Via Monumental Ireland

The Rathra monument itself consists of a quadri-vallate earthwork, meaning it has a series of four ditches and earthen banks surrounding a central area. It is one of a very few known quadri-vallate enclosures in Ireland, along with The Rath of the Synods on the Hill of Tara and Tlachtga on the Hill of Ward in Co Meath. These complex sites are thought to have been the burial places of extremely high status individuals or important ritual centres….

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Amelia Coburn – Dublin Serenade

Remember the days when you might tipsily flirt with members of the opposite sex in crowded bars humming with live music?

Well, this young northern English lass takes us back to that golden time as she reminisces about a perfect night spent in a watering hole in our capital.

Known for her interpretations of classic rock songs strummed on her beloved ukelele, ‘Dublin Serenade’ shows she can write them too.

Nick says: Amelia all heart.

Amelia Coburn

Among dozens of pardons, US President Donald Trump (left) has granted clemency to his  former chief strategist Steve Bannon (right)

I’m certain we all will agree
Trump was right to set Steve Bannon free
Why should he do time?
Well, apart from his crime
And his calls to behead Doc Fauci

John Moynes

Pic: White House

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This evening.

Seanad Éireann sitting in the Dáil chamber.

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O’Gorman (above) is taking questions from Senators amid calls for the government to reject the report into Mother and Baby Homes.

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Behold: CTB-1, aka the Medulla Nebula – a mighty supernova remnant, but from where does it draw its brainpower? To wit:

CTB-1 is the expanding gas shell that was left when a massive star toward the constellation of Cassiopeia exploded about 10,000 years ago. The star likely detonated when it ran out of elements, near its core, that could create stabilizing pressure with nuclear fusion. The resulting supernova remnant, nicknamed the Medulla Nebula for its brain-like shape, still glows in visible light by the heat generated by its collision with confining interstellar gas. Why the nebula also glows in X-ray light, though, remains a mystery. One hypothesis holds that an energetic pulsar was co-created that powers the nebula with a fast outwardly moving wind. Following this lead, a pulsar has recently been found in radio waves that appears to have been expelled by the supernova explosion at over 1000 kilometers per second. Although the Medulla Nebula appears as large as a full moon, it is so faint that it took 130-hours of exposure with two small telescopes in New Mexico, USA, to create the featured image.

(Image: Russell Croman)

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