A big TY @RyanTubridyShow @RTERadio1 for thanking the donor family who gave me a new lease of life with a kidney transplant @Beaumont_Dublin @IrishKidneyAs @Jarlath @JoeBrolly1993 @soniaagrith @paulreiddublin #WorldKidneyDay Please carry a donor card

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Yet another study shows a 24% reduced risk of dementia after the Shingles vaccine. This one in over 500,000 participants with a recent skilled nursing facility stay, adding to 4 huge natural experiments in 4 countries (US, Canada, Wales, and Australia) acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/… @AnnalsofIM

Despite Spain having more than 74% possession, Cape Verde committed only one foul all game. It's the fewest by any team in a World Cup match in Opta's record books (since 1966).

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In an extract from her new book, the Irish athlete recounts friction in her relationship with coach Helen Clitheroe before the 2024 European Championships. “In hindsight I should have let Helen walk away at this point, and I’ll forever wish that I had left her sooner.” irishtimes.com/sport/athleti…

Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition? They will now. Inevitable inquest. Huge scrutiny on the World Cup favourites. That was so poor, no inspiration, no width until the fliers arrived. Brilliant from Cape Verde, guts and glory of a point. A draw against all odds, against the European champions. Cape Verde ranked 64th in the world – 61 places below Spain. Population 500,000. Madrid alone is seven times that. One of the great World Cup upsets. #FIFAWorldCup

The first ever active League of Ireland player to play in the FIFA World Cup 👏

RT @b_judah: Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how…

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All the concerns about this World Cup, spanning extreme heat to transportation headaches and record ticket prices, failed to tarnish the opening days of the tournament. Bloomberg reporters are on the ground bloom.bg/4vN69BZ

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Hugh Maguire (2 Aug 1926 #Dublin-14 June 2013 Suffolk, Eng). 1 of 6 siblings; all professional musicians! Violinist, leader, concertmaster, principal player @londonsymphony @BBCSO. Led Melos Ensemble & Allegri Quartet. Prof @RoyalAcadMusic. Tutor @NYO_GB 🎻dib.ie/biography/maguire-hug…

Arnold @Schwarzenegger came to the U.S. from Austria in 1968 as a champion bodybuilder and went on to build a billion-dollar legacy as a real estate mogul, movie star and two-term California governor. He’s now on the #Forbes250 America’s Most Successful Living Immigrants list. See who else made the list: forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2… 📸: Austin Hargrave/August

Big News this morning : The George Washington statue near Fenway Park in Boston has been given the Highest Honour By the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Fans. Someone has got up there God knows how and placed a traffic cone □on his heed. 😅🤣😂😂. This is a proud moment for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. 👍🏻

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America’s World Cup hero of last night, Folarin Balogun, is only allowed to play for the US national team because his heavily pregnant Nigerian mother was refused permission by US airlines to fly to the UK, and so the first two months of his life were - by accident - in Brooklyn. It is pretty much inconceivable that if Trump’s immigration enforcement had been in place that Balogun would have been permitted to be born in America. Draw your own conclusions

Ciara Mageean was diagnosed with cancer just over a year ago. Spoke to her about life, loss and the road ahead. irishtimes.com/sport/athleti…

Most of the obituaries and tributes to David Hockney will, I imagine, focus primarily on his extraordinary craft and brilliance as an artist. Perhaps they might also mention his brilliance as a communicator (he was such a fine writer and speaker). But there was something else rather unique about him too. He was also strikingly honest about the tricks/techniques artists use and used to paint. His book Secret Knowledge is a rather wonderful detective work into how renaissance and Dutch golden age painters used glass and mirrors to help them master perspective. It's a pretty compelling case (see this video clip from a BBC doc he made alongside the book👇) though I'm sure some art historians will raise their eyebrows. Many will be aghast at the notion that greats like Vermeer might have been using lenses and camera obscuras to help them draw and paint. As if it were in some way "cheating". But Hockney was so self-evidently brilliant he was one of the few people who could document this without anyone gainsaying his own talent. There are very few artists, living or dead, who have this degree of self-confidence. Not just to know their craft, but to be bracingly honest about how it works. One other who comes to mind is Paul Simon: not just an extraordinary musician but is also an extraordinary communicator about the tricks and techniques of how to write and perform music. For many great artists, the temptation is to cloak their crafts in mystery, like a member of the magic circle. Hockney wasn't having any of it. So yes, he was a legend in all the obvious ways. But also in a few other less obvious ways as well. RIP.