Patrick O Flaherty

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@neilojim1972 @neilojim1972 I follow you for the 9 years war but always admired the patience you show with this. It’s worth doing, there is always someone who new to the conversation, who would know nothing except what those who try to knock Ireland tell them without your effort. Treise leat.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@RobLooseCannon So Captain Fleming rather than Captain Farrell ?

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@the_culturist_ All Odysseus’ men died before they reached home. Maybe they would have been better served staying with the Lotus eaters.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@mrdanwalker This performative piety gives me the ick.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@NewYorker The first time a New Yorker cartoon has made me laugh

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The most powerful passage from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius:

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@BelfastBooks @MarkRobinsonNI The idea that Northern Irish Protestants are foreign runs contrary to the ideas of Republicanism, which seeks ‘to unite Catholic Protestant and Dissenter in the common name of Irishman’. Kenneth Branagh showed us who started to deny their Irishness.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@BrianSpanner1 @donnchup The snot green, scrotum tightening sea.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@rtenews Treise leat a Mháirín.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The crime they see: 15,415 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Every campaign, every documentary, every leaflet through the door since about 2012.

The crime they do: not reading the paper.

The figure is real. It comes from Mekonnen and Hoekstra at the University of Twente, and it is careful, peer-reviewed work. What the campaigns strip out is that the same authors split that number into three parts, because the three parts are not the same thing at all.

Green water is rain. It falls on the grass. The cow eats the grass. For beef, green water is about 94 per cent of that headline.

Blue water is the stuff that matters. Rivers, lakes, aquifers. The stuff that gets pumped, metered, fought over in court, and does not come back.

So here is the blue water, in litres per kilogram, from the same authors, same method, same units.

- Pistachios: 7,602
- Almonds: 3,816
- Walnuts: 2,451
- Dates: 1,250
- Cashews: 921
- Beef: 550

Read that last line again, then go and look at what is in your granola.

The 15,415 counts rain that fell on a Welsh hillside as a cost, against an animal that was standing in it, on land where nothing else grows, in a country where rain is the one thing we have never once been short of.

The pistachio is drinking fourteen times more of the water that actually runs out.

She is outside in the rain right now, getting blamed for it.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@RobLooseCannon Fascinating, Churchill was a big admirer saying ‘whenever bitter feelings arose toward Ireland, "the hands of heroes such as Paddy Finucane seem to stretch out and soothe the feeling away". Never knew his father was involved in 1916.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@annie_mcginley @BTriagain Cúpla lá te agus na Conallaigh ag éirí in airde.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@SimpSimonSays ‘has perhaps the best shot at becoming the first TD from a migrant background’ Hardly, Dr Moosajee Bhamjee was elected by the people of Clare in 1992. Indeed Clare elected a half Spanish US born candidate with an unpronounceable name in 1917.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@RobLooseCannon Please what happened to William Patrick ?

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@irelandbattles Knockma, Killower, Uí Brion Seola

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@irelandbattles

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@RobLooseCannon ‘in the 1600s Catholic, meant Irish, Protestant meant English or Scottish planter’. The old English were still predominantly Catholic into 1690

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@Choyaa13 Reality check. The point of NI is to maintain the position of Unionists, not to expose the secrets of the leader of Unionism.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@Seananocoistin @kenoflynnTD Bheul muna bhfuil, nach fearr duinn rud éigin a dhéanamh seachas uirlisí cogaidh a cheannach.

[Patrick O Flaherty @OPatoflaherty]

@Seananocoistin @kenoflynnTD Cathain a thosnóaimid ag bombáil.