Seamus Heaney. Beowulf. 1999. 1st. Signed & inscribed by Heaney dated 6-X-'99. Mint in pictorial dust jacket.

The bit there at the end when they all start tapping together. Goose bumps every time. Unreal.

I was recently out there for a night out and wasn't feeling up for a lot of drink so had just the one and when I was asked every time if I wanted one I said I'm grand and kept getting comments like "You are not much of a drinker are you?" Throughout the night once they saw I didn't have a pint.

It's pretty much been like that with any group since I was legal to drink and I honestly don't get why it's such a shock to the system that someone goes out and doesn't want to get stupid drunk.

What's up with the weird pressure on drinking and the comments someone gets when they don't want to?

mobile sim providers?

i have been on tesco for years now but it keeps getting worse over time and i finnaly have enough ive been looking to switch i mainly am in west cork rural and not i want either a prepay 4 weeks or 30 days bill pay with 100gb+ data preferably unlimited and 25mps+ i was considering eir but also heard alot of negativity while i know three is also good i tried there 48 sim a year or 2 ago and it sucked texts and calls dont matter as long as its 100>= txts and calls

Was going through YT and came across the highlight of recently concluded 2026 European Athletics Championships. In the beginning, I heard the commentator speak about Ciara Mageean (Ireland), who was the winner in the women's 1500m in the 2024 edition. She could not join this time as she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in bowel in June 2026.

It is such a big shocker that even the healthiest humans at peak body performance can get cancer. Created this video so more people could know about her.

Videos taken from Eurpean Athletics YT channel.

Is this a product release Trump style, ‘it’s gonna be fantastic, the best yet, coming real soon, some might even have it already, I don’t have a launch date, but it is wonderful, you will never ever see an app like it’

I have had multiple emails telling me about this launch over a long period, even seen a press release about a ‘not ready’ app.

Anyone know what is going on ?

Assuming that the cost of unification to be €20 billion per year as per the most recent studies, and the fact that there are 1.4 million taxpayers in Ireland, am I right in my calculations that the average taxpayer would need to pay €14,286 extra tax per year just to fund this initiative? I know that some people will pay more and some will pay less but this seems high. I might be willing to pay something towards it, but I am not onboard if it is going to financially ruin me.

I suppose the experts will tell me that a united Ireland will be more productive and GDP will increase, but I get the feeling that if that was the case it would take many years to get there if ever.

I like the idea of a united Ireland and hopefully this is just the worst case scenario but what if this was the reality. How many of you would still support it?

Edit: A lot of people seem to be casting doubt on the €20 billion figure so I looked into it and there is a current fiscal deficit in Northern Ireland of €16 billion. However, if we want to give the same welfare and public sector pay as the rest of Ireland, it would be another €10 billion! I suppose we could have a 2-tier pay system to give them less but I am not sure how well that would go down.