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05/05/2025

Bank Holiday Monday thought…

I spend much of my life doubting myself — doubting my certainty. Wondering if striving for unity and harmony is little more than a fool’s errand.

It’s not insecurity, but self-awareness. I know, as we all do deep down, that what I don’t know could fill the universe — and in a way, it does.

I’m not even certain what’s best for me, never mind for others. But that very awareness teaches me to hold my tongue just enough to spare my nose — both metaphorical and literal — from becoming collateral damage to my own opinionated words.

Sadly, in today’s fast-paced social media ‘reality’ — which, of course, is no reality at all —narcissists shine loudest. Unburdened by self-awareness, and untroubled by the fate of their noses.

28/04/2025

Monday mornin' thoughts (yes, I forgot to do one yesterday)

Is Roscommon becoming a flash-point for unwanted and unneeded Public Realm 'Enhancement' Works which are – in this Rossie's opinion – harmful to the social and economic fabric of the towns throughout the county?

Surely, with millions of euros of investment from central government and hundreds and thousands of euros paid to consultants; we should be able to conserve and restore our towns and villages to their former glories, respecting their unique historical and modern form and function – rather than foisting copy and paste 'enhancement plans' on towns and their residents, in a doomed attempt to transform the West of Ireland into a low-rent version of mainland Europe?

Ballaghaderreen Past and Present Strokestown

21/04/2025

Requiescat in pace aeterna Sanctus Pater, Episcopus Romae et Vicarius Christi, Papa Franciscus.

20/04/2025

Sunday thought…

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”

John 11:25–26

Happy Easter 🐣

14/04/2025

Trump once sued Maher because the comedian joked that Trump’s father was an orangutang 🦧

Last week, they had dinner together with mutual friends — and according to Maher, it was as we would say in Ireland — grand.

13/04/2025

Sunday mornin’ thoughts…

To paraphrase Lippmann, when that which is morally righteous, virtuous and necessary to prevent the spread of evil is inconvenient, uncomfortable and unprofitable but you choose duty over convenience, comfort and profit — then and only then can you walk among men of honour.

06/04/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲? 𝗜𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘀 𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗻

Clickbait headlines are an industry norm since the advent of social media — and in a slightly different form for quite a bit before that, when people used to buy a paper and read it.

I’ve written my fair share of clickbait headlines in the past — and will again. For a while they served their purpose because people would click and read the article.

But in recent years people don't really ‘click’. On social media, in particular, they read the headline and draw a conclusion. Before politely doom scrolling to the next thing.

This extract from the end of the below is the most important part of the article:

> Chair of SmartTech247, Ronan Murphy, said the likelihood of everyone's phones being checked at security is low.

"The level of sophistication that would be required for the border control agents to be able to filter out specific individuals, to be able to have the time and the wherewithal to go and take their devices - it just sounds like it's not overly realistic to me," he said. <

The article is, for all intents and purposes, balanced. So, the news organisation is doing what news organisations have done for as long as most of us have been alive.

However, the question now is how can news organisations balance the absolutely legitimate need to attract eyeballs to generate revenue with the competing necessity to serve the public good at a time when far too many people don't read beyond the headline?

Deleting social media apps completely and leaving phones or other devices at home are other tips being recommended.

06/04/2025

Sunday mornin’ thoughts…

(Credit to the internet I guess, definitely didn’t dream this one up myself)

05/04/2025

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05/04/2025

Winning!🤙

Roscommon GAA Roscommon GAA - Club Rossie Roscommon Football Legends

05/04/2025

Hon’ the Rossies! Good luck today 🙌

Roscommon Football Legends Roscommon GAA Roscommon GAA - Club Rossie

The Tulsk boys - Karlin Jennings, Jayden Jennings, Conor Beattie and Alan Lyons - in among the many Rossies in London all set to support Roscommon later today in Ruislip.
👍🇺🇦

04/04/2025

A really enjoyable chat and well worth a watch to see two fantastic world-class athletes in their natural habitat 😁

Fresh from making history at the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Serbia, Roscommon’s Aoife and Lisa O’Rourke join us for a candid and joy-filled co...