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There was a story years ago about some scientists who dropped a box of tablets into a village somewhere that had no previous contact with modern tech. They went back some time later, and the kids had figured out, not only how to use them, but had networked them too. I wonder what ever happened with that, or if it was even true? I suppose I should google it.
Belfast was an awfully precarious location when this was taken in 1987.
Colman Doyle’s 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0616/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman-doyle-photo-woman-ira-belfast-1973/
To be fair, I don’t think anyone had moved in there yet.
There is nothing new here. There has always been a vocal, violent, right leaning minority in Irish society. There have been two instances that have made headlines around the world in the past few weeks that may make it seem like Irish society in general is leaning further to the right. I hope this isn’t true.
It didn’t work 23 years ago in Tipperary, it won’t work now. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/fire-at-hotel-for-asylum-seekers-1.264123
They’ll claim the insurance, rebuild the hotel and refugees will move in anyway.
So burn the hotel down?
Heart attack or stroke are usually described by the media as “died suddenly”.
There is a journalistic shorthand at work here, “brief illness” usually means something discovered too late to treat, RIP Sir.
The idea of someone having a pet snake in 1982 would have been so bizarre that it would be deemed comical. That said snake is called “Ginger,” a typical name for a harmless cat, not a 30-foot python reinforces that. This would probably have raised a sensable chuckle back in the day, but I don’t think it really stands up to the test of time.
While not a renaissance fair exactly, there is a jousting tournament in Leeds Castle in Kent once or twice a year. It’s a lot of fun with armour, swords, horses, the whole shebang.
Imagine this plane with a fire on board before takeoff and now the unfit overweight masses have to evacuate.
That makes it a Theocracy.
I’ve been on the Internet since dial up was the pinnacle of technology, and I have never seen this meme before.
Even the Disney store has a Frozen Isle now.
Pretty sure this is how Airwolf started.
Neil Tobin (Irish comedian) once said, “An Irishman is a complicated mechanism for turning Guinness into piss.”