Micheál Martin said yesterday sanctioning Aughinish would hurt Europe more then it hurts Russia. However new figures obtained by The Irish Times show that this year 83% (200,619 tonnes) of alumina exports went to Russia. The amount exported to EU countries was 149 tonnes (0.6%)

Richie on the ball

How Adam refers to the missis

A ban on goods from the occupied territories is not enough - this should have been enacted prior to 2023. Rip it up and start over. Sanctions at national + EU level are needed. No trade should even be taking place esp now they've moved on to Lebanon and Iraq. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills !!!

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

"Though pushed by a minuscule number of people, the assault has been full-spectrum—government, courts, press, the health system, radicalised internet groups, and violent vigilantes." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

How embarrassing for @ucc.ie that Dr Woods used his work address in his letter excusing the sexual abuse and rape of activists

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

The woman in this video is Caitriona Graham, an Irish citizen. This is how our citizens are being treated by Israel, having been abducted in international waters, trafficked to a third state and now experiencing humiliation, stress positions, aggression and violence.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

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Announcement! I have a new YA Horror coming out with @littleislandbooks.bsky.social! It's out this August!

Wild scenes at children's chess club. One girl claims her friend invented "Jinx"; other kid strenuously denounces her claim

The Stop The Game Campaign has launched a letter calling on FAI not to play apartheid Israel in the Nations League fixtures. The letter is signed by Irish and international soccer figures, as well as others from the sports and arts worlds. 🧵1

Seven Irish citizens held by Israel after interception of Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

When I worked in Paddy Power, getting a lotto bet over the phone meant breaking out the manual bet slips 😭 I'd be sweating over the maths. Ban this sick filth!

Live in a shed yiz moochers 😊

Sleeping with the Enemy. Me and next door neighbour illegally watched her mam's VHS copy. I think we were 10 or 11.

My friend Richard is selling their exquisite hand bound notebooks today at Nudes Bar in Cork city from 5-9pm this evening. They are a thing of beauty. Go get one ye cheapskates. All proceeds go to Cork Alt Pride

They've done weekend meetings to sort all of this out. They've never done anything of the like to help the children they have made homeless. The only time they've shown any determination throughout the housing crisis was in making sure the evictions ban disappeared. This is unsustainable.

I'm not a maths guy so forgive my ignorance - but why is the fuel price not being capped? Won't we just be at the same rigmarole every time fuel goes up?

Got blocked by Alchemy Coffee on insta for objecting to their use of a Ken O'Flynn video. Good riddance 😊 #speirghorm #speirgorm

While many protesters in Ireland are complaining about fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

I've got my conspiracy board out again desperately trying to find a connection between: "Gardaí escort far right harassers into library" "Far right board bus of refugees to headcount them" "Far right blockade runs unchallenged for months" & "Far right shut country down for several days unchecked"

The library book to oil refinery protest pipeline should be studied. Looks like there are a lot of the same "Erin Go Bragh" gang involved. For some bizarre reason, they are untouchable 🕵🏻‍♀️

A Brazilian delivery driver, a French chef, and a Filipino nurse were the first to jump in and help during the Parnell square attack. We're not forgetting that. But then again, most of us don't have racist brain rot.

Please remember that these protests, whether you agree with them or not, are a direct result of European governments, including our own, refusing to stop Israel on it genocidal path. Don't let them hide that fact. #SpéirGorm #BoycottDivestSanctionIsraelNow

Half of the children in one school in Dublin are #homeless. No roof over their head. Nowhere to do homework. Nowhere to play. No where to be a kid. This should offend us all. It’s a national disgrace at the hands of Govt inaction & now 4000+ children in #Dublin alone are the casualties.

Ireland: Over two hours after the State's only Oil Refinery has been blockaded, Zara King on VM News reports from the scene that there are no Gardai present.

This is what happened when people stopped traffic to protest a genocide.

I've never wished for anyone's death. But would he just hurry up and die already.

On Sunday we knocked on over 4000 doors and heard a clear message: people want change and they believe it’s possible. Vote Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin #1 in Dublin Central. People Before Profit are the only candidates that guarantee to never prop up FF or FG, the creators of the crises we face. #SpéirGhorm

Israel is going to compulsorily execute Palestinians after 3 years of intense genocide in Gaza that's now spreading to other countries. Meanwhile National Concert Hall is hosting an artwashing fundraiser for an Israeli charity organised by Alan Shatter. www.hotpress.com/culture/nati... #speirgorm

Did you also slap them in the face and say "stop hitting yourself"

Prime Minister of Spain: “Spain stands on the right side of history.” “What is happening in Gaza is genocide.” “Ladies and gentlemen… repeat after me: This is genocide!”

Small boy leaving library: [matter-of-fact tone of voice] "Daddy, I hate the library."

Just found a second spelling error in an O'Brien's children's book, and I'm only 50 pages in. Proofreaders seem to be thin on the ground in publishing these days.

In the official Irish anthem for World Cup 90, is it "we're all off to Italy" or "we're all off to win the league"?

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Daniel Tatlow-Devally is being held on 23-hour solitary lockdown, allowed a 30-minute family visit every fortnight. Six months on remand.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

One defense is to ask the caller where their workplace/HQ is, and if they don't know/claim to be WFH, hang up! You shld also ask for an external number to call them back, then Google it to be sure.

WARNING on the latest phone scam -- which was very deceptive even to someone who writes about online fraud! Got a call from, supposedly, the bank -- flagging two suspicious charges -- walks me through need to reissue card, has my address to confirm (ugh...) and obviously has my mobile number. 1/

I wish I could take public transport to work (safer, cheaper, could read a book) but it's not feasible with Cork City buses. 54 min + 2 buses to go 13 km is madness

A boy no more than 9 years old came up to me in the library and said "I need a Spanish dictionary and the bible." Would love to know what scheme is afoot...

St Patrick's day, Cork City

"You know, sort of like when you’ve had eight pints and you feel sick and you want to go home and you realise that the answer is actually a ninth, tenth and possibly even eleventh pint." It's your favourite time of the week! Time to read the thoughts of Carl Kinsella! #Surrealing

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...