More councils boycott X over Grok AI sexual images controversy www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Sharing this again from a story I did a few years ago as a new court ruling has unleashed a torrent of false narratives about asylum-seekers being treated better than Irish citizens on the right to accommodation:

The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.

When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home Me at Oireachtas #speirgorm

Commitment or delusion? Interesting to see that her stated commitment to get involved with public service doesn’t extend to roles that don’t come with a 300k salary, and a big house with staff

Heard Maria steen on the radio this morning and first play to her for not dropping it. She is STILL going on about how she was wronged. I don't agree with her but I do admire her commitment to never getting over it

“Sprats don’t care if they’re caught by big boats or little boats.” How do you balance coastal community vitality with protecting the marine environment? Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #RTECountrywide

Nature Based Solutions are not tree hugging responses to the climate crisis. Serious people are persuading companies and utilities to spend serious money on green (grass) rather than grey (concrete) flood prevention. Rob Gardner CEO @rebalanceearth.bsky.social Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

UPDATE: Just last night, the original Arramara application has been withdrawn! Arramara have different applications in and a corporation called BioAtlantis also has applications in for Mayo and Kerry harvesting. #SpeirGorm my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

There are so many ways that Elon musk is a piece of shit but having destroyed the night sky by filling it with fucking junk is a crime that will go down in myths and legends. He should be locked under the ocean for all time for celestial vandalism

Have these glasses been spotted in the wild in Ireland?

The issue remains though. There should be no corporations given seaweed harvesting rights in Ireland my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

The Dept website has just yesterday evening changed the status of the massive arramara application from 'applied' to 'withdrawn' this is good news but both Arramara and Bioatlantis still have applications in for seaweed rights in mayo, galway, and kerry

UPDATE: This plane landed in Cairo and is now headed back to Shannon. Previous ICE flights to Cairo delivered Russian dissidents and asylum-seekers to Egyptian authorities, who forced them onto planes to Moscow. At least one is now missing. #speirghorm gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-flight-r...

I know I've said before multiple times that this government isn't interested in governing but holy shit. This is next-level allergy to responsibility

I assure you all that mice and rats can actually live in the same places

Places like achill and Killarney that are impossible to find a place to live in create their own political consensus. cause the people who can't find anywhere to live there leave and the people who can are often landlords like MHR himself

Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast. Is your area affected? Get in touch to start a local campaign ✊️ my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

So in a week of catastrophic flooding the government have decided to move climate from its own section to a subsection under infrastructure and lift the Dublin airport passenger cap. Mighty

Weeks of severe storms and catastrophic flooding across the country — all made worse and more frequent by climate change. Our politicians’ response? Our Minister for Climate Action’s response?! More emissions.

The epstein files have completely disrupted my ability (which I used think fairly reliable) to sift out conspiracy theories. I now have no idea whether I'm responding appropriately or whether im in a far right pipeline

Pepper dulse is also delicious!! www.tiktok.com/@unaminh/vid...

As a keen forager whose speciality is seaweed and sustainable sourcing I beg you to sign this. There are currently two corps with applications to strip the Irish west coast of seaweed. We cannot let this happen. Please sign and share. #irish #ireland

What can be done about this? Slurry spreaders out today in waterlogged fields beside the Boyne River - total madness and against regulations. Water quality is deteriorating and there is little enforcement. @whittledaway.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social

Presumably the start of many many EU law suits we will face for not meeting our environmental obligations.

Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters "That the Irish Government still allows this form of destructive fishing throughout Irish coastal waters is an absolute disgrace" www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Thousands of sea animals needlessly killed as bycatch of crayfishing industry in practice Dr Nick Payne of @tcddublin.bsky.social says is shameful www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment” How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Would love an outright ban on holiday homes. Beautiful houses that could be permanent homes lying idle and unoccupied for most of the year is madness.

Another excellent piece by Pádraic Fogarty. The Nature Restoration Law and the Land Use Review offer the government a real opportunity to address challenges like flooding head-on, but I have little faith they’ll take it. www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm...

It makes me so mad can we not leave fucking anything alone?!

There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed. There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally. Please sign and share.

ICE trafficking palestinians from the US back to Palestine via shannon. Signed off by our minister? Or ignored? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/revealed-private-jet-owned-by-trump-friend-used-by-ice-to-deport-palestinians-to-west-bank?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

WHAT? This move is madness! We're already paying out millions in fines due to our reckless and deliberate destruction of the world's climate.

This is a shocking move even for them. People's homes are flooded and sewage is running down the streets cause of climate change and these clowns are deprioritizing doing anything about it. The only thing they'll do is remove judicial reviews...

Half the country under water, but this is what Jack Chambers and this government think of Ireland's commitment to climate action, as if we needed any further proof that they couldn't give a shit. I assume he owns a house on a hill.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but… jk, we all know who needs to hear this #speirghorm www.thejournal.ie/foxhunting-w...

Majority of rural people want foxhunting ban as poll suggests Dáil vote out-of-step with public jrnl.ie/6945424

Over a thousand seals drowned in fishing gear around the blaskets

This coming from a gov who is trying to remove regular people's access to environmental info and justice and participation in the planning process. Just voluntarily handing over enormous power to corporations. We already have laws protecting investors, if they aren't good enough then change them

I know there's a massive amount going on but the government amending the arbitration act to sign us up to CETA needs serious coverage and the risks of corporate courts need to be spelled out.

The IFA never seem to care about all the cattle feed imported from Brazil 🤔🤔 so weird, you'd think that their quality concerns would extend to what they feed their cattle

Cubas life task is a documentary about how cuba is preparing for climate breakdown in the short medium and long term. At the very least Ireland could take how they have communities organised *before* a disaster and the elderly, people with disabilities, the young, and animals are all accounted for

The only thing they care about when something bad happens is telling everyone it's Not Their Fault, like, they truly do not actually want to govern

We're at 80.37%. C'mon Ireland. France is at 307%!! Where's your competitive spirit. This petition is the queen of petitions, 👸. I know you've signed a lot already, but don't skip this one by. It's got clout! #JusticeForPalestine #Speirgorm

Blaming the weather man for the weather while spending the last 4 decades willfully ignoring climate science to the extent we face billions in fines because of EU emissions rules. A government of out and out grifters and clowns.

James Brown's plan to distract from government failures by accusing Met Eireann of "withholding information" has been incredibly successful. They've been talking about it all day on RTÉ Radio 1. They've played his comments about 6 times. Climate change has barely got a mention.

This massive Canadian agtech company has put in an application to harvest seaweed from basically the entire west coast. The maps are actually shocking www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Dreadful experience and losses for the people of Enniscorthy, … as politicians run for cover. No leadership, no effort to understand Climate change is coming, whether or not you are elected next time Fundamental shift in flood protection thinking needed