We love a Siobhan celebration! 🙌 Her girl MINNIE HAUK wins the G1 Fillies & Mares @Champions_Day 👏

Top class! 👏 @Ascot

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects? Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS. Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song. Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been. Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on. Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about. There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable. There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.” Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE?? And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself? Your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to? The iron in our blood was made inside a star?? We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live? We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

HISTORY. IS. MADE. 💙🤍

"This won't change Joseph's life, but it's changed mine" Saffie Osborne and HIGHWAYMAN delivered us an instant classic! 👏 #ITVRacing | @OsborneSaffie

September 11, 2001. A few months later, on the biggest stage in America, U2 did something simple and heart-wrenching. While they played “Where the Streets Have No Name,” the names of the victims rose on a giant screen behind them. Bono read a Psalm. Then the screen came falling down.

A quarter of a century has passed since September 11, 2001, when the peace of our Nation was shattered by terrorists. Today, we remember the 2,977 precious lives taken from us, honor the heroes who answered the call, & keep their families in the heart of our Nation. Above all, we must ensure the memory of 9/11 never fades, but is carried from one generation of Americans to the next. We will never forget. 🇺🇸

"We’re getting old and they’re young and they’re all coming. It’s the same with young trainers all over the world – they keep the old people doing their best!" Aidan O'Brien on taking on his sons Donnacha and Joseph: attheraces.com/news/2026/Sep…

The horses of Iceland are the original Viking horses and one of the purest horse breeds in the world. Breed has been isolated on the rugged island in North-Atlantic since the settlement, or over 1000 years ago, without any genetic input from other breeds. 🇮🇸🐎 As the first settlers came to Iceland they could only bring a limited number of livestock with them, and most probably chose their very best animals. Thus, the Icelandic horse has its origin in a herd of preselected, high quality individuals who had to survive the rough trip on a Viking longship across the Atlantic, before taking on their role as “the most indispensable servant” for the first Icelanders in this vast, wild, and entirely unknown country. Due to the geographical isolation of Iceland, very few horse diseases occur here, and no vaccinations are needed. However, this also means that no horse can enter the country at all. Once a horse leaves Iceland it can never return. Anybody travelling to Iceland is also kindly requested not to bring any used leather equipment such as gloves, chaps or riding boots, and to disinfect all gear. The Icelandic horse is an extremely versatile breed. These strong, intelligent and smooth horses are successful in endurance racing and are also well-suited for therapeutic riding. Some are excellent jumpers and many are trained to quite a high level in dressage. Carriage pulling, polo and barrel racing are also activities where the horses of Iceland do well. Today, the most common use for the Icelandic horse is as a general riding horse. A horse that the whole family can enjoy as a trustworthy and loved companion, while also being able to ride it on long or short rides through the woods of Germany, along the beaches of Denmark or in the mountains of Iceland. Icelandic horses can be found all over the world. Over 250,000 Icelandic horses are registered around the world, thereof approximately 40% in Iceland. They have amazing adaptation skills and do well in the ice-cold climates of Greenland and Alaska, but also down under in Australia and New Zealand. They can even be found in Hawaii. It can surely be said that the horses of Iceland are the best ambassadors for the little island in the north. They represent the country and culture well and encourage their human friends to visit Iceland at least once, if not regularly. 🎥© linaimages (IG) #archaeohistories

Something is happening in Ireland People across the country are flying the flag of Our Lady of Sorrows for the month of September

The reality that 1990 was 36 years ago yet for many of us, it seems like yesterday. We got here way too fast…I feel like an 18 year old looking through 55 year old eyes.

Some horses leave footprints. Others leave a legacy. A true Leopardstown legend, Galopin Des Champs gave us unforgettable moments, including three Paddy Power Irish Gold Cups and two Savills Chases. Thank you for the memories and the magic. 🤎💛

Look at their little faces when he hands them the £50 😍 Polite kids outside, being kids. I love it. Happy Monday guys ☺️

The Penguin Who Wouldn't Leave His Friend Behind....

Paddinton is much looking forward to 🇯🇵Satono Reve racing at York racecourse this coming Saturday!!🏇🏇🏇

Raising a daughter who gets so excited about owning a 20-year-old Toyota Corolla is a job well done.

♰🇫🇷 CATHOLICS ARE EPIC 🇫🇷♰ 🎥 Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France 🇫🇷 Standing at 142 meters (466 feet), it was the world’s tallest building from 1647 to 1874, and remains the highest still-standing structure built entirely in the Middle Ages.   Construction began in 1015, with major Gothic work starting in 1190, and the cathedral was completed in 1439—a span of over 420 years.  It is the seventh tallest church in the world. Video Escape to Anywhere

Our Donegal Rose Emma Nelis and her escort Kevin close out the night with a brilliant jive! 🌹✨ #RoseOfTralee

Ireland's Kate O'Connor wins European heptathlon gold 🥇