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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 15h

Guess where

Extra marks if you're not Irish and know how to pronounce

Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 17h

www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6216937...

Taipei MRT Red Line eastern extension 87% complete | Taiwan News | Oct. 9, 2025 17:05

After-hours track testing underway to new Guangci/Fengtian Temple Station | Oct. 9, 2025 17:05

www.taiwannews.com.tw

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Jimusic @jimusic.bsky.social · 17h

Remembering John Lennon, singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Liverpool, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 on this day in 1940.

What are your favourite songs by John Lennon recorded solo or with the Beatles?
#JohnLennon

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 17h

Good Morning Dublin! 🇮🇪

Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 17h

To the unitiated perhaps. However, if you learn Gaelic, you will learn the rules of how to pronounce letters or sequence of letters. Those rules apply consistently. If you see an unfamiliar word, you will know how to pronounce it

Not the case in English where ghoti can be pronounced fish

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 18h

Great piece this, on how Japan's ageing population and resistance to immigration is leaving services short-staffed.

Obvious read-across.

Oh how entitled wealthy countries all became, and how difficult that is to shake.

www.ft.com/content/de6a...

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem

An ageing workforce is affecting all sorts of professions

www.ft.com

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 20h

A man is being questioned in connection with the seizure of over €8 million worth of heroin and cocaine as part of an operation targeting a major drugs dealing gang with national and international connections

Drugs worth €8.2m seized in two-day operation

A man is being questioned in connection with the seizure of over €8 million worth of heroin and cocaine as part of an operation targeting a major drugs dealing gang with national and international con...

www.rte.ie

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Swerve of shore to bend of bay – An Irishman’s Diary on Joyce, Howth and ‘Finnegans Wake’

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/swer...

Swerve of shore to bend of bay – An Irishman’s Diary on Joyce, Howth and ‘Finnegans Wake’

www.irishtimes.com

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Evening sky in Dún Laoghaire Harbour 🇮🇪

Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Many people are saying that

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Tenant at centre of Jim Gavin debt controversy says there could have been ‘a better outcome’

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Tenant at centre of Jim Gavin debt controversy says there could have been ‘a better outcome’

Solicitor for ex-presidential candidate says he has been told to repay journalist Niall Donald ‘subject to clarifying two issues’

www.irishtimes.com

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Diving in

Dún Laoghaire Baths 🇮🇪

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Howth

Tourist and fishing village near Dublin 🇮🇪

It's pronounced Hoat (rhymes with boat)

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Irish saying

English version on right:

Those who travel have stories to tell

I saw this nearly ten years ago written in Irish in a hostel in Colombia (with translation in Spanish and English)

Dún Laoghaire Harbour Square 🇮🇪

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

The Bandstand

Dún Laoghaire East Pier 🇮🇪

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 1d

Our most tracked flight now: #UA127 beginning its approach to Dublin after lowering fuel weight. The Boeing 767-400ER is diverting due to a reported engine failure. www.flightradar24.com/UAL127/3c91a...

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Local Dickhead Spends 45 Minutes Choosing Craft Beer https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2018/08/09/local-dickhead-spends-45-minutes-choosing-craft-beer/

Local Dickhead Spends 45 Minutes Choosing Craft Beer

A LOCAL Dublin dickhead with a penchant for only the finest, most ludicrously named craft beers has been in his local off licence agonising over which craft beers to place in his basket for nearly …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Can't go to Dún Laoghaire and not have a 99 in Teddy's 🇮🇪

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful day for a swim in Dún Laoghaire Baths 🇮🇪

Roger Casement looking on

Howth in background

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning Dublin! 🇮🇪

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

Shot a priest in the head with a pepper ball, just for fun.
There was absolutely no threat here.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

www.pcmag.com

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 1d

Irish author and TD on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel jrnl.ie/6838266

Irish author and TD on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel

There are two Irish citizens aboard one of the flotilla boats, the Milad.

jrnl.ie

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2d

The newly-elected mayor of a town in western Germany has been found with life-threatening stab wounds in what Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described as an "abhorrent act"

German mayor found with stab wounds in apartment

The newly-elected mayor of a town in western Germany has been found with life-threatening stab wounds in what Chancellor Friedrich Merz described as an "abhorrent act".

www.rte.ie

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 2d

Gavin for President!

His posters are still up this Tuesday despite his having withdrawn on Sunday

Baldoyle Estuary 🇮🇪

The poor Americans on social media are very confused. They think they are the only country with Presidential elections and that Newsom is the only Gavin in the world

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