Beautiful pastel colours mixing very well with the fog this week. I don’t think I could ever tire of this spot in Kerry.

The ship in a bottle pictured below was stolen from Blacksod lighthouse today, if spotted by anyone, please let us know , it was produced especially for Blacksod lighthouse and is unique.

I’ve been fortunate enough to be right along side Spillars High Rock in boat and it is a spectacle in itself! If you’ve had the same opportunity, you’ll definitely appreciate how high this splash is I shot this morning. Bonavista, NL

In 1847, worst year of An Gorta Mór, Indians of Choctaw raised $170 for Irish relief. Irish people never forgot & in 2020 donated €2.5m to a Native American tribe devastated by Covid. The Choctaw have now erected the Eternal Heart sculpture in Tuskahoma to mark the solidarity.

Allowing our architectural heritage to rot is utter vandalism What do we have to do in Ireland to get an appreciation of what is vital for our wellbeing and sense of place #DerelictIreland #HeritageMatters

Morning Chaps, Chapess'ss Wordle Wonder League week 2 tables are as below, some fantastic scores this week, still bog eye'd trying to round all the scores up so please tag me directly with terry davis🇺🇦🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and #wordlewonderleague so the scores come to my TL. well done all Table 1

1/6- in Dáil Éireann on 9th March 1966 Dr Sheehy-Skeffington cited a case of #CorporalPunishment where a mother brought her seven-year-old child to the school manager + said “My child has 10 weals on his back. Will you look at what happened to him”. The school manager refused

Dr Sheehy Skeffington referred this case in Seanad chamber recalling Senator Brosnahan who cited a phrase used by the school manager, Canon Troy “examined the child" and found him to be a liar about the cause of the beating. 2/6

Regarding the beating “the defendant teacher swore on oath that he had given three or four strokes to the child. His colleague, Mr. Kenealy, swore also on oath that he had witnessed five strokes being given. the dispensary doctor swore, also on oath, that ten weals 3/6

were on the child's back, some of them three or four inches long and the defence doctor swore that the worst mark he saw on the child's back was only an inch long. These clearly are different interpretations of the truth….” - Dr Skeffington 4/6

The case was tried in the High Court Dr Skeffington read a letter written to the boy’s parents by the Rev Canon Troy on behalf of the school into the record placing the blame on the 7-year old child for “boldness” which caused much distress to his parents ⬇️ 5/6

Often the best reports are accessible in our Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais . Dr Sheehy Skeffington was genuinely concerned for the safety of young children. It’s worth reading entire exchanges to gain an understanding of how such abuses continued in plain sight. 6/6 oireachtas.ie/en/debates/deb…

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If you support the Occupied Territories Bill and want Govt parties to stop stalling and legislate it through then please come along and show your support. Enough appeasement. #Dublin #Ireland

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