The original link
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/10/18/iarla-o-lionaird-my-mother-would-keep-each-of-her-children-home-from-sch/
now says
404
Sorry, we can’t find what you’re looking for

Try
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/10/18/iarla-o-lionaird-my-mother-would-keep-each-of-her-children-home-from-school-one-day-a-week-so-she-could-get-to-know-us/

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Thompson
Rather than using the mudcat Make a link ("blue clicky") a good blickifier to bookmark is
https://revad.github.io/linkifier.html by DaveRo
- it copes with

• missing 'https'
  
• excessively long urls(as above)
  
• links to mudcat threads
  

;)