Principal @knockbegcollege and former principal @duiskecollege Former Dp @st_con_cc_newb. Ex Chairperson @kkcityharriers Education, athletics and some.
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John Maye retweeted
Can you imagine the overwhelming joy and pride her family must’ve felt watching this. You’d hope in years to come they can sit back and enjoy stuff like this again but it must be crushing sadness fornow. She was fabulous, what a competitor.
RIP.
John Maye retweeted
A race that captures everything Ciara Mageean was as an athlete: the wicked blend of speed and endurance; her immense racing craft; the oceans of courage and class.
But she was an even better person
Thoughts with all her loved ones. May she rest in peace
John Maye retweeted
"No one is invincible, and if I keep that in my mind, I'm just more free to run like I want to."
Feature on Swiss star Audrey Werro after a brilliant, breakthrough season when the 22-year-old enjoyed a swift ascent to the summit of the women's 800m.
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John Maye retweeted
Our weekend preview 👇
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John Maye retweeted
Something I've learned about being too online in the last few years is that some people really truly cannot believe that other people might come to opinions about the world that are different from their own in a way that is natural and fair. Everything has to be an op.
There are all sorts of people—mostly conservative but even tech critics like McNamee—who insist that this AI safety moment is a psyop. Have people's feelings about AI safety been shaped by a complex set of factors such as longstanding AI fears, worsening data center politics, the Hugging Face attack and its fallout, and now the Coxon resignation? No, no, no. They're victims of a psyop.
It reminds me that I've had a distressingly high number of conversations with leftists who believe that the only reason America isn't a socialist paradise is that Fox News and other conservative media do something special and evil and conspiratorial to brainwash half the country. Look, I do not like Fox News. But I think Fox News is successful because it says what many people have already been thinking. It shapes public opinion at the margins, but mostly it reflects biases back to viewers rather than invent them out of whole cloth.
There is a powerful, powerful urge to believe that the only reason the world doesn't agree with you about literally every little thing is that small handful of media-adjacent elites are constantly doing "ops" on the undiscerning public. I don't know, man. People's attitudes are different from yours and mine, because ... their lives are different. They accumulate different biases, different expectations, different values, different frameworks. Difference is normal, not an op.
John Maye retweeted
The last gasp two point effort from Conaill Fitzpatrick which saved MLR’s Senior Football status tonight against a gallant Fenagh side who were just seconds away from safety themselves
🎥 @clubber
John Maye retweeted
🎙️ “Sensacional!”
MUST WATCH: 🇧🇷 Alison dos Santos breaks the 400m hurdles world record in 45.80 with Álvaro José’s commentary for the Brazilian TV broadcast of the Zurich Diamond League.
So good.
John Maye retweeted
Fabulous to see our bespoke @GreenSchoolsIre flags lining the avenue! Massive thanks to Johnathon, who, as a member of our committee, played an essential role in us achieving all flags to date & who designed this initiative 🌍 @knockbegcollege
John Maye retweeted
De Gaules
Quand il était président, Charles de Gaulle estimait que l’argent public devait être strictement intouchable.
Au Palais de l’Élysée, il était impensable que l’État prenne en charge la moindre dépense personnelle.
Son épouse, Yvonne de Gaulle, tenait un petit carnet dans lequel elle notait avec rigueur toutes les dépenses du foyer : électricité, nourriture, vêtements, savon… rien n’était laissé au hasard.
Chaque mois, le couple envoyait un chèque au Trésor public afin de rembourser ces frais strictement privés.
Un jour, le comptable de l’Élysée lui fit remarquer que cela n’était « pas nécessaire ».
Elle répondit avec fermeté :
« Tout ce qui n’est pas public est privé, et ce qui est privé, c’est à nous de le payer. »
Leur exigence allait encore plus loin :
leurs enfants et petits-enfants n’avaient pas le droit d’utiliser les voitures officielles pour des déplacements personnels.
Charles de Gaulle refusait les privilèges liés à sa fonction.
Il réglait lui-même toutes ses dépenses à l’Élysée — jusqu’au savon ou aux repas de famille — et avait même choisi de renoncer à son salaire présidentiel, vivant uniquement de sa pension de général.
À sa mort, il ne laissa aucune fortune, seulement sa maison à Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, acquise avant la guerre.
On raconte même qu’il envoyait spontanément des chèques au Trésor public dès qu’un doute existait sur une dépense privée réglée par l’État.
Un sens de l’intégrité et du devoir qui force encore aujourd’hui le respect…
et qui rappelle que le véritable prestige ne réside pas dans les privilèges, mais dans l’exemplarité. 🇫🇷
John Maye retweeted
Remembering all @KandLeYouth who will receive their Leaving Cert Results this morning, remember whatever points you get, does not define you as a person - wishing you every blessing on the next chapter in your young lives @KANDLEi @theway_ie
John Maye retweeted
Great to be at the Prayer Vigil this evening in @g_kparish Blessings on Ella, Niamh, Alma & Yemi and all who are hurting in Carlow at this time @KANDLEi @theway_ie @IrishCathNews
John Maye retweeted
Elite athletes’ harsh financial reality: ‘Vast majority are struggling to make ends meet’
‘Getting taxed on a Government grant is bullshit,’ says top Irish middle-distance runner Cathal Doyle
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