This is how proud we are of our boys! We will party today! ♥️🇨🇻🦈

Well, Cabo Verde were magnificent, matched Argentina every step of the way and could easily, and deservedly, have knocked out the World Cup holders. They'll be missed from the rest of the tournament, but they gave enjoyment to so many people and hope to small countries everywhere! 🇨🇻🙌🥳⚽ #CaboVerde

🥳🎊🎉⚽🙌 Cabo Verde!!

One goal down, but no downheartedness! #CaboVerdeArgentina

If a fairy tale script was written about this World Cup beforehand, it probably wouldn't have come up with this turn of events! Brilliant! 🇨🇻🤝🇮🇪

Spain vs Austria

I do hope Austria v Spain is known as the Habsburg Derby. Whoever loses, I’m sure they’ll take it on the chin.

Wordle 1,829 6/6 🤣🎊 Last chance, all I could make fit, and I don't even know what it means! ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Michelle and I had fun surprising the first group of visitors to the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth. Come check it out!

Cabo Verde might be small geographically, but it's boundless in heart and spirit! 🎉🇨🇻🥳⚽ Massively enjoyable game, even if my heart rate might not come back to normal for a while yet! #CaboVerde #CPV www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

I'm in need of a hydration break watching this match! 🇨🇻🙌

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Libraries all across the country are recataloging The Art of the Deal as "Fiction."

Good sky tonight.

I'm not sure I'll be able to stay until midnight, but best of luck to Ghana and the League of Ireland's Joseph Anang!! #Ghana 🇬🇭 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

Elmer J Befuddled strikes again!

Wordle 1,823 6/6 Genuinely! That I got there in the end! 😀 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Michelle Obama appreciation day!! ❤️

Well, what do you? Fairy tales do come true! Congratulations to Cabo Verde! #CaboVerde

A genuine World Cup fairy tale! "Cape Verde has a population of about 530,000" and another 6 million fans on its 11th island a bit further north today! 🥳⚽ 🇨🇻 "Crumlin gripped by World Cup fever as dream becomes a reality for Pico Lopes’s parents" www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

From a journalist who knows what he taking about: "EIon Musk is a race-baiting demagogue who stirred up the Belfast riots. It’s time our governments took a stand" www.independent.ie/comment/opin...

CURAÇAO GET AN EQUALIZER, ABSOLUTE SCENES, OMG! 🇨🇼🤯

Thousands gather at a peaceful anti-racism rally in Belfast as the crowd chants, "Refugees are welcome here”🙏

Wordle 1,816 5/6 I was peering at this for a long time! 😀 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"Democrats will not get many more chances to show they can make the US system deliver for the majority. Overlooking the sometimes troubling but largely rational complaints of America’s Gen Z would assure their failure." My column. as.ft.com/r/95f8e3a2-e...

Wordle 1,809 3/6 A good foundation is half the battle! 😀 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Support our libraries!

Carlow is officially the hottest county in Ireland! 🥳 (But we knew that already! 🤣🇬🇳) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

A striking resemblance, although there's a glint of intelligence in the eye of the buffalo that's absent from his alter ego....🤣🤣 www.rte.ie/news/newslen...

Wordle 1,798 4/6 It wasn't always loud and clear what the outcome would be! 😁 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A alert stonechat on the gorse at Power Head, East Cork for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #FeatheredFemmes Some of the cliff walks in East Cork are overlooked (excuse pun) when compared to their cousins to the west, but perhaps this adds to their charm. #birds #nature #photography #ECK #Cork #☘️

There is some fantastic artistic ability out there....saw this on the way to the train this morning!

As unlikely political trajectories go, this is up there: "Career of would-be California governor Steve Hilton traces an arc from Macroom to MAGA" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

*Stepping gingerly over discourse and current affairs, tugging at your sleeve* Ah, The Sheep Detectives is a gorgeous aul' film isn't it

The unintended consequences of Trump's actions again resulting, happily, in the diametrically opposite outcome to that intended. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

Wordle 1,784 6/6 Things were looking a bit overcast near the end! 😀 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough Thank you for being a friend to all animals and for helping the world to cherish us x

A remarkable book - it still sticks with me many years after reading it in college. '"A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”' www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

Local humor

The long and winding path that follows the north bank of the river Frome, east of Wareham, Dorset.

*Looks at the news headlines*👀 Here's a magnolia in full bloom instead!

Wordle 1,781 4/6 Closed out a bit faster than I thought I would! 😀 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The Taoiseach wants consideration of nuclear. I made a programme that did that. Long story short: an Irish nuclear power plant wouldn’t generate any electricity until 2066 at the very earliest. Link at end of thread.

New Gist: Sunshine and Lollipops “We should begin with the best possible piece of good news. When you go out of your house and look at the people you encounter all around Ireland the vast majority of them are sounders.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

Happy May the 4th to all who celebrate! Have a great day Resisters! 💙 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Happy #May4th, #StarWars Day IV: A New Hope (1977) V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) I: The Phantom Menace (1999) II: Attack of the Clones (2002) III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) VII: The Force Awakens (2015) VIII: The Last Jedi (2017) IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Wordle 1,770 4/6 Not quite good enough to merit that now! 🤭 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩