I recently set up a trial of Apple Fitness. They obviously didn’t use an Irish marketing team. It keeps sending me notifications to “check my ring”!! 😳🤭 #speirgorm #iphone

I had a priest once who tried to deny that the post-resurrection meeting Mary Magdalene even happened despite the fact that it’s right there in scripture.

Féilí na Bliana - Lá na nAmadán www.duchas.ie/ga/cbes/4622... Sé lá na nAmadán an chéád lá d'Aibreán. Bíonn na daoine ag déanamh amadán dá chéile an lá sin. Deireann síad le chéile, "Féach an fear atá ag dul anoir an bóthar". Má bhreathnaíonn aon duine soir tugtar, "Amadán Aibreáin" air.

Don’t miss out! This Wednesday, unlock free access to nearly 40 heritage sites all over Ireland. Step into history, marvel at stunning architecture, and create unforgettable memories. Don't forget the many sites that have recently reopened. For participating sites see: https://cutt.ly/AtmGc5H6

Is it time we closed down schools as they dont make a profit? We're facing a massive global energy crisis we need nore routes not less #speirgorm #climateaction #justtransition

Great idea. Cá bhfuil na leabhar Gaeilge? #SpéirGhorm

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Honestly. If I see one more ad about how to look better or feel better during menopause I may fucking explode. Maybe that's the menopause talking 😅😂 #Speirgorm

"Person is sitting in sewage. Join them now!"

“Mholfainn do dhaoine a mbíonn na pointí gramadaí ag teacht idir iad agus codladh na hoíche aighneacht a chur isteach". Tá liosta agamsa...😅

These figures are the ones we have been shouting about for years in rescue, literally thousands of young healthy dogs now dead: “7,449 greyhounds born in this initial year (2021) and are still remaining on the island, 3,206 (43%) are dead and 1,997 (27%) are unaccounted for” #greyhounds #SpeirGorm

Didn't know Libraries Ireland offered this - so handy!

it’s genuinely super funny at this point that the media continues to credulously and good-faithedly report on anything the government has to say about the OTB, a bill it resents completely, has no intention of passing, and is self-evidently content to lie about until we’re all dead

*This* problem definitely doesn't exist, but we're about to reinvent the problem of a WHOLE bunch of people getting made real uncomfortable in public about what they thought their chromosome were. So that'll be… "fun."

McDowell stoked a moral panic over "anchor babies" and "citizenship tourism"which claimed that expectant mothers were flying into Dublin and heading straight for the maternity clinic The DoJ had the fool leaning full-body into racism and then he didn't even keep his seat www.rte.ie/news/2004/04...

Charging people to see the stuff they yoinked from their countries. A bold move.

Today's Divergent Minds project presents Lee Carey's poem entitled "Iarmhaireacht." In Irish, Iarmhaireacht means loneliness, specifically the loneliness one feels when they're awake really early in the morning before everyone else. Thank you for sharing your work with us, Lee. #ActuallyAutistic

“This sanewashing has been going on for a long time, and I’ve written about it before. But it keeps getting worse, and the mainstream media keep making the same mistakes in their coverage of the King of Crazytown.” #spéirghorm #IrishPol

Cherry blossom season in Ireland is not as romantic as in kdramas.

I have continued to think about this t-shirt from a Korean drama, and what series of events led from to it existing at all to being put on this second female lead for a serious scene

A lot of higher education management and government policy now seems to be guided by the principle of "tough on books, tough on the causes of books."

Does this mean we all get discounts on our local property tax too? Or is it just property developers who get rules bent for them all the time Truly irresponsible behaviour by Cork City Council, yet you claim you haven't got enough money for repairing social homes #DerelictIreland #speirghorm

So caught up in the enrobed thing that I didn't even notice 'cookie' - they're too notiony for 'biscuit' now. #SpéirGhorm

Finally, I'm sick of having to see naked biscuits on display like cheap whores.

A picture I took on my morning commute. It’s kind of an upside-down version of Wilde’s, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”. #speirghorm

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'Fully Enrobed'!? Do they have seats in the House of Feckin' Lords !?

Coincidentally there was an unfortunate accident in the farmyard yesterday which resulted in my son being fully enrobed in cowshit

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Dunnes has completely lost the run of itself. #SpéirGhorm #NotionsToBeatAllNotions

2007: This'll be fun... 2008: Financial crisis 2009: I can see green shoots... 2010: Austerity 2015: Maybe the worst's over... 2016: Brexit 2019: Let's level up... 2020: Covid 2021: Build back better... 2022: Russia invades; PM Liz Truss 2022: Jesus wept 2024: Labour's got this... 2026: Iran War

Such “We all partied” vibes. #speirgorm

Growing up in western Ireland all I knew of leprechauns was their life cycle: They came from Hong Kong (it was stamped on the bottom) & spent a brief sojourn in Ireland before being whisked away by yanks - loud in dress & demeanour - who descended gingerly from coaches at tourist shops #spéirghorm

"This is a country that has always tolerated minority faiths" says Kemi Badenoch That any day goes by without some Tory getting beaten to death with a history book is a surprise to me #Speirgorm

Read books! Buy them from your indie bookshop! Support your public library! Divest from Amazon! Attend a local bookish event! Fight book bans! Talk about your favorite books! Help young readers access books! Think critically! Thank a bookseller and librarian!

All too common now. If it's not in Wikipedia, Reddit or the Internet Archive you're basically screwed. Information access is being burned away to nothing.

📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did. The fight against book bans is about democracy. We can’t take our values for granted. 📖 #Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy

Here are two 215-year-old locks of hair ✂️ #History

Every NAO report ever

And after the pride in our country, the deep shame in the people running it #spéirghorm #ireland

I think it's perfectly possible to understand the UK's backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights without needing to specifically talk about and emphasise Muslim countries. Just seems like you're actually wanting to say something else.

It would be nice to have some Irish politicans articulate our duties as a peoples like this

In case you missed it, my FIREFLY books got banned in Alberta for "explicit sexual images" that... they don't actually contain? gregpak.com/my-firefly-b...

I'd say the Kerry Babies case but Joanne Hayes is still alive and doesn't deserve that kind of attention.

I’m just gonna kick it off here. Miggledy was “allowed” to have latitude because he was popular & had powerful supporters. Catherine will not be afforded same. I’ve seen this commentary twice in past 24 hours. The fooking stink of misogyny imho. #speirgorm

A stirring, uncompromising and authentic read #ContentiousSpaces by Rosaleen McDonagh 'The Traveller families who live in Saint Rita’s are on borrowed time' OUT NOW w/ @skeinpress.bsky.social Read my review: www.swirlandthread.com/contentious-... #booksky #spéirgorm #bookreview

"Tobar a' Churraigh (Cloonfinish): This well changed from William Bourke's field into Thomas Adam's field because Biddy Tunny washed her feet in it." Biddy's feet were just manky #SpéirGhorm www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4427...