Week 193 at the Dáil for brilliant Martin Leahy Every Thursday Martin travels from Co. Cork to Dublin to sing his song "Everyone should have a home" from 1-2pm, to shine a bright light on manufactured housing crisis Total respect Here is me & @judesherry.bsky.social with Martin at Dáil in October

INTO @intonews.bsky.social absolutely nails it with their latest InTouch magazine cover, leaving no doubt to where the blame lies. DO NOT PASS GO... DO NOT PLAN YOUR FUTURE #housingcrisis #speirGorm

Shameful. The government has voted against a proposal to make an emergency winter payment to disabled people. The government took €1,400 off disabled people in the budget and is now refusing to give them €400. A government for the rich, not the rest.

Govt’s & Civil Law Bill that still allows #counsellingnotes be used in trials is voted thru at 2nd stage. We will campaign for amendment to ban therapy notes in court at 3rd stage. Watch this space.

A good reminder that Private Property rights comes with responsibilities So why were irresponsible owners allowed to hoard #VacantIreland & #DerelictIreland ?

Sign! For ECIs to be considered by the European Commission, each country must meet its threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are currently at just under 6,000, approx 58%, so we need a big push! Belgium, Finland, France and Spain are there, let's get there too! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s a statue of Thomas Drummond in the atrium of Dublin City Hall with a pedestal reading “property has its duties as well as its rights”. The council and govt in general are excellent at upholding property rights and poor at enforcing property owners’ duties to the community.

I love Ireland but am always amazed at the derelict buildings peppering every little town and village yet at the same time everyone tells me that housing is so expensive. Yet next door in the UK or France this isnt a thing . What magic power does the UK or France have ?

We were only ones in room not being paid Only ones spending our time & money trying to end scourge of vacancy & dereliction Only ones who've spent best part of last 6 yrs working on this for free Yet we still get attacked every single day Me & @judesherry.bsky.social fight on with Dóchas🙏 #speirgorm

Stop going to school and then maybe they refer you. Experience.

Yep, politicians make people homeless

Esther Ghey is facilitating the rewriting of history. The circumstances of Brianna’s death are being rewritten to obscure the fact that she was murdered for being trans. It is mentioned not once in this article. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And my criticism of Esther Ghey is most harsh: she is actively working to make the lives of the likes of her murdered trans daughter worse and she needs to stop

Yknow you lose the defence against criticism of “let someone grieve in their own way“ when they keep being in the press and actively try to influence politics with their grief

A couple of days ago, enough Democrats voted with Republicans to fund ICE. From genocide in Gaza to this - it’s on the Democrats. newrepublic.com/post/205604/...

ICE pushed a woman over. He tried to help her up. They shot him ten times. He was just doing what any normal human being would do in that situation and they executed him for it

"better training" 🤦🏻‍♀️

Fewer babies are suffering and dying, but it costs money so it's impossible to say if it's good or not

New video shows the man who was killed moments before the shooting. He was peacefully standing in the street observing before ICE agents started pushing him for no reason.

They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do, in the manner they are supposed to do it.

I dread shopping. Just had a nice meal after last week being abysmal. Am always shocked at other people's grocery prices at the checkout #speirgorm no one should be going hungry

This is an *exceptional* piece of work, and ought to be borne in mind when looking at literally any online ragebait in future. A TikTok account that professed to be highlighting how 'illegal immigrants get free housing in London' was… well, not that at all. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

My piece on the threat violent strangulation porn poses to teenage boys and girls in Ireland

We need more women on podcasts. I don't mean as an add-on. I mean producers and content researchers. Im sick of listening to guys living out their stand-up comedy dreams on other people's time.

It is past time for the government to remove barriers to abortion access caused by delay attributed to the mandatory 3-day wait. Why does the Irish Government think it knows better than the WHO? Trust women to know their own minds!

Evil is ugly Cork City Ireland now #speirgorm

“What happened to me then is happening now to millions of women and girls in a new and more terrifying way. Before, someone had to betray your trust and steal something real. Now all it takes is a computer and a stranger’s imagination. Deepfake pornography has become an epidemic.”

All you need to know about the latest plans to 'rejuvenate' St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre, including a new facade treatment and 'sculpturally eroded' entrance corner by starchitects O'Donnell+Tuomey is in a long feature I've writen in the Ticket section of this weekend's @irishtimes.com

We all watched Jonathan Ross shoot Renee Good multiple times. We heard him call her a “f*cking b*tch” after We saw him walk away We witnessed ICE deny her aid They tried to get a warrant to search her car for evidence against her, rather than the man who killed her They’re covering up a murder

Disappointment 😔

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs. More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not vaccinating your kids should be considered child abuse.

Ever hear of children's rights

Imagine thinking this was some kind of gotcha retort

have you considered the children of the antivaxxers in this equation

France’s ban on forever chemicals, approved by lawmakers in February 2025, bans the production, import or sale of any product for which an alternative to PFAS already exists. Some industrial exemptions remain, but the move sets a regulatory benchmark. buff.ly/3oByrhc #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is not a dunk whatsoever, but I wholeheartedly disagree with the first sentence. I'm old enough that a friend in my K class got polio and she ended up in a wheelchair for life. I think not vaccinating is akin to neglect like not feeding or clothing a child. And yes I have a kid.

Girls are raised & told stories that empathise with their grandmothers and mother, that suggest maybe they didn't have a choice. Then you have this dickhead

Haidt is the man Wes Streeting selected to give evidence for his social media ban. He is spreading the widely-discredited pseudoscience about trans “social contagion”. Is it transphobia that is the root his proposed social media ban?! If so he is a looong way down the conspiracy theory rabbit-hole.

A male elected official making his own birth the central story of every woman’s pregnancy is pretty par for the course

She's doing well. I am now the servant, as it should be 🤗

Not long ago, remote working was an alien concept. But now, it's a reality for many, including those in traditionally excluded communities, like single mothers and people with disabilities. Remote working has brought positive change to our society – it would be a shame to see it rolled back.

The NECK 🤬 who are cities for???

I for one (basically) live in the city, and I like having neighbours Vs more hotels and party Airbnbs around me. Cities actually need people in them, not just hotels and office blocks.

People who hate cities making decisions about people who live in cities Very on brand for Ireland #speirgorm

I don't think people realise how bad endometriosis can be..uncontrolled bleeding and uncontrolled pain. Nothing works! Coil, pill, and painkillers don't work. Structural issues. And it spreads. And women go to work?. And it's not considered a disability?? Which it can be. #speirgorm

Would the department of WAR have anything to do with this