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Hugo Brady Brown

@aodhbc.bsky.social

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Flicks through the papers; buys the odd book; listens to radio. Probably not ignoring your post: a long list of muted terms. "Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last" Posts are deleted: hostages to fortune all. Eastern Ireland. July '23.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 2h

It is opportune this week to recall Joan Burton's unendurable suffering at the hands of the extreme Left.

#Áras25

Terrified Tanaiste Joan Burton trapped in car by furious water protesters for two hours

The Labour leader was ambushed by demonstrators who hit her car with placards and chanted

www.irishmirror.ie

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 2h

God bless us, I really seem to be out of the swim of things.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 2h

There's that left to us, I suppose. The more effective remedy of talking to Joe is gone and I don't know who I should be getting on to now.

(Some Lidl wreaths on front doors have been reported to the residents' association too. Contrary to The Rules.)

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

We move on, but sometimes the talent doesn't.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

It is Sunday the 12th of October and the neighbours opposite have put up their Christmas tree, with their curtains nakedly open, and they have strewn festive season lights all around their abode.

The authorities should do something. It's a cry for help.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

I hadn't heard of him, despite my dipping into microblogging sites occasionally for years. Thank you very much for explaining.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

Is he well known?

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

Immunity to boasting is a happy condition. I'm so ignorant of what's enviable that quite often I don't realise people are boasting to me and I need to have it pointed out. Indifference to brand names is a kind of freedom, I suppose. Ignorance is better still.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

I suppose the same happens with houses and with motors too - I don't know - but it seemed frightfully vulgar of someone this afternoon to boast to us about how much he paid for his opera tickets. (There seemed to be an assumption that one was going to be somewhere cheap with a restricted view.)

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

"He was visible, but now he's a pentimento since they split up."

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 3h

This government can be embarrassed?

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 4h

I will keep an eye out for them.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 4h

Friends Parties | Wexford Festival Opera

74th Wexford Festival Opera 17 October to 1 November 2025: Le Trouvère (Verdi); Deidamia (Handel); The Magic Fountain (Delius)

www.wexfordopera.com

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 4h

There's something niggling about the Friends of Wexford Festival Opera that I can't quite put my finger on.

(The friends must have been at a comic opera, incidentally.)

A party of Friends having a whale of a time.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 5h

I think I'll never come to terms with people whose idea of tidying household goods involves no concessions to categorisation or order, and who stuff things where they might fit until a cupboard door spontaneously explodes and disgorges a pile of miscellaneous items. They have no sense of the 'full'.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

It seems hopelessly wrongheaded for a stridently right-wing entitled capitalist para-politician to waste so much of his expensive energy on this when the electorate seems to be captivated for now by an extreme left-wing politician in this presidential election.

#Áras25

Nomination process needs to be looked at, says Sheridan

Former presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan has said that the presidential nomination process is not fit for purpose and needs to be looked at.

www.rte.ie

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

Funnily enough, it was vegetarian, because I was over-sausaged by then. Porridge (hold the cinnamon and honey) and so forth. It was packed.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 7h

I parked outside and went into the cafe next door. Later, walking around the village it struck me as unusual that such a small place has at least two traditional butcher shops.

Your book took me to Burrishoole last year and to Clare Island (but I couldn't get to the Cistercian site in the end).

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

Newport in the county Mayo under the late United Kingdom had a railway with trains from Achill going through to Westport (and passengers going on to Castlebar, Athlone and even Dublin by rail), and returning too. Then came independence.

Now it's a delightful greenway.

Newport in an old photograph from the black and white era

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

Three of the Belgian-style beers made by Mescan Brewery in west Mayo.

www.mescanbrewery.com

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

"What surprised me when I went to the Froebel College of Education," said a schoolteacher friend, "was that the teaching of students there was anything but Froebel, and that it was really training rather than education."

"It was always known as 'the call to training' in my day," I said.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

I like Cavanbert - the name.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed! There is some symbolic sense of both domination and withholding.

Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 8h

Only Italian-themed restaurants of a certain kind ration diner access to the pepper. Nobody knows why.

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