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blackglen.bsky.social

Bord Pleanála concedes in court challenge to approval of €40m Offaly meat plant An Bord pleanala should be shut down it is still wasting millions of taxpayers money and making unlawful decisions daily www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Bord Pleanála concedes in court challenge to approval of €40m Offaly meat plant
Bord Pleanála concedes in court challenge to approval of €40m Offaly meat plant

The proposed facility would provide meat largely for export, particularly aimed at the Chinese market

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MOradiobeartime.com

No, Christopher Columbus was not Irish! And definitely not from Offaly!!

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RSrandomstreets.bsky.social

🌎 457G+H4 Killawn, County Offaly, Ireland 🗺️ View on Google Maps

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Tbighappyhead.bsky.social

O Moore Street Tullamore Co. Offaly, Once known as Earl Street and Windmill Street (there were two) 1720s +

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Tbighappyhead.bsky.social

"If you build it, they will come." Dunkerrin Co. Offaly

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EAefredericks.bsky.social

First finished this month, Connie Roberts's collection Little Witness. It's a tough read: Roberts was removed from an abusive home at age 5 & placed in an Irish industrial school where she spent most of her childhood. Many of the poems are about that. The epigraphs & preface frame all. 💙📚

A small grey dog curled up in a black and white blanket, a thin paperback with a green cover propped next to her.
Facing pages from the beginning of a book. On the left, an epigraphs reading "Keep digging for the good turf" Seamus Heaney to the author, New York City, 1998

On the right, a preface: 
From what I can gather, I was first admitted to Mount Carmel Industrial School, County Westmeath in 1968, at the age of five. In 1971, a younger brother and I were returned to our parents' home in County Offaly. Ten months later, we were transferred back to the orphanage, where I remained until I was seventeen. All of my fourteen siblings spent their childhoods in Irish industrial schools.

The names of certain people mentioned in this collection have been changed for the protection of the individuals concerned.
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MOradiobeartime.com

No, we’re not the posh ones. We are the dodgy ones from down South. :) Tipperary for the da and Offaly for my mum.

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Cc0nc0rdance.bsky.social

Yes, fully restored since 1999! Although they replaced the speculum mirror with aluminum.

The "Great Telescope" on the grounds of en:Birr Castle, en:County Offaly, Ireland. Digital photo taken by en:User:Tpower, 6-21-05.
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MOradiobeartime.com

Ah, you’re from Offaly too?

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Tbighappyhead.bsky.social

Jostle Stones This archway once served as a rear entrance to "Flanagan's Lane," which contained six houses, likely constructed in 1787 per the keystone inscription. Joseph Flanagan was a distiller. Tullamore Co. Offaly.

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