Anne-Marie Diffley

Work in Trinity, love travel, books, foreign films, animals, especially dogs, a little walking, yoga, swimming, and people with a good sense of humour!

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

@WorkElizab Yes - me!!

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

@philipnolan1 Enjoy 🍷🎉

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

Hi Sophie - I took the LUAS twice last week and on both occasions a young person offered me a seat. And on the metro in Paris a few weeks ago the same thing happened. I am not particularly old or decrepit! I was surprised but it give me hope 🙏

[Sophie Grenham @sophiegrenham]

Thank god for polite, well brought up teenagers. Two girleens approached me to ask whether they were getting the right train, and I was more than happy to point them in the right direction. It felt good after the horrible scene I witnessed in Sandycove DART station less than half an hour earlier.
I like being that sturdy adult that young people see as safe and reliable, someone they can ask for help when they need it.
I wish the nice youths were more visible and not those who just want to cause trouble. 😔

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

@NiallHarbison Could Sybille help?

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

If only sterilisation programmes could be used everywhere- stray dog problems would be eradicated- possibly in a decade. 💖💖💖

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Bingo!

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

🤣

[Mistress Dividend @mistressdivy]

I'd rather drink the water from a tin of tuna than be asked to share a fun fact about myself as an icebreaker during a team building activity at work.

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

Shocking

[Michelle Traynor @minnyshell]

When are the Irish government going to take this animal abuse seriously. @FineGael @fiannafailparty 😡😡😡

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

Exciting match

[Irish Rugby @IrishRugby]

All square at the break.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

BREAKING 🚨: Pope Leo XIV has given BELT TREATMENT to Netanyahu and Trump 🔥

He said : "ENOUGH WITH WAR. Enough with the idolatry of self and money. Enough with the display of power. True strength is manifested in serving life."🔥

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

Well said

[Constance Short @constanceshortc]

I am not questioning the truck drivers& farmers right to protest tho I find it odd they use more petrol to protest its cost..I am objecting to their methods. Blocking off public transport,blocking off oil distribution networks,hurts the most vunerable, not the decision makers.

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

@NellifantMc 🤣 will keep it in mind!!!

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

I think every generation complains about the previous one. However, I can’t recall my parents complaining - but they belongs to the so called silent generation. The 40s and 50s were hard years in Ireland.

[heretical lakeloon @loonlake55]

Too many young people are resenting Boomers, claiming that Boomers had it " easy " financially in their youth. Here are a few fun facts about growing up Boomer.
1. Almost everyone grew up with one bathroom. Mom, Dad and all 3-6 siblings.
2. If you did get to take a vacation, you drove. With no air conditioning. No cup holders. No iPads. Just black vinyl seats and bologna sandwiches.
3. There were no club sports. No Parks and Rec activities. Summer camp was for rich kids. Get yourself a bike, a stick and a few friends. If you were bored, you laid in the grass and looked at clouds.
4. You ate what was served. Even if it was chicken livers. No DoorDash, no backup Totino's rolls.
5. No AP classes, no PSEO, no "fun" elective. They assigned you to a class. You went. You did what they asked. Or else.
6. Unless you had rich parents, you had a nice VFW wedding. Maybe rent a room at a modest hotel.
7. Most Boomers got their first pedi and mani in their 50s (when their feet got farther away). We didn't even know people got massages in real life, only in Hollywood.
8. You packed your own lunch for decades.
9. No one knew what red light therapy was, a facial, a spa day, or a cold plunge. Your gym was the YMCA. Usually in a rather old building.
10. We grew up with 18 percent inflation, 14 percent mortgage rates, 3 million continuing unemployment claims, and 200 other applicants competing for the same job.
Now, this is not to say Millenials and Gen Z have it easy or don't face problems. It's just to say, nobody has it easy or doesn't face problems.
My only hope, as my mom would say, is I live long enough to see my kids' kids complain about how easy they had it!

[LPC @landpalestine]

Cardinal Zuppi read the names of every chiId kiIIed by IsraeI in Gaza

It took 7 hours

[Jonasi is a demon @tiredfeminist_]

The Corgi was the one leading them home
The German Shepherd was injured
The dogs kept a protective formation around the German Shepherd
The Corgi stopped often to make sure they were still okay
It took them 2 days to get home
They are neighbourhood friends
I’m going to cry😭😭😭

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

A master mass here from Micheal Martin on how to speak fluently and diplomatically - while also standing up for values, peace and European allies -

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Now with full English text, Pope’s address to journalists; “It is up to you to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a videogame.” https://t.co/T7IgejUeZx

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

Well said ..

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

Good advice from Ted Smyth. 👇The Taoiseach’s visit to Washington is intended to celebrate Ireland’s ties with the USA over the past 250 years.

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

It’s quite something to have a Prime Minister visit an Embassy anywhere in the world. Ireland really benefits from the global reach of #StPatricksDay.

[Anne-Marie Diffley @anne_diffley]

@Gary_wayne2 There is a saying ‘no good deed goes unpunished’ and unfortunately often true