Leo Enright
@ollopa11.bsky.social
"The Guy from Irish TV" at NASA for 50 years (and counting)! Ex Foreign Hack at BBC News & RTE News; now see/hear me live on space on BBC, RTE, Newstalk FM @aljazeera.com etc
We were so happy to be here for the LATEST Irish mission to Mars! OK OK, NASA paid for it, but our good mate Rob Lillis is the PI on @ucbssl.bsky.social ESCAPADE. (Ireland's Susan McKenna-Lawlor was an instrument PI on several Mars missions in the 1980s and 90s).
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We were so happy to be here for the LATEST Irish mission to Mars! OK OK, NASA paid for it, but our good mate Rob Lillis is the PI on @ucbssl.bsky.social ESCAPADE. (Ireland's Susan McKenna-Lawlor was an instrument PI on several Mars missions in the 1980s and 90s).
"Pirate" Paul was stopped twice by range security - but we had the necessary paperwork 😬
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"Pirate" Paul was stopped twice by range security - but we had the necessary paperwork 😬
Proving he was there (and in the process spoiling my money shot 😂)
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Proving he was there (and in the process spoiling my money shot 😂)
One man who took Franklin seriously, and became her mentor, was “The Sage” J D Bernal - the Irish genius from Nenagh in Co. Tipperary. He was telling his students in the 1930s: “the secret of life lies in the structure of protein, and X-ray crystallography is the only way to solve it.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One man who took Franklin seriously, and became her mentor, was “The Sage” J D Bernal - the Irish genius from Nenagh in Co. Tipperary. He was telling his students in the 1930s: “the secret of life lies in the structure of protein, and X-ray crystallography is the only way to solve it.”
Fishing boat trips out of Port Canaveral have been cancelled for tomorrow because of weather, so I won't be holding my breath. If I had a beer for every rocket I've seen *NOT* launching, I would be very very drunk!
Launch Mission Execution Forecast discussion in ALT
Launch Mission Execution Forecast discussion in ALT
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Fishing boat trips out of Port Canaveral have been cancelled for tomorrow because of weather, so I won't be holding my breath. If I had a beer for every rocket I've seen *NOT* launching, I would be very very drunk!
Launch Mission Execution Forecast discussion in ALT
Launch Mission Execution Forecast discussion in ALT
Posted from a bar in the Cape Canaveral area, strictly without comment.
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Posted from a bar in the Cape Canaveral area, strictly without comment.
Per @nasawatch.bsky.social in the other place, this was dumped in a corridor at GSFC with the sort of note you see on a used car! There's even a phone number.
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Per @nasawatch.bsky.social in the other place, this was dumped in a corridor at GSFC with the sort of note you see on a used car! There's even a phone number.
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
A Republican commentator weighs in on the NY mayor election
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A Republican commentator weighs in on the NY mayor election
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
Whiling-my-time-away as I wait for the New Glenn 2 hot fire test, I come across this stunning scene from the NG-1 hot fire. Auld joke was that half the tourists on the beach would watch the Canaveral Light waiting for it to lift off. Wouldn't make that mistake now!
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Whiling-my-time-away as I wait for the New Glenn 2 hot fire test, I come across this stunning scene from the NG-1 hot fire. Auld joke was that half the tourists on the beach would watch the Canaveral Light waiting for it to lift off. Wouldn't make that mistake now!
What is the timestamp on these images, Niall. I'm trying to work out illumination that would fit the unusual bright line (probably low angle sun striking along the side of the cylinder)
October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What is the timestamp on these images, Niall. I'm trying to work out illumination that would fit the unusual bright line (probably low angle sun striking along the side of the cylinder)
This remarkable image from Athy, Ireland, shows the Falcon 9 upper stage itself as it vents fuel. These ventings are common, but seeing the rocket stage isn't. Pic by award-winning snapper @niallcarsonpa.bsky.social (not attributed @news.rte.ie 😠) tinyurl.com/RTEspaceX
@planet4589.bsky.social
@planet4589.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This remarkable image from Athy, Ireland, shows the Falcon 9 upper stage itself as it vents fuel. These ventings are common, but seeing the rocket stage isn't. Pic by award-winning snapper @niallcarsonpa.bsky.social (not attributed @news.rte.ie 😠) tinyurl.com/RTEspaceX
@planet4589.bsky.social
@planet4589.bsky.social
@irishdefenceforces.bsky.social Casement Aerodrome is on the very edge of the KH-7 image. Named a year before this pic after Irish nationalist Roger Casement, executed for treason by the British in 1916. Queen Elizabeth II landed at Casement in May 2011, to begin her state visit to Ireland.
October 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
@irishdefenceforces.bsky.social Casement Aerodrome is on the very edge of the KH-7 image. Named a year before this pic after Irish nationalist Roger Casement, executed for treason by the British in 1916. Queen Elizabeth II landed at Casement in May 2011, to begin her state visit to Ireland.
Three wks after this pic, a teenage riot took place at Dublin Airport when singer Dickie Rock landed. Gardaí linked arms and struggled to contain the surging mob of 1,000 over-excited young people, twenty of whom were taken to hospital. Is that a DC-8 on the apron?
October 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Three wks after this pic, a teenage riot took place at Dublin Airport when singer Dickie Rock landed. Gardaí linked arms and struggled to contain the surging mob of 1,000 over-excited young people, twenty of whom were taken to hospital. Is that a DC-8 on the apron?
Stillorgan Shopping Centre was the first shopping centre in Ireland. It opened on December 1, 1966.
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Stillorgan Shopping Centre was the first shopping centre in Ireland. It opened on December 1, 1966.
Croke Park was preparing for the Aiséirí Pageant, April 12-15, a theatrical production, directed by Thomas MacAnna, to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A cast of around 800 performers reenacting scenes from Ireland’s struggle for independence.
October 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Croke Park was preparing for the Aiséirí Pageant, April 12-15, a theatrical production, directed by Thomas MacAnna, to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. A cast of around 800 performers reenacting scenes from Ireland’s struggle for independence.
The resolution is extraordinary - a decade before we talked about reading number-plates. I can see my suburban home, and the distinctive Cyprus boundary trees. (Toggle >transparency< in the lower right to explore more)
October 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The resolution is extraordinary - a decade before we talked about reading number-plates. I can see my suburban home, and the distinctive Cyprus boundary trees. (Toggle >transparency< in the lower right to explore more)
I don't post on politics. But I do post on beer. 😜
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I don't post on politics. But I do post on beer. 😜
@nytimes.com obviously haven't watched the fantastic Lupin series @netflix.com . Without knowing Arsène Lupin, no-one will ever understand the heist @museelouvre.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
@nytimes.com obviously haven't watched the fantastic Lupin series @netflix.com . Without knowing Arsène Lupin, no-one will ever understand the heist @museelouvre.bsky.social
The German Broadcasting Association reacts with dismay and sadness to the attack on a media production company in the Gaza Strip, which works on behalf of ZDF, among others.
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The German Broadcasting Association reacts with dismay and sadness to the attack on a media production company in the Gaza Strip, which works on behalf of ZDF, among others.
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
Should every presidential candidate over 65 be required to do a physical? (This candidate is 68)
October 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Should every presidential candidate over 65 be required to do a physical? (This candidate is 68)
Yup: I guess if nature had intended us to fly she wd have made us reeely smart 🤓
October 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Yup: I guess if nature had intended us to fly she wd have made us reeely smart 🤓
A very happy Ivy Day to all those Joyce scholars out there (artwork credit in ALT)
October 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A very happy Ivy Day to all those Joyce scholars out there (artwork credit in ALT)
Not even remotely original, my dear friend. The canonical "true scale" pic was published fadó fadó, a mhic 😉
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Not even remotely original, my dear friend. The canonical "true scale" pic was published fadó fadó, a mhic 😉
Americans think that Jimmy Kimmel was riffing on Jack Paar (1960) when he said: "as I was saying before I was interrupted ......". But Paar stole the line from Eamonn de Valera (1924).
September 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Americans think that Jimmy Kimmel was riffing on Jack Paar (1960) when he said: "as I was saying before I was interrupted ......". But Paar stole the line from Eamonn de Valera (1924).