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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 12h

Mind you, with all the beards on show, it looked as if we had taken over! 😆

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 12h

Oh sh1t!

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Daryl Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 17h

A Catherine wore amethyst & became President today after all 😀

#Speirgorm

Daryl Feehely @darylfeehely.com · Nov 13

Catherine Murphy planning a run for the Áras?

Snippet from Miriam Lord in today's Irish Times.

#aras25 #áras25

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Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social · 19h

Ireland has produced an impressive quality of Presidents. Could they perhaps offer a training scheme for some other countries?

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 16h

The full text of Catherine Connolly's speech is here: president.ie/en/media-lib... #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Inaugural Speech of President Catherine Connolly | President of Ireland

A Thaoisigh, A Phr&iacute;omhbhreithimh, Air&iacute;, Baill Chomhairle an St&aacute;it, Baill an Oireachtais, Ambasad&oacute;ir&iacute;, Ceannair&iacute; Eaglaise, agus dhaoine...

president.ie

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Hannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 15h

This is such a great idea but it's also really sad to think that some parents are so poor they cannot afford Santa. Feel really really sad for all the children in Ireland who will be living in emergency accommodation this Christmas #Speirgorm #SpeirGorm #HousingCrisis

Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 23h

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

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Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com · 6d

There was one!

www.thejournal.ie/designing-a-...

Designing a winning campaign: We spoke to the 26-year-old behind Catherine Connolly's graphics

Irish shopfronts, Celtic symbols and the tri-colour were among Anna Cassidy’s inspirations.

www.thejournal.ie

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 14h

That was routine and near-universal in my childhood.

More irritating - to me at least - is the current English fad for saying "may have" when people mean "might have" (the latter referring to a hypothetical, the former to an indeterminate factual state).

It skunks a useful distinction.

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 15h

Ireland's presidential inauguration chair was made from native oak, symbolic of strength and endurance

Here's some background from a beautiful book that I copy-edited in 2018 artisanhouse.ie/product/see-... #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

$Hardback book on a wooden floor: "See the Wood from the Trees: The story of storm-felled timber gifted to GMIT Letterfrack from Áras an Uachtarán", by Marion McGarry & Dermot O'Donovan. Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Introduction by Duncan Stewart. Poetry by Theo Dorgan. Published by Artisan House, Connemara. The cover shows a cross-section of timber in close-up, bright orange, with the book title in green all-caps.$ $Two pages from the book "See the Wood from the Trees". Each has a photo. On the left, President Mary McAleese and Dr Michael Hannon, registrar of GMIT, stand at a reception in Áras an Uachtarán to mark the presentation of lecterns in 2008. On the right, John Lee stands with the Presidential Inauguration Chair that he designed. Text on page 96: Áras an Uachtaráin and GMIT Letterfrack have enjoyed a fruitful relationship for decades. Students and graduates of the college have produced a range of furniture for Áras an Uachtaráin over the years. In 1992 Mary Robinson visited GMIT Letterfrack, and in 2006 Mary McAleese opened the GMIT Letterfrack Furniture Gallery. Mary McAleese was enthralled by the quality of student work, and in 2008 she asked students to design and make a lectern for use in the Áras. When she received the three final designs for selection, she was so impressed by them that all three were commissioned and are now in use throughout the reception rooms of Áras an Uachtaráin. Page 97: In 2011, GMIT Letterfrack graduate John Lee won the tender to design and make the new Presidential Inauguration Chair. The Office of Public Works brief was exacting, requiring that the chair be 'presidential, not regal', and be of a 'sufficient timeless design and character to be suitable for use for many future inaugurations'. For the material, John chose Irish white oak, symbolic of strength and endurance. The chair has a broad back and is characterised by outstretched sweeping arms, which reflect the Irish phrase céad míle fáilte, or 'welcome'. President Higgins was the first Irish president to use the chair, at his inauguration as the ninth president of Ireland in 2009.$

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 14h

Advent vestments. 😊

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 15h

Motormouth O'Leary would love it if older, infirm and disabled people would just f*** off out of his world and let him focus on making even more money.

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 15h

Predisposed by AI to present her as a dangerous leftist with links to previously-unheard-of islamists?

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G @geraldineishere.bsky.social · 16h

Oh wow, watching @virginmedianews.bsky.social & the auto generated subtitles for the Presidential oath as Gaeilge are *not good* 😬

Photo of a television screen showing President Catherine Connolly holding the Presidential seal and subtitles below that are meant to show the final words of the Presidential Oath in the Irish language but instead say: Catherine Connolly, Alaa al-Najjar. Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo!

#Speirgorm #Spéirgorm

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 16h

That's my reaction, not an entry!

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 16h

Mortified!

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The museum of unconditional surrender @iamreddave.bsky.social · 21h

Graph I made of where the most used words in English come from.

German gets less of a source as words get less common

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 17h

Ripuarian (9)

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 17h

I also have one on standby for @frankie49.bsky.social 's job description in case I am again moved to engage with one of his Diary entries in the Letters page.

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elizabelta.bsky.social @elizabelta.bsky.social · 20h

Are we in the "convince people it's broken" stage of the break it, convince people it's broken, convince people only privatisation will fix it, privatise it, cycle of privatisation?

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 18h

In German one could make a case for Unwetterwarnungsunterlassenergrafschaftssauwetter.

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 20h

Two reservists needed to make up the numbers for the motorcycle escort, a duty they will be proud to perform.

In my day the whole route through the city was lined by entire FCA units as well as Regulars.

#Áras25 #speirgorm

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 21h

Housing. She isn't wasting time before getting stuck in!

#Áras25 #speirgorm

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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 21h

Just started watching.

Sign-language for her speech, but no English interpretation for the bits of it that are in Irish?

Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 1d

Aha! Eugene Lambe on uilleann pipes. I never thought of him. Better known to me as a maker rather than as a performer.

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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Neil could host This Week on the BBC while being editor of The Spector.

The hysterical cries of "bias" only go one way.

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