignatius j Reilly that time on Canal St New Orleans So I purchased and I'm diving in again #NOLA #Wexford

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Zuckerberg saying AI will cure loneliness is like big tobacco suggesting cigarettes can treat cancer

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In the movie of my life instead of Citizen Kane's 'Rosebud' the word 'Carajillo' will be writ large It's very apt as Kane was only truly happy when he had 'Rosebud'

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