Loving this live cam of the little bundle of cheetah cubs and their mother (currently in Den 2) at the Smithsonian zoo. They’ve grown noticeably in the last few weeks. nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/chee...

A #painting. Now hanging in Liverpool, "Stone Wall, Cottage" came out of my brief life on the north coast of Donegal, where me and my little dog would walk 5-mile loops enjoying the views of the Seven Sisters. I can't look at it without remembering her. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear

Sitting in a pub with two Cork men and they are having a Very Serious Discussion about what forms of potato should be served with the Christmas dinner. I love this country #speirghorm

Just catching the end of a 2010 concert on BBC4 with various artists performing Nick Drake songs. I know almost nothing about him except the odd song here and there. This is excellent if anyone can track it down again. #Speirgorm

Bouncy landing at Dublin airport earlier prompted some clapping from the People Who Clap When Planes Land. A few threw a smile and a “fair play to him!” at the cabin crew as they got off. #Speirgorm

In the year of our lord 2025, a hotel does not have any sockets beside the bed #Speirgorm

Is it just me or do all Father John Misty songs go on forever? #Speirgorm

Missing cat, Balbriggan area

I would go to bed but my legs are under here. #Speirgorm

Cats to the vet today for routine stuff. This lad is nearly 7kg. “He might be *a bit* large, maybe,” the vet says. #Speirgorm

The problem with watching beginners’ videos for kettlebell exercises and so on is the bit where you have to look up what “quads and glutes” are. #Speirgorm

Not sure if Jodie Foster has ever appeared in a weirder film than Flightplan, on my television now. #Speirgorm

Somehow missed that Richard Hawley is performing the entire Coles Corner album tonight in the Olympia in Dublin, 20 years after its release. 👀 Gig reports welcome #Speirgorm

Tomorrow I'll be in Liverpool, so here's a sketch I did there a couple of years back, on the day we interred my mother's ashes in her hometown - as I cycled to Waterloo and sketched this group of buildings on South Rd before returning to family and going to the cemetery. #ArtYear #UrbanSketching

Ah here.

Mercury Music Prize kicking off on BBC4. #Speirgorm 🎤🎸

Watching Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC from a few weeks ago and had somehow missed that he turned 80 in September. God almighty.

The “Chapelizard Bypass” on the traffic update again on the radio.

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Have a #painting. "West Cork Trees" came out of cycling past these lads several times out west of Clonakilty where I would catch a glimpse of them through a gap in a hedgerow and despite how far they were away they would always arrest me. I hope they're doing ok. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

There he is now, Declan Nerney on The Late Late Show.

jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal

@aodhbc.bsky.social You might like this Hugo. www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

A #painting from Ireland's south coast. "Ardmore" is an exalted place for me, not because of the Round Tower, but because when I was small I stayed in a caravan and every day you'd jump over the dunes to the beach after first eating a bowl of Puffa Puffa Rice. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #TidesOutTuesday

Things I have never watched: The Traitors. Bake Off. Gogglebox.

@imbibecoffee.bsky.social The FT’s weekend magazine is dedicated to coffee, Gary. Would you like me to send it on when I’m done with it?

I post a thing on a freecycling website and get a reply from someone saying how great this is but they’ll pass, sadly. Could you just *not* reply?

Starting a campaign to get pianos removed from airport terminals.

J-CMAT #Speirgorm

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Don’t know how I ended up looking for this but Phil Lynott’s burial record in Dublin isn’t easily found because his name is spelt incorrectly in the cemetery burial register. #Speirgorm

"Dublin Bay Chimneys", a new #painting that sold earlier this month. For many, seeing the chimneys when arriving into Dublin port or Dublin airport, means simply one thing. Home, that word home, with all its flaws and its joys, it means you’re home. So I paint them. #SpeirGorm #Stunday #ArtYear

How glad am I now that I taped the BBC2 documentary We Want the Funk last weekend? Very glad indeed.

There's a sanctuary in Meath that takes in often disabled cows and let's them live out their life happily but they're being evicted. If anybody has a few hectares and wouldn't mind cattle on them you should get in contact with them. It's heartstone sanctuary

There won’t be a something something…mumbles…in Grimsby tonight.

Lola getting belly rubs. #Speirgorm 👹

Such is life that I have a sudden need for funds, so I might run through the small number of my original works that are still available. As ever I'm grateful for likes and such things, and as I often say, I couldn't afford to buy my own paintings.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Jeremy Allen White in The Bear. My god. They are just so good.

Delighted to see this outcome for a “group” of puppies.

don’t talk to me or my son ever again

This was the post-celebratory/early morning training session outside Semple Stadium at 7am this morning as former senior hurler Buggy O'Meara took on Olympian Sharlene Mawdsley, with a very slight headstart. They go hard in Tipp.

A #painting from last year. "Kilmore Quay Boat" came out of looking at this boat in Ireland's southeast for an age once upon a time. Its shape and texture kept bringing me back for repeat visits. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #ColorADay #RedWed

Turned on a programme called Drag Race France in a hotel and it turns out to be people doing a tug of war on a plastic mat covered in water. Disappointing.

This is an important post - for me. My annual online sale of new paintings, postponed last December will be happening at the beginning of August liamdaly.com/2025/07/11/n... #SpeirGorm

A popular Irish custom, carried out to this day, is leaving a Child of Prague statue outdoors under a bush the night before a wedding to ensure good weather If the statue's head breaks off it heightens the odds of sunny weather! 💫🔆 #FolkyFriday #weatherlore #folklore #speirgorm #tradition #Ireland

Forty years ago this weekend, Nik Kershaw performed in Live Aid. Tonight, The Round O, Navan, Co Meath.

Ah man. Not Michael Madsen. RIP.

80 years old on Tuesday. 🚨 www.nme.com/news/music/b...

@graapples.bsky.social 🙌🏻