Blood donation #10 today - got a lovely pin to go with it.

US military out of Shannon! Ireland facilitates their imperialist aims of the US with this arrangement. Direct action like this is incredibly brave from whoever acted today.

Not to incite a panic but I'm starting to get texts that Gort town has run out of diesel... #spéirgorm

This will surely help fuel prices for eveyone #spéirgorm

Robocop (now Dr. Donal Corcoran) became the Gardaí's ethics advisor www.thesun.ie/news/3123943...

Private health insurance providers are just another inefficiency in the healthcare system. We do not need them to provide healthcare. They don't provide healthcare anyways. They serve as a middle management money sponge offering less to patients each year whilst skimming more off the top.

A protestor who blocked the port protesting the genocide in Gaza had his wrist broken when thrown to the ground by Gardaí. I've been shoved and threatened for daring to get close to shutting down the access road to Shannon Airport. It's amazing how different the Gardaí's response is here...

- 17,000 officially homeless, likely up to 35,000; precluded from focus on work, education - Effects of underinvested housing, health and infrastructure also eating up disposable income, consumer confidence - Austerity, corporate welfare funnelling wealth upwards - at scale #spéirghorm #ireland

I've checked my Irish Media Protest Manual and it says that if you trap people in their cars over a period of time then you are falsely imprisoning them and you should be charged and sent to prison

We do not "need" landlords. What we need is adequate social and affordable housing builds for people to live in secure environments. Landlords are just an inefficiency! An extra step/person/siphon in the provision of a home for people. Appealing to the FG base but indicative of their disconnect.

This is absolute madness. No. We need less private landlords, ideally none. It doesn't matter how you slice it, once-off pension, multi-property business, investment funds. None. Housing should be a right, a public need, not an investment opportunity. FG/FF are the reason we are in this mess.

Hi there, Your AI flyer looks like shit

Laura and I have just been mortgage approved! Fit to burst, it's nice to have some positive news for a change

This is what greyhounds actually want to get up to!

I wish these two would leave us all alone and I wish our newspapers would stop acting as their royal stenographers

But, I thought the government said this wouldn't happen??

Is it appropriate for military aircraft involved in a war to use neutral Ireland’s airspace? Got into it with the Taoiseach about overflights ahead of his White House meeting with Donald Trump. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

As if our livelihoods haven't already been directly affected by the US and its imperialist actions! Heating and fuel bills have literally jumped up in the past weeks due to the reckless, illegal actions of a fascist. Why must we keep treating the US with kid gloves?

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

This is what real anti-social behaviour looks like

Never posting normal after posting anti-trans stuff continues to be law

Proud of my constituency TD who can't admit outright that launching an unprovoked attack on a country thousands of miles away, under the false pretence of regime change and preventing the accumulation of nuclear arms, is illegal.

transphobia is comorbid with being a fucking cunt in every other aspect of your life

Fuel industry reps quaking in their boots

I know of at least 5 people in Galway who have been served evictions notices coinciding with this legislation. Renters are about to be taken for everything they have - the largest landlord body in the country has already confirmed as much!

Hoping that momentum can grow to ensure this pathetic match doesn't go ahead. Work needs to be done to ensure an enormous protest occurs if it does.

Shame on any player who attends this. Shame on any fan who spectates it. Shame on the FAI for going ahead with it. Shame on UEFA for being corrupt, genocide-excusing scumbags. Shame on Ireland for continuing to tolerate this government's open corruption.

Why are a Sinn Féin TD and my local councillor attending this bananas protest? There is nothing legitimately founded in this opposition - it is all nimbyism and fear-mongering. Between renewable and non-renewable resources, I know what I'd like to have beside my community.

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

Difficult to know what to say to people who oppose every form of renewable infrastructure. It's also hilarious to think that the engineers who develop these farms don't consider these issues and problems, and implement strategies/technology to avoid them. Solar farms > LNG

Street party protest outside the Poxton hotel has closed down the street as hundreds turn up to protest the hotels complaint against Yamamori Izakaya :) #Spéirghorm

Very selective language from the Taoiseach in the Dáil - providing no hope that SNAs, who are essential to students and their schools, will remain in place from September onward.

If anyone who applied for the basic income for the arts trial and DIDN'T get it would like to talk to me for a feature please DM me or email [email protected]

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

🗣️ “Surely nobody should be in a condition described like that?” — guest presenter @newschambers.bsky.social 🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe 🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE

Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce. #FeckOffIona

Simon Harris on the radio trying to muddy the waters around the Occupied Territories Bill. The one side only ceasefire in Gaza is irrelevant. Israel is still robbing Palestinian land and installing settlers against International Law. They shouldn't be allowed to profit from it. #SpéirGorm #BDS

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

Fascists can't be reformed.

Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie

I'm delivering a free webinar on how to apply for arts funding tonight at 7 if anyone wants to join, it's for the Creative Places Kerry grants, but the info is applicable to all funds. #Speirgorm #irishartist #artist Link to join here: tinyurl.com/wba2jz8c

Having pulled someone experiencing a mental health crisis from the Corrib in Galway after they left A&E, I completely agree that A&E (particularly in Galway) is not the correct environment for people presenting with urgent mental health needs. We need better, specific facilities for these people.

What a ghoulish scumbag

Please join DFI, IWA & Access for All on 28 Feb at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance, Dublin. Disabled people are the most forgotten community in Ireland. Many of us are struggling with the rising costs of living with a disability. We don’t deserve this added stress caused by government inaction.

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

No plans to slow down drivers. No plans to prevent red-light runners. Few plans to segregate people driving from people cycling or scooting. No plans to enforce existing legislation for drivers. No plans to limit driver's speed in areas using geofenced regions. Too much focus on the wrong issues.

The ring road cannot address the gridlock and traffic faced in Galway City. There will still be thousands of cars entering and exciting Galway each day. There will still be bottlenecks and too many cars. The concept of induced demand seems to be completely missing from this development.

Celebrated my birthday early with a weekend away in Schull, Co. Cork. Got lucky with the weather! Laura knows how to pick presents, that's for sure.

If you're ever struggling with imposter syndrome, read a few IT opinion pieces. You'll bounce right back. This entire piece boils down to "School's are busy and stressful places for everyone, but I don't know if we should just be decent to all students and call them what they wish to be called."