For once, I am sad to say goodbye at the end of a year! What a year, finished my PhD, got my dream job, and have lost 102lb so far (health results are more important than the number though). Going into 2026, feeling good! #speirgorm #NY2026 #speirghorm #goodbye2025

Discovered my cousins were in Galway. Wanted to pop by to say hello... Adam booked us is for 2 nights and surprised me! I have had the best time. Can't remember the last time I saw the three of them together! #speirgorm #galway #family

Christmas eve tradition, my visit to Mayo! #Mayo #FamilyTime #SpeirGorm

One side of the hot press is now sorted! Old sheets and pillows emptied out and the rest refolded and tidy! Avoiding the left side of the press... all my shoes and handbags 👀 #CristmasTidy #SpeirGorm

It's nearly bed time 🎉🥳

The view when I arrived at a school in Lough Allen in Leitrim this morning 😍 I was delivering day 2 of our STEM Passport for Inclusion. Tough going for teenagers when they finish up this Friday, so fair play to them all for lasting! Only one or two dozed off for a few minutes 🤣 #SpeirGorm #STEM

At midnight tonight, something small but avoidable happens. You lose SLATED guaranteed Christmas delivery. Order before midnight: calm, organised, smug. Order after: explaining shipping delays like they’re part of the gift. Slated.ie Regret isn’t a great stocking filler. #SLATED #spheirgorm

This is how my night started going... thankfully, they had a spare room at the back! I'm extremely sensitive to noise, even with ear plugs! I'm teaching teens STEM for the next two days. I can live without a superior river view, for silence! Don't mind morning noise, I'm awake at 5.30am! #SpeirGorm

Working late on a work trip 👀 Delivering our STEM programme tomorrow and Wed. Dinner and 1 glass of wine, sprinkled with a bit of systematic reviewing before an early night! #speirgorm

Any one around Dublin and fancy having some festive fun for a good cause ? Join us at 4pm outside the GPO tomorrow (friday) we will be singing, collecting for ATD Ireland and sharing some festive joy in the Dublin Streets. Singing For Change !! www.atdireland.ie

Some key highlights from Ireland's 2025 country health profile Better than EU average: life expectancy, smoking Worse: drinking, obesity, health spending per capita, accessibility (unmet need) eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...

Had to step in for the boss and host, talk, and do the Q&A of a webinar that I also had set up! Collaboration between Maynooth and the Center for Justice at Columbia University. About experiences of the criminal justice system and education. Blown away by the work people do! #speirgorm

The Virgin Mary GS Ballymun singing out the Toy Show and CMAT popping in. Absolutely DELIGHTED for them! That equals the excitment of when Aer Lingus took 4 from every class in Ballymun up in a plan for an hour! #ToyShow #AerLingus

St Patrick's House by night #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm

Very proud of my nephew, who's turning 16 next week, who raised 1227 euro with his Halloween lights! Mayo Roscommon Hospice has confirmed his total 👏👏👏 #SpeirGorm #MayoRoscommonHospice

Alarm is set for 3.30am, aim to be in the car for 4.30am 👀 Have to drop some stuff to CityWest for 8.30am and can't risk heavy traffic on m50 😭🫣 #SpeirGorm #PrayingForSleep

I do have the best friends! One of my friends (since we were 4) booked me a room in her hotel for 50 euro with breakfast, city centre, for my Xmas work night! We text a couple of times a year, and I only see her if she happens to be working when I stay. I hate asking, and she loves it when I ask 🤣🥰

Old Kinsale Head and Hook Lighthouse have joined the SLATED Landmark Collection. Two meticulously crafted icons with so much quiet luxury they practically whisper. Consider this your gentle nudge to “accidentally” fall in love with both. #SLATED #IrishDesign Slated.ie Reposts would be 👌

Yesterday we launched our National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education at Maynooth University! Our key note Professor Penny Jane Burke is an inspiration, as is our director Professor Katriona O'Sullivan! Mercy College choir provided some uplifting music for us. #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm

What an eventful day! Unbearable pain, thought I would need an ambulance. Thankfully, I was able to see a nurse (thinking bad kidney infection). Saw nurse, then Dr, and turns out it's likely a kidney stone 😭 I'm hoping that pain was the worst of it and don't get another! #SpeirGorm

Happy Monday! #SpeirGorm

I really felt I needed this new coat in my life! #faux #SpeirGorm

About 3pm I got my laptop out. Adam started laughing... have you reached peak boredom... eh yes... I can't cope with another nap 👀 #SpeirGorm

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Putting some of my photos together #SpeirGorm

This story has the top-line results: how many survey respondents said they'd been victims of crime in Dublin city centre in the previous 12 months, what types of crime, and what do those numbers mean? 3/

Playing apple or leaf?! #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm

Window of the week... absolutely love the autumnal colours on campus! #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm

This week's photo from #Maynooth is chicken cashew in Red Torch Ginger accompanied by a Spicy Mule 👀 #maynoothuniversity #speirgorm

Was at my polling station at 7.10am, Connolly number 1 and back home to work! #speirgorm #spéirgorm

What a year since I submitted my PhD for examination on 6th Dec! Viva in Feb, bariatric surgery a week later, new job with Maynooth University from June. Yesterday was my final celebration! I did not want to give the hat back! #DCU #Psychology #SpeirGorm #SpéirGorm #SpeirGhorm #SpéirGhorm

Never mind buying a property. Are there 70,000 rental properties for them? Talk about a face palm moment...

I've spend the last week masked up and hiding in my bedroom away from the other half and his head cold... NOTHING will stop me from graduating on Monday with my fancy PhD hat (Tam). That's my hat! #PhD #speirgorm #DCU

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Also found this gorgeous walled garden on a walk around the south campus! #MaynoothCampus #speirgorm #spéirgorm #speirghorm

I had to go back on Thursday to capture my new favourite window in different ways! #MaynoothCampus #MaynoothWindows #SpeirGorm #spéirgorm #speirghorm

It's literally the furthest thing from an outburst 🤣

Devastated for Fr McVerry. When I was a teenager, he had a 3 bed flat in Ballymun, 'the hedges' for young men/teens who couldn't live at home. He has always devoted his life to this. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Front row, cool colleagues, ex Irish president, tv/radio stars... and the most phenomenal play I have seen EVER. Many Ballymun lives flashed through my head from Ballymun especially those not with us. Poor is honest, funny, and heart-wrenching sad #spéirgorm

I feel so privileged to be going to the opening night of Poor (by Katriona O'Sullivan). Have my tissues packed! #speirgorm #spéirgorm

Wow... this window stopped me in my tracks today! 😍 #maynooth #MaynoothCampus #speirgorm #spéirgorm #spéirghorm

Very frustrated with #DCU about grad. PhD grads initially left off the schedule. Then info was up for ahes saying PhD grads get 6 tickets. All my family have taken the day off, booked hotels etc. Only to find out today, no sorry that was a trial in March it's only 2 tickets now. 😭#spéirgorm

This week's window is from Maynooth Castle. How lucky am I to be able to pop here at lunchtime?! #maynooth #speirgorm #spéirgorm #speirghorm

This week's through the window #Maynooth #spéirgorm #speirgorm #spéirghorm

This started... just as I was walking past #speirgorm #spéirgorm #spéirghorm

Look what arrived! 😁 my Vincent Brownes! @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social #spéirgorm #speirgorm #spéirghorm

Through the window #speirgorm #séirgorm #spéirghorm

Dusk @maynoothuniversity.ie 😍

Ordered!!! 😍

There is nothing better than spending time in your local community with amazing people! Spent the day on Saturday, back in Ballymun capturing photos and videos of CityFarm Ballymun's Harvest Festival for their socials! #spéirgorm #speirgorm #spéirghorm