Brother Kevin Crowley, who founded Dublin's Capuchin Day Centre, has died jrnl.ie/6750017

"Basic Income for the Arts had a consistent, positive impact on almost all indicators including on practice development, sectoral retention, wellbeing, for recipients, and has reduced deprivation rates among the recipients" @talamhbeo.bsky.social www.socialjustice.ie/article/basi...

One day you’re young and fun then next thing you know you’re downloading an app that identifies what birds are nearby just by listening to them and man this app is awesome

Statement from Illustrators Ireland on genAI. Any writer or musician worth their salt would care enough about their own work to avoid the use of genAI images. Damaging other workers in the arts for short-term gain is incredibly selfish and hugely disappointing. www.instagram.com/p/DKKAmTLi3Z...

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. Please stop what you’re doing at 3.06pm and take time to think of the 97 Liverpool fans who lost their lives. They will never be forgotten. #JFT97

'Grace' case inquiry final report to be published today after six year delay jrnl.ie/6678279

Take care of your neighbors and friends, you're going to need community more than ever.

And they're off! This year's Galway Cycle in aid of Oscars Kids Ireland Next stop Kinnegad Plaza just after 8. #GC25

Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers jrnl.ie/6658837

Proof that migrants don’t “get everything for free”

RTE news : Wexford girl out of school due to lack of nursing service www.rte.ie/news/educati...

The Irish housing crisis is causing such immense harm across the country in so may different ways. Three years ago, I wrote about the impact of the housing crisis on teacher shortages in Ireland, particularly in Dublin:

This. This. This. We have such a massive problem with toxic masculinity. And it is getting worse not better. All our institutions prop it up. And god forbid someone would tell a man he was wrong about something.

This must be absolutely terrifying. And unforgivable.

Some good news to lighten things up a bit. The Netherlands is returning over 100 of their Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. This can only be a win all around, and hopefully encourages other collectors/museums to repatriate as well 🏺 www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

Under the Mental Health Bill 2024, doctors would decide who is deprived of liberty, but judges would decide who is treated. That makes no sense www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Is it even disposable income if you need to spend it like this? Disposable income is usually what's left *after* essentials.

Households with a disabled person can spend up to 93% of disposable income on costs of disability jrnl.ie/6647004

Things we see. #ireland #sea

The debate: Should the State develop a terminal for liquefied natural gas? That would be a NO from me www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

‘In 2017, a few short years after being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, author Donal Ryan revealed he was going back to his job in the civil service, causing great shock among the public, but probably not among his fellow authors.’ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Would you come with us? 6.35am

'A road to nowhere': Parents' despair and anger at broken system for kids with additional needs jrnl.ie/6634635

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Really good to see UTV and ITVX platforming a disabled activist on this subject - so much of the media has very heavily slanted and misrepresented the debate.

They should do a White Lotus but in Centre Parcs Longford

Launching! 🚀 Today I'm launching a new service for landowners in Ireland who want to rewild their land. I hope this will be the start of a network that will promote rewilding in this country - the time is right! New social 🙋‍♂️ @rewildyourland.bsky.social take a look 👇 www.rewildyourland.ie

Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes. There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU. Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

And Ireland are now the 3rd country in the EU to support this petition. Good work, all of you.

Absolutely vital now, with LGBT rights under ferocious attack in the US & Britain, that the EU holds firm! Please sign this petition TODAY to ban conversion practices (aka conversion "therapy") throughout the EU. SIGN & SHARE, PLEASE!

Recently got these fab prints from @ciaraioch.bsky.social My pics do not do them justice, but they are gorgeous! Unframed (I'm busy!) The "darkness" print is carrying me at the moment-we have to trust that there's a light waiting for us out there. Support (local) art, you'll miss it when it's gone.

Just met another young person (late 20s) who’s thinking of emigrating. Not because she and her boyfriend want to, but because the cost and conditions of renting in Dublin or nearby counties and the cost of buying, are driving them close to angry despair. There HAS to be a solution. So read this.

I am begging #speirgorm if you read one thing today, make it this. If you aren’t personally affected or don’t work in this area I promise you have no idea how monumentally banjaxed the Join Family visa system in Ireland is.

He’s insane.

It can feel futile but please email or call your councillors and TDs about this stupid idea of cutting down the last few trees we have. Without a doubt they’re getting people contacting them in support of this useless, busy work idea

Column: In the Musk Revolution lessons from 20th Century history will be deleted www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BBC asked leading AI tools 100 basic questions, using its articles as sources. Significant issues with just over half of the answers. Clear factual errors in a fifth Where answers included quotes from BBC articles, more than 1 in 10 were altered, or didn’t exist www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This ancient, wild oak in my place is about 12m from the edge of a road. It has stood there for 100s of years, supporting a whole web of life, bothering nobody. Now they're talking about removing it and countless others, because in Ireland (1% native forest left), nature ALWAYS has to pay.

Give this a share and us a follow now we’re on our way out of twitter. Sharing Ken Loach and Sixteen Films news and content here!

Senior government figures very surprised that four Regional Independent TDs told Verona Murphy that they would only vote for the coalition on a “case by case basis.” That was not the agreed understanding apparently.

Becoming more apparent that rather than engaging in cute negotiating tactics, they just don't seem to understand how Government works

I try not to be alarmist, but as a Jewish academic with a lot of inherited familial trauma, it does not make me feel great that an avowed supporter of the German far-right now has access to my Social Security number.

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

Special visitor to Tallaght Fire Station over the weekend. It'd be rude not to name him! Get the kids involved. Winner gets some Dublin Fire Brigade colouring packs

A wheelchair user in Athenry, Co Galway said she feels forgotten about on her eleventh day without electricity since Storm Éowyn

Welcome to the Golden Age of Dipshittery.

Former senior #USAID, @agawande.bsky.social tells FOX News on purge: "It’s insane" “A gift to our enemies" "Ebola outbreak...Bird flu has broken out in 49 countries. Our efforts to contain them have all been shut down.” "USAID was funding the treatment for 20 million people with HIV worldwide"

Family carers getting harmed is bad for both the carer and caree