Jane

Bemused observer of a world in a state of chassis.

[Jane @delarivier]

@AnMailleach @Independent_ie This is a great article. Even STEM has not escaped.

[Charlie Flanagan @CharlieFlanagan]

There are neither bounds limits nor priorities to the spending of taxpayers' money by the €29 billion per year, ideologically driven @HSE behemoth. #notinmyname

[George E. Pataki @GovernorPataki]

I was Governor of New York on September 11, 2001. The planes did not simply crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They were hijacked and deliberately flown into those buildings by Islamist terrorists.

[Jane @delarivier]

@DermotKearney3 May her mother find comfort and may heaven be your god-daughter's bed.

[Iarnród Éireann @IrishRail]

🚨Missing PAWsenger Found🚨

It appears somebunny missed their stop 😅

No need to hop on the next train — we’ve got this little one safe and sound, and we would love to reunite them with their owner. -AD

[Jane @delarivier]

@kilkennyweather My garden awaits. My neighbour's cows are dreaming of fresh grass again...

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

Uno lleva 94 años caminando. El otro, apenas tres semanas. Adivina quién está copiando a quién.

[Kevin Campbell @KevinCampSF]

Michael Collins died in Béal na Bláth, County Cork 104 years ago today.

He was 31. RIP

[Jane @delarivier]

@Shauns_Aviation @AerLingus Yay well done! I hope some day I will be sitting on an Aer Lingus flight with you as pilot!

[Jane @delarivier]

@LadyHaywire @ZwartblesIE I noticed that the Queens I bought from the Wexford people on the side of the road were very small this year!

[Jane @delarivier]

@LadyHaywire @ZwartblesIE Maybe a bit this week, although the maps don't predict much. I think if I showed my neighbour's cows your lovely green fields they'd wonder do you do holiday packages😃

[Jane @delarivier]

@ZwartblesIE @LadyHaywire Even the trees are starting to droop in Kilkenny.

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

One of the best traditional Irish sports you see during the summer is Road Bowling. I feel like it used to be on the telly far more when I was growing up. The crowd blocking off some overgrown hedge fringed country road on a Sunday evening, pints in hand. A middle aged dude with a bald patch and dad bod man runs forward, whirls his arm, and hurls a 28oz iron ball around a bend. The rules are simple. Two players or teams throw a solid iron bowl along a set course of public road, usually a mile or two long. Fewest throws to the finish wins.

Its got a fascinating history that I didnt expect. One theory has it arriving with Dutch soldiers who came over with William of Orange in 1689. As I remember, King Billy was very fond of handling balls down country lanes. But I digress.

Another theory credits Scottish and English weavers who settled in Ulster's linen industry in the early 1700s, bringing "long bullets" with them. A city ordinance in Derry banned the game from the town's ramparts in 1714. And DTM favourite Dean Jonathan Swift referenced it in a poem in the late 1720s. By the 1880s it was being listed as a national Irish pastime alongside hurling and Gaelic football.

Ulster was where it took root first, but it really took off in Cork and it reamains its heartland, alongside Armagh. The two counties developed distinct throwing styles. Cork's a whirling underhand delivery, Armagh's a straighter arm swung back before release. Reminds me of the time me and William of Orange and the 1st Duke of Schomberg were playing "bash the letter" in the bushes near the Boyne. But I digress again.

The first recorded Cork versus Armagh match was in 1928, on the Knappagh Road, in front of a crowd estimated at 10,000. The first official All-Ireland wasn't held until 1963, once Ból Chumann na hÉireann, the governing body, had organised the sport in 1954.

Cork's Mick Barry, still spoken of as the greatest bowler ever, once lofted a ball in a 1964 final clean over a pub, a television aerial, and telephone wires, landing it nearly a hundred yards down the road. Thats the type of demonstration of manhood enought to bring a tear to a glass eye. Which reminds me......

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[Sryan Bruen @SnowbieWx]

Casement casually set a new August record for Dublin yesterday with 31.2C beating Glasnevin's 31.0C from 1990.

Phoenix Park had 30.9C, a new all-time August record for the station. Records began there in 1881.

[Jane @delarivier]

@MikeLyons1956 I only heard this morning that Keith Tipton died last Sunday. The funeral was private. A great man, may heaven be his bed.

[Jane @delarivier]

@AnMailleach @FrankmcnallyIT Light level at peak eclipse in Kilkenny was equivalent to that about 10 - 15 min after sunset. Temperature dropped about 1C. My security light came on when I passed near it. Unfortunately, clouds blocked the view😞

[Dylan K @MightyDylanK]

Spain just went dark in the middle of the day.

Total solar eclipse. Absolutely unreal. 🌑🇪🇸

Tarragona, Spain 🇪🇸

[Jane @delarivier]

@kilkennyweather Not sure whether to say 'yay' or 'ooooohhhh'
However the winter will be long enough, so I will bask happily today in shorts and work on joining my freckles and making Vitamin D😃☀️

[Kilkenny Live @KKPeopleNews]

Man hospitalised following suspected shark bite off Waterford coast https://t.co/UGeFjH9K6Q