RTÉ are reporting that 100,000 people attended Dublin Pride today. In contrast, it looks like a crowd of well under 1,000 people turned up for today’s anti migrant protest organised by Dublin City Councillor Malachy Steenson. #Speirgorm

Cartoon by Steve Breen. Especially relevant to Ireland. #SpeirGorm

As a runner and a writer, I heartily co-sign this message.

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes and property across the occupied West Bank.

Remember, drowning is so very very QUIET. “Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning In 10 percent of drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying. Here’s what to look for.” #spéirghorm #IrishSummer #Sunshine #SaveLife #Drowning

Good that the Flotilla activists will be home and appalling that they were so abused.Their kidnapping is totally illegal. This is how internationals are treated on camera, the violence against Palestinians in Israel’s torture dungeons is infinitely worse. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Breaking news: all very normal

Gaza aid flotilla organisers say 41 boats intercepted, 10 still sailing https://aje.news/l5q517

Continues to astonish me that these settler fuckers will go onto a live fucking recording and say with their full chests "We are obnoxiously fucking evil and are 100% committing an active genocide campaign with 0 remorse"

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Chicken products sold in Aldi, Tesco, Dunnes and Lidl have been recalled due to the presence of salmonella. jrnl.ie/7040298

This legislation was not radical. It took guidance from the very report commissioned by the Government and promised during the Repeal referendum. It was simply the next step in fulfilling the promise of Repeal.

Israel killing at least one Palestinian child a week in West Bank, Unicef says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-least-one-child-every-week-west-bank-unicef

“in wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night. The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. #Bafta #Baftas

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Watching #ComeToYourCensus on RTÉ after just going through one of my own family's records, and getting a bit emotional 🥺 #spéirgorm

British army soldiers ‘overreacted’ and lost control’, inquest into shooting dead of five people in Belfast finds. A priest, three teenagers and a man in his 30s were murdered by British soldiers in the Springhill and Westrock areas of west Belfast in July 1972 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Today marks 110 years since the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic. This copy of the 1916 Proclamation, owned by Dr. Kathleen Lynn, features the names of eleven of the women imprisoned in Mountjoy Gaol after the Rising, signed on 19 May 1916: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

I was there for the rise of the internet and smart phones, and they absolutely sold themselves. People took one look and got excited. There was no point, years into the smart phone, where companies were having to be like "you may not like the iPhone but it's here to stay so get used to it"

Press photo of Countess Constance Markievicz on her return to Dublin after her 1919 release from prison. Welcomed by supporters + presented with a bouquet in Sinn Féin colours. While imprisoned, she became the 1st woman elected to the British Parliament, but refused to take her seat at Westminster.

So excited to get stuck into #census1926 😍 But it's gonna have to wait till Monday, because I only have my phone till then, and this is a laptop activity 😅

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

I like to be able to choose what I want to myself and then pay for it precisely once.

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b

Absolutely unforgivable, these pricks attacking the Muslim Sisters of Éire.

I really do believe this is true. I'm sure that not everybody who turned up to protest has fascist leanings, but if you pulled your truck up next to one that said "Ireland for the Irish" and you don't leave, are you better than the owner of that truck?

They're blocking fucking medicine?? #spéirghorm #spéirgorm

Here are some publicly available posts from one of the key organisers, James Geoghegan.

Protestors deciding what gets in and out of ports fuel for emergency services, animal feed and water treatment chemicals, is so wild and dangerous. Only bird brains would back this now

If we had a fraction of the billionaire-owned social media and funding of the right this whole thing could be co-opted into the most effective climate change protest ever. THIS IS THE TOXIC DYSFUNCTION OF FOSSIL FUELS MAKING EVERYTHING AWFUL AND THESE PEOPLE ONLY WANT TO MAKE IT WORSE. #spéirghorm

Dublin City Council has approved a monument to be placed on O'Connell Street to honour Irish women of the revolutionary period. The monument will be erected between the Spire and the James Larkin statue, in front of the GPO. #spéirghorm excellent news www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Don’t make me tap the sign. Its support trans people or Harry Potter can’t have both

"UN experts: “the targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system” by Israel “amounts to ‘medicide’” and accused Israel of “deliberately attacking and starving healthcare workers, paramedics and hospitals to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

The government knew exactly what would happen. They did it anyway. #HousingCrisisByDesign #SpéirGorm

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank

Israel is killing medics and children today. They do this every single day.

Love the way any progressive measure is publicly nickle and dimed while wild discretionary overspending (bike shed anyone) has to be FOI'd.

PLEASE

*taps sign* #SpéirGhorm

We need just 569 more Irish people to sign this official EU citizen initiative to pass our threshold. If you truly support #JusticeForPalestine and you haven't signed, why not? 🇵🇸🙏 #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #IrishSky #Ireland

I'm...just having a lot of feelings about this week's #StarfleetAcademy 🥹🥹 This show has been so good so far anyway, and I really do want Star Trek to move away from leaning so hard on nostalgia, but this was really very good. Also, protect Sam at all costs. 🥹

remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.

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C'mon folks, only 721 people to go and we've passed the Irish threshold. If you haven't signed this already, why not? It's an important EU citizen led initiative that needs 7 countries to pass their threshold, and then the EU government machine is forced to talk about it. #Speirgorm #IrishSky

Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state. #SanctionsNow eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Today, Israeli airstrikes killed 27 Palestinians in Gaza. The genocide never ended — and we will never stop campaigning until there is a free and independent Palestine.