Des Fitzgerald

A tea towel with a stencil in pink or Nadine Coyle on the phone and an Irish passport and microphone.

"Is that...?"
"The Nadine Coyle "never forget" memorial tea towel in hot pink, it is yeah."

US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.

BBC Verify confirms that the United States killed 110 young children, in their school, on just the first day of this war. www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Shocking and numbing': President Connolly condemns 'horror of war' in the Middle East Catherine Connolly said on this day ‘the catastrophic consequences of violating the UN Charter cannot be ignored’.

“The violations of international law we are witnessing are shocking and numbing, but we cannot afford inaction... We must name them as such, without euphemism and without equivocation.” www.thejournal.ie/catherine-co...

what?! that sounds crazy, Bart - and (I think?!) far from normal.

A beautiful "venom" coloured yeti rambler cup, being filled at a silver water fountain.

Boycott American consumer goods, with the exception of anything produced by the Yeti company, for which I would literally die.

I think this too, to be clear - but I just think we're over-focusing on the essay writing end of things and not enough on the (IMO much worse) reading end. I think my own position is that I could basically live without students writing essays. But I'm done in the absence of reading.

Personally I feel whatever we're calling "the humanities" can probably survive fine absent the formal production of rote essays, whereas a generalised unwillingness to read and parse books is probably fatal.

AI was eroding trust in my classroom — so I got rid of typed papers and bought my students notebooks instead This semester, I've bought my students notebooks. Instead of submitting typed papers online, they'll be journaling by hand.

So much focus on trying to solve the essay writing and assessment thing, whereas nowadays the major issue I see is a huge reduction in students willingness to read literally anything, versus getting an AI summary of it.
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I've been working on this article for a few years, so it is especially gratifying to see it finally published.

"What Crisis? Competing Narratives of Mental Health in US Higher Education" Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry. (2026) 50:19

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No doubt. Still seems like an odd decision to simply add up the numbers in the responses and then tabulate it, without any further analysis, disaggregation etc.

What do you think is actually the story with the Armagh ranking? Is it local archeological sites??

That data seems super messy. Why would you list the Armagh local authority area - which obviously contains a bunch of important archeological sites - in the same table as the British Museum??

You're still ion eastern time - it's basically the evening

In what I can only interpret as a sign of his deepening respect, my five year old has taken to addressing me as "Dessie Fitz."

11.10am! I respect it Jay 😂

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A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

An extract from the biography of Richie Kavanagh, "His songs have often been a topic of controversy due to his explicit and risque lyrics, such as "A Ride On A Tractor", "Mickey's Buckin Ass", "My Girlfriend's Pussy Cat", "If I Didn't Get A Ride" and "My Wife, Johnny's Morris Minor". He has also had hits including "The Mobile Phone", "Stay Wut Her Johnny", "Chicken Talk", and "Mobile Phone".

The American mind could never etc etc.

Oh no!!

nice! I recommend the fish kitchen!

Hahahaha - this is an extremely Felicity-coded reaction to the sun.

A picture of the Northside of cork, taken from UCC, with no clouds in the sky.

Eerie "blue" sky spotted over Cork

😂

I refuse to accept that "Markwayne Mullin" is not the name of country and western singer from Co. Offaly, who may or may not have had an innuendo-laden novelty hit in the early 2000s.

I assume something like that, but it's so *wildly* off all the time that it's just weird.

text from a word document. in the word, 'bedroom,' there is a red spell-check line under 'edroom' and the suggested replacement is 'fetus.'

does anyone what in the name of christ is the story with spellcheck in online word?

Wait, does *this* explain the apparent relatioship between urban density and neurosis??

This is amazing, Claire! I was literally just teaching surface reading in my Y2 critical theory class too.

wise!

😂

"let's associate books with self-consciousness and stress!"