Cape Verde, half time, we still believe!

My homage to David Hockney RIP - ‘Ana in the pool’ 2023

David Hockney RIP - my phone screen has been his iPhone art for the longest time

Residents leave council “consultation” on fire-damaged community centre wondering what just happened. Several said they were very unhappy with the quality and comprehensiveness of information provided at the meeting about the Donore Avenue centre.

Will be blocking the Tralee Bypass road until my demands for the Government to supply me with a suitable boyfriend are met

Terrific “Evening with David Byrne” in the Point - fantastic staging and choreography, great musicians and dancers. A show of optimism in a crappy world. #davidbyrne

Like other well-known apps, I wanted to make our own version of “wrapped” for our image database. In 2025: on average, six people log in each day and about 30 images are downloaded. Users have been looking for things like ‘library’, ‘science’ and ‘conferring’. The most popular image of'25:

Sad to hear of the death of Martin Parr. I attended a workshop he led on the Isle of Wight in 2008. It was a delightful tour of his take on England, full of joy and whimsy. He and Susie were such lovely people to spend time with. I remember him fondly and am proud of the images I made that weekend.

It was a real honour to receive my long service award for 25 years as a photographer at University College Dublin from President Professor Orla Feely. I was in good company, nearly 40 other colleagues were honoured.

@johncreedon.bsky.social My heart goes out to Jamaica tonight. I was in Kingston in ‘88 for Gilbert, also a Cat 5. Not something I’d like to go through again. The track and strength of #melissa looks even worse.

Such a lovely community at event at our Apple Pressing Festival today! Thanks to Lord Mayor Ray McAdam for launching the day. Tks also to Seedsavers for the heritage apple tree and @communityfoundirl.bsky.social for funding this #CircularEconomy project.

For the weekend that's in it, St Brigid's Crosses photographed in 2010 for the National Folklore Collection

@johncreedon.bsky.social - what a coincidence-I was only listening to this track today

Great presentations at Rewild Dublin Conference in the F2 Centre Rialto by Finola O’Kane UCD, DCC Parks and Mary Kelly-Quinn UCD

Donore Credit Union & Dublin 8 residents formed Donore Area Sustainable Community (DASC) in 2023. We’re holding a Sustainability Workshop, June 21st, Griffith College to imagine a sustainable future for D8. Everyone’s welcome. We’ll focus on creating a vision and working together to achieve goals.

I feel we need a bit of spring - Crocus flowers in bloom outside @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Architecture, Richview

‘Peace in our time’ comes to mind mediarichlearning.com/wp-content/u...

February, exactly 20 years ago, the weather was a bit worse but we had daffodils @ucddublin.bsky.social

Residents across the city have called on the council to move more quickly to replace trees it cuts down on their streets. “Five years is a long time to be looking at a stump,” says Phibsboro resident Jonathan Healy. dublininquirer.com/2...

For the weekend that's in it, St Brigid's Crosses photographed in 2010 for the National Folklore Collection

Connecting Cabra are a practical sustainability community group working hard in the centre of Dublin. We are 7 followers away from 1k followers, so please give us a share so we can hit 1000 (which is more than we reached in four years on Twitter!).

🛰️🏆 History Made: EIRSAT-1 has won the 2024 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition for securing UCD’s place in Ireland’s space history. 🧵

A beautiful morning on @ucddublin.bsky.social Belfield campus. The upper lake is teaming, a heron, a coot, lots of mallards and what seems to be our new swan. He(?) started visiting before Christmas and now seems to be in permanent residence. I've a tough job but someone has to do it!

From a previous ‘great freeze’ the Belfield campus during the big snow of 2010 in @ucddublin.bsky.social

Was bowled over by Maus, did a “cartooning” course in SVANY because of him - just full of admiration

@MiddleEastEye: Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, has announced that he will be collaborating with Joe Sacco, creator of the documentary-comic Palestine, in a new project about Gaza

On Christmas Eve, I wish you all a peaceful time spent with your loved ones and a New Year filled with positive outlooks

Wishing all my friends and colleagues in @ucddublin.bsky.social a very merry Christmas and a happy 2025!

Dublin City Council has refused a request to scrap a Newmarket market space. The owner, Patrizia, had asked to convert the ground-floor space to a convenience store and off-licence. dublininquirer.com/2...

We don’t normally post for individual members, but the theft of dedicated, veteran member Colm’s Giant bike - in Dublin 8 this morning - is an exception. Please keep an eye out and DM us if you’ve any news. Has hub brakes, a hub gear and blue seat cover.

wildpostcardproject.com lovely artwork by kids highlighting biodiversity in D8

Another one from the vaults - 2002, a paper conservator working on a manuscript in the UCD Archives

No surprise that Cork St is bad, D8 is the least green area in the city, lacking trees, parks and recreation spaces. In fairness DCC are working on a greening strategy for the area but more needed. Newmarket Sq in particular should be ‘greened’

The two most downloaded images from the UCD Image Catalogue in 2024 - to make you long for summer days on campus!

More from the vaults 2017-2023, swans and cygnets always make for good photo opportunities. Since I started in UCD, a breeding pair of swans have nested on the island in the lake. That was up until a few years ago when the cob died, of natural causes I’m told. The dowager pen swins on.

I'm in my 25th year as photographer for @ucddublin.bsky.social. To celebrate I'll post some photos from the archives starting with UCD's most visible structure though not most loved. I’m happy to report that I have been to the top and the view is spectacular!