Ails

[Ails @AilsKelleher]

A rare meeting in the Western twilight - Venus and Jupiter in conjunction over Cork.

😊✨

[Ails @AilsKelleher]

Happy Friday ☀️

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Today at noon thousands of red rose petals will flutter down through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome. This spectacular tradition is held each year on the feast of Pentecost.

[The Southern Star @SouthernStarIRL]

A family from Shannon Vale, captures a close encounter with a basking shark while kayaking.

The video, shared with the Southern Star, shows the shark's dorsal fin breaking the surface of the water as it swims near the kayak.

The underwater footage provides a glimpse of the shark's massive body and gills as it filter-feeds on plankton.

[The Southern Star @SouthernStarIRL]

Gary Minihane got this amazing footage of basking sharks out with Baltimore Sea Safari off Baltimore in West Cork yesterday.

[Ails @AilsKelleher]

@dereksm01142659 @corkbeo @CarlowWeather Grey skies here tonight sadly…. 🥺

[Ails @AilsKelleher]

Some pretty skies in Cork tonight

[sheep @thefarmersheep]

thanks guys for 10k followers.

[𝗚𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺 @galwaytourism]

Close encounter with a gentle giant off Inis Mór, Co. Galway today 🦈🌤️🩵

#BaskingSharks #WildAtlanticWay
🎥 ig/divearan

[Ails @AilsKelleher]

There is a quiet hour when the light fades,
and the world seems to rest in its own shadow.

Sleep gently tonight,
you’ve done enough,
you are enough. ✨

[Ails @AilsKelleher]

A beautiful sundog over Clodagh Castle in Cork…

[marcjush @marcjushm]

Killarney 👇

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Happy Easter to all those who travel in the Dublin Time Machine. Wherever you're from geographically, religiously or politically, I sincerely wish you the hope and joy of resurrection X

May each Easter bring us a year closer to a United Ireland with peace, prosperity and respect for all the people's on this island. Beannachtaí na Cásca oraibh go léir ❤️🇮🇪

[Ails @AilsKelleher]

Dawn Mass at Kilcrea Friary, Co Cork.
Happy Easter ✨

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

I did NOT expect his return to go down like this

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Beannachtaí lá na féile Pádraig! ☘️🇮🇪 There's a mythical Egytian princess is buried at a mysterious site in Kerry. According to legend, Scotia`s Grave is the burial place of the daughter of the pharaoh Nectanebo.

As the story goes, this formidable heroine died in battle while leading the Milesians, a group of ancient invaders from the Iberian Peninsula who were the ancestors of the Gaels.

Some tales call her the wife of their eponymous King Míl Espáine (Milesius). The war in which she was slain was against the native demi-gods the Tuatha Dé Danann ( People of the Goddess Danu).

These mysterious supernatural beings were eventually defeated, some escaping to their magical subterranean dimension "The Otherworld" beneath the mounds and under the sea.

The warrior princesses resting place is called Féart Scéine (Scotia's Grave) in a valley near Tralee. But if you're looking for a pyramid or perhaps a tomb full of golden artefacts, you may be disappointed. It's a humble stone cairn, and there is as little archaeological evidence to prove the legend as there is the aforementioned treasure.

The likely source for Scotias' prescence in Ireland is a mish mash of medieval Irish texts like the Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of Invasions), which tells of different waves of settlers arriving in Ireland. You can probably guess that the Scottish Gaels also claimed descent from her, naming their nation Scotland, but Ireland was often referred to as Scotia too by Latin scholars.

What really fascinates me is how the story about this ancient magical war is really an allegory for iron age civilisation spreading to ireland and removing the prehistoric ways. Scotias story also tantalises us with the ancient links between Ireland and Spain...and maybe even Egypt

Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book https://t.co/U7jtCrOTtb

[UK Back in the Day @UKBackintheDay2]

32 years ago, The Cranberries record label offered Dolores O'Riordan a million dollar cheque to NOT release this song…

She ripped it up.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This groundhog has been stealing a farmer's crop for years and eats it in front of his camera

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

The Irish "Vanishing Triangle" is the large hypothetical area, roughly bounded by Dublin, Kilkenny, and Dundalk, where several innocent women went missing presumed murdered, mostly in the 1990s.

Its become synonymous with victims like Annie McCarrick, JoJo Dullard , Fiona Pender, Ciara Breen and Fiona Sinnott. The remains of some of the women associated with the Vanishing Triangle were never found.

In total, at least 8 women are commonly associated with the triangle. Theories include a serial killer, or killers with a similar modus operandi. committing their disgusting crimes and disposing of their victims remains in the same geographic cluster.

The awful truth is in the Dublin Metropolitan area, two of the most succesful likely locations for getting rid of a body unobserved and for the remains to be undetected would be Dublin Bay or the mountains.

By 1998, the pattern could no longer be ignored. Gardaí established a specialist task force called Operation Trace, to investigate whether a serial offender was operating in the region. This was big step because the Guards and TD`s didnt want the political hot potato of a potential serial killer on our island.
To aknowledge the potential meant that something must be done and results were required to satisfy the voters and also to ease the publics panic. Politics always factors in decisions like this regardless of ethics.

Soon enough a vile criminal appaeared to tie some cases together. Larry Murphy, the so called Beast of Baltinglass, a title which is too glamourous for a disgusting sub-human violent rapist, attempted murderer and suspected serial killer.

In 2000 he was caught in the Wicklow Mountains in the act of abducting and raping a woman. She survived only because two hunters heard her screams and intervened. That horrific nightmare exposed Murphys methods and how they might also apply to other women who went missing under similar circumstance.

He hunted in the same region where others had vanished. His predatory behaviour displayed planning, control, and violence. Murphy has never been charged with any of the Vanishing Triangle disappearances.

The possibility remains that more than one perpetrator was involved, or that coincidence has been given too much weight. In recent years, many of these cases have been reclassified as murder investigations allowing Gardaí to deploy modern forensic techniques, re-examine witness statements, and pursue lines of inquiry once thought exhausted.

Investigators continue to focus on parts of the Wicklow Mountains, including caves and souterrains, informed by new geo-profiling and delayed witness testimony. Souterrains are ancient underground storage areas, and although known ones have been checked its likely there are some still undiscovered.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

This is fire! 🔥