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Finally caved in and got a dog, we picked him up at Connemara airport, he flew in from Aran Mór and hasn't left my side since, never had a dog and I've fallen madly in love.....
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My Mum has passed away, we are burying her today on a beautiful frosty December morning, I want to thank everyone here who have always shown such kindness.Mum has taught me it is not who you are but character and kindness that matters and a good dollop of rarrr..
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"Before you argue with someone, ask yourself, is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective. Because if not, there's absolutely no point" Helen Mirren
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"Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." George Orwell
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Went for a swim in the sea saw someone take my shoes and clothes , swam in chased them down the beach, when I called they started running , caught up with them took my stuff back, arseholes! Being fit comes in handy bytimes.
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If you see random women in fields with torches cutting bloody rushes it's teachers!
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"If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words ‘fuck off’ much more frequently.”Helen Mirren
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"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts" Charles Dickens
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"He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength."
Cormac McCarthy
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"I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.”
Carl Jung
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"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem even a lousy poem. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” Kurt Vonnegut
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"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."Charles Bukowski
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"A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living,” Virginia Woolf
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“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire” Charles Bukowski
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From the back garden, the sky is just mesmeric...that was some solar flare, I doubt I will ever see the Aurora like this again.....
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"That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.” Samuel Beckett
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"The shortest distance between two people is a story.” Patti Digh
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“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”Isaac Asimov
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@Sineadmcgar
@JoeBrolly1993
I am thinking of 3 small children.....he opens his article with these lines, what if he had opened with, I'm thinking of a brave woman scarred for life....ultimately Joe Brolly puts the blame back on the woman for raising her head above the parapet...
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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind" Epictetus
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"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear." Paulo Coelho
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"Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black." Martin Amis
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“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.” Susan Sontag
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“There is no truth. There is only perception.” Gustave Flaubert
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"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” Henry Miller
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"The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts."John Steinbeck
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"Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are? Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.” Stephen King
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"A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool."
Christian Louboutin
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"The creative adult is the child who survived." Ursula Leguin
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"Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.” Nina Simone
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Mam died before Christmas, Dad had a fall on Saturday, raising teenagers, holding down a full time teaching job and caring for your parents, in this mad unfair country is no joke! Kudos to all the people out there doing it all and if anyone gives you hassle tell them to f*** o**!
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“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked" Henry Miller
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It only rained twice this week, first for 3 days and then for 4 days
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Albert Camus
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This is where I come on the day that's in it,it was part of the mainland until 1393 when a huge storm caused it to break away from the mainland.History was hijacked and the legend goes that himself drove the snakes from here.But I'm a snake, Irish indomnitable with a pagan soul
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"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." Mark Twain
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I never tweet with my own voice, I let the sages of past and present do my talking for me, but I do want to say a big thank you for following the ramblings of a mad Irish woman and a Happy New Year to all.
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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” Andre Gide
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Patti Smith
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James Baldwin
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"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees" Victor Hugo
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This year, I'll have only Dad to look after, no doubt Mam will be looking down while I assassinate the turkey....to one and all a very Happy Christmas , go mbeirimid beo ag an am seo arís..
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"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness"
Michel de Montaigne
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