The discovery of over a hundred crosses carved into man-made caves in the southern Iceland has lead some people to theorise that Christians from Ireland and Scotland settled the island before the Vikings arrived due to their design style.
They say they can accurately date one of the caves by finding and analysing construction waste to around the year 800.
There's also an oral tradition that the caves of Hella were built by monks from Ireland known as papar who inhabited Iceland before the Vikings.
🔗 bangor.ac.uk
🔗 theconversation.com
They say they can accurately date one of the caves by finding and analysing construction waste to around the year 800.
There's also an oral tradition that the caves of Hella were built by monks from Ireland known as papar who inhabited Iceland before the Vikings.
🔗 bangor.ac.uk
🔗 theconversation.com
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Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, is suing Twitter for defamation in the Irish High Court for labelling one of his tweets about the effectiveness of the Covid-19 shots as “misleading”.
In August 2021, Berenson tweeted:
“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine. Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed in advance of illness.”
I don't rate his chances and he might struggle to find expert witnesses who are accepted by the court, but it could be interesting to watch.
🔗 archive.ph
In August 2021, Berenson tweeted:
“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine. Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed in advance of illness.”
I don't rate his chances and he might struggle to find expert witnesses who are accepted by the court, but it could be interesting to watch.
🔗 archive.ph
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Like a ball and chain around our neck.
Still like the Refugeeland idea.
Needs to be a pan-European project.
🔗 inews.co.uk
Still like the Refugeeland idea.
Needs to be a pan-European project.
🔗 inews.co.uk
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Dr Francis Chijioke Megwa had been made a senior house officer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Limerick Hospital.
>Ms Justice Irvine said the allegations that were proven as to fact included that the doctor failed to demonstrate basic competency in relation to taking or analysing the patient's clinical history. He also failed to demonstrate basic competency in understanding the diagnostic significance of patterns of symptoms or physical signs and identifying a differential diagnosis.
Our healthcare system would collapse without them...
🔗 irishexaminer.com
>Ms Justice Irvine said the allegations that were proven as to fact included that the doctor failed to demonstrate basic competency in relation to taking or analysing the patient's clinical history. He also failed to demonstrate basic competency in understanding the diagnostic significance of patterns of symptoms or physical signs and identifying a differential diagnosis.
Our healthcare system would collapse without them...
🔗 irishexaminer.com
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Some of the 600+ lots up for auction from Clonliffe College Seminary in Drumcondra after more than 30 acres of the grounds were sold to Hines Real Estate, which made a submission to Dublin city council and the Department of Housing to accommodate up to 620 asylum seekers there.
“The contents of this college are a window into a significant part of Irish culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it is amazing to see the variety of styles accumulated in this collection over the years,” said auctioneer Niall Mullen.
“It is an honour to facilitate the movement of these interesting elements of Irish history out into the wider world, especially given that their sale heralds a new chapter of this building’s life as we open our arms to those fleeing conflict.”
"It's the last of its type … this type of auction … they're becoming less and less.
"You don't have many institutions of this size and with this history going back 170 years."
🔗 victormeeauctions.ie
“The contents of this college are a window into a significant part of Irish culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it is amazing to see the variety of styles accumulated in this collection over the years,” said auctioneer Niall Mullen.
“It is an honour to facilitate the movement of these interesting elements of Irish history out into the wider world, especially given that their sale heralds a new chapter of this building’s life as we open our arms to those fleeing conflict.”
"It's the last of its type … this type of auction … they're becoming less and less.
"You don't have many institutions of this size and with this history going back 170 years."
🔗 victormeeauctions.ie
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Forwarded from The Burkean
"This is not to take the side of the Salvation Army, I personally support the strategy of squatting in or picketing housing sites, but it must be done with a clear intention in mind —the decommodification of Irish housing and the housing of Irish people. The “House the Irish” protest in Mulhuddart a number of years ago was an organic local attempt to strike back at globalism, at the housing of foreigners above the Irish in need, and was an act that should be applauded and replicated at large —international landlords should be forced into costly court proceedings, or into agreeing to let or sell their properties to Irishmen and women at fair, liveable rents"
https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2022/05/13/the-view-from-connolly-house
https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2022/05/13/the-view-from-connolly-house
The Burkean
The View from ‘Connolly House’ | The Burkean
The Battle for Moral Superiority is well and truly underway in Dublin as republican socialists take on shadowy international financiers (a Methodist charity in this case) in a bid to out-cuck themselves for foreigners. This month “Socialist Republicans”…
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Supply & Demand
Late Stage Ireland
Up to 400K new homes are needed over the next ten years according to the Construction Industry Federation's James Benson.
Consequently 50K construction workers are required to build them, but only 8,600 people are signing up for apprenticeships each year.
The entry wage rate is €15/hour while the average cost of rent is now €1,600/month. That means you'd have to work 106 hours just to afford somewhere to live.
You can forget about owning a home as you need to be on an average income of €100k to access the market.
Each home takes 20 to 26 weeks to build and 50% of the total cost goes on taxes, levies & contributions.
Meanwhile the govt wants to pay construction firms €100k for each apartment built.
The industry had relied on cheap foreign labour which drove Irish people out, but now the eastern Europeans have gone home due to Covid, and they're staying home as it's no longer worth it.
Nothing about any of this is sustainable. The only solution is address the demand side.
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Consequently 50K construction workers are required to build them, but only 8,600 people are signing up for apprenticeships each year.
The entry wage rate is €15/hour while the average cost of rent is now €1,600/month. That means you'd have to work 106 hours just to afford somewhere to live.
You can forget about owning a home as you need to be on an average income of €100k to access the market.
Each home takes 20 to 26 weeks to build and 50% of the total cost goes on taxes, levies & contributions.
Meanwhile the govt wants to pay construction firms €100k for each apartment built.
The industry had relied on cheap foreign labour which drove Irish people out, but now the eastern Europeans have gone home due to Covid, and they're staying home as it's no longer worth it.
Nothing about any of this is sustainable. The only solution is address the demand side.
👉🏻 Join Late Stage Ireland
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Forwarded from Celtic Europe
Perhaps the most accurate map of the ancient provinces of Ireland, from Ramsay Colles’ book The History of Ulster: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1919).
Colors reflect the political divisions of Ireland during Roman times and the pre-Roman Iron Age, according to ancient sources. Ulster (Ulaidh) in pink, Leinster (Laighin) in gray and yellow (Meath, shown in yellow, was originally part of Leinster, becoming a separate kingdom in early medieval times as a result of invasions by tribes from the northwest, the Uí Neill), Munster (Mumhain) in green, and Connacht (Connachta) in blue.
According to the Irish tale Aided Chrimthainn meic Fidaig (The Death of Crimthann, son of Fidach), the area now known now as county Clare was originally part of Connacht, but was conquered by Munster in the 4th century AD during a violent war between the two provinces.
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Colors reflect the political divisions of Ireland during Roman times and the pre-Roman Iron Age, according to ancient sources. Ulster (Ulaidh) in pink, Leinster (Laighin) in gray and yellow (Meath, shown in yellow, was originally part of Leinster, becoming a separate kingdom in early medieval times as a result of invasions by tribes from the northwest, the Uí Neill), Munster (Mumhain) in green, and Connacht (Connachta) in blue.
According to the Irish tale Aided Chrimthainn meic Fidaig (The Death of Crimthann, son of Fidach), the area now known now as county Clare was originally part of Connacht, but was conquered by Munster in the 4th century AD during a violent war between the two provinces.
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Non-Ukrainian related asylum applications set to reach 13,000 for 2022 in Ireland.
This would be the highest number since 2003 and far in excess of the pre-pandemic level of applications of 3,408 in 2019.
🔗 https://graph.org/Non-Ukrainian-related-asylum-applications-set-to-reach-13000-for-2022-in-Ireland-05-15
This would be the highest number since 2003 and far in excess of the pre-pandemic level of applications of 3,408 in 2019.
🔗 https://graph.org/Non-Ukrainian-related-asylum-applications-set-to-reach-13000-for-2022-in-Ireland-05-15
Telegraph
Non-Ukrainian related asylum applications set to reach 13,000 for 2022 in Ireland
The latest asylum figures reported in today's Business Post should startle you. On some days, there are now more asylum applicants seeking accommodation than refugees from Ukraine. In the first four months of this year, there was 3,353 applications for asylum…
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