Things I learned today (Part 1)

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Bang of a Cul Camp jersey off that

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It’s a lovely jersey
Those Cul Camp tops are lovely as well, pity there’s so many of them :grinning:

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Who on twitter posted the exact same comment yesterday?!

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Limerick is the county with the most tower houses/castles in Ireland, with the majority of this type of fortification being found in the south and west. There are roughly 3,000 tower houses remaining on the island today. They vary in condition from scant ruins to fully intact current residences/hotels.

Tower houses are found throughout Ireland, but are mostly concentrated in lands best suited for pasture. Gaelic chiefs and Anglo-Irish lords made full use of this arable land to increase their wealth and influence, often building additional castles. This can clearly be seen with scholarly studies finding circa 400 in Limerick, 325 in Cork, 253 in Tipperary and 120 in Clare, counties that are even today known for their rich pasture lands. Other counties with significant numbers of tower houses include Galway, Mayo, Kilkenny and Wexford.

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Distribution of tower houses in Ireland.

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None in Leitrim :grinning:

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You couldn’t see out over the Sitka spruces from a tower house.

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Leitrim prob has the most caves and mud huts

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Clare has more mud huts per capita.

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Laura/Lauren Guilfoyle

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No, they and Eddie blackguarded Warren Gatland

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They did.

And then the IRFU blackguarded Eddie

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Delli Ali’s girlfriend is Pep Guardiola’s daughter

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There’s a small dot just by Lough Allen. Parkes Castle near Dromahair would be one.

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It certainly has more roasters per capita.

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Not a house

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It’d be called Parkes House then

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This song is REO lead singer Kevin Cronin’s response after he found out his wife Denise had been cheating on him before they were married. Instead of leaving her, he decided that he would stay with her no matter what. Cronin called it, “The most painful song I ever wrote.” ‘Keep On Loving You’ was on the playlist for MTV’s first day on air in 1981, being the 17th track to be played by the station.

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Heartbreak is a great muse.

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They divorced 6 years later

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Initiated by the wife apparently.