Into the west they swam until we lost sight of them. And when they came back they were changed; wiser, older no doubt, but younger in spirit, having cast off old ideas and mortal remains.

The angler waits patiently …. #ShotOnIphone

every day is another opportunity for the bsky dev team to add locked accounts or photos in DMs and instead they spend their time being like hmm what if we tried one more thing to get the wall street chodes to sign up here

Silvertones

Epiphanies in the midnight hours.

Five minutes apart. The Atlantic is just over there. #VillaNovaDeGaia

Worth repeating: Greenland is fucking huge and mostly empty so they idea of assuming control is utterly and abjectly futile… or to put it another way, only a complete imbecile would think it’s possible to invade the place, but that’s where we are. The imbeciles are rewriting the asylum’s rule book.

343 metres per second. Oiche mhaith.

It’s gone quiet upstairs. Either she’s fallen face first into the suitcase and given up or she’s staring at the wardrobe in horror. I miss check.

And three years later, just as Moscow did for Napoleon, Nuuk was Trump’s downfall. Too much ice and not his favoured acronym.

So we drank the Cobra and the Prosecco and OH is upstairs drunk-packing for Porto tomorrow, 6am departure from Donegal. This is going to be some craic.

Today my ‘tism brain started to sing Deck the Halls ‘cos I saw a (real) Christmas tree discarded at the forest with tinsel still attached. Come on, what lazy gowl wrote that? It’s only got half the lyrics of any other Christmas song. 3/10.

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social

OH bought Prosecco, Cobra beer and hot cross buns for my birthday… She knows me well.

The CEO of the National Stud gets a €60,000 pay rise and I have to ask, how hard is it to organise horses to ride each other? #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/pay-increase...

Had a quick chat with RTÉ earlier today about Judge O'Donohoe's reckless remarks about cyclists. He's free to make as many golf-club-bore comments as he wants in private, but careless talk like this is dangerous coming from him in an official capacity. He should withdraw. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

And with that said, I’m off on holiday for a week or something. Goodbye good folk.

My first act was to block you. My second, to look at your website. My third was to unblock you so I could say this… I could give you the names of a hundred Irish actors based here and in the UK who could play the Companion role with more humanity, sensitivity and humour than anything a computer…

Instant block because my brain immediately asked why can’t they use a human actor?

How I wish you were here… Six words to sum up the entire breadth, width and depth of human experience. I wonder how many souls in every lifetime do we wish were still here?

Last year I did a deep dive into the world of the Mother & Baby Homes in Ireland, run by the Catholic Church, because I was born in one but had always avoided going back & looking closely at the system & the place where I started my life. Initially it was deeply, deeply depressing & enraging. BUT.

Got elastic bands keeping my shoes on… I got second sight… Nobody home… Sad songs.

‘Is there anybody out there?’ on the speaker and I do wonder…

Poster for an Anti Collusion NMarch and Rally

Poster from 1970, the Citizens Committee were groups set up to aid refugees fleeing from The North.

All of this.

Round about now, 2020… before all the stuff and horror and sadness and breakdowns and rebuilding and genocide and orange dictators and hypersonic missiles and all the young dudes dying for no reason. #InchLevels One for @neilhegarty.bsky.social

This made me smile. Spring isn’t far off. Life renews, old ideas fall away, we leap into an unknown future, girded by hope, faith and love.

Sometimes it feels as if the world is driving off a cliff. A saving human grace is still imagination. John Jones. Really. Got to give the whole thing a break. Be safe, be kind, be the light we all hope to find.

Open bathroom door from the living room with added dogs. Oiche mhaith.

Belfast 1970s/80s

I’m a mentor on this programme. If you’re in Ireland and you’re looking for in-depth guidance on your writing from experienced, published writers, check it out.

There is no reason the Irish Gov departments can't do simular. Run it's own server here in the country. ec.social-network.europa.eu/about

Saw a kid kicking fuck out of a snowman today.

A pod of dolphins in the river Lee drew quite a crowd to the quay walls Cork City Centre, 🇮🇪 #photography #nature #landscape #winter #dolphin #EastCoastKin #speirghorm #PhotoHour 🐕 🚶 📷 📱 📸🥶 🐬

We got new sheets. OH has just changed the bed. She has just said to me, ‘They’re very soft so we’ll see how you get on… with your fucking ‘tism’. ‘Cos I is a bit odd about stuff touching my skin. That’s the state of our relationship. Solid. With verbal abuse as a given.

This is not a sport… www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system. It’s a feature. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Beef dripping… my Da loved it. It was a war thing, rationing and all that.

No idea which beach this is but it came up in my phone memories and I like it.

You know you want to @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social 😃

"Consequence-free physical and sexual abuse of children was part of the deal the institutional Church offered the Irish state for to run schools, hospitals and other expensive-looking services. This week the Taoiseach demonstrated the same mental habits." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

That was a day and some. Nearly died on the black ice, skating ring side road, walked the dogs on the beach, had a lovely brunch got my HVO in town and realised a shop I love has closed, ran out of heating oil, got heating oil, didn’t die on the side road again. Still here. Now beer.

I fear I must abed early for mine eyes are knackered and these legs have walked near three leagues this day (15km in metric. 9 and bit miles in imperial. 27 cubits and a sixteenth in ‘Merican).

Top ten vocalists. No particular order. Though Sandy is always #1 in my heart. June Tabor Steven Page Sandy Denny John Jones Mary Chapin Carpenter Joe Jackson Kate Rusby Jason Isbell Sheryl Crow The Proclaimer boys

I can never really trust anyone who wears ties. This is the law. And I make the laws in my weird world.

Help Amanda's Family after Arson Attack In Finglas Fire chuffed.org/project/help...

I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

So many people are on the TL talking about doing small acts of goodness in the face of terrible events, and I've written a little poem about that It's called 'A Baked Potato Can Save The World' (I might regret posting this. I'm not a poet and it might be terrible but hopefully you'll like it.)