We've just gone through a Presidential election where the losing candidate happened to be a border Presbyterian - you are not wrong!
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We've just gone through a Presidential election where the losing candidate happened to be a border Presbyterian - you are not wrong!
01.11.2025 01:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0With you, sister π
31.10.2025 23:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Therein lies a mystery.
30.10.2025 20:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A broken umbrella lying on the street in Rathmines.
You wouldn't put a cat out in that weather.
30.10.2025 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is wholesome and commendable. If you aren't watching A Muppet Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve up to now, please do so this year and now on.
30.10.2025 19:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Richard Moore is extraordinary. Blinded by a soldier in Derry when he was 10, Richard went on to found Children In Crossfire, an international body tackling trauma and poverty in conflict zones and An Crann a project to help people safely share experiences of the Troubles. This piece is very moving.
30.10.2025 15:34 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1A typed hand bill, printed c.1900. Under the title βFREE PUBLIC LIBRARIESβ SCHEME IN ST PANCRAS, opponents of free libraries in this central London region set out four reasons for their opposition.
1850. The Public Libraries Act means councils in England & Wales can now spend local taxes on libraries. Some London regions are VERY slow to adopt the act. St Pancras rate-payers object to βwastingβ money on βshowy luxuriesβ. Fifty years pass before a free library opens in the district #PubLibs ππ
25.10.2025 12:24 β π 22 π 10 π¬ 0 π 1Letβs be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldnβt go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, heβd be out there protesting.
29.10.2025 22:15 β π 1870 π 295 π¬ 23 π 10They weren't kidding.
28.10.2025 19:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If people want a sense of what video and DVD rental used to be like, they should try using Prime Video where all the new releases are unavailable and you end up watching an old comedy with Rodney Dangerfield in it.
26.10.2025 19:58 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Tired & Stressed = Memory loss and overtalking for me π
25.10.2025 06:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More of this please!
24.10.2025 21:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ireland here with a civilised approach to voting
24.10.2025 11:36 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Never trust a church that controls which books you can read.
24.10.2025 11:38 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0The book of Proverbs tells us that fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Jesus shows us that fear is the death of love.
In the cross and resurrection of the Christ, love has overcome death.
Let us choose love over fear, acceptance over hatred, and in doing so, step into the life our God has for us.
A Dublin 'Luxury' tram at some point in the 1940s.
You don't need AI to colour a beautiful and sharp Black and White photograph.
23.10.2025 23:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wait, what, YES
23.10.2025 23:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0[Alt Text A picture of Pope Leo and King Charles shaking hand. The Pope is wearing a red short cape round his shoulders over his white cassock and the King is in a blue lounge suit. There are large paintings on the walls behind]
23.10.2025 17:25 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y
21.10.2025 11:17 β π 14 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0Fontaines D.C. bassist Conor 'Deego' Deegan Ill has taken to his Instagram stories to issue support for Catherine Connolly ahead of the presidential election this Friday. "Catherine Connolly is the candidate of the uncolonized Irish mind; Heather Humphreys is the candidate of the mind colonised by Britain," he wrote in a statement posted yesterday afternoon.
This is just sectarianism against Irish Protestants dressed up in academic jargon
21.10.2025 12:49 β π 71 π 11 π¬ 12 π 32A Cadbury Snack Sandwich, made with Milk Chocolate, not cocoa mass.
There can be only one. Before M*nd*l*z messes that up too. Not my photo - have eaten any in my possession.
18.10.2025 08:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My Scottish wife thinks it's excellent as well π
17.10.2025 19:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Indeed. I'm a border CofI person,we have CC supporters in our congregation, and I'm not an Orange supporter, but I have close friends who are. Rural Orangeism isn't what the noisy ppl online think it is, but the interweb is where nuance and diplomacy go to die.
17.10.2025 15:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A tin of Club Lemon, today.
There are two God-tier soft drinks in Ireland. Cidona is the other one. #SpΓ©irghorm
17.10.2025 15:51 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A poster on Helen Humphries' Facebook attempting to say something incredibly sectarian through emojis
The stuff I posted wasn't the worst
17.10.2025 15:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Casual bigotry
A new and inclusive Ireland? #SpΓ©irghorm
17.10.2025 14:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1BREAKING:
King Charles and Pope Leo will pray together in the Sistine Chapel next week
First time a British monarch and pontiff have done so publicly since Reformation
King also to be given own special chair bearing his coat of arms in a papal basilica
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
Christ on a bike. These people are utterly insane.
16.10.2025 21:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank God. A good start to preventing a gross miscarriage of 'justice' 'Robert Roberson's Execution Is Stayed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' innocenceproject.org/news/texas-c...
16.10.2025 19:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0First experience of one of Dublin's legendary phantom buses. Half an hour waiting sucks.
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