🔥 “Ahern is also fond of giving interviews about his thoughts on various political issues. He sees himself as a statesman, The latest contribution suggests he’s more greasy eminence than éminence grise.” “…a man held in such contempt…” #spéirghorm saturdaynightwaltz.substack.com/p/bertie-ahe...

top read for all Irishists

We could stop 91% of child sex abuse online. It’s a choice not to. Echoes of this in Irish approach to X & the abusive ai images. The timidity towards tech companies & sex abuse of children ruins lives. Legislate for humans because it’s only abt the money for TechInc. #spéirghorm #CSA #IrishPol

UN special rapporteur says Israel tortures Palestinian detainees in its detention centers

Does he mean the challenge is continuing to convince people that there is hope, even though they have no intention of fixing their neoliberal housing system designed to make landlords & shareholders of institutional investment funds richer, rather than delivering anything affordable? #IrishPol

Note how he doesn't say giving us "housing" is the defining challenge of our time. He only wants to give us "hope". Hope that can fuel us to stoicly endure the indignities they will continue to foist upon us. He's not trying to change our lives, he's trying to change our outlook. #spéirgorm

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Dear Taoiseach, you're incapable of understanding that there's nothing about these words or this image that offers a hopeful future to young (or old) people. Your party is the opposite of hope, you are the cement shoes around this drowning country's feet. #SpeirGorm

The denial is so persistent. It’s obviously not true & statements made purely for the clicks & back-slapping at the #Ardfheis Zero intention to bring the misery to an end ‘se so many making money. #FF abandoned people to the market wolves. #spéirghorm #IrishPol www.thejournal.ie/micheal-mart...

They don't need hope, they need State owned housing and long term tenancy. The security to build a life, a home and even a family. To be part of a community. #spéirgorm

If only all the community supports and interventions hadn't been slashed in 2008. Again #FFG #supergluedpockets #spéirgorm jrnl.ie/7040477

Irelands future is already here #spéirgorm

So many beautiful variables. This image with alt text 🙏🏽❤️ #spéirghorm #Humans #LGBTQIA+

Hi everybody! Elmo was wondering if he could ask the Phillies some questions?

A neighbor called and asked me to pick up a package for her. “I hate to bother you,” she said. “I don’t like asking for help.” Ladies. No. Stop. Asking for help is healthy. We are not meant to be hyper-independent. And “bother” implies you’re being a pest. You aren’t. Ask for the help you need.

Panti Bliss described the contest as a “deliberate and obvious attempt by Israel to use the song contest as a propaganda tool”. Read 👉 buff.ly/k87MAqc #GCNnews

Farmleigh House & this gem in the city is closed for six months. No notice, no compensation for them & 20+ staff & no way to mitigate the losses. Workers are pawns in the preparation for the pomp & ceremony for #EUPresidency JFC Ireland 🤦🏽‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol www.thejournal.ie/silk-road-ca...

Women doing on excellent job, here. The cap, now who else wears one? #SpéirGhorm

Many Irish primary schools are signed-up to the free school lunches (standards alleged to be shockingly poor), this is what children receive in Japan. Why has Ireland never built kitchens to feed children in school? Govts had decades to make it happen & still nothing 🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol

Attorney: I’m a trial lawyer. I tried the case against Meta and Google in Los Angeles, the first social media addiction case decided by an American jury. The evidence that I saw in that case keeps me up at night.

This is just in Dublin, spread this all across #VacantIreland and we have a cheaper, quicker and more sustainable solution to the housing crisis. Better than beds in sheds too Will the government be brave enough to bring in real solutions? #spéirgorm #DerelictIreland

“…life is just so much better when you show up as your true self”🫶🏾🏳️‍🌈❤️ #spéirghorm #JasonCollins #lgbt+

From 1st April onward I’ve seen an abrupt spike in panhandling in Cork city centre. It’s not the familiar faces, but newly vulnerable people, mostly young. All have Cork accents, no less: These are Micheál Martin’s own constituents turned out on the street. #speirghorm

We fight on. Because the women of Ireland deserve better.  Tonight, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael chose not to support women, not to trust women, not to show compassion to those so cruelly forced to travel abroad for care.

"White House Continues Push For Disabled People To Die Instead" this impacts medically fragile children who are only kept at home due to private duty nursing it is immeasurably cruel to mandate parents put their kids (who happen to have vents to breathe, for example) into nursing homes

Thank you, Jennifer, for being honest about the pain women have to go through because of the current Irish laws. This country voted overwhelmingly to allow abortion. Politicians brought these stupid rules in. Let women make their own goddammit minds up about what's best for them. #SpéirGhorm

The Ditch can reveal Fine Gael Galway West byelection candidate and Seanad leader Seán Kyne is the senator alleged to have blackmailed and harassed the former Inland Fisheries Ireland CEO. www.ontheditch.com/fine-gael-by...

This is some nasty stuff: “O'Donnell told gardaí in his Jan. 2024 correspondence he believed Kyne was using Seanad privilege "to destroy the reputation of witnesses….He has no protections outside the Seanad….Someone is asking him to make these allegations under privilege.” #spéirghorm #IrishPol

Relatable, readable & so very relevant from Sarah Clancy. Ordinary, decent ppl cajoled by fr: “…most of the people all through history who participated & enabled everything from the colonies to slavery to the holocaust were ordinary people, probably many of them decent.…” #spéirghorm #IrishPol

"..it shows up behaving like a resistance movement to the excesses of government, like a movement that might take on the people who aren’t listening to you & make them hear you. But, no. You’ll be sorely disappointed. What the far-right does is use YOUR anger to make THEMSELVES important" #IrishPol

Medical #misogyny will kill us all, women first. "A French woman who tested positive for #hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety," Spanish health minister. #spéirghorm www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A generation did everything they were told to do. Go to school. Get a good job. Work hard. Now even people in the trades making decent money are moving back in with their parents because home ownership is completely out of reach in Canada. #cdnpoli

I cannot imagine the Irish Green Party being so powerfully committed to communities, the environment, climate justice, to workers & being so unapologetically socially democratic. Always hoping yet @social-democrats.bsky.social is where I look for hope☘️ join.greenparty.org.uk #spéirghorm #IrishPol

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

“In some cases…it was synthesizing very poor quality studies…mixing together findings from studies that simply cannot be accurately compared due to very different methods, populations & samples. 🔥🔥 It seemed like a paper that should not have been published in the first place.”🔥 #spéirghorm #AISlop

Jack Dart is director of reformwatch.org and this is one of the best local election commentaries I've seen.

It should never be out of the Irish media that this government continue to enable a housing crisis by allowing scandalous hoarding of property across country, most of which are in high demand locations As a result over 5000 children spend every night of their young lives without a home #speirghorm

There's much more corrupt government in Ireland than expensive bike sheds. And LOTS of thick heads keep voting for it. At least the UK has had SOME Left governments. Ireland's never had one in 104 years. Ireland nurtures apathy as a virtue. THATS thick! #Irishpol #iepol

“9/10 housebuilding firms in Ireland deliver fewer than 50 units per year…. Market 🤦🏾‍♀️ is highly fragmented…only 11 of Ireland’s active housebuilders delivering consistently more than 300 units per year….” Irish State building homes wld be a GOOD thing for people, right? Right?? #spéirghorm #IrishPol

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

Empathy is difficult It requires skill and effort. It can be taught. And it's worth prioritizing. When we wing it, allocate little time to it or assume it's a side effect of our work, we diminish the effort and blur our focus. "I wonder what it's like to be you" is part of what makes us human, but…

Every time I read (x5!) work by @louthforever.bsky.social, I’m all the better for it! Weaving reminders of N.I times past (the Chuckle Brothers!) to the issues, characters, ongoing struggles for functioning systems & the consequences of the recent local elections...GRMA! 🤩 #spéirghorm #IrishPol

Former chief of PDForra (Permanent defence forces representative association) highlighting that dismantling the Triplelock will harm irish Peacekeeping ✌️ #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

This takes pride of place in my home 🥰 Check out the creative delights from the glorious @ciaraioch.bsky.social & if you’ve an occasion coming up or a few yo-yos to spare, get one for your own shrine/safe space/ place of peace ✌🏽✨🤩 #spéirghorm #Create #Art #IrishArt

for the money to be spent, spend it! Otherwise you are letting your team down, your bosses down and those that will come after you down. There's nothing good about not spending a budget. You should aim to spend a minimum of 5-10% under and hopefully not over. #9BILLION #Surplus #speirgorm #IrePol

The story of the upcoming death of the petrol and diesel car in Norway.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

People complaining about the 127k for a bike parking facility obviously have not tried to buy a window or get any work done recently. This seems like it's just anti public services sentiment with a particular anti cycling flavour to it.

An *actual* attack on rural Ireland #Spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

With all the media coverage of the *stupid* idea of burning coal at Moneypoint today, this is what should be covered more. How many more SEAI grants, green farming subsidies, or public EV charging points could have been funded with this money? More FFG negligence to add to the list 😫 #IrishPol