Maybe it’s my GAA background but I always get a lump in my throat when I stumble across a big rural funeral, and I see all the young fellas and girls providing a guard of honour in their zogabongs in the club colours.

This is from the HSE in Ireland. It seems to be from later in 2020, as opposed to the early days of the pandemic.

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For the craic, you should write a follow-up post along the lines of "APPARENTLY, all the Americans in my mentions haven't realised that I was referring to a different set of IRISH billionaires! Not everything is about you! Smdh."

Ah! Oddly enough, I've a clear enough memory of that match. I saw some of it while drinking red lemonade with my cousins and at least two uncles in a pub in New Inn, Co Tipp.

One of these days I'll actually act on my "we need a Memory Studies of Italia 90" idea - I can fold the early days of the Robinson Presidency into that, maybe.

Yeah, I was looking at this last night - up until Mary Robinson, it was more common than not for the incumbent President to also be the only living President. Post-Presidency lifespans used to be quite short!

Correct! Give that man a frugal meal!

Thinking back, was it maybe something she had said when she appeared on the Den the week before? I remember there being a lot of excitement about that.

"Collective memory of the Mary Robinson Presidency among Irish people who were in primary school at the time" would make for decent research!

Here’s a quiz question: who was the first Irish President to live through the entirety of the presidency of their immediate successor?

Also the phrase ‘lagging behind’ doesn’t actually appear in the article, it’s only in the headline, which may have been written by someone else.

This is happening more and more lately with the IT. And unfortunately #spéirghorm does incentivise it with the rage clicks.

Anyway, I suspect this is one of those mythical figures that could be weaponised to justify very real research funding cuts, so let’s be careful out there, hah?

Invoking Billig’s concept of the rhetorical power of ‘semi-magical round numbers’, it would be interesting to trace what work this 90% figure does on academic social media.

Both my boys have come home with homework so if it used to be a thing, it no longer is!

I had a renewed sense of patriotism and faith in the future of our country when I saw the respect paid by our armed forces to their commander in chief and the dignified bearing of our president. Now, more than ever we should increase military spending!

But if you *must* read books, then it’s a comfort to know that you can return them to any library branch nationwide.

Gonzo is Bond.