Eoin O Keeffe

"Trump, the Mar-a-Lago golfer, is the only bull in the world who walks around with his own china shop. When a clown takes over the Palace, he doesn't become King. It's the Palace that becomes a circus" French senator Claude Malhuret once again nails it. You won't hear a better indictment of Trump and his Gulf war than this. Well worth 5 minutes of your time My English s/t 👇

@Storagezilla massive windfall for the 'importers' in refunds (who had already passed cost onto consumers) - Rich will just get richer - wonder if this was the plan all along...

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers. One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway. But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely. Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop. The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk. The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms. Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk. Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

winter 2026

Okay, this is funny! 😆

@carrigman 6th of jan John. a 'cocks step'. happy xmas to you & all.

The auld stretch in the evenings is beginning to happen. Not a lot yet, but it's there. Times are for Cork - sunrise and sunset.

The Texans had quite possibly the worst offensive line rep in football history.. - Two offensive linemen immediately start blocking each other - Six guys start blocking one defender as C.J. Stroud is getting mauled behind them

@JamesOConnorTD be sure to say hello to @ParaicHayesIDA for me while out there!

Thank you to the Ireland Friendship League of the Japanese Parliament for their warm engagement in Tokyo this morning. Ireland and Japan continue to expand cooperation on foot of the opening of Ireland House. Japan is Ireland’s No. 1 source of FDI in Asia.

@RebelOgEast would like to say well done to both teams who played in the Fe12 Football Group 3 Shield Final and congratulations to @FrONeillsGAA 3-6 @StDominicsgaa 0-11

6am @KnockadoonEP #fishingtrip

4. No matter what happens, this much is certain: A bunch of current and former Fox News employees are essentially deciding whether the U.S. is going to war. Full post: mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…

@snammyy Ouch. Looking at forecast i thought that the morning session was ok & evening in trouble from 1pm onwards. Thanks for local updates from 🇮🇪

Note that today isn't a race day anymore, it's hopefully going to be a relatively full day of practice. 🤞🏼 Forecast doesn't look promising though. #IOMTT

@BYOT99 @chrishendrick it does indeed - stressful times but also fun times back then!

@eoinok77 @chrishendrick 8 years. Wow! Time flies.

@chrishendrick @BYOT99 #TheEye #OwlWatch 8 years this week

Fishing local Oyster bed for elusive bass - and they stayed elusive 😂 #fishinglife

@Storagezilla serious? but he said so...

'The lads are back in town' - summer is here! #swallows

Wanna hear how Republicans talked about tariffs before Trump castrated all of them?

This St. Patrick’s Day, we pay tribute to Irish people making remarkable contributions around the world and showcasing the very best of what it means to be Irish. 🎵🔊 'A Rainy Night in Soho', performed by Cat Dowling Happy #StPatricksDay! Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh