✨ We often wait for BIG milestones to feel proud — but life is made up of all the small wins too. From finishing that to-do list to simply getting through a tough day, every little step forward matters. www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li... #Speirgorm

Wish we could play France again! What a team compared to that first game in Paris! #engvire #6nations #sixnations #speirgorm

Wanted #Speirgorm Looking for a house to rent in Ennis or surrounds for my family & I. I'm working for Clare County Council and have excellent rental references available. If you hear of anything available in the coming weeks or months please let me know. Shares very appreciated! ☺️

Women are contemplating paying cash for private treatment in the west and north-west of the country due to the long wait time they are experiencing between their breast cancer diagnosis and appointments for public service therapies, an Oireachtas committee was told this week jrnl.ie/6956697

I love to walk sometimes without headphones so I can listen to the birds! #speirgorm

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Tuesday morning, walking through Maynooth campus to the office... Seamus the cat on his bridge chilling as the weather warms up a little! #speigorm #spéirgorm #Maynooth #MaynoothUniversity

Went to Prima Facie tonight... phenomenal!!! I honestly don't know how I managed to stop the floods of tears at the end! #PrimaFacie #TheGaiety #SpeirGorm

It's definitely my first window of 2026 in #MaynoothUniversity #speirgorm

My friend Brian is exploring the relationship between educational attainment, socioeconomic status, self-efficacy, and self-esteem among adults living in Ireland. If you could fill it out and share it with others, I’d really appreciate it #SpeirGorm Thanks forms.office.com/e/C7Jd8Sazm7

4.45am.... and so glad I went to bed so early! Think I managed to get to sleep by 9pm! Time to get up, get ready and hit the road to Maynooth. New research assistant starting with us at 10am (I'll need a nap by then 🤣). #speirgorm #HappyMonday

Yes, it's just after 6.30pm and I am in bed 👀🫣

Finally got to use a voucher I got for Xmas 2024 in Athlone yesterday, The Fatted Calf. The food has been fab every visit! Then on to a friend's birthday party! #speirgorm #athlone #hiddenheartlands

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I never get tired of this view in Tallaght hospital! Every time I go for a nerve block, I hope the balloons are still there and I take a moment... #SpeirGorm

And we are blocked! Right arm dead as a door nail... a reset!! 😁 #TallaghtHospital #PainManagement #CRPS #speirgorm #complexregionalpainsyndrome

The silence... #spiergorm

River in Maynooth freezing over. Beautiful to look at. I safely penguin walked back to campus! Imagine 1 year ago I would be afraid to go outside in the slightest ice. Fast forward to 103lb weight loss and I feel so steady on my feet now. Don't feel wobbly anymore! #SpeirGorm #icy

Tomorrow is a busy day. I have a STEAM event in Woodquay. Then, after lunch, I am going back to my old secondary school in Ballymun 🥰. We are going to arrange for me to come back another time to speak to students, but I also want to see if we can collaborate on a research project! #SpeirGorm

Finishing the PhD. (and living 2 hours from Dublin) meant I didn't get to see a lot of people. Finally, I got to catch up with a dear friend (who calls me his Irish mom)! #cocktails #Mondayclub #speirgorm #bloodymary

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