Sunday’s featured work from the the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, is this interior scene painted by Julianne Guinee. Read an interview that Julianne gave to Niall MacMonagle in today’s Sunday Independent, in print or online at independent.ie (€).

'It stung me in a sensitive place' But there's no hard feelings as a kayaker, a swimmer and Dr Damien Haberlin of @ucc.ie talk of the joys of jellyfish www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

We went on a vicking train which sent you back in time. We saw a vicking village they told us things too.

Divine prospect: one of my favourite views of Wells Cathedral from the moat of the Bishop's Palace.

Some of my favourite pics of Atlantic Puffins that i’ve taken this season! #puffins #seabirds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social 😉

pixie drive-in ice cream sign, seymour, tennessee, 1984

Ale glorious St Kilian: me on beer evangelism, Canadian modesty, & spelling Cork with an ‘e’.

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Couldn't put my finger on why Brazil versus Norway felt so familiar and then...

There’s a new 10-hour documentary series on YouTube about the history of music, presented by Charlotte Ritchie, and it looks rather good youtu.be/quj8JVU-usw?...

Many thanks to the Sunday Independent’s Niall MacMonagle for his ongoing series of features on artists exhibiting in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Today's profile features Maya Brezing and her painting ‘Gentle Borrower’. 🧵

Wingcoming! It's nearly the weekend... 📷 @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social

Love the mellow folky vibe of Marc Huw Bennett’s ‘Heol Las.’ Maybe this is my album of the summer?

Dominic Turner has won the Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Award; part of the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Prints of this award winning work, Never Alone (details in alt text) are available to buy at rhagallery.ie #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald

Aisling Coughan’s twenty panel piece Dream Fragments is today’s featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. It’s one of many works that you can purchase - see rhagallery.ie for details. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported

Loch Eilt #Scotland #Lochaber #Lochailort #Glenfinnan www.damianshields.com

Close enough to shore today to get a decent look at it

The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald – have 🫵 visited yet!? Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11am-5pm; Wednesday 11am-7pm; Sunday 12-5pm. Closed Monday. View and make purchases online at rhagallery.ie #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther

I can not be the only person who wishes there had been a Brooks/Lynch road trip movie, right? I mean just the two of them, driving across country and seeing ... THINGS.

OUT TODAY!! I'm very excited to share SOUND HOARD I: Echoes of a Swan Bone Flute. Listen/Stream or Buy the CD/DL here LC ❤️ brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sound-...

Here comes the rain…

Stuck in the heat? Let Georges Méliès and his mermaid cool you down. Look, ma, no strings!

Odyssesus's dad wants to chat Routes (This one is a print and I have four copies left of in the edition before it's sold out, ie never to be printed again! Shop link in my bio 👆) #odyssey

Mel Brooks is 100 today. Drop a gif of your favourite of his films to celebrate 🥳

May we suggest... tolkajournal.org/shop/

For the night that's in it - the only time that the BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast was read on both radio and tv as part of the Arena Radio Night in 1993. The forecast is read beautifully by the late Laurie MacMillan. youtube.com/watch?v=HnQ2...

Farewell 198kHz Long Wave 📻

Saturday's #ShippingForecast issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency on June 26, 2026 at 11:45PM 📻 Listen (BBC 00:48): https://radio-uk.co.uk/bbc-radio-4 ⛴️ Forecast: http://bit.ly/shipforcast 🌊 Inshore Waters: http://bit.ly/inshoreship

A tearful farewell to BBC Radio 4 Long Wave. When RTÉ radio was off, those voices were crucial, and ended up being first choice. Brian Johnson. Alistair Cooke. Humphrey Lyttleton. The bass interference sweeping in waves. Adieu.

The closure of Radio 4 Long Wave has even made the news in Mayo. www.mayonews.ie/news/end-of-...

Goodbye, long wave: alexperdurabo.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

The very end of BBC Radio 4 Long Wave 📻 at 1am tonight - feeling very nostalgic as this bit of analogue technology switches off for the final time. The 'good' weather here in Dublin isn't helping with the quality of reception. Shouting at a smart speaker' "play Radio 4"' just isn't the same...

Peter Lorre - BOTD in 1904

Elaine Byrne has been named winner of the 2026 RCSI Art Award for her piece ‘Alessia'. The RCSI Art Award, in association with the RHA and @irishtimes.com, celebrates the link between art, medicine and well-being. More: www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-... @rha-arts.bsky.social

Henlys Car Showroom, Great West Road, Brentford 1937 Wallis, Gilbert & Partners Image from RIBApix

Wishing Simon all the very best as he ends an eleven year (if I heard it correctly) run as IOT producer. I assume tea/coffee will still be offered to future guests on the show - surely compulsory at this stage!

Great advice in this ad from 1955 🍦🌞

25 June ‘50 Spring and summer are well provided with flowering shrubs, but it is a puzzle to know what to grow of a shrubby nature in the later months of July, August and September. #gardening

Pause for a moment, and read... • Edward Thomas •

It’s ten years to the day that Britain voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. Today’s featured work from the the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, entitled Brexit, is by Barry Delaney. This work is available for purchase at rhagallery.ie #RHAAnnual

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

Why not visit the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald today – we’re open until 5pm! View and make purchases online any time at rhagallery.ie Video: Barry Lynch, Insight Media. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #AlwaysFreeAdmission

An easy one for me, for once! @lauracummingart.bsky.social's Guess the Picture in today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social – lovely to see the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social featuring here, and in such esteemed company 👏

Today’s sightings featured a gradual movement of over 1050 Swifts heading south, a Cattle Egret south and a Crossbill north past The Warren, a Wood Sandpiper on Beacon Ponds and Caspian Gull on the Tank Blocks off Canal. #Spurnbirds Sunset at Beacon Ponds by Tate Lloyd 📷

This on Saturday night on Radio 3 has a lot going for it.

What Midsummer Dreaming reveals about the Vitality & Fragility of BBC Radio Jude Rogers salutes an inspired night of radio for this solstice: a vivid reminder of what we stand to lose ***Midsummer Dreaming, BBC Radio 3, 2130 tonight*** thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

From sunset until sunrise on this year’s summer solstice, we’ve curated a dream-like night of radio documentaries from BBC Radio 3’s archives… Verity Sharp presents Midsummer Dreaming - a special celebration of the vast imaginative possibilities of the radio. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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