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Forget armed bodyguards: I need someone to invent an Auntie app. It pairs you with an Auntie (any gender/race) about a generation older than you. They spend the day on the phone with you, tell you not to worry because you’re amazing, and make you give the phone to strangers so they can talk you up

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

I never want to hear another American joke about the French surrendering quickly. They had an actual resistance.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

The equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane due to hit County Clare in the next few hours

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

A poem I wrote to perform at Glastonbury on the anniversary of Sinead O Connor’s death. Today would have been her 58th birthday - a truly great artist - “they buried me, but they didn’t know I was a seed”

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Scarred For Life advent calendar door seven: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, a show with one of the moodiest title sequences of the 70s, and some of the trippiest visuals...

submitted 91 days ago • 10 comments

At Guedelon in France, they are building a C13th castle using only C13th techniques. (Do go: it's fabulous.) People often question the usefulness of experimental archaeology. Well, sometimes it turns out to be handy to have people around who know how to build large early medieval buildings...🤔

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

This is a great movie - and if you're ever struggling to explain the term "gaslit" to someone, just tell them to watch it.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Fabulous thread for the day that's in it. #NotreDame

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Happy birthday to #StColumba, born #OTD in Gartan Co #Donegal though he fell in love with #Derry and became our patron saint. Even though he didn't found the city, as the legend has it, he loved it and you'll find him all over the city, from churches to holy wells to statues to publishers.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

The Gregg Wallace stuff really is like an increasingly shitty advent calendar.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Funny that at no point do the Media suggest that billionaires are unaffordable and that they need an 80+% tax on them, like they had in the 1970's.

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

Christmas Stalls in Bantry in aid of MSF in Gaza 6th December 11-2pm Marino Church.

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🤣🤣🤣

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Derry Girls or Senna... We know what's going to happen here. 'Senna was a Derry man.' When is a blue plaque going up to note that a Brazilian racing legend lived here? Joking aside, nice to see the city being used as a location for another big show. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainmen...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

All titles now available from colmcillepress.com

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Was trying to explain to my husband how Michael Lowry is a somewhat controversial figure in Irish politics, but @wikipedia.bsky.social did it for me.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Cooneen ghost house, quick acrylic sketch

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Shoppers urged to beware of Black Friday scams after one man paid over €2 billion for a hospital.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Jojo is easily the most elegant professional dancer on #Strictly and he's paired with the most elegant sleb this year. Grace in action, the two of them.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

How fabulous are Jojo and Montell? GORGEOUS! #strictly

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

It's #DoctorWhoDay so archive, naturally. But this is my favourite film from our archive. The cutest daleks you will ever see. I especially love the one that remembers they were told to crouch down to look more realistic.

submitted 105 days ago • 5 comments

Oof, the poor woman. Imagine working up the nerve to raise something with the Taoiseach in front of multiple cameras/mics & this is the flippant snarky reply you get? Makes the heart hurt 🥺 Great piece as always from Carl 👏

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Smart of him. Scholz can own the SPD’s loss. And afterwards, Pistorius will still be there.

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

Grianan Fort, Inch Island, and Lough Swilly. #Donegal #GriananFort #Landscape #LoughSwilly

submitted 108 days ago • 3 comments

Human rights progress in Northern Ireland is hard won. So let’s hear it for the activists who refuse to take no for an answer. Honoured to be asked to give the Stephen Livingstone Lecture 2024: ‘Human rights heroes – to equality and beyond!’ Register free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-stephe...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

With #Sneachta forecast: From #TheDead a short story by James Joyce. Stunning final paragraph, the greatest snow scene in fiction…

submitted 108 days ago • 8 comments

I will be performing at this gig on 1st December - MANCHESTER - medical aid for Palestinians www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Man...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

i am really hungover is anyone else seeing this #Strictly

submitted 112 days ago • 12 comments

Wow. Was on 15k followers when I sent this yesterday. Now almost 20k 🥳 Very happy to give a few subscription to Democracy for Sale to number 20,000!!!

submitted 115 days ago • 5 comments

Some latest news about the reopening of #NotreDame. The first to re enter the cathedral will be this beautiful and mysterious lady from the 14th century after a public procession in the streets of Paris this Friday from 6 to 9pm.

submitted 115 days ago • 41 comments

Happy Slow Horses Day to those that celebrate. Nothing pedestrian about the opening episode from Slough House’s finest, which has a great twist and plenty of sardonic one-liners. Series also features a cameo by the novels’ writer Mick Herron

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment

See British Museum. This can be done.

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