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A day of rainbows
December 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A day of rainbows
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Today is 2025-12-20, the sun sets at 16:07:16 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 min and 33 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Today is 2025-12-20, the sun sets at 16:07:16 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 min and 33 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
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New post that I hope anyone who cares about human rights/the rule of law reads. If the UK Govt can use a 30 year old threat of terrorism to conceal the release of *outline* information about its agents' connection to murder, it really can act with impunity:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
Anurag Deb, Colin Murray and Gabriel Tan: Legacy Issues: In re Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [2025] UKSC 47
Introduction It is a rare case where the UK Government initiates a judicial review against an independent public body. The Thompson case is just such a case. The Secretary of State for Northern Ire…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New post that I hope anyone who cares about human rights/the rule of law reads. If the UK Govt can use a 30 year old threat of terrorism to conceal the release of *outline* information about its agents' connection to murder, it really can act with impunity:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/18/a...
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Today is 2025-12-15, the sun sets at 16:05:51 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 08 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today is 2025-12-15, the sun sets at 16:05:51 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 08 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
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So. We're very very very nearly there. Let's see if we can hammer the world with #TheGrandStretchIsBack at 16:05:45 Dublin time.
Hi all.
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
Are ye ready?
2 important notes:
- Today's sunset will be the earliest, but the grand adult sthretch in the evenings doesn't start until tomorrow's sunset.
- Will you help get #TheGrandStretchIsBack trending?!! (whatever that might mean on this network!)
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So. We're very very very nearly there. Let's see if we can hammer the world with #TheGrandStretchIsBack at 16:05:45 Dublin time.
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A Top 40 hit!
I'm guessing you're aware of this, but worth posting anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8OP...
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Frank Kelly, 1983
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A Top 40 hit!
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1 more day to the earliest sunset, 2 more days until #TheGrandStretchIsBack!
Today is 2025-12-12, the sun sets at 16:05:44 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 1 sec. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn
December 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1 more day to the earliest sunset, 2 more days until #TheGrandStretchIsBack!
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Irish business save millions by not adapting pointless and non functioning “ai” services
Irish business lag US on adoption of next gen AI, survey says
Irish business lag US on adoption of next gen AI, survey says
Autonomous AI set to transform workplace but Irish businesses lack trust in technology
www.irishtimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Irish business save millions by not adapting pointless and non functioning “ai” services
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Happy Samhain 🔥
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy Samhain 🔥
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this is really fantastic
I repost this each October in the hope that the complexity of Halloween's origins and customs are more widely appreciated. Claims of a simple historical & mononational genealogy for this celebration are themselves examples of contemporary folklore/mythmaking. limerick1914.medium.com/customs-vary...
“Customs vary wi’ the times, At Hallowe’en”
Customs, Myths and Messiness
limerick1914.medium.com
October 19, 2024 at 11:55 AM
this is really fantastic
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An Irish ghost turnip - Halloween Jack-o-Lantern, everytime I make one they look different … 😳
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
An Irish ghost turnip - Halloween Jack-o-Lantern, everytime I make one they look different … 😳
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This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!
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one of the darkest days in Irish history. kind of a normal day for the British army. as proven by the fact that you just let them off the hook for it, lol.
After the acquittal of Soldier F, former defence minister Tobias Ellwood tells Matt Frei that Bloody Sunday was “one of the darkest days in the British Army’s modern history”, but that a line has to be drawn under what happened.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/we-need...
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/we-need...
‘We need to draw a line’ – former minister after Bloody Sunday trial
Matt Frei spoke to former defence minister Tobias Ellwood following the acquittal of Soldier F in the Bloody Sunday murder trial.
www.channel4.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
one of the darkest days in Irish history. kind of a normal day for the British army. as proven by the fact that you just let them off the hook for it, lol.
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This is the evidence given by Joseph Mahon at the trial of Soldier F who wa found not guilty today. He was 16 when he was shot on Bloody Sunday, read it and digest the reality of British Justice when the victims aren’t classed as fully human
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is the evidence given by Joseph Mahon at the trial of Soldier F who wa found not guilty today. He was 16 when he was shot on Bloody Sunday, read it and digest the reality of British Justice when the victims aren’t classed as fully human
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Years ago I spotted a little holiday photo album for sale, usually I'm not interested in them because such photos are generally a bit boring, but I spotted a tiny detail that told me the album was very interesting.
Yes, that V sign.
Let's check the album out together.
Photo 🧵!
Yes, that V sign.
Let's check the album out together.
Photo 🧵!
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Years ago I spotted a little holiday photo album for sale, usually I'm not interested in them because such photos are generally a bit boring, but I spotted a tiny detail that told me the album was very interesting.
Yes, that V sign.
Let's check the album out together.
Photo 🧵!
Yes, that V sign.
Let's check the album out together.
Photo 🧵!
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Of Memory, Loss and Belonging
My old friend Conor on moving back to Ireland after 37 years away.
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My old friend Conor on moving back to Ireland after 37 years away.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Of Memory, Loss and Belonging
My old friend Conor on moving back to Ireland after 37 years away.
static1.squarespace.com/static/62794...
My old friend Conor on moving back to Ireland after 37 years away.
static1.squarespace.com/static/62794...
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Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
June 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Petition to Irish journalists NOT to report on the cringeworthy utterances of every nucking futcase who declares an *intention* to run for the Irish presidency until they can show a viable, or even remotely possible, path to nomination.
There's more important things out there to be writing about.
There's more important things out there to be writing about.
September 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Imagine it’s the west of Ireland in 1847, during the Great Famine?
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
The PNG Courier on the crime against humanity currently being permitted to take place in Gaza.
Substack - mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
Substack - mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
July 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Imagine it’s the west of Ireland in 1847, during the Great Famine?
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/
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The Irish Great Famine; “Gorta Mór” (Great hunger); “Drochshaol” (the bad times) is a defining disaster in Irish history. It’s the before and after of our understanding of our country. Generally accepted estimate is 1 million died, and millions fled, and the Irish population fell for generations 1/
May 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Irish Great Famine; “Gorta Mór” (Great hunger); “Drochshaol” (the bad times) is a defining disaster in Irish history. It’s the before and after of our understanding of our country. Generally accepted estimate is 1 million died, and millions fled, and the Irish population fell for generations 1/
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Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not
One does not simply... rewrite the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
😅😅😅😅😅...😭
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July 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not