Hahahahaha I guess we will have to just believe them 🤷‍♀️ But seriously, I think ministers should stop talking about gambling revenue as a positive considering it destroys people's lives and causes chaos in families. The tobacco industry contributes to the economy but it doesn't mean it's a good thing

On the green Luas into town hoping I don’t meet the prick that sprayed deodorant on my partner’s neck and head while threatening to set it alight with the lighter in his other hand yesterday at about 6pm. Nobody intervened. He moved on to hassling others. Prick got on in Ranelagh.

This whole thread but mainly this…

As a Clare person, I may not get over today in Croke Park for some time. Lead for most of the game and yet lose it in the 70th minute.

Been to multiple gigs in the Aviva, Marlay Park, St Anne’s, 3 Arena over the last 2 months - all with bag search, no full water bottles allowed in. Croke Park: bring whatever you like, sure bring a load of flares maybe?!

Possibly not helping is FFFG letting the likes of Sean O’Driscoll be a member of the ‘Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforce’? An accountant, former KPMG partner and non-exec director of AIB 2006-2009 amongst the talents listed here I don’t see as ideal for the job? irishcycle.com/2026/01/17/w...

Planning Croke Park logistics. My pensioner dad is NOT taking the free train tomorrow as usual after a horrendous post-match journey from Thurles to Ennis last month. Train full of drunk lads openly drinking booze, spilling it, vaping, shouting. Hostile, toxic environment. @irishrail.bsky.social

Parents fell into the SUV “trap” 10 years ago after years of saloons and hatchbacks. It’s really not ideal for their north Clare roads but now they won’t drive anything else because “I need to be up the same height as others to see.” Others = SUVs.

While The Irish Times marketed itself under the tagline "the story of why", they are doing their bit again of not giving context why someone like Government advisor Sean O’Driscoll might be against environmental legislation, so here's this article again: irishcycle.com/2026/01/17/w...

I look forward to cycling it some day but every time I see an old rail line, even if it hasn’t been used in decades, a part of me dies thinking of what might have been. My grandmother used to wax lyrical about taking the West Clare Railway even though it was slow AF with single track.

Just finished episode 5/7 of The Irish Passport’s ‘Conquest’ series. I am constantly agog at the horrific parallels between the genocidal maniacs of the 16th and 17th centuries and today’s counterparts. Haven’t even got to Cromwell yet 😬

Culture vs entertainment. IDK if The Journal is being a shade b or just printing the facts 🫠

A thread you should read but might wish you had not…

When I go to the bank, have they built a credit-scoring system which takes account of Experian’s credit score, which we’re told is itself built on this GeoDirectory data. If I want a loan, are they nervously eyeing the state of Urban Deprivation they think I live in?

Not sure I’ll ever get over the days lost in childhood picking stones by hand in huge fields (amalgamated from many small ones) to make it usable for grazing cows. IN THE BURREN. Because we were going all in on dairy. Because incentives and a need to feed a family of 6. It’s all 🤯

Either Finglas is under siege or they’re having a huge fireworks party to kick off the EU presidency. Boomy.

Anyone have any leads on a Metallica Dublin blood drive T-shirt for a lad who bought 2 other T-shirts and a hat but couldn’t give blood until today coz it needed to be 90+ days since his lash donation???

Simon best get ready to be visited by the three ghosts…

“There was a time when Europe looked like the world’s answer to the worst excesses of big tech. Ireland has sabotaged that dream for a massive payoff…” Stark read from @iccl.bsky.social’s Johnny Ryan. #speirgorm #bigtech #euregulation

Starting the week by questioning accounts giving the fashy protest on Saturday tailgating the Dublin Pride March airtime, including quotes from Malachy S. Cut off the oxygen or if you insist on posting about them, call it what it is.

We will not get the hardware we ordered before October. This is how our new AI-economy works. You can’t afford to buy the computers and they can’t afford to make them even if you did.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

“My lawyer pockets are bigger than yours”

Glossy AI propaganda in the Irish Times today from Google. I'm sure they're just looking out for our best interests.

So sick of the flood of AI swill that is swamping social media. They do these dreck images and use AI to rip off other people's work to write long, saccharine captions. These accounts quickly grow followings, but Im assuming they are just going to flip or sell the accounts when they get to a size

‘PV panels significantly lowered indoor temperatures during daytime…maximum reduction of ~2.3 C (4.1F) during critical afternoon heat stress period (14:00–16:00)…modules installed parallel to roof slope, 0.10 m ventilated air gap between panels & roof surface, covered 60% of south-facing roof area’

Had to update this app to see GIFS not in a static form 🙃

Robert Smith 🫶

Picked up a bottle of berry flavoured water running to catch a bus. I did not expect caffeine-spiked water 🥴

They need big butts, and they should not lie

Peak summer and we are still meeting half our energy requirements by burning. In 2026.

Soooooo when might we see the equivalent of sick leave for coping with severe high temperatures?

Cowtown Yard in Stoneybatter are looking for community support to retain what they have built over the past 4 years, taking an unused yard beside Clarke's and turning it into a vibrant local hub. Local residents can sign the below petition to support their appeal against closure. bit.ly/CowtownYard

It’s mandatory to post about weather today. The kitchen, facing south, door open, thankfully pre “giant glass box era”.

Listen back to @tupped.bsky.social speaking about this Garda AI 'biometric analysis' bill with @tonygroves.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBry... and please consider signing @iccl.bsky.social 's petition www.iccl.ie/I-do-not-con...

This is the sort of comment that may finally push people into the "yes we'd like a habitable planet for our kids" camp

They’d nearly install a revolving door at Number 10 now, WHA?!

Shout out to the Dart and all who manage Aviva crowds after gigs - was on the second train out of there after Metallica and went from pitch (Ballsbridge) to couch (Cabra) in 70mins when combined with Luas. Oh and for €2. Unbeatable.

There she is at 11pm

No bottle caps on the water at The Aviva but you can have THIS projectile instead

Is it any wonder our roads deaths are so high Majority of speeding cases at Trim District Court were withdrawn, struck out or dismissed over a four year period | Meath Chronicle share.google/exZ1LIimJTa5... #SpéirGorm

It’s wild that Zack Bryan has a pop-up merch store in Dublin even though he’s gigging in Cork and Belfast. The Metallica one in The Convention Centre has been open roughly 8-8 since Thursday and there was a half hour queue to get in today. Sooo much swaaaag getting shifted.

Gardening until 10pm. Joy. Also, how life shifts 😅

The downside of advocating for developing a company policy on AI use is I now need to shape it. Is there any go-to resource for this or “gold standard” worth referencing?

Prof. Francesca Bria has mapped connections

70 seats occupied by people who attempted to subvert the mandate given to the legislature on this issue. 70 people who do not trust women. 70 people who ignore experts. I'm literally fucking begging you, particularly if you're a woman. Join a party. Stand for election. Take their seats. #Spéirgorm

It’s very close today

“Of the 14 Irish MEPs…, six voted in favour. They are Fine Gael's Nina Carberry, Regina Doherty and Sean Kelly; Fianna Fáil's Billy Kelleher, Barry Cowen and Cynthia Ní Mhurchú.” An astonishing number of would-be presidential candidates. Imagine one of those ghouls replacing Michael D.

RTÉ sure do love giving oxygen to Peadar T

Scrolling through Bluesky and seeing The Irish Times posting an "AI is great" article just after the "What to do now you're redundant" article would be rightly criticised as lazy and unsubtle if it was used as world building in a movie scene.