The skill required to carve translucent veils from solid stone is remarkable—very few artists have managed to master it.
Here are some of the most astonishing examples of when that magic happened.
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Rud eile, níorbh é leas CLG é Corcaigh a bheith ar leathimeall chomh fada san - 8 mbliana déag ó bhuadar corn Mhic Cárthaigh cheana. Thug an tArm Dearg ardú meanman do mhórán sa tsamhradh ainnis seo.
Tá mo shúil in airde agam le cluiche ceannais na hiománaíochta áfach. Is ceist dheacair í seo do dhaoine neodracha. Ba bhreá leat bonn eile a bheith ag Shane O Donnell, mar shampla. Ach ar mhaith linn P Horgan a bheith ag éirí as gan aon bhonn a bhaint?
Is ea, más ea. Ciarraí imithe, rud nár chuir aon iontas orm nuair a chuala go raibh níos mó báirí fachta ag Con O'Callaghan i mbliana ná mar a fuair foireann Chiarraí ar fad.
Táim thar n-ais ar an ardán so tar éis tost míosa geall leis. Is amhlaidh a bhí mo chuid postálacha ag dul isteach i gcuntas eile a tháinig ar an saol fén ainm Diarmuid etc. Cosc ar athphosráil nó daoine eile a leanúint. An-ait ar fad.
@rtenews M Martin has promoted his pet over more experienced ministers. This shows the control which he exercises over the party, but resentment is inevitable. They will be waiting in the long grass for Jack in due course.
Chris Sidoti, UN human rights lawyer:
“The only conclusion you can draw is that the Israeli 🇮🇱 army is one of the most criminal army’s in the world”
Israel’s army is a terrorist force.
The Hague now.
Arms embargo now.
Boycott now.
It's been 48 hours since Israel murdered Gaza's water & environment chief engineer along with 4 municipality officials while they were working to restore the water supply to the famine-stricken northern Gaza.
Not even a single passing mention of this in any mainstream media!
3. Cuimhnigh air seo: NGOanna atá ag fáil airgid ón Roinn Rialtais atá fé chúram Roderick O'Gorman, Páirtí Glas, ag cur tinteanna ar fáil dosna hinimircigh agus na tinteanna san á scrios ag lámha meicniúla agus iad caite isteach i scip. Go bhfóire Dia orainn.
1. Ceist a cuireadh orm mar gheall ar na tinteanna san cois Canálach. Conas deireadh a chur leo. Is cinnte nach le lámh mheicniúil amach as trucail é. Bascadh fear bocht gan áitreabh le ceann acu san in aice na Canálach roinnt blianta ó shin.
2. Canathaobh ná féadfaí fir oibre a chur i mbun na háiteanna san a ghlanadh, mar a deintí riamh. Agus d'fhéadfaí iarracht a dhéanamh athúsáid a bhaint as na tinteanna.
Eolaí an-chreidiúnach is ea Peter Kalmus, saineolaí ar chúrsaí aeráid atá ag obair in NASA. Is é an t-athrú aeráide an bhagairt is mó ar an gcine daonna anois agus ba cheart go mbeadh sé chun tosaigh i ngach beartas de chuid an Rialtais? An bhfuil? Ní dóigh liom é,
Níor mhaith liom a rá gur rudaí gan mhaith iad na painéil, ach is gránna iad na muilte gaoithe. Maraíonn siad scata éanlaithe leis. Measaim go bhfuil sé in am teacht ar mhalairt aigne i dtaobh stáisiúin núicléacha, agus ní in Éirinn amháin é. Tá an plánaod á róstadh.
@rtenews For many years I worked near the Canal and often strolled along it at lunchtime. People should still be entitled to do that. Illegal campers should be arrested and the NGOs who give them the tents (which end up in a skip - Green Party NB) should be defunded. This is all nonsense.