This is so Irish! #Speirgorm

In a phone call last night my sister asked did my aunt have any news from the graveyard (after a funeral she was at last week, not because she's a neuromancer) and I think it's the most Irish thing she's ever asked me

This is gorgeous work by Aches. Three outstanding singers with Irish souls and huge hearts ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ Dublin wall art. #speirgorm

‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉 The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis. Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪

Happy World Bee Day! Here’s a list of how bees buzz in ten different languages… 10. Bzzz (Czech) 9. Bzzz (Bulgarian) 8. Bzzz (French) 7. Bzzz (Slovene) 6. Bzzz (Catalan) 5. Bzzz (Polish) 4. Bzzz (Portuguese) 3. Bzzz (Italian) 2. Bzzz (Spanish) 1. Wing wing (Korean)

So turns out now would be a VERY good time to treat yourself to a print, if you've had your eye on one - and there's 10% off when you use the discount code FECKINGCAR at checkout for a limited time. Shop here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints #SpéirGhorm

@beyondthelab.bsky.social is a Mary Mulvihill Award, MMA winner. Eoin is a skilled science communicator; he talks about what inspires him to tell stories. The annual Science@Culture talk and MMA 🏆 is on Wed at 6:30pm Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ballsbridge. 🔗 tickets👇🏽 #speirgorm

In an attempt to condense the Science of Time pieces I have been working on over the past few months, I have worked it into one short article. Here is everything I found out about the last 40,000 years. #science #time @siliconrepublic.bsky.social www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/t...

The most worrying aspect of this article on illegal selling of alien invasive plants is the attitude of this nursery owner: “Nurseries throughout the country have been growing plants ... the damage has already been done. If you call it damage.” #conservation #SpeirGorm www.rte.ie/news/2026/05...

For ten years we have celebrated the life of a remarkable friend and science communicator. On Wednesday, the Mary Mulvihill award will be presented to a third-level student. #scicomms #stem @klillington.bsky.social @fionadoris.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

How do you you mind the legacy of a brilliant woman? @clodaghfinn.bsky.social spills the tea in her @irishexaminer.bsky.social column today. 💚 @rememberingmary.bsky.social #Speirgorm

“Most people in Ireland cannot achieve the recommended daily amount of physical activity as roads and streets are too dangerous and hostile for walking, cycling, wheeling and play,” - Dr Caoimhe Clarke SVUH Dublin

😮‍💨 I’m so tired of it all. Navigating to reliable news and information is exhausting. My default response now; is this an AI generated image and deliberate mis- or disinformation. What are the sources and who ‘owns’ the channel. I won’t give in. I won’t give up but …… 🤷‍♀️

The Silk Road Café at Dublin Castle was preparing to celebrate its 25th anniversary when it was informed that it would have to close for the six months of Ireland’s EU presidency. jrnl.ie/7037559

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

RTÉ’s boycott of this year’s Eurovision goes beyond simply not sending a contestant to Vienna, as the broadcaster will not be showing any of this week’s shows. Instead, RTÉ2 will broadcast the classic Father Ted episode A Song for Europe during the usual Eurovision timeslot.

FYI @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidjustice.org @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social @longcovidfam.bsky.social Covid and long Covid are poorly understood. Too many suffer due to lack of knowledge and capacity in health systems and lack of responsibility at policy level.

This beautiful short film shows the true nature of Covid / Sars-CoV-2 infection and the impact that Long Covid has had on one family. Long COVID can seem invisible. 🫥 People lose their sense of self. Medics don’t know how to treat it. Patients are gaslit & discharged #longcovid #covid #speirgorm

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

This May, we are asking you to support the call to protect our seas 🌊 There are three actions you can take: 1. Join us at a rally outside the Dáil on 21 May 📣 2. Write to the Taoiseach & Ministers ✍️ 3. Sign up for the @fairseas.ie Ocean Week Conference 🤝 Details: iwt.ie/three-action...

'Not yet with the ashes this ragged thing / Ni a gye a sloha a turpog inox' will be launched at the National Botanic Gardens next Thursday 14 May at 12pm in partnership with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Tickets are free but spaces are limited: dublinbookfestival.com/event/oein-d...

Vote for 14 Henrietta Street!! Help them win a European Public Choice Award 2026. Also visit 14 Henrietta Street, it’s a gem. 300 years of Dublins Social History brilliantly presented in a Georgian building that once housed 100 people at a time when 1/6 of Dubliners lived in tenements. #speirgorm

Yes! 👏🏼 🙌🏻 Great piece by Sineád O’Sullivan in @irishtimes.com

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

Just got soaked chasing escaped ducks around the garden. This tradwife thing is shit lads

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

Something rad to distract you for a few minutes. The choreography in this vid is off the charts. enjoy! ☕️ youtu.be/x6_mbnsh6VU

We’re delighted to announce our ‘Women in Revolution’ webinar Thursday 4 June 7:00-8:15 PM featuring @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social + Catriona Kennedy. Attendance is free. All are welcome For more info + to register 👀👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

We can’t have a chunk of the Wicklow mountains including the peak of Lugnaquilla stay in private hands. The €2M asking price is less than €1 per head of population for the State to pay. Please sign and share. #Speirgorm

“An Garda Síochána and third level institutions are where people are most likely to be asked to take part in sexual acts to access public services, a new report has found” That should be plastered across the front page of every paper in this country.

After lying in a sealed file for more than three decades, a heartrending letter to the Prime Minister from an elderly mother whose teenage son was killed in cold blood on Bloody Sunday has emerged. Yet civil servants said she could only get "kind words".

If you can get to the MAC, Belfast today or tomorrow, try get to Cuckoo Land It’s brilliant. 🤩 The true story of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition who crashed the boys club to negotiate for human rights, equality and cooperation in the Good Friday Agreement. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Speirgorm

If you are losing hope and wondering how you can keep on keeping on in the face of all the warmongering, darkness and injustice in our 🌍; take a minute for this one 👇

A heartening story: @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social & Sean Smith set up a literary festival just four months ago in their local community of Rush. Every event, inc. John Banville, me & @urchinette.bsky.social, @andreamara.bsky.social & Catherine Ryan Howard, is sold out www.rushfestivalofwriting.com

Was at a talk on ‘Feminism, Fascism and the Future’ on the the anti gender movement, right wing backlash & how feminism fights on. Laurie Essig hosts a podcast on the issue-I’ve started it, it is a necessary listen!US based but Irish people will recognise lots sites.middlebury.edu/feminismfasc...

I've just signed to call on Belfast City Council to keep 2 Royal Avenue as a community space. Will you sign too? my.actnowni.org/petitions/ke...

Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life." They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

No AI No music No messing Just… Nature at its finest. Please share it if you like it? 🙌

Díreach i ndiaidh an drochscéal a chluinstin. Is cuimhin liom í a fheiceáil ar Top of the Pops in 1982 agus Theme From Harry's Game á chanadh aici. Abair iontas! B'in a spreag mé le tabhairt faoi ranganna Gaeilge san ollscoil i gCúil Raithin. Mór an chaill. www.rte.ie/news/nuacht/...

John Deere has to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class action right-to-repair lawsuit. The company will also provide farmers with access to repair materials for 10 years. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Happy mix of sunshine and April showers from Seapoint. #Speirgorm

😂 Spot on

Don’t forget, you’re allowed call fascists fascists

Our mainstream media failed utterly this week to investigate this side of the ‘protests’. This is an excellent analysis, which also points to the good work done by @thejournal.ie

#FuelProtest public expression of people pushed beyond their limits by rising costs, unfulfilled election promises, constrained public services etc Ignore fascists who piled on We should demand equity, equality & sustainable living for all. We need backbone & vision. #FFFG Will never deliver

You may know “a murmuration of starlings,” but did you know that a group of crows is called “a murder” and peacocks “an ostentation”? How groups of birds got their names (thanks to a forgotten medieval woman), with magnificent vintage illustrations: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/11/b...

Thank you for buying The Long Gaze Back - this is the 2026 reprint, 11 (!) years after publication. Featuring @anakanaschofield.bsky.social, Maeve Brennan @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Mary Lavin @junec.bsky.social Norah Hoult @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @eimearryan.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social