Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

The worst he's written since Galway Girl.

Today is the International Day of Democracy! And what a day for European democracy it is 🇪🇺
 
This week, Parliament is working on defence against hybrid warfare, EU-Canada cooperation and others.
 
Tomorrow, MEPs will examine EU's past year and future plans at the State of the European Union debate!

🇫🇷 Baptiste Veistroffer on Montmartre 😍

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Remco Evenepoel 🇧🇪 has battled through abuse, racism towards his wife and family, criticism for his form and build-up to this race, but he comes away with two stage wins and a second place in GC, proving he has what it takes while making his family very proud...
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Disappointed to learn that this is not, in fact, the first drama series as Gaeilge set in the Pleistocene

Henry Fonda keeps the 20th Century Fox studio free of cattle rustlers during production of the 1943 crime/Western The Ox Bow Incident

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Henry!
May 16 (1905-1982)

I discovered a new vantage point for the murmuration in Limerick and the starlings put on a great show this evening.

let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

On this day in 1988 - one of the all time great TV moments as Michael Palin arrives in London in mid-December, and finds that a smattering of decorations are up but that nobody's in the mood for Christmas - or for him...

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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I wrote a piece about Movember and how I'm not a mental health advocate.

www.threeredkings.com/when-novembe...

Tandem Tricycle
Capel Street Bridge, Dublin Ireland
1930s

A short personal announcement from me:

Looking ahead to the incoming season, I would love to provide a publication/TV company with analysis on upcoming fixtures.

Can do it in English or as Gaeilge; whichever suits.

Have done so for Tuairisc and TG4 in the past.

Shares welcome.

The Polish Foreign Minister responded to Orbán’s post about "solidarity" after Russian drones invaded their territory.

La ROGchelle have done some serious business before the new season

More on the comings and goings on this week's Jouez: The French Rugby Dispatch

#Top14 #ProD2

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Not very active on here but I posted a 21 minute video of the War God Peter O'Mahony on YouTube earlier to celebrate his career - took me far too long to edit than I'm willing to say!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHx...

You can’t have a local economy without the people to sustain it.

If there aren’t the people to sustain a local economy, people will move away to where there is an economy to sustain them.

So, you have a choice: accept who the locals are changes, or watch the locality waste and die.

Shakhtar Stadium before and after the arrival of the “russian world”