While most of Eurooe has seen a decrease in road deaths in recent years, Ireland is one of only three countries where there hss been an increase. What is going on?

Flew from Dublin to Chișinău Moldova recently. I am almost certain that I was the only Irish person on the flight. This was all explained by this poster that I saw all over Chișinău.

Norway fishes 40,000 to tonnes of mackerel in one week. This is equivalent to Ireland's annual quota! Surely this ravaging of fish stocks can't be allowed to continue.

WB Yeats' words never sounded more apt and could equally apply to the US, the UK and France this week. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity... Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold". Editorial in today's Sunday Independent.

Ronald Brownstein compares Trump's response to the Kirk assassination to the reaction of previous presidents and it is not a good look - in The Irish Independent @independent.ie

Former Irish President Mary Robinson of The Elders, speaking truth to power on the #LateLateShow - "the elders affirm that it is an ongoing famine and a genocide"

This 40km march is taking place to highlight the campaign for an end to Israeli actions in Gaza, and an immediate opening of the borders for aid. In terms of total area, Inishowen is more than twice the size of Gaza, but has a population of just over 40,544, while Gaza’s population is 2.1 million.

This is so worth reposting here ... from Political Witch on Substack. substack.com/@politicalwi...

I am fairly confident that Paul Lynch is the only recipient from my old secondary school of this prestigious award!!

Paul Lynch awarded Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres | Maynooth University share.google/u8vp2D1JxlpY...

"Donald Trump does not have the capacity to understand Ukrainian issues" www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Rare sea rainbow over Lough Foyle.

This 'Côtes d'Inishowen' is coming along nicely too ...

So lucky today to be able to get up close to the wreck of 'The Twilight' on Five Fingers Strand, Malin, Co. Donegal as the tide was out. She sank during a storm in 1889 en route from Newfoundland to Derry.

P.R.A.T.S.

Preplanned
Repulsive
Attack of
Thuggish
Sociopaths

I measc na téarmaí úra i nGaeilge sa 'Multilingual Dictionary of New Words', is breá go mór liom "éistphéist" (earworm)! tuairisc.ie/21-iontrail-...

National Geographic Photo of the Year 2018 is one of the best optical illusions anywhere online.

This photo of Elon Musk in today's @irishindependent.bsky.social does not show a well man ! The eyes... the eyes ...

Have done my Top 50, but can't possibly rank them. Match you in 9 and my number 1 is also Bill Ryder-Jones. Certainly gonna check out the others on your list.

Number of public holidays per country. Are we working too hard in Ireland?