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@lionsofficial It’s a really special, nay unique sporting phenomenon. 🦁 @IrishRugby ☘️ @WelshRugbyUnion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Scotlandteam 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @EnglandRugby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Hero! ‘Mike is a giant in global health & especially in the world of infectious diseases & emergencies. He is one of those rare people who can step into those spaces, command respect and chart a way forward. He brings wonderful clarity of vision. www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

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‘The criminal inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is investigating more than 45 individuals, with 7 formally identified as main suspects in potential offences of perjury & perverting the course of justice by PO key decisions makers’. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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While Bohemians got a lucky break for the first goal in the big Dublin derby last night they built momentum & well deserved the win overall. Outplayed & outfought lacklustre @ShamrockRovers whose minds seemed to be elsewhere on the night. #Hoops ☘️

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The Los Angeles Dodgers announced today that the organization will donate $1 million to immigrant families impacted by recent raids.

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Off to see Nabucco this evening at the wonderful Arena di Verona. A note to the #NoKings movement. It can get much worse. The demented Nabucco sings; ‘Non son più re, son dio" / ‘I am no longer King! I am God!’.

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‘California stands for the opposite of Trumpism. It stands for tolerance. It stands for diversity. It stands for helping poor people & people who’ve been left out. And it stands for giving a fair hearing, to people who applied for asylum.” Bob Shrum, www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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There’s sport, but there’s more. @leinsterrugby players Joe McCarthy & Paddy McCarthy with their brother & Leinster Rugby Energia culture captain Andrew McCarthy, after the @URCOfficial Final win over Vodacom Bulls @CrokePark . Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

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‘Having topped the table by eight clear points with 16 wins out of 18, & then negotiated two more knock-out ties, Leinster underlined the worthiness of this success by emphatically beating a South African superpower. Rarely have champions been so indisputable.’ www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

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The Trump Factor. ‘The shootings happened at a time when political leaders nationwide have been attacked, harassed and intimidated during a time of deep political division’. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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Getting ready!!! @leinsterrugby v @BlueBullsRugby @URCOfficial final Croke Park 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵

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‘Governor DeSantis said that people could legally run over protesters with their cars if they were surrounded. “You don’t have to sit there & let the mob grab you out of your car & drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself in Florida”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is the direction of travel for US democracy. Sadly, it will get worse before it gets better.

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Let's be absolutely clear: physically assaulting a US Senator for simply asking a question is disgraceful. We stand with Senator Padilla and all those peacefully defending working people against this administration's attacks.

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US public representative assaulted by Noem goons. ‘I was there peacefully. I had a question. I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground, & I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was not detained.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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“Democracy is under assault right before our eyes,” #Newsom said. “This moment we have feared has arrived. He’s taking a wrecking ball…to our founding fathers’ historic project: three coequal branches of independent government.”

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‘The Plot Against America’. Act II, Scene III

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At least 25 people were killed & dozens wounded approaching a food distribution centre. Later, at least 14 people were killed by Israeli gunfire moving towards another distribution site. On Tuesday Israeli troops killed 17 Palestinians around food sites. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Most immediately brought my younger grandchildren to mind, but really all children owe a debt of gratitude to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. The irresistible lure of muddy puddles.

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On Pentecost, Pope Leo calls for a church that “opens the borders between peoples and breaks down the barriers between class and race;” criticizes an “exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms.” 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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I’m a bit limited on high level mathematics so it’s always helpful when complex situations are simplified by great economists like @justinwolfers.bsky.social

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‘Russia will soon suffer its millionth casualty in Ukraine based on current trends of about 1,000 soldiers killed or injured per day; losses which far exceed those in all its wars since WWII & are a testament to Ukraine’s stubborn defence against a far stronger power.’ economist.com/internationa...

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More rugby gamesmanship in Munster game. ‘As Crowley lined up to take his kick, Hendrikse fell to the ground, apparently suffering from cramp. The referee stopped Crowley’s routine: TV cameras showed Hendrikse winking adding to suspicion he had deliberately collapsed to delay Crowley.’ @IrishTimes

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‘More than 30 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation, according to witnesses, with a hospital run by the Red Cross treating many wounded.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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‘A 70% majority of Irish people is worried about travelling to the US under Donald Trump’s presidency. It comes amid a backdrop of heightened fears over the risk of deportations.’

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The ‘Respect the kicker’ principle is well observed by rugby fans. On at least 2 occasions today when Sam Prendergast was lining up a Leinster kick Scarlets Rugby subs in hi-viz tops were running behind the posts as he prepared to kick. Refs should stop such unsporting conduct. @URCOfficial

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The pity is, you can’t trust a single word out of his pathologically mendacious mouth. www.rte.ie/news/2025/05...

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US Tariffs. ‘Ct rules Trump’s tariff orders “exceed any authority granted to the president..to regulate importation by means of tariffs”. ‘Their use is impermissible because [federal law] does not allow it”. So tariffs had not been legally applied. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organisations. They have “clearly identified” acts of genocide enacted by the Israeli Defence Forces.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Hard to see this game being stopped by rain but unfortunately that’s the forecast. @cricketireland v @windiescricket @ClontarfCC

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Beware of Quataris bearing gifts… ‘Most likely there will be money spent on this jet, probably a lot more than what the jet is worth. All of this amounts to, you know, frankly, a waste of taxpayer dollars in terms of this additional vanity project."

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I need this monopoly version...

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The mystery is why visitors to the WH are so supine when he does this. Trump needs to be aggressively confronted about these lies. A good blazing row in front of the world’s media would soften his cough. ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing ‘

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Trump’s imaginary genocide. ‘The aim is to discredit the S. African gov’t by accusing it of the very crime for which it (S. Africa) has attempted to bring Israel to account. The intention could hardly be more transparent; or the motivation more abject.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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‘Ireland lose plenty of cricket matches, nailbiters and shellackings alike. They win their fair share, too, the majority close-fought encounters. Very seldom do they hammer teams. They did today, with an 124-run trouncing of the West Indies.’ www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/0...

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⁦‪@cricketireland‬⁩ suffer double withdrawal blow v ⁦‪@windiescricket‬⁩ ODI series. “This will be a test of our depth & instead of bemoaning what we won’t have its a real opportunity for some up-&-coming talent to play against world-class opposition.” 🏏☘️ www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/0...

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‘That Trump has damaged the US reputation is clear. In a survey of more than 100k people in 100 countries those with an unfavourable view of the US exceeded those with a favourable opinion by 5%, a sharp deterioration; enough to place it behind China in global esteem. economist.com/business/202...

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‘Even after 9 years, it was too soon to say the obvious. That Britain had voted to make itself poorer. No one had been insisting we leave the single market & the customs union. So all Starmer was trying to do was to make the country just a little bit better off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘The richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness & death, taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal US workers & siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom.” Springsteen www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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