The Dutch word for a horse is paarden (fairly similar to the English "pardon") and the Dutch word for breeding is fok (fairly similar to, well, you know) and that's all the context you need for this joke... Englishman: What do you do? Dutchman: I fok horses Englishman: Pardon? Dutchman: Yes paarden

I was delighted once to have served as editor of Hostings, journal of the Ballinasloe and District Heritage Society . Currently the bestseller locally, it makes the ideal Christmas gift for Ballinasloe people (and not only) at home and abroad!

Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.

What can algorithmically rewarding the most divisive and inflammatory content and facilitating the spread of misinformation get you? For Mark Zuckerberg, it’s a $300m, 387-foot mega yacht, Launchpad, which is now moored off Corinth.

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

At Dublin Airport and there's a lad with an overcoat and Docs waiting to board a flight to Athens, where temperatures are forecast to hit 38°C today.

"There was no hot bacon or sausage. We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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So the Greek media is convinced that Egypt is confiscating Mount Sinai Monastery and evicting its monks on the basis of an "exclusive" report in an obscure religious "news" site?

Has anyone else noticed recently in the Irish Times that the apostrophe in many possessive 's in texts is is wrong way around? Hard on the eye.

Greek PM, who thinks Breitbart is a real media outlet, attempts to dismiss the Guardian as "the Efimerida ton Syntakton [left-wing daily] of the UK". Needless to say, EfSyn is celebrating what Mitsotakis intended as an insult. www.efsyn.gr/stiles/ypogr...

We can now reveal where each country stood during the meeting: In favour: 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇧🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇱🇺🇵🇹🇸🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹🇲🇹🇩🇰🇪🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰 Against: 🇩🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇭🇷🇱🇹🇭🇺 Neutral: 🇱🇻

Pope Leo XIV is an American. Trump will surely claim it was all his work.

That was quick!

Habemus Papam! Λευκός καπνός στην Καπέλα Σιξτίνα – Εξελέγη νέος πάπας www.kathimerini.gr/world/563601...

Some "Republican legislators set to grill university presidents in a congressional hearing on antisemitism ... are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity, have quoted Adolf Hitler, or have ... threatened to burn a synagogue to the ground." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Greek American MAGA worshippers: "We feel left out. We demand an Orthodox ecumenical patriarch version! Remember 1204!"

"The find has not been directly addressed by the country’s center-right government – a reminder that many Greeks still find it easier to walk past the country’s ghosts than confront them." www.ekathimerini.com/news/1268339...

The Canadian election is definitely the only election in a developed country I can remember where the central pitch of the winning party was essentially “this country should exist”.

🚨 Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia, was abducted from his final citizenship interview by ICE. My Israeli friends who had family murdered by Hamas on 10-7 are vouching for Mohsen as *an ally in fighting antisemitism & peace activism.* That’s the opposite of supporting Hamas terror!

Jeez. Did Trump really just say President Zelensky started the war with Russia? Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin FACTS MATTER

World's first vaporware

"According to the findings, the individual in question has a close familial relationship with the university’s president." www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266520...

I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.

BBC World has been relaying this insane verbal diarrhoea from the Shite House since the top of the hour.

Two days to Tommy Tiernan in Athens! Universe (Leoforos Kifisou 87), April 10th, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. Tickets: www.more.com/gr-el/ticket... youtu.be/8fKVPtn-szk?...

#Moriatrialwatch www.ekathimerini.com/news/1266432...

Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Ireland move through gears to sail past Greece 🇮🇪 4 🇬🇷 0 www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

RTÉ (Irish TV) is broadcasting Greece v Republic of Ireland (UEFA Women's Nations League) live while there's nothing on Greek TV. What a pity that Greece decided to hold the game in Iraklio, Crete, where the stadium is pretty much empty. #COYGIG

For any Thin Lizzy fans out there in Athens! To mark their 20th anniversary, Remember Lizzy, a Greek tribute band to the legendary Irish group Thin Lizzy, are playing at Kyttaro Live Club on April 5. www.ekathimerini.com/culture/what...

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

"Lawyers for their case have raised concerns that the deportation orders undermine civil liberties for EU citizens living in Germany, as neither have been convicted of any criminal offences in the German courts." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

What does Ireland think of Conor McGregor's presidential bid? Sky News can reveal how difficult it will be for Conor McGregor to get on Ireland's presidential ballot, with no members of parliament saying they will back him.

The Red Cross said it is gravely concerned about the fate of nine Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew missing for seven days in Gaza. The organization has not had any contact with the crew since they came under heavy fire while operating in Rafah in the early hours of March 23 reut.rs/41SVI3P

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Survey of councillors shows no support for Conor McGregor presidential run - except for one @fiannafailparty.bsky.social councillor in Sligo who said it was too early to say whether he’d vote for an abuser of women or not! There is always one, eh! #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

For all the idiots who think that this scumbag is "running" for the presidency of Ireland. "Irish Times poll of county council members found all but one of 188 respondents would without hesitation reject MMA fighter’s bid" www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The cadets chanted "Cyprus is Greek. Fuck Turkey." www.ekathimerini.com/news/1265104...

Michael Lowry denies he was giving two fingers to Paul Murphy in the Dail today. He claims Paul Murphy was shouting abuse at him and he beckoned him with his two fingers to come over to his seat.

I knew I recognised him.

The archbishop's sycophancy was obviously even too much for Greece's state-run broadcaster ERT, which didn't mention this comparison in its 3pm bulletin.

"Through your leadership, you embody the values of our Christian faith and love for the Gospel. You remind me of the great Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great." Greek Archbishop Elpidophoros of America having a total normal one today. A masterclass in arse licking. www.youtube.com/live/bXtkpIA...

And of course she's a member of Claire Fox's so-called Institute of Ideas. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

"Despite meeting all legal and professional requirements, the Greek Ministry of Health has yet to recognize their specialization, leaving them in bureaucratic limbo." That's Adonis Georgiadis ministry. www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...

During WWII, five Irish women were imprisoned in Ravensbrück, the largest Nazi concentration camp for women, for their acts of bravery in the resistance across Europe. www.ireland.ie/en/germany/t...

I'm not sure people outside Ireland realise how hated and despised McGr€g0r is across the country. The scumbag speaks for no one but the dregs of society.

For St Patrick's Day. Ladybird books were published in many different languages - including Irish