Hurricane Milton is not "the storm of the century". It is just the beginning. Unless we stop pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, such devastating events will become commonplace - and ever more horrific.
On my way home from Cork city on the Park & Ride bus, the driver first whistled tunefully then sang heartily “Mona Lisa”. I thoroughly enjoyed it but wondered how many among my fellow travellers recognised this Nat King Cole classic. Time for a new cover version?
RIP a true icon, Dame Maggie Smith- as depicted here in a more relaxed & informal pose in London's National Portrait Gallery, a portrait painted in 2012 by artist James Lloyd www.npg.org.uk/collections/...
Existential challenge which will create levels of migration previously unimaginable.
This cutie is quite the character. After leaving her out last thing at night, I have to switch the lights off outside and inside to lure her back in. 🤷🏻♀️🐶
Cannot wait. This is exactly the cheery pick me up we all need. 👍
What is it to be Irish? An interesting analysis of Irish identity by Maurice J. Casey. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The far right demands a pure ‘Irishness’. But our island story has long been interwoven with other ethnicities and diasporas, writes historian Maurice J Casey
An update to the mutton dressed as lamb metaphor
Shanwei Zoo in China’s Guangdong province was forced to come clean about its ”pandas” — actually, painted chow chow dogs — after visitors saw through the ruse when the ”bears” started panting and barking in their enclosure. 🇨🇳 www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/t...
A zoo in China has admitted its star attraction, two so-called pandas, are just painted dogs.