Workers mobilised last week for an ICTU organised Workplace Day of Action for Palestine. It was a response to a vicious crackdown on Palestinian civil society (including unions) and an effort to build for the @ipsc.bsky.social demo the next day. #FreePalestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7V...

Is there zero strategic foresight in this city? Another key cultural building in an emerging quarter is about to bite the dust. We need to establish the legal concept of an #AssetOfCommunityValue here ASAP. Soon there’ll be nothing left but paddywhackery and hollow nostalgia.

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Incredible bad faith mischaracterisation of this movement to rename Herzog Park. Like all Israel's presidents, Chaim Herzog, perpetrated apartheid and the ethnic cleansing and brutalisation of Palestinians. Report on renaming Dublin’s Herzog Park withdrawn m.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

ANOTHER WAY TO FIGHT BACK No Kings Alliance supports 12,000 striking Starbucks workers who a fair contract. This isn’t just about coffee: it’s about big corporations crushing an organizing wave & working people reclaiming power from billionaires, CEOs.” #BoycottStarbucks #Workers #Coffee #Starbucks

Ireland had many statues honouring violent colonial figures - many Irish-born. Gough’s huge Phoenix Park statue honoured someone who enforced opium on China. It was vandalised and blown up. Reexamining who we choose to honour is essential for any rational society. And that goes for Herzog too.

Rest in power Margaretta D'Arcy. A wee article detailing her life from rabble back in the day. What a legend.

Sad to hear of the death of Margaretta D’Arcy. She was a real one. #speirghorm

Between all the prudent Pascal shite and the "stampedes of landlords" in The Sunday Business Post you'd despair over the state of commentary in this country. Brendan O'Connor's morning panels are like being stuck at a dinner party in hell.

We’re going to have to come up with a naming competition for all those new lakes in Dublin 7.

But the techbros and developers would have fewer regulations

Fuck all of these people - craven, opportunist pigs every one of them, completely devoid of compassion or principles who, when threatened, choose to attack the most vulnerable. May they all rot.

Just the one from me. Yes, I’ve posted it before, but I don’t care. Kariya - Let me love you for tonight. #Raveyardsift youtu.be/dnvf0mwiioY?...

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think

An IPAS centre burnt out with fireworks thrown into it - women and children lucky to get out alive - when are we going to start taking the far right violence in Ireland seriously? It's been like watching the world's slowest train crash. For 5 years.

Seriously when will the pundits move on-the story, the real story, of the election is Catherine Connolly’s amazing win-followed by the story of FFG implosion and a distant third are the spoilt votes-and of no interest to the story is the failure of far right candidates to get nominations #speirgorm

In my lifetime of 54 years, I have never, ever had an Irish government that represents my views. Not once.

Looking forward to the IT giving people the opportunity of saying why we voted in record numbers for Catherine Connolly. They might learn a bit about Ireland.

Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in history - any pol corr or commentator trying to convince you that the story is actually the spoiled votes is showing you their whole arse, and should be treated accordingly.

The Irish media are being played like fiddles by this Maria Steen tripe. Her campaign was as sincere as McGregors', she knew she hadn't a hope and deliberately botched it, but now is invited to be the face of the "oppressed right", and her/Iona are eyeing the foreign billionaire funding rolling in.

Was tallying yesterday and some of the stuff I saw was straight out of the 2025 Twitter cesspool. Violent, racist, misogynist language. Aontú and Iona need to be very careful what they are claiming ownership of.

An Clogán is a new political magazine. “Left Perspectives on Politics, Economics and Culture”. The theme of the first issue: The Republic. The editorial board consists of a small team of volunteers, all proceeds go to producing the next issue. #Ireland #áras25

Most people in NI are really not surprised by the Soldier F outcome - but this was no show trial or witch hunt. The judge excoriated the soldiers' conduct, but because of a passing of time caused by extreme state failings, could not convict. That is the scandal. These headlines are grotesque:

Electric Picnic 2009. Sessioning back in the campsite, Catherine Connolly spilled the last of a bottle of Buckfast into a new packet of Amber Leaf. Skins ruined. Weekend destroyed. #Smearthebejaysus #Smearthebejaysis

In response, FG have issued a video of Heather digging out a fox and setting the hounds on it, to the tune of The Chemical Brothers "Dig Your Own Hole".

Look at these fucks who all of a sudden know what a proscribed organisation is

This is the type of new energy we need in Irish politics, young smart and…shit wait…this guy looks familiar…

Incredible to think that Humpreys drew attention to her record in over seeing the 2016 Centenary programme on the debate last night. Which reveals her to have been an early pioneer of the aesthetics of AI shlop and other shitshows. #Aras25 #Aras2025 www.irishtimes.com/culture/heri...

Why is Kieran Cuddihy bringing up the "alleged" attack on an NFL player, when the Guards have already said no complaints was made and therefore we don't even know it happened. Why is he fuelling the "Ireland is unsafe" narrative? #Aras25

I don’t know why Cuddihy thinks this needs to be shouty. We need to actually hear what the candidates have to say. #TonightVMTV #Aras25

Can we please be straight on this - lads sticking up flags on lampposts is straight out of the Loyalist playbook. You see fuck all of these flags coming out of gaff windows. It’s a totally astroturfed by individuals and does not represent whole communities. #Aras2025

Steen, Sheridan, McGregor et al had YEARS to do the work but they didn't, preferring instead to hurl from the ditch and then blame the referee. They are not serious political people. They are a bunch of staggeringly entitled pick-mes, and the system worked as it should to weed them out. #speirgorm

Exactly this. And they’ll flood the zone with absolute shit too. It’ll choke any reasoned or actual debate with the type of astroturfing we have seen with McGregor. There is a delegitimisation strategy at play here to undermine our democracy.

This is exactly it. She will 100% run as the candidate who “knows what a woman is” (and will undoubtedly pick up endorsements from pseudo-feminists because of it)

Do you reckon we’ll have time for another pint before the rapture? Was that the final call?

RIP JD Twitch. One of the best.

Nothing sums up the muddled generational divide at #Ploughing2025 than young lads going around in DJ Provai masks and auld wans eyeing up the annual yield from a micro-home.

Sometimes I think that a ‘migrant worker’ strike is needed to prove how crucial migrants are to the UK.

Here, someone give The League of Gentlemen a call. They’re missing some of their characters.

That Jim Gavin presidential video gives me bad vibes. The energy of baddie character who rocks up to Glenroe in a new SUV with a scheme to do Miley out of the farm, with notions of “progress” and a new shopping centre. #Aras2025

Irish 'patriots' present for Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdom" rally in London. It takes all sorts (in this case, racist idiots)

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

They say "we own this street - not you". They are a marking of territory. In this context, they are not a symbol of unity, but exclusion. A visual reminder that I am not welcome. *You* may not get it, because you have the right look and accent, but I assure you that those putting them up get it. 4/

The micro-aggressions are daily, the abuse regular, and the threat of violence constant. I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who feel different. Because only then you might glean what those flags going up signify to someone who looks like me. 3/

Disappointed to hear that nonsense recited uncritically on RTÉ News last evening.

“We don’t have bereavement leave.” Noreen, a school secretary with Fórsa speaks out about the unacceptable treatment faced by key school staff. Alongside caretakers, these workers are challenging long-standing injustices. Show your support! ✊ #PensionParity

"We get nothing, literally nothing" | David The School Caretaker Speaks Out For #PensionParity. Everyday, school caretakers like him literally open the door to education. On Thurs, Aug 28, they begin an indefinite strike for recognition as public servants and basic worker rights.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.