Oh friends, I have just received a very interesting email about the government pay gap portal and when I tell you I'm going to read them for filth, I worry that you are underestimating me... #genderPayGap #payGap

Irish Examiner... #FeckOffIona

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

Anyone familiar with Dawson St will know how much space The Ivy has taken up with its outdoor tables it doesn’t use and the planters around it. Now it wants more but at the Luas stop. If you’d like to be able to walk down the street and not be in over by trams please think about objecting

It would be nice if this weren’t true but when it comes to politics reality tends to muscle in, and you usually have to accept less than perfect* or check out altogether, which helps no one *red lines not withstanding though

Anyone got an recommendations for good coffee places in Smithfield, preferably on the square? #coffee #Dublin #SpeirGorm (not for right now! I mean, for regular coffee-drinking times!)

“The Office of Public Works spends around €1.2 million every year leasing car parking... spaces for the Revenue Commissioners cost over €100,000 annually. Parking for Leinster House itself runs to a similar figure each year. These are recurring bills, quietly signed off without any outrage”

Because, regardless of the candidate helped or hindered , it is very bad news if the police intervening in elections by leaking intelligence or operational data passes without comment.

Dublin City Council has outlined the first locations for public EV charging hubs in the city. But why are so many of them in the south-east area of Pembroke? asked one councillor.

A quick tally of who was responsible for killing each failed Irish presidential campaign: Nick Delehanty ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Joanna Donnelly ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Conor McGregor ❌ Nikita Hand Peter Casey ❌ too much Jameson Gareth Sheridan ❌ his own hubris Maria Steen ❌ Gerard Craughwell Bertie Ahern ❌ CMAT

#Steen claims the grassroots want someone who flaunts a handbag costing almost 50% of the median income (seriously - it's apparently €20,000 worth of a bag!) as their "in-touch with family values" president. The #IonaInstitute is not for the likes of thee or me. #IrishPresidentialElection #ffs

IS THE GRASSROOTS DESIRE IN THE ROOM WITH US NOW, MARIA?

People have been able to get nominated in previous elections, those tended to have a record of doing something in the community or are known. So the process works. It just doesn't work if you're an extremist or have no record of doing anything positive for the community. #aras25

Why?! #waste #sustainability #plastic #microplastic #ffs

What this guy ultimately wants is for you to work in his shop and pay back half your wages to him in rent in one of the 11 gaffs he owns.

This whole "Ireland needs a right wing presidential candidate" and "I'm being prevented from running" thing is funny because you only need 20 Oireachtas backers. You couldn't get 20 people to like you. Sounds like a skill issue tbh. #aras25

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

Suddenly I feel *very* old!

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Is it maybe time for the #JackAndJillFoundation to maybe fuck off with the annual #CannonballRun "fundraiser"? At least one crash today and going by social media, lots of dangerous driving and some near misses...

Clontarf to City Centre cycle track carries as many people an hour as 8 double-decker buses Dublin City Council's Clontarf to City Centre Cycle and Bus Priority Scheme supported a 10% increase in the number of people cycling compared to pre-Covid levels within its first month of being fully opened…

The Gist: The Presidential Selection A run past some of the people trying to get on the ballot for next month's presidential election. Sample: "Billy Kelleher is what you would receive if you ordered the delivery of approximately two meters of extruded Fianna Fáil." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Woman who wanted to jail adopted people for tracing their natural parents realises that might come back to haunt her in a presidential campaign? (OK, she knew she wasn't getting anywhere when MM told her to fuck off, but I know which version I want to believe!) #IrishPresidentialElection

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

With the Collison brothers turning out to be Trump loving, authoritarian, tech bro eejits, we need a complete and total shutdown of the Young Scientist Exhibition till we can figure out what’s going on

When I run for President, I'll introduce myself with a cardboard cutout of Mussolini on one side, & Castro the other. For you see, I'm neither right nor left. I want to appeal to a broad church of the electorate. Yes that is a prominent member of the far right doing my introductions why do you ask?

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Seeing pictures in the news of the pub owned by the rapist Conor McGregor. You'd think a rapist who wants to be president would know not to disrespect the Irish flag - it should be flown on the observer's left. Maybe he thinks the US flag should take precedence, as that's where his support is?

35 today, so to avoid having to awkwardly open gifts in front of anyone I'm doing an Inverse Birthday Present: there's a flash discount in the print shop this weekend only with 15% off all orders when you use the discount code DECREPIT at checkout. Treat yourself here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints 🎈

Together with our local @pbp.ie Councillors, I have submitted a complaint to South Dublin County Council about Fine Gael Councillors Baby and Britto Pereppadan. There are serious questions here not just for the Councillors but for Simon Harris and Fine Gael. #Accountability

Updated Dublin events spreadsheet! Rare chances to see Spinal Tap and the Rocky Horror on the big screen. And Gibby Haynes playing the hits of the Butthole Surfers NEXT WEEK. It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done... docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Fascism says “we live in a free country” as they arrest anyone using freedom of speech. www.instagram.com/reel/DNFufQR...

If you are not following @realjfairclough.bsky.social on here, you really should be! Their posts are a joy! Unfortunately it seems the "daily quokka" account never made it over here from Xitter, but 'I post animal vids' makes up for that!

I wish some national paper would take Maxim Kelly on as far-right correspondent because this is mighty. ✊️

The laziest game of fetch... 😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky

What if there were a law that if yout property was on the derelict sites register you couldn't rent out a wall to an advertising company to put a billboard on? Maybe that would increase the incentive to fix it up rather than just earn an income from advertising on a pile of shit for years?

Wow, it's one past Lúnasa and I only remembered to change my name now!

Saying this with as much love as possible, but please stop using AI generated graphics for activism. Plenty of artists willingly donate their time and work designing for activists, and always have. It's not necessary to step on an increasingly struggling group in order to promote worthy causes.

Extract from HTML email I received a few minutes ago from a mealkit provider. It's a recall. It's too late, and it's the second late recall they've sent out in the last few weeks. The icing on the cake is that the URL they include for the FSAI notice includes the string "utm_source=chatgpt.com" 🙄

This is such a great story. If those of you who I have met are an accurately representational random sampling of all of you who choose to follow me, I suspect a lot of you will also love it.

So let me get this straight... * The EU agrees to buy $750bn worth of energy from the US * The EU invests $600bn in the US * The US imposes 15% tariffs on the EU And this is a "win", according to Simon Harris and Micheál Martin.

This is why paying for your journalism is still the future - the brilliant @dublininquirer.com is one of those that gets my money every month, and here's why:

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?* *No retroactive cool, please. Albums that were in the house that you actively purchased and listened to.

Since Ed Smith left I stopped listening to Today FM (with the exception of Dec Pierce), I've been mostly listening to Nova, but apart from Kieran McGuinness on a Sunday, it's all very safe and predictable. Started streaming #8Radio this morning and the first thing I heard was #ForThoseILove ! <3

When American politicians tell the Irish to back off re genocide in Gaza

Honestly, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social - a brilliant satirical follow - has a hard time staying ahead of the inanity.

An Post still sending me texts going "Wahey, we've something to deliver to you, click on the link in this unsolicited SMS to manage your delivery" like all the best scammers never do... 🙄 #AnPost #SpeirGorm

Remero Games is not closed or closing. #speirgorm