Well the fucking Outer Bypass has been given permission by An Coimisiún Pleanála with the only way to appeal being a judicial review. 80 family homes demolished. The ruination of an unspoiled area. Destruction of communities. Habitat obliterated. More cars. #galway #speirgorm

I remember meeting a couple of English guys I knew absolutely steaming drunk in the best of form in the middle of the day in Galway. I asked them what the occasion was: "Thatcher's dead!" was the grinning answer that soared out of them as they clinked glasses.

USA's doing in daylight today what it's always done. The difference is the pretence of civility is gone.

You cannot appease dementia. You cannot appease narcissism. You cannot appease a sex abuser. You cannot appease a paedophile. You cannot appease racism. You cannot appease a kleptomaniac. You cannot appease a sociopath. You cannot appease ineptitude. You cannot appease evil.

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Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Has there been *ANY* condemnation of Trump's war crimes from *ANY* government department in Ireland? #speirgorm

Ireland is moving to legalize police use of spyware, including tools linked to NSO Group and Intellexa, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos. The bill expands access to encrypted communications but lacks clear oversight, raising concerns about unchecked surveillance powers.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Excuse my scepticism from over the pond, but the 25th amendment requires the GOP to suddenly grow spines, + this fascist loon has been impeached twice before, nothing happened, then 77 million American idiots voted for him again, & another 20 million sat on their arses and didn't vote at all!

The fundraiser is a "play" by McElhinney and McAleer, and I'm sorry if you are already familiar with that tedious pair. (They once produced a pro-mining doc funded by the mine in question: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_Yo...)

Every world leader who kid-gloved this guy for a decade is to blame for what happens next.

If Britain did this to Derry or Dublin as a collective punishment for IRA bombs, or Spain did this to Barcelona for the acts of ETA, you’d imagine there would be universal outrage. Yet Israel’s leveling of Gaza and its civilian population is rationalized as legitimate and proportionate? #speirgorm

I keep thinking about the village my dad comes from in the North and how under the new rules of war the English would have likely just bombed into rubble by 1970 at the latest. The church would probably now be a monument to the Crown.

A different perspective. Always helpful.

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Things are going to get really bad, and I don't think media, after years of both-sidesing everything, are really prepared to cover a crisis which is literally one guy's fault

It is a little known fact but Fianna Fáil TDs are attracted to an RTÉ branded microphone shield like moths are to bright lights.

In unrelated news, the number of nights spent in Emergency accommodation in Ireland also breaks record in 2025 #Spéirgorm

I can’t get excited by our next journey to the Moon when this is what is happening on Earth.

I've said it before, if all EU countries prohibited US terror fights from using their airspace, this war would be over already. Why is the EU continuing to support this illegal war?

Superb comic. www.reddit.com/r/comics/com... #harrypotter #jkrowling #transrights #transphobia

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Over 400 academics and university workers have signed a letter calling on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to reconsider plans to scrap the Triple Lock. The Triple Lock sets out the conditions under which more than 12 Irish troops can participate in overseas peacekeeping operations. jrnl.ie/7000026

I bet recidivism rates are going to drop among other prisoners as the Burkes keep getting jailed. #speirgorm

A question for Irish musicians due to play in NCH, do you agree with the NCH board that it's OK to host a charity who's chair says Israel isn't commiting a genocide in Gaza? #IrishPol #Speirgorm

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

NEW: Israel becomes the first state in history to write INTO LAW the death sentence for one, specific ethnic group. This is Cabinet member Ben Gvir celebrating with champagne after the vote. This is not a government, it is a death cult. They won’t serve champagne in The Hague. (🎥 Cradle Media)

It is absolutely shameful that the Irish, or any other, government still continues to trade, not just with goods and services from the Occupied Territories, but with the state of Israel itself. Supremacy is never the solution. Now more than ever, this is an apartheid regime, and it must end.

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack ft.trib.al/GhNkF2Z

I don’t even know what he’s done today, but yes.

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We need this level of mobilisation across all Irish local authorities.

Letter for a medical appointment. In 2030. That's confident of them lol. (am absolutely tip top shape btw, purely precautionary)

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A reminder that the bill currently going through the Oireachtas here to implement the European migration pact includes for the first time the provision to detain children seeking asylum.

I made a papercraft just for this

This Government must really hate getting votes. Or basic decency. www.rte.ie/news/educati...

Maya Forstarter

Crispin Blunt guilty of possession of illegal drugs. The jokes write themselves now-a-days. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anyone who’s ever been in hospital will tell you the people who bring you food are always the nicest - this is stupid for so many different reasons

If you were wondering where all this empty talk of "cutting red tape" was headed, here is a big signpost... As per usual, SMEs are used as the wedge to open the door for big corporations to profit however they can. Every day in every way, Ireland gets a big more captured by corporate interests.

I didn't make myself clear before. Let's try this again. I've been reposting a lot of political cartoons lately, because I'm a fan, and there's a LOT of great work being made, like this one by Kevin Kallaugher. PLEASE post real work like this, not the fake AI slop cartoons that now infest Bluesky.

There are three reporters and an editor credited at the bottom of this very short article yet it doesn't even mention that Iran has flatly denied that there have been any talks or any agreement on anything

#spéirghorm noticing landlord beside me who evicted tenants and put house on market for six months - now has relet it at vastly increased rent claiming he couldn't sell the house (unlikely in Dublin) -is this the get out clause for landlords via RTB ?

A lot of people won’t see the harm in this, but consider how many decisions you make every day, each one based on what you know. Now, between you and ALL the info on the web, there is software designed to mimic human language, controlled by a firm whose goal is to take your data and sell ad space.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

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