Catherine strongly values the arts & has long championed the need for greater supports, understanding that a robust & vibrant arts scene benefits all people in all corners of Ireland. She is a worthy successor to President Michael D. Higgins! #artistsforcatherine #catherineconnollyforpresident

1/2 Kildare #SpeirGorm folk might be interested in our short documentary screening in the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge. Thank You For Hearing Me explores themes of voice and identity & will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Virginia Kerr. riverbank.ticketsolve.com/share/873656...

Owl core

I was once offered the chance to go back stage at a Eurythmics concert to meet Annie Lennox. I didn't do it. The end.

Urging everyone to watch this! #SpeirGorm #Gaza

Was anyone else at Martha Wainwright in The Button Factory last night? It was absolutely incredible! Her voice is exceptional and she had a fantastic band bringing her songs to life. One of the best nights of music I've experienced in a long time. #MarthaWainwright #MusicSky #Speirgorm

Working in the field of #ArtsandHealth you sometimes come across a project that so beautifully moves between the two worlds you are left in awe. Burkitt - a film by Éanna Mac Cana is so incredibly moving! Available on @tg4.bsky.social player. #Lymphoma #SpeirGorm www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq1I...

A Sweet Dream

🦁 For #caturday look at these remarkable drawings of lions in the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave in France, one of the oldest decorated Palaeolithic caves in the world. 🧮 The drawings are more than 30,000 years old (!). 🏺 #archaeology #art 🗃️ #arthistory #cat #catsofbluesky #cats #France

Hi everyone – Irish or not, we need your help. An anti-trans conference is set for April at The Johnstown Estate in Ireland. Please take 10 minutes to contact the venue and let them know that platforming transphobia is unacceptable Phone: +353469540000 Email: [email protected]

I'm in the market for an #ElectricPicnic ticket. Chappell Roan just confirmed as a headliner & my daughter nearly took the front door off the hinges on the way in from school. There was hyperventilating and tears! Keep us in mind if you hear of a ticket for sale. 😬 #SpeirGorm #EP #ChappellRoan

In honour of the late Stephen Sondheim's birthday Ron sings "There's A Place For Us" RS youtu.be/khQOjPxejXY?...

UK artist Laura Knight, from her early 20thc paintings of coastal scenes around Cornwall #womensart

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist, women's rights advocate, who chose to be photographed with her knitting. As an enslaved person, she had knitted/spun endlessly and when free later in life, she taught knitting to former enslaved women aiding self-sufficiency #womensart

Americans are organising & doing a lot of what's suggested here already, but not everyone has it in them to be a vocal activist. There are suggestions for actions at all comfort levels in this guide to standing up to dictatorship. #Solidarity #PeoplePower #USA citizenshandbook.org/get_rid_of_a...

A Co Leitrim Down syndrome actors' group will stage a two-part performance at a fully booked theatre in Carrick-on-Shannon tonight as part of World Down Syndrome Day

Listening to Sinead on this #StPatricksDay youtube.com/watch?v=IGSa...

So proud of my culture. Happy Paddy's. www.youtube.com/watch?v=riXc...

The Daily Not-Rothko is a groin on Cleethorpes Beach

This is incredible news. This #cancer is so silent & deadly it leaves not just devastation, but psychological whiplash in its wake. My poor dad got just 30 days from diagnosis to death. We had barely processed the news that he was sick, and he was gone. Breakthroughs can only happen with funding!

Just look up! Marvel at the full light of it: our world citizenship. #Haiku #Tinypoem #GlobalCitizen #Solidarity

This was such an incredible concert! And such a lovely surprise to have President Michael D. Higgins arrive to a standing ovation before the concert began. A very special night. #IrishMusic #StPatricksDay #Fiddle

Simply Gorgeous... Early morning. Gina The Evening Grosbeak (Wife of Giovanni), enjoying the fresh air & scenery. Stunning plumage. She enjoys the Pine Forests of the Northern Wilderness. 📸🇨🇦 #AlgonquinPark #EveningGrosbeak #Birds #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #OntarioParks #Canada

Independence in motion #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKinetic #SpeirGorm #streetphotography

I'd rather have ulcerative colitis than American citizenship.

Life will find a way if we stop turning a blind eye.

For those that like to shop from in Independent Bookshop, here's an ever growing directory. There are 29 individual directory pages, thousands of bookshops listed, and five bookshop interviews #IndieBookshop #BookSky 💙📚 www.indiebookshops.com

Qu’est-ce que cette photo vous inspire? Cindy Cinnamon Photographie www.CindyCinnamon.com Fujifilm X-T50 Fujinon 16-50mm ISO 6400 - 75mm - F11 - 1/250 #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT50 #XT50 #PapillonEnFete #Fujinon #Papillon #butterfly #Insecte #Insect #proxyphotography #proxyphotographie #Quebec #Canada

I switched from a Kindle to a Kobo E-Reader 6 years ago, & my device is still going strong! I recently bought the affordable TCL Nxt Paper 11 & now mostly read on that, using the #Kobo & #Borrowbox Library apps. Amazon is a distant memory for me! Ditch #Amazon & support #Canada in one go! #Booksky

Really, really, really no need to ever buy from Am*zon

Just over 300 years ago, a wild Beara wolf could well have stood in the very same spot, striking the very same pose. She would have looked out over a far more wooded, naturally balanced landscape. Now, only her ghost, and mere shadows of the rainforest ecosystem of which she was a part, remain.

I bought this gorgeous new album by Irish harpist and composer Alannah Thornburgh on Bandcamp. It's really, really beautiful! #IrishMusic #WomenInMusic #BandCamp #NewMusic #NowListening youtube.com/watch?v=TMdy...

This is the sort of stuff I'm here for.

Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing? Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Is this a piss-take? TDs claim €567,000 expenses in December. One month

HERO vs ZERO I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore. #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

“Ukraine is the coolest country in the world right now – again.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

No Shamrock - No Visit Contact your Local TDs. You can do an Email to all also! The Irish people stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 #Speirgorm #Ukraine #Zelensky www.contactyourtd.ie

"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a very courageous man who deserves the support of the world. He has taken on the struggle of his people and his country with valor and honor. May God bless his path forward and his eventual victory against tyranny." -III #ukraine #volodymyrzelenskyy #zelensky

If Micheál Martin cosies up to Trump with his poxy bowl of shamrock after this, it's as bad as De Valera and his condolences to Germany upon Hitler's death. Email your local TDs! MM is not representing us if he goes ahead! I bet he wishes he'd let Simon go first now! #Speirgorm #Zelensky

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

Fingers crossed for Germany and for all of Europe today that the meddling and disinformation is swept away on a tidal wave of common sense and decency. We need unity, stability and hope now more than ever. 🇩🇪 🇪🇺✌️ #Germany #Elections

Friends, May we never forget that while negotiations,statements, addresses and the rest of the (undoubtedly important) diplomacy track are happening,exhausted #Ukrainian men &women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines. Without them,there would be no diplomacy track at all.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

It was a pleasure to take In Cloak and Womb, composed by @sivemusic.bsky.social to a few different venues last week: Tallaght University Hospital, DCU & Kilteel St. Brigid's Arts Weekend. The folders have been put away for now, but you can find out more in Sadhbh's bio. #MusicSky #Brigid #Speirgorm

Ireland's largest urban green space should be a model nature-friendly park. But overgrazing and a management overly concerned with tidiness means it's much poorer for biodiversity than it should be 🦌 jrnl.ie/6616719

Housing crisis, what housing crisis? There's lots of homes, boarded up & derelict. #Irishpol #Speirgorm