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@BigDirtyFry A sound Eurovision entry

The Burke Family chanting outside the disciplinary hearing but it’s performed by an Indie Band

@UrsulaQuillTCD Great stuff Ursula!!!

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@ESBNetworks Is there any news of when it’ll be back up and running?

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Are you feeling down? Isolated? Uncertain about the future? Worried about what comes next? Then you may be suffering from... consciousness

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Here's Mariead McGuinness having a Brexit party clown for breakfast. Enjoy. #rtept #Brexit #Brexitdeal

@nilsfrahm so sad you’re weimar engagement is cancelled! Was so looking forward to hearing you live!!

@MarianRTE when Germany unified east Germany was in very poor condition economically but unification has helped to balance things out. The east is still somewhat poorer but the country on a whole is much better off.

@BoyleMo Oh I’m grand, just playing away ... would love to come up to Belfast sometime in the summer! I might let you know when I’m around if you’d be interested in a coffee or so. Regards from weimar, Germany!

My father died eleven years ago this week. Always think of him in these big light May days. I

In today's edition of Culture File, musicians and their nerves. One thing that can mess with your playing is caffeine, according to viola player Neasa Ní Bhrían... More @lyriclorcan @RTElyricfm, 6.05pm. Thereafter here on Soundcloud. bit.ly/2RJV0CK

@BoyleMo Oh sorry, bottom to top I guess!

Is there a racial purity test for membership of the Vienna Philharmonic? #NewYearsDayConcert #Vienna

@BoyleMo My personal opinion on this orchestra would be that it IS one of the best in the world and one of the most conservative. It’s a known fact. You could watch Beethoven 9 on NYEve too but sadly RTÉ only broadcast this concert and give a very slim view of cl. Music in Europe.

@BoyleMo Another point that is important is that the wind instruments are in fact “Viennese”. This means the horns or the oboes are nearly always from the Conservatories in Vienna/Austria. This is the Viennese Sound but winds from abroad would need to play these instruments...

@BoyleMo This may not seem as much, but to a young Irish female musician these are strides that make me feel more comfortable with this orchestra. They are known for being relatively conservative in the classical world but Vienna is also conservative with an underground culture scene.

@BoyleMo Hi Maureen, I get your point. But this orchestra has developed a lot in the last fifteen years. The co-principal Concertmaster is a Bulgarian woman who studied with one of my professors in Germany. And there is a Romanian woman in the second violins who also studied with me.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. . . Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

Turning tides, their regularities! What is the heart, that it ever was afraid, Knowing as it must know spring’s release, Shining heart, heart constant as a tide?

„Fordern Sie die Vereinten Nationen auf, die Ermordung von Jamal Khashoggi zu untersuchen” - Jetzt unterschreiben! chn.ge/2OmuI3o via @ChangeGER