X’s European headquarters are in Ireland. So for Europe, presumably it is Ireland’s responsibility to manage safeguarding concerns and bring charges where appropriate?

As I see my friends reach the stage of their lives where their parents’ health is deteriorating, I genuinely don’t know how they do it. It’s odd to say that I’m grateful I won’t have that experience, but I am. Losing parents young comes with its own challenges of course.

Not criticising Malcolm Byrne in this but multiple legal experts, the Tánaiste and others have already said what’s happening is illegal. This could easily go down the road of the “we have to do something new” response tactic which actually delays doing anything altogether - or completely derails it

Resistance to acknowledging the role of the family system in the ‘illness’ of the family patient is not unusual. Often, family members fear blame, rather than recognition of a *system* in which they played a part and in which the patient held something painful for everyone else.

Geez I'm starting to get worried about our pals the library protestors. No word from them about X running a child porn suicide machine. Have they been silenced in Irish children's hour of need?

“It’s not them, it’s the illness” is well meaning, but can feel infantilising and dismissive to many.

Looking forward to future RTÉ posts on “the acquired 6 counties”.

I’m don’t generally post X screenshots (I left for good reason) but well done to Gary Gannon.

"I have kindly removed this superfluous cover from your speaker. Who knows why it was there? I think you will find you can hear the sounds coming out of it more clearly now. You are welcome."

RTE will be the first to welcome our new overlords. ‘Acquiring’ 🙄 Would you go and shite.

They fought her so hard, so so hard. For what? Because she believes in peace.

"How are we going to use our power, as a man or a woman, to say it is not normal to have war? It is abnormal. Peace is normal." - President Connolly

Friends in Clare/Limerick, I've been offered a job working between Ennis & Shannon. I'm looking for somewhere to live, I'll be hoping my 15yo can join me over summer, but I could rent a room til then. If anyone has any accommodation leads please give me a shout. Shares appreciated 🙏 #Speirgorm

Politicians, state agencies and government depts say they are still there because it’s where journalists are most likely to pick up their comments, and journalists say they are still there because it’s where the above post. Vicious circle where everyone gets their brains melted

I’m designating Nollaig na neamh-dhénártha/non-binary as old ‘Long Christmas’ from now till Candlemas/Brigid’s day

Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh! 👯🍸🎄

Happy Nollaig na mBan to all the great women, feminists, activists, historians, family, friends and colleagues in my life #nollaignamban #speirgorm

This morning Rape Crisis Ireland has called for a ban on AI 'nudification' functions which can (and have) produced sexual images of children and adults. RCI: 'There seems to be no reason for the existence of "nudification" functionality on AI apps beyond exploitation...'

🚨🧵on Venezuela While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see. I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions... 1/11

Back to work after the break to a building that’s like an icebox 🥶 May all the goddesses bless our lovely admin person who put the heat on in my room before I arrived!

Call a spade a spade - no explanations, equivocations or rationalisations condone or legitimise unfettered, illegal, US interference and instigation against other nations’ sovereignty. Look to history alone. It is and has always been about economic, political and territorial hegemony.

Watching that freezing fog creep in off the river does something special for the soul

As a sober alcoholic, I always tend to roll my eyes a bit at “Dry January” resolutions or the (to me) flippant use of the word “sober”when speaking abt how difficult it is,so I appreciate how this thread reframes it & encourages a critical recalibration of the role of alcohol in one’s (social) life.

🧵 Drinking less in the new year. I've seen online and in my personal life that many people are setting New Year's Resolutions to drink less or quit drinking altogether. A few thoughts from a therapist's perspective:

Peeling back layers of personal and generational trauma and grieving with every cell of your being until you find a way to meet one another in dialogue is for the real grown ups.

Today is 2026-01-04, the sun sets at 16:20:17 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 14 mins and 34 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack

So it's an established fact that conversion "therapy" is a form of torture. If your Christianity or any other religion requires torture to exist, then I suggest you very rapidly re-evaluate it.

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

SLICE in Stoneybatter: best gf brunch I’ve had in a LONG time, with lovely staff.

Yup.

Tomorrow is the Uber Monday, Monday Prime. From whence all other Mondays are spawned.

Growing up in a house steeped in the law, I learned that many people talk about legality with disproportionate emphasis when they are struggling to talk about their feelings or when there is no room for feelings at all.

Holy shit.

Sometime ago I was on here looking for a probation officer who was working in 2010 in the UK and who also might have worked with prisoners pre release. I can’t remember who got in touch but if there is anyone who fits the bill, pls get in touch. It’s for a book, Many thanks. Please repost ;)

At some point (*soon*), we have to release ourselves of our need to refer to these actions as illegal. Legality has never curtailed authoritarianism. Unethical. Inhumane. Death dealing. We have so many more words to help with this.

Why should it be any different now?

Please root your masculinity in something other than dominance over others, Part 744

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

I think this speaks for itself.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

The situation in Venezuela. We don’t need to say what it is, it just involves Venezuela ok. And someone else. We don’t need to discuss them. Just everyone remember international law ok? Ok.

Diagnosis is unstable. Institutions pursue stability because it is administratively useful. When unstable human experience is forced into stable categories, people adapt to survive. The costs increase when labels carry stigma, are treated as final, and systems resist acknowledging error.

We STILL don’t talk about this enough. Lesbian is a beautiful word, friends.

Also, the LOVE between these two. The look she’s giving him😍

We need everyone to treat the next election as a referendum on whether we believe this is acceptable. #spéirgorm

It’d be difficult to overstate how little interest I have in football, but I am possibly kind of a little curious about Saipan?

Sadly, despite the headline, he’s not actually thinking about suing the bear.

Exactly. I’m more worried about the current crowd.

I dunno 2012-2015 were quite good I thought?