To Warm The Cockles of the Heart

26/04/2023

Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are amazing friends ❤️

12/10/2022

Smile 😃 x

Happiest school photo I've ever seen!

Credit: Upside Down in WV

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Three leading ladies in years gone by 🤗

Winona Ryder, Jodie Foster & Julia Roberts (1989)

21/07/2022

Poor elephant 😞 abused for years…..

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Video on second slide. 💙

13/12/2021

Amaze balls ❤️

13/12/2021

So very tragic 😔 ###x

Party preparations were underway at the mansion of Jeff Bezos (inset) after new details emerged about a tornado that killed six at an Amazon warehouse (inset), including Clayton Cope (pictured)

04/11/2021

The amazing true story of two young fellas from Ireland who were late for dinner because they ended up in New York!!! ❤️

The Boys who ran away to New York...

In 1985 two boys from Darndale in Dublin, Keith Byrne (10) and Noel Murray (13), both made headlines around the world when they hopped on a Dart and ended up in New York escaping authorities in three countries.

Keith Byrne said that he and his friend went to the United States because he wanted to see his favourite television star, B A Baracus, of The A-Team.

Their adventure started when they went out to play before dinner time, Keith said in an RTÉ Radio documentary broadcast last month: “My mum said: ‘don’t go far, your dinner’s nearly ready,’ ”he recalled. “I said: ‘I won’t.”

But they did. They took the Dart to Dún Laoghaire and snuck on to a ferry to Holyhead. Emboldened by their success, they avoided the ticket checkers and got on a train to London. Eventually they wound up at Heathrow airport with nothing but a few coins they’d nicked from a charity fountain.

Once there they asked a random passenger where his plane was going and he told them New York. They told the ticket checker and security their parents were behind them, and boarded an Air India plane.

“The plane was only half full so no one came near us,” he said. Their ease at slipping past the authorities was even more surprising given the fact that, two months earlier, an Air India jet had blown up off the southwest of Ireland, killing 329 people.

Byrne recalled being unable to eat a very hot Indian curry and watching the James Bond film A View To A Kill.

Their journey came to an end when they left JFK airport and asked a policeman for the way “into town”. They were taken to a police station where they immediately became the centre of attention. Authorities were taking no chances and they were put in a hotel suite with five security guards. “There was BLTs, chips, everything, fed us like lords. We loved it,” Keith said.

Their exploits made the front page of the New York newspapers.

Keith Byrne is now 43 and Noel Murray is 46. Both live in Darndale.

PHOTO: Keith Byrne with his mother, Theresa, at Coolock Garda Station, 1985.

📸Dermot O'Shea

24/09/2021

Malala Yousafzai & Kylie Jenner just turned 18 - Kylie got a brand new Ferrari and spent $10,000's on plastic surgery and botox. Malala was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, survived a gun shot to the face by the Taliban, opened a school for Syrian refugees and is inspiring education for kids around the world. What's upsetting is the media is only covering Kylie as "breaking news" and not mentioning a word about Malala's powerful strength and courageous passion to change the world.... Kylie is immortalized because her parents are rich, she shops on Rodeo Drive and gets drunk at parties..... Malala is infinitely more beautiful!

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24/03/2021

In loving memory of Robin Williams...
Gone...but not forgotten!...

16/02/2021

"The credit you give yourself is not worth having..." Michael Lanon

Words from Michael's daughter Cheryl....
“Do you realize my Dad never won an Emmy?” she remarked. “In order to win, you have to nominate yourself. Dad would never do that. My dad subscribed to the theory that ‘credit you give yourself is not worth having.'”