Washington Post headquarters in Washington, DC. Lizzie Johnson, the Post’s Ukraine correspondent, tweeted on Wednesday: “I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a war zone. Photograph: Nick BradshawPagans gain groundAnother successful campaign concluded for the word “Imbolc”, the resurgent term referring to the pre-Christian Gaelic fire festival around February 1st. We asked An Coiste Téarmaíochta, word watchdog at Foras na Gaeilge, whether Imbolc was even a word in modern Irish, which, it turns out, it is not. It is the pre-Christian name for the spring festival and there “isn’t a modern Irish equivalent”, Jenny Ní Mhaoileoin of the coiste said.

Source: The Irish Times February 08, 2026 15:01 UTC