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Elizabeth Boyle
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It's [hopefully] going to be a really interesting couple of weeks!
We're doing a research dig at the Viking site at Woodstown Waterford, with support from @ria.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social and Waterford City & County Council, in a collaborative project between Irish & Norwegian archaeologists
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Neil Jackman
Great news! 🙌https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g411k1x1zo
“I’ve had to recognise my own mortality, my vulnerability and my impotence. You can’t save everything you love. Perhaps you can’t even save yourself.”
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
“His music was fearless, and so was his spirit”. 🎸
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
The charity says the purchase is an important step in halting declining seabird numbers in the Firth of Forth.
If you could make it out of childhood in the Middle Ages, you had a good chance of making it into your 60s. Infant mortality and childhood death through diseases drags the life expectancy downwards
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Claire Boardman
Elizabeth Boyle
Elizabeth Boyle
The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?
