Ireland

Once every four years my social media feed goes bananas; hundreds of colleagues in my native USA promise that the upcoming election will the most important moment in history, the last chance to fulfill our promise as leaders of the planet or save ourselves from sliding into totalitarian darkness. This time around I know people who have supported Trump, Rubio, Paul, Cruz, Carson, Clinton, Sanders, and Stein, with every fan base seeing themselves as hobbits standing up to Sauron.

Irish comedian and actor Frank Kelly (Father Jack) passed away on Sunday aged 77. His funeral was held in Dublin on Wednesday and was attended by Irish President Michael D Higgins. He was buried today and hundreds attended his funeral and paid their respect for the laughter he brought to their lives. Comic legend Frank Kelly starred in the hit TV series Father Ted and played the part of Father Jack, a drunken catholic priest exiled to Craggy Island. Although he played the part of a naughty priest, he was in fact a religious man who attended church.

Authored by Brett Redmayne-Titley via ActivistPost.com,

“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” – Aristotle

Stunning ‘rainbow clouds’ have been spotted in the sky over Ireland and Scotland. These rainbow-coloured clouds, also known as mother-of-pearl or polar stratospheric clouds, are usually seen around the Arctic circle but can be created by severe winds and storms. Storm Henry led to the creation of the multi coloured nacreous clouds which were were spotted by people in a number of places, including Dublin and Belfast, Tayside and Fife. Polar Stratospheric clouds over Dublin Ireland! A very rare sight!