they’re bluffing when they say you can still get knocked off the nice list this late in the game. santa’s been delivering gifts in japan for hours by now; that list is locked, do whatever you want.

how long after your kids go to bed is it cool to drink the beer they leave out for Santa? Any longer than five or ten mins and it'll be warm like #speirgotm

Despite a previous emailing promising to deliver 'in time for the big day', GLS have now told us that it isn't out for delivery until Dec 27-28. Just had to break the news to the little man. Heart-breaking #speirgorm

my son has spent the entire day drawing pictures - beautiful, perfectly drawn pictures! - of the toy which has yet to arrive. Thanks GLS!

I'd say 'put this in the Louvre' but, well, we all know what'd happen to it there

Schuko plug and sockets where common in Ireland up to 1964 when the BS ones were adopted as the standard going forward, a mistake in hindsight. I'd forgotten about these but they were the majority of sockets in my childhood home, alongside at least one round pin three pin and few "newer" BS sockets.

This is the kind of thing that the Annals of the Four Masters would have recorded in very ominous tones #speirgorm

we go live to David Walliams’ front door

What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man

This is the kind of thing that the Annals of the Four Masters would have recorded in very ominous tones #speirgorm

The Instructions of Cormac - I've slightly edited the Kuno Meyer translation here #irishhistory #medieval #skystorians

In celebration of David Walliams being exposed for the dose that he is, please share some books for younger readers which are deserving of more attention.

The Instructions of Cormac - I've slightly edited the Kuno Meyer translation here #irishhistory #medieval #skystorians

question for historians of Tudor / early modern Ireland - did Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone actually shoe his horse on the Hill of Tara? presumably some time after Essex's departure, late 1599, early 1600? #skystorians #speirgorm #history #EarlyModern #irishhistory

Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

Hello from the middle of Meath, where we basically have no train service at all.

some of the most fertile land in the country is being covered with solar panels to meet the electric demand of the data centres built to run fancy autocomplete

It is believed that the trope with Cavan people and money derives from the claim that the O'Reillys minted their own coinage in the 15th century, which some lucky fella now has another shot at

the genius brains on here will be protesting US troops & Israeli weapons flying through Shannon one week and then laughing at the possibility that Russia might attack it the next #speirgorm

when something that seems to belong to you (a device, your identity etc.) can be modified remotely at will by outside forces, you're always already expropriated

in the meantime the left space on these issues will be dominated by the likes of RBB and the rest of the wilfully Putin-friendly mouthpieces. as a result, we'll end up with Taoiseach Jim O'Callaghan at the next time of asking

there is wide open policy space for Labour or SocDems or even SF to propose a muscular *and progressive* defence strategy, easily outflanking years of FF & FG ineptitude. but that would require facing down the tankies within their ranks

the inability of the Irish left to take the Russian threat seriously and as well as other defence issues is going to be at least part of the reason why the #aras25 result won't be repeated in the next general election.

the inability of the Irish left to take the Russian threat seriously and as well as other defence issues is going to be at least part of the reason why the #aras25 result won't be repeated in the next general election.

So, for Christmas the Irish government have gifted us; - additional state surveillance in the form of facial recognition legislation and announced internet surveillance regulation. - gutted the Occupied Territories Bill. But, they have ensured our drinking water remains polluted with nitrates.

course I’m sharing that, it’s likely the only time anybody will ever ask for an emergency theremin

my Irish brain just cannot conceive of a small European nation having an intelligence agency (which releases annual reports!)

are people on here still going to argue that 'actually, it was the Ukrainians who launched the drones to get us to join Nato' or 'actually, it was just plane lights' or 'actually, it didn't happen at all' #speirgorm

I find it hard to believe, as many seem to, that a 50% + 1 vote on a border poll would just pass off peacefully. Not while this kind of thing is still happening

really wish I could remember that Pat McCabe quip about education - ring any bells? @irishlittimes.bsky.social

I'm old enough to remember the Digital Age of Consent - wasn't there supposed to be a review published of its effectiveness, after five years or so? What happened there? What exactly did the the Government learn from that? #speirgorm

people who are going to characterise this as some kind of conspiracy whereby the Ukrainians launched drones against their own President (or something) to help Martin make the case for more defence spending have extremely generous opinions on the government's competence

why is @news.rte.ie using a discredited platform of disinformation to simply repeat a Met Eireann storm warning - when they already have that information direct from ME? Why is @rte.ie continuing to drive traffic to X ? #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

"Ireland’s neutrality does not make it immune to hostile actions" 👀 From the website of the European Commission's representation in Ireland - a page explaining Ireland's participation in EU defence projects, added to the site December 4. The office told me they began writing the page in September.

If you give this a like we'll put you in a hat and one of ye will win a nice #TheLateNightWritersClub Book *and* a fairly tricky 1000 piece Jigsaw puzzle featuring the Reading Room at @nlireland.bsky.social and, of course, YeatsBinchyBeckettKavanaghWildeSwiftEdgeworthKeaneTynanO'CaseyBehanJoyce

Not young, and not renewable, but man

my hunch is that 'senior gardaí are annoyed about something' probably drives a significant amount news coverage in this country #speirgorm

an intriguing article from RTÉ's collaboration with academia which cites, as far as I can see, zero primary sources

which xmas light flashing sequence are you? tag urself. i pretend I'm a Scintellement but in reality im a Swiatlo Stale

there is absolutely no way in hell my 7yos are staying up to watch an extended ad. If it aired at 8pm maybe, but 9.35? On a Friday? no thank you, that's tv time for Daddy

we are all way too Silicon Valley-pilled to even be able to imagine let alone support a technology platform controlled by anywhere else

It strikes me that the meeting #OTD on the Hill of Crufty in 1641 should have a bigger place in our national story. This was the first time the Gaelic/Old Irish and Norman/Old English came together in rebellion and thus laid the foundation of modern Irish inclusive republican nationalism #speirgorm

#OTD 384 years ago, on a small hill in Co. Meath, a meeting took place which would change the course of Irish history forever #speirgorm #irishhistory #earlymodern www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Tq...

#OTD 384 years ago, on a small hill in Co. Meath, a meeting took place which would change the course of Irish history forever #speirgorm #irishhistory #earlymodern www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Tq...

384 years ago today, on an inauspicious hill in the east of County Meath, the course of Irish history was changed forever, #speirgorm #onthisday vm.tiktok.com/ZNRRuNHde/

The worst thing about the current historical moment is that in 200 years some smug revisionist historian is going to give a conference paper on how the politics of the 2020s really were entirely rational and a sensible response to material conditions at the time.

If an Irish writer of Stoppard's stature died today, our president (and probably our Taoiseach too) would've issued a statement by now.

Die Hard, Die Hard 2, and Mean Girls, on live tv at the same time is an embarrassment of riches