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Ever thought about a cycling tour in Bosnia-Hercegovina? irishcycle.com/2022/05/24/on-…

@HeldinEU The Catalpa Rescue: The Gripping Story of the Most Dramatic and Successful Prison Break in Australian History share.google/Ne8ImdNjyVOWMV…

Adventure!

“In the 1980s about 500 Irish rivers were classed as the very best of the best. Today, there are about 20 – that’s a 96 per cent collapse in a single working life”. - @ellamcsweeney

Insane anchor leg from Sharlene Mawdsley to qualify Ireland for the women's 4 x 400 at the World Championships🔥 Beast mode💪

@BoyleGAA Unfortunately not possible to download the app in Croatia.....

Medal Presentation for 2025 Feile Players Get all the latest news on the Boyle GAA app member.clubspot.app/club/boyle-gaa…

Irish Ogham found in an Arabian manuscript in Egypt

The author, Bram Stoker, being Irish is why

Utrecht has made a tremendous make-over and has chosen for a city for people, students, families, companies… One of their main findings? Less space for cars does not mean more congestion. @BorisDillies @AudreyH67456195 Read below nm-magazine.nl/artikelen/mind…

Oscar Wilde being called a deviant in the New York Times in the year 2026

Evropska unija je bliže nego što mislite! 🇪🇺🇲🇪 ✈️ Proputujte kroz zemlje članice EU i osjetite njihov duh, kulturu i tradiciju na sajmu u @GradPg 🇦🇹🇧🇬🇭🇷🇨🇿🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇺🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇮 🗓️ 9. maj
📍 Univerzitetski park
⏰ 12–15h Dođite da zajedno proslavimo #DanEvrope26. Vidimo se! 👋

@GalwayCoCo you can learn from this before it is too late. Invest in rail, not a ring road.

Ireland with the bit of hot weather.

With this measure we hope to hinder the parking of vehicles, very annoying for bikes, pedestrians, etc! Thx Jef VD for asking this many, many times :-)

Academic publisher Elsevier's profit margin compared to Apple, Google, and Microsoft Apple: 28% Google: 25% Microsoft: 34% Elsevier: 37% with a revenue of $3.9 billion. Elsevier's payment to academic authors and reviewers: $0

83-year-old Hitchhiker legend from Mayo, Imelda Loftus. ❤️

> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces > notice researchers can't read the papers they need > notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper > notice peer reviewers worked for free > notice editors worked for free > notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money > build Sci-Hub in 2011 > upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published > give it away for free > get sued by Elsevier > get hit with a $15 million judgment > don't give a flying f*ck > keep Sci-Hub up > get domain after domain seized > register a new one > keep Sci-Hub up > get investigated by the US Department of Justice > don't give a flying f*ck > get accused of working for Russian intelligence > don't give a flying f*ck > have the FBI subpoena your iCloud > get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science > get a parasitoid wasp named after you > get a deep-sea snail named after you > get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge > become a legend

Cyclists in Brussels deserve their rightful place, according to the new Minister-President: "We must encourage them, we must protect them, we must thank them." #Echobox=1777348268" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">brusselstimes.com/brussels/20982…

The Conference of the Birds is taking place this week in Kilnagross, Co. Leitrim before they head up to the fairy tree on Sheemore to celebrate Bealtaine. At today’s AGM chaired by the barn owl, the Hedge Committee opened proceedings with grave concern over the “tidiness epidemic” sweeping the countryside. The blackbird gave a heartfelt address on the loss of winter berries, while the wren described certain hedgerows as “nothing short of ecological deserts, trimmed within an inch of their lives.” A delegation of robins presented findings on soil quality, noting that “worms are harder found by but the future is looking bright with so many farmers turning organic.” This was followed by a stirring contribution from the curlew (attending remotely from her nest on Shanley’s bog), who reminded all present that what happens in the hedges does not stay in the hedges. One of the week’s highlights was the selection of the Birds’ Farming for Nature Ambassador. Tommy Earley of Mount Allen Farm was awarded the prize. Many other Leitrim farmers were highly commended with the skylark praising “those farmers who farm with nature, who cut late if at all, and who understand that a hedge is not a boundary line, but a living world.” The Bird in Residence Bursary was given to the corncrake who will begin her 5 month residency on Mount Allen Farm next spring. A controversial presentation was delivered on the latest in hedge-mowing technology, referred to by several birds as “The Great Flattener.” A willow warbler demonstrated, with unsettling accuracy, the speed at which a hedge can be reduced from a rich habitat to a bare scaffold by the flail. Gasps were heard. One elderly blackcap fainted briefly. A motion was passed on Dawn Chorus Standards: “That no mechanical noise, leaf blower, chainsaw, or the over-enthusiastic strimmer shall commence before the conclusion of the morning chorus.” Proposed by the Song thrush. Seconded by the blackbird at 4:47 a.m. Proceedings were temporarily disrupted when a large group of meadow pipits arrived with placards “Not My Egg, Not My Job!” A spokesperson for the group said: “Year after year we are selected without consultation to be the cuckoos nurse. We are told this is tradition. This is nature. But where is the support? Where is the union? We want to resign from this role immediately.” The magpie tabled a motion for the next meeting: That the cuckoo be formally requested to clarify its housing policy, including but not limited to nest ownership, tenancy rights, and the ethical implications of outsourcing parental responsibilities. Other exciting events coming up this week at the conference include a Dawn Chorus Competition and a workshop on Advanced Nest Camouflage in Increasingly Sparse Hedges (fully booked). The gathering concludes with the highlight of the week. A trip up Sheemore to the fairy hawthorn tree to celebrate Bealtaine. The children of Kilnagross National School will make their way by bicycle to the hill, travelling through the living hedgerows that have been at the heart of the week’s discussions. Along the route, the birds will accompany them with all swallows leading the way. The celebration itself promises music, song and dancing on the hillside, as children and birds alike mark the arrival of summer together. It is hoped that the gathering will not only honour the turning of the year, but also renew a shared understanding of the land, of hedges left to grow, and of the small but very important lives that depend on them. A project by Mairead Hurley and Trinity College Dublin with artist Edwina Guckian and Kilnagross N.S Co. Leitrim.

Streets and public space are still completely dominated by cars everywhere outside the very core central downtown area, and all progress has ground to a halt.