Labhraín Ní Loingsigh

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

@RoryFitz9 perfect, thank you. Didn't realise it was on Sky

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

@RoryFitz9 is there a way to watch the Bengals game in Ireland?

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

@OfVoice87805 @tswifterastour it means like 'you bloody idiot' 😂

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

If you think the Irish are doing well at all the Movie awards this year, wait until this wins Best Picture next year.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Aleksey Navalny was a fearless advocate for his beliefs who died unbroken by the tyranny he opposed. He fought corruption, inspired millions and never wavered in his insistence on free expression, the rule of law, and a Russia that is accountable to the people and not a dictator. He died in unyielding defense of his vision of a better future for his country - a vision, and a courageous example, that will never die.

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

What an ending!!! Will definitely watch NFL next year! Great commentary from Craig Doyle
@VirginMediaIE
#SuperBowl #KC

[In My Mind @MeAloneInMyMind]

Me watching Patrick Mahomes at the Chiefs and the 49ers game.
#SuperBowl

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

The half-time show looks so good on tv, but does it look like that in the stadium? Seems like so much is happening, is it hard to keep focus on who's performing?
#Usher   
#SuperBowl2024

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

Have never watched NFL in my life until now. Don't understand what's going on, but liking the outfits and pagentry #GoTaylorsBoyfriend
#SuperBowl2024

[Sharon Bitchell-Watts 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @comagirlx]

Ryanair deciding where to divert their UK & Ireland flights to tonight

#StormIsha

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

Elfis Presley and his sideburns are the real star of the show
#LateLateToyShow

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

The book kids are always the best part of the show #LateLateToyShow

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

Charles is right up there as one of my favourite book kids, second only to John Joe
#LateLateToyShow

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Today FM 💛 @TodayFM]

Remembering Bród Higgins 💔

You have served Ireland well 🇮🇪

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Dear Europeans, do you even know what the Irish call your country?

[Abbey Theatre @AbbeyTheatre]

Today marks the 171th birthday of our legendary co-founder #LadyGregory 🎂 Happy birthday Lady G! (1/2)

[The Blindboy Podcast @bbboatclub]

Wow. Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Kerry Condon, Brendan Gleeson and Paul Mescal all nominated for Oscars. The British media won't know themselves with all these names they'll be claiming as their own

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

@IrishRail Thank you. Merry Christmas

[Labhraín Ní Loingsigh @sansnicely]

Hi @IrishRail can you confirm if the 19.15 train from Dublin Connolly to Boyle will go ahead this evening please?