My friend works with FEMA and is in Asheville. The right-wing misinformation and left-wing doomerism is actively making things more difficult on the ground. There are *thousands* of government employees and contractors working insane hours and the efforts are fully funded
If you read nothing else this weekend, read this, especially if you have no interest in sport - the triumph of the spirit, literally Irish jockey, Wesley Joyce: ‘To come out of it with no voice, I think I came out of it lucky’ www.irishtimes.com/sport/racing...
Limerick-born jockey suffered an horrendous fall from Red Heel at the Galway Festival in 2022 but his brave comeback came full circle when he led the same horse to victory at Down Royal
Henry VIII coin found in Killarney may have been thrown into lake for good luck over 400 years ago www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...
Colm Doyle, who found the coin, believes it should be on display in nearby Ross Castle to showcase the area’s rich history
Forgot to turn off the lights 😀
Ireland’s corporation tax system ‘not sustainable’, says former Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Ahern claims Trump’s economic policies ‘are a threat to everything built in Ireland in my lifetime’
Irish Army pulls out of Portlaoise Prison after 51 years in the wake of IRA clear-out www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20... Sent from Outlook for iOS
The threat from subversives is judged by security officials to be much reduced since the end of the Troubles following the Belfast Agreement
People held in Mother and Babies’, Magdalene Laundries and other religious-run institutions in NORTHERN IRELAND, or their families urged to come forward ‘This is the opportunity for people to tell their story in full’: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
An independent panel is seeking testimony from anyone who spent time in mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses, along with those who worked, volunteered in, or lived nearby
Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. Vaccines are incredible.
In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.
It's fascinating how the dismantling of a genuine mass media and the recreation of premodern purely person-to-person information networks via social media has transformed Americans back into medieval villagers in the span of about a decade.
