By your friends will they know you.

#ThroughHerEyes Don't miss the documentary tonight on BBC4 at 9pm on Ottilie Patterson, the blues singer from Northern Ireland, who performed with American blues legends Muddy Waters and Ella Fitzgerald. Why don't we know more about her? Thank you @GeneGen64030635 for heads-up.

Action needed now, minister needs to do her job or resign.

Yesterday, three 9yr-old children & three adults were murdered in the latest US school mass shooting. The district in Nashville, Tennessee, is represented in Congress by. Rep. ⁦Congressman Andy Ogles⁩ . This was his family's Christmas card last year.

Leo Varadkar complains in Dáil that SF’s legislation would make it illegal for someone to take back their own house to live in themselves. SF’s legislation is, save for inserting a new date, a word-for-word copy of the Govt law expiring this weekend.

What happens when the NRA doesn’t own the politicians…

How one man's decision saved the world from disaster.

A date for the diary.

That tells you more about the daily struggle of people a lot more than a hundred surveys.

#ThroughHerEyes During Irish sign language awareness week, recall Eileen Murray (1890-1942), a deaf woman on active service with Bridie Richards in the GPO during Easter 1916. She attended the injured and worked in the kitchen. For more, Lianne Quigley (Sign Name: Smiley) youtu.be/eXPWOPhG3vk

Two Civil War Volunteers Remembered At Separate Events In Mid-Cork redfm.ie/post/two-civil…

A forgotten piece of history.

This has impacted me so personally. What Israel is doing is horrific and there is no justification, regardless of what caused it, for mass murder. It never solves the problem and always makes things worse. So many people are afraid to speak out and this is the worst part. Not me.

#OtD 18 Nov 1953 the British Royal Air Force began aerial bombing of Kenya in an effort to crush the "Mau Mau" anti-colonial insurgency. Over the next year and a half, they dropped nearly 6 million bombs on the country youtube.com/watch?v=Uk3RWZ…

#Onthisday 1921 the Brown Family farm cottage in Meelin #Cork along with 4 other buildings were destroyed in an official British reprisal in the aftermath of an ambush on military lorries near Newmarket on 5 January📸National Museum of Ireland shorturl.at/abmnV

It’s been reported that thousands of letters from Boris Johnson will be mailed out this week in an attempt to stop Reform. Either that or he’s just sending back replies to all his Father’s Day cards

Nigel Farage has called the RNLI a taxi service for illegal immigrants, Ben Habib said the RNLI should be prosecuted for people trafficking. If you stand with the RNLI against these hate mongering b*stards. RT

This sums it up.