As a fellow sufferer of big-bridged nose syndrome, I feel President al-Sharaa's difficulties getting sunglasses that fit properly.

Ba mhór an feall é baghcat a dhéanamh ar an Eurovision www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Haaretz: IDF soldier shoots and kills 7 month old baby in Hebron, wounding his parents

Israel has ordered all Lebanese civilians to move north of the Zahrani River or be considered fair game for bombardment. I sit here wondering, if Lebanon ordered all Israeli civilians to move south of Haifa, or Egypt ordered them to move north of Ashkelon, who on earth would expect them to comply?

after all these years and I still can't fully wrap my head around the savagery of the Assad regime

Cá mhéad ceann canna uisce garraí a thig le tachrán amháin a gcur amú?

I've been reading this book and it is absolutely WILD how wrong people are to try and back-project modern dynamics onto the premodern Middle East in an attempt to frame the process of Islamisation as an instance of settler colonialism. Warning: this will involve a lot of fiscal adminstration!

Sally and I are in conversation about her book on 9 July at Daunt Books Hampstead. Come along with qus!

Juxtapose this desperate reality facing medics in Gaza with the glitz and glam of Israel's culture washing at the Eurovision. While screens in much of Europe played host to the Israeli representative, screens in hospitals in gaza are blank and patients are dying.

Mar sin féin, bhí sé mífhéaráilte gan páirt a ghlacadh san Eurovision

Apparently 'so' causes lenition: the toddler is after saying 'The moya is fuar' and then 'Water so fhuar'.

Caithfidh mé admháil gur lig mé de Ulysses mar san eagrán a fuair mo mham bhí a oiread fo-nótaí ann is a bhí téacs, is chonacthas dom nárbh fhiú tabhairt faoi má ba ghá nótaí chomh fada leis an úrscéal féin a léamh lena thuigbheáil.

go maith, sin an áit a gcoinním mo choisitheoirí féin mar a tharlaíonn

"In 2012, a government inquiry in Australia found that Indigenous languages played such an important role in communities’ health and life expectancy that it argued they should be recognised in the constitution. Some 14 years later, the constitution still only recognises English."

Iontach suimiúil

Instead of writing the word "súil" (eye), they've drawn an eyeball. But they've made sure to include the fadas and lenition. That's right. They've lenited the eyeballs. (RIA 23 B 21)

Lá Saor ó Charranna ceart ag BÁC ar deireadh, míle buíochas do na hagoideoirí timpeallachta a d'eagraigh é

Scanraitheach.

Chonaic mé coiníní cúpla lá ó shin sa pháirc taobh thiar den eastát is inniu thug mé an tachrán síos lena bhfeiceáil agus dúirt sé 'wow' rud nach ndeireann mórán agus d'fhan píosa maith ag féachaint is ansin ar aghaidh linn agus tháinig cúpla leaid agus cúnna leo agus isteach leo sa pháirc chéanna 😕

Suaimhneas síoraí air

Horrible to see

Bhuel níl an tachrán sásta mórán Gaeilge a labhairt ach tá sé ag séimhiú go tréan: 'Mhamaí want to go airphlane!'

This was six weeks ago:

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Tá Ramadán ar na bacáin agus má tá lampa Ramadán uait níl áit ar bith níos fearr lena cheannach ná margadh El Sayyida Zeinab

Ní chuirfeadh sé iontas ar bith orm dá mbeadh baint ag an aighneas Sádach-Imearátach le géilleadh tobann na bhfórsaí Cúirdíneacha sa tSír

Is cosúil nach bhfuilim ath-imeasctha i gceart i sochaí na hÉireann go fóill. Níor rith sé liom in aon chor go mbeadh an siopa éisc druidte OÍCHE CINN BHLIANA!

Is é mo bharúil féin má bhí an Bardas sásta croílár na cathrach ársa a stoitheadh lena chuid buncar coincréite a shá ann gur cheart dóibh fanacht iontu go dtí go gcreimeann na cianta an choincréit chéanna.

Cén fáth a gcuirfeá pictiúr de bheach san áit seo ar mhias ime? 1. Níl aon bhaint ag na beacha leis an im. 2. Níl sé deas feithide a fheiceáil gan choinne faoi do chuid bia!

Agallamh iontach suimiúil fán aistriúchán liteartha ón Araibis i gcomhthéacs na débhéascna

Chomhghleacaí Liotuánach ag tairiscint gloine fíona dom ag cóisir na Nollag: 'You cannot refuse. You do not have 'no' in your grammar.'

Is fada liom oíche fhír-fhliuch gan suan gan srann gan ceathra, gan maoin, caoirigh, ná buaibh na mbeann; anfhaithe ar tuinn taoibh liom do bhuaidhir mo cheann, is nár chleachtas im naoidhin fíogaigh ná ruacain abhann.

Flashback to my childhood enthusiasm for Charlie Haughey to the horror of my parents

Uasdátú 2: bhí an mortadella i bhfad níos fearr lá i ndiaidh don phlaisteach a bheith bainte de. Ní dóigh liom go bhfuil aon teacht aniar i ndán don chumannachas áfach.

Uasdátú ☹️: Theip ar an chumannachas agus ní raibh an mortadella blasta.

'An bhfuil tú aayiz uisce tání?' adúirt mé leis an tachrán. B'fhéidir gur mithid srian a chur leis an chódaistriú sa teach seo!

Chuamar go Bologna is thugamar na rudaí is Bolognesi amuigh abhaile linn

We spirantize differently in Ireland

Béile an-dheas caite againn i mBologna anocht. Riail na n-athbhreithithe Google: is iad na háiteanna is fearr iad na háiteanna a bhfuil neart athbhreithnithe 4 réalt acu lán dea-thuairimí.

Mise ceartaithe ag leanaí éigipteacha an cheantair toisc go ndúirt mé 'maith' seachas 'go math'. Is cosúil nach bhfuil deireadh go fóill le forlámhas Chuige Mumhan ar na múinteoirí bunscoile.

Cad é a tharla do na siopaí rothar in Éirinn, táthar ag rá liom nach bhfuil sliotán ar fáil go ceann seachtaine le mo rothar a dheisiú!

Beannachtaí na Cásca ó Chaireo na hÉigipte

An bhfuil 'Scéal' ar fáil ar shuiomh/aip an Irish Times? Tá síntiús agam ach ní fheicim áit ar bith é.

Does anyone know of anywhere in Brussels to get good children's books in Arabic?

Sitcom idea: The Office, but about when a young go-getter mujahed arrives to take over a dilapidated Baathist ministry full of work-shy, scheming nepotism hires.

Not sure who’s on this platform yet, and it’s very poor for Arabic content so far. But if you’re looking for Syria info, these are all great: @akmckeever.bsky.social @syrianzo.bsky.social @abujamajem.com @ajaltamimi.bsky.social @jeromed.bsky.social And many others. Feel free to add in comments!