Katrina Barry

love family, friends, fiction and football #Celtic-til-I-die

[Brandon 🇵🇸 @Brandons__1]

What Ed Sheeran did wrong tonight:

- Started with Oct 7th
- Called it a conflict
- Pretended that he didn't know enough
- Both Sides it
- Didn't apologise to Macklemore
- Didn't call it a genocide
- Didn't say FREE PALESTINE
- Used a teleprompter
- Didn't blame Israel

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Today FM 💛 @TodayFM]

Irish musician Glen Hansard has died at the age of 56.

The Dublin singer-songwriter was best known as the frontman of The Frames, his work with The Swell Season, and for the Oscar-winning song Falling Slowly from Once.

Our thoughts are with Glen's family, friends and all who knew and loved him 💛

[Katrina Barry @Katbar_1]

@goodreads The Lady of The Lake

[ana @shivlestat]

what’s even the point of nepotism if kiefer sutherland doesn’t get to play president snow

[Katrina Barry @Katbar_1]

@goodreads House of Burning Frost

[Katrina Barry @Katbar_1]

@goodreads Marked by Masks and Secrets by @maggiesunse

[Katrina Barry @Katbar_1]

@goodreads Heirs of the Cursed

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

They should’ve listened 😂

[Katrina Barry @Katbar_1]

@winespringcafe

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Let's finally end 100 years of #FFG political dominance.

The @sinnfeinireland leader @MaryLouMcDonald McDonald signals that Sinn Féin voters should give transfers to Social Democrats and People Before Profit in tomorrow's election #GE24

#VoteLeftTransferLeft #HopeForAChange

[Pelham @Resist_05]

Irish politician Thomas Gould delivers one of the greatest speeches in modern history…

“I hope you burn in hell Netanyahu”…🔥

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

RT if you’re not afraid to let the world know you support a Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Fiachna Ó Braonáin @fobraonain]

Tá áthas orm é seo a léamh! I have happiness on me reading this! :)

[Winterval Waterford @Winterval_WAT]

🏆We are beyond delighted to announce that the International Jury of the European Capital and City of Christmas 2024 competition has unanimously voted to award the European City of Christmas 2024 title to WATERFORD CITY!
Read all about it here > https://t.co/ZfQnftFtGK

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

💔🇵🇸 Anam is a 90 years old Palestinian woman.

She was made a refugee during the 1948 Nakba, and is a refugee today AGAIN as she’s forced to leave Gaza.

She is older than Israel.

[Club Déise @IamClubDeise]

WATERFORD ALLIANZ NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2022

WATERFORD 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
UP THE DÉISE
⚪️🔵⚪️🔵⚪️🔵⚪️🔵

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

If that isn’t the 2022 fight of the year in boxing …. Holy smokes. One of the best fights I’ve ever seen.

[TG4 @TG4TV]

🎶There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in...

~ Leonard Cohen 🌅

[Celtic Football Club @CelticFC]

🍀 Celtic Football Club
🏆 111 major honours
🗓️ 134 years

The meeting to formally constitute #CelticFC took place #OnThisDay in 1887.

https://t.co/CYqH1vHvBC