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Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.
Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music
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Today's front page of The New York Post.
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Here's a riddle: one country has a dictator with no real elections, the other one doesn't. Which is which?
19.02.2025 16:26 — 👍 1118 🔁 248 💬 22 📌 10Ok, slivers of light in this analysis of Tr*mp’s dark dealings with Putin. All of them centre on Europeans exerting their own agency and taking bold steps as to offer security to Ukraine: ramping up supplies to Ukraine, EU membership, troops in the field and doubling down on sanctions.
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Superb piece by Anne Applebaum in TheAtlantic, in which she argues that Musk, Zuckerberg and their ilk are trying to weaken European democracy and operate in an Unconstrained regulatory environment.
The European Commission must act to protect EU democracy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Just three women in the new Irish cabinet.
A sorry state of affairs for 2025.
Happy Nollaig na mBan (Womens Christmas) to all the wonderful women in my family and friends.
January 6, is known in Ireland as Nollaig na mBan. It was a day off from all house work for women and traditional roles were reversed in the home. Many women will meet socially today for lunch/dinner
Just been to my six year-old's nativity play at his S Dublin school. Kids from Turkey, China, India, S Africa, Kenya.
They all sang Away in a Manger in Irish, Sa stábla, sa mháinséar. Loudly, enthusiastically.
This is modern Ireland. The attractiveness of our culture, the warmth of its welcome.
Ready for the Toy Show #latelate #speirgorm
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01.12.2024 08:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Been striking this evening to watch so many women top the poll and get elected right at the start of the counts: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Verona Murphy, Louise O’Reilly, Mary Lou McDonald …. #GE24
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Highly recommended reading , for the day that’s in it, by @theresareidy.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Pictured at University College Cork (UCC) are (l-r): Joanne O’Riordan, sports journalist, disability activist, motivational speaker and student of law; Caitríona Twomey, volunteer co-ordinator of Cork Penny Dinners; Dola Twomey, therapist/activist at the Sexual Violence Centre Cork; Mary Crilly, feminist activist and founding member and CEO of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork; Dr. Myra Cullinane, medical doctor, barrister and Senior Dublin District coroner; Sr. Sharon Fagan, Congregational Leader, Presentation Sisters (representing Honora ‘Nano’ Nagle); Dr. Naomi Masheti, psychologist, three-time UCC graduate and Programme Director of the Cork Migrant Centre. Photo credit: Clare Keogh
11 trailblazing women to feature in Accenture’s Women on Walls at UCC
A group of pioneering women – visionaries and champions who have contributed to the betterment of society – will feature in a new portrait series at UCC.
Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2024...
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