Malin Head, Co. #Donegal 57µg/m³ high
Ballinasloe, Co. #Galway 55µg/m³ high
#Sligo Town 61µg/m³ high
Mullingar, Co. #Westmeath 71µg/m³ very high
On this day in 1831, Anne Ormsby Phibbs died aged 56. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Emlaghfad, Co. Sligo, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/phib1831
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Ebbtide at Strandhill
The UK Foreign Office's former Chief mouser #Palmerston has died in Bermuda, where he moved in 2020 after retiting as #diplocat. 😞
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/14/cat-chief-mouser-uk-foreign-office-dies-bermuda-palmerston
Outranked by the great Larry the #Number10Cat, prolific tweeter Palmerston was a disreputable cat, named after the infamous Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. The original Palmerston is best known in Ireland as a cruel landlord in famine-ravaged #Sligo, and globally for starting the appalling #OpiumWars in China.
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On this day in 1825, Cicely Kilcullen Burne died aged 83. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Templeboy, Co. Sligo, in the Journals: tinyurl.com/burn1825
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Cycling out of #Sligo to a stormy wild camp at the haunted Coopers lodge in the Ox mountains - day 1 of following #Eurovelo 1 to Westport in which I explore just who the Coopers were as I cycled through what was their vast Cromwell given estates
Video at
https://youtu.be/pVZmjN1qfIQ
