Author Anthony Horowitz worried children may no longer have the attention span to read novels more than 250 pages long. See Irish Times - Attention spans shrinking https://t.co/6DBFbI27Oa
@anthonyhorowich
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@curisbrownbooks
Let’s halt this creeping evil that is attention-harvesting: a pedestrian could be naked, or on fire, and the zombies on their phones wouldn’t blink
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Worrying parallels between Sinn Féin approach to press freedom & the chilling results of Trump’s “Fake News” ongoing attack on journalists who question or disagree with his views
@IrishTimes@Independent_ie@rtenews@SimonHarrisTD@NUJofficial
‘If a community values its children, it must cherish their parents’ (Bowlby, 1951) €3.95 for a black coffee. €8.90 for a wrap in a cafe of a children’s hospital is not acceptable for parents, particularly so for those families with longer stays in hospital.We need to do better!
A reported 8 legal actions by Sinn Fein suggests a campaign to gag media outlets, intimidate journalists and undermine our democracy.
See Lawfare: How Journalists and Activists Can Combat Vexatious Litigation – Byline Times https://t.co/hFAy04QkzZ
The loss of former Taoiseach John Briton sees the passing of a true statesman. With the constant Shi… Flinging politics’ we’ve come to expect from SF, with his passing we must also mourn the passing of dignified parliamentary discourse which served the country well for so long.
Una Mullally today urges we should not bow to the “bore-core reflexes of developers” for the sake of their profit. We must prevent iconic Stephen’s Green shopping centre from being replaced by more generic, trashy, soulless buildings.
@UnaMullally @IrishTimes
Twelve years on remembering Mary Raftery regarded as one of the country's finest investigative journalists exposing not only clerical abuse but abuse in the Irish childcare system within Irish psychiatric units @IrishCentral @Numac10 https://t.co/cFVUQGJhDE
Those fingers of yours will surely pick your way into a glittering future in music. Happy New Year Muireann from a musical Monaghan woman
@Muireannbradley @Numac10 @IrishTimesCultr https://t.co/8kBBkApQhW
The curse of county Mayo - An inconclusive but delightful piece on the mystery as to why the Sam Maguire has continued to elude the Mighty Mayo team since 1951 @BBCWorld @Numac10 https://t.co/tUSBojWWuA
Guaranteed to put your teeth on edge: Justine McCarthy urges a clean-up on US linguistic euphemisms and a return to clear speech in an age of disinformation
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