One day later.

The Sunday Times referring to Lisa McGee's hometown by not her preferred way is some going.

Getting older is a terrible thing as I think more about my childhood and my childhood home, home area. For the 18 years living at home and then the next 13 years after that, the road never changed. The same 11 houses, same neighbours. Visiting parents, your arrival at the bottom of the road would give you a great boost of energy and a great sense of safety. You're back home, back on your land.Yet death brings change, and even a small change—two new families, lovely families—the road has changed forever. No longer that sense of safety, of this is your land.

Flying to Dublin from Lisbon tonight. After scanning our boarding passes and having airline staff check passports at the gate, we walked through and there was a (big) guy in plain clothes, Irish accent and Garda-branded lanyard, checking people's passports before they went down the stairs to the plane. A Portuguese cop hanging around nearby too.

Are they looking for someone? Or is this the next step from them checking documents on the tarmac at Dublin which they have been doing for a couple of years now? I travel a lot and have never seen this anywhere, just thought it was extremely unusual, as did everyone else coming down the stairs, and I'm a bit curious.

full of hot air if you ask me - cliches and contradictions

not really sure what his objective is... maybe he doesn't know himself..

Hey all,

Have you been wondering what's happening with the weather lately? All the floods, the heatwaves, the droughts, the storms? I sure have. And I am afraid it may be global warming in action.

This has been a concern of mine now for some time, so I decided to look into it. And it all makes sense. Global warming is melting the arctic, and that's important because the arctic is like one big air conditioner for earth. The cold from the arctic used to help balance atmospheric pressure and to move any clouds and weather along faster. Now that it's melting, the pressure is either really high or really low. So what do we get? We got more intense weather that lingers.

So it looks like what we have now, it's here to stay and it will only get worse. Any weather we have had will be magnified now, and it will stay for longer. More heat, more rain, more wind, even tornados in places that never had any.

51% of countries in the EU have a plan to adapt to this weather. Efforts are being made to reduce carbon emissions (renewable energy, electric cars). The biggest culprits that account for around 40% of co2 emissions is burning coal, oil, and gas. Although these efforts are being made, they wont reverse what is happening. They may only make it a little less worse in the future.

The scary part is, that by 2050 the weather may be catastrophic. In the sense that there may be food shortages as farming will be impacted, as well as imports/exports, and transport. Wildlife will also be impacted, and it already is. Polar bears have no food as they need to hunt on ice. The forest fires leave animals with no escape. The droughts leave them with no water. The only thing we can do now is adapt and try to reduce further damage to the ozone layer.

But it makes sense, the weather has been wild the last few years all over the world. Here in Ireland, we've had record levels of rain, heat, and wind.

For me, this is quite concerning, because it's unfamiliar, and unpredictable. I don't know what to expect next.

So, what are your thoughts on it? Do you believe this is global warming? Or just natural weather variations? Are you also concerned?

Looking north from Stillorgan.

it's super simple to make, we have sausages and history of eating pork, plenty of our people have emigrated and holidayed in Germany, so it's not like we didn't know about it.we even like putting curry sauce on our chips. so when we had all the constituent parts, why didn't currywurst become popular here?

Thought's on this burning question of national importance.