@gilsenan.bsky.social
Dubliner living in Cork. Spent 20 years working overseas in EU, Asia & Africa. Entrepreneur and business educator, promoting a forward-thinking business school. Passionate about global experiences and empowering others in leadership and growth
Meanwhile in Roscommon.
Post box closed due to birds nesting.
Peekaboo, playing at school #foxoftheday
Fox , relaxed . Today's restful #foxoftheday shared by @gp-wildlife.bsky.social
Peekaboo, Cork Ireland
On this day in 1994, Nelson Mandela defied three centuries of white-minority rule and decades of racial strife in South Africa, becoming the country’s first-ever black president.
"We saw our country tear itself apart in terrible conflict... The time for healing of wounds has come..."
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I think it’s incredibly important to expose kids to art. And adults too! Here’s my little nieces & nephews in Tuscany absorbing some Renaissance art with excitement & joy. It’s those emotions that artists must have & I think you will see that in the drawings in my thread!
They spread quickly
Irish Londoners have played a vital role in shaping our city, making London a better and more prosperous place.
London’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations are a key part of our capital’s cultural calendar and I’m delighted that each year the festival gets bigger and better.
Sanna Marin throwing some impressive shade here:
”To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it.
There is no trade-off between investing in the defence of Europe as a whole and investing in the defence of Ukraine—they are one and the same.”
Welcome to WomensArtBlueSky....thank you for following x
'Little My' by Tove Jansson.
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
I picked up this porcelain light shell (tea light inside) by Wicklow based ceramicist Sinéad O'Moore, after seeing her work in Irish Arts magazine.
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’
Setting up in the stunning Irish Embassy in Paris earlier this week for an elegant reception with buyers, media & fashion insiders. I’ve always wanted to visit Paris as a designer & being there with colleagues from the Council of Irish Fashion Designers was a truly beautiful experience.
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order authorising sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Hello @corkcitycouncil @tfiupdates - when do you plan to provide information updates to residents and customers on Bluesky? #Speirgorm
Kilclooney Dolmen • Donegal
One of Ireland's finest examples of a portal tomb, Kilclooney Dolmen is situated close to a number of other Neolithic monuments, suggesting this part of Donegal was an important landscape to Ireland's first farmers.
It likely dates to c.5,500 years old.
#Archaeology 🏺
Donald Trump imposes sanctions on ICC officials in new executive order
https://www.ft.com/enrichedcontent/59a0c990-762d-474f-beb3-7136202ab971
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
There's a Brídeog...and then there's a Brídeog...
"Embrace" why it's impossible for children to cycle or walk to school (or anywhere) safely.
#Defender #EmbraceTheImpossible
Here are some nice mushrooms
Here is a nice mushroom
pedestrian, London
Thread: Saturday is Imbolc, which celebrates the first day of Spring in Ireland. It is an ancient Gaelic-Celtic feast & is also marked as St Bridget’s Day, its Christian re-incarnation. In schools children make Bridget’s crosses to celebrate it. (pictured: Hill of Tara)
Aghascrebagh Ogham Stone • Tyrone
This fine example of an ogham stone stands on a rise above a small stream in the rolling landscape of County Tyrone.
It reads:
DOTETTO MAQI MAGLANI (Dotetto son of Maglani)
The math is the same in every city. Bikes and smart bike infrastructure SAVE a huge amount of space. And a huge amount of public money (infrastructure money, public health care money, & much more), a huge amount of ghg emissions, pollution and noise, & much more.
And then there’s what they GAIN us.