Dave McSavage says grants for stand-up comics could destroy the industry: "Get funny or starve". The guy who graduated Blackrock College, whose father was a Fianna Fáil Minister, whose brother was a Junior Minister... I'm sure he was under plenty risk of starvation. #irishcomedy #irishpolitics

#Mountshannon #Clare #Speirgorm

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

me continuing to post on Bluesky despite the alleged death of Bluesky

Very sorry to hear that former SocDems councillor June Murphy has passed away. When we started in West Cork, she was incredibly supportive and encouraging. Always with the kind word. A very decent human being. RIP. #speirgorm

I've been up to something. If #SpeirGorm can lend a hand , even just by resharing, that'd be fantastic. We've been super busy, but like most small businesses these days, we need a bit of a helping hand to get things moving. All donations are welcome www.indiegogo.com/projects/rev...

To people posting angrily on posts about #diversity or cultural celebrations in #Ireland: What do you need? Why are you so unhappy? What would change that? Because we both know getting rid of the people who don't look like you won't actually fix what's wrong with you. #SpeirGorm #irishpolitics

Peadar Toibin's #Aontú #ArdFheis speech has the air of "panel show comedian who can't hold their own as a stand up". On #rtept, and during #GE24, he can get in his pithy lines when he has someone to respond to and attack. But on his own he's a bit directionless. #Ireland #SpeirGorm #irishpolitics

What #Starmer and #Labour are doing is more evil than what the #Tories did. Labour's 2024 win was a swing away from the Tories. Starmer's actions since has been a slap in the face. At least regressive Tory policies reflected regressive rhetoric winning a mandate. #politics #ukpolitics #SpeirGorm

Impressive that #KeirStarmer won a majority in Commons because of how abjectly shit the #Tories were, and has spent the last 10 months dragging #Labour to the right on every piece of culture war bullshit he can find. What's the point of Labour if they're anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT?

I did get some very good advice once from my uncle Simon, which was about getting work as a musician but I've applied to all my arts endeavours - be the nicest, most fun and memorable person to work with and people will both remember and want to work with you again.

This. If you have actual expertise / experience worth listening to, point to that, not just the fact that you've been around a while.

Getting in touch with Dublin City Council to tell them the bin on the corner was only used 14 times today so they need to get rid of it

The Green Party don’t get as much media coverage as Reform because the continuation of civilised human life on the planet isn’t as interesting as cunts.

A lesson from the last decade of Western #politics -- of #Dems running to the right and losing, of #Labour running to the right and falling in the polls, of FF/FG teaming up to keep SF out -- is that they're not moving right to win. They're moving right, because they'd rather lose than go left.

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu

*me reading Busy at Maths* "Wow they need to start teaching this stuff in schools!"

I understand why #clickbait headlines get engagement for non-stories. But is there data that shows that burying the story does the same? Will "Iconic 00s Boyband Coming to #Limerick" get more clicks than "Blue to Perform in Limerick"? I feel I'd be more likely to read the second one? #SpeirGorm

This Carney victory is going to launch a thousand think pieces and I WANT ALL OF THEM

FG suggest that older people should "downsize" and move out of their homes to free up larger houses for young families. But would never suggest landlords just not price gouge young families for every cent they can get. #SpeirGorm #Dáil #FGFF #IrishPolitics

Women’s Social Hours Thursday April 24th | 11am-1pm & 6pm-8pm This month we are meeting on Thursday April 24th, at our offices on 28 John Street, Limerick City, V94 K5N5, and we are doing vision boards!

Is it just me, or have the options for #EasterEggs in #Ireland really gone downhill over the last few years? Obviously #Easter weekend is a bad time to be buying, but even in March the range is just a lot smaller. #SpeirGorm #LimerickCity #Limerick

Just ran straight from the Bernie / AOC rally (actually had to miss some of Bernie!) to my 18 month oncology check up annnnnd STILL CANCER FREE!!

If you're AirBnB-ing an entire whole home / apartment / house instead of making it available for long term #rental, you're probably a prick. Maybe you've a good reason, or extenuating circumstances that prevent you from letting it long term. Sure. But most don't. #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm

Can someone please nominate Frances Black so we can stop wasting time with an ever expanding list of people who are "not ruling it out"? #spéirgorm

Imagine being worth £800m+, but being so broken inside that you spend your life bullying minorities. There's a yawning chasm in #JKRowling where there should be pride at her success as a writer -- and she'll fill that by harassing #LGBT+ groups until the day she dies. It's disgusting. #SpeirGorm

So proud of Limerick city today. Not only did our lovely community stand in solidarity with Palestine but we saw off a planned disruption from a far right group of haters. We outnumbered and out chanted them. Our streets. And the streets are with Palestine #FreePalestine

A little insight into youth work in Ireland: the best youth worker I've ever worked with is soon taking up a non-youth work job, because the youth work pay is so bad, & the job is now flooded with endless admin due to reporting demands from funders. This is a frequent occurrence. A constant one.

Monthly notification on how few women have represented Limerick in the Dáil (0 in County, 2 in City). I was going to do the amount of years women have sat in the Dáil compared to men but the men quickly reached into the hundreds and I got sad.

Any #SpeirGorm regulars at Jeff Wayne's #WarOfTheWorlds at the #3arena #Dublin? #livemusic

i genuinely believe that public figures could get elon to solve the elon problem with just a few days of concerted effort. we need people to bully for the greater good!

Pat Leahy doing what he does best. Another article that acknowledges what the Government is doing is wrong, but never suggests they should stop doing it. For some reason the Opposition should just let it go.

"It’s like if the national agenda was being set by 98FM’s Dublin Talks." This week's Surrealing on... Conor McGregor, Garron Noone, Michael Lowry, Micheál Martin and the United States.

It is impossible to be alive and be non-political. You can only be aware of your political decisions or you can be oblivious to them. But ignorance of an effect does not erase it. One of our current problems is that zombie political ideas shamble on, obscuring clear sight of reality.

A #tech question: Why do companies insist on having an #app when they're unable to actually run an app? Ticketmaster, clothes shops, supermarkets, credit unions; I wouldn't mind having a million apps if they weren't constantly broken 🫠 If you wanna sell my data, do it efficiently. #SpeirGorm

A lot of people who expressly think "It's okay to discuss immigration, even if we do it clumsily" seem to really mean "We should go out of our way to discuss immigration as clumsily as possible"

Great attendance at today's @ipsc.bsky.social march in #Dublin. Delighted to attend with some folks from #Limerick.

Every Irish person who has complained to me about Irish politics has immediately followed it up with “of course I know it’s nothing compared with what you’re dealing with…”

Did you know that since 2022 LimerickCouncil have had a mobile sensory room at all parades in Limerick City? This is a viewing area and quieter space for autistic and neurodivergent people to comfortably watch the St.Patrick’s Day parade ☘️

Marching bands from across Ireland, Europe and the United States annually make their way to Limerick City for what is the only international band parade and championship of its kind in Ireland www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

“If we accept that war is inevitable, that inequality is inevitable, that environmental destruction is a necessary cost of progress, then we abandon the possibilities of transformation..” President Michael D Higgins What’ll we do without him?

Here's the full set of saintly bunnies.

Hi there @repjournal.bsky.social I've been wading through some of the earliest issues of your Journal and thought you might like this pic of your very first issue from 1908

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Grange Stone Circle • Lough Gur • Limerick This large embanked stone circle measures nearly 46m in diameter. It is formed of a near-perfect ring of 113 stones, backed by a 9m wide earthen bank. It was first constructed during the Neolithic Period, with activity spanning centuries. #Archaeology 🏺

It says everything about the #MAGA way of thinking that they consider the money they gave #Ukraine gives them the right to negotiate on their behalf. An entire political movement that's just that creepy guy who buys you a drink and expects something in return.

at least this is going to make it easier to break the news to the middle class family whose shed i have been secretly living in

I don't know why #SpeirGorm is being so critical of #FiannaFáil and #FineGael when it comes to #housing. They are working SO HARD to lower people's sense of dignity and self worth so that they'll literally live in a garden shed. What are YOU doing? /s