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Paul Henry (11 April 1876 #Belfast-24 Aug 1958 #Bray) .👨‍🎨.👨‍🎓 @mcbformerpupils @oldinstonians @BelfastSchArt, Paris. 9 yrs Achill island, Mayo; depicted post-impressionism. Dublin designed popular railway posters! Last 13 years blind dib.ie/biography/henr… whytes.ie/artist/paul-he…

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Your brain responds to music like it’s a survival tool. When music plays, almost the entire brain ignites. The motor cortex drives your body to the beat. The hippocampus ties melodies to memories. The amygdala unleashes waves of feeling. And in the orbitofrontal cortex—the brain’s reward and decision hub—the same circuitry that flares in OCD lights up with music’s cycles of tension and release.This overlap is no coincidence. It reveals how music hijacks our predictive wiring: we anticipate, we tense, we resolve, and dopamine floods in with relief and joy. The roots run deep. Early mammals survived by parsing every rustle; today that vigilance fuels standing ovations, film scores, and sing-alongs. In a crowd, heartbeats lock step. Strangers become kin. Music binds. Clinics now test its power: seizures quiet in epilepsy, gait steadies in Parkinson’s, memories flicker back in Alzheimer’s, mood lifts in depression. Even patients who no longer recognize a tune can still feel its pull.We aren’t merely equipped to hear music—we’re hardwired to crave it.

Today TUI is actively advertising the new SCR Co-ordinator posts to its members. Posts that ASTI members cannot apply for. In the same schools. Sitting beside each other. This is what divide and conquer looks like in practice. @TUI_Ireland @ASTIunion @OireachtasNews @1Hildegarde

c1980, Dublin's Voice Beneath O'Connell's gaze, Luke Kelly stands in the heart of the city he gave voice to. Carried old struggles into a modern city of tenements, labour, & memory. With The Dubliners, giving a country back its own story in his unmistakable roar.

These type of 'distraction tactics strategies 'have left Government Depts 'depleted ' in skills of negotiation &mediation ,as we see in #fuelcrisis stakeholder debacle #Ireland suffers.RTE news : Sense of déjà vu as report clashes with teacher talks rte.ie/news/education…

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/one-bias-to-…

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep" - William James A man and his dog on Inishheer, Aran islands, Co. Galway, Ireland, captured by Claude Le Gall.

‘Taoiseach should be big enough and man enough’ to sit down with protestors, says MEP Ciaran Mullooly independent.ie/regionals/offa…

I asked @EU_Commission today to actively look at relaxing EU state aid laws to allow member states like Ireland the flexibility to make direct payments of support for haulage, agriculture , fisheries , rural SMEs and households dependent on heating oil - in the present fuel crisis . The EU spokeswoman said they have already started the process to look at these measures for citizens - listen to her response here: has the @GovIE asked for such measures ?

I am pleased to confirm I am meeting and engaging with the European Commission Executive Vice president Rafael Fitto on his visit to Dublin on April 22 and 23 We will hold a forum looking at key issues effecting farming and rural development in Ireland on April 22 and engage directly with one of the most powerful EU Commissioners from Brussels on what Ireland can expect in the next round of CAP and cohesion fund payments in the next MFF on April 23rd Would you like to be part of this engagement with MEP Mullooly and Commissioner Fitto? Places are limited Please send an expression of interest to Ciaran.Mullooly@europarl.europa.eu before 6pm this Friday April 10th

The Irish State this week formally banned a group of teachers from applying for promotion in their own schools. Not because of their performance. Not because of their qualifications. Because of which union they belong to. A thread. 🧵 #ASTIExcluded #WorkersRights #edchatie

@ciaraquill 'divide & conquer ' strategies replaced constructive mediation &negotiation skills ( the 'modus operandi' of Government when dealing with #education workers in the 21st.C) ,has left Government floundering this week. 20th.C Trade Union members are unsurprised #fuelpricehike

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has dealt with Dept of Ed over the years. TUI were going to be rewarded when they voted yes to Senior Cycle reform. ASTI were going to be punished for voting no. Modus operandi of Dept has always been to divide & conquer. #edchatie

This paper is a great example of what happens when an entire field (education academia) organises itself around a philosophy of learning rather than a science of it. In the first page, there is a bizarre section which seems to imply that explicit instruction of Maths is in some way "authoritarian". Readers are invited to associate explicit instruction in mathematics with the erosion of democratic governance across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. sites.exeter.ac.uk/pmej/wp-conten…

Its now 21 years since these 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork were complete They've never been used This is why we urgently need compulsory sales, rental & custodian squatting in #DerelictIreland So companies like @dunnesstores can't get away with hoarding homes in an emergency

Péacóg - A Peacock Butterfly on a Blackthorn Bush. #FridaysForFuture

Fishing Boats in for the Night, 2019, painting by George Callaghan, Irish-born artist.

@1Hildegarde 10/This is a divide and conquer strategy. Split the profession. Punish one union. Reward the other. Use the machinery of the State to do it. It is dangerous not just for teachers but for every worker in Ireland. What is done to one union today can be done to yours tomorrow.

Primary school writers project opens to public in Waterford independent.ie/regionals/wate…

#FoodEducation is available to few.A practical #Culinary #Skills exam #AAC (additional assessment component) in #LeavingCert #HomeEconomics will be a step in right direction @1Hildegarde @astiunion @fiannafail #https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW8OHzvDA5N/?igsh=MW05MHE4Y2I1NG83bQ==