BREAKING: “I’ve witnessed, I believe, 5 executions in Tennessee. Nothing about today was normal, typical at all.” Shocking new details emerge from the failed attempt to execute Christa Pike, the 50-year-old inmate who has spent nearly 30 years on Tennessee’s death row. At a news conference following the attempted execution, media witnesses are now revealing more about what Pike was saying and what they heard as the process unfolded. “The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to burst open,” Pike told her spiritual adviser during the process. Officials administered two syringes of pentobarbital, but Pike still had a heartbeat and was snoring after receiving the drugs, according to an emergency court filing from her attorneys. One witness described the sound as if Pike was “almost choking.” “She was clearly still alive. She was clearly still breathing.” The curtains inside the execution chamber went down twice as the process unfolded, and Tennessee officials ultimately were unable to complete the execution. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She was 18 at the time of the killing.

I lived this as did quite a few others.

I was very lucky to get a preview of this speech and I can say it’s excellent! All my North American followers, it’s well worth a watch when it goes live! And check out @nadclanneireann to get in touch with our North American Division! 🙋🏼‍♀️

Clann Éireann has been busy growing, not only here at home but also with our Irish diaspora. Tune in this evening at 8pm on Clann Éireann’s YouTube channel to listen to the head of our North American division, Eoin Ó Murchú, speak at their 2026 Ard Fheis. youtu.be/eksfki3T2AE

Is it just me, or do the Berenstain Bears books have some genuinely bad lessons? I’m reading them to my kids, and I keep thinking, “Wait, that’s the takeaway?”

The same hand wave outside the womb too 🤣

I believe in a united Ireland. But it will never happen in my lifetime. An Ireland that can't tolerate 35 lads in hats walking in silence down a road at 8am - in accordance with a lawful court order - cannot be united. Popular hysteria can get stuffed. It gave us lockdowns.

At the risk of sounding Putinesque you cannot begin to understand the events on the Garvaghy Road, unaware that Hugh O'Neill did not know that Elizabeth I was dead when he signed the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603. No event occurs without complex precedence.

Noah's Ark resting place '100% confirmed' after 4,300 years as astonishing 'man-made' structure is detected buried deep underground trib.al/Swpjv1F