Seamus O'Neill

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

A week and a half before October 7, 2023 UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes.

In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel.

Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario.

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[Pints Of Beauty @PintsBeauty]

£2.17 - The fantastic Pilsner Urquell in Pivnice U Pivoje, Prague 🇨🇿

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

Forests are not just trees.
They are climate regulators, water protectors, biodiversity vaults, and home to Indigenous peoples who have safeguarded them for generations.
Deforestation is not development.
It is self-destruction.
Protect the guardians. Protect the forests.

[Fintan O'Toole @fotoole13]

GAA club games on TG4 next Sunday Sept 6th:

2pm: Armagh SFC - Clan na Gael v Crossmaglen Rangers.

4pm: Dublin SFC - Ballymun Kickhams v St Judes.

[Official Cavan GAA @CavanCoBoardGaa]

🏐 *𝗚𝗔𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗖 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲* 🏐

Learn. Lead. Inspire.

📅 7th & 8th November 2026
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⏰ 9:30am–4:00pm both days

Hosted by Raymond Galligan, two days of practical coaching insight featuring:

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Game models. Kickouts. Defending. Attacking. Midfield play. Leadership.Coaching.

Practical ideas you can take back to your own team.

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[UEFA Obscura @UEFAObscura]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hearts are the first club in UEFA history to play in all three European competitions during the same qualifying campaign, win none of their qualifying matches, and still reach the league phase.

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[Seamus O'Neill @soneill8932]

@ailbeoreilly @DerrytreskGAC Go raibh maith agat Ailbe happy and relieved!

[Seamus O'Neill @soneill8932]

@malmcmullan @MartyLoughran83 @Gaelic_Life Are County Boards and the Association in general breaking their duty of care towards players by scheduling so many games in quick succession?

[Seamus O'Neill @soneill8932]

@duponline So you’re asking a Solicitor to breach client confidentiality that’s as absurd as asking Mr McBurney to explain their representation of Jeffrey Donaldson or Donnelly and Wall to explain their representation of Jim Shannon.

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

Grotesque images from @Kscott_94 showing two swans trapped in a vast expanse of toxic sludge on Lough Neagh. Firefighters spent more than an hour trying to rescue them. NI gets c40% of its drinking water from Lough Neagh... and we flush raw sewage into it. https://t.co/iv3ySaPtms

[Casual Gardener 🇵🇸 #StopTheGenocide @Casualgardener1]

Where's last week's animal welfare advocates now?

[Big Mickey Mackin🇮🇪❤️🇺🇸 @PeterClear328]

Nine-year-old Paudie Murray from Moveen, near the Kilkee Cliffs in west Clare, is running one of the loveliest little businesses in Ireland right now.
What started with two hens (he asked for a goldfish) has grown into a flock of nearly 100 birds. Every afternoon at 2pm he restocks his honesty box with farm-fresh eggs… and it sells out, sometimes in as little as 15 minutes. Queues form. People drive from Galway. Tourists from Texas and Pennsylvania have made the pilgrimage. His Instagram (@ubhbypaudie) has more than 15,000 followers.
Paudie still checks the hens before breakfast, tops up feed and straw, helps with the calves on the family dairy farm, and reinvests every euro into more hens, feed and bedding. He’s not bothered by the attention. He’s just happy people like his eggs.
Pure Irish rural charm. Pure initiative. Pure wholesome.
Ubh by Paudie — proving you’re never too young to start something brilliant. 🥚🇮🇪

[Brian4new @GustBrian]

A mother fox protected her baby from the forest fire in Spain 🥰 https://t.co/glLUxbyw2F

[Ecofact @EcofactEcology]

Pollution from a municipal sewage discharge into a salmonid and lamprey stream in Co. Roscommon. This recent video documents the ecological conditions in the receiving watercourse.

The video begins upstream of the discharge, where the stream supports clean gravel substrates and stands of Water-crowfoot (Ranunculus sp.) and Water-starwort (Callitriche sp.). These pollution-sensitive plants are indicators of good water quality and are characteristic components of the EU Annex I habitat type 3260.

Within metres of the outfall, the stream undergoes a dramatic ecological deterioration. The diverse upstream aquatic community is replaced by one dominated by only the most pollution-tolerant invertebrates, resulting in the lowest possible biological water quality classification: Q1 – Bad. Filamentous algae, cyanobacteria and sewage fungus become widespread. A warning sign on the first downstream bridge advises the public to avoid contact with the river, highlighting the seriousness of the pollution. This warning sign is about the watercourse – not the actual outfall. Although there is some downstream recovery, the effects of nutrient enrichment and eutrophication persist for several kilometres.

The final two clips show the Bella River approximately 5 km downstream, at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) water quality monitoring station. This site was assigned an unpolluted Q4 (Good Status) rating in 2024. However, the heavily eutrophic conditions now apparent are difficult to reconcile with that classification. The wastewater discharge is considered likely to be a significant contributor to cumulative nutrient enrichment within this catchment.

Further downstream, the river system flows into Lough Gara, which is designated as a Special Protection Area (SPA) under the EU Birds Directive. The lake is also an important public water supply source for north Roscommon, with water abstracted from its lower basin.

Water quality in this area is also affected by pressures from agriculture, forestry and peat harvesting. Hydromorphological alteration is another significant pressure. This sub-catchment was dredged and channelised as part of the Boyle Arterial Drainage Scheme between 1982 and 1992 and has never fully recovered.

Addressing diffuse pressures from agriculture, forestry and historical drainage works is both difficult and costly. Municipal wastewater treatment plants, however, are regulated point-source discharges that should not be causing severe ecological deterioration, warnings for the public to avoid contact with the receiving river, downstream impacts on a public drinking-water source, or a pollution pathway to a Natura 2000 site.

The conditions documented in this video should not exist in a regulated municipal wastewater system. They are not consistent with the objectives of the Water Framework Directive or with the protection of downstream Natura 2000 sites. Our rivers, wildlife and communities deserve better.

[Conor Moore @ConorSketches]

All Ireland Preview
🔴🟢 Mayo V Kerry 🟡🟢

[Cornelius @ComedianConn]

Age is but a number. This week I had the privilege to watch a former Cork senior footballer who is still playing and dominating at the tender age of forty six.! Starting at wing back for his club in senior A championship. It’s safe to say for some age is but a number. #gaa #gaelicfootball #cork #legend #ageisbutanumber

[Shauna Corr 🌍 @ShaunaReports]

Ever wondered where Northern Ireland's ten of millions of chickens and pigs live? – Here's the map.
If you'd like to learn why having so many in the Lough Neagh catchment is bad, read my report on some major new @foe_ni research for @desmognews
https://t.co/pzQHRNgFWt

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Anglers have warned that a Co Antrim river flowing into Lough Neagh is facing a "slow death" as a 500m stretch dries up each summer.

Speaking to The Irish News, Crumlin and District Angling Association vice chair David Kennedy said a decade of failures around water abstraction regulation has left fish corralled into shrinking pools, with DAERA confirming enforcement action is ongoing.

[Barra Best @barrabest]

Lough Neagh’s blue green algae back in full view in County Tyrone.

[Seamus O'Neill @soneill8932]

@forks_gk_ @melrobe08536915 @Hughbhoy What makes you say all Derrytresk people are pricks how well do you know them or anyone from there. Talk about a sweeping statement.