James Wilson

Journalist with Newstalk FM

[James Wilson @wilso_jam]

@RhydianLFrancis @TomHulme79 It's the same reason why there are care homes for veterans and the Jewish community - people like to be around others who they have things in common with.

[Gilad 🇮🇱 @gilad73]

Love this picture. Synagogues in the US stayed open 24 hours to pray for the troops on D Day.

[NewstalkFM @NewstalkFM]

Irish Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental has died at the age of 90.

As a young boy, Mr Reichental was imprisoned in Bergen Belsen concentration camp and 35 of his relatives were murdered by the Nazis.

As a pensioner in Ireland, he educated thousands of children about the terrible things he witnessed and the evils of antisemitism.

“After all the horror, I am doing my best to keep the memory of those lost ones alive," he said.

"We – you, me, your children, and my children – must never forget.”

You can learn more about Mr Reichental's incredible story of survival in Newstalk's award nominated documentary In The Swastika's Shadow: Ireland and the Holocaust:

https://t.co/ujcSiaVrJz

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. May his memory be a blessing.

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Last year at an old people’s home for Orthodox Jewish women in Stamford Hill I met a wonderful old woman who told me she owed her life, and escape from the Nazis, to Ed and David Miliband’s late mother Marion. It’s a story that now seems particularly poignant and one I wished

[ellen🍸 @algorecrave]

can he consider banning it for over 65s too

[IrishCentral @IrishCentral]

11 years ago today, Ireland became the first country in the world to approve same-sex marriage via popular vote.

https://t.co/feovvK3sCJ

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

I once asked a fluent Gaelic speaker from Lewis what he thought about its survival as a community language long-term.

‘When was the last time two teenagers lost their virginity speaking nothing except Gaelic?’ he replied. I thought it a marvellous (if worrying) response.

[James Wilson @wilso_jam]

@Mrrgan1488 @JE_Maleta So, like native speakers of Munster Irish and Ulster Irish before Raidió na Gaeltachta?

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

Telling the Cabinet he doesn't care what they think, they can resign if they want to, & he's off to an owl sanctuary for the afternoon is almost certainly the coolest thing Keir Starmer has ever done. Where has this guy been these past two years?

[Darren Sole 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @DarrenSole]

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out.
30 YEARS TOGETHER x

[Stephen dunbar @dunbar44]

Another fantastic encounter with the pine marten! Incredible animal. Antrim Glen's. Worth all the hours of waiting. @BBCSpringwatch

[Dave @DaveKent101]

Defra should carry out a nationwide release of Pine Martens.
A predator that is extremely difficult to escape from for grey squirrels.
Where they have been released in Ireland, they are annihilating the greys. The red squirrels are returning because they can escape the Martens.

[Lexer @LexerLux]

People think this is funny but this is literally how most people form their opinions on things. There are a ton of studies out there showing that just meeting a likeable gay person increases your chances of supporting LGBT rights massively

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

With great sadness, we received information of the passing of Edith Eva Eger, an Auschwitz Survivor.

Edith was born on 29 September 1927 in a Jewish family in Budapest. She was the youngest daughter of Lajos and Ilona Elefánt.

She attended a gymnasium and took ballet lessons. She was a member of the Hungarian Olympic gymnastics team. In 1942, the Hungarian government enacted new anti-Jewish laws, and she was removed from the gymnastics team.

In March 1944, after Nazi Germany installed a pro-German regime in Hungary, Edith Eger was forced to live in the Kassa (Košice) ghetto with her parents and her sister Magda. In May of that year, they were deported to Auschwitz. She was separated from her mother, who was murdered in a gas chamber.

In November 1944, Edith and Magda were consigned to ammunition trains and slave labor. In May 1945, they were liberated from Gunskirchen - one of the subcamps of Mauthausen.

After the war, Edith Eger moved to the United States. She became a psychologist and a specialist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Edith Eger was 98 years old.

[Marie Coleman @MarieMCole]

1926 census children’s names:
- 31 ‘Patrick Pearse’ (under 10)
- 19 Kevin Barrys (under 5) + 4 Kevin Bs (aged 4)
- 18 deValera/Valera
- 4 Michael Collinses (aged 0-4)
- 4 Roger Casements
- 4 Kitcheners (b.1915)
- 2 Kathleen Lynns
- 2 Protestant Edwards Carson
- 1 Con Markievicz

[James Wilson @wilso_jam]

@Twedt1Twedt @AndrewZywiecMD ❤️🏳️‍🌈

[James Wilson @wilso_jam]

@Twedt1Twedt @AndrewZywiecMD You seem like a great Dad, @Twedt1Twedt , he’s lucky to have you

[Stephen dunbar @dunbar44]

In the Glen's of Antrim, last night, after years and countless hours I finally had a encounter with a Pine marten! Unforgettable moment !

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets.

Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.

Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.