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As an adult who lived a really independent life to then go into this construct that is different than I think what people imagine it to be, it’s really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege in some ways to be able to say yes. I’m ready to talk.
Meghan Markle on leaving the British royal family.
A moment of madness that I am going to have to spend the rest of my life paying for and that my staff are suffering for.
Horse trainer Gordon Elliott on being pictured sitting on a dead horse.
You can’t see compliance.
Professor Pete Lunn, head of the ESRI’s Behavioural Research Unit, on new research which demonstrated how most people are tired of Covid restrictions – but that they’ll still stick to them.
We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.
The full quote from a Greta Thunberg speech used in a Dublin mural that was vandalised this week.
Budgets make your brain bleed. They’re an impossible juggernaut of numbers and impenetrable sentences, rampaging forward so quickly you’ve no way to make sense of them.
Politico’s editor-at-large Ian Dunt summed up the UK’s budget announced this week.
Over a decade ago, the Irish people suffered as a result of the reckless behaviour of bankers and high finance, and a political elite that facilitated them every step of the way. We were told the culture that led to this catastrophe would never be allowed to take root again. But the rot continues, and we need to cut it out.
Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty on the news this week that the Central Bank had fined Davy Stockbrokers for breaching market rules in a transaction that involved several top members of staff.
They all morphed into one big bird right in front of us and it was incredible. Absolutely incredible.
Colin Hogg described how he and James Crombie captured stunning images of a murmuration over Lough Ennell.
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I’m ready to talk….does the woman ever stop?! For someone who wanted to escape media attention she seems to court publicity like there’s no tomorrow. Life must be tough living in a $17 million mansion waited upon hand and foot….!!!
the news that green cards are introduced is the most frightening news I’ve heard yet. We cant have a two tier society where those who choose not to have the vaccine are discriminated against…….people should be outraged
@Mags Murphy: in israel
@Mags Murphy: Cén fáth? Bíonn ceart ag tíortha an bóthar a thabhairt d’eachtrannaigh, chun an mhuintir dhúchasach a chosaint. Beidh an ceart ag Éirinn chomh maith agus is rud maith é sin!
Why? Countries have the right to turn foreigners away, in order to protect the native population. Ireland will also have that right, and that’s a good thing!
@Mags Murphy: If its 100% medically related as to not being able to get a vaccination I’m sure a type of green card or exemption can be issued no problem. If it’s a case of tin foilery fantasy against it well then tough t!ts, they made they’re bed hard luck.
@Gavin Mckenna: is choosing to not get a relatively novel vaccine a conspiracy theory, ur logic is scary too, since when have u developed such contempt to ur fellowman
@Gavin Mckenna: @Gavin Mckenna: absolutely. Anti-vaxxers, “patriots” etc are always so quick to talk about their freedom to choose but never want to confront the consequences of that choice, or acknowledge that “freedom” also entails social responsibility.
Let’s see how many stick to their guns if the consequence of their choice is that they cant go on that sun holiday!
Dear Meghan. The Amazon river runs for thousands of miles. At some point it runs through areas of the rain forest that are untouched and barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth and forms underground pools about a mile below the surface. Over thousands of years, small blind transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye. These fish care more about this than I do.
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