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Ireland's Ben Lynch has made history by becoming the first Irish skier to qualify for any final at the Winter Olympics after advancing from the men's halfpipe event rte.ie/sport/olympics…

@robkhenderson It's rare to meet someone that frantic outside of twitter or Russian novels. In real life people usually come across as less flustered than they may imagine they do. I would have thought.

Dostoevsky suggests people who are insecure about their social position and lack self-control tend to humiliate themselves when given attention. They can’t play it cool. The moment a powerful person pays attention to them, they lose composure.

@DT9785893042826 @MichaelPTKelly You think Bertie Aherne did Omagh?

The ludicrous idea that Ireland should issue any sort of apology is a calculated and sinister campaign to whitewash decades of British/unionist injustice with a “we were all in the wrong” equivocation. rte.ie/news/2026/0216…

“To live, live, live, live, to the point of tears.” — Raha (Zahra) Bohloulipour Born in 2002. She had just turned 23. Nineteen days later, the Islamic regime took her life. Raha was an Italian language student at the University of Tehran. Her only crime was wanting to live.

A fellow Iranian woman who attended today’s demonstration in London, unaware of what had happened to her family in Iran, dramatically recognized her brother’s image on a billboard and learned, for the first time, that he had been killed in Iran.

@GerOnSport @Irishchutzpah Daft

@P3pharmaArthur @Irishchutzpah ???

You are wasting your time. This is pathetic. I am IN Canada for a few weeks. That is why my location is showing Canada I AM NOT Canadian. I am Irish. I live in Ireland. I have never lived anywhere else. End of.

@GerOnSport @Irishchutzpah Even had I not heard her Dublin lilt on a twitter space I'd be able to tell she was Irish. You're all acting bananas!

@Irishchutzpah Why have you taken your child out of school in the middle of term for a holiday to Canada??

“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI

@si_rubinstein We've also had a near-mononymous Bertie for Taoiseach, not to mention a BIFFO... Might be a FF vs FG thing?

Interesting Anglo-Irish cultural difference: I don’t think you’d ever see ‘Dr Gordon Brown’.

Now a conversation between former pharmacy minister Steve Brine and @ComPharmEngland chief Janet Morrison. Delving into primary care tensions and whether 'primary care' really means 'general practice' to policymakers #pharmacyshow #PS25UK

Our first report from this year's #PharmacyShow - an update on how regulators are tackling the online promotion of weight loss drugs #PS25UK p3pharmacy.co.uk/profession-new…

Next round of negotiations unlikely to take place before November, says @JanetMorrisonUK as she confirms pharmacy minister @SKinnock has told her that 'gloomy outlook' for funding means any funding increase will not be on the same scale as this year

Of the 20 largest pharmacy companies, most are running at pre-tax losses of up to £80m says @ComPharmEngland chief Janet Morrison #pharmacyshow #ps25

Hello from this year's #pharmacyshow! In a session on what Labour's NHS blueprint means for pharmacy, @the_pda's Jay Badenhorst told me NHSE last year offered to include the workforce in service design talks - but has since gone quiet #PS25UK

According to The Times, the Kremlin is now forcing Ukrainian children, abducted from occupied territories, to join the Russian army once they turn 18. This horrific tactic, reportedly ordered by putin himself. Around 35,000 children were taken.

@mooreholmes24 Three quarters of a dozen I beg your pardon

@mooreholmes24 You don't even try to understand/analyse what people mean by Gael and say why it's a myth. Lobbing half a dozen empty paragraphs on twitter doesn't make you Moses

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵 - 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 There’s a long-overlooked conversation to be had about the racial and cultural undertones behind some strands of GAA ideology, particularly the older notion of “The Gael” as a kind of indigenous, racially distinct people. Historically, this idea was used by certain Irish nationalist and republican movements, including IRA-linked groups and some Irish language revivalists to construct a narrative of Ireland as a land of “pure” Gaels under threat from “foreign” elements like the English language, British influence, and even sports such as soccer and rugby. The GAA’s early bans on what it called “foreign games” weren’t just about promoting Irish culture, they were also about exclusion. What was being rejected wasn’t just a pastime, but the people and communities associated with it, particularly those from Protestant or unionist backgrounds. In this myth-making, “The Gael” becomes more than a cultural identity, it’s imagined as an almost racially pure tribe, set apart from anything seen as Saxon, British, or non-native. That framing creates a dangerous binary: native versus foreign, pure versus impure, insider versus outsider. It reduces complex identities to simplistic categories, where to be Irish is to be Gaelic and where any other expression of identity becomes suspect, or even treasonous. This exclusionary vision is not only historically inaccurate, Ireland has always been a place of migrations, mixtures and overlapping identities, but it’s also deeply racist at its core. It casts Protestant, unionist, and British-identifying people in Ireland as outsiders, forever foreign, even when their roots here go back centuries. When violence enters into that myth, as it did in the hands of republican paramilitaries, the Gael becomes not just a cultural symbol, but a justification for murder. Bombs and bullets are framed as tools of an “indigenous resistance” against a colonial other, even when the targets are working-class Protestants in Belfast or members of the security forces born and raised in Ireland. It's time to stop romanticising this fantasy of The Gael as a racially and culturally pure figure. Irish identity, just like every other identity, is plural. In fact, it is closer to British identity than any other nationality. It’s shaped by culture, yes, but also by class, by religion, by politics, and by history. The myth of a single, homogeneous people only serves to exclude, divide, and justify violence. While the myth of “The Gael” draws lines between people like pure versus foreign, native versus outsider, British identity does the opposite. It brings together the peoples of these islands, regardless of religion, ethnicity, or background. Scottish, Welsh, English, Irish, Protestant or Catholic, black or white, all can belong. That’s the real inclusive identity. Not one built on blood and soil, but on shared citizenship, pluralism, and respect for difference. Britishness isn’t about purity, it’s about unity. And in a divided land, that’s worth holding on to.

All of these photos were taken within a five minute walk from my parent’s house. A significant amount of Ireland’s Jewish population lives in this area. This is the anti ‘Zionist’ rhetoric and imagery I was referring to. I put ‘Zionist’ in quotes because anti-Zionist rhetoric has long since crossed the line into antisemitism. But who knows, perhaps the regular swastikas daubed around my hometown means ‘opposition to ethnic cleansing’. Silly me!

Our Council member @adewilliamsnhs has shared his powerful testimony on the role he plays in mitigating the threat of antimicrobial resistance, as part of the World Health Organisation's #Stories_of_AMR campaign. tinyurl.com/3nf5zpm9

Northern Ireland pharmacies get £4m national insurance support from Government p3pharmacy.co.uk/business-news/…