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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 7d

When life imitates art

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 11d

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · 21d

Evercam HQ on CBS Pittsburgh for the Steelers NFL game in Dublin.

Mike La Bertew from Evercam USA on the telly

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 25d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Sep 19

Lessons from the local young fellas are going well. #menorca

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Sep 18

Ate the pigeon instead to balance things out

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Sep 18

Wife scared away a pigeon who was eyeing up this lad..... now I'm torn that we're interfering with the natural order of things.

Grasshopper on the edge of a swimming pool.

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Sep 14

Bought this book because @richycraven.bsky.social was funny on here and it turns out he's funny at writing books too. Highly recommend Spirit Level for a good read.

Funny book spirit level with inflatable Pegasus called Vivienne in a pool in the background

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Sep 6

Local cat Bertie still in the hunt

Orange cat on concrete pole, views through a window

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Sep 5

Of course

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Sep 5

Finally, last city stretch of the Royal Canal cycle lane is open! #cyclingdublin #royalcanal #aboutbleedintime

Construction works finishing on canal bank cycle lane, taken from cherry tomato bridge

Bikes on Royal canal cycle lane, Croke Park stadium in background

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Sep 4

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Old friend & lacemaker Fiona Harrington is the artist in residence in 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin Tenement Museum, and her work is gorgeous.
www.fionaharrington.com

Lace chamber pot, known as a Gazunder, because it gazunder the bed.

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · Aug 28

Finally! Central Dublin section of Royal Canal Greenway confirmed to open in 11 days adding to an emerging 40km network of cycle routes

Dublin City Council's central section of the Royal Canal Greenway is to open in under two weeks' time, approximately two months behind schedule. Dublin City…

Finally! Central Dublin section of Royal Canal Greenway confirmed to open in 11 days adding to an emerging 40km network of cycle routes

Dublin City Council's central section of the Royal Canal Greenway is to open in under two weeks' time, approximately two months behind schedule. Dublin City Council’s Royal Canal Greenway Phase 3 runs from Glasnevin and Phibsborough to North Strand Road, where it links to the Clontarf to City Centre route and Phases 1 and 2 of the canal route, and onto the central section of the Grand Canal Route.

irishcycle.com

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · Aug 26

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

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Vinnie Quinn @vinniequinn.bsky.social · Aug 21

Lovely art to come home to, beautifully made & packaged by @ciaraioch.bsky.social

Go buy her stuff.
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Assorted lovely art by @ciaraioch main piece is sea life with their names as gaeilge

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Aug 19

If you want some slow TV over the next few days, Swedish TV is live streaming the relocation of a 113 year old wooden church in Kiruna. It's being shifted to a new site 5km away.

www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...