Claire Brady

@Batfox_Pictures Love ASH. A great album and they are still going strong.

Returning in 2001 with a more expansive sound, “There’s a Star” saw Ash move beyond their early pop punk roots, appearing on Free All Angels, released April 2001. Performed here on Top of the Pops in January 2002, the track captures the band’s evolution during their early 2000s success.

@lorraineelizab6 @HarlandWolffplc @Usborne @dkpublishing @NicolaPierce3 My son is currently reading Spirit of the Titanic. It's a fantastic book.

#Otd 1912: RMS Titanic, the world’s largest ship built by #Belfast's @HarlandWolffplc hit an iceberg at 23:40! >1,500 would die! Here is a great selection of books (mainly for children) by @Usborne, @dkpublishing, and Ireland's own...the wonderful writer @NicolaPierce3! 🚢🧊

@rtenews So sad to hear this. RIP.

Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of Grammy and BAFTA-winning group Clannad, has died aged 73 rte.ie/entertainment/…

Pope Leo: "The message of the church, my message, the message of the gospel -- blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political or a politician. I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think that the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing, and I will continue to speak out loudly against war."

@lorraineelizab6 Keeping your Brother and his family in my thoughts and prayers Lorraine. Praying for his full recovery.

In this she boasts about opening the Strait of Hormuz - which was open before Trump started his war 🤦‍♂️ these people are clowns 🤡 albeit dangerous and destructive ones.

The Kevin and Sadie books, now that's a trip down memory lane. I remember reading them in Secondary School.

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

James Connollys daughter, on visiting her father before the Brits executed him. So badly wounded they tied him to a chair to shoot him.

I really don't want to music to stop today. It's a great trip down memory lane. Thank you @RTEGold #rtetop100

The poem "I See His Blood Upon the Rose," was written by Joseph Mary Plunkett, one of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation. The beauty and devastation of Plunketts words lie in how he describes the body of Christ as radical immanence. Basically the idea that Jesus is not confined to the inside of a tabernacle in a church or some idol on a crucifix but bleeding through creation itself. And of course Plunketts mystical Catholicism was inseparable from his revolutionary Nationalism. This was a man who knew he was destined to die in 1916, receiving communion in his prison cell the morning of his execution as part of the Esster Risings symbolic sacrifice. This poem always reminds me of Good Friday. I SEE HIS BLOOD UPON THE ROSE AND IN THE STARS THE GLORY OF HIS EYES, HIS BODY GLEAMS AMID ETERNAL SNOWS, HIS TEARS FALL FROM THE SKIES. I SEE HIS FACE IN EVERY FLOWER; THE THUNDER AND THE SINGING OF THE BIRDS ARE BUT HIS VOICE, AND CARVEN BY HIS POWER ROCKS ARE HIS WRITTEN WORDS. ALL PATHWAYS BY HIS FEET ARE WORN, HIS STRONG HEART STIRS THE EVER-BEATING SEA, HIS CROWN OF THORNS IS TWINED WITH EVERY THORN, HIS CROSS IS EVERY TREE.

We all know the names of our 1916 heros that gave their lives in the pursuit of a free Ireland. This is the list of the ordinary men that died under the Tricolour. Beir bua🇮🇪

And CS Lewis wasn't wasn't wrong. The Mournes are Magical. My Home Sweet Home.

All of Ireland tonight 🤣 #RTEPlayer

Troy Parrott is ready… the boots are laced… the head is focused… …and we’ve even called in the big man himself – the Child of Prague 🙏 Best of luck to the boys tonight, do us proud 💚 #COYBIG #Ireland #MatchDay #UpTheBoys

@atrupar How Ya.... Ireland calling here. I don't think we were ever going to be given to US, or have I missed something? And feck off, Ireland isn't the UK's to give away anyway. Ye mad yoke ya.

Trump: "They shot the now-famous Ireland--- the island that the UK was very afraid to give us."

@SonyaParkes @Tree_Folklore You're right. I seen it happen today😞

@Tree_Folklore Here's hoping it happens to the builders and councils destroying hedgerows in breeding season.

It was widely thought in Ireland, and elsewhere, that, out of kindness and respect, a robin would cover a human body with sticks and leaves 🍂 As a result there was a strong taboo against harming a robin or even keeping one locked in a cage 🗝️ In addition, it was commonly believed that those who damaged a robin's nest would be struck by lightning as punishment 🪺⚡

Today in 1847, at the Choctaw Agency in Scullyville, in what is now Oklahoma, Native Americans met to organise relief of the starving poor of an island of strangers thousands of miles away called Ireland. The chair was William Armstrong, himself the son of a man from Fermanagh, who told them of the potato blight that had turned our staple into black mush in the ground. Just sixteen years earlier, the Choctaw had been driven from their ancestral lands in the American Southeast, forced west along what would become known as the Trail of Tears. Thousands died in that forced exodus, communities were broken, traditions uprooted, a nation made to suffer exile and loss on a vast scale. So they recognised our pain. At the conclusion of the meeting, a collection was taken. The figure most often cited is $170, though some accounts place it as high as $710. The exact sum matters less than the context. This was sincere generosity from a people who had very little, given to a people who had nothing. And we still remember with gratitude. In 1995, President Mary Robinson travelled to meet the Choctaw Nation and thank them in person. She spoke of how “thousands of miles away… the only link being a common humanity, a common sense of another people suffering as the Choctaw Nation had suffered.” In 2017, Gary Batton, the 47th Chief of the Choctaw Nation, came to Ireland with a delegation. They travelled to Bailick Park in Midleton for the unveiling of Kindred Spirits by artist Alex Pentek, a sculpture of nine great eagle feathers, rising and curving into a bowl-like form. It has a companion piece The Eternal Heart that stands at the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma's capitol in Tuskahoma created by Choctaw artist Samuel Stitt.

@JamesMelville Why does nobody in the room stand up for their fellow reporter? Not sure if I could stand back and hear anyone rubbish another's personality and credentials like that.

A journalist does her actual job and asks a difficult question to Donald Trump regarding the Epstein files: Trump: “You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and is so wrong.” In the court of Trump, he only wants fawning sycophants surrounding him and shuts down, threatens and demeans anyone who has the guts to question or stand up to him. The diametric opposite of what freedom of speech should stand for.