The unfortunate name for hedgehog, gráinneog (little loathsome one) can be understood once you remember it was introduced by the Normans.
You can imagine a 13th c. Gael ambling through the same old forest when he comes across one and says: "Gah! Foc! Cad é an ghráinneog sin?!"
The unfortunate name for hedgehog, gráinneog (little loathsome one) can be understood once you remember it was introduced by the Normans.
You can imagine a 13th c. Gael ambling through the same old forest when he comes across one and says: "Gah! Foc! Cad é an ghráinneog sin?!"
An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade into a car carrying a Palestinian family, trapping them inside for the full blast.
Their 5 year old daughter was made permanently blind.
Imagine this was a Jewish family? It would rightly be on every news station.
"The burden of the small language did not suffice to prevent Sweden, or Norway, or the Netherlands, or Flanders, from exporting successfully to Britain, from growing more rapidly than Britain since the late nineteenth century, and from overtaking British living standards"
New way to describe Israel: Kakocracy.
Pathocracy is a form of government where a society is ruled by manipulative individuals w/personality disorders, particularly psychopathy, narcissism.
Kakocracy is where the culture of the MAJORITY is evil & narcissistic.
Naftali Bennett: Area C will be annexed to Israel (60% of the West Bank’s area), while Areas A and B will remain under Palestinian self-rule, with no Palestinian state.
This proves, for those who still have not understood, that change in Israel will not come from within, because the Zionist opposition shares Netanyahu’s government’s role in entrenching the occupation and racial discrimination. No change will occur without imposing sanctions on the system of occupation and colonial settlement expansion.
I still laugh about this too from time to time. I would’ve loved to have been at the marketing meeting when they said to each other “ do ya know what lads…we need a great poster…”
Pope Leo: “We tend to think...that the only issue of morality is sexual....I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that" issue.
Forensics showed Jackson’s prints on the silencer for the Luger used in the murder of John Francis Green and Miami attack. Jackson revealed that on 24th of May 1976 he got a tip off from RUC men about his impending arrest. Yet RUC SB claimed they could not find him to arrest him.
Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire.
To put that into perspective, he could now build four bike sheds and still have enough money left for a round of drinks in Temple Bar.
#Otd 1889: #Armagh Rail Disaster. Crowded Sunday school excursion train had to negotiate a steep incline but unable. Separated rear collided with other train. Ireland's worst railway disaster. 80 killed, 260 injured; c 1/3 children. https://t.co/feJPNqmCq5 https://t.co/cvHVbkMo8e
"You are the flower of Ulster, descended from an ancient and honourable a stock of people as any in Europe. This land you and your predecessors have possessed about three thousand years. All Christendom know your quarrel is good – to fight for your native birth-right."