It finally has stopped raining after 6 hours of constant rain. Jeeze.

Subs are on early - no choice. Need to do something but I don't think it will stop this rampant French team.

How was that not a forward pass before the try for France? Looked like it in real time! #6nations

Here we go! It begins.. where we all become experts and say things like "They've got the hammer and they'll need it!" I do like a bit of Winter Olympics.

www.bbc.com/sport/snooke... Enjoyed watching him play, later presenting the Big Break and of course listening to him commentate. May he Rest in Peace.

Twas a pretty miserable school run this morning on the bike. Full wet gear, boots and poncho. Traffic was heavy and the South Court/Caseys/Analog roundabout was chaotic. That roundabout really needs to be a Dutch style cycle roundabout. It wasn't fun navigating it twice this morning.

First morning to cycle to school where it was bright. Woohoo!!

After 364 days in January during which its rained for 679 of them ya kinda feel Noah is an bit of an amateur. Anyway darkest 10 weeks in the year over.

Munster in real trouble here.

Loughrea were really good in the first half but Ballygunner found another gear. Congratulations to Ballygunner. It was great to see the match live.

"....they gained a reputation for rugged physicality, which might be putting it euphemistically." - ehh that is a massive understatement. I saw how they played and stopped watching/following for years. Thankfully, they play very differently today. www.rte.ie/sport/hurlin...

What an amazing sun rise this morning but as they say: "Pink sky in the morning, Sailors take warning" and sure enough the rain has arrived. But still, what a sunrise.

The Rathwood saga has come to an end. I previously had two bags of kiln dried firewood with no issues so bought again in May for delivery in September. It didn't arrive. They didn't notify me that the delivery date got pushed to Oct. Didn't have an issue and gave them the benefit of doubt.

Thoroughly enjoyed the game #lepnlar ROG will be fuming with that last knock-on that resulted in a penalty a few plays later.

Saw my first 261 today... 9 days in. Got to briefly admire it because it was stuck in traffic as we cruised by in the cycle lane.

Footpaths were in a bad way this morning. The roads were fine, so too were cycle lanes (mostly) but the footpaths.. jeeze. This mornings rain didn't help the situation.

That morning glow

The @rtegold.bsky.social count down was really good... dipped in and out throughout the two days. I had Queen as number 1. I didn't predict The Police as number 1!

A very interesting setup to start 2026. Winter is coming!

Here's looking at you kid. Casablanca is such a well paced movie. Hard to skip past it when it's on the telly.

Entered the "I don't know what day is it!?" time of the year.. Love it.

We went to Fossett's Circus today and had a really great time -- we (ages 3 to 70 something) all enjoyed the show. 2 years ago Otto picked me to play musical chairs and he nearly picked me again this year - he stopped and stared at me before picking someone else.. phew. #fossetts #circus

Twinkle town in Smithfield didn't occupy a huge amount of space but packed in a lot. Ice skating, mini theatre, big wheel, carousel and tall slide thing.

Loughrea is in uncharted waters but in a good way! Up against ballygunner in the final in a few weeks. www.rte.ie/sport/hurlin...

Ditto. Walked into my local pharmacy and got the jab a couple of days ago. No booking etc. No wait other than the wait afterwards to make sure I was good after the jab.

Ah no: for those of us growing up in the 80s (and in two channel land), we got to see a lot of Glen A Larson stuff - one of which was "Buck Rogers In The 25th Century". Just seen that Gil Gerard, he of Buck Rogers fame, has passed away. RIP.

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Mortifying trying to promote work at this time of year, but unfortunately it's still necessary to make a living from drawing due to a significant delay in successfully wooing a wealthy Kerry farmer and being whisked off in his John Deere to a life of diamond-encrusted wellies

Latest charts for storm Tuesday still show most models staying within yellow wind warning levels for most areas with the UKMO model the worst case scenario again with gusts above 130kmh. Another update later today when models update again.

Going to be very hard for Munster to come back from this. 21 points down in 12 minutes. All from a penalty try and a sin binning. A lot of damage done.

I know I'm old but seriously Spotify ... 86!?

Really wet & windy this morning in Limerick. Part of the cycle lane was closed so we had to join the traffic - being windy and cycling a cargo bike, the bike is prone to wind gusts hitting the side and boy did I feel them this morning! Kudos to the drivers who gave me space while off the bike lane.

This frame/ match with O'Sullivan and Yuelong is bonkers. Ronnie is out.

Opened my Instagram stories and there’s Willow Smith over in Los Angeles lip synching a middle aged Limerick mans experience of maintaining friendships while being autistic

Really wish I had seen Oppenheimer in the cinema when it came out. What a movie. So well done - having the two perspectives running side by side was very clever. Cillian Murphy was immense.

Anna, Kieran and family recently trialed both our Dolly & Longtail ecargo bikes. They found them so beneficial for school runs that they are going getting there own one. Trialing ecargo bike allows families to see if/which type suits. [email protected] for queries.

Ireland is about to complete a major multi-billion € piece of critical infrastructure on/under time and on/under budget. You read that correctly. NBP, maligned and scorned, will finish ahead of schedule. How on earth did we get it right? What lessons? www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

The recent ITV reboot of Bullseye is good. (I'm a fan of the 1980s version and will stick it on if I see it in the guide.. pure nostalgia). They have been sympathetic to the show Jim Bowen made his own. I like the way they had carriage clock and electric toothbrushes as prizes ;)

Put it on repeat... youtu.be/bbG7yS-X4do?...

The cycle to school & back was something special today. A cold day but we got to see the sun rise over a field where cattle were grazing completely surrounded by fog. Loved it. Should have taken a photo but I just wanted to admire it.

Wow.. wow wow !!! Hard to believe we made it to the playoffs!!!

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The new Pope has made an edict that time spent on the platform at Limerick Junction can be deducted from time in purgatory.

Maybe it's just me but the amount of Christmas ads on TV and radio seem very high for the first week of November?

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

Sin é. Game over.

It didn't warrant a red card. I forgot about the 20min rule and glad Henderson restores the full compliment.

Going to be a tough ask to play the entire game a man down. Don't think it warranted a red card.

Munster wins against Argentina. Loughrea wins county hurling final against St. Thomas's. That just leaves Ireland against New Zealand.. surely Ireland can do their thing!!