Kilburn Gaels are recruiting for the 2026 Senior and Intermediate hurling season🇳🇬
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Hunters in Alaska found a whale with a harpoon fired more than a century earlier.
Bowhead whales are the longest-living mammals on Earth – some survive more than two centuries. But in 2007, hunters in Alaska uncovered proof of just how long these giants endure.
Inside a whale’s flesh, researchers discovered fragments of a 19th-century exploding harpoon, the kind used when New Bedford, Massachusetts was the whaling capital of the world. The weapon dated to between 1885 and 1895. The whale had been alive with it embedded in its body for more than a hundred years, making it at least 115 years old.
Bowheads (Balaena mysticetus) were once nearly driven to extinction by commercial whaling. By 1921, only a few thousand were left. Today, thanks to protections, their population has rebounded to somewhere between 10,000 and 23,000. Subsistence hunts by Inuit communities in Alaska, who have depended on these whales for millennia, continue under long-held traditions –and it was during one such hunt that the historic harpoon was found.
Scientists confirm the whales’ ages in another way: through their eyes. The proteins in a whale’s eye lens slowly change shape over time, like a molecular clock. By measuring those changes, researchers estimate bowheads can live more than 200 years – surviving Arctic winters, shifting sea ice, and even century-old wounds.
The whale with the harpoon is gone now, but its story lingers as proof of resilience – and a reminder of how long life can last in the icy waters of the Arctic.
Congratulations to the 2024 London GAA Players of the Year who received their awards at the Dinner Dance🌟
🏆Senior Hurling - Conor Byrne, Kilburn Gaels
🏆Intermediate Hurling - Aaron Coughlan, Fr Murphys
Thank you Tiny📸
It APPEARS that Swatragh's Cahal Murray KICKED a hurling point from around the 45.
This score needs a VAR check to confirm the law of physics would allow it
(vid via @j_cassidy8)
The Guildford Four were released 35 years ago this week, after spending 15 years in prison for something they didn’t do.
“Their only crime was being Irish.”
County Semi Final Week is here! 🏟🎫
We're just 5 days out from Sunday's Capital Concrete SHC Semi Final clash with St Gabriel's at McGovern Park and an opportunity to reach a first Senior County Final since 2017 (continued)
So sad to hear about the passing of Shane MacGowan, aged 65.
Here is his cover of Spancil Hill with Christy Moore on the Late Late in 1994.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam ❤️