#Ireland

Five years ago today, I took this photo of Laith Majid as he cried tears of relief after he and his family made it over the Mediterranean to Kos, Greece.
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It's time for the #ReadIrishWomenChallenge!! This incredible initiative created by the amazing @jabberwocky888 is a big bookish highlight of my year. It celebrates some of the most amazing women writers
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Let's be brutally honest: I doubt *anyone* realised the full extent of everything EU membership offered us.Here are 77 examples of what we lost, and what we might stand to
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With supporters set to be missing from stadiums for a fair while yet, I thought I’d start a thread of best fan videos I could find from across the world...Here’s
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Atmospheric railways suck. This thing here is the Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway. The idea was the carriage rolled into the tunnel under gravity, formed an airtight seal, and was then
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-1So this has me thinking... On March 30, a bill was passed in Hungary that will allow the Prime Minister there to stay in power indefinitely AND suspend elections. Doesn't
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Historian Rebecca Solnit is the best writer on disasters and societal response, the genius who gave us "A Paradise Built in Hell." Her latest Guardian column,could not be more cogent
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THREAD1/ Johnson - A timeline of criminal negligence. The man should be in a cell not living in Downing Street. If you want to know why the U.K. is in
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March was probably the hardest month I’ve ever experienced for landing press coverage and links. BUT we powered through, changed a few things up and figured out what journalists are
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Following on from the interest in the MSS presentation from Dr. Helen Sheridan and @PallasTb at the @teagasc #ThesignpostSeries @TeagascEnviron here is a thread outlining the work to date from
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Happy Birthday David Attenborough a celebratory (and very long) thread.#AttenboroughDay#Attenbirthday 1. When Sir David Frederick Attenborough (OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA FRSGS) was born
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I remember when we stopped calling police weapons "nonlethal" and switched to "less lethal" - I thought it was a victory for anti-authoritarian realism, ditching a polite euphemism for a
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Govts put corona infected into care homes as policy. Govts introduce previously illegal euthanasia protocols Very few seem to care in a society that said we would accept martial law
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Such fun recording a special Q&A episode of the National Secular Society Podcast (coming soon). This will be a member only exclusive, but there's been hours of great content since
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"A very important phone call" #Inktober #Inktober2019 #Brexit #ring "So wake me up when it's all over" #Inktober #Inktober2019 #Brexit #mindless "We fell for it - hook, line and sinker"
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Like for a fact about Irish Republicanism 1. Sinn Féin and the IRA inspired the Tamil Tigers in their war against the Sri Lankan state 2. A Lewis gun called
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