Fine Gael saw 63% of voters back left-wing values but chose to pander to a perceived right-wing vote of 13%. Remember that when they try to claim they're "middle of the road" or centrists. They're a right-wing minority who are about to start pushing far-right. #spéirgorm

Now the Áras campaign is over, we cant afford to forget the Garda vetting story. We still don't have assurances that this information wasn't leaked by An Garda Síochána to harm someone. This is a criminal offence. AGS have form here and must be prevented from returning to those practices #spéirgorm

Daniel from Dublin, and 4 others have been imprisoned for allegedly disrupting an Elbit Systems facility in Ulm, Germany last month. Elbit is an Israeli weapons manufacturer whose weapons are central to Israel’s genocide. Daniel is held 23 hours daily in their cell, including meals, no phone calls

Now you see me.... Now you don't! A photo from a @rhodorangers.bsky.social day out from a while back And an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves... Please like and share! (1/6)

James has changed the name of the group chat to Dangerously Woke Youth

New episode of From the Roots two since the launch, I revisit the figures of that first overview, a number of current headlines and whether anything can be learned from Budget 2026 Text below and podcast wherever podcasts are found orlanidhuill.com/2025/10/14/s...

My wife Alison had these five Merveille du Jour moths in her moth trap this morning, here in SE Scotland.

There are a few people expressing surprise that members of the green party in Ireland might be against left wing politics enough to resign from the party over backing Catherine Connolly for president... I am curious how this could possibly still be surprising?

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

Had a fairly long summer hiatus from the podcast but finally getting episodes out again. An overview of the current state of affairs, some series cases of felling and river pollution, and the questions over how the government is spending carbon tax revenue

every day that Heather Humphreys is not asked why she refused to meet with disability activists during the Scrap the Green Paper campaign is another day of ignominy for the Irish press. she's running on her record, yet she's not questioned on it any substantive way

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Someone at the IT is having a 'mare rushing out the Budget coverage. This was a sponsored post in my Insta Stories. The social team needs a break and a hug maybe.

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

Only half of the allegedly ring fenced funding for environmental mitigation/ retro fitting that the carbon tax is meant to fund is actually spent on that

On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published. The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. #BookSky

A little watercolour I’ve been working on, which all got a bit hypnotic for some reason. #oaktrees #savethebutterflies #inverts #nature #wildlifeart #teammoth

The time to listen to trans people was 10 years ago but, you know, you can start any time you're ready.

Same with stacking rocks on beaches and mountains. Rocks are where animals live! It also demonstrates a particularly unpleasant arrogance and lack of appreciation for nature IMO

Great ecology walk in Brackloon Woods with the Mayo Queer Sheds on Sunday (before I got this wicked cold) for the start of fungi season

Autumn seas in Achill

"Payne was pictured alongside convicted loyalist killer Glen Kane being interviewed by convicted armed robber Mark Sinclair, who calls himself ‘Freedom Dad’ and claims to be a citizen journalist."

The entire country should be up in arms about this But they are not @judesherry.bsky.social & I are 2 of lucky ones We can walk away For so many there is no walking away from decades of a governmemt manufactured housing crisis leaving over 16,000 incl. 5,000 children without a home #DerelictIreland

The latest spate of attacks on Indian people is simply the outworking of a renormalisation of racism within our public discourse.

Inside Europe’s billion-dollar anti-gender movement A new report reveals how groups critical of so-called gender ideology across Europe raised $1.18 billion to target abortion, sex education and LGBTQ+ rights.

We have a €4.5bn surplus, and 2 days ago our Housing Minister was saying they are powerless to stop more children being made homeless. They have successfully normalised so much stuff I thought it would be impossible to normalise.

‘The Projected Public Finances of the Early Years of a United Ireland, and the Northern Ireland Subvention’ updated analysis with 2023 data, responding to debate & new info of recent years. Models public finances for the first 10 years of a united Ireland all-islandeconomy.com/analysing-th...

You can blame online misinformation all you want, but as long as you have a justice minister boasting about deportations, and far right groups are setting up stall outside schools to harass foreign students and parents to little pushback, no misinformation is needed for the racists to do their thing

After I was done getting soaked from the thigh down and cover head to toe in mud while making this video about removing gunnera, a neighbour I hadn't met before stopped me on the road to say their son had sent her my tiktoks, I can only assume the mud gave me away 😂

And it's up. This was an interesting experiment on writing without system, definitely open to notes on how to make it work better.

The Valley is available now from @somebogwitch.bsky.social Get it here: tinyurl.com/ycxb6xe6 The Valley is a system agnostic murder mystery game where the players have been invited to Zazen, a small town at the heart of a secluded wooded valley, with one road in and one road out. #ttrpgs

📹 Setting up a livestream isn’t easy. That’s why we turned to an expert: Sophia Tung. See how this creative software engineer brought her signature mix of tech + chill to our new microfiche scanning livestream—now preserving government records in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93Q...

A useful FYI for newcomers surprised at Ireland's consistently robust stance on the genocide in Gaza; in addition to being a rare Western country that knows how the pointy end of colonialism feels, our UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have been weathering IDF attacks for <decades>.

IDF soldiers fired towards Irish and Lebanese soldiers from Israeli territory into Lebanon today. 'Israel is organising a campaign against Ireland because of the stand we have taken in the EU, at the UN and at the International Court of Justice.' - Taoiseach @micheal-martin.bsky.social

Never forget what they do to us: www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

My hot take is the reason for people not wanting to discuss the environmental cost of AI is that then we need to then consider the environmental cost of our Internet habits in general.

“This lark of people saying, ‘I’ll come into the office on Tuesday and Wednesday; otherwise I’m going to be working at home’, is a load of nonsense” says man who can't even be in the same *country* as his job for more than 183 days in any given year without losing his tax exile status.

Speaking to @eoghandalton.bsky.social for this article was a tough decision, I have friends and colleagues working in Sinn Féin and looking to bring meaningful change to Irish politics. But it was the only decision I felt I could make until the party takes this criticism on board #spéirgorm

Current and former members of Sinn Féin have spoken out over fears that the party is set to water down its support for LGBT+ issues, in particular on rights for transgender people.

Transgender people told us that the long waitlist for the National Gender Service was not the sole reason why some decide to access DIY-healthcare. They said the types of questions asked are also leading to a lack of trust in the system. jrnl.ie/6691757

Transgender people who have legally changed their gender and previously accessed healthcare in their home countries are required to join the years-long waiting list and be assessed again. In our final article in our series, @conorocarroll.bsky.social speaks to people who moved to Ireland:

We have a few openings at @nearfm.ie for scripts for an audio drama funding application I'm currently working on. We're looking for writers from diverse backgrounds including, LGBTQIA+, migrant, Traveller, and people with disabilities to submit a script that will work in an audio format. (1/3)

@peterthorne.bsky.social not holding back on the idea of going back to growing Sitka spruce on peatland 👏

finally finished a system agnostic version of one of my games, interested to hear how other people who use a lot of different systems day to day borrow from them into something new

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Freelance Forum Spring 2025 for journalists and students. * Artificial Intelligence * Dealing with Far Right disinformation * Meet the Editors: Pitching guide * State Archives * Vertical Video Monday 14 April, Dublin 1. NUJ members/Students €5, others €20.00 dublinfreelance.org/freelance-fo...

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.