The research shows many people in Ireland overestimate immigration and misunderstand why people move here. Misconceptions matter — they shape attitudes and public debate.

Also, libraries buy their books from shops! Library lending supports an entire ecosystem! So if you’re in Ireland borrowing and requesting more indie comics from your local library, that can translate into sales for Little Deer and creators!

This #WorldWetlandsDay, join us & @cleancoasts.bsky.social for a webinar on 'Winter Bird Migration' with Alena Kunkel from @breedingwaderseip.bsky.social. Learn about some of the birds who spend winter in Ireland, their journey & importance of conserving their homes. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/3cmhwaev

See now, this is one of the things nearby that we can do something about. CnaM says they choose not to use the powers they have against Grok. You can let them know you would like them to reconsider. [email protected]

Our entire regulatory framework has proved to be no more than a painted balsa wood front. The AG here confirms it is illegal to generate CSAM. We also gave CnaM the power to act on any material which was not illegal, but was offensive. Turns out they don’t wanna. www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...

Fans of early 19th century Irish history! Gather round! We have a lovely event on @ullibrary.bsky.social on 22 Jan (next week) on the world behind the Ordnance Survey maps - free and all are most welcome. Just book your place via this link & tell your friends! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Why would the ceasefire in Gaza impact the enactment of the Occupied Territories Bill? For one thing, it's not a ceasefire, Israel is still murdering Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Secondly the OTP is about all illegally occupied territories, not just Gaza. FF/FG are cowards. #Spéirgorm

Ireland cannot lawfully price citizens out of environmental justice. EU law and the Aarhus Convention require environmental court cases to be “not prohibitively expensive”. Deterrent judicial review costs breach EU law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Seán Binder, who grew up in Castlegregory, was standing trial at the Court of Appeal in Lesvos, along with 23 other migrant rescue volunteers. www.radiokerry.ie/news/greek-c...

'Huge relief': Irish man Sean Binder found not guilty of people smuggling in Greece jrnl.ie/6928251

Im signed up to the ESB "is this a good time", where they text ya when there's an 'energy flex/peak event'. Basically just hold off on the washing machine, or dishwasher until it's over. Usually it's between 5pm and 7pm. WTF are we bothering at all, when this is what the government agrees to.

Have your say by January 15 deadline. In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair. For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han... #environmentaljustice

If you live in Ireland and truly care about nature and our environment, please make a submission objecting to the government's plans to *severely* restrict communities' ability to defend them in the courts. Instructions below, it only takes minutes, and the deadline is the day after tomorrow!! 🙏

I was shocked to read the @irishtimes.com report on the biased judgment of Judge o’Donohue this morning www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... His hypocrisy outlined by @irishcycle.com ⬇️ on top of the lack of objectivity is unbelievable Full story below #SpeirGorm

It might be just me, but I don't think public bodies should be posting photographs of children to the 'makes sexual images from photographs of children' website.

Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.

An excellent template for Irish people to complain about the government's laxity on allowing Elon's child abuse factory and bring down this shitshow. Thanks to @tupped.bsky.social for providing these calls to action. I'll aim to have them done by COB Monday. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

This ⬇️. Everything this government does is performative and pr spin. Deep down, I'm beginning to think they have nothing but contempt for most of us wee citizens.

We just want to point out some facts. Why ban trail hunting? In trail hunting, hounds follow a pre-laid scent of animal urine or a dead animal. In reality, they often pick up the scent of live foxes and end up pursuing and killing them. 1/3

crowdsourcing: looking for online articles/essays that provide a comprehensive account of how the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated & well-funded effort. I have lots of examples that tell part(s) of the story, but none that lay the whole thing out. pls share any you can think of. thanks!

So Martha Root, before hacking and shutting down several white supremacist websites, hacked a white supremacist 'dating site', aka fascist underground network. youtube.com/shorts/Gm7TQ... This includes 2 Irish men, in Wicklow and Wexford towns.

Sign and share. It's time to put a stop to the use and profiteering of abuse. The only way is to hit them in their ego's and their pockets. Ban X and let the shareholders finally take muskrat down. Boycott, divest, sanction. #BSD #SpeirGhorm #BanX my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh...

I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Patrick O’Donovan’s statement here is farcically wrong, grimly idiotic and would be laughable if this were a situation which was capable of ever being a laughing matter. It should be quoted, cited or just played at him every time he opens his mouth on any matter, for the rest of his career.

Alternative headline: humiliating and abusing women on X by digitally undressing them is now a privilege reserved to paying users.

By pushing an anti-green, anti-sustainability agenda, farming unions in Ireland and the EU have helped to create the political conditions for #Mercosur to pass. My letter in today's Irish Times.

We should have NO trade with Israel, not to mind imports from the Occupied Palestinian Territories increasing. Our government must immediately pass the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill in full, including services Imports from Occupied Palestinian Territories rise www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Not just for yanks, we've seen aggressive policing across Europe too. Now the EU is selling our lives, labour and souls to big corp, we may see more protests and even more aggression.

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.

So, when Steve Bandon says he's been working to build a Trump like fascist political party in Ireland, he really means they are buying up Ireland piece by piece, with the backing of our current government.

Soon the only rights left in fascist America is the right for mediocre white men to bear arms. Their civil war ever ended, it just smoldered dangerously, moving from plantations to boardrooms. Unfortunately the Confederates are winning & they are ketamined up to the eyeballs, on their fragile egos.

With the EU-Mercosur Trade deal in the news again we thought we'd share some of our people powered research done back in 2020. #standwithfarmers #notomercosur ##SpeirGorm www.uplift.ie/trading-away...

For android users, here's where you can make a complaint about X support.google.com/googleplay/a...

ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland are calling on An Garda Siochana to investigate X under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1988, after its Grok AI chatbot generated non-consensual and sexualised deepfake images of children and women. Read more ➡️ www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

So who wrote The Gadfly? Ethel Voynich, née Ethel Boole www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Nollaig na mBan: 'Its modern revival is a celebration of female friendship and connection' jrnl.ie/6919674

This is how ya do it. Go Martha Root! 👊✊ #MarthaRoot #HackTheFascists

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

The Government is consulting on rules to cap legal costs when you go to court and hold the state to account for breaking environmental law, they want you to pay €100s of thousands If you think this is wrong, make your views known by emailing [email protected] by 15 January tinyurl.com/NPECons

We do NOT have 10 lords-a-leaping dancing but we DO have a full trio of @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's CEMETERIES OF AMALO trilogy following Witness for the Dead Thara Celehar! Open to US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a 💀 in the comments to enter! Ends 11th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT🪐📚💙

Well yes, if the world leaders weren't so disgustingly bloodthirsty and weak, that is 🙄

But by this reasoning, other countries could be allowed to arrest and try a sitting US president

If there's anything the US, the European Union, and all of the western world and their liberal world order, or "rules based order" of international law, human rights, etc., teaches you, it's that western liberal democracies are all tools of capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism, and militarism.

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

A reminder that OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, met with the Taoiseach in May to push for the use of ChatGPT in schools in Ireland. And many in the government think we can’t face the future without it.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true. Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?

EU continues to support Israel as that State becomes the first in the world to ban Doctors Without Borders. @msf.ca #EU

Ireland has one of the world's highest concentrations of data centers. The expansion has reshaped the grid & deepened fossil fuel use. As the EU pushes to triple data center capacity, Ireland offers a warning, writes Louis Boyd-Madsen. Read our investigation with AlgorithmWatch: