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Patsy McGarry @PatsyMcGarryIT
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Re-joyce at the luck of being 'average'... In a Word ... Average irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…

In a Word ... Average

Standing out from the crowd as a beautiful man or woman has to be such a difficult experience and a recipe for deep unhappiness. So very tough

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Dean who?? From the HSE to Church of Ireland dean: ‘I took a huge salary cut, but I’ve never been happier’ irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…

From the HSE to Church of Ireland dean: ‘I took a huge salary cut, but I’ve never been happier’

‘Sitting in meetings would have killed me’ says Canon Tom O’Brien of his unlikely career change

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Welcome home (to Ireland) Mr Carney..
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An Irish Catholic may be defined in the future as the son or daughter of someone from Manila or Lagos irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Rite & Reason: An Irish Catholic may be defined in the future as the son or daughter of someone...

Rite & Reason: A recent report found that 18 per cent of the Republic’s Catholics were born elsewhere. Far from their threatening the old culture, as xenophobes so often suggest, they are keeping it...

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From today's - June 10th - Leaving Cert ordinary level History paper. 'One' is suitably humbled, and grateful to whoever was responsible....
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Dear Paddy Power, please open a betting book on when the Bus Eireann 22 turns up....and it might now.. Real time? Bus Éireann’s elusive No 22 will give you a surreal time irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…

Real time? Bus Éireann’s elusive No 22 will give you a surreal time

In a Word ... Fiction

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Why AI cannot be left to the tech billionaires.... Should decisions about whether AI can be used in war be left to private companies? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Opinion: Should decisions about whether AI can be used in war be left to private companies?

Rite & Reason: Anthropic recently decided to restrict the use of its own AI for military purposes. But it shouldn’t be left up to individual companies

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RIP Phyl McDonald. . Phyllis (Phyl) McDonald: Champion of active retirement and promoter of adult education irishtimes.co.m/obituaries/2026/06/03/phyllis-phyl-mcdonald-champion-of-active-retirement-and-promoter-of-adult-education/
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Excellent news.. State will not oppose bid to have Sallins robbery conviction declared miscarriage of justice, court hears irishtimes.com/crime-law/cou…

State will not oppose bid to have Sallins robbery conviction declared miscarriage of justice, court...

Osgur Breatnach was wrongly convicted in 1978 and spent 18 months in jail

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...fabulous letter..
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Letter re racism...itish independent..June 3rd.
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Israel..!!
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RIP June... In a Word... June irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…

In a Word... June

June began to ‘clean’ my place weekly after she had done the same for my landlady. ‘Weakly’ might be a more appropriate term

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Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI is a striking manifesto of Christian humanism irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI is a striking manifesto of Christian humanism

Rite and Reason: Magnifica Humanitas considers what it might mean to safeguard the best parts of being human in the time of artificial intelligence

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Eid at Croke Park... ‘We cannot allow hatred to win’ – seventh annual Eid celebration proceeds at Croke Park irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…

‘We cannot allow hatred to win’ – seventh annual Eid celebration proceeds at Croke Park

Warmly welcomed former taoiseach Bertie Ahern wishes Muslims `Eid Mubarak’ at ceremony

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OK, the weather's good just now, but... Could Ireland end up with the climate of Newfoundland or Malmo? irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…

Could Ireland end up with the climate of Newfoundland or Malmo?

In a Word ... Climate

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Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Opinion: Presbyterian Church is celebrating 100 years of women in leadership

Rite & Reason: In 1926, the Presbyterian General Assembly decided that ‘women shall be eligible ... as ruling elders on the same conditions as men’

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I just hope Sinead Mooney is paid adequately by RTE as presenter/producer of 'Playback' - a highlight of every weekend!
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Death wish and a melancholic Padraig Pearse.. Patrick Pearse looked into his heart to determine what Irish people wanted. Some are still at it today irishtimes.com/culture/2026/…

Patrick Pearse looked into his heart to determine what Irish people wanted. Some are still at it...

Patrick Pearse looked into his heart to determine what Irish people wanted. Some are still at it today

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One year into his papacy, it’s clear Pope Leo will be no quiet American irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…

Opinion: One year into his papacy, it’s clear Pope Leo will be no quiet American

Rite & Reason: Even before becoming Pope, Leo was critical of Trump’s policies

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...a reminder...
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