Emma
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You wore a tie like Richard Gere. Wearing a snazzy sample in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001: Alcazar's 'Crying At The Discoteque' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiO...
Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque (Video)
YouTube video by AlcazarVEVO
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November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
You wore a tie like Richard Gere. Wearing a snazzy sample in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001: Alcazar's 'Crying At The Discoteque' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiO...
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🚨An dara sraith den dráma coireachta CRÁ coimisiúnaithe ag TG4 agus BBC Thuaisceart Éireann 🎥
Léigh tuilleadh:
Gaeilge: bit.ly/3XobOdx
Béarla: bit.ly/3WOgyOV
Léigh tuilleadh:
Gaeilge: bit.ly/3XobOdx
Béarla: bit.ly/3WOgyOV
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🚨An dara sraith den dráma coireachta CRÁ coimisiúnaithe ag TG4 agus BBC Thuaisceart Éireann 🎥
Léigh tuilleadh:
Gaeilge: bit.ly/3XobOdx
Béarla: bit.ly/3WOgyOV
Léigh tuilleadh:
Gaeilge: bit.ly/3XobOdx
Béarla: bit.ly/3WOgyOV
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The Armagh Rhymers have made their debut at Paris Fashion Week, appearing in Alexander McQueen’s new collection.
‘A cross between a pagan festival and a rave’: Armagh Rhymers make Paris Fashion Week debut
The Armagh Rhymers have made their debut at Paris Fashion Week, appearing in Alexander McQueen’s new collection.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The Armagh Rhymers have made their debut at Paris Fashion Week, appearing in Alexander McQueen’s new collection.
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Radical left millennials have killed another company soon after it was taken over by private equity.
Claire's Accessories closing down, but you will NOT predict the reason given.
October 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Radical left millennials have killed another company soon after it was taken over by private equity.
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If we were a sane society we'd be rewetting boglands, marshes and swamps and rewilding uplands with all the urgency of an FG intern searching for something to use against Catherine Connolly. #speirgorm
Result of that rain in West Cork at Borlin Valley with road badly damaged and flooding. Glengarriff recorded 107mm since midnight.
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If we were a sane society we'd be rewetting boglands, marshes and swamps and rewilding uplands with all the urgency of an FG intern searching for something to use against Catherine Connolly. #speirgorm
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Today is 2025-09-30, the sun sets at 18:03:24 (19:03:24 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 hour, 57 mins and 41 secs. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Today is 2025-09-30, the sun sets at 18:03:24 (19:03:24 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 hour, 57 mins and 41 secs. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn
August 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Lisa Loeb hits #1 with “Stay (I Missed You) 31 years ago today.
She’d been working as a temp at Ernst & Young when her friend Ethan Hawke brought the song to @benstiller.redhour.com, who used it in “Reality Bites.”
It remains the only #1 hit by an artist who was not already signed to a label.
She’d been working as a temp at Ernst & Young when her friend Ethan Hawke brought the song to @benstiller.redhour.com, who used it in “Reality Bites.”
It remains the only #1 hit by an artist who was not already signed to a label.
August 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lisa Loeb hits #1 with “Stay (I Missed You) 31 years ago today.
She’d been working as a temp at Ernst & Young when her friend Ethan Hawke brought the song to @benstiller.redhour.com, who used it in “Reality Bites.”
It remains the only #1 hit by an artist who was not already signed to a label.
She’d been working as a temp at Ernst & Young when her friend Ethan Hawke brought the song to @benstiller.redhour.com, who used it in “Reality Bites.”
It remains the only #1 hit by an artist who was not already signed to a label.
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British politics in all its diversity on display this morning
July 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
British politics in all its diversity on display this morning
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This is why I no longer believe a single thing I see on The Internet
Oh, man. A small number of people on the internet have decided that Roy Jay (mediocre comedian who had a brief spell of fame in the 1980s - “slither” / “spook”) is an AI rewrite of history. This dude addresses it here, while 100s of Brits in the comments roll their eyes
youtu.be/gvZbSv39QAI?...
youtu.be/gvZbSv39QAI?...
Lost Comedian Or Digital Ghost? The Roy Jay AI Theory
YouTube video by The Spooky Lawyer
youtu.be
July 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is why I no longer believe a single thing I see on The Internet
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Catholic Church said a parish priest and several others were injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church. The priest, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke often during the war in Gaza.
A parish priest and several injured as airstrikes hit a Gaza church
Catholic Church officials say airstrikes hit the Holy Family Church in northern Gaza on Thursday morning, injuring several people including the parish priest, officials.
bit.ly
July 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Catholic Church said a parish priest and several others were injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church. The priest, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke often during the war in Gaza.
Any trains this morning
July 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Any trains this morning
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Somewhere at the BBC a VFX editor painstakingly removes the last shot of Gregg Wallace out of the latest series, checks the news, sighs, and scrolls back to the beginning.
"MasterChef presenter John Torode has said he is subject to an allegation of using racist language, upheld as part of an inquiry into separate allegations against co-host Gregg Wallace."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MasterChef: John Torode subject of racist language allegation in report
The TV presenter said he had
www.bbc.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Somewhere at the BBC a VFX editor painstakingly removes the last shot of Gregg Wallace out of the latest series, checks the news, sighs, and scrolls back to the beginning.
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Terrible
Donaghadee: Man arrested for murder of pregnant mother of two
Donaghadee: Man arrested for murder of pregnant mother of two
Sarah Montgomery was a 27-year-old mother of two and was pregnant at the time of her death.
www.bbc.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Terrible
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Indeed. PIP, among other functions enables people to work who would otherwise be unable to do so. It is not an our of work benefit.
I still want them to be specific. Who are these people, and who is ‘writing them off for good’?
June 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Indeed. PIP, among other functions enables people to work who would otherwise be unable to do so. It is not an our of work benefit.
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Covering your own town in actual shit because you don't want LGBT people to have the same marching rights that everyone else in NI has really sums up the far right quite rightly
June 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Covering your own town in actual shit because you don't want LGBT people to have the same marching rights that everyone else in NI has really sums up the far right quite rightly
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The brutal police assault against striking miners at Orgreave led to the serious injury of hundreds of picketers.
After 40 years, the government has finally announced an inquiry.
The destruction of evidence is an attempt to bury the truth.
After 40 years, the government has finally announced an inquiry.
The destruction of evidence is an attempt to bury the truth.
Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files
Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The brutal police assault against striking miners at Orgreave led to the serious injury of hundreds of picketers.
After 40 years, the government has finally announced an inquiry.
The destruction of evidence is an attempt to bury the truth.
After 40 years, the government has finally announced an inquiry.
The destruction of evidence is an attempt to bury the truth.
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If you're going to Glastonbury this year come and see the Hell Bus and a new Apocalypse Museum I've made with Gavin Grindon in the Greenpeace field.
June 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
If you're going to Glastonbury this year come and see the Hell Bus and a new Apocalypse Museum I've made with Gavin Grindon in the Greenpeace field.
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Missed TUV and UUP off my list. Jim Allister and Robin Swann were both no votes for those keeping track
June 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Missed TUV and UUP off my list. Jim Allister and Robin Swann were both no votes for those keeping track
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From the 1992 General Election a flyer from Fine Gael candidates in Louth Brendan McGahon and Lord Henry Mountcharles. McGahon was elected, whilst Mountcharles, of Slane Castle fame, polled 4,161 votes and narrowly missed out on a seat.
June 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
From the 1992 General Election a flyer from Fine Gael candidates in Louth Brendan McGahon and Lord Henry Mountcharles. McGahon was elected, whilst Mountcharles, of Slane Castle fame, polled 4,161 votes and narrowly missed out on a seat.