Mark Hennessy

Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get One of the most precious gifts cancer has given me is a deep friendship with this extraordinary Irish man

If you read nothing else this day, this week, this year, read this - the most beautiful ode imaginable to life, love and friendship
Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get

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Cultural markers, such as the GAA

Their point is that Irishness is defined too often by a series of cultural markers. Of which the GAA is one

Meaning?

‘The Republic needs to start listening’: Young SDLP members on Irish unity The Republic needs to start listening, young SDLP members say at this weekend’s party conference

‘The Republic needs to start listening’: Young SDLP members on Irish unity

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London’s two big Irish centres celebrate combined 100 years helping emigrants Irish Cultural Centre and London Irish Centre are keeping an eye on future generations’ needs too

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“We knew the Irish would stand with us,” - Max Levitas (102)
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Irish Government must lead unification preparations, says Varadkar Former taoiseach says Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil dropped unity objective from manifestos

Former Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar says he has ‘not lost hope’ that the Irish Government will lead Irish unification preparations, even it abandoned election pledges
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Irish in Australia: ‘Assimilating isn’t easy, take this minor cultural difference when paying’ It’s easy for an Irish person to presume assimilating in Australia will be straightforward, but this isn’t always the case

Irish in Australia: ‘Assimilating isn’t easy, take this minor cultural difference when paying’

Michael McDowell: Why I didn't nominate Maria Steen for the presidency As a liberal, I felt Maria Steen’s election would have been a step backwards for the Ireland I believe in

Why I didn’t nominate Maria Steen for the presidency - Michael McDowell

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Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

BREAKING NYT:
 
Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.
 
Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence.

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

In Heather Humphreys country: ‘It was hard to find a Protestant not in the Orange Order’ Monaghan folk shy away from questions about identity but a leading Orangeman is not afraid to give his verdict on Michael D Higgins

In Heather Humphreys country: ‘It was hard to find a Protestant not in the Orange Order’

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162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health.

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#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky

Cyberattack disrupts operations at Heathrow and other European airports London’s Heathrow warns of possible flight delays over issue with check-in and boarding systems

Cyberattack disrupts operations at Heathrow and other European airports

Leaving post, but not leaving Ireland: the UK ambassador who is not going home For five years, Paul Johnston has been the British ambassador to Ireland - soon, he will become a private citizen in Dublin

The Scot who has learned what "giving out" means in Ireland, and other stories of what being the British ambassador in Ireland means. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Philip Stephens: 'The British view of Northern Ireland is a bit like the attitude to the Falklands' Stephens talks about visiting his grandparents in Co Mayo, how Scotland will become independent before Northern Ireland joins the Republic and more

Philip Stephens: ‘I am privileged to be Irish as well as British’

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Noel Clarke loses libel case against Guardian over sexual misconduct investigation High court rejects actor’s claim that accusations against him by more than 20 women were false and part of a conspiracy

The Guardian has successfully defended a libel action brought by the actor Noel Clarke over an investigation by the newspaper in which he was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women.

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Forensic advances bring chance of new prosecutions for Guildford and other 1970s IRA bombings Some investigations will result in arrests for killings 50 years ago, official says, despite unpopular new legacy regime

The long arm of justice…..Forensic advances bring chance of new prosecutions for Guildford and other 1970s IRA bombings

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Fox News bemoans ‘dangerous’ Dublin - with some questionable data Will Cain Show claims illegal immigration has prompted crime surge in Ireland’s capital city

One hopes Bluesky readers do not get their news from Fox, but its report on Ireland’s crime issues is a nonsense, as this report makes clear www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

God, this is cringeworthy

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

It will be an ‘insult’ if Fianna Fáil don’t enter presidential race, says Mary Hanafin Former minister has made clear her wish to be nominated by the party

It will be an ‘insult’ if Fianna Fáil don’t enter presidential race, says Mary Hanafin

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Baltic states’ ‘visceral fear’ of Russian invasion ‘almost impossible’ for Irish to understand, says ex-MEP Ciarán Cuffe says Germany and Austria find it very difficult to recognise magnitude of human slaughter in Palestine

Baltic states’ ‘visceral fear’ of Russian invasion ‘almost impossible’ for Irish to understand, says ex-MEP

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Hugh Linehan: My right eye is now failing too. The world is slipping away, just a little, just enough to notice Hugh Linehan shares his experience of macular degeneration – and the losses, large and small, that come with it

I’m not normally in the habit of writing personal pieces but this is about my experience of declining vision. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

A drawing of the Empire State Building on display next to a photo of Donald Trump. A headline reads: "Trump Says He Doesn’t Draw Pictures. Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction." Photo by Paul Buck/EPA, via Shutterstock.

President Trump disputes reporting from The Wall Street Journal that he sent a sexually suggestive drawing to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, saying he doesn't "draw pictures." But in the early 2000s, he regularly donated drawings to charities in New York. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

Public opinion is now toxic, warns former minister for health Negative attitude toward health service is increasingly corrosive and destructive, says Stephen Donnelly

Public opinion in Ireland is now toxic, warns former minister for health

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Better-off children ‘sailing away from the have-nots’, warns Ombudsman Government unable to inform Ombudsman how much it spends on children, says Dr Niall Muldoon

Better-off children ‘sailing away from the have-nots’, warns Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children

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Germany might have solved the domestic EV charging problem Developed by German group Rheinmetall, the charger sits flush with the kerb and has just gone into mass production after successful pilots

Clever, in fairness - Germany might have solved the domestic EV charging problem

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