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Breda Flood
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Teacher still learning. Assoc. memb @IPCRG Former President @EFA_Patients Volunteer @AsthmaIreland H/C Officer @OulartBallagh All views my own
Wexford, Ireland Katılım Mart 2013
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🟢🟡🔴 Full-time in extra time in Croke Park
📊 Allianz Football League Roinn 4 Final
🏐 Score: Carlow 1-24 Longford 2-18
🏆 Carlow are the Roinn 4 champions after a three point win over Longford in Croke Park
@Natsport
@kclr96fm
@theleftwingback
@hire_mw
@Netwatchsystem

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We are called "the elderly." But that quiet label hides something most people rarely stop to consider. We are the last living witnesses of a world that no longer exists.
Look at us and you might see gray hair, slower steps, and the patience that time teaches.
But listen to our story — really listen — and you'll realize something extraordinary.
We are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood.
That's not a small thing. That's one of the most breathtaking journeys a human being has ever been asked to make.
We were born in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, into a world still rebuilding from the rubble of World War II.
Our toys were marbles and hopscotch and card games at kitchen tables. When the streetlights flickered on, that was it — childhood adventures were over, and it was time to go home. No smartphones. No streaming. No endless scroll.
We built our memories in the real world. With scraped knees and laughter echoing down streets and friendships formed face to face.
In 1969, we sat in living rooms staring at black-and-white televisions as Neil Armstrong took humanity's first steps on the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of us stood in muddy fields at Woodstock believing — really believing — that music and community could reshape the future.
We fell in love to vinyl records spinning on turntables. We waited days, sometimes weeks, for handwritten letters to arrive. We learned patience because information didn't come instantly. Mistakes were fixed with erasers — not a delete button.
Then the world transformed.
Machines that once filled entire rooms shrank to devices lighter than a paperback. We went from rotary phones and party lines to seeing the face of someone we love on the other side of the ocean — instantly, on something that fits in a pocket.
We watched the birth of the personal computer. The arrival of the internet. The smartphone. Artificial intelligence.
And through every single shift — we adapted.
Not because it was easy. Because that's what our generation does.
We also carry the weight of history in our bodies.
We grew up afraid of polio and tuberculosis. We watched science defeat them. We witnessed the discovery of the structure of DNA, the decoding of the human genome, the transformation of medicine itself. We survived pandemics across decades — and kept going.
Few generations have been asked to absorb so much change in a single lifetime.
And through all of it, certain things never changed.
We still know the joy of a cold glass of lemonade on a hot afternoon. The taste of vegetables picked straight from a garden. The value of a long conversation that unfolds slowly, without a screen interrupting it.
We have celebrated births and mourned losses. Carried the stories of friends who are gone. Watched the world become something our younger selves couldn't have imagined — and found ways to belong in it anyway.
We are not relics.
We are living bridges between two entirely different worlds.
Our memory carries something the modern world needs — proof that progress doesn't have to erase wisdom. That speed doesn't have to replace patience, kindness, or reflection.
So when someone calls us elderly, we can smile.
Because behind that word is something remarkable.
We crossed two centuries. Witnessed eight decades of transformation. Walked from handwritten letters to artificial intelligence — and never lost our sense of what actually matters.

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🏐 @officialdowngaa v @OfficialWexGAA
🏆 NFL Division 3 Final
🏟 Croke Park
📺 @SportTG4
🗓 Saturday 28th March
🕖 7.15pm




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70 nóim
@OfficialWexGAA 2-16
@westmeath_gaa 1-18
CÚL AG SEÁN RYAN! Tá sé sin dochreidte!😱🤯
Incredible scenes in Wexford Park as Wexford grab a late goal to snatch promotion . Westmeath are shell shocked!
BEO/LIVE AR @TG4TV 📺
@AllianzIreland #AllianzLeagues #GAABeo
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𝐒𝐇𝐄'𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍!!!🙌
It's BRONZE for Kate O'Connor who continues her remarkable medal-winning-run at major championships🤩 The first Irishwoman to win two World Indoor medals👏Outstanding!!!!
⏱️2:10.26 PB over 800m for a new 4839 National Record🤯
#IrishAthletics | #WorldIndoorChamps | #trailblazer | @ask123ie @sportireland

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Kate O’Connor is lying third after first 3/5 pentathlon events at World Indoors. The long jump is at 16:40 & the 800m at 19:03, live TV coverage on @virginmedia & @BBCSport
Gonna be VERY tight battle for medals between top four #IRISHATHLETICS #teamireland #womeninsport

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Kate O'Connor of Ireland celebrates a clearance in the Women's high jump event in the Women's Pentathlon during day three of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland.
📸 @SportsfileSam
sportsfile.com/more-images/77…

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20 years ago Dingle Races a young Paul Townend won @DingleRaces Derby on Tony B 👏
Some journey since….
Thanks to Colm Sayers for video 👌
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Andrew Lloyd Webber shared the most lovely congratulatory message for Jessie Buckley following her first Oscar win 💖 The composer and musical theatre legend, 77, reminisced on his time getting to know her and her incredible talent on the 2008 BBC reality competition series 'I'd Do Anything', remembering how blown away he was by her powerhouse vocals. "If by any chance beautiful, lovely Jessie ever gets to see this, well done darling."
📸 : #AndrewLloydWebber, BBC
#Oscars
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Wexford down Clare to set up promotion showdown against Westmeath
rte.ie/sport/football…
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Proving the doubters wrong💪
Before a ball was kicked, @OfficialWexGAA were favourites to be relegated from Division 3.
Now they sit at second in the table heading into the final round.

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We hold on, brilliant 3 point win for our footballers in Ennis. Clare came out with a massive fight in the second half but our lads held on, helped by a brilliant 1st half performance. We head to Wexford Park next Sunday where we will play for promotion and a league final!
Full time score;
Wexford - 1.23 (26)
Clare - 2.17 (23)

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The Wexford U19 team to face Dublin in the first round of the Leinster U19 Hurling Development League has been named. Wexford are proudly sponsored by @Zurich.
🗓️ Friday 13th March
🕛 7.30 pm
📍 @ChadwicksIE Wexford Park
Admission is free of charge.

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