Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Dublin City Council has approved a monument to be placed on O'Connell Street to honour Irish women of the revolutionary period. The monument will be erected between the Spire and the James Larkin statue, in front of the GPO. #spéirghorm excellent news www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Help Hammam! He's trying every day to survive. His brother has autism & a broken leg. You know why they have no tent? Israel bombarded their last one!

Ok, I have a response to that Maria Steen piece. I will send it to the IT but if anyone has a contact they could share it with more directly, please let me know!

Can we be very clear that 'choice' in Ireland has always been dependent on class & wealth. Women like Maria Steen own handbags costing more than the yearly income of many women on part-time incomes in precarious jobs who can neither afford to give up work nor put their kids in full-time childcare.

Great piece by @clodaghfinn.bsky.social on courageous activists Lelia Doolan + Margaretta D’Arcy. Lelia, at 91, is walking from Shannon airport to Dublin to raise awareness of the American military’s mis-use of Shannon. Will our govt find the courage change their “blind-eye” policy? Not likely…😢

a former FF senator becomes the CEO of a housing nonprofit and within a year they're talking about selling off social housing lmao

My latest column: Ireland’s data centre policy will drive significantly greater fossil fuel use, contradicting multiple statutory and policy targets which require rapid reductions instead. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Lots of very good things today, waiting for someone to jump out and tell me it's not real, shouting April Fool

Completely confused by this argument that childless people are discriminated against by inheritance tax rules. If you are dead and your estate is disposed of to people who have to pay more tax than hypothetical children would have, you are not being discriminated against. You are dead. #drivetimeRTE

📢 Our latest Oireachtas Access edition is out now! We'll be on a break next week with the Dáil recess, but we still have a few bits to keep you ticking over until we return. Catch up here now 👉 open.substack.com/pub/disabili...

Tyndyll Jr is currently sleeping off a 24 Hour Sponsored Stay Awake where he was raising funds for Almost Home Animal Rescue NI, a great organisation where we adopted our pup from. If you have £2 spare please consider a donation www.justgiving.com/page/elijah-...

I left the room for 2 minutes! Cat appears to have licked the ends of someone's porridge bowl and has puked in 3 places on the floor, on 2 chairs, on the windowsill, on my goddamn laptop and on top of the piano. He's now quarantined in the dog crate, moaning like an angry aul lad in the drunk tank.

This thread is important. "Profound Autism" is something used to invalidate the struggles of autistics that are less apparent. For example, me. I do most of the neurotypical stuff. I also stop being able to talk when emotionally overwhelmed & can't make sense of my environment when its too loud

I think lamenting extended longevity on the grounds of older people being a ‘burden’ to others is grotesque www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

sorry no the phone in my hand is not the text back phone it’s the get sad online but also look at cats phone

great footnote in this decision on Gemma O'Doherty's motion to dismiss Jimmy Guerin's defamation suit against her www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco...

Well, thank the gods of sports balls I'm from blessed Tipp and hope is the thing with leather, stitching, yarn, core....

If Ireland doesn't qualify for the World Cup it will be because we are pure of heart and moral, and not that we aren't that good

Welp

C'mon Kelleher, make yourself big. #coybig

Yeah yeah yeah but they are great, them fans. #coybig

I AM SORRY I chose the wrong saint and manifested feckin extra time/penos 🫣😬 #coybig

Well feckit #coybig

I have lit all the candles to Saint Packie of the Closed Gap #coybig #speirghorm

Did @daraobriain.bsky.social consent to this?

Happening at 11 am PT. #AliceIsLove www.youtube.com/live/i2dj4WA...

To mark today's celebration of life for the great Alice Wong, we're publishing a series of remembrances from those who knew Alice and were impacted by her lifelong disability justice work. She is forever missed. Read part 1 of our series at discojourno.com/featured-spe... ID in comments.

Amy Doherty, from Derry, became the 30th woman killed in the North since 2020. It looks like a small number from the outside, but given the size of our region, it is a staggering one. One that keeps increasing, that we don’t seem to be able to stop. Thread inspired by @phairycakes.bsky.social 🧵

A question for the #SpeirGorm community: Does anyone recall an album from the mid 70s, put together by the Ulster Women’s Peace Movement? The can’t recall the title, but I have the Danny Boy variant stuck in my head.

I get logged out and I log in again

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...

This quote from Micheál Martin is striking but not surprising. It is fairly common among commentators of his age. But what did it really mean to live through the Troubles in Cork? I can imagine this sentiment is fairly offensive to people in Belfast or Derry. www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

@pinknews.bsky.social Unfollowing. Such a shame.

I’m 16 years doing greyhound rescue in Ireland and everyone I know who’s involved is exhausted. There have been incremental improvements but the overwhelming number of unwanted dogs pumped out every year is unrelenting and never ending.

This is why we need legislation that guarantees secure, long-term tenancies, why we need state-controlled housing provision, mandatory universal design for new developments. None of this is rocket science and only the state can fix it. Homes should not be commodities.

The Autism Acceptance Festival is a collab between NCI, DCU, NCAD, DkIT, CCT, ATU Sligo. It's quite lo fi but has had some serious guests. This year I'm most proud of this event. #ActuallyAutistic or #Neurodivergent #Spéirghorm folk may especially interested in AAF. www.ncirl.ie/Events/ArtMI...

I do not want tax breaks to lure more billionaires or 'tech talent' to Ireland unless it is to lure them into the guillotine tunnel. Universal basic income for all! It drives creativity and connectivity and experimentation and innovation! Billionaires get weird and should have no influence!

What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

#Spéirghorm We’ve a long history of our own brand of #Neutrality and we have voted down Treaties with EU and renegotiated them in order to maintain it. We need to check the planes in #Shannon, guard our airspace and maintain the #TripleLock

The outrage over the teenage lads recreating Epstein Island - including the rape of a child - in the Ballinrobe St Patrick's Day parade is entirely justified. How the community responds is going to be interesting. Every family, club & school associated with them needs to step up and do better.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit ☘️ Proud of who we are, and still fighting for a more equal, inclusive Ireland Celebrate today, but don’t forget those who are still struggling to be heard

The Irish President is one of the few politicians of integrity we have. So glad we elected her and not the other, business-as-usual, mealy-mouthed, war/genocide-enablers…. #spéirgorm #spéirghorm

Traditional St Patrick's Day customs #1

Tribunal finds that the U.K. is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. A damning indictment. 4 things we learnt from Gaza Tribunal report as UK 'fails every legal obligation' www.thenational.scot/news/2594154...

Sinners: they let the right one win

The offspring made me cards 🥰 KidA is going through a Tarantino phase, KidB is a solid Whovian. I love them. (The kids aren't bad either). #MothersDay

deep winter threading needles for my mother the fire glows winter night making tea for mother the kettle’s whistle winter night around my dying mother candles flicker old wardrobe after all these years the smell of mother

When future historians document the techbro-fascism and ego-tripped destructions of the early 2nd millennium, this ultimately will be their conclusion.