Maurice Fitzgerald

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Maurice Fitzgerald

@maurfitzcappa

Optimistic about almost everything since 1984 - most views are somebody else's i have either retweeted or stolen - half innocent at times!

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E L   H O T Z O
E L H O T Z O@elhotzo·
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧: Get well soon! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸: ¡Que te mejores pronto! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹: Guarisci presto! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷: Bon rétablissement! 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪: oh das ist jetzt aber ganz schlecht fürs Bruttoinlandsprodukt
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@StephenGleeson_ Singing songs on the steps of the courthouse on Washington St should be a part of every national celebration in fairness - middle of a Tuesday with no audience sept passing traffic is elite tier tho in fairness
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Stephen Gleeson
Stephen Gleeson@StephenGleeson_·
All-Ireland champions are on tour on the double🏆🏆 great to see Tipperary side Upperchurch and Kilbrittian of Cork meet up to celebrate together after recent intermediate & junior #hurling wins - a rare day of double delight for black and amber clad sides in Croke Park 🔥
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@archiert1 80k people first reaction to this being unrolled was Datenschutz anxiety for fear there was a name or address on it somewhere
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@Moesbi_ @archiert1 I think we know the answer to this is yes of course - with triplicate copies in one of those plastic envelope things in a giant drawer somewhere just incase this one gets wet or tears
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Moe@Moesbi_·
@archiert1 The real question tho is... WAS IT LAMINATED???
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Earth
Earth@earthcurated·
Whales in Norway 🐋
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UNITED24 Media
UNITED24 Media@United24media·
Ukrainian teen wins bronze in Spain—walks off podium to avoid photo with “neutral” Russian.
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@eoinyk Always thought the thing in Berlin that looks a bit like that is cool enough- I know it's supposed to be the embrace or east and west etc so has some meaning as opposed to just a guy - but still anytime I saw it I kind thought - cool
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Eoin Kelleher
Eoin Kelleher@eoinyk·
Wow, Dublin dodged a bullet there
BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine@RobLooseCannon

Did you know Dublin almost had a giant steel-lattice sculpture of a man wading in the Liffey, just 30cm shorter than the Statue of Liberty? In August 2007, the Dublin Docklands Development Authority fast-tracked a proposal from British artist Anthony Gormley (of Angel of the North fame) for a 46m (150ft) human figure based on casts of his own body. AI mock up image below. Internally it was referred to as The Iron Man / The Colossus, though it never received a public name. The structure would have stood 30m east of Seán O’Casey Bridge, 12m out into the river, towering 8 metres taller than Christ the Redeemer in Rio. Gormley described it as “a charcoal drawing against the sky”. Pretty poetic, but the plan was for it to be unlit and painted black, meaning against Dublin’s typical weather it would often appear as a massive dark silhouette looming over the quays. What’s astonishing is that An Bord Pleanála actually granted planning permission. Infuriatingly this was done without public consultation, thanks to the DDDA’s special “fast-track” powers under Section 25, which bypassed normal planning rules. Local groups like the East Wall Residents’ Association and St. Andrew’s Community Centre objected immediately but too late, because it had already been greenlit. The projected cost was officially around €1.6m, but internal assessments suggested €4m+ once river-bed foundations, prefabrication, transport, and long-term river safety monitoring were included. Construction was to take place in London, with zero Irish fabrication or labour involved, before being shipped to Dublin in parts for a three-month assembly that the DDDA openly admitted would cause major disruption along the quays. And yes, it would have required constant monitoring to prevent ships from colliding with it. Then came the recession. The DDDA collapsed financially and was eventually shut down.The sculpture quietly disappeared from the agenda in 2012. Personally, as much as I admire some of Gormley's work, the idea of spending Irish public money to build a giant English-made statue of an Englishman’s body, using English fabricators and English engineers, to loom over the city with no public input raises a few questions. Was there really no Irish sculptor, no Irish fabricator, no Irish metalworkers capable of producing a monumental piece? Or was the boom-era mindset simply that bigger and imported meant more modern? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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Kieran Griffin
Kieran Griffin@kieran_kigr·
A very FR looking AA bull 🤔
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Fine Gael@FineGael·
Fine Gael is out on the ground in Tipperary North. Here’s Cllr Dr Phyll Bugler speaking about her priorities.
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Science girl@sciencegirl·
Researchers suggest the Moai statues on Easter island were moved upright by rocking them with ropes, allowing them to "walk" to their destinations 📹 Carl Lipo
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Nature is Amazing ☘️
Nature is Amazing ☘️@AMAZlNGNATURE·
A 3 year old tadpole that didn't turn into a frog, banana on the side for scale
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Tom Nugent
Tom Nugent@tom_nugent_·
Darude - Sandstorm, custom air horn. Every tractor should have one.
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Giles Wilkes
Giles Wilkes@Gilesyb·
The Venetian method for electing a Doge was literally insane, or genius
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MrWasabihead2
MrWasabihead2@MrWasabihead2·
@PopulismUpdates MLK and Anne Frank were born the same year. And Betty White was born 7 years before either of them
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@PopulismUpdates nintendo was founded at the same time van gogh was painting starry night
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ouais ici tout va bien ⚡️💜
ouais ici tout va bien ⚡️💜@ne_pas_cacher·
@PopulismUpdates It’s always been wild to me that Stalin, Hitler, Freud and Trotsky lived within the same square mile of Vienna in 1913
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Brady Knox
Brady Knox@Brady_k6·
@PopulismUpdates The United States had a trade consulate in the Holy Roman Empire
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