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Originally from Co. Donegal. Living in US (Boston area) for almost 40 years.Approaching retirement and thinking of moving back to Ireland to be closer to family. Would love input from anyone who has moved back recently finance and tax advice.
Two women who married one another in Ireland will challenge a decision by the State to refuse an Irish passport for their daughter who was conceived through IVF in the UK.
jrnl.ie/6979820
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
Pope invites Catholics to 'disarm' language and build kindness, respect for Lent url:https://www.usccb.org/news/2026/pope-invites-catholics-disarm-language-and-build-kindness-respect-lent
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
Four presidents
Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days.
Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962.
“[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
CMAT relasing Euro-Country "was the end of Bertie's chances. By making the financial crash a culturally live issue again, she channelled 1.21Gws of raw artistic power directly into Bertie's campaign and sent it like a DeLorean, back into all those futures lost. "
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
Five years ago, a very close relative died of a glioblastoma brain tumor at the age of 13. Today would have been his 19th birthday. And now comes news that an mRNA vaccine is being trialed to treat this very (incurable) malady. Fingers crossed.
mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
🎉 Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna! The Nobel Laureate has just received the @acs.org‘s Priestley Medal for her incredible work on CRISPR-Cas9 🧬 and contributions to unlocking the power of RNA. 🧪
@biosci.lbl.gov
@innovativegenomics.bsky.social
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
Dublin born Andy Byron, happily married with two children, was left shell shocked on Thursday evening when his phone blew up while he was on holiday with his wife.
There were hundreds of messages from internet users wrongly accusing him of cheating on his spouse.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles?
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
- #OctavioPaz
Check out our full UFO report here: youtu.be/wyY_RXMRKOg?...
Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/h...
Very worried about what is happening in LA. Hoping that there won’t be escalation. Good to see a voice of reason, not another attempt to stir up trouble, echoing historical efforts to create opportunity for oppression. We do know the history and we see what is happening. We see you. We see you all.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…”
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Ridiculous that Irish women are even having to have this conversation in 2025 and hope the GAA cope on in 2025 but great t-shirt, how do I get one? 😀