Brenda Castles 🌏

I just concertina and rock around the world. Meath woman. Doctor of animals.
New album 'The Light Side of the Tune' out now

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

@VirginMediaIE How can I cancel my broadband when nobody picks up the phone in the cancellation department? 3 times on hold today for up to an hour each time. But if I contact sales they pick up straight away.

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

Sick

[Ahmed Alnaouq @AlnaouqA]

Today in Congress, the devil was cheered on like a hero.

Enjoy your democracy Americans. Enjoy your ethics.

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

Please sign this

[SavetheHellfire @SavetheHellfire]

@BlaneyCarola @sdublincoco Over 23k have signed our online & paper petition saying NO to this overscaled inappropriately placed dev. https://t.co/wmuU51Oo57 #TimetoListen #Nature #Biodiversity

[Philip Nolan @philipnolan1]

“Mary could make it to the county home, but Seán, well Seán could make county…”
- A few thoughts I expressed on the sexual predator Eamonn Casey when he died in 2018. If you have a few minutes, I’d like you to read it. #BishopCaseyBuriedSecrets

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

@HMRCcustomers can you help me with my NI number? I had one starting in TN which I think means it was temporary. It doesn't seem to work now. How to proceed?

[UCCFolklore @UCCFolklore]

A great privilege to have the legendary Seán Boylan with us this morning imparting his remarkable knowledge of herbs & cures. Seán’s family are traditional herbalists for centuries and we are already looking forward to his next visit. GRMA a Sheáin.

[Aoife Granville @aoifegranville]

What an absolute privilege to meet & listen to the legendary Seán Boylan at @UCCFolklore this morning. He was so generous with his knowledge around herbs & cures & a little insight in to what he used to give the Meath footballers back in the day 🤣 Laoch & fear uasail.

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

@aoifegranville @UCCFolklore @CACSSS1 @UCC @UCCResearch Absolute legend

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

Keep forgetting to go on twitter these days. Late share.

[ITMA @ITMADublin]

Meath concertina player Brenda Castles is our latest Saothar composer. Brenda’s compositions this month are from her suite ‘The plight of the bumblebee’, written to highlight the diminishing bee population in Ireland.

Listen and read more: https://t.co/h7s3tuixvR

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

@Natasha_Duffyyy Aw thanks! Hair by studio M on aungier street where you can get a wash, cut and blowdry for 50 quid!

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

What a night indeed

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

Listen out for myself and Tony Byrne playing a few tunes from #plightofthebumblebee tomorrow night on Céilí House RTÉ radio 1 ahead of our @trad_fest performance on 28th Jan @seamusennisarts @RTECeiliHouse

[Kieran Hanrahan @kieran_tradfest]

On this week’s Céilí House we preview @trad_fest Recorded @rte Studio 1 - Music, song &chat with Tara Breen, Pádraig Rynne &Jim Murray, Shane Hennessy, Cathy Jordan, @Brenda_Castles &Tony Byrne. Saturday 9pm @RTERadio1 @Fingalcoco @seamusennisarts @SwordsCastle1 @DPowerFingal

[Aoife Granville @aoifegranville]

I just wrote this article about #NollaignamBan for @ConversationUK - a tradition that is really important to us here in west Kerry ❤️

https://t.co/mOeYPgqMho

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

@niamhnicharra @kerryman_ie @MFOnline @DeptCultureIRL @IFI_Dub @HomesteadPost @WardIrishMusic @ITMADublin 😆 love this.

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

Shocking yet unsurprising.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

There's been many sad disappearances of women in Ireland.

One has been forgotten.

A devoted mother, who gardaí said "disappeared off the face of the Earth", she was later subjected to shameful character attacks by the Irish Independent.

The disappearance of Evelyn Bohan. /1

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

Stay away from Oscar

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 2005, a nursing home in the US got a six-month-old kitten named Oscar as a therapy cat. The staff soon noticed something unusual about him.

Oscar often liked to be by himself, but sometimes he would go and lie next to one of the residents. Strangely, the resident he chose would often pass away within a few hours.

At first, the workers didn't think it was important, but after it happened 20 times, they started to think Oscar knew when someone was going to die. So, they began to call the resident's family if they saw Oscar with them.

Some people think Oscar could sense certain smells from dying cells, and that's why he went to comfort residents who were alone.

There was even a time when the staff thought one resident was going to die, but Oscar stayed with a different, healthier-looking person, who then died first.

Oscar lived until 2022 and was right about more than 100 deaths during his life.

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

@KatoTomatoo @Shayor19 @Morbidful Gawd.

[Caoimhe Butterly @CaoimheButterly]

Projecting grief and solidarity from the edge of Ireland to Gaza. Over 7,000 children killed and counting.

#CeasefireNOW

[Brenda Castles 🌏 @Brenda_Castles]

@MissEllieN @SineadDoran14 Follow @numoorepain . I went to one of her online lectures about safe swimming in cold water. She's great.