Victor Lacken

#Kingsday craziness in #Amsterdam. Party time!! #Koningsdag #Netherlands #oranje

This guy grabs a watermelon, slices it open, and it might be the most perfect one ever.

Impressive visible satellite imagery this morning of a large and powerful low pressure south of Greenland. Its minimum central pressure is extremely low at 939mb! The cold front indicated by the tail of clouds stretches thousands of miles across the Atlantic down to the Bahamas.

@DaraghCassidy @FinnEoghan Strasbourg's metropolitan area had a population of 860,744 in 2020

@FinnEoghan I think it’s now 7. Open to correction! But the wider point remains. Strasbourg is a relatively small city. Much smaller than Dublin. Yet it’s able to build a much more extensive tram network than we can.

The Finglas Luas extension is also 4km long and is expected to take a minimum of 5 years to build and cost over half a billion euro. One a side note, Strasbourg (not much bigger than Cork) now has 7 tram lines, one of which goes to Germany!

@ballsdotie Mulligans, Amsterdam

Reactions to Troy Parrott's winner. 1. Dublin airport

@thejournal_ie Inexorably? 🤣

The average age at which Irish women give birth is climbing inexorably upwards. We wanted to hear the stories behind the statistics - housing, job pressure, relationships, finances, fertility. Here's what you told us jrnl.ie/6870848

@TomSmit41547098 @martylyricfm Athlone

@martylyricfm CMAT is Dunboyne..no?

To Navan stars on the front if today’s Guardian!!

@RobLooseCannon @Johnbre16179798

So its an interesting point man. De Valera always insisted he was born in New York in 1882 to Irish Ma and Spanish Da, but the problem is no record of his birth has ever been found and his father seems to have vanished into smoke. Neither of those things are unusual for the time, in fairness. Some say he was really born in Bruree, Co. Limerick, and that the American tale was invented to cover the scandal of illegitimacy, a convenient fiction that later spared his life when the U.S. intervened after the 1916 Rising. But in the balance of possibilities its New York

Today in 1975, Éamon de Valera died peacefully in Linden Convalescent Home, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, aged 92. It was the passing of a man who had lived long enough to become the last surviving commandant of the 1916 Rising, and with his death the revolutionary generation itself seemed to pass into history. De Valera had been at the centre of Irish public life for over half a century. He had led from the front as President of the Executive Council, then Taoiseach, and finally President of Ireland, steering the state through independence, neutrality, and the establishment of the Republic. By the late 1960s he was almost completely blind, and after leaving Áras an Uachtaráin in 1973 he retired quietly to Blackrock. His final years were marked by personal sorrow: his wife, Sinéad, died on 7 January 1975, aged 96, the day before what would have been their 65th wedding anniversary. The news of his death reverberated far beyond Ireland. His successor in the presidency, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, drove to Blackrock to pay his respects. He spoke of de Valera as “one of the towering figures in Irish history” who had “answered the last call, with a smile upon his lips.” Around the world, tributes flowed in. In the United States, where de Valera had been born in New York in 1882, President Gerald Ford declared, “We are proud that this son of the United States became the father of modern Ireland. Our sense of loss is heightened by the intimate ties of friendship and kinship between our peoples.” On the 2nd of September 1975, Ireland laid him to rest with a state funeral, a national day of mourning marking the occasion. His grandson, Fr Seán Ó Cuív, said the Mass at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral. Outside, more than 200,000 people lined the streets to watch the funeral cortège move slowly towards Glasnevin Cemetery, where he was buried among comrades and rivals alike, within sight of the graves of Michael Collins and other architects of independence. For some he remained divisive, a man whose long shadow had defined not only the freedoms but also the limits of modern Ireland. For others he was simply the statesman who had outlasted them all, carrying the memory of revolution and the reality of statecraft into the late twentieth century. Either way, on that August day in 1975, Ireland closed a chapter of our history.

@Archidub1 Is it a promenade or an esplanade?

Rare sight of Bray promenade Martello tower around 1880, it seems to have been demolished around 1884 and some of the rubble used for construction of the promenade

@EnglishRachael I listens to Arena most evenings. He will be missed. RIP Sean

I'm so sorry to hear of the death of Sean Rocks. A warm, funny colleague. A wonderful broadcaster and champion of writers and artists.

@johncreedon @GerryFoleyTV @MylesDungan1 @MeathLibrary @AntoniasBooks @Gill_Books @wearemeath @meathcoco I read that as you’ll be “singing” and reading from your childhood memoir 🤷‍♂️

Delighted to be heading to Hinterland Festival in Kells on Sunday June 29th, where I'll be signing and reading from my childhood memoir 'This Boys Heart' and having the chats with the inimitable Gerry Foley. Details here 👉 hinterland.ie/p-591-john-cre…

@martinbeanz Lovely shot

Claregalway nights.

@elonmusk @CilComLFC @kjmcconville

@CilComLFC 🇮🇪

🇮🇪 BREAKING: Far-left NGO ‘Concern Worldwide’ has warned that mass layoffs at their Dublin headquarters, due to DOGE’s cuts to USAID, will force them to stop helping migrants from Third World Countries relocate to Ireland. Sounds like good news to me! 👏👏

@Bobischoff @SommerTina @Arrogance_dk Trump has far too much support at home for state actors to take such action. And Vance would take his place, which may not solve the problem. But there are rogue actors out there and lots of guns and bad feeling. I expect it to be a hot summer in America.

@SommerTina @Arrogance_dk @vlacken I fear that that’s becoming inevitable. Purging the armed forces and security services is sending a strong signal that action is required.

Fuldstændig uværdigt. USA er i færd med at isolere sig. Om et øjeblik vil Kina, Rusland, Iran og Nord Korea udfordre. Sikkerhedsmæssigt står den vestlige verden et meget svagere sted. USA må bringe orden i eget hus. Vold er OK.

@martinbeanz Hopefully the thugs will be apprehended and dealt with appropriately

A nicer,more polite, and kind man, you couldn't meet.Why anyone would think to single out a gay man on the street to attack them, is beyond me.These attacks have been happening, most go unreported in the media unless they are extreme cases or are well known victims. Hate exists.

@Bobischoff Go raibh míle mhaith agat Bo

Tak allesammen! Jeg synes (med meget få undtagelser) at I er skønne, fine og kloge. Tak!

Happy New Year from #Amsterdam #NewYear #2025

@DerekChambers71 @rtenews Gs

@rtenews Bs

More than 700 people are hospitalised with flu as the HSE said the surge of cases is at the "upper end" of what it had predicted rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

@AirNav_Ireland twitter.com/whispersnewslt…

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 🚨 Official Notice: Santa Claus Enters Irish Airspace! 🎅✈️ This Christmas Eve, Santa Claus and his magical sleigh will be flying through Irish airspace starting at 6:00 PM GMT. He’ll be making his way across the country, with Rudolph’s red nose lighting the way! 🚨 Please note: ❄️Flight Path: Pre-approved route; no impact on commercial flights. ❄️Altitude: High above regular air traffic levels. ❄️Weather: Santa is equipped to handle all conditions. ❄️Communication: Standard radio contact won’t be possible, but #AirNavIreland is monitoring. Stay safe and enjoy the festive skies! 🎄🌌 #SantaInIrishAirspace #ChristmasEve #AirNavIreland #HappyHolidays @news2dayRTE @rtenews @VirginMediaNews @NewstalkFM @RTE2fm @TodayFM