THE FIFIETH REPUBLIC!

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Glad to hear piggy is OK.

Not at all surprised that a small group of people tried to get Zoe Hyde's paper retracted. Hopefully they are about to discover the Streisand effect.

Bridging the gap between the Republic and the knitters. I give you Cillian, in a jumper.

Happy Friday!

Hmmm lovely!

A friend and her husband were briefly living with his brother and tried to fix me up with him about 20 years ago.

Brother said very little and was probably thinking exactly what I was; you fancy my brother more...

What was also hilarious was that I kept having to translate between high speed northern Irish and his southern Irish lilt. Both frequently couldn't understand each other!

What a story @WarriorN!

I think I may have accepted that date, got married and then I cold be the drunk sister-in-law who would try and grope him at every family party (and I know from being married to an Irish man, there are LOADS of those!)

You see, I find Cillian (at lest inall the pics so generously shared here, quite scary-looking. Mean cruel hard looking.....

Just me?

Not just you, @JanFebAnyMonth - not my cup of tea at all! I can see why others find him attractive, but I just... don't.

@JanFebAnyMonth

You see, I find Cillian (at lest inall the pics so generously shared here, quite scary-looking. Mean cruel hard looking.....

Just me?

I like to say ‘brooding’.

The image that takes me back to my 19 year old self and the day I pledged my first born son would be named ‘Cillian’. (My Cillian is blond haired, blue eyed and now has a happy smile 😆)

*gappy!

@JanFebAnyMonth I agree with you about Cillian.

Crikey so bad at maths. 24 year old self!

I find him a bit 'skeletor' (from He-Man) looking.

@motherrunner

What a story *@WarriorN*!

I think I may have accepted that date, got married and then I cold be the drunk sister-in-law who would try and grope him at every family party (and I know from being married to an Irish man, there are LOADS of those!)

Gah sadly I tried my best flirting, he was either gay, not interested or too shy (I think the latter) also lived miles away. It was around 28 days later time. I think the over enthusiasm my friend had for his brother (with her husband there) may have been a factor!

He's got amazing eyes. I think he'd make a good Jesus, in a Robert Powell kind of way.

He does slots on radio6 quite often. He comes across as Thoroughly Nice Man.

The world would be a boring place if we all liked exactly the same thing!

Ah, Cilian in a jumper. How lovely. Autocorrect changes Cilian to Collin though, and somehow that doesn’t have the same allure...

Also a bloodbath - "he's mine!" "no he's mine!"

I'm eternally grateful that I grew up in the modern age, with more partners to choose from, than in a small village with much less choice. The competition must have been brutal.

Has anyone used the ‘Calm’ app? It’s good for all sorts of things but it has Cillian reading a sleep story. It’s bloody brilliant-he talks you through a train journey across Ireland to get you to go to sleep; I haven’t got to the end yet!

It’s been v good at calming me down recently to be honest. It’s got loads of different famous people reading stories but his one is free .

@TheMoth

I'm eternally grateful that I grew up in the modern age, with more partners to choose from, than in a small village with much less choice. The competition must have been brutal.

I do @Appuskidu, but only the free version. Will upgrade if he reads a story!

@TheMoth He does, doesn’t he? He’s very musical too and I love hearing him talk about music. He’s been married for donkey’s so I also like that he’s family orientated too.

@Appuskidu Just reread your post. His is free 😳 I’ve haven’t been on the app for a while. That’s my evening sorted 😃

Good Morning Republicans! Got the news yesterday that we are expected in for a reintegration day (although they didn’t call it that) where they are having a whole staff face to face meeting 😭

[quote motherrunner]@Appuskidu Just reread your post. His is free 😳 I’ve haven’t been on the app for a while. That’s my evening sorted 😃[/quote]
It’s so good!

I was in such a state about everything at the start of the week-not sleeping or seemingly capable of logical and coherent thought, but I’ve actually slept pretty well for 3 nights straight now thanks to Mr Murphy!!

I think there’s lots of other good stuff on there but I’m only using it for him at the moment

@Medra

Good Morning Republicans! Got the news yesterday that we are expected in for a reintegration day (although they didn’t call it that) where they are having a whole staff face to face meeting 😭

That's ridiculous!

We've handily already got an inset scheduled for Friday the 5th.

I'm going to be super unproductive today, I stayed up way too late last night after spotting a job vacancy that closed at 9am today. I only have one live lesson though, thankfully. I've emailed the head to tell him and also offered to go PT next year. This is shit.