When they finally get the new family court complex up and running at Hammond Lane they’re gonna need to look more carefully at traffic at the Lincoln Lane intersection Not sure I’ve ever seen a car actually stop at those stop signs #speirghorm

What is happening to this country. This is so awful Alleged street attack on boy (13) leads to fears among Galway’s Bangladeshi community www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

“Is the plan to crack down on judicial reviews is missing the mark?” @newstalkfm.bsky.social #Planning #Housing #Speirgorm www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/is-...

On year long maternity leave pay from a good job - my income is now below minimum wage - we can get by fine but everything is much more planned, prepped and your world much smaller, these people have no idea how much the conveniences, cars & holidays in their lives cost & how much *time* money buys

One of the most underrated songs of all time surely. Brilliant

How good or bad was that Holly Cairns interview?????. I see criticism but from people who'd be anti Holly/Soc Dems at all times. So not a particularly reliable guage

My fave genre of Facebook brain rot is v niche, it’s people from the North sharing English nostalgia ‘back in the good old days of the 70s/80s/90s’ posts - which is just so MENTAL when this place was a smoking basket case of paramilitaries, army, murder, bombs & mayhem in those ‘good old days’

Factoid: Nobody needs to be reminded of the Mondeo’s importance to Ford but here’s a reminder of the car’s UK launch campaign with the kind of dramatic pic only launch campaigns have…(1)

“Interrogating the arguments for small homes as a solution to the Irish housing crisis “The paper critically interrogates main justifications & argues role of small homes as a potential solution to Irish housing crisis is overstated” new research-Dr Mark Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“He claimed that he learned from a comment by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and from RTÉ News that 80pc of asylum seekers were economic migrants” Lies told by politicians have real consequences www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

The Government lurching to the right was 100% inevitable after the presidential election; this is how they deal with failure rather than any form of reflection. But I'm fairly shocked at the speed and vigour with which they've done it, not letting the attempted murder of refugees get in their way

I should know better than to even think about US politics but the NY mayor election is pretty great

This feels like a replay of the 2004 ref to restrict birthright citizenship when we were told that non- nationals were the cause of an overloaded health system (turns out that wasn’t true either)

Absolutely zero need to provide numbers of asylum seekers vs number of people not able to afford houses of course... I'd say it's WELL south of 1% in reality... Cuz, as we all know, there's no housing shortage... there's just a shortage of people willing to make the houses they have less valuable.

You're more welcome than Fianna Fáil will ever be, man!!

As a brown person who has loved to Ireland, thanks for not putting up with this shit.

Sick to my stomach watching this. They had a plan to respond to their own failure - attack immigrants - and they haven't let the attempted murder of immigrants get in their way.

There's over 150,000 empty houses across the country. Easy to blame people seeking asylum to avoid the fact that FF have been in government, more or less, for the entire history of the state

“I am a Jew supporting the Maccabi ban: There must be no foul play in local democracy” 👏👏👏

I don’t think that anyone’s value is attached to how much they can work, but plenty of the worst people - people who have power, not just elected, but senior positions in lending institutions, healthcare provision, you name it, do. They should be so pro immigration

My friends are class and I’m so proud of them. All of them came over here as young teens with 3-4 languages but no money and loads of them now own houses and businesses.

The Eastern Europeans that I worked in hospitality the from 2002 - 2010 (even during the crash they were the only ones that would stick working nightclub hours) and kept the shrunken social scene viable, now own a lot of restaurants, cafes and catering services. Bloody immigrants, keeping joy alive

Well if we didn't have a housing crisis maybe people could actually have homes in which to have kids. How many couples are putting off having families because they literally can't find a home?

The UK Labour Party’s war on Queer ppl is such that about 26% of trans ppl are planning to leave the UK. Many are coming to Ireland to escape Labour’s nastiness. Details on Brits rights to live in Ireland are given below.

I'm selling some of my record collection to pay bills as times are tough. Please take a look or consider reposting, thanks chaps x

This stuff drives me nuts in general but even more so from Harris. Who isn't allowing you?? You are literally the government!!!!

Again with the “allowed” who is arresting him or taping his mouth over? Is Garron his special advisor now?

Never has there been a greater example of a man that has failed upwards throughout his entire political career.

Who else here is posting about biodiversity / wildlife gardening / pollinators? I want to follow you.

Excellent post. Nailed

Criticism of remarks does not mean shutting down debate.

The brass neck of this man is astonishing. Only two Sundays ago he was standing over Wolfe Tone's grave banging on about how he was a hardliner for "a strong and effective European Union".

Oh dear. Confused messaging by the Govt. They almost imply IPAS applicants will contribute to the economy by working. And might successfully gain citizenship. Bit of a contrast to "80 percent fail their application" from last week. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

As evidenced by the presidential election, the vast majority of Irish people are decent and compassionate, so instead of trying to appeal to the violent racists, appeal to them instead. Do the right thing, in the right way, and they will support you - don't, and the most vulnerable pay the price.

A message to Irish politicians: Leadership is not always about doing what people want; sometimes it's about doing what is right, and bringing the people with you, even when you think it's not popular. This is one of those times. #SpeirGorm

More bollocks. The only thing stopping Ireland from solving its housing crisis in a few years is the ideological inability of Martin et al to do so. Nothing to do with the EU, or anyone else.

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

Simon Harris said this week that 80% of asylum applicants fail, but as Mick Clifford points out here, that is a highly selective figure cherry picked with a very obvious agenda. Read this. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I knew what a 900 was LONG before I even knew what a 96 or a 99 was. It's entirely possible that if I did see a 99 back in the day - I might have just assumed it was a 900 given the similarity in styling theme.

Factoid: The car that took Saab into the ‘80s, the 900 arguably became the car most people associate with the brand & this launch ad was focused toward the enthusiast - you don’t tend to get ads like this anymore…

I did some workshops with TENI yesterday which was one of the more heartwarming days of work I've had. Amazing kids surrounded by amazing people.

This is horrendous

Are they going to count homeless Ukrainians in the homeless figures. And then blame Ukrainians for the *entire* inevitable increase.

Gotta be kidding me... Does this cretin think there isn't a housing crisis? Does he think it'll be solved by war widows, orphans, women and children fleeing a war, sleeping rough? Does he have any idea how hard it is already to find a place to live? Between this and the "fireworks"? Next Taoiseach?🤮

Fundraiser for the families affected by the arson attack last night in Drogheda. Genuine organisers, please donate or share around if you can. #speirgorm #drogheda gofund.me/d75de7ee9

And all the while the Irish media stands idly by, repeating whatever they say without question and refusing to call racists racists and fascists fascists. The best time to learn to deal with this would have been 15 years ago. The next-best time is now, but they won't. Don't say you weren't warned.

Literally every utterance, every reaction, every statement they make and position they take around the far right is wrong, because they have no idea what they are dealing with, because they don't see it as a threat, even when they themselves have been threatened. And it's going to cost lives.

I wrote this before the arson attack/attempted murder of IPAS residents, and pretty much everything Harris, Martin and O'Callaghan have done and said since has proved me right - when it comes to the far right, they absolutely have no idea the harm they are doing. philipoconnor.com/after-presid...

Ireland's "leaders" never lead. They are incapable of leading because they are only interested in power, and their politics are as malleable and flexible as it takes to maintain it. Every now and again the ordinary people are called upon to lead themselves. That time has come again. No pasarán.