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Senior Editor - Fine Dining Lovers. Contributor - Irish Independent. Irish living in Italy. Opinions my own and mine alone.

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Joined November 2011
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Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵 1. Water flowing over toes
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We are thrilled!! Thank you very much @FAOAfrica @FAO for your support.
We're excited to announce that FAO and chef Fatmata Binta are collaborating on a new project to support women fonio producers in Ghana. #Fonio is an underutilized food that has enormous potential. Read the full story: fao.org/africa/news/detail-n… #IYM2023 #4Betters
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Sausages and marriage
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Influential people we lost in 2022: Ashton Carter Barbara Walters Bill Russell Bob Saget Coolio Franco Harris James Caan Jiang Zemin Kirstie Alley Meat Loaf Mikhail Gorbachev Olivia Newton John Pele Queen Elizabeth II Ray Liotta Shane Warne Sidney Poitier Vivienne Westwood
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Cows kill more people every year than sharks.
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Football Legend Eric Cantona: "Let's not forget Julian Assange. A journalist jailed in England for publishing war crimes" #FreeAssangeNOW #WorldCup2022
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Lava flow in #Stromboli this morning. Photo by Bartolo Greco. – at Fiumicino, Lazio
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A painted ship upon a painted ocean ~ the sea turns to mercury in this luminous image of a fishing fleet by Californian impressionist William Ritschel (‘Boats Returning Home’ c 1915, Irvine Museum, University of California)
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James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.
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No CGI. Just Soviet filmmaking. All four parts of Bondarchuk’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1966-1967), considered among the best films of all time, are now uploaded in Mosfilm’s YouTube account in glorious and restored 4K.
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Buon #ferragosto! Dove lo passate? Un saluto speciale dallo spazio a chi oggi lavora o comunque non è in vacanza. #MissionMinerva
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Listen to a new episode of Taking Stock with @jfjohnston. This week covers: 🔘 Climate change with @MichaelGrubb9 🔘The latest in Italian politics with @HugoMcCafferty 🔘Crypto currency with @Keyes With thanks to @SkillnetIreland Listen now🔽

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Due to a small hole at my curtains, my room sometimes turns into a camera obscura.
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“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine” “We live in each other’s shelter” On this #StPatricksDay #Ireland 🇮🇪 stands in solidarity with the people of #Ukraine We are thinking of you today
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Amazing footage from Melitopol of Ukrainians stopping the onward advance of a Russian convoy and chanting “Occupants!” and “Murderers!” The jittery Russians are firing into the air
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#Norway petroglyph with a man, a boat, a reindeer and many spitz type #dogs 1st millennium BC #DogsofTwittter #DogsAreFamily #History #Archaeology #art #artwork
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Here is the direct YouTube live of the Newgrange winter solstice in case the Heritage Ireland site is struggling youtu.be/U836yG-eWNk
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As Covid-19 cases surge throughout Europe, we get the latest from Germany, Italy, and France with @Thomas_Sparrow @john_lichfield and @HugoMcCafferty #Covid_19
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