The Blue Light Smugglers
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Country bluegrass harmony band that originated as a resident combo in the Blue Light Pub. Now almost nationwide. Ireland’s favourite contraband.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
I really wish newsreaders would call the child rapist ‘Windsor’ or ‘Windsor Mountbatten’ instead of ‘Andrew’. He’s a pleb like the rest of us now. Grovelling dies hard.
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I really wish newsreaders would call the child rapist ‘Windsor’ or ‘Windsor Mountbatten’ instead of ‘Andrew’. He’s a pleb like the rest of us now. Grovelling dies hard.
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One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
At 100 years old, the Grand Ole Opry is the keeper of country music's legacy
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
One hundred years ago this week, the radio barn dance that came to be known as the Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast from Nashville. Being part of the show still matters to country artists today. n.pr/4iiYWUG
Also there was Jeff Bezos, the Post’s owner who six years ago attended a memorial for the slain Jamal Khashoggi outside the consulate in Istanbul.
-The Irish Times on the Whitehouse dinner to honour the Saudi prince MBS
-The Irish Times on the Whitehouse dinner to honour the Saudi prince MBS
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Also there was Jeff Bezos, the Post’s owner who six years ago attended a memorial for the slain Jamal Khashoggi outside the consulate in Istanbul.
-The Irish Times on the Whitehouse dinner to honour the Saudi prince MBS
-The Irish Times on the Whitehouse dinner to honour the Saudi prince MBS
Luke in Kerry moonlight
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Luke in Kerry moonlight
Setting up in Kerry
October 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Setting up in Kerry
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Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
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Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
We’re playing in the Harbour Bar in Bray tomorrow night (Friday 26th) at 9.30 pm
September 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We’re playing in the Harbour Bar in Bray tomorrow night (Friday 26th) at 9.30 pm
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
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Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, a reminder that suicide can be prevented. By raising awareness, encouraging open conversations and supporting mental health, we can help create a world where fewer lives are lost to suicide. #WorldSuicidePrevention
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, a reminder that suicide can be prevented. By raising awareness, encouraging open conversations and supporting mental health, we can help create a world where fewer lives are lost to suicide. #WorldSuicidePrevention
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The golden age of online shopping is over. Ian Bogost on how the end of a legal loophole could make purchase more expensive:
The Golden Age of Online Shopping Is Over
Buying goods from international sellers has been cheap and easy—until now.
bit.ly
September 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The golden age of online shopping is over. Ian Bogost on how the end of a legal loophole could make purchase more expensive:
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"The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best."
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder
August 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best."
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder
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I wrote about how, even beyond Trump, the blurring of real and artificial is one of the central challenges of the era. www.pbump.net/o/blurred-wo...
Blurred world
I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...
www.pbump.net
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I wrote about how, even beyond Trump, the blurring of real and artificial is one of the central challenges of the era. www.pbump.net/o/blurred-wo...
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
August 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
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US President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be 'very hard' to make a deal with Canada after it gave its support to Palestinian statehood reut.rs/45pnyGt 1/5
July 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
US President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be 'very hard' to make a deal with Canada after it gave its support to Palestinian statehood reut.rs/45pnyGt 1/5
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Miami Showband massacre 50 years on: ‘The trauma lasts for ever’ – Stephen Travers. Today is the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband murders. The Irish Times has published the chapter in Dirty Linen about it, based on my interview with survivor Stephen Travers.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Miami Showband massacre 50 years on: ‘The trauma lasts for ever’ – Stephen Travers
British collusion was systemic in Troubles, survivor says, and went far higher than UDR foot soldiers
www.irishtimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Miami Showband massacre 50 years on: ‘The trauma lasts for ever’ – Stephen Travers. Today is the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband murders. The Irish Times has published the chapter in Dirty Linen about it, based on my interview with survivor Stephen Travers.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Intimate demos of songs that Woody Guthrie recorded at home on Mermaid Avenue in the early 50s are being released, including a version of This Land Is Your Land with extra verses
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
‘He wrote five songs about washing dishes!’ The lost Woody Guthrie gems rescued by AI
He sang about love, injustice, Einstein – and his landlord Fred Trump, father of Donald, ending up in hell. As a trove of Guthrie tracks resurfaces, his daughter Nora remembers the penner of ‘hard-hit...
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Intimate demos of songs that Woody Guthrie recorded at home on Mermaid Avenue in the early 50s are being released, including a version of This Land Is Your Land with extra verses
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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