Great to see Richard Bruton taking apart the incorrect, unreliable and unresearched piece published by Fintan O’Toole last week on the Climate Action Plan
My experience of holidaying in Ireland is that our young people are magnificent , we have not gone anywhere that the young staff have not been brilliant, mannerly , attentive, funny, genuine, been a pleasure in both Liscannor and Lehinch, really stuck by them and proud of them
This is now, tonight, Saturday at 7.30pm in Dublin. Our beautiful city centre is decimated. Hospitality businesses are on their knees. We need help. So many jobs & livelihoods on the line 💔😢@Paschald@mmcgrathtd@adriancummins@mcdigby@CWeston_Indo @mcculld @davidmcw
Our civil liberties are on brink.
This is not a drill. There is no excuse for snatching women off the street and throwing them into unmarked vans.
To not protect our rights is to give them away. It is our responsibility to resist authoritarianism.
👀 Look who was on hand to support King's High School in their clash against Southland Boys' High today...
FULL HIGHLIGHTS ➡️ https://t.co/U7bcfIyORX
🎥: @skysportnz
For those interested, this is my restored and colourised photo featuring Kevin O'Higgins and Michael Collins leaving out through the Chief Secretary’s door in Dublin Castle on the 16th of January 1922 after the formal transfer of power.
https://t.co/uEfNSZHANj
Salman Rushdie gives us a long, sombre bookcase thundering past like a great goods train filled with credibility. His dome is bathed in the glow of understanding. A lamp pops brilliantly in the distance. Salman's lesson is that thought illuminates fact. Without it, all is murky.
My colourised 1917 footage of huge crowds in Dublin to welcome Countess Constance Markievicz back after her release from prison. She received a death sentence for her part in the 1916 Rising but was given amnesty in June 1917 and #OnThisDay died at the age of 59 on 15th July 1927