oh my god

Dublin Pride, Capel Street Dublin. 🏳️‍🌈

Today was beautiful, writing in my notebook, daydreaming, looking up at the leaves on the trees intersecting on the huge birch trees I sat under.

It may just be a long-listing, but for me it's a vindication after a decade-long period out in the cold that I am still a writer, that my work moves people, and that it's worth it to keep going.

Jesus can transphobes not have a sabbath or something, this is ridiculous

I can’t be on here today, I’m not left-wing and cynical enough.

It may just be a long-listing, but for me it's a vindication after a decade-long period out in the cold that I am still a writer, that my work moves people, and that it's worth it to keep going.

Gentle reminder that I did this, and I'm very pleased about it :)

I want to thank Bernadette @booknannyeditor.bsky.social for guiding it through and Aoife Martin for her tactful and thoughtful sensitivity read. I share this accomplishment with both of you ♥️

Happy solstice

Congratulations, @susanlanigan.bsky.social Great news to hear The Planter's Daughter has made the CAP Awards longlist for 2026. It's a wonderful book, so everything crossed for the shortlist and beyond. 🤩

Proud to announce that The Planter’s Daughter has been long-listed for the Carousel Awards in the fiction section! Congratulations to all fellow longlistees. Capawards.ie

every time a heat wave approaches I want to put together a spreadsheet of old churches that are regularly open, free, and cold might actually do it this time but I will probably need to crowdsource info

I want to thank Bernadette @booknannyeditor.bsky.social for guiding it through and Aoife Martin for her tactful and thoughtful sensitivity read. I share this accomplishment with both of you ♥️

Proud to announce that The Planter’s Daughter has been long-listed for the Carousel Awards in the fiction section! Congratulations to all fellow longlistees. Capawards.ie

Delighted for Labour Councillor Helen Ogbu, originally from Nigeria, who has been elected Mayor of Galway. Great to see minority representation and a well-respected politician who isn’t part of some dynasty in power since the 1911 census 🙂

RIP. Pray for the fall of Israel.

😂😂😂

soccer would get more done if teams just reached across the aisle and worked towards the same goal

no I don't want to make a passkey. I don't fucking know what it is. stop it.

Ok I think hell just froze over because that man is talking stone cold sense.

Reprinting the press releases of industry lobbyists has gotta be the lowest form of "journalism"

The complete inertia of politicians in the face of this dangerous fool and his ruinous actions will never cease to appal me.

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Apart from the fact that (unlike AI) cars are enormously regulated, there's also the fact that IT'S BAD THAT KIDS CAN'T PLAY IN THE STREETS ANYMORE My god these people are all spectacularly stupid venal idiots and yet they expect the whole world to bend to them

Yikes! I hope someone asks questions about this in the Dáil because people are NOT happy. www.irishexaminer.com/business/com... @corkgreens.bsky.social @greenparty.ie

What a clusterfungus

Delighted to see Nature’s Acre now listed by @summerfieldbooks.com , one of the UK’s leading specialist natural history booksellers. www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/natu...

🌳 BREAKING: Cameroon just added 15 new timber species to its log export ban, bringing total protected species to 91! This is a massive leap toward the full log export ban set for January 2028. The Congo Basin rainforest—Earth's second green lung—just gained crucial breathing room.

CW: child death Just read that cops got a call about a woman suspected of shoplifting baby nappies in a Walmart in Mississippi. (She hadn’t. Whoever made the call was probably a racist.) They came armed & fired into her parked car, killing her one-year-old son. What world are we living in.

There are just two weeks left to enter our international flash fiction competition for stories up to 500 words (excluding title). Entries close 30 June. flash500.com Prizes: £300/£200/£100 plus publication Judged by @scooterwriter.bsky.social #fiction #writerslife #writerscommunity #flashfiction

🚜 Join us on Jun 17 for a Farmers Breakfast and the launch of the Farmer Wellbeing Boards in Offaly. This new initiative aims to support the wellbeing of farmers by providing information on local supports and services, while encouraging connection and conversation within the farming community.

Not 'collateral damage', not 'an unfortunate consequence of war'. This was mass murder, and everyone involved in the attack should be tried and convicted for it.

Saddest irony - Wafaa cannot hold her own copy of the book she wrote. But she’s delighted to see it out in the world. I’m confident she will get her copy eventually.

I just got this beautiful hardback of my friend Wafaa’s stories from Gaza. Wafaa’s work bears testimony to living history in all its horrors but never surrenders to the darkness, while gently and constantly reminds me what writing is for. Just gorgeous and warmly recommended. Available on Amazon.

Sharing my publisher's fundraising efforts to support Children's Books Ireland's campaign to bring books to children who might otherwise not have access. donorbox.org/raisingreaders

On the plus side, if there is a ban on social media and smart phones for under 18s, it makes writing plots for YA books way easier.

Spot on. Nothing will get signed, am willing to put money on it.

Underpinning research article open access here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“Cancer is a thug. It smashes into your life without warning. It invades the small things. That peace you had but never noticed. That future you put off. Your solid ground, your sense of control. Cancer gets in there with a billy club and shatters it all to bits.”

I’ve been away from socials for a short while. Just ran out of energy to react to all the crap going on in the world. Wanted to try a bit of living instead.

Lovely launch of Katherine Mezzacapa’s novel Lucie Dumas at The Teacher’s Club in Dublin, introduced by Maybelle Wallis. Also great to meet @catherinecrichton.bsky.social whose novel about Harry Clarke is out next year.

Hundreds of Ukrainians living in the Trabolgan Holiday Centre in Cork have been told that they will need to leave. Local TD Liam Quaide says the community is "well-integrated" and that the way the situation has been handled is "heartless". www.thejournal.ie/ukraine-irel...

Another solution to Ireland's heating needs that looks at energy security and energy democracy in one-what's not to like? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Our international flash fiction competition for stories up to 500 words (excluding title) closes for entries on 30 June. flash500.com Prizes: £300/£200/£100 plus publication Judged by @scooterwriter.bsky.social #fiction #writerslife #writerscommunity #flashfiction

Judicial review was the only way of fighting the plan to slab over our river. It wasn’t easy. We had to sell T-Shirts and art & crowd fund. There was plenty of stress. But we were right. The state was wrong. Now they are trying to make it harder to challenge them when they are breaking the law.

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

Just finished this morning. Five stars. Absolutely gorgeous, loved every bit of it.

Big up to the Tidy Towns for putting up a swift box near where I live, I hear them all the time flying about. It makes a difference.

Just finished this morning. Five stars. Absolutely gorgeous, loved every bit of it.