Tag Archives: Irish Sea

Lines Have Been Drawn

Bodger at 1:45 pm June 28, 2021

David Burnside, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician and former MLA, in today’s Daily Telegraph

Have you no shame? Stop trying to rewrite history.

Today’s telegraph: “Dublin has used Brexit and the threat of Irish Republican violence as excuses to move the border into the Irish Sea’.

1. Used Brexit?
2. Threat of violence?
3. Borders?

All created and caused by the U.K. pic.twitter.com/0hC1vqa4Ln

— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) June 28, 2021

This afternoon.

Meanwhile, Vice President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič is currently briefing the Executive Office Committee of the Stormont parliament. The meeting comes as the EU is due to agree to a UK request to delay a ban on chilled meat products from Great Britain being sold in Northern Ireland.

Live: Maroš Šefčovič appears at Stormont Committee (BBC)

Meanwhile…

As the DUP tries to evade responsibility for the Brexit and Irish Sea Border it helped bring about, Chris Patten’s inaugural Seamus Mallon lecture last week for the Hume Foundation is timely and recommended viewing https://t.co/t0HgCPIrFH via @FacebookWatch

— the Irish World (@theirishworld) June 28, 2021

Fight!

Sure Where Would You Get It?

Admin at 11:48 am July 10, 2017

Streets of Dublin tweetz:

Capturing a beautiful sunset over the Irish Sea…

Tremories

Admin at 4:30 pm August 26, 2013

Irish sea #earthquakes aren’t new phenomena, as ‘father of seismology’ Robert Mallet shows in RIA Proceedings, 1855 pic.twitter.com/01MJ3Dy0IN

— Royal Irish Academy (@RIAdawson) August 26, 2013

In Troubled Water That Keeps Us Afloat

Admin at 2:08 pm January 7, 2012

With no maps to guide us we steered our own course/ Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force/ Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope/ Working together we learned how to cope

Two currachs were launched in to the Irish Sea by President Higgins literally this morning following a month-long workshop where a team have been hand-building the boats under the guidance of artist Mark Redden, who learnt the craft from Jackie Mons and Cork currach builder Padraig O Duinnin.

Sez Mark:

“The currachs stand for the quality of ancient design, a legacy left to us by our forbearers and a resourcefulness applicable to today’s life.”

The build site and future home of these boats is the East Wall Water Sports Centre beside the River Tolka where recently salmon returned to spawn after an absence of more than 100 years.

East Wall Currachs (Facebook)

(Pics: Mark Earley)