Ireland’s Border is the Beach💙

Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play. You have played enough. Rumi

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@BernieMacLaugh1 @James_Quigley73 You took the words right out off my mouth!

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@JohnWight1 🤣🤣🤣

[RTÉ @rte]

RTÉ Culture: Why I made The Girl in the Water - seeking truth after tragedy https://t.co/eidZ1Bknet

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@itsjohncrotty What an absolute lesson in romantic nationalism, I had never heard this before, thank you for sharing, loved it.

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@rte That was a powerful documentary. Thank you for your dedication to telling this story with compassion and professionalism. Thank God for her family’s determination and their relentless pursuit for justice for Kelly.

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@CapVocation I so needed this reminder, thank you.

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@domquixote974 We’re all waiting to hear the location of the worst one.

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@Muinchille 😂😂😂

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@welovedonegal And very well deserved - the community do great work - delighted for them.

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@rodneyedwards You’ll be sorely missed by all your readers @rodneyedwards - best of luck wherever you’re going but it better not be GB News!

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@SharonC69063882 @irish_news The evidence lies in the forensic, testimonial, and official evidence from multiple inquiries. Read the Kenova Report - https://t.co/u8AkuyPjTc

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@georgegalloway Your eloquence is quietly magnetic @georgegalloway

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@RealCandaceO @apocalypseos @RealCandaceO if you think Moscow is beautiful wait until you see St Petersburg - pastel palaces, golden spires, and shimmering canals.

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@sshaf91 @paulg And the most depraved.

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@saylordocs JFK did - donated his to charity.

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@TirChonaillAbu 💯 with you on that - a really really special magical place.

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@FrBrianDarcy

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

There are few living Irishmen I admire more than Father Brian D’Arcy. Though I’ve never met him, I’m sure thousands like me feel so familiar with this iconic priest that it's like we know him. His lifetime of service straddles the sacred and the secular. ��Born in 1945 in Fermanagh, he joined the Passionist Order at seventeen and was ordained in 1969.

From the start, Father Brian's ministry refused the conventional confines of clerical life. Without any intention of seeking the spotlight for himself, his charisma while sharing his faith led him to become a sort of unofficial chaplain to Dublin’s show business scene. ​D’Arcy’s media presence has been remarkable, spanning decades.

Since 1976, he has penned the column Father Brian’s Little Bit of Religion for the Sunday World. It was a segment I admit I scorned and ridiculed in my teens; however, as time and hopefully my understanding of the man's intentions and achievements grew, I appreciated it as an increasingly rare space to bring a bit of honest reflection to a national audience.

On air, he hosted BBC Radio Ulster’s weekly programme and BBC Radio 2’s Sunday Half Hour, offering opinions that combined pastoral care with a non-judgmental and accessible view on contemporary life.

​D’Arcy’s candid criticism of mandatory clerical celibacy, his calls for the ordination of married men and women, and his forthright stance on the Church’s handling of clerical child abuse have repeatedly put him at odds with Vatican authorities.

In 2012, he was formally censured and ordered to submit his writings to an official censor. His books A Little Bit of Religion, A Little Bit of Healing, Food for the Soul, and his memoirs A Different Journey and It Has to Be Said, compile decades of sermons, reflections, and personal insights, capturing the evolution of a priest deeply engaged with the world around him. His most recent collection, The Best of Brian, showcases the breadth of his thought and his unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power.

​In 2019, he was awarded an OBE for services to cross-community relations in Northern Ireland, a testament to his decades-long efforts to bridge divides in a society scarred by conflict. He has also received an honorary degree from the University of Ulster.

Yet D’Arcy’s accolades are inseparable from his personal story. He is a man shaped by both profound faith and the traumas of life, including the sexual abuse he suffered as a child, an ordeal he has spoken about publicly with courage and honesty. As he marked fifty-five years in the priesthood in 2024, D’Arcy reflected on a life lived “taking the Church into the world.”

Personally, I’m a believer in God who, despite being a christened and confirmed child of Catholics, has never been a Christian. However, I do love and respect that spirit and message of Jesus’s love and goodness which is honoured and embodied by Father Brian D’Arcy. So next time the chance comes around, what a politician or president he would make!

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@MbarkCherguia I’d pay her twice that just to stop her screeching, that mother has a voice that could cut corn.

[Scott Moore @ScottMoore0]

~2 years ago, I got my fiancée a ring as a gift.

She lost it this morning. We think she may have dropped it near the bus stop by Lisburn Road police station (Belfast). We were out looking but can’t find it.

Pic below. If anyone found it, we’d be very grateful for its return.

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@ThomasFHurley @theiaincameron Same here - even my friends referred to my grandparents as Ma and Da!