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  1. Dolphin75

    Happy Father's Day..

    Missing my aul fella today too. He passed away in 2015 at the age of 74 from cancer. He was a great father - ambitious, driven, direct, a free thinker, very honest - a great provider to our family and a rock of good advice. A very good role model.
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    Air India Crash

    Looking more and more like a catastrophic dual engine failure which would tally with the account by the sole survivor of hearing the RAT when airborne. Not looking great for Boeing at this stage - I would really not want to be taking a flight on a 787 any time soon. The black box recordings...
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    Brian Wilson - co-founder of the Beach Boys Passes Away Aged 82

    A genius who created Pet Sounds, possibly the finest album ever made. RIP Brian Wilson. Gone but never forgotten.
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    The leaving cert

    UCC - Science.
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    The leaving cert

    1993 for myself... three Bs, three Cs in honours subjects - and an unexpected A in pass maths. 430 points - just enough for my desired college course. A million years ago now!
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    Shooting in Carlow?

    This country is going the same way as the USA and UK. Economy and money over societal well-being. Material wealth over quality of life. Atomisation, isolation, an epidemic of loneliness, increasing violence, the steep decline of family support and community. 😥 This is the end result...
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    Eurovision

    It was a poor and very bland song by Emmy, but the best of a bad lot of Eurosong entries. The staging was also terrible. It just wasn't good enough. As for Marty, please would someone put him out of his misery?
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    Happy Easter

    Happy Easter to all! 🐣🐣🐰
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    Gene Hackman.

    Two of Hackman’s most brilliant roles - in The French Connection and later, in the superb Mississippi Burning. RIP.
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