This is like a lesson in how to facilitate older people while honouring who they are.
What a class act by with legend Liza Minnelli.
The conferred whispers of "I gotcha" "I know" picked up by the mikes make it especially touching.
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Latvian crowds sing the Ukrainian national anthem in front of the Russian embassy in capital Riga
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Brīvību Ukrainai! Ukrainas valsts himna šovakar Rīgā, blakus Krievijas vēstniecībai.
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Amazon's Twitter customer service causing extreme hilarity on Irish Twitter by declaring a united Ireland
A 17-year-old rape victim was NOT euthanised in the Netherlands.
are all wrong
It took me about 10 mins to check with the reporter who wrote the original Dutch story.
Noa Pothoven asked for euthanasia and was refused (cont.)
This is being shares ahead of the pope's visit to Ireland, had me in tears m.facebook.com/story.php?stor
Why is a Native American lacrosse team tweeting as Gaeilge?
Ireland has pulled out of the International World Games to give their space to the Iroquois Nationals, who represent the people who invented the game, and to whom it is sacred rte.ie/amp/1163463/
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A journalist has been killed covering riots in Derry. Her name was Lyra McKee. She was 29. She recently signed a two-book deal with Faber, who called her a "rising star of investigative journalism". This is her last tweet, sent from the scene of the unrest.
Sussex police fined 19-year-old Shana Grice £90 for ‘wasting police time’ as she tried five times in six months to report her stalker.
He killed her that summer.
Hearing a British official confidently say that Britain doesn't need to recognise the European Convention on Human Rights because Britain doesn't violate human rights.
Iraq, Kenya, and Northern Ireland might want a word just to start with...
The Palestinian flag flying on the island of Inishbofin, population 180, off Ireland's west coast
Sculpture to be unveiled in Cork to remember generosity of the Choctaw Nation, Native American tribe that sent famine aid to Ireland in 1847
Native Americans raised a huge amount in famine relief for Ireland at a time when they had very little. It's time for is to come through for them now.
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The Navajo Nation has more confirmed cases per capita of COVID-19 than 48 US states! Navajo has depleted all of her limited resources to battle. Funding to fight is now grassroots fundraising - help if you can: Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief
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According to exit poll:
- Overall vote was 68 Yes 32 No
- a 77% Yes vote in Dublin
- 66% Yes vote in Munster
- 59% Yes vote in Connacht
- Majority in all age groups under 65
- Ages 18-24 voted 87% for Repeal
If borne out this is sensationally historic.
#repealthe8th
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Trump gave most of his press conference in Scotland surrounded by these Nazi golf balls
Poster by the European Parliament Greens
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First Mike Pence says 'top of the morning', then Paul Ryan holds up this appalling pint, grave missteps by the US
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Exclusive: the United Nations has banned its staff from using the words "war" or "invasion" to refer to the situation in Ukraine, the Irish Times has learned
A year ago I began wondering: what happens in Syrian media when Mick Wallace and Clare Daly speak in support of viewpoints held by the Assad regime?
I set up an alert for their names when used in Arabic, Russian and Chinese.
Follow me down the rabbit hole:
Early tallies in Dublin show Sinn Féin beating Leo Varadkar in his own constituency.
Joint call for all flights to, from, and over Belarus to be suspended and for sanctions on the Lukashenko regime from the chairs of the Parliament foreign affairs committees of Ireland, UK, US, Poland, Germany, Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania
I would like an explanatory podcast about the SNP affair. I would particularly like to understand why a prominent woman politician seems to be the primary subject of inquiry over the offenses of a man
Israeli forces have destroyed Irish aid donated to Palestinian families in repeat demolitions of a village in the West Bank.
My story here: irishtimes.com/news/world/eur
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A powerful video.
At the heart of Italy's Coronavirus outbreak, Giovanni Locatelli compares the obituaries page of local daily newspaper on February 9 and March 13.
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A decision to move to palliative care and not to force feed at the request of the patient is not euthanasia.
Dutch media did not report Noa Pothoven's death as a case of euthanasia. This idea only appeared in English language pickups of Dutch reporting.
Major remaining holes in sanctions:
- EU gas purchases piping money directly to the Russian state.
- UK naming 15 sanctioned individuals vs the EU's 680, and giving a bizarre weeks-long lead in time that allows assets to be liquidated and moved in front of our eyes.
Leo Varadkar is set to take over as Taoiseach in December, so if Rishi Sunak becomes PM the photo of their first meeting will be quite something, marking a moment in which both Britain and Ireland are led by people of Indian heritage.
Greek police recovered a stolen Picasso painting and dropped it while revealing it to the media iefimerida.gr/politismos/bin
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The EU has reached a deal.
A ban on Russian oil got over the line - by exempting oil that comes through pipelines, allowing dependent states (Hungary really) to continue importing.
Shipped Russian oil, accounting for 2/3 of EU imports, is to be banned.
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I had immediate questions reading the Dutch articles about whether this was a case of euthanasia or not. It would have been an enormous deal in the Netherlands if a 17-year-old really had euthanasia. It's really easy to check. Like I say, took me about 10 minutes. Infuriating.
Regarding UK claim that 'comms mix up' stopped it joining EU scheme to procure ventilators:
UK was invited to join health ministers meetings on March 6 & 10 that initiated procurement. It declined
Telegraph reported worries that collaborating on health could interfere with Brexit
Wedding dresses hang from nooses in Beirut to protest law to let rapists go free if they marry victims
Northern Ireland's busts a few myths about the Protocol in two minutes that are as clear as Evian water
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The Netherlands' dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases:
June 26: restrictions dropped
July 1: 806 cases
July 2: 941
July 3: 1,215
July 4: 1,519
July 6: 2,209
July 7: 3,646
July 8: 5,431
July 9: 6,926
July 10: 10,345
Tomorrow's infections will be the highest ever if this rate continues.
Sally Rooney says it would be "an honour" to have her new novel translated into Hebrew.
"If I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement’s institutional boycott guidelines, I will be very pleased and proud to do so."
Ireland typically runs a hospital bed occupancy level of 95%, and over 100% in the winter, with people lying in corridors. Our health system would be the quickest to be overrun in the EU, according to ECDC. That's relavant to policy decisions now.
Fascinated with the response to the idea of a gap cap of Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš
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I think Saoirse and the shocked gasps at Ronan Mullen's response to her story is a standout moment of this campaign #pkshow
For international viewers, this is the dark side of the bunting and the nationalism.
These men are gleefully singing a song about a teacher who was tragically murdered on her honeymoon, because her dad is a prominent figure in Irish sport. That's how deep their hatred is. twitter.com/MalachyQuinn/s
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Give young broadcasters opportunities instead of retired politicians
Kind of reeling from going on a UK radio station this morning that was clearly not interested in informing listeners with facts at all, but instead trying to use me to present its slant that the crap old EU is not helping Ukraine.
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I spoke to Paul Bolwerk, a reporter who has been covering the story for since 2018. Noa Pothoven had been severely ill with anorexia and other conditions for some time. Without telling her parents, she sought and was refused euthanasia
Croatia becomes the 20th country to join the euro today.
These are the Croatian Euro coins that are now coming into circulation and being given as change in Croatian shops as the country says goodbye to the Kuna
irishtimes.com/business/econo
Ever wonder where plastic ends up?
I have a story I'd like to share.
Irish MEP Clare Daly has denounced the EU's sanctions on Russia in the European Parliament, saying the response "makes me sick", and decrying attempts to replace Russian gas with "filthy fracked US gas"
Beware of misinfo about Irish ppl gloating over Queen Elizabeth's death. Americans seem to enjoy this idea & exaggerate it. It is not true for example that Irish dancers performed in celebration outside Buckingham Palace. This was an innocent post from Jan reposted out of context
From outside Britain these scenes as it clocks the worst death toll in Europe look... Unhinged
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Extraordinary times.
Italy's draft emergency Coronavirus law to ban entry and exit to whole of Lombardy region - capital Milan- Venice, Padua, Parma & 8 others.
Weddings and funerals banned. Cinemas, gyms, pubs, museums all closed.
Anyone violating law can be arrested and fined.
The level of ignorance in the republic about the North does stop me in my tracks sometimes
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Infuriatingly, it's too late: this misinformation has already spread all over the world from Australia to the United States to India. Her name, #noapothoven is even trending in Italy.
Wow - this is the list of surnames that staff at British holiday park company Pontins were told to exclude from bookings.
"We do not want these guests on our parks" the blacklist on the company's intranet read. inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontin
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The family had tried many kinds of psychiatric treatment and Noa Pothoven was repeatedly hospitalised; she made a series of attempts to kill herself in recent months. In desperation the family sought electro shocktherapy, which was refused due to her young age.
Some news!
I'm the new Europe Correspondent for the Irish Times.
Today is a sad anniversary, one year since I've set foot at home in Ireland or seen my family.
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After electroshock therapy was refused, Pothoven insisted she wanted no further treatment and a hospital bed was set up at home in the care of her parents. At the start of June she began refusing all fluids and food, and her parents and doctors agreed not to force feed her.
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How has this happened? and have questions to answer, as authors of early English-language articles that made a leap to conclude euthanasia from the report that Pothoven once asked for it, and an Instagram post in which she wrote that she was going to die
Memorial in central Dublin for Savita Halappanavar, whose death after she was denied an abortion in 2012 galvanised the Repeal movement.
Surrounded by flowers and candles today. People nearby were shaking and overwhelmed to hear of exit poll predicting a Yes victory
#repealthe8th
Do you want to hear about one of the most excruciating, culture shock debacles I've ever experienced in my life
Cows react as they are let outside for the first time in over eight months.
An unusually long and wet winter in Ireland kept them inside.
Irish people in the North posting decades-old 'I told you so's
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Bernadette Devlin explains British "democracy" to William Buckley in 1972:
"When we break the law, we go to jail. When the government breaks the law, the government changes the law."
Changing inconvenient laws to circumvent illegality has long been a British government tactic. twitter.com/skydavidblevin…
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This leaves Northern Ireland a complete outlier, with no same-sex marriage and a near-total abortion ban. Women prosecuted for procuring abortion pills in 2017 and 2016. Women with fatal foetal abnormality diagnoses travelling to Britain. It's unsustainable.
17th century Dutch sailors were so wrapped up against the cold they only knew each other by their hats. They were buried wearing them.
How is international media reporting Ireland's dramatic Covid-19 surge that has taken it from one of the lightest-affected in Europe to a global hotspot in a matter of weeks?
Always interesting to see an international perspective.
A press review:
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And that friends is what happens when one of the most indirect-communication cultures in the world encounters one of the most direct.
It's so strange to hear people in Britain are still repeating that EU law forces private ownership of railways when it's the UK that is the ONLY European country WITHOUT a state-owned passenger rail service company
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UN staff were instructed not to use "war" or "invasion" and to use "conflict" or "military offensive" instead, according to an internal email seen by the Irish Times.
It comes as the Kremlin cracks down on the use of the same words within Russia irishtimes.com/news/world/uni
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They made the new green white & orange version of their logo their avi ☺️
The Iroquois Nationals were initially excluded "on the grounds that they were not a sovereign nation, without an Olympic Committee".
When this was overturned - if a place could be found - Ireland pulled out
France is really knocking it out of the park on vaccination ads twitter.com/olivierveran/s
Some people in Ireland are convinced the country is the most corrupt awful or lawless state in the world, oblivious to how tame Ireland's problems are relative to even other rich countries. It's a fascinating combo of cynicism and naivety.
UK's Boris Johnson tried to set up calls with France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel on Brexit on Monday ahead of talks with Ursula von der Leyen.
The EU chiefs made a joint decision to refuse, to ensure the EU speaks with one voice, according to senior EU official.
The makers of Jameson and Powers whiskey are converting production to make alcohol gel for the Irish health service.
"Production will commence immediately with end product being delivered to the HSE’s supply centre thereafter for distribution to hospitals"
I'm going to do a thread about the response to the Covid-19 Coronavirus in the Netherlands: socially, in the media, and by authorities.
This 'technological' plan for the border means:
- GPS tracking of all "goods" vehicles
- number plate scans
- checks on 'suspicious' vehicles
- gathering "wide array" of data "including social media"
i.e. it's mass surveillance of Irish citizens by the UK
"Was it your team that poisoned Navalny please?"
God tier doorstep
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No one lives here, but the world has aleady arrived.
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Thank you for that information. We apologize but upon reviewing your location you're in Northern Ireland. Rugby Autumn Nations Cup coverage is exclusively available to Prime members based in the UK. We don't have the rights to other territories. ^RS
"When you talk about people being found dead in ditches there's a sense in this country that you really don't understand what's at stake here"
asks Boris Johnson if he still thinks crossing border is like going "from Camden to Islington" 🔥
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"Get him out" comedian Lee Nelson thrown out of Trump press conference after tossing golf balls with Nazi swastikas
165 people have so far tested positive for Covid-19 in the Netherlands after a single disco that had 650 guests.
All had had to show proof of a negative test or vaccination to get in (though there are reportedly multiple loopholes, such as sharing screenshots).
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165 mensen besmet na avond in Nederlandse discotheek. Iedereen toonde een QR-code als bewijs van een negatieve test of van vaccinatie. Toch even goed nadenken. standaard.be/cnt/dmf2021070
The EU doesn't care how this Protocol offer is sold in British tabloids - a defeat, a humiliation, whatever - if it works.
It's not for London. It's for the people of Northern Ireland, seen as a much more pragmatic and sympathetic group.
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Can you imagine being the parents of Noa Pothoven? Can you imagine? They are grieving something unimaginable. Misreporting is making them a target of horrible abuse. This didn't need to happen.
Judge rules that family cannot put a beautiful phrase in Irish on their mother's gravestone because "its inclusion without translation would of itself be seen as a political statement".
What a horrifying reflection of how our language is still seen.
Look at this video: this woman is being groped by a policeman and breaks free from his grasp. Someone then shouts "hit her" and she is beaten to the ground by several police as she stands, not resisting.
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Different angle on 
out of Indianapolis
From this view you can see the cop grope the woman he's restraining, that's why she breaks away
Then of course a half dozen cops beat her for not wanting to be groped
Lawlessness
out of Indianapolis
From this view you can see the cop grope the woman he's restraining, that's why she breaks away
Then of course a half dozen cops beat her for not wanting to be groped
Lawlessness
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Meet , a Finnish historian working in the UK and married to a Brit. The Home Office has just decided to deport her.
Attempts to establish right-wing nativist politics as a force in Ireland look to have flopped again, as only 1% of 5,300 voters polled say immigration was an important factor in deciding how to vote.
The Dutch government has fallen, national broadcaster reports.
PM Mark Rutte is to offer his resignation to the king following a scandal about tax authorities' over-zealous pursuit of particularly migrant families over non-existent benefit fraud.
My understanding of AstraZeneca's EU doses:
- contract signed in August
- EU expected over 100 mln doses delivered by end-March, possibly 120 mln
- in early Dec, AZ revised down to 80 mln
- on Jan 22, AZ revised to 31 mln
- distributed proportionally: eg Ireland's share is ~1.1%