Eamon Cassidy

Read this. Please.

My Mam’s sister died of measles aged 2, on my Mam’s first birthday in 1931, the third of three sisters to die of what are now preventable causes. My Gran cried every day till she died a premature death in her 60s. Vaccines are miraculous.

Chart showing Estimated annual cost and reduction in the number of children in relative poverty after housing costs, various two-child limit options, 2029-30: UK

The most cost-effective way to reduce child poverty is to abolish the two-child limit, which would cost £7,480 per child lifted out of poverty.

If it is not scrapped then one-in-three children will be in poverty by 2029-39, including half of children in large families 👉 buff.ly/oiV5Re2

Before I moved to UK my knowledge of English beer was gleaned from Coronation St so I thought everyone drank a pint of mild.

Harvey's of Lewes do a lovely dark mild - 2.8%. Delicious.

This is an advert for a runaway slave that James Hoban placed in a Charleston newspaper (1789). "Peter" must have been captured for he appears in the list of Hoban's slaves that worked on building the White House in 1792.

Remarks by Taoiseach Micheál Martin at White House Shamrock Ceremony: "Irish labourers came to help build the new Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful White House."

Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:

This shows that renewables have generated over 50% of Britain’s electricity for the last four consecutive quarters for the first time (Q4 2023 to Q3 2024) 📆

For further information read our latest press release with comment from RenewableUK's CEO Dan McGrail 👇

www.renewableuk.com/news-and-res...

Muintir Mhaigh Eo ag fanacht le Sam....

Exit Poll latest: A slim majority of voters (51%) believe the Government did not go far enough in tackling climate change - significantly more than those who believe it has gone too far #generalelection24 #ge24 #election2024 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

What a chart.
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Created a starter pack for #IrishHistory on Bluesky - apologies if I’ve left folks out - let me know go.bsky.app/TQ96Hoe

There was an absolutely silly 'X' post by David Frost (yes, that David Frost, the guy who negotiated whatever the hell happened with Brexit) about how "windmills" and solar cause system costs to rise due to needing 'back up'. So I broke it down a bit for your enjoyment:

Here’s the new report from Social Metrics Commission where I’m a commissioner. It shows more than a third of UK children in poverty. Disability is a major factor - most poor people live in a family with a disabled person socialmetricscommission.org.uk/social-metri...

Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

Historians concerned about potential government plans to destroy millions of historical wills to save on storage costs www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

What just happened to the British Library should be a reminder as to why this is a terrible idea.