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Top ten reads of 2025 YouTube video by Geraldine's Novel Opinions

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@geraldinerowe.bsky.social Top Ten books for 2025!!!

December 2025 Roundup YouTube video by Geraldine's Novel Opinions

youtu.be/Z_g4HNFq8FY my friend Geraldine reviews books on YouTube! Here is her December Review!

Democrats release Trump's alleged Epstein birthday note A note allegedly from Donald Trump wishing late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein happy birthday - and alluding to their "wonderful secret" - has been released by House Democrats, after the US president de...

A note allegedly from Donald Trump wishing late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein happy birthday - and alluding to their "wonderful secret" - has been released by House Democrats, after the US president denied it existed

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Israel has killed ‘record number’ of UN staff since October 7 – UN special rapporteur We spoke to Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

Israel has killed ‘record number’ of UN staff since October 7 – UN special rapporteur

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BBC News, "The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest"

"In most these cases, the victim was under 12 years old"

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A photo of the former Magdalene Laundry at Sundays Well in Cork. It's a large red brick building on high ground.

JFM Research has made a submission to An Coimisiún Pleanála about the Proposed Property Developmentat the Site of the Former Magdalene Laundry at Sundays Well in Cork.

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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

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A very honest & irate thread!

Unless you are a survivor of #abuse/#rape you can not comprehend the lifelong #trauma
The day I was 1st raped at 8 years of age the ‘person I was meant to be’ was murdered.
My whole life has been a constant battle to just exist!

Trinidadian-Irish writer makes Booker Prize longlist The longlist for the Booker Prize has been announced with no Irish-born authors included this year.

Claire Adam, a Trinidadian-Irish writer, whose mother is from Cork, is among those selected for her novel 'Love Forms'

Oh my!!!

George Gibney due back in Ireland to face abuse charges Former national and Olympic swimming coach George Gibney is due back in Ireland to face 79 charges in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of four young girls in the 1970s and 1980s.

Former national and Olympic swimming coach George Gibney is due back in Ireland to face 79 charges in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of four young girls in the 1970s and 1980s

According to Institutional Burials Act 2022, Section 8, which refers to ‘Manifestly Inappropriate Burials’ all of the highlighted subsections apply to #Bessboro
The government is not above the law.
The government must be compelled to act
#Justice
#TheForgottenDead

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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No school place for 260 children with additional needs Around 260 children with additional needs do not have an offer of a school place for September, the Dáil has heard.

Around 260 children with additional needs do not have an offer of a school place for September, the Dáil has heard.

Fine Gael presidential candidate is multi-property landlord Her rental income from these two Meath investment properties is additional to the €800,000 she claimed in EU expenses.

Fine Gael presidential candidate Mairead McGuinness is a multi-property, mortgage-free landlord.

The former European Commissioner rents out two three-bedroom homes she bought mortgage-free over the past decade.

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In Memory Of: Bridget McCarthy - November 22nd 1927 - 23 years Michael Thompson - December 19th 1927 - 2 months Joseph Grace - May 28th 1928 - 1 month John Grace - June 22nd 1928 - 6 weeks John Swanton - June 26th 1928 - 2 months Catherine (Kate) O’Brien - July 27th 1929 - 25 years Eliza (Lizzie) McCarthy - September 23rd 1932 - 26 years Margaret Mahony - December 5th 1940 - 40 years Josephine Larkin - January 10th 1942 - 19 years Mary Cuddihy - December 30th 1942 - 39 years Nellie Grosse - September 18th 1943 - 58 years Mabel Jessie Huckvale - January 22nd 1953 - 82 years Elizabeth Susie Hope - September 21st 1957 - 47 years Joan Twomey - June 25th 1958 - 62 years Louise Bridget O’Leary - March 23rd 1974 - 81 years Julia O’Donoghue - May 17th 1984 - 81 years Ann Walsh - January 23rd 1985 - 85 years

The plot is poorly kept, with the only two 'monuments', a broken plaque for Julia O'Donoghue in May 1984 & a metal cross with the wrong name inscribed: Doris Walsh instead of Ann Walsh in January 1985.

Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.

A poorly kept gravesite.

Broken shield style plaque in two pieces.

Black Metal Cross with the name 'Doris Walsh' inscribed.

In November of 1927, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary purchased three graves, combined into one plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork.

This is what the grave looks like now.

@timbre-breda.bsky.social & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot.

17 people are buried here.

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3 years ago today, I took a chance.

Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me.

With the help of @projectinfant.ie volunteers, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions so far.

More to come!

About time.

It's surreal to think that after 11 years, tomorrow is the day that the Tuam exhumation will begin.

796 children unaccounted.

With a test exhumation carried out in 2017 / 2018 - the preservation methods put in place that would last 6 months, may be gone, but...

Let it begin.

International experts join mass grave excavation at former mother and baby home in Ireland It is hoped that excavation work will lead to the identification of the remains of 796 children who are believed to have died at St Mary's home between 1925 and 1961.

A week today, this will begin.

Let there be answers.

#MotherAndBabyHomes

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To view the burial registers for St. Joseph's Cemetery, Ballyphehane + St. Finbarr's Cemetery to search for the mothers and children connected to Bessborough Mother and Baby Institution who are buried in those cemeteries. To view records from 1948-1998 for St. Joseph's + 1930-1998 for St. Finbarr's.

I'm incredibly disappointed by Cork City Council [CCC] in their handling of my Freedom of Information Request [FOI] and how I am no closer to answers over 2 months later.

I was very clear in what I was after - to examine the burial registers of St. Joseph's & St. Finbarr's...

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Draft: Here’s the report Children’s Health won’t publish

Children’s Health Ireland respects legal advice. The Ditch respects the public interest.

Will publish shortly.

Here’s the report Children’s Health Ireland won’t publish Children’s Health Ireland respects legal advice. The Ditch respects the public interest.

‘There is a continued withholding of information, claiming this to be a human resources report. The reality is very different,’ says one patients’ group about this report.

Children’s Health Ireland won’t publish it.

Here it is in full.

www.ontheditch.com/heres-the-re...

Govt had all but confirmed Nama’s McDonagh for housing role Confidential correspondence shows government had all but confirmed Nama chief Brendan McDonagh as its so-called housing tsar – while taoiseach Micheál Martin publicly denied any decision had been made...

Confidential correspondence shows government had all but confirmed Nama chief Brendan McDonagh as its so-called housing tsar – while taoiseach Micheál Martin publicly denied any decision had been made

It was to be 'kept under the strictest of confidence'

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My cat is so smart. I shut the doors into the kitchen each morning in case the wild cats get in when I feed them. My cat came back in, saw the closed doors, went straight out again. To him, closed doors = capture = vets! 😹

Other burial sites must be identified, says survivors’ advocate after exhumation preparation begins in Tuam Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried

While there is a large focus on Tuam at the moment, we can't let #Bessborough or any other #MotherAndBabyHomes with hundreds of missing burials slip by either. We need investigations. Into Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and more, then we do memorialisation.

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