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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My 2026 Côtes d'Inishowen grape harvest is the best one yet. All this from just one vine in the greenhouse with roots inside and outside ... and there are still about 12 bunches ripening on the vine.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FIFA appoints new referee for the quarter finals

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Why is our cat doing this? Ollie, a ginger tom (8 years) who is neutered can spend up to 30 mins at a time doing this several times a day.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

George Orwell’s 1984: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Shocking account of FIFA cowardly inaction in the face of proven discrimination of Palestinian football by the Israeli FA, as reported by @malachyclerkin.bsky.social in today's @irishtimes.com

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

For the day that's in it, here's a playlist I compiled - the Today FM bsky.app/profile/toda... Top 100 Irish Songs, as voted by listeners - open.spotify.com/playlist/4qj... Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir! Happy St. Patrick's Day!.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

If the three main left-leaning parties formed a coalition after the next Irish general election, all three party leaders would be female.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Never knew this. Every day is indeed a learning day! Sunday Independent 08.02.25.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

And I think I know which one of the three purported designs he will opt for!

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My visit to Brasov, Romania from my blog Wandering by Wagon. open.substack.com/pub/wanderin...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My blog post on Iasi, Romania. open.substack.com/pub/wanderin...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is the second blog post in the series and is about Chișinău (part 1 of 2). open.substack.com/pub/wanderin...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Here is the fourth in a series of 12 blog posts on a trip to Moldova, Transnistria, Romania and Bulgaria in Autumn 2025. This one features Transnistria or Pridniestrovie. open.substack.com/pub/wanderin...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My one wish for tomorrow is that I don't read, see or hear Donald Trump's name anywhere ... just for one day ... is this too much to wish for?

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Imelda May is playing a blinder on Jools' annual Hootennay.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Also enjoying Jools but with a bottle of Cava ... much prefer it to Champagne.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Here's one for any American followers - Gun Deaths in Ireland (pop. 5.4m) for 2025 (so far) were zero. In similar-sized US states here are the 2024 numbers: Wisconsin (6m) 735 deaths Minnesota (5.8m) 582 deaths South Carolina (5.6m) 1,100 deaths Alabama (5.2m) 1,200 deaths.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Bought a pomelo in Lidl yesterday, it was sitting with the melons and I thought it was just a variety that I hadn't seen before. Got a shock when I opened it though ... sickly sweet honey smell, like a humongous grapefruit ... definitely not for me !

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

“And so the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the centuries of the snow‑white world Came people singing, dancing… To welcome the new year’s light" - from "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper (born 1935 - ).

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I have a feeling that this photograph holds the secret to much of the #Trumpstein scandal. Four significant players photographed together. I wonder how they are all connected .... mmm?

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I thought my American followers might like this ...

A meme saying "I love Calibri" using a love symbol. At the bottom is written "Long live Calabri". In the background there is an American flag.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Top music genres from #SpotifyUnwrapped ... as I go off to Google "Freak Folk"!!

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

While most of Eurooe has seen a decrease in road deaths in recent years, Ireland is one of only three countries where there hss been an increase. What is going on?

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Flew from Dublin to Chișinău Moldova recently. I am almost certain that I was the only Irish person on the flight. This was all explained by this poster that I saw all over Chișinău.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Norway fishes 40,000 to tonnes of mackerel in one week. This is equivalent to Ireland's annual quota! Surely this ravaging of fish stocks can't be allowed to continue.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

WB Yeats' words never sounded more apt and could equally apply to the US, the UK and France this week. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity... Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold". Editorial in today's Sunday Independent.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Ronald Brownstein compares Trump's response to the Kirk assassination to the reaction of previous presidents and it is not a good look - in The Irish Independent @independent.ie

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Former Irish President Mary Robinson of The Elders, speaking truth to power on the #LateLateShow - "the elders affirm that it is an ongoing famine and a genocide"

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This 40km march is taking place to highlight the campaign for an end to Israeli actions in Gaza, and an immediate opening of the borders for aid. In terms of total area, Inishowen is more than twice the size of Gaza, but has a population of just over 40,544, while Gaza’s population is 2.1 million.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is so worth reposting here ... from Political Witch on Substack. substack.com/@politicalwi...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I am fairly confident that Paul Lynch is the only recipient from my old secondary school of this prestigious award!! Paul Lynch awarded Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres | Maynooth University share.google/u8vp2D1JxlpY...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Donald Trump does not have the capacity to understand Ukrainian issues" www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Rare sea rainbow over Lough Foyle.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This 'Côtes d'Inishowen' is coming along nicely too ...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So lucky today to be able to get up close to the wreck of 'The Twilight' on Five Fingers Strand, Malin, Co. Donegal as the tide was out. She sank during a storm in 1889 en route from Newfoundland to Derry.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

P.R.A.T.S. Preplanned Repulsive Attack of Thuggish Sociopaths

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I measc na téarmaí úra i nGaeilge sa 'Multilingual Dictionary of New Words', is breá go mór liom "éistphéist" (earworm)! tuairisc.ie/21-iontrail-...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

National Geographic Photo of the Year 2018 is one of the best optical illusions anywhere online.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This photo of Elon Musk in today's @irishindependent.bsky.social does not show a well man ! The eyes... the eyes ...

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Have done my Top 50, but can't possibly rank them. Match you in 9 and my number 1 is also Bill Ryder-Jones. Certainly gonna check out the others on your list.

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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Number of public holidays per country. Are we working too hard in Ireland?

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