Britain’s housing crisis has been exacerbated by years of government inaction in building affordable homes, tackling parasitic landlords and their rip-off rents. We need the biggest council house building programme in a generation to end the cycle of misery faced by millions.

"It’s an outrageous way to frame a housing crisis..& reveals...a hope...the audience watching is stupid enough to buy into it. But hey, when you’ve nothing left to lose, just smear the bejaysus out of someone. It’s what we’ve come to expect." #spéirghorm#IrishPol www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

My letter regarding the Irish Government's lurch towards the far-right. We all need to redouble our efforts to protect our communities with compassion and anti-racism activism. #spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...

It’s a good day to talk about women scientists. Let’s also remember Margaret W. Rossiter, who died in August of this year. She coined the “Matilda Effect” (named after suffragist Matilda Gage), which describes bias against acknowledging women’s achievements.

Great clip with Richard Chambers calling out Simon Harris’ ‘sleight of hand’ blaming immigrants for the #FFFG catastrophic housing policies 🤦🏾‍♀️ SH wants us “to be mad at immigrants…” for this government’s decades long failure in housing, planning, dereliction, services…🤯 #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Home

To my LGBTI+ peeps in Ireland, our friends across the pond are under serious pressure daily, especially so today. Check in, send some love ❤️🏳️‍🌈🙏🏾🏳️‍⚧️☘️ #spéirghorm #Obergefell #MarriageEquality #LGBTI+

Lunatics like this are emboldened when the Tánaiste & other gov ministers scapegoat migrants for their neoliberal decisions of austerity that suck the country dry. I know we all know this, but it still needs to be said every time. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... #IrishPol

“Covid-19 may no longer be considered a public health emergency, but #LongCovid presents an ongoing & complex challenge….people struggling with…loss of physical capacity… impact on their mental health…loss of capacity to work to the full extent & the financial implications of that….” #spéirghorm

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Mary Harris Jones aka "Mother Jones" traveled to coal mines & confronted owners about child labor in the early 1900s. 💪 This Irish ☘️ immigrant organized workers into unions, notably the United Mine Workers of America. #Union #Solidarity #PowerToThePeople

Could someone have a word & ensure there’s NEVER a red carpet put out in Ireland for that inhumane grifter in the WH? This brilliant & brave teenager dealing with the US version of the SS everyday in his community. A nation of traumatised people. When it end? #spéirghorm #IrishPol #ICE #Resist

"The Minister of State said that the civil service has grown by 50% in the last decade. But he asked if citizens feel they have received a comparable growth in services and their quality of life". This is copy-and-paste rightwing "when you're explaining you're losing" bullshit.

It seems the US Health & Human Services chief has a disturbingly obvious fear of sick people 🤦🏾‍♀️ “It’s about feeling overwhelmingly uncomfortable around sick people, not knowing what to say or how to act, becoming paranoid about catching the illness (even if it’s not contagious at all)…” #RFKJr #USA

American humanist James Baldwin speaking at the University of Cambridge in 1965. His words on racism still resonate today. An incredible piece of #HumanistHeritage. A true 'pin drop' speech. No one said it quite like Baldwin. #BlackHumanism.

So Simon Harris (distinct from FG) seems to be on a kamikaze mission. Or several of them. First the lurch to the right on immigration and now wants to fuck off absolutely everyone by tearing up the triple lock we were guaranteed as part of the Nice treaty. Can anyone tell me wtf he’s up to?

The warmongers, mongering 🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Democracy #Peace #Gaza

The thing is, it’s actually blindingly obvious that Zohran Mamdani’s campaign speaks to what Americans all over the country are looking for and even what people around the world are looking for

Any day now the policies that caused this crisis will turn the corner, do a three sixty, and solve the crisis going forward. Any. Day. Now. #SpéirGhorm

We saw how Irish media reacted to Catherine Connolly winning the presidential election with her campaign 🤯🤦🏾‍♀️ “Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.” #spéirghorm #IrishPol #NYC #Áras25

This is so so depressing. The chasm between rich & poor is becoming so much more evident & extreme. #HousingCrisis #Homelessness

My column in this week's The Mayo News about the aftermath of #Áras25. Fake nomination attempts, smears, spoiled votes, the media - and FF and FG's all too predictable lurch to the right after making a hames of it all.

My brilliant friend @hebagowayed.bsky.social: "What is troubling to me as we look into the possibilities of the Zohran mayorship, is not just these old white men’s sense of entitlement to power; but that their open racism, like that of the president’s, is not disqualifying."

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Every journalist doing any interview on the housing crisis with a member of the Oireachtas, especially ones from the government parties, needs to check in advance if that person is a landlord and take them to task on it. Anything else isn't journalism. #speirgorm

They don’t like women do they, this lot? #SpeirGorm

People in Ireland ☘️ DO NOT DARE to dream of a fair & equitable society where having a permanent home is realistic for everyone 🤯🤦🏾‍♀️ Meanwhile, in #NYC, Zohran Mamdani shares what’s really possible, despite the nay sayers. youtu.be/MYOZhiWTSBQ?... #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Zohran #Socialism #housing

A great look back at the first Irish President #Echo: “Ireland’s first president, Dubhghlas de hÍde, was not elected, but…was appointed in June 1938 by both Éamon de Valera & the leader of the opposition, WT Cosgrave. A Protestant…very admired & likeable academic…” #spéirghorm #Áras25 #IrishPol

Tánaiste Simon Harris can we have "open and honest debate" about investors buying half the houses in the country, is the number of vulture funds coming to this country "too high"?? Jesus f#cking Christ *screaming into the night sky* #spéirgorm

This man is absolutely deluded. Parties on the left have been trying to talk about immigration for years - more specifically, about Fine Gael's failure to manage it.

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

“I was really surprised to learn that Ireland, a European country, had also experienced colonisation….” Since its 1980 premiere in Derry, #Translations has been reimagined across the world, from apartheid South Africa to Māori and Ukrainian productions.” #spéirghorm #Friel #Dakar

Crying about not being able to talk about migration while being one of the most powerful politicians in a country that has had almost 7 years of non stop talk about migration is top tier useless crybaby behavior

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

“ #SrStan was a powerful voice for compassion, #equality, & systemic change...a leading..activist for change, working tirelessly to support the homeless, immigrants, & those in disadvantaged communities throughout Ireland & beyond.” We have work to do 💔 www.thejournal.ie/sister-stan-... #spéirghorm

Almost 1,500 people hospitalised with Covid-19 in October, latest data shows www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/almo... #speirgorm #Covid #WearAMask #GetVaccinated #staysafe #keeptesting

❤️🧠 “…exercise is important, not only physically, but for the brain...emotionally, we know exercise can reduce depressive symptoms & anxiety…I would say that movement & exercise is essential for those with MS” podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/l... #spéirghorm #Brain #Wheelchair #MultipleSclerosis

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

Successive FFFG govs have commissioned reports to much aplomb (Funding The Future HE report, the Housing Commission report, EPA & CCAC reports among others) & then ignored the findings, or even the full reports. They've done the same with citizens assemblies. They think they know better. #IrishPol

The amount of people, the Justice Minister included, that tried chalking this up to youthful misadventure, and not pre-meditated murder, tells me that the Irish centre-right is contorting itself into pretzels to avoid doing the right thing about fascism. #spéirghorm #ireland

At the Hill of Uisneach in Co Westmeat, the sacred centre of Ireland, thousands gathered as Manchán Magan’s ashes were scattered. Steve Cooney wrote a piece for Magan and had sent it to him - Planxty Manchán Magan, was played.... #SpéirGhorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

"Harris has instead pivoted immediately to bashing immigration at a time when #Ipas centres are frequent targets of vitriol & violence, with demonstrations outside Citywest last week resulting in the hospitalisation...". www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre... #spéirghorm #IrishPol

"The leaders of Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Colombia, Chile, Cape Verde & Liberia will attend, their governments have confirmed their attendance." Taoiseach Micheál Martin is also attending the summit. #spéirghorm #COP30 #ClimateChaos www.thejournal.ie/cop30-taoise...

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

"Homelessness is a human rights crisis. It is not always visible, but it is a reality for people in virtually every community in every region of the world. Many women, in particular, live in forms of hidden homelessness...." #spéirghorm #IrishPol #HumanRights #Home www.linkedin.com/posts/volker...

Radicalised people burned out an IPAS centre last night. We don't even have the comfort of pretending the rhetoric that radicalised them came exclusively from powerless far-right trolls. It has been echoed by our Taoiseach, our Tánaiste, and our Minister for Justice. #spéirgorm

Well, this isn't concerning at all. The biggest cause of deaths in Ireland between the 1880s and 1950s. The slow moving droplet disease that thrives in poverty and overcrowding. In 1949 a policy of universal vaccination was introduced, but ceased in 2015. #SpéirGhorm

“In spite of all the challenges we face, there remains within the Irish people a profound and unyielding commitment to seeing beyond the self to seeing the ‘other’ as friend.” - President Michael D Higgins at his final garden party. He and Sabina have hosted up to 20,000 people each year.