Carol Louthe

Politics addict and animal lover. Opinions my own.

[Rob Cross @RobCross247]

Imagine Dublin having had a market like Cork’s English Market for the past 30 years.

Allowing architectural protected structures such as the Edwardian covered market hall, Iveagh Markets on Francis Street in the Dublin Liberties to fall into dereliction for three decades is a crime against our heritage. But it is not only a crime against our heritage: it is costing the State millions, upwards of €13 million, in repairs to halt dereliction, such as stabilisation, before any redevelopment, including a full restoration and reuse fit-out (30+ million).

Below is a webpage I built to highlight dereliction in Ireland, propose solutions, and showcase heritage buildings and structures at risk. The page includes quick facts, a summary, history and ownership, a dated photographic decline log, planning/enforcement history, vacancy/dereliction signals, reuse potential, recommended next actions, open questions, and sources.

ℹ️ Research:
https://t.co/XSFbg93tS4

#Dublin #Ireland #Heritage #HeritageAtRisk #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland

[Robert E Fuller @RobertEFuller]

RIP Dryer 🥲
I'm very sad to report that Dryer the barn owl has passed away.
I found his body about 100m from the nest this morning. The cause of death is not clear, but I found him in grass and not in a water trough as many of you feared.
Dryer was a great character. A very dedicated partner to Gylfie and father to nine owlets over four years, he will be missed by us all.

[Malcolm Guite @malcolmguite]

Sailing to Iona!

[Irish Left With Ukraine @Ilw_Ukraine]

We joined the daily protest outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin on Saturday 27th June 2026. We will be going regularly from now until the end of the war.
#StopRussia

[Gaz @GazSmith_Chef]

There have been a few tentative enquiries recently asking if the kitchen and set up
needs to be perfect before I come.

Absolutely not.

In fact, that’s part of the day.

We’ll cook together, but I’ll also throw in plenty of little pointers to make life easier, help organise your kitchen a bit better and, most importantly, build your confidence. You don’t need a huge kitchen or a fancy setup. We just work with what you’ve got.

I’ll always bring along any bits I think we’ll need, so there’s no panic if you don’t have every gadget under the sun. And if you’re planning a kitchen redesign in the future you can pick my brains about layouts too.

If you’re sound, keep reading……….
there’s also the option of coming to me. We’ll spend the afternoon cooking in my kitchen and out on the BBQ, pick up a few new skills along the way, have a great day, and you’ll head home with dinner sorted for the family.
I’m pretty flexible. As long as you’re nice and don’t mind a talkative cat wandering around looking for the odd treat, we’ll get on just fine. 🙂

Every experience is tailored around what you’d like to learn, so no two days are ever quite the same.

https://t.co/hFEbTolySk

[The Cure @thecure]

MÍLE BUÍOCHAS, ÉIRE!

📸 Rick Joaquim

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

“Thank you that you don’t forget about Ukraine.”

That’s what Zelenskyy said to me today.

I’ll carry that with me forever.

So grateful to be in this beautiful country, telling the truth about its fight for survival, justice and freedom. 🇺🇦❤️

[Business Post @businessposthq]

Large swathes of the Irish electorate favour a hard border on the island of Ireland to tighten immigration controls, according to a new Red C poll.

https://t.co/wk1CPIVO80

[Jeferson Nasa @Jefersonnasa_]

No era famosa. No era rica. Solo era Luciana, madre soltera de 27 años trabajando en un bar de Miami.

Una noche de 2003, un hombre se escondió detrás de la barra: “¿Puedo quedarme un minuto? Me reconocieron”.

Luciana, sin inmutarse, le dijo: “Puedes quedarte… pero solo si ayudas”.
Y Matt Damon empezó a lavar vasos, limpiar y servir bebidas.

Hablaron, rieron… y nació una conexión real.
Cuando ella le preguntó su nombre, él sonrió: “Matt Damon”.

Lo que empezó como un escondite en un bar ruidoso terminó en boda, adopción de su hija y una hermosa familia.

A veces el amor llega…
disfrazado de cliente que lava vasos. 😂❤️

[Gary Murphy @GaryMurphyDCU]

@CianOConcubhair Funnily enough in my experience the great pontificators in Irish academic life tend to be sociologists and criminologists from Maynooth who can’t abide anyone with a different view expressing it. I won’t be taking any lessons from you about where and what I write.

[Business Post @businessposthq]

Red C poll: Large cohort of Irish voters favour hard border with north to curb immigration https://t.co/B9LG0vcKth

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Our Lady of Consolation in Donnycarney is an iconic church. The name Donnycarney itself goes back to the twelfth century in a document from 1171 recording the possessions of the Augustinian monastery of All Hallows, which stood on the site of what is now Trinity College. The place was listed as "Duncarnac," part of the parish of Clonturk, granted by Diarmuid Mac Murragh, King of Leinster, just before the Normans arrived.

The Catholic parish, though, is a much more recent creation. In 1938, a Canon preparing to establish a new church in Donnycarney travelled to Hungary with Bishop Browne of Galway and a hundred Irish pilgrims.

Stopping over in Gyor, they visited the local cathedral, where they saw a miraculous painting known as the Weeping Madonna, or the Irish Madonna, originally owned by Bishop Lynch of Clonfert. The new church would be dedicated to Our Lady of Consolation.

Then the war came and it wasn't until 1947 that something finally went up. What they got was a corrugated iron structure, affectionately known to locals as the Tin Church. It was, by any measure, a shed. But it served the growing communities of Marino and Donnycarney for over two decades, and people were attached to it.

The parish was formally constituted in 1952, carved out of the parish of Marino. Fr. James Robinson became the first parish priest and organised a parochial hall, essentially the social engine of the area, the nearest thing Donnycarney had to a ballroom.

Construction on the permanent church began in the mid-1960s. The final cost came to around £295,000, pushed up by changes insisted upon by Dublin Corporation and rising labour and materials costs. The building that emerged was a concrete-frame structure in what one architectural assessment described as a municipal suburban style, loosely in the spirit of Gothic Revival but very much of its time.

The plan is cruciform with a wedge-shaped footprint, a nod to post-Vatican II sensibilities. Copper-clad doors designed by Paul Meehan depict scenes from the New Testament. The stained glass, produced by Murphy Davitt Studios, fills the interior with colour.

On 4 May 1969, Archbishop McQuaid blessed and dedicated the church. Fr. Robinson said the first Mass before a packed congregation. Three years later, with the debt still on the books, he died after a short illness. He is buried beside the church.

[Carol Louthe @louthec]

@RobLooseCannon Great memories of our old 'Tin Church', Saturday Confession followed by collecting confetti after weddings. What replaced it was soulless and massive, now probably empty. Remember the weekly envelope to parishioners to fund it. Went on for years.

[Cureation @cureation]

The Cure at Marlay Park, Dublin, Ireland
2026-06-26 - Festival Summer 2026
Full setlist:
Main
1. Plainsong
2. Pictures of You
3. High
4. A Night Like This
5. Lovesong
6. Trust
7. Burn
8. Fascination Street
9. alt.end
10. Push
11. In Between Days
12. Just Like Heaven

[Birds Ireland @EricTheBirdman]

Great news,,.she has been found.

[Carol Louthe @louthec]

@MyLovelyHorseR Really great news and fair play to all that made her rescue possible.

[My Lovely Horse Rescue @MyLovelyHorseR]

🤩❤️SHE’S HOME, ELEANOR IS HOME 💔❤️💔❤️💔
There are no words big enough for what we are feeling tonight.
For 28 long days, we searched. We hoped. We cried. We prayed. We refused to give up. There were moments when our hearts were breaking, but one thing never changed, we were never going to stop looking for our beautiful little Eleanor.
Today, everything changed.
A person contacted us and said they thought they knew where she was.
After so many false leads, we had to be careful, so we asked this person to send us a video with today's newspaper. When we saw it, our hearts began to race💔💔❤️
We drove to Clondalkin, hardly daring to believe it. Hidden behind bushes, tied on a long blue rope... there she was, Kishoge, Clondalkin 😡😡😡
Our Eleanor❤️❤️❤️💔💔💔💔
The moment we saw her, the tears came. Tears of relief. Tears of joy. Tears we have been holding back for 28 days. We wrapped our arms around her and could hardly believe she was finally back where she belongs❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
To every single person who shared her story, kept an eye out, sent messages, offered support, said a prayer, or simply refused to forget about her... thank you. You carried us through some very dark days. We will never be able to express how grateful we are for the love you showed Eleanor and all of us at My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue❤️❤️❤️

To whoever thought they could take her from us, know this, you didn't win. We got her back. No reward. We never gave up, and we never will. We will always fight for our animals, no matter how long it takes ❤️😡

Tonight, Eleanor is safe. She's surrounded by the people who love her. She is home😡😡😡
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for believing with us, searching with us, and never letting Eleanor be forgotten.
Welcome home, our beautiful girl. You have no idea how loved you are❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Please if you can donate towards making our beautiful My lovely Horse Rescue even more secured…we would be so grateful ❤️❤️❤️

https://t.co/gBLskZcqPM

THANK YOI ❤️❤️🤩🤩

[Carol Louthe @louthec]

@rtenews Struggling for relevance. Heard more from them in last week than previous 5 years. Something freaking them out.

[Chad Byrne @chadpbyrne]

Meadow Sweet on every patch of ditch you drive past.
Tastes like sweet honey, vanilla and almond, the druid drug of choice after battle to soothe pain,
Will be using alongside Irish strawberries for a dessert

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

The mole is the most persecuted animal in British gardens. And nearly always over a misunderstanding. 🐾

What the mole actually eats: earthworms, grubs, leatherjackets, slugs and small invertebrates. Never roots. Never.

The damage it gets blamed for — dead plants with their roots destroyed — almost always comes from voles, which are a completely different animal. The mole digs, but it doesn't eat your plants. The vole is the one that really does.

What the mole actually does in your garden:

It aerates and loosens the soil with its tunnel system, working as deep as 70cm down. It clears out beetle grubs and leatherjackets — the ones that really do eat roots. And it helps keep soil invertebrate numbers in natural balance.

The soil from molehills is quality stuff — fine, already worked, ideal as compost for pots and seed trays. Don't throw it away; collect it.

Worth knowing: Britain has just one mole species, the European mole, found right across the mainland. So if you've got molehills, this is your gardener underground.

Before you act, identify the problem properly. If the roots are being eaten, it's voles. If the lawn has molehills but the roots are intact, it's a mole. The remedies are different — and confusing the two means treating the wrong problem.

The mole works for you. Beneath your feet, every night 🌱

#wildlifegardening #moles #soilhealth #gardenwildlife