New sleeper service will run from Paris to Berlin next year

10 years ago today: Let’s shine a light on Galway’s greatness (Galway Advertiser) www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

Ryanair to start 4 new routes from Shannon next summer www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Bursting at the seams: Ireland's textile waste problem www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian drones in Ukraine

Gaeilge an teanga ba dheacra a d'fhoghlaim mé agus is mó sásaimh - Ambasadóir na Breataine www.thejournal.ie/british-amba... Irish is the most difficult and most rewarding language I've learned - British Ambassador www.thejournal.ie/british-amba...

High-speed rail network possible by 2040, says European Commission www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

‘I can quiz for 17 hours a day!’: how Émilien became Europe’s greatest ever gameshow winner www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The bubonic plague bacterium has just endorsed Cuomo.

Berg Katse (Zoltar) has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

Galway Film Society Winter 2025

Musk won’t stop. It’s time the government gave up on X for good (The Observer), 02 Nov 2025 pressreader.com/article/2821...

#Movember the 1st _________________ It’s my 1st #Movember! Prostate cancer is the 2nd most common cancer in men worldwide. Please donate to my #Movember efforts to change this statistic and support men's health. Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/15464392?m...

How much packaging waste are EU citizens producing? www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... Ireland, Italy, Germany, and Luxembourg generated more than 200kg of packaging waste per inhabitant. Ireland recycled 131.6 kg per inhabitant.

Dracula - listen to the classic RTÉ Players production www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

Why 4,000 skeletal remains adorn this underground crypt | CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/10/24/t...

‘I let ChatGPT decide:’ This American woman moved to a French town after asking AI for advice | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/t...

Why have anime films become such big box office hits? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Northern and Western AgInnovation Ecosystem (updated for 2025) TechInnovate / AgInnovate University of Galway - School of Engineering @uniofgalway.bsky.social

From my latest work for the @nytimes.com in the magical Burren #nyt #nytimes #nytassignment #nyttravel #theburren #burren #limestone #tombs #ocean #atlantic #landscape #creativity #inspiration #art #burrennationalpark #stones #photojournalism #onassignment #westofireland #ireland

TBT ~ Couple walk along shoreline of Fanore at high tide. Fanore, Clare, Ireland. February 2011 #TBT #FBF #FlashbackFriday #Photography #Ruralscape #seascape #beachscape #coastscape #coast #Fanore #Clare #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay

FBF ~ Wild cattle on the shore of Fanore beach. Fanore. Co. Clare. Ireland February 2011. #TBT #FBF #FlashbackFriday #Photography #Ruralscape #seascape #beachscape #coastscape #coast #naturescape #naturephotography #animalscape #Fanore #Clare #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay

How Irish revolutionaries used French language to secure support www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m Going Slightly Mad

buried in this: Peter Thiel says Elon Musk singled out his trans daughter as not being worthy of receiving his wealth in an inheritance 🫠

I've been going to the Galway Film Society on and off since the nineties, and I'm delighted to see that it's back again for 2025, starting this Sunday. Book your tickets and sign up for their newsletter: linktr.ee/galwayfilmso...

In 2017, I made a slide showing some of the organisations in our Western AgInnovation Ecosystem. Eight years later, it's time for a major update, expanded to the Northern and Western AgInnovation Ecosystem. It's available from GitHub: github.com/techinnovate...

Nice headline Guardian! 👏 👉 “You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Drawn by a Vast Rocky Landscape on Ireland’s West Coast www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t... #Fanore

“If in the event Mr Gavin were to win the election despite having withdrawn from the race, he would be entitled to become president.” 🤯 “If he were to turn down that situation, […] a new presidential election would be called.” www.rte.ie/news/preside...

Five years ago today (5th October 2020), the first @oldirelandincolour.bsky.social book by myself and @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social was officially published by Merrion Press!

‘Delivery robots will happen’: Skype co-founder on his fast-growing venture Starship www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is how I and @drgmcginty.bsky.social were able to build our careers in the US. The visa was unique for waiving the 2 year home return for J-1 trainees in Medicine. Congressman Morrison last night told me that was intentional. We hit the lottery in many ways. Thank you Bruce Morrison.

www.rte.ie/news/world/2... Elaine Brennan, executive director at Northwell Health … never saw herself as an immigrant. "I saw myself as an explorer. "You know, we were in our early 20s, and the world is our oyster, and we happened to have won the lotto - which was the Morrison visa," she said.

Complete Laboratory Solutions to create 140 Galway jobs www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I will miss the amazing Mary Wilson (retiring) and Áine Lawlor (staying with The Week in Politics) from Morning Ireland on @rteradio1.bsky.social. A great final show from them today...

Congrats to Dushyant Singh of @portershed.bsky.social | Galway City Innovation District on the truly excellent organisation and management of the AI Venture Forge accelerator programme, and well done to all the cohort companies on your super pitches today.

🇮🇪 🚀 Brilliant news about #Galway startup Forge Robotics - one of our #AIVentureForge cohort (@portershed.bsky.social / #NDRC Realisation Fund) - founded by our @uniofgalway.bsky.social engineers Eoin Cobbe (Mechanical) and Robert Cormican (Electronic and Computer) - and accepted onto #YCombinator!

Not happy with #Spotify CEO #DanielEk’s investment in #AImilitary? Switch to French companies #Qobuz (high quality, love it) www.qobuz.com or #Deezer www.deezer.com - both are excellent

As someone* put it, Röyksopp's new one is "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence 2.0", and it's great: play.qobuz.com/album/bel8f0... 👉 "Adversity and Hope", from the soundtrack to "Facing War", a new documentary on former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg * Marcel Bagus

A rare example of ritual Bronze Age monuments has been discovered on Oileán Acla in Co Mayo… during an archaeological field trip with US students from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. It is part of their semester at the University of Galway and Kylemore Abbey.

Could AI help you learn Gaeilge?

🇮🇪 Ireland moves up one place to 18th in the 2025 Global Innovation Index by World Intellectual Property Organization – @wipo.int: My summary of www.wipo.int/web-publicat... and www.wipo.int/gii-ranking/... is below: (1/x)

Yulia Navalnaya says tests show her husband was poisoned www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

'Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech'