#Paris - you've been glorious! #OlympicGames
And, even more wonderful to discover the new network of 🚲 routes across the city! A joy! 👏 🙏
A backlog of photos so where better to start than the #Burren & Blackhead, 1 June. Slowly climbed the limestone (pavement, grykes & carpets of flowers) to top (314m), attempting to take it all in as I climbed. Stone fort, probably >2000 y old, spectacular from close-up or afar
Great to join the #Cork hubbie in the sun 🌞 for a fantastic @TheCorkMarathon! Good to know the ol' legs still have it!!
Brought back very happy memories of #running in @Go2Warsaw with .....
Running diplomacy 🏃♀️🏃♂️Pleasure to run the iconic night time #BiegPowstania with #Chilean and #Irish colleagues, @IRLeoconnell, honoring the heroes of the #WarsawUprising. Many thanks to @AKTYWNAWARSZAWA and all volonteers and officials for this memorable evening @ewarsaw
North #Wales beyond glorious this Easter. How lucky are we to be such close neighbours across Irish Sea! #Snowdonia #Llŷn #Harlech
Luí na Gréine #Sunset Galway Bay ❤️ – at Galway, Ireland
Almost 20 years after first visit, great to return to #Asturias, España. What an offering: glorious mountains #PicosdeEuropa ... 1/ – at Camargo, España
Gleoite i #Rosmuc inniu!
Rain sheets of recent days lifted in the #Connemara Gaeltacht today - how lucky were we! – at Galway, Ireland
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Fortunate to have been in W #Connemara in these glorious days leading up to #SummerSolstice. The cloudscape caught the eye as much as the landscape. Little wonder that the west of #Ireland cloudscapes featured so strongly in Paul Henry's paintings – at Galway, Ireland

ALT 1: Mweelrea mountain from Renvyle peninsula; 2: Inagh valley: view to the NW; cloud sits on Mweelrea; 3: Inagh valley; looking to the west across L. Inagh to the Twelve Bens, ancient mountains shaped by the ice sheets of the last glaciation; 4: mountains of Connemara with Cashel hill on the right hand side; view to NE from Roundstone pier (photos: Michael O’Connell; June 2023)
Hello #Scotland 👋! Stunning views today from Fair Head #Antrim @DiscoverNI – at Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
As we say in diplomacy “It’s wheels up” for the O’Connell-Keating team after four wonderful years in 🇵🇱.
Dziękuję Polsko, zawsze będziesz w naszych sercach 🇮🇪 ❤️ 🇵🇱 – at Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Polska
Farewell to a top class @IrlEmbWarsaw team! What a joy to work with you all these past years!
🇮🇪 🤝🇵🇱 – at Warsaw, Poland
The husband promoting Irish ☘️ literature at his last SHOM meeting in 🇵🇱! Telling the tale of #Nora - James Joyce’s steadfast partner.
Spouses of Heads of Mission - you are our vital support. 🙏🏼 – at Warsaw, Poland
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Calling all writers! Apply now for The Heaney-Miłosz Residency – a 4-6 week residency in Krakow, which aims to support early to mid-career writers, resident in Ireland, to further develop their work. Applications close 30 September. Apply at: literaryresidenciespoland.pl…
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Minister @simoncoveney has issued a statement on the death of David Trimble.
Read the full statement here: bit.ly/3BbkKy6













































