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Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Thirty Two

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousTomer Bar to IAF pilots: 'No enemy Is beyond reach' after Iran strike“A Major Massacre” in Jabaliya; Israeli Forces Raid Kamal

Shels ⚽ Drogs ⚽ Exquisite

Anthony McIntyre ⚽ The outcome didn't much matter. Drogheda would still be in the play offs so, win, lose or draw at Tolka Park last night was pretty much academic. To my mind the most important thing was not the victory but emerging from the game with no players injured ahead of both the Cup final in two weeks time followed by a play off the following Saturday.We arrived quite early and

How A Russian Operative Snared An Irish Politician

Sunday Times 📰 Written by John Mooney.Recommended by Carrie Twomey. Classic Cold War tradecraft lured a sitting member of the Oireachtas to offer his services to a spy.Despite his extensive counter-surveillance training, Sergey Prokopiev failed to notice the surveillance officers monitoring his activities at quarters. Officially, Prokopiev served as a counsellor at the

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Thirty One

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be Curious'I think Trent Alexander-Arnold is gone - there's no chance Liverpool can keep him'Liverpool ruthless truth about to be revealed

A Morning Thought @ 2315

If There Is A Heaven

Sean Bresnahan ✒ Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Al-Sinwar was born in the Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, in the then Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip, Palestine, on 29th October 1962.His parents had been forcibly evicted from their homes in the since destroyed city of al-Majdal Asqualan, dispossessed of their land by Zionist forces as they rampaged through Palestine, carrying out what would become

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Thirty

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousMany Children Among Hundreds Killed, Wounded in Latest Israeli Bombings of Gaza5 Israeli soldiers killed, 20 injured in clashes

The Melting Skin Of Children

Anthony McIntyre ☠ One year on since the onset of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, there seems to be no end in sight.I was sitting in a pub on October-7 last year with a friend when he told me about a developing situation within the borders of the Israeli terror state. Hamas breached the 17-year-long Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip with a brutal, coordinated attack on at least

Earthside

Christopher Owens ✍ with a poem.EarthsideThe car rooves radiate autumnal blissdue to the amount of shed leaves slumberingand sloping along the windscreens. The sidesare remarkably leaf free and the ground callsout to me from the balcony, attempting toseduce me into falling into the pile that hasgathered on the road. I politely decline.♜ ♞ ♟Street lights are still on and the sun is

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Three Hundred And Twenty Nine

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousDuff excited for final home game against Drogheda UnitedLeague of Ireland playoff dates confirmed with Drogheda United facing