Launch of Hedgehog Conservation Ireland — new initiative to support and conserve the small mammals nationwide "Best things you can do are try to leave little parts of your garden a little bit wild - log piles or piles of leaves. Put away the chemicals - the slug pellets are bad news for hedgehogs"

Welcoming the Year of the Horse — a fresh stride into light, luck, and new beginnings. May this new year bring calm momentum, steady progress, and moments that feel like open sky. 新年快乐 to all celebrating today.

Just popping in to say that Small Prophets is lovely, melancholic, funny, sweet, strange and deals with serious topics with the lightest of touches. Everybody please watch so that Mackenzie Crook keeps getting to make things like this.

Pleased to report Small Prophets is ace, a Joy. Mackenzie Crook is a national treasure.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 BREAKING: #NoBarriersToBlanch 🚨 Did you know? ANOTHER Vulture fund has quietly went under the radar to turn the Leisureplex into retail units. Objection windows have passed! Sign our petition; Change.org/NoBarriersToBlanch Keep up to date; linktr.ee/Luke.Daly #dubW #DublinWest #spéirgorm

Here's the link to the petition to help preserve St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre from the proposed monstrosity. #SaveStStephensGreen #Dublin #SpeirGorm c.org/BgQnkd8DCN

Public services continue to review their use of social media. Some Bluesky accounts are included in our card below.

RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab

Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh! 👯🍸🎄

The first full-moonrise of 2026 and sunset over the Shannon #Speirgorm #IrishSky #FullMoon #sunset #Kerry

Forgot to hashtag! #Speirgorm #IrishSky #NYE #NewYear #2026

Beating Out the Old Year in Tarbert, Co. Kerry. It’s a very old tradition that’s died out in many other places. We take the light to the different corners of the town.

Just started now! #Solistice #Newgrange #SpeirGorm #IrishSky

The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting. Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment. 🔗www.gov.ie/solstice#WinterSolstice#Newgrange#ShareTheSolstice

Know the weather forecast isn’t great for Sunday morning but delighted that the Solstice is being live-streamed & broadcast again from Newgrange www.gov.ie/en/office-of... 🤞 the clouds clear for those few minutes #SpeirGhorm #IrishSky #Solstice #ShortestDay #Nollaig #GrandAuldStretch #Newgrange

The Speir Gorm feed is gone, this replacement Spéir Ghorm collects the same set of hashtags in text and alt-text as the deleted one. #speirgorm

"There’s no genuine, citizen-driven demand to ban veggie burgers or sausages – just a meat industry push to protect its profit margins from a rising tide of dietary change” - Joel Scott-Halkes, @weplanetint.bsky.social

Adopting this as my excuse!

#MeidasTouch ad that isn’t being played on US #FOXNews. #Share #Canada #USA #UK #GERMANY #France #Ireland #Scotland #Finland #AUS #NZ #SouthKorea #Taiwan #EU #Ukraine #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Sweden #Japan

“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.” Seamus Heaney

Forgot to add: #SpeirGorm

as a free speech champion, Trump will hate these arrests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The link to the actual voting form is here: www.anpost.com/Irish-Booksh... (but sadly Oxfam books not on the list)

Open Call | Residential Artists’ Studio 2026 from Dublin City Arts Office Residential Artists’ Studio Open Call 2026 Dublin City Council Arts Office is pleased to announce an open call to Irish and international Artists as well as Arts Organisations interested in visualartists.ie/advert/open-...

Any vintage stereo lovers out there in the #spéirgorm world? I'm trying to find a home for a 1960s Murphy stereogram, preference is to donate it to a non-profit org with an interest in restoring or preserving them. Electronics need some work but it's in great nick cosmetically. Reposts appreciated

Irish version.

👏🏻 Might just be the wrong time for you or a mismatch in mood, but no-one *has* to be dutiful about finishing books, films, or box sets on the basis of other people’s opinions.

The calm before the storm this morning with a stunning sunrise at Hook Lighthouse in Wexford. Make the most of the sunny spells this morning if you have them.

Careful using WeTransfer - especially if you’ve signed an NDA for the work you’re transferring… thanks Simon.

Seven, Seven… *Seven* more followers required to get us to 1,000! What should we do to get us over the line…time for a #SuperSheltie stunt perhaps? 🙂7️⃣👍

With €1 billion gross value added (GVA) to the economy, 15,000 full-time-equivalent jobs, and unmeasurable cultural value, Ireland’s film industry has well and truly blossomed - as explored in today’s @irishtimes.com.📽️ 💚 #IrishFilm

Related: Ireland, for the love of god, get off WhatsApp. These platforms are not safe. #spéirghorm

I believe it to be true. How about you?

#History #HistoryBookChat This is fascinating! Wonderful to be granted a glimpse behind the scenes 😃

Poets celebrating the the 70th birthday of Rita Ann Higgins at Listowel Writers’ Week. L to R Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Victoria Kennefick, Rita Ann Higgins & Moyà Cannon in the Plaza 🎂

Coimisiún na Meán - Ireland’s media regulator and media development agency - is now on BlueSky. Coimisiún na Meán is Ireland’s Digital Services Coordinator under the #DSA, and regulates broadcasters, VOD providers and video sharing platforms based in Ireland. ‪@cnam-ie.bsky.social #speirgorm

“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you” —Oscar Wilde

Three days! And it was posted at the wkend Friday 8th May?? Something up with An Bord Pleanála asking for feedback, but not really. Check it out because the dates are off and the feedback time seems to MINIMISE the potential for feedback 🤦🏾‍♀️ @wereontheditch.bsky.social #spéirghorm #speirgorm

On camogie and skorts … it’s not difficult www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/66...

I don't think Trump can put tariffs on films? Under the 1988 Berman Amendment, films are explicitly exempted from any Presidential tariff order, whether emergency or not. Here's the relevant clause from The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA): 1/3

The policing of women's bodies never stops ... www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/0...

Hot Air Balloon over Maulin! #Wicklow #Speirgorm #HotAirBalloon #weather @carlowweather.bsky.social

The V&A—our favorite museum! We’re beyond excited to bring a special version of Shadow Kingdom to this iconic space on May 3rd at 11:30, 13:30, and 15:30. We can’t wait to perform here in this museum that embodies creativity at its finest! コメント内の日本語テキスト @vamuseum Victoria and Albert Museum

Banger of a moon for May Day.

Really, really cool from An Post... In May you can post yourself a letter, for free, that they'll hold onto/store for a year, then they'll post it back to you in a year's time. You can send messages to yourself through time. It's a fantastic initiative. So playful! www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels...

Today is 2025-03-22, the sun sets at 18:42:05 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 2 hours, 36 mins and 22 secs. #GrandStretch #SpringStretch

Oh that's mean. T'would be a shocking shame if #AndrewTayto went viral. I mean imagine standing there in the Presidential polling booth pondering if you should salt'n'Vinegar or Cheese'n'Onion. #SpéirGhorm

RIP John Hemmingway, a hero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Adding Canada and Greenland to our Free Shipping, for obvious non “salesy” reasons. #irishcraft #speirgorm