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David Hopkins
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👨‍🏫English & History Teacher 📚Author of Verse OL for Educate.ie 🏸Part-time player of sport. Full-time viewer of sport. 🎶Eurovision fanatic
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“…the tender gravity of kindness”

​Naomi Shihab Nye
To be fair the ‘nurse calling’ language was the only contemptible part of this thread. O’Toole is largely left leaning, incredibly frustrated by the labour movement and around long enough to see old failings reemerge.
I don’t really understand why no click hunting columnist isn’t just stating the obvious - Connolly’s landslide victory explains the general malaise in turnout. She was the best candidate by a country mile so many just stayed at home to let it play out. Opinion poles found this weeks ago.
But his analysis here is entirely accurate. A socialist president has never led to a leftist government. We continue to vote for a vision of ourselves for presidency but for hard nosed local gains in the GE.
Time to cop on to ourselves now. A campaign ran with dignity and empathy needs to be promoted and celebrated at every turn, not bastardised for column inches.
Catherine Connolly supporters are ‘quite MAGA like’ says a columnist on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.
The claim goes unchallenged.
#Áras25 #Media
I have read this story umpteen times and it never grows old.
I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Play Moate, Co. Westmeath Again). Only a couple of years before his 1993 comeback, Meat Loaf was reduced to touring the provincial towns of Ireland: here's a brilliant piece on how that went for him www.loudersound.com/features/mea...
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Clip from our most recent episode of The Basic Income Show where we talked about Ireland's basic income experiment results and how artists increased their incomes from doing art thanks to their income base and how it benefited the economy and reduced welfare spending. Essentially it was win-win-win.
Ireland's basic income experiment resulted in higher incomes and the economy benefited $1.39 per $1
YouTube video by Scott Santens
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Bookies shortening the odds on Humphreys….
If you go back and watch the debates from 14 years ago MDH performed similarly. Descending into slightly cerebral and broken thoughts like Connolly. At least it’s been grown up sounding.
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I've been collating the response to the launch of the Primary Curriculum all week and I wasn't surprised to note that almost every media response was of a "missed opportunity" more...
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This report is entirely valid, and I welcome it. However, glancing at the Key Stage 3 curriculum, I can see how it's happened -- there's little emphasis on social history or non-political biography
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds
Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’
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As someone who wrote these letters to literally hundreds of ‘celebrities’ for the L&H, the idea that it is still treated with an iota of significance when it is glammed up spam is hilarious. What a small man.
Thank you for the heads up!
That’s really frustrating. Why the text change?
Demonising and/or as forgetting about underprivileged people is the reason they left the democrats
If I was an American democrat I would be spending most of my energy figuring that out rather than further demonising them.
This comment thread is the reason. They’re not inferior. They’re forgotten.
Now ask, why did this happen.
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I get it. It's daunting to learn from scratch players, teams, tactics. But with the World Cup on the horizon, there has never been a better time to get your head around Canada being better than South Africa. We present, A Guide to Women's Rugby for fans of the Men's Game-
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A Guide to Women's Rugby for fans of the Men's Game
YouTube video by Squidge Rugby
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For any English teachers looking for that ‘back to school’ prompt for a leaving cert class, have a look at this offering from the elusive Líadan Ní Chuinn.

amp.rte.ie/amp/1525340/
Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn - read an extract
amp.rte.ie
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Join us in remembering #NellMcCafferty on the first anniversary of her death on Thursday, 21 August 2025.

A reception will be held at 6:30pm, with the event following at 7pm. Limited remaining tickets available here: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

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Trailer | Legacy in the Library: Celebrating Nell McCafferty 1944-2024
YouTube video by National Library Ireland
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And nearly all through reads and analysis. Very little in the throw or lift.
One of the highlights of my summer so far. Make a day trip to see it while it’s off the West End!
Absolutely loved ‘Sing Street’ @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social last night. A joyous production, packed with superb performances & gorgeous songs. We already loved the film but it is absolutely not necessary to have seen it to adore this show. Standing ovation. Catch it if you can.
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (@lyrichammersmith.bsky.social)
World class theatre in the heart of Hammersmith 🎭❤️ Now showing 👉 Sing Street https://linktr.ee/Lyrichammersmith
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Sione is injured and Genge is being used to dominate the end game.