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@RobLooseCannon If the plane took off at 10.30 approx, how was it still in the air at 12PM? I would guess that it would not take that long to fly to London?

Today in 1968, Ireland suffered its worst air disaster when Aer Lingus Flight 712, a Vickers Viscount 803 named St. Phelim, crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co. Wexford. The flight had left Cork Airport at approximately 10:30a.m., bound for London Heathrow, but just before 12 noon, disaster struck. The last recorded transmission came from co-pilot Paul Heffernan, who radioed: "12,000 ft descending, spinning rapidly." Moments later, the aircraft plunged into the Irish Sea. All 61 people on board, 57 passengers and 4 crew members, were killed. 36 of these were from the Cork area, while others came from Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, and the United States. Despite extensive recovery efforts, only 14 bodies were ever found. In the aftermath, theories emerged about the cause of the crash. The 2002 official report, commissioned by Minister for Public Enterprise Mary O’Rourke, examined possibilities including Metal fatigue or corrosion, or an Aerodynamic flutter vibration that could have caused catastrophic control loss. Even collision with a flock of birds was considered. But one of the most controversial theories was that the plane had been hit by a test missile from the UK’s Ministry of Defence site in Aberporth, Wales. However, the investigation ruled this out, stating: "All theories involving the presence of another aircraft can be rejected." A British Embassy spokesperson later remarked: "The report puts to rest once and for all misleading suggestions that the disaster was caused by a UK aircraft or missile. Our thoughts are with the relatives and friends of those who were lost in the tragedy." The main wreckage of Flight 712 was never recovered, and many believe the full truth has yet to emerge.

@maroonwhitepod @m_brosnan Do the Galway management know their starting goalkeeper and full back for championship?

Any questions or thoughts for the football podcast, recording with @m_brosnan this evening

@maroonwhitepod @m_brosnan What would be the reasoning with putting Kieran Molloy at centre half forward? Would he have played there before?Why put a player in a unaccustomed position and then take him off before half time?

@m_brosnan Agree with you. Mentors/management should not be getting involved with scuffles on the field.

Teams clashing, management storming in and kids just metres away trying to get ready for their half-time game. Hard to tell who the real children are here.

@finnster1977 I nearly used to look forward to the talking as much as the match in them days. What a great time.

@finnster1977 He used to be flat out trying to keep control on Brolly and Spillane. It made for great telly.

RIP Michael Lyster . He was the Sunday game for a generation or two of us . Gone too soon

@seanpdoran45 @Jeff_Reinebold @NFLIreland Head to Pearse Stadium on Sunday for Galway v Dublin. Head for Clifden after.

@Jeff_Reinebold @NFLIreland Try the Aran Islands, Gaelic west (Irish) only spoken..ferry leaves from Doolin.. Enjoy ☘️

GETTING MY GREEN ON! HEADING BACK TO THE EMERALD ISLE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE AMONGST SOME GREAT FOOTBALL FANS, TALK BALL WITH MY DUDE @NFLIreland, CATCH A LOCAL GAME AND SEE WHAT CLIFDEN AND THE WILD SOUTH WEST COAST HAS TO OFFER!

@finnster1977 It will be a long day drinking if they head for the pub straight after the parade 😄

Love Dingle and its traditions like this and the wren day around Christmas , and the Irish music it protects so well down there . It’s like it’s the last place in Ireland that’s kept its soul as close to what we once were ☘️

@finnster1977 It has the look of two teams battling relegation. Fierce sloppy at times.

Very poor game of football so far between Galway and Monaghan 🥱

@m_brosnan Dublin seemed to get in for scores fairly easily in 1st half. Did Armagh change shape defensively at half time or during the match, at some stage?

Sweeper on the D and leaving a man free inside. Goalkeeper covers the long kick in. Nice. Jarly Óg Burns didn't score, but 0-6 in assists. Oisin O'Neill came on, scored 0-5 (1tpf, 3 frees) and assisted 1-4. Not bad for a man who couldn't train all week.

Armagh's kickout avg. is 72% now across six D1 games. That is phenomenal in the new rules. On top of that, their press is amazing. Winning 50% of opposition kickouts. Dublin won 2 of their last 9 kickouts. They had an Armagh against Armagh.

@RobLooseCannon And to think that the above eviction was re-enacted multiples of times across our country. Jaysus, but didn't our forefathers suffer.

Today in 1846, a village in east Galway vanished. Ballinlass was a small settlement near Mountbellew in County Galway. Its sixy-odd cottages stood along a patch of land reclaimed from bog by the labour of the people who lived there. Many of the tenants were regarded as comparatively prosperous by the standards of rural Ireland. The eviction was ordered by the landlord, Marcella Gerrard, owner of roughly 7,000 acres in the district. The village stood where she wished to establish a grazing farm, as cattle, were more profitable than people. The tenants were not in arrears. Many had their rents ready to pay. That fact meant nothing in the legal world of nineteenth-century landlordism. Ireland in 1846 was part of the United Kingdom, governed from London, and the law of property rested firmly on the side of the landlord. At dawn a sheriff arrived in Ballinlass with a large police force and a detachment of the 49th Regiment under Captain Browne. Soldiers and constables spread through the village. The people protested. They pleaded to pay the rent that had been repeatedly refused. The work of destruction began. One by one the gaffs were dismantled. Their roofs were torn away and walls were knocked down. Gardens were trampled. Families clung to doorposts and dragged away what little property they could carry. Women wailed and children screamed. Men cursed helplessly as their homes collapsed around them. By the end of the day, around seventy-six families, roughly 300 people, had been turned out of Ballinlass. The newly homeless tried to shelter in the ruins of their cottages that night. The next day the police and soldiers returned. Even that miserable refuge was denied them. The tenants were driven from the ditches where they had begun constructing makeshift shelters of sticks and mud. Their neighbours were warned not to harbour them. News of the eviction spread rapidly across Ireland and Britain. The incident was so shocking that it was raised in the House of Lords by Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. On 30 March he reported what he had discovered after investigating the affair. He told the Lords he was “deeply grieved.” Seventy-six families, he said, had not only been turned from their houses but had been “mercilessly driven from the ditches” where they sought shelter. These unfortunate people, he added, had their rents actually ready. If scenes like this occurred, he asked, was it any wonder that acts of outrage and violence sometimes followed? But sympathy was not universal. Only days later, the formidable lawyer and politician Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux insisted, it was perfectly within the landladys rights. If she refrained from eviction she was showing kindness, but if she chose to enforce her property rights the tenants must learn that the law stood firmly behind her. Property would become worthless, he warned, if landlords could not do as they pleased with their estates. Ballinlass happened at the very beginning of the catastrophe we now call the Great Famine. The potato crop had failed in 1845 and would fail again. Hunger was spreading across the country. Yet grain and livestock continued to be exported, rents continued to be demanded, and evictions continued to be carried out. The people of Ballinlass were scattered. Some drifted into neighbouring districts. Many likely emigrated. The village itself disappeared from the landscape, replaced by grazing land. Today, a memorial stands near the site of the destroyed cottages, listing the names of the families who once lived there. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

@offtheball I know it's after 7PM but is it necessary to be plugging Viagra and mentioning erectile dysfunction? I'm sure younger ears are tuning in, even at this hour.

@finnster1977 For sure. A man would need something warm today. A pot of stew would go down well😋

This eating healthy craic is no fun

@finnster1977 Not great for a bad day

@finnster1977 Mightn't go down too well with Fleetwood Mac fans but the Dixie Chicks do a nice version of this song.

Sunday vibes youtube.com/watch?v=k4M53x…

@coachcaff Thanks for reply👍

@callamitch I would aim for 2 field sessions a week once games start. With dual clubs I know this is very challenging to do. Remember gym maintenance must be also maintained outside of training nights on pitch.

Coaching U16–U18 football right now? League approaching. Championship still a bit away. This 6–8 week window is one of the most important development periods for young players. Here are 5 things I’d focus on with a U16–U18 team right now 👇 @CoachCaff #GAACoaching #GAA

@RobLooseCannon That's some story👍

Did you know theres a millenial young lady from Derry who is on the route to sainthood? Clare Crockett was born in 1982, in the Brandywell district of Free Derry amid the Troubles which tore the lives of innocent people of both traditions apart. According to family and friends Clare was a "wild child," and a natural performer. By fifteen, she was hosting a youth programme on Channel 4 and had caught the eye of Nickelodeon. Sidenote, people didnt know it at the time but entities like Nickelodeon and Disney are as dangerous to kids as gelignite and rubber bullets. Those people consume innocence like Moloch with PMT. Anyway, Clare Crockett described her life at the time as all parties, smoking cigarettes and late nights. She said she wanted to be on stage and become a famous celebrity. In 2000, at age eighteen, she joined what she thought was a beach holiday in Spain which turned out to be a Holy Week retreat. She said that on Good Friday when she kissed a cross during mass something changed for her. She later wrote “I had to do something for Him who had given His life for me.” By 2001, Clare had entered the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, taking the religious name Sister Clare Maria of the Trinity and the Heart of Mary. To say her family and mates were shocked was an understatemet. Sister Clare embarked on a globe tropping missionary life, focussing on young people. Starting in Spain, she then travelled to the United States, and finally Ecuador. She carried her guitar everywhere, and between the music and her charismatic personality and the attractive young womans obvious joyful devotion she had a powerful aura about her. That light, tragically, was extinguished too soon. On the 16th of April 2016, Ecuador was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Clare was teaching music to girls in Playa Prieta when the building began to collapse. Witnesses recount her last heroic act, she ushered the children toward safety, choosing to place their lives above her own. The stairwell gave way, and Sister Clare died, aged just 33. Her grave in Derry City Cemetery became a place of pilgrimage, and people from across the globe began reporting spiritual favors and miraculous events attributed to her intercession. In 2018, the documentary All or Nothing introduced Clare’s story to the world. Years of collected testimonies culminated in 2024 when the Servant Sisters formally petitioned the Vatican to open her cause for beatification. On January 12, 2025, the tribunal in Spain declared her a Servant of God, initiating the diocesan phase of investigation into her life, writings, and reputation for holiness. The Vatican process is methodical. First comes the recognition of “heroic virtue,” granting the title Venerable. Beatification requires one scientifically unexplainable miracle, and canonization a second. While the investigation is confidential, reports continue to pour in. The postulator, Sister Kristen Gardner, continues to document extraordinary reports from over fifty countries Alleged physical healings, so miracles required for beatification, are also being catalogued, from sudden recoveries to life-threatening pregnancies carried safely to term. One particularly striking case involves a couple in Derry who, after losing their newborn daughter, prayed for Sister Clare’s intercession and later conceived a healthy child. If youre interested check out the cause for her Beatification sisterclare.com/en/cause-of-be…

@maroonwhitepod Are Galway safe if they beat Monaghan as Galway have the advantage over Armagh as they have already beaten them? Does head to head results come into it should teams finish level on points?

Galway and Donegal finished all square in round five of the National Football League | 🏐 Galway now sit in sixth place in Division One on four points with two games remaining

@finnster1977 That meter will blow up if the results keep going their way😁

@finnster1977 The Mayo lads and Roscommon lads are getting fierce excited already. It will be some craic when they meet in the Championship.

Mayo without Kobe / Mayo with Kobe