Delighted to see my new article for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social was ‘most read’ on the site today. Discussing the Autumn Equinox and Michaelmas in Ireland, the latter festival marks the traditional start to the academic year 🙌 @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social #MichaelmasTerm

All you need to know about today's Autumn Equinox. @marionmcgarry.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social on how today's equinox and next week's Michaelmas festival mark the coming of the closure of the year www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

If I won the lotto I would buy these beauties at the Adam’s Auctioneers Important Irish Art auction taking place next week… [1/2]

If I won the lotto I would buy these beauties at the Adam’s Auctioneers Important Irish Art auction taking place next week… [1/2]

The fear this evening… 🙈

The fear this evening… 🙈

Not just masks, but gloves, gowns, and other types of PPE… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Didn’t know I was in Newgrange bookshop ☺️

It’s August 31st

Saw this showcased in Cavan County Museum & immediately thought of the Marino Waltz. Yes I know they were a disaster for the bogs but I have a lot of childhood nostalgia for the BNM peat briquette.

Universities in Europe in 1650 on the map of Europe, amazingly crowded. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/Pictures/web/h/o/c/universities-in-europe-1650-map-large.jpg http://t.co/UmBDKq6WIj

Beautiful evening at the Bohea stone: the sky lit up and looked as if we might witness the ‘rolling sun’ phenomena, but the clouds gradually obscured the sun’s descent down Croagh Patrick. Amazing Neolithic monument with 5,000 year old carvings. A great place to end National Heritage Week 🙌

Hello from the revolving Corleck head exhibit at Cavan County Museum 🥰

Things looking ever more bleak for the Lough Neagh eels and the industry they support. Fishing season cancelled for this year as levels plummet and putrid blue-green algae making things less sustainable by the day. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk 1/3

Today is Gleaning Sunday, an important harvesting day in the Irish folklore calendar. @marionmcgarry.bsky.social looks at the unique rituals and traditions associated with the harvesting of crops in Ireland www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Soda bread, claddagh rings and scything- @marionmcgarry.bsky.social on Ireland's National Heritage Week @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Happy Big Lady Day! Today’s the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Traditionally called Big Lady Day in Ireland, it was a much loved day off from harvest work, people visited and socialised at Marian shrines and holy wells like this: Lady’s Well at Dunowen, Cork

Happy National Heritage week, all! Great to be asked to select my favourites in this piece… so many to choose from! Do check out what’s on in your area and enjoy!! @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

‘Ire­land records first chol­era case in over a dec­ade as exotic ill­nesses on the rise here’ article free to read here 👇 www.pressreader.com/ireland/iris...

Proof that this little beaut of a dolmen really does exist and is not confined to the realm of my imagination #amdrawing Benbulben in the background looking fab and I did take artistic licence… go see all for yourself at Carrowmore in Sligo and if you do, please leave nothing behind #LeaveNoTrace

Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson are dating and they’re so cute together and in love and I’m happy for them both.

Fisherman’s cottage at Glencolmcille Folk Village. No electricity or running water. All meals cooked over the hearth. Complete darkness at night apart from the fire or lamp, & when they go out spiritual protection offered by statues, St Brigid’s crosses, and the power of prayers. #Donegal

What can an English professor teach anyone about climate change? My answer for The Chronicle Review. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

In the 1860s Daniel O'Connell organised what became known as Monster Meetings #HappyBirthday #DanielOConnell

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

Greetings from Downpatrick Head, where according to folklore the evil Crom Dubh met his demise, having been banished to Dún Briste by St Patrick 😀

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: why the last Sunday in July was celebrated in Ireland of old. @marionmcgarry.bsky.social looks at the history of and traditions around the day known as Garland Sunday, Bilberry Sunday or Reek Sunday www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Depending on where you are in Ireland, tomorrow is variously called: Garland Sunday, Reek Sunday, Sunday of the New Potatoes, Bilberry Sunday (& many other names) and it’s the start of Lughnasa! Read more in my piece for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

A king and his army are said to sleep under Grianán of Aileach & can be summoned only when Ireland is in it’s direst need: a woman must light four fires, one north, one south, one east & one west, then they will charge forward to set the country free. #IrishFolklore courtesy @tuatha.ie 🤓

A great piece by Oliver Browne of UCC on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social highlighting issues including where our traditional shopfronts, pubs etc that give such character and unique cultural identity to our towns are rapidly being replaced by vape and phone-shops and takeaways

Can people please stop buying so much rubbish from Shein and Temu? Perhaps “raincoats with toxic chemicals, sunglasses with no UV filter [and…products with] Lillal, a chemical banned in EU over concerns that it affects fertility” could convince people to stop? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A great piece by Oliver Browne of UCC on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social highlighting issues including where our traditional shopfronts, pubs etc that give such character and unique cultural identity to our towns are rapidly being replaced by vape and phone-shops and takeaways

Jacob van Ruisdael View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds c. 1670-1675 (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

As today’s St Swithin’s Day: read about this and more weather forecasts according to Irish folklore. My piece in @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social t.co/QPwcsDn6GX

Recently published my 50th article for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social and it was great to see this mentioned in the latest ATU Magazine, now available at the link below 👇 issuu.com/atlantictech... @oflynnatu.bsky.social

Why Deposit Return Scheme machines must now meet new accessibility standards. Analysis of how the European Accessibility Act will work by Dympna O'Sullivan & Damian Gordon @tudublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie & Siobhán Long, Enable Ireland www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How W.B .Yeats found peace and poetry in a Co Galway tower house. Purchased from Lady Gregory and restored by architect William A. Scott, Thoor Ballylee was a happy place for the poet and his family. By @marionmcgarry.bsky.social ATU www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

"One in five journeys are for the purpose of education, with journeys by car resulting in significant air quality issues near schools, increased transport emissions & congestion. The Government must shift more of these journeys onto buses, trains, walking & cycling." ~ @ccacireland.bsky.social 2025.

How W.B .Yeats found peace and poetry in a Co Galway tower house. Purchased from Lady Gregory and restored by architect William A. Scott, Thoor Ballylee was a happy place for the poet and his family. By @marionmcgarry.bsky.social ATU www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

End of an era today with Joe retiring from #liveline Not only am I a longtime listener but I had the pleasure of being a studio guest on the show a while back and got to meet Joe in real life, a real gent. Happy retirement!

Great to have this piece exclusively published on @atu-ie.bsky.social website for ‘Yeats Day’ recently. The poet is associated with Sligo but here I write about his Galway home. Shows how it’s possible to have a foot in both counties at once 😉 @oflynnatu.bsky.social www.atu.ie/news/a-tower...

Never getting into America after this 🥲

Why bonfires blaze across Ireland on June 23rd. @marionmcgarry.bsky.social on how the sight of St John's Eve bonfires on hilltops still provides quite a spectacle and reminds us of a pivotal time in the calendar www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Happy St John’s Eve! Wrote a piece about Irish traditions of midsummer here 👇 @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The watercolour fun continues… Leenane graveyard up the road from Devilsmother mountain, both on the N59

BREAKING: Government confirm that beefing with rap groups will remain a top priority ahead of minor concerns such as the housing crisis

It’s unusually roasting in Ireland and as an Irish person I am struggling 🙈 so the fan is on but it’s useless - keep thinking of the words of @gregproops.bsky.social it’s like having a secret whispered to you by a lizard 😭😅