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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Has anything really changed? A person carrying a bomb in Carrickmacross intended for use in N. Ireland has been granted bail! The Republic's lax attitude to terrorism when it relates to N. Ireland has a long and despicable history which continues today.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Believed to be the earliest printing of the Declaration of Independence outside the USA

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I enjoyed Murder on the Nile at the Grand Opera House Belfast last night - it was truly brilliant!

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The Irish Free State Census of 1926 is about to be released to the public. Here is a scan of the cover of my aunt's Free State passport issued just a year later on 27th August 1927. (name removed)

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So, I received a letter from HM Revenue & Customs informing me that they are taking back the £200 I received before Christmas as a Winter Fuel Payment as my annual income exceeds the limit for this benefit.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

LikeAFact? #1 The euro was launched in 1999 as an 'invisible' currency. 11 countries joined the system. Today 21 countries use the euro.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 22/02/2026

'We've just got to put up with it. There's nothing we can do' - garden lovers describe the toll heavy rainfall has taken on trees and plants

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Gardeners' hopes for spring as rainfall takes its toll

Seventeen trees in Johnstown Castle in Co Wexford fell due to heavy rainfall in the gardens since the beginning of the year.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I have loads of #gardening books. None of them have chapters on 'how to garden in the rain'

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

6 nations rugby - BBC showing wrong final score for ages before fixing it.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Let us remind ourselves of Labour's performance at the last General Election (July 2024) - Labour's vote share was 33.7% the lowest of any governing party on record, making this the least proportional general election in British history 'A massive mandate' - David Lammy today

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Wikipedia does not accept Find A Grave as a reliable source because it is 'user generated content'. Hmm... Just like Wikipedia then?

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Under new admission guidelines Northern Ireland visiors to the Louvre in Paris will now pay more on entry if they carry U.K. passports compared with those carrying Irish/EU passports.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The EU moves on. Today Bulgaria became the 21st country to join the euro.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Free Irish eBooks - #History - #Biography - #Genealogy is a resource which has provided links to thousands of free eBooks and websites for researchers since 2011. After an interval of some years new content is now being added once again. Take a look: freeirishebooks.blogspot.com?m=1

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Free Irish eBooks - Index

Irish History, Biography, Genealogy

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Yesterday 5,000 applicants were awarded Irish citizenship. Meanwhile in Spain they are working on 2.3 million applications from the Franco era (Euronews)

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The Ireland rugby team is selected from all 4 provinces. The Ireland v Japan match is actually in Dublin this weekend but I cannot watch it because RTÉ block it on Freeview for residents of N. Ireland. Isn't it time this partitionist policy was reviewed? RTÉ should buy the rights for N. Ireland!

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Today I wrote a cheque in British Pounds for my Milkman for Pints of milk delivered in the last 4 weeks. What is this? - the age of Charlemange?

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I was asked to give a speech at a 'Welcome to the Word' event for my granddaughter. I tried to make it as positive as possible. So I quoted Dana - All Kinds of Everything (Eurovision winner 1970), Julie Andrews My Favourite Things (Sound of Music 1966), and Song by Seamus Heaney (Field Work 1979)

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Strange. On Sky News website an article about a possible boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest carried an ad for the Israeli owned product Sudocrem.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The Irish Free State Census of 1926 is due to be released online in April 2026. To save time I have started compiling a list of relatives in my tree whom I expect to be listed.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

RTÉ showed a picture of a Kingdom Hall in their report on the dreadful attack on a Mormon church in Michigan. They don't seem to know the difference between Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

May I make a prediction? If a compulsory BritCard is introduced in Northern Ireland, it will surely result in a massive increase in the number of people who wish to have a United Ireland.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Shaggy Ink Caps (as per Google Lens) spotted while walking the dog

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Frances Genevieve Donovan of New Orleans married the Irish nationalist A.M. Sullivan, M.P. and had 11 children with him. She was politically active herself being President of the London branch of Anna Parnell's Irish Ladies' Land League. She was a widow for 37 years and died in Cork in 1922.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I enjoyed watching the Irish Open golf at the K Club on tv last week. I will not be watching it next year when it is held at Trump's course

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Compilations found in 2nd hand bookshop

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I spotted this while walking the dog yesterday. Apparently, it is a giant puffball mushroom

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Inviting Putin to Alaska (formerly Russian-America) seems like a risky manoeuvre to me - it might give him ideas...

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I got Wordle in 2. What do I do for the rest of the night?

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I had a lovely birthday lunch at The Ivy in Belfast today - strongly recommended! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Not quite finished - Belfast Grand Central Station, Ireland's largest transport hub (apparently)

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The EU continues to develop as Bulgaria is expected to be the 21st state to become a member of the eurozone on 1st January 2026.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Trump tweeted on Sunday 'to see if, after a thousand years a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir'. The dispute relates to 'the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan, in 1947 - Wikipedia. Not a thousand years.

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sho... 1968 film about the election of a new Pope during the cold war. David Jansen is an American TV reporter and is agast when he says 'they've chosen the Russian'...

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The Shoes of the Fisherman (film) - Wikipedia

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Now you know where I got my BlueSky name from!

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Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Grown from a horse chestnut 🌰 (conker), my bonsai is budding

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