Irish town ‘shell-shocked’ after 15,000 crabs escape from overturned truck
Odhran McLaughlin learned the hard way that it takes a village to wrangle 15,000 scuttling crabs off the side of a highway on the coast of Ireland in the dead of night.
#accident #crabs #town #Ireland
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/15000-crabs-9.7049117?cmp=rss

Irish boy finds his lucky charms by finding one of the world's rarest minerals

https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/01/10/boy-7-strikes-it-lucky-by-finding-one-of-the-worlds-rarest-minerals-near-his-home-in-cork/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#science #environment #geology #kids #spiffy #Ireland

Elephants at the #DublinZoo. Elephants always seem so old (they often are, especially for animals) and wise. Dunno about wise, but they certainly are calm, mostly. Such a combination of strength and gentleness.

#photography #monochrome #classicmono #zoo #animals #Dublin #Ireland

Disappointing but not surprised to see #Ireland not on the new 10% list from #Trump

https://www.walknews.com/1178137/ またバークが… #Ireland

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

Somewhere on the west coast of Ireland—I was using a new camera and bunged up the GPS connection.

#BlueSkyArtShow #one #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #photograhy #monochrome #ClassicMono

Round tower at Glendalough monastic site

#BlueSkyArtShow #one #Ireland #Glendalough #RoundTower #photograhy #monochrome #ClassicMono

A close look at Ireland’s emerging populist right, its grievances, contradictions and the absence of a unifying political figure

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41776697.html

#ireland #politics #FarRight

RE: https://piaille.fr/@lecoindeslgbt/115909665788861853

#germany #netherlands #spain #portugal #belgium #luxemburg #poland #greece #italy #Ireland #austria #denmark #finland #hungary #malta #romania #sweden #slovenia #slovakia #croatia #cyprus #latvia #czechrepublic #lithuania #estonia #suomi #deutschland #nederland #espana #Ελλάδα

@JohnDal they're only just poking through in my garden in #Ireland but there are daffodils nearby nearly ready to flower
#ClimateCrisis #mastodaoine

#Ireland

Climate change drives hooper swans and deer into Irish cities

Climate change is reshaping Ireland’s wildlife, bringing migratory species like hooper swans to local rivers in unprecedented numbers

https://www.newstalk.com/news/climate-change-drives-hooper-swans-and-deer-into-irish-cities-2226151

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Kyiv faces up to 20 hours without electricity each day after relentless Russian strikes #Ukraine #USA #UK #EU #Europe #Czechia #Poland #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia #Trump #Germany #France #Austria #Hungary #Romania #Slovakia #Japan #Taiwan #Australia #Switzerland #Canada #Italy #Ireland #Netherlands #Finland #Sweden #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Spain #NATO #RussiaIsATerroristState

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/68177

The Waterford (Ireland) Museum of Time displays clocks of many different styles and mechanisms from Ireland and many other countries. Among them is the earliest pendulum clock from 1663. #WaterfordMuseums #Waterford #Ireland https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Ireland/Day6/#565

'A beautiful, gritty tale of love, despair, and learning to trust, set in Ireland in the 19th Century.'

Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman
Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/AScarletWoman

#ascarletWomanByLornaPeel #Books #BooksbyLornaPeel #Dublin #Ireland #historicalromance #romance #19thcentury #Kindleunlimited #Bookstodon #Bookseries

TIL that the literal translation of escalator into Irish is “living stairs”

#TIL #Ireland