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Climate Changemakers: The Wexford charity that rescues and rehabilitates stranded seals www.independent.ie/life/climate...
Climate Changemakers: The Wexford charity that rescues and rehabilitates stranded seals
Seal Rescue Ireland is a charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured, or orphaned seals. Founded in 2010, the charity was originally based in Dingle, Co Kerry, before…
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September 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The EU's Digital Services Act which Trump objects to requires platforms to act quickly and transparently when illegal content is flagged. Topics covered include instructions for committing terrorist attacks. Also sharing or hosting child sexual exploitation material.
August 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Pat Stacey reviews the Rose of Tralee coverage: "Maybe I’m dying and the whole thing is a hallucination. Or maybe I’m already dead and this is a waiting room in hell..." #roseoftralee
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Rose of Tralee 2025 review: From dog yoga to dancing, the opening show didn’t take long to induce a crisis of sanity
It’s around the two-hour mark on night one of The Rose of Tralee (RTÉ One, Monday, August 18) that the existential mini-crisis hits: did what I’ve been watching really happen, or did I just imagine al...
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August 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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So, it was Tom Lehrer who said: "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
July 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Don’t sing a song or drink too slowly in Mulligan’s, the pub that welcomed JFK

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Don’t sing a song or drink too slowly in Mulligan’s, the pub that welcomed JFK
The 250-year-old history of Mulligan’s of Poolbeg Street is dominated by the quirky approach of its bar staff and the oddball antics of some of its regulars.
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May 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Runaway actors, ‘pint commando’ feminists and a corpse calling in for a parting glass - Neary's pub is known for the dramatic entrance www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
Runaway actors, ‘pint commando’ feminists and a corpse calling in for a parting glass: the pub that has made a name for the dramatic entrance
At first glance, Neary’s pub on Chatham Street seems sedate and genteel with its timeless ruby red curtains and ancient gas lamps.
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May 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 3
🚨MARKETS CLOSE 📉

- Dow loses almost 1700 points
- NASDAQ loses 1000 points
- $2 trillion wiped from stocks
- Apple loses 1/3 of a trillion in value
- Dollar loses all gains since Nov 5 election.

TRUMP: “I think it’s going very well.”
Summary table as markets close. S&P 500 is down 264 pts and 4.84% Dow Jones is down 1679 pts and 3.98% Nasdaq is down 1060 pts and 5.41%
April 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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How spies, rebels and James Joyce’s singing brought colour to the Yellow House pub
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How spies, rebels and James Joyce’s singing brought colour to the Yellow House pub
If ever there was an outstanding example of a landmark pub in South County Dublin, it is surely the Yellow House in Rathfarnham.
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March 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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In Trump's America, free speech no longer means a range of opinions
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The bar where you can find drinking cats, a 100-year-old fish and a moose head donated by Peter O’Toole
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The bar where you can find drinking cats, a 100-year-old fish and a moose head donated by Peter O’Toole
The actor Peter O’Toole liked to tell a story about the time he bought a pub in Wicklow when he was out on the tear one night.
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February 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Ireland need to avoid kicking the ball back to England. That was what led to the English try #ireveng
February 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Cuala fans stream through Dalkey to catch specially commissioned DART trains to the All Ireland Club Final at Croke Park
January 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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RG Snyman should have been Player of the Match, even as a sub #leinstervbath
January 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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And here’s the text of the review:

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Sex workers, a murdered Marxist friend and prayers for a pain-free death: God is in the details as Pope Francis tells his life story
The opening of Pope Francis’s memoir, a historic first for a sitting pontiff, sets out how he might easily have never been born. His grandparents, and their son Mario, Pope Francis’ father, had been b...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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On this morning’s Morning Ireland @rte.ie I spoke with @audreycarville.bsky.social about Pope Francis’s new memoir “Hope”, which I review today in the @independent.ie online:

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The Pope has published his Autobiography
Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastial History, Maynooth University, gives his opinion on the first ever autobiography published by a sitting Pope.
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January 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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It's surely high time that BBC2 had a countdown show looking back at the best of its retrospectives - with a repeat at Christmas #60songs
December 28, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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All comments on December 22 about there being a commendable "stretch in the evening" have officially been transferred from Twitter to Blue Sky @theauldsthretch.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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This piece by Katy Hayes on the parallel lives led in 1980s Ireland rings true. A signficant section of the population simply ignored Catholic strictures.
From Magdalene laundries to racy Jilly Cooper novels, Ireland in the 1980s was full of contradictions www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
Katy Hayes: From Magdalene laundries to racy Jilly Cooper novels, Ireland in the 1980s was full of contradictions
It was announced last week that Disney+ is green-lighting a second series of the TV series Rivals, based on Jilly Cooper’s 1980s novels.
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December 17, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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A CNN team rescued a "prisoner "from a Syrian jail – but all may not have been as it seemed
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A CNN team rescued a prisoner from Syrian jail – but all may not have been as it seemed
After airing an emotional segment showing a man supposedly freed from a Syrian prison after spending three months in the dark, CNN now says it’s investigating whether he gave a “false identity” after ...
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December 17, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Irish political cliché of the day. Heard it a few times today - "The worst day in government is better than the best day in opposition." #ge24
December 2, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Good election for candidates with middle nicknames including Pat 'the Cope' Gallagher, Kevin 'Boxer' Moran and Peter 'Chap' Cleere. #ge24
December 1, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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A holy medal has been found at a count in Ashbourne. It's a proper election count #ge24
November 30, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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Disappointed that there are no pictures of nuns voting in the Irish election in the international media. We have been let down #ge24
November 29, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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Bluffing your way through an election count and why we never took to electronic voting. There'd be no drawn-out tension, no ding-dong battles for the final seat on the 11th count, nor speculation about who will pick up votes when they open the Listowel boxes #ge24
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How to bluff your way through the election count, from quotas to bellwether seats to transfer leakage
It’s the political equivalent of trainspotting. The campaign is over, we have heard the hackneyed slogans about ‘A New Energy’, ‘Moving Forward Together’ and ‘Securing our Future’.
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November 29, 2024 at 10:28 AM