Mags doherty retweeted
Here is a link to the priest’s advant calendar. Let’s sell this thing!
Replying to @Suzanne_Brmptn @DailyMail
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Found this link and have just ordered the children’s advent calendars, they look really lovely and have good reviews 😀
Mags doherty retweeted
Elle a été mal diagnostiquée pendant des décennies. La vérité n’a été découverte qu’après qu’elle était déjà devenue une star mondiale. 📷
Susan Boyle a grandi dans le West Lothian, en Écosse, et était la plus jeune de dix enfants. À sa naissance, elle a manqué d’oxygène, et les médecins pensaient que cela avait provoqué des lésions cérébrales et entraîné chez elle des difficultés d’apprentissage.
Son enfance à l’école fut difficile, et Boyle a raconté plus tard avoir été victime de harcèlement et avoir été punie par certains enseignants.
« Vous regardez quelqu’un qui recevait des coups de ceinture tous les jours… “Tu vas te taire, Susan !” — et vlan ! » a-t-elle raconté au Mirror.
Mais des décennies plus tard, Susan Boyle a finalement découvert que le diagnostic qu’elle avait porté pendant une grande partie de sa vie était erroné. Elle a été diagnostiquée comme ayant le syndrome d’Asperger, aujourd’hui inclus dans les troubles du spectre de l’autisme, et a découvert qu’elle avait en réalité un QI supérieur à la moyenne.
Pendant toutes ces années difficiles, la musique est devenue son refuge. Sa mère, Bridget, fut l’une des personnes qui crurent le plus en elle et l’encouragea à faire quelque chose de sa voix.
« Ma famille a toujours été là pour me soutenir et m’encourager à faire davantage de ma vie. Et ma mère, en particulier, a été la force motrice qui m’a fait promettre de faire quelque chose de ma voix et de ma vie », a déclaré Boyle.
Mais en 2007, seulement un an avant que sa vie ne change à jamais, Bridget est décédée à l’âge de 91 ans. Susan Boyle fut anéantie.
« J’étais très seule et très bouleversée… J’avais des crises de panique et j’avais l’impression de ne plus pouvoir faire face. Je ne mangeais plus et je ne dormais plus correctement », a-t-elle raconté plus tard.
Puis arriva le moment qui allait tout changer.
Lorsque Susan Boyle monta sur la scène de Britain’s Got Talent et commença à chanter « I Dreamed a Dream », c’était la première fois qu’elle se produisait en public depuis la disparition de sa mère.
Des millions de personnes la regardèrent avec stupéfaction. Cette femme qui avait passé une grande partie de sa vie à être sous-estimée venait de révéler une voix exceptionnelle.
Presque du jour au lendemain, Susan Boyle devint une sensation mondiale et vendit par la suite plus de 25 millions d’albums dans le monde.
En 2022, Susan Boyle fut victime d’un AVC et se retira en grande partie de la vie publique.
Mais en 2025, elle annonça son retour en studio d’enregistrement — un retour que nombre de ses admirateurs attendaient depuis des années.
« Je ne rêve plus le rêve », avait-elle déclaré un jour, « parce que je suis en train de le vivre. » 📷
📷 : Facebook/Susan Boyle
Mags doherty retweeted
45 years ago today, Prince Charles and Princess Diana were honeymooning at Balmoral, Scotland, after their two-week trip aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. The newlyweds held a press conference while walking the beautiful grounds.
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Mags doherty retweeted
Andy Webb is the journalist who brought the Panorama scandal to light in 2020. Princess Diana met with her lawyer a week before giving the interview and what she told him is very different than what she said in the Panorama interview…Bashir is pure evil.
Mags doherty retweeted
Harry served 10 years in the Army, so I’m curious: Is he qualified to skydive solo? Today, he jumped tandem.
The Red Devils said he took a basic course and jumped with instructors around 2012. I couldn’t find public confirmation that he went on to earn an independent skydiving qualification.
It makes me wonder just how sheltered and coddled Harry was during his Army service.
In my opinion it looks like more stolen valor.
Here is King Charles’ first parachute jump, from an Andover aircraft into Studland Bay on July 28, 1971. Notice how he doesn’t kiss the ground like a little B.
#GodSaveTheKing
Mags doherty retweeted
Comment Charles Spencer, no I didn't think so!
Private letters revealed during the 2002 Paul Burrell trial exposed a much darker side of Charles Spencer towards Princes Diana.
The illusion of their closeness was shattered when private letters from April 1996—just over a year before Diana’s tragic death—were read aloud in court.
The correspondence revealed a brutal falling out:
Admitting They Weren't Close: In the letter, Earl Spencer explicitly told Diana that after years of neglect on both sides, their relationship was the "weakest I have with any of my sisters" and that he had become a "peripheral part" of her life.
Harsh Personal Attacks: Charles accused Diana of being a "fickle friend" and weaponised her personal struggles. He wrote, "I know how manipulation and deceit are parts of the illness... I pray that you are getting appropriate and sympathetic treatment for your mental problems," in a direct jab at her battles with bulimia.
They never spoke again. She said he was cold, uncaring and an abusive husband and terrible brother.
Diana felt sorry for his wife who was going through her on struggles because of her brother's cheating and horrible behaviour.
Mags doherty retweeted
Private letters revealed during the 2002 Paul Burrell trial exposed a much darker side of Charles Spencer towards Princes Diana.
The illusion of their closeness was shattered when private letters from April 1996—just over a year before Diana’s tragic death—were read aloud in court.
The correspondence revealed a brutal falling out:
Admitting They Weren't Close: In the letter, Earl Spencer explicitly told Diana that after years of neglect on both sides, their relationship was the "weakest I have with any of my sisters" and that he had become a "peripheral part" of her life.
Harsh Personal Attacks: Charles accused Diana of being a "fickle friend" and weaponised her personal struggles. He wrote, "I know how manipulation and deceit are parts of the illness... I pray that you are getting appropriate and sympathetic treatment for your mental problems," in a direct jab at her battles with bulimia.
They never spoke again. She said he was cold, uncaring and an abusive husband and terrible brother.
Diana felt sorry for his wife who was going through her on struggles because of her brother's cheating and horrible behaviour.
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Mags doherty retweeted
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He is ugly-hearted and unapologetic
Remember when Harry was accusing his family of briefing against his wife “daily” with lies, claiming it had got so bad that he and Meghan had to “run away from my country”?
He was saying this while promoting Spare, a book in which he proceeded to do exactly what he was accusing his family of doing: publicly air private family matters, private conversations, arguments and grievances, and give his version of events to the world.
Did he actually hear himself?
The irony is almost unbelievable. 🙄
He complained about unnamed sources feeding stories to the press while he was sitting there promoting a memoir that did the job himself, only with his name on the cover.
So did Harry ever stop to think about the contradiction?
He accused his family of using the media to control the narrative about them and Meghan, while he and Meghan went on to build an entire public narrative about the Royal Family through interviews, documentaries, podcasts, books and media appearances.
And then there is the question that still makes the original accusation look even more absurd: if the Royal Family were really briefing against Meghan “daily”, how did all those briefings and leaks suddenly stop when Harry and Meghan left?
It’s almost as if the source of all those briefings packed up and moved to Montecito with them.
And then there’s the Charlotte Griffiths episode, where she said information about a meeting involving the Sussexes came from a close adviser to Harry and Meghan, only for Sussex sources to blame the Palace for the resulting story.
So Harry’s accusation comes full circle: accuse the Palace of briefing against you, while allegedly having your own side brief, and then blame the Palace when you get caught.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Mags doherty retweeted
What a deserving finish in Croke Park to an epic career. Katie has brought so much joy and excitement to the Irish and many others around the world. She has and will inspire so many to follow after her. A proud day to be Irish ☘️ ☘️☘️
'I didn't go to a fancy school, I didn't have much money - but I had a big dream'
Katie Taylor tries to sum things up at Croke Park with @OFlynnPaul
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#rtesport #taylorvpili
Mags doherty retweeted
That's done me 🥺
Thank you for dreaming. Thank you for always preserving. Thank you for letting us be part of your special journey. Just one more to go 💫
@EddieHearn replies to @KatieTaylor's message from 2016 📲
#TaylorPili
Mags doherty retweeted
IRELAND DID THIS FOR A FEMALE ATHLETE.
Katie Taylor. Croke Park.
REST OF THE WORLD — STAND UP.
Mags doherty retweeted
"Buskers tribute to Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard in Dublin 🇮🇪 this evening with a collective version of Falling Slowly, which he co-wrote with Markéta Irglová."
Glen Hansard, 1970-2026.
❤️🩹🕯️🕊️
📹 Dublin Live
Mags doherty retweeted
🎶 So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate'er befalls
Then gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all 🎶
Good night, Glen and Sláinte. 🥃💚
#GlenHansard
Mags doherty retweeted
"I'm going to start another round of chemo next week... So for today, I'm making the most of it and feeling good." ❤️
Ciara Mageean reflected on an emotional evening at the National Senior Championships, where hundreds of young athletes joined the European champion on the track at Morton Stadium.
#IrishAthletics #AthleticsIreland #CiaraMageean
Mags doherty retweeted
This is a brilliant interview with Ciara Mageean from David Gillick.
What a superstar ❤️































