A lot of young adults in Dublin now have grown up never realising Meath used to be a serious football county, with Wexford then later Westmeath then later Carlow being the only opposition that mattered in Leinster.
This last ten weeks has been a harsh lesson.
Malta is made up of three islands.
I always thought it was just one.
The young lad is over there and text he had to get a ferry at 2:30 this morning.
That set the alarm bells ringing.
You can fly from Shannon to Malta now.
Certain types of Trees can detect what insects land on them (by analysing their saliva) and then release pheromones to attract the predator that eats the insect.
They also send out signals to neighbouring trees so those trees release chemicals to make their leaves less attractive to the insect.
Itâs like Day of the Triffids
Croke park use new balls for every game.
Not sure where they go afterwards. Google AI reckons they get put into an in-house recycling setup, but Iâd hope they get distributed to schools or clubs in the area.
Richard Whitely was in the Grand Hotel in Brighton at the time of the Brighton bombing.
Was he in charge of the countdown?
Probably solved the conundrum on where it was going to go off in 30 seconds and got to safety before the Countdown
"One of the Supreme Court judges who made the ruling that allowed Gibney to walk away - and flee the jurisdiction - was Susan Denham.
One of Gibneys barristers for the Supreme Court proceedings was Patrick Gageby.
Patrick is Susanâs brother. Very odd that nobody thought this might be problematic at the time."
What a country it was.
I still cannot believe this is not more widely known. The podcast really emphasises the pain these women had to live with since.
One section of the podcast i found particularly moving came from one of the women named Bernie who Gibney abused in the 70s when she was a teenager. When Gary O Toole set about tracing Gibneyâs victims he eventually arrived on her doorstep in the mid 90s. Her husband answered the door and when O Toole told him who he was and why he was there the husband replied. âWe have been waiting 20 years for you to call, please come inâ. I found this line incredibly sad.
Not sure if they ment O Toole himself rather than someone from Irish swimming.Thats what i thought at the time anyways
Ah yeah, i took it that they meant someone involved in swimming or the oolice
I donât think itâs a secret and I think itâs known by anyone who ever read about the case but itâs not plastered all over the papers possibly because they are very eminent people both children of the late Douglas Gageby editor of the Irish Times.
Was?