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@RoyallyBelle_ No the gentlemen behind say it all. She brings joy to everyone 💚

Catherine’s smile is just so cute 🥰

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#HelpRoxanne 🙏Please can we all push Roxanne's plea for help today. She was removed from the waiting list without explanation. First Roxanne was forced to go abroad for healthcare for major hip & leg surgery after waiting for 4-years. Now she is in need of spinal surgery and her country is failing her again. All while our new Children's Hospital has yet to open, despite billions of public money being pumped into it. Do Something ! Please do something, today Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD . You made a promised to these children @SimonHarrisTD in 2017. Do something! As Health Minister, please lift the phone this morning @CarrollJennifer #HelpRoxanne #CHI #DoBetterIreland

it’s official 🤍✨

My friend Simon from Perth now lives in Melbourne. He and his wife Robyn are in Europe for a month and detoured to Dublin especially to see me. Long time since I’ve been in the city centre - and lovely to have lunch in Dion on the 10th floor of the old Central Bank!

A very significant thinker.

Can anyone recommend any articles offering good advice about interrailing as a family? We're new to it, and want to avoid it becoming overly expensive. Will mainly be in Germany, with recommended towns highlighted, but maybe some neighbouring countries

Had such a great conversation with Dax and Monica from @ArmchairExpPod ..... on what is, and is not, Money, on some of the more eclectic stories in the book and why Trump's attack on the Fed is an age old authoritarian move. 👇👇👇 armchairexpertpod.com/pods/david-mcw…

THURS. NIGHT ISS 7:14PM: ISS climbs high in South. MAGAZINE@ASTRONOMY.IE if seen! JUPITER CLOSEST! See magazine! WORKSHOP & "JUPITER WATCH" Jan.21 ASTRONOMY.IE/EVENTS CLASSES: astronomy.ie/class MAGAZINE! astronomy.ie/join -David Moore,Editor

@davidmcw just listened to you on @ArmchairExpPod and really enjoyed it. So many interesting stories, well worth a listen. Any chance Dax and Monica and Robbie Rob, will come to Ireland and do a live show?

A hot new bombshell has entered the #GoldenGlobes red carpet and her name is Maura Higgins. (📷: Getty)

Caoimhín Odhrán Kelleher 🇮🇪🧤 13 in-match penalties faced. 𝟴 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱.

The Duke of Sussex has won back police protection, which could lead to his children visiting the King for the first time in years #Echobox=1767551100" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil…

I’m going to start something new the next couple of weeks: “Worth Recovering!” In other words, devotions, practices, and some of the essentials of Catholic life that we’ve lost track of over the last decades. Let’s start with one of the basics: the Sign of the Cross. @thegnewsroom

And it's so poetic in recital!

In 1979, Jackie Kennedy Onassis bought Red Gate Farm in Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard for just over one million dollars. The 340-acre property was filled with windswept dunes, salt-blasted heathlands, and quiet ponds. Jackie fell in love with the natural beauty immediately. She wanted a life close to nature. There would be no pool or tennis courts. She wanted to swim in the ocean, breathe fresh salt air, ride her bicycle to the lighthouse each morning, run on the beach at low tide, and read on her deck in the afternoon. Her daughter Caroline later wrote that Jackie loved the old stone walls, the clay cliffs, and the blue heron that lived by the pond behind the dunes. Jackie raised her children there, and later Caroline raised hers. For three generations, the family created traditions on the property. They set lobster traps in Menemsha Pond, entered county fairs, grew vegetables, and collected seashells from the beach every day. When Jackie passed away in 1994, she left Red Gate Farm to Caroline. In 2013, Caroline and her husband Edwin Schlossberg donated 30 acres along Moshup Trail to the Vineyard Conservation Society. The land was valued at 3.7 million dollars. By 2019, Caroline’s children had grown up, and she decided it was time for them to explore new opportunities. She put Red Gate Farm on the market for 65 million dollars. The estate had a mile of private beach, rare coastal heathlands home to endangered species, and land considered one of the most important natural tracts in Massachusetts. Instead of selling to the highest bidder, Caroline worked with the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank and the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation. In December 2020, they bought 304 acres for 27 million dollars. In 2021, the Land Bank purchased another 32 acres for 10 million dollars. In total, 336 acres were preserved. The land became the Squibnocket Pond Reservation, open to the public forever. The Kennedy family kept just 95 acres for their homes and memories. Caroline could have earned 65 million dollars by selling to a tech billionaire, but she chose preservation. She said the family wanted to be worthy stewards of this fragile habitat. Thanks to her decision, the coastal heathlands, endangered arethusa orchids, northern harrier hawks, and blue herons will continue to thrive. Visitors can walk the same beaches where Jackie ran, climb the hills where Caroline raised her children, and experience the wild beauty of a place protected by one family for forty years. Red Gate Farm is no longer private property. It belongs to everyone. Caroline Kennedy’s choice reminds us that sometimes the greatest wealth comes from giving something precious to the public rather than keeping it for profit.

We are told we can do a lot to halt ageing - run marathons, get Botox - but a Cambridge study has tracked the four points in our lives of brain maturing & change. Yet there are exceptions: some oldsters still have teenage brains..My Irish Independent column

Henry Thomas' incredible audition to play Elliott in E.T. You hear Spielberg at the end say "Okay, kid, you got the job."

Today, Mila fell asleep for the final time, taking with her that silent presence that paced through my home and leaving an indescribable, yet palpable void everywhere. She was never just an ordinary friend..she was my discreet companion, always by my side, able to lighten even the toughest of days, a simple, sincere refuge that never asked for anything in return. The first time I saw her, she was clumsy and small, unable to even climb on the couch, and yet, she immediately conquered my heart. She grew up by my side, sleeping while I worked, waiting for me in the difficult times, always present. Today I wrapped her in her favorite blanket and whispered to her to rest. Anyone who has loved a dog knows: they’re not “just animals,” they’re family members, and when they leave, they take a bit of us with them, but leave an everlasting love behind.