From Ruth Flood @roothflud.bsky.social , host of the Dr Amolak Bansal talk the Irish ME/CFS Association organised in Sligo #MEcfs #PwME #spéirgorm #speirghorm @tomkindlon.bsky.social

Interesting the grace period allowed to the overpaid former ministers & that their agreement is sought. No such leniency shown to those on carers or disability payments, even when the overpayment is entirely the departments fault. €62,000 is around 5x the annual Disability Allowance. #spéirgorm

There's a Lebanese family that lives near me. Their sister/sister-in-law and her family (in total nine people) were killed by an Israeli bomb a few days ago, and we're supposed to play football against the nation invading Lebanon and killing people indiscriminately as if this isn't happening?

My first time going for a job interview in like near 2 decades. Rare opportunity to work on a project on what I love for an org where I wont face disabling barriers. Im excited and very nervous! I guess whatever happens, its personally a huge deal I feel empowered to do this!

They find it real feckin easy when want to give groups like landlords money. Hell every budget they find it easy enough to divert large swathes of public money and remove barriers for the richest to get richer rather then to those who need it or investing in infrastructural/structural improvements.

One of the most remarkable things about Ireland is how Fianna Fáil both consistently expect to be back in power after every election, and consistently govern like a party happy to leave its mess for the next government to clean up #speirghorm

Met someone in town today who was like Oh dont think ive ever seen you without a cap! im worried now people think I just have some obsessive fashion penchant for caps and not light sensitivity issues 😐between this and the heat I need to save up for good pair of sunglasses #spéirghorm

What would High Glow Silver have to say about this? Be Safe be seen amiright? #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

Nail➡️head "There’s certainly a lot of rhetoric on how its particularly awful for those who’ve done everything right* to still struggle to find a home, (*often code for having a well paid job). Which implies that everyone else who struggles to get a home is because of a personal failure" #speirgorm

SDs are gonna making the same mistake as SF cos they perceive it as something inherent to SF rather then human group dynamics within the context of success in electoral sphere, thats a recipe for repeating rather then learning from mistakes. Theres other aspects at play but thats big part one.

If your disability related campaign aligns with service providers but not disabled peoples organisations, thats a red flag.

Absolutely this. The cognitive dysfunction of ME is one of the worst symptoms, its not remotely like simple forgetfulness and I actually find it upsetting how post covid the term became more widely known and people who don't experience it started using it as a joke. Its a truly hellish symptom.

Its taken years to get this far and still cant trust they will do it when they say they will or will do it in any sort of substantive way.

Who has been training Irish security employees in the type of restraint practices which compresses a person so that they die? #spéirgorm

Im def feelin the wkends exertions a bit but the PEM- post exertional malaise symptoms havent hit as bad as they shouldve so pretty sure this the notorious fake day before delayed onset so Ive tried to limit stresses/exertions where possible. Lets see how I am tomorrow tho, the waiting game begins!

It was a fantastic presentation, we are very appreciative the M.E association gave us the opportunity to hear people of such incredible expertise! If yer ever looking for a good cause to support please consider supporting/ fundraising for the Irish ME association! #spéirghorm

Gawd am I even a real lefty if I don't have a post byelection whats wrong with sinn fein think piece or thread ready to go.

Dont forgot theres two more dates left on the national tour of Free talks by M.E Expert Dr Bansai organised by the @irishmecfsassoc.bsky.social , Galway tomorrow night and Sligo this sunday! Talk followed by Q&A and chance for chats over tea and coffees after! #spéirghorm #speirgorm

The last couple mths have a lot, constantly in a flare trying to avoid a bad m.e crash but never quite getting a chance to aggressively rest, lots of stresses, a relative died, dealing with council bullying/undermining disabled people, trying to navigate inaccessible college stuff. Its been a lot.

Have you signed up to the ILMI ebullitins? Great way to keep up to date on all the cool stuff ILMI is doing! #spéirghorm

Hoping to catch the start of ILMI masterclass on sexual health rights but it overlaps with the Disability Arts DPO! Too many cool disability related stuff on to choose from!

I can't vote in this. If I could I'd be voting for a different candidate (No disrespect to Eoghan. Another candidate just aligns better with my views). I still think Eoghan deserves a fair chance in the by-election. I think we should all sign this petition. #spéirgorm

Very cool masterclass series from ILMIs Disabled Womens Healthcare working group, hoping to make some of them! For any disabled women who are interested, the first session is this evening and is on sexual health, still time to register for it and there will be more over coming weeks! #spéirghorm

There are decent people that want housing as a right. There are decent people that think we should reduce car dependency. There are decent people who think we should invest more in solar in the country. We never seem to hear calls to listen to those decent people though 🤔

In my imaginary dictatorship, all landscapers would be heavily regulated from noise, visual and chemical pollution. No noisy power saws or whatever unless a tree bough is a risk of life, no polluting sprays, no leaf blowers , if you want to create souless lawns you can do it quietly.

The full report has tons more than the news articles can cover and it is quite readable. If you would like to look at the people around you as you go about your day more cheerfully (albeit also more informed), I commend a peruse of it to you this morning. hopeandcourage.ie/wp-content/u...

Ask yourself if the media environment has reflected these numbers since 2024: - 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, up from 64% in 2024. - 75% agree that, Trans individuals should have the freedom to live their lives, up from 70% in 2024 Now ask why.

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

The comments on this news story on fb really show this manufactured discourse in action, and of course they are all pushing bonkers conspiracy theories on H&CC and ngos.

Cant get my head around the committed republicans and socialists in Sinn fein, who fought for Irish Unity when it was unpopular, literally went up against the British empire but seem to flail in face of few sleeven and gombeen tds in their party driving them down a road they know fails everytime.

Got a soc dem ad, talkin about disabled ppl in terms of rights and crpd which is great to see! Soc Dems and Sinn Fein, tho not perfect I can tell theyve been listenin to disabled activists enough to take some things on board. The socialist left are increasingly behind the centre left on disability.

Allowing profiteers to keep displacing people like me and my partner from rural communities across Ireland by hoarding all the housing ACTUALLY IS an attack on rural Ireland.

Not sure ILMI are active on bsky so boosting this mornings launch of the groundbreaking research on disabled people's experience with impairment label prescription medication conducted by ILMI/NW drugs and alcohol taskforce. The report is available in pdf and word on ILMIs website #spéirghorm

Im not very visibly disabled but when i was getting on the bus there the driver did the wee extra lowering the bus thing for me that they normally only does at that stop when there's wheelchair users etc. I feel seen, like the public transport version of the barman knowing yer order #spéirghorm

Imagine if we had politicians whose first instinct was to copy Mamdani, rather than aping the goms wrapped in tricolours.

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

This is everything wrong in modern Ireland in one story. Public sector duty has to apply to this surely!

HEADS-UP, IRELAND: A likely ICE flight has just landed at Shannon again, likely to refuel before delivering shackled migrants to god-knows-where. This is the same plane that sent migrants to Uganda — a country they had never been to before — on April 1. #spéirghorm

Another year of great DPO work comes to a close with our 2026 AGM! If you identify as disabled, are over 16 yrs old and you live, work or play in Sligo, consider popping along to our AGM and becoming a member! #spéirghorm

Things to note about Sitka spruce forests that Micheál who owns multiple commercial Sitka plantations neglects to tell us: Sitka plantations in Ireland and the UK tend to be monoculture uniform age plantations because this maximises profitability and makes the wood much much cheaper to harvest. /1

There's an instinct to blame the left that these agri protests are often right wing or led by people who are right wing cause "the left" didn't engage but that ignores that many of these people have their own conservative to right wing ideologies.

Thanks to Disability Participation News Hub for picking up our press release. Its totally ridiculous we have to go through a process as far as the Ombudsman because we couldn't get simple answer to why a decision was made against us from. #spéirghorm

Is the now the time for a party that doesn't want us to have housing or anything good in the world to replace its leader with another person who doesn't want us to have housing or anything good in the world? I dunno , with what? A plague of locusts? A punch me in the face machine?

The meta, Meta and meaning of the Irish fuel protests - a longish read about what more than 20 years of studying and covering the far right has taught me about these political moments. #speirgorm philipoconnor.com/the-meta-met...

Fighting for anything with ff/fg in power is massive energy drain because they either dont care about doin anything that doesnt line their own pockets or are ideological opposed to decent things. Theres no left party whose strategy or policies I disagree with that are as much work to move as ffg.

Government are going to try ram through the arbitration amendment act which would open the door for Secretive international courts that would allow corporations to sue the Irish state if they pass laws that could effect their profits. #SpeirGorm email tool: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/em... ✊️

Oh salve for the soul! Takeways: most people are sound, dont play on the far rights terms, our wonderful diverse communities are our strength! If you get the chance, get H&CC in or get involved in yer local PPN, now is a great time to reconnect and organise with your local communtiy. #spéirghorm

Sligo Public Participation Network had organised a workshop for today by the Hope and Courage Collective on building community resilience against polarisation. I was already looking forward to it but with everything going right now on this could not better better timed! #spéirghorm

The real cost of cheap goods and fast delivery. They are accused of preventing staff from assisting or performing cpr and requiring workers to continue on while a man lay on the floor. imagine the moral trauma to all involved. #speirgorm keep resisting Amazon.ie