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08.10.2025 #1000Madleens
🆘 L'équipage pacifique du Milad illégalement kidnappé par #Israel alors que, face à l'inaction des gouvernements, il naviguait en eaux internationales pour aller tenter d'ouvrir un corridor humanitaire pour #Gaza assiegée par l'etat genocidaire israelien

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The hike did not disappoint. Literally everything is covered in moss, lichen and mushrooms. Truly a fairy land.
We walked for around six hours, even had to take our shoes off several times because the trail was flooded. Towards the end we visited an old Abbey in ruins (Muckross Abbey) that was really beautiful with a super old yew tree growing in the central courtyard. In the evening, we went to a local pub for some food and mocktails. It was a long day and I just woke up after sleeping for 10 hours uninterruptedly. Hiking in the cold Irish wind does seem to be exhausting 😅
#Ireland #Killarney #Elireland #MuckrossAbbey #TorcWaterfall

Is it true that there are 99 Irish words for rain? Author and broadcaster Manchán Magan, who died last week at age 55, wasn't sure, so he wrote a book about it, "Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun)." Here's an excerpt, which was published in the Irish Times. "The word for a sudden, heavy shower is spairn; as opposed to sprais, a sudden, heavy, spattering shower; or búisteog, which is simply a sudden shower; or múirling, a sudden heavy shower that moves like a wall of water; or liongar ceatha, a particularly nasty sudden shower; or tuile shléibhe, a sudden shower near a hillside," he writes. "I could fill this entire page with rain words, but what’s more interesting is the insight this abundance of terms gives into our forebears; the countless sodden, shivery experiences that led to the creation of each word."

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Illustration by Megan Luddy from Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) by Manchán Magan
The Irish Times · Ninety-nine words for rain in Irish: could it actually be true?By Manchán Magan