Ireland
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🧛🏻♀️ 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu, lesbian vampire book from 1872🧛🏻♀️
www.gutenberg.org Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le FanuFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Everyone thinks Bram Stoker in 1897 was the Irishman who brought vampires out of Romanian folklore into the mainstream, but Le Fanu scooped him by 25 years.
It's a quick read, about three hours.
- www.irishexaminer.com Sources suspect election is imminent as ministers are ordered to 'clear the decks'
The Department of Public Expenditure issued the request in what Cabinet ministers say is an unusual step
- www.colerainechronicle.co.uk Castlerock: Irish language class enrolment called off due to threats
Intimidation has prompted the cancellation of an Irish language class registration event that was due to take place in Castlerock last night. Billed as “a beginners Irish conversation class”, the six-month course was due to kick-off with an enrolment session at 7pm in the council-owned P...
- web.archive.org Population growth exceeds home delivery by almost 4 to 1
Population growth exceeds new homes by almost four to one, according to analysis by property advisor Savills Ireland.
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Bernadette McAliskey - Nationalism and the Far Right (50min talk)
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TG4 is showing a club football and hurling championship double-header on Sunday.
First up is the Roscommon SFC quarter-final between local rivals Padraig Pearses and St Brigid’s at 2pm. That will be followed at 4pm by the meeting of Kilmallock and Patrickswell in Round 4 of the Limerick SHC.
- www.irishnews.com Donegal farmer uncovers 22kg slab of ancient bog butter
The accidental discovery could one of the biggest finds of it’s kind in Ireland so far
A local archaeologist has said that the find, which is estimated to weigh between 22kg and 25kg, could be the “one of the biggest” of its kind ever recorded in Ireland.
Bog butter is an ancient form of preserved dairy or animal fat and can be found in the cool, oxygen-poor depths of Ireland’s peat bogs. Finds are common in both Scotland and Ireland. The practice of storing butter in bogs dates as far back as the Iron Age and is recorded as taking place as recently as the 16th and 19th century.
Archaeologist Paula Harvey, who visited the site of the discovery, said that local man Alan Moore was digging a drain when Micheal “spotted this big slab of something that didn’t look normal, didn’t look natural”.
Bogs, sometimes referred to as Ireland’s first fridges, did the trick preserving butter for centuries as Ms Harvey can verify having tried a “sliver” of this most recent find.
- web.archive.org Titanic builder Harland & Wolff set to collapse into administration
The iconic Belfast company that built the Titanic is to collapse into administration.
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Killing two birds with 672,500 AK-47s
read here for my Really Good Idea about how we can solve the defense shortage: https://lemmy.ml/post/17574247
The cant-be-bothered-reading-ulysses-will-read-dubliners of my Really Good Idea is: we get 5-20% of the population into a volunteer militia. They carry light arms and train part time. The militia pays for itself because they do valuable volunteer labour like Marx said they would.
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Say the non-military volunteer labour they do is 100 hours a year for the first three years, then 40 hours a year in subsequent years. But let's call it average 50 hours a year because I won't do harder maths than that on a Sunday.
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Say 12.5% of our population is in the militia = 672,500 brave souls
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equals 33,625,000 volunteer labour-hours per year
NOW he said, jabbing with a finger the table, we have another pressing issue besides the defense gap. Not lynching Bono, I'm talking about childcare costs.
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331,783 sprogs in childcare say the CSO – for about 15 hours a week, 50 weeks a year is about 250 million hours of sprog-tending
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At ratios of about 5 Big People to each Darling Child that's about 50 million hours of Labour
Recapeen: 50 million hours of childcare to be done, the People's Militia has 33,625,000 volunteer labour-hours to donate to the country
We can take a massive bite out of the current prohibitive cost of childcare. The vetting would be the same: people you can trust with a gun you can trust with a child.
They wouldn't HAVE TO wear uniforms and carry arms during the volunteer-work but it would probably be a good idea for purposes of humour.
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Misneach is a left-wing group working to drive forward the Gaelic Recapture of Ireland and secure the future of the language. Follow the link below for membership
Is grúpa den eite chlé é Misneach a ghníomhaíonn chun athghabháil na Gaeilge a thiomáint chun cinn agus todhchaí na teanga a chinntiú.
Chun ballraíocht a ghlacadh linn, lean an nasc thíos 👇👇
https://www.misneachabu.ie/glac-ballraiocht-linn/
- web.archive.org Apple must pay Ireland €13bn in unpaid taxes, court rules
Apple has lost its fight against the European Commission's ruling that it underpaid €13bn in tax due to Ireland.
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Sinn Féin's new housing plan
PDF: https://housing.sinnfein.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AHomeOfYourOwn.pdf
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Northern Ireland records surge in race hate crimes (RT.com)
www.rt.com Northern Ireland records surge in race hate crimesRacially motivated hate crimes in Northern Ireland have jumped by a third in the last 12 months, local police report
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Rare plant that does not depend on light rediscovered in Killarney for first time since 1896. Yellow bird’s-nest does not produce chlorophyll, instead getting its food from fungi and tree roots
www.irishtimes.com Rare plant that does not depend on light rediscovered in Killarney for first time since 1896Yellow Bird’s-nest lives in leaf litter habitat and depends on fungi for its food
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Invoices confirm the USA funded almost seven tonnes of Israeli weaponry moved illegally through Irish airspace
www.ontheditch.com US funded weapons transported through Irish airspaceThe US funded almost seven tonnes of IDF weaponry illegally transported through Irish airspace.
- www.irishtimes.com State building projects must now use low-carbon cement
Change in policy could have big implications for wider cement industry
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Chiedozie Ogbene returns to Premier League with Ipswich (He got relegated with Luton, now jumped to newly-promoted Ipswich, said to be the fastest sprinter in the Premier League)
www.westmeathindependent.ie Chiedozie Ogbene returns to Premier League with Ipswich switch | Westmeath IndependentThe 27-year-old Republic of Ireland international, who scored four times in 30 appearances for the Hatters in last season’s top flight, has signed a four-year contract.
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Irish woman – Ceola McGowan from Sligo – retains world axe-throwing title 🎯🪓🏆
web.archive.org Irish woman retains world axe-throwing titleAn Irish woman has retained her crown as world axe-throwing champion after winning a competition in the UK.
- blosc.wordpress.com Máire, Fanon & athghabháil na hÉireann
Tráth amháin, mhol an teoiricí gorm mór le rá, Aimé Césaire, cothromóid nó ‘colonisation = chosification’, sin le rá go n-athraíonn próiseas an choilínithe daoine isteach i rudaí. Is ionann an coil…
- www.irishtimes.com Irish public continue to fall out of love with alcohol as consumption falls to its lowest level since 1987
Trend towards lower consumption which began in the early part of the millennium is continuing, revised figures from the drinks industry show
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An outsourcing company called Abtran got at least €210 million in state contracts since 2012. We pay them €29.27 per worker per hour. Abtran pay workers €12.70. Rate of exploitation = 130%
www.ontheditch.com Firm paid more than twice hourly rate of workers on HSE dealA company charges the HSE almost €30 an hour per worker – these workers are paid the minimum wage.
- www.irishtimes.com Northern Ireland is in its terminal phase. This place never made any ethical or economic sense
There is hope now that natural patterns of society and economics will revive, and a century of waste in Derry can be swept away
- www.bbc.com Doug Beattie quits as Ulster Unionist leader
A senior party colleague says Mr Beattie's decision to quit came as a shock.
- www.westmeathindependent.ie Wasps ‘are putting people off recycling machines’ says Athlone politician | Westmeath Independent
Athlone councillor and taxi driver Kevin 'Boxer' Moran said many people are being deterred from returning their empty cans and plastic bottles because they're afraid of being stung by the many wasps that have been surrounding the reverse vending machines ...