Paul Patton 🇺🇦

@ItaAnderson46T Now you don't look anywhere near 80 . A very happy birthday. Four score.

Breaking News!!! I got €10 extra in my pension from the boys in government for turning 80 last week 💃🤣🎶

@dineen20dineen Still do

Did you ever use one of these

@lowe_murray 4 years ago I mounted the hostas pots on top of a small fence and no more slugs.

Hubby is outside in the dark with the flashlight from his phone, picking the slugs from his Hostas. #dedication

@ZoeConwayfiddle Florence

Friends, it's a special year for John & I...later this year we'll be 20 years married!!! 💌 Any suggestions on where would be nice to go for a couple of nights in Europe? Nice walks, nice people, good food...so excited!! #minibreak #anniversary #love

@RathlinPoet Beautiful Mary 👏👏👏

When night flows over Those voices that murmur On the wind That awaken my soul To live and be alive A place to remember The melody of the sea A heart that beats An eternal truth that speaks A timeless rhythm In every rising wave That runs through life ©Mary Cecil

This was pure genius. In Phoenix Arizona, a warrants officer wanted to win the battle on the number of outstanding warrants. He came up with the idea of sending letters to the last known address of the people they were trying to find saying they won a prize and needed to show up at a designated address on a certain time and place. It's hilarious to see them walking in for their prize only to receive the gift they never wanted.

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@DannyDonnelly1 He's a good friend of my son in law. A terrible loss of his beautiful wife, rip

@HervoP @mclaren_linzi He’s my brother !

Not often you run into a Twitter buddy in the wild even less often when it’s someone who isn’t afraid to speak her mind despite getting abuse on here for it. It was good to see you today @mclaren_linzi ! 👏

@AnSafiak 💔💔💔

11 years ago, my little baby was buried. The image of her white tiny coffin being lowered to the ground. Still obscenely vivid in my mind. "A person does not belong to a place until there is a loved dead one under the ground". And this is where I belong now.

@DailyMail Shot himself in the foot

Andy Burnham said that men who identify as women should be able to use female toilets - and only a 'small minority' object, he claimed trib.al/jpIwYhB

@50SavesOfDeGea It's time to put her into Purdysburn until she is fit. What sort of judicial system have we got. They have no thought for the victims

@SorchaEastwood You have been a breath of fresh air Sorcha and not afraid to put your point across.

Ending a busy day with Committee in Dublin this evening. I was pleased to take my seat at the Oireachtas Joint GFA Cttee where I questioned the Minister for Foreign Affairs on reform of Stormont and the need for cross-border working to help tackle violence against women. I am proud to take my seat in London and Dublin. I said I'd be a voice for all and that's exactly what I'm doing 💪🏻

@RobLooseCannon A great person and priest

There are few living Irishmen I admire more than Father Brian D’Arcy. Though I’ve never met him, I’m sure thousands like me feel so familiar with this iconic priest that it's like we know him. His lifetime of service straddles the sacred and the secular. ​Born in 1945 in Fermanagh, he joined the Passionist Order at seventeen and was ordained in 1969. From the start, Father Brian's ministry refused the conventional confines of clerical life. Without any intention of seeking the spotlight for himself, his charisma while sharing his faith led him to become a sort of unofficial chaplain to Dublin’s show business scene. ​D’Arcy’s media presence has been remarkable, spanning decades. Since 1976, he has penned the column Father Brian’s Little Bit of Religion for the Sunday World. It was a segment I admit I scorned and ridiculed in my teens; however, as time and hopefully my understanding of the man's intentions and achievements grew, I appreciated it as an increasingly rare space to bring a bit of honest reflection to a national audience. On air, he hosted BBC Radio Ulster’s weekly programme and BBC Radio 2’s Sunday Half Hour, offering opinions that combined pastoral care with a non-judgmental and accessible view on contemporary life. ​D’Arcy’s candid criticism of mandatory clerical celibacy, his calls for the ordination of married men and women, and his forthright stance on the Church’s handling of clerical child abuse have repeatedly put him at odds with Vatican authorities. In 2012, he was formally censured and ordered to submit his writings to an official censor. His books A Little Bit of Religion, A Little Bit of Healing, Food for the Soul, and his memoirs A Different Journey and It Has to Be Said, compile decades of sermons, reflections, and personal insights, capturing the evolution of a priest deeply engaged with the world around him. His most recent collection, The Best of Brian, showcases the breadth of his thought and his unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power. ​In 2019, he was awarded an OBE for services to cross-community relations in Northern Ireland, a testament to his decades-long efforts to bridge divides in a society scarred by conflict. He has also received an honorary degree from the University of Ulster. Yet D’Arcy’s accolades are inseparable from his personal story. He is a man shaped by both profound faith and the traumas of life, including the sexual abuse he suffered as a child, an ordeal he has spoken about publicly with courage and honesty. As he marked fifty-five years in the priesthood in 2024, D’Arcy reflected on a life lived “taking the Church into the world.” Personally, I’m a believer in God who, despite being a christened and confirmed child of Catholics, has never been a Christian. However, I do love and respect that spirit and message of Jesus’s love and goodness which is honoured and embodied by Father Brian D’Arcy. So next time the chance comes around, what a politician or president he would make!

@NizMhani @declassifiedUK Labour are finished

Absolutely amazing journalism by @declassifiedUK. The man responsible for approving arms sales contracts with Israel conveniently failed to disclose his membership with the lobby group Labour Friends of Israel. And he has no response....

@doogarry I think you need a daughter!!

Busy week here. 4 sons - one got engaged, one finished his Masters, one came home from college (and I don’t think he’ll return 😢) and the baby finished secondary school. All in one week!

@Smartheat @IrPsych But that's only 4 letters Pat

Irish Wordle 1793 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@SteveSalterPGA @mtully21 @Tesco That's Brexit for you, we're getting all the dirt

Come on @Tesco!!! You buy a steak for £11 for a special occasion, looks lovely until you turn it over and realise half of it is fat and sinew. No time to return it so have to pretty much cut it in half to make it edible. Finest my ass!! Do better and stop tricking customers!!

@RathlinPoet @YouTube I remember learning that in school Mary. She has a beautiful voice

Jean Redpath sings "Eriskay love lilt" - LIVE! youtu.be/xdRvP6QR_4w?si… via @YouTube

@fannin_shauna @ludmilakorol Beautiful painting and very nicely placed. I hope to get back to Rathlin this year.

Now at home on Rathlin Island with a view of the sea. It has a mesmeric quality that I love. “Journey of the Soul” by Ukrainian artist @ludmilakorol