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Paul Hirst07/25/2026July 25, 2026

Farmers in Spain’s Galicia region are turning to an old solution to combat the threat of wildfires. Goats, sheep and native cattle are being sent into the hills to eat the dense undergrowth that can fuel the fires.

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In Spain‘s northwestern Galicia region, farmers are using native cattle to help prevent wildfires by grazing on dense vegetation that fuels fast-moving flames.

The initiative was introduced after a devastating 2017 wildfire and has become a cost-effective alternative to mechanical land clearing.

By eating gorse, brambles and scrub, the animals create natural firebreaks while preserving local ecosystems.

The project has also helped revive endangered native breeds and is gaining importance as climate change increases wildfire risks across the region.

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@RobLooseCannon

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Peig Sayers, quite unfairly, became a punchline of the terrible way the beauty of Gaeilge was inflicted upon Irish kids like a curse instead of a priceless blessing. She was born Máiréad Sayers in 1873, in the townland of Vicarstown Dún Chaoin, County Kerry. She’d grow up to become one of the most recorded voices in Irish oral tradition… before the advent of Onlyfans at least. And one of the most resented names on generations of Leaving Cert syllabi (dying to use that word!) Peig married Pádraig Ó Guithín in February 1892 and moved with him to the savage paradise of the Great Blasket Island, a few miles off the Dingle Peninsula. The marriage was arranged and she’d never laid eyes on him before the match was made. She`d eleven children for him, tragically only six survived to adulthood. Her formal education ended when she was only 12 years old, when she was sent into service. So she never learned to read or write in Irish.

But her encyclopedic memory for stories, songs, and island lore was so complete that scholars and linguists made pilgrimages to her fireside to record it, thank Christ. And Robin Flower of the British Museum among them. In the 1930s, encouraged by Dublin teacher Máire Ní Chinnéide and her own son Mícheál, Peig dictated her life story to Flower. He wrote it down, sent it to Ní Chinnéide for editing, and the result was published in 1936 as Peig. It became a fixture of the Irish school curriculum for decades and it became a cliché how miserable and boring it was and hardly likely to be relatable or exciting for urban secondary school kids. I loved it, but then again I find asymmetric tachyon entanglements erotic.

Incidentally Peig left the Great Blasket in 1942, despite a lot of needlessly romantic accounts saying she evacuation in the final exodus with the last twenty-two islanders were resettled on the mainland in 1953. She spent her remaining years in Dingle and passed away there on 8 December 1958 aged 85. Her dictated autobiography and the hundreds of tales collected from her by the Irish Folklore Commission is an absolute priceless treasure of native Gaelic storytelling. She was one of the last true seanchaithe and she deserves a new audience. I`ll give the last word to the legend herself: “Long as the day is, night comes, and alas, the night is coming for me too… A person here and a person there will say, maybe, ‘Who was that Peig Sayers?’ but poor Peig will be the length of their shout from them.” From Machnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman’s Reflections) Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book https://ko-fi.com/buchanandublintimemachine

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I welcome the decision, supported by an overwhelming majority of countries, to remove Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. This decision exposes the truth. Karim Khan was accused of sexually harassing women who worked under him. It was precisely as these allegations emerged that he canceled his planned visit to Israel, abandoned his previous commitment to thoroughly examine Israel’s independent judicial system, and suddenly moved to pursue arrest warrants against me and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. He did so to divert attention from the allegations against him and to rally Israel’s enemies around him as a political shield. That shield has now been torn away. What has been exposed is not only Karim Khan’s true motivation, but also the profound injustice and corruption that have infected both the Office of the Prosecutor and the International Criminal Court itself. Last night, I spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He once again reaffirmed America’s determination to act forcefully against this institution—an institution that undermines justice, attacks democratic and sovereign nations, and seeks to subordinate their security to the decisions of unaccountable and corrupt officials in The Hague. This is a very positive development. The truth must now be heard throughout the world.

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