Today is 2025-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:45 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 02 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...

Decided to use public transport tonight. So messy. So unreliable. So infrequent. It’s no bloody wonder people have to use cars. In Any other European city you can hop on and off without thinking and checking. If govt want us out of cars they have to improve this #speirgorm

Makes me want to vomit

Worst thing about Halloween? The ubiquitous mispronunciation of the word. Lads, it’s HAlloween, not Hollow-een.

And people say the British press doesn't know anything about Ireland. They got this scoop, didn't they.

Wouldn’t grocery shopping be a lot less miserable if we didn’t have to do the endless transferring from shelf to trolley to conveyor to trolley to car, from car to kitchen to fridge? Selection to fridge is the dream!

With 72 hours to go until #Aras25 polling opens, a reminder - old, conservative people vote. If you want something different to what they want, you need to do the same, and tell everyone you know to do it too. Make a plan to vote. Make sure others do too. Then go vote. Nothing else matters.

My autumn garden is very pleased with the deluge outside this morning. A day for my book and my knitting ( yep, I am a granny! )

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

Can someone explain to me why, if there is an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu, how can he stand up and make a speech in the UN, surrounded by security and NOT be arrested?

Can we please stop using the word Passed. It’s died. Died. What is so wrong with saying the word?

You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

🚨 The Trump administration burns 500 tons of food meant for starving children, prioritizing political statements over global humanitarian aid. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

RTE has it blasting as the lead story, effectively & influencing our gauging of who’s deemed newsworthy. Despicable that our leaders are, so very publicly, doing the pandering to the autocrat 🤦🏾‍♀️

When Minnesota Democrats were killed by a MAGA terrorist in June, Trump refused to even call Gov of Minn. But with Charlie Kirk, he has praised him non-stop, ordered flags to be lowered and demonized Dems. To Trump, ONLY MAGA lives matter. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-orde...

It’s so jarring to scroll through insta or any platform and witness the situation in Gaza, then with one swipe have someone try to sell me plastic Christmas decorations. What have we come to? What are we allowing to happen? Can our governments stop having cosy meetings and actually do something?

One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”

Thinking of all our RTÉ Radio colleagues today, a very sad day. #RIPSeán

Motherfucking wind farms…

The Scots showing the American media how to deal with President Pedophile. #speirgorm #trump

I declare today to be "Janey Godly Day." For the day that's in it, let's remember this legend of a woman 🔥😎 #TrumpIsACunt

Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.

There is no context - none at all - that justifies the deliberate, calculated starvation of children. #Gaza Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

I'm not sure what is more offensive @bsky.app the fact that you want me to scan my face/id in order to use DMs, or that you think I'm in the UK while I'm in Ireland - The Republic of Ireland.

For every politician and journalist who supported Israel's onslaught, or stayed silent: This photograph should haunt you for the rest of your life. You will never scrub the shame away. No future achievement, however great, will ever erase what you helped inflict on Gaza.

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

Good morning. Today I am thankful for the quiet. I can’t imagine what it must be like to wake up with the threat of bombs overhead. #dailygratitude

No flags or tee shirts or match day stuff for Donegal in Elvery’s in Dublin. Plenty of Kerry and Meath tho. What’s that about?? I thought Elverys were the official @GAA outlet?

Morning. Urban garden full of wild flowers and bees

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

hot take: you shouldn't be President of Ireland if you think religious groups should have special access to and influence over the government

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Just to say it again, the Big Beautiful Protests (the No Kings marches) involved 5 million people and were likely the largest day of protest in America EVER. News outlets that downplay this fact, are lying.

What an absolute idiot. In spite of that, the U.S. has proven it, as a nation is even less intelligent as we made him a king.

It’s like the middle of March out there! What the hell happened to summer ? #speirgorm

@irishrail.bsky.social Why are the disabled toilets in some stations locked while the general loos are open? Why should my disabled relative have to return to a kiosk and tell someone they need to pee? It’s an unnecessary hurdle and is embarrassing.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen. This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board. Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??

Morning! Thankful to wake refreshed and ready to face the day #DailyGratitude

Morning all. Met up with my sisters for the last week for our annual gathering and catch up. What a joy to have siblings … our oldest friends, the ones who know us so well because we were painted by the same brushes. #DailyGratitude

Best candidate I’ve seen so far for #Aras25 and is he even a candidate? Dr Mike Ryan, late of WHO. Unafraid to speak truth to power. Professionally focused on helping ordinary people. Deep appreciation of education and science. Small issue of being from Sligo, but not from Dublin.

Dipped my toe into something new today… way outside my comfort zone. Let’s see if anything comes of it. #takeachance