Judging barristers and solicitors on the clients they have worked for has been a very dangerous and deadly false narrative just a few miles up the road. The Irish media should know better than to try and draw inferences

Micheál Martin's "decent man" persona is struggling to sync up with his "I haven't contacted Jim Gavin since he dropped out" persona

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

A full house in Dublin tonight for a powerful launch of the brilliant poet, academic and activist Prof. Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die: Poetry & Prose’. Refaat was murdered by apartheid Israel in Gaza and his great friend and editor Yousef M Aljamal spoke beautifully about his own family's history

The ease and speed with which he fucked Jim Gavin under a fleet of busses tells you all you need to know about Micheál Martin. A sleeveen who values the party and power over all else.

Coalition Encourages Taxpayers To Donate Any Gains In Budget To Help Pay Data Centres' Energy Bills https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/coalition-encourages-taxpayers-to-donate-any-gains-in-budget-to-help-pay-data-centres-energy-bills/

Doing crowd work from notes. Pitiful

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Oh we have plenty to be fucking angry about.

It beggars belief that FF were contacted on Sept 8th, and if they thought there was any veracity to it, that the money wasn't in Niall's account by Sept 10th at the latest.

Glenveagh home builders operating profits soar 86% but yeah developers can't break even What disgusting gaslighting by the government This continued culture of money for the boys is f*cking scandalous #DerelictIreland #HowIrelandWorks

I do find it kinda baffling that the government took something like 1.5billion out of the economy just to reduce the already reduced vat rate on restaurants and hotels and stuff rather than literally anything else. It's just absolutely wild to me! #SpeirGorm

Extremist cadres in Fine Gael are planning for an independent Dundrum if Connolly wins. Bird Avenue being fortified.

Attacking lawyers for representing their clients is par for the course on the hard right in Britain. This is not news, it's campaigning and doing so in bad faith.

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

Love this one!

Sure the current Attorney General represented Danske Bank against Bill Cullen. Barristers can’t decode willy nilly who they will, or who they won’t represent

So hang on the government line is now that the gardaí were aware that someone they deemed a potential security threat being let into Leinster House every day, but did nothing about it and told nobody? This story has never made any sense, even less so now

Lawyer Represents Different Types of Clients Shocker Lead; IRELAND WAS REELING LAST NIGHT AS IT EMERGED CATHERINE SO CALLED "CONNOLLLY" WAS ONCE A 'LAWYER' WHO 'REPRESENTED CLIENTS' AT SINISTER GATHERINGS KNOWN AS 'COURT CASES' - PAGES 1,2,3,4 etc etc

‘Can’t keepie up’: Paddy Power pays out early on bets for Catherine Connolly to become president jrnl.ie/6838922

Sharp letter in the ITimes: Sir, I was bemused by Fintan O’Toole’s wry comment that Catherine Connolly is now “odds on favourite” to win “simply because she has coherence and conviction”. Yes indeed, two rare qualities that the electorate might appreciate. Yours, EVELYN MAHON Dublin 2 #aras25

"Unpaid carers are predominantly women, which might go some way to explaining why their contributions are ignored." Catherine Connolly speaking out following yesterday's budget on the continuation of the means test for carers, and the unfulfilled promise of a cost of disability payment.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Has anyone made a Norn' Iron' Curtain joke yet? #spéirgorm

The Common and the Goose is an anonymous English poem from around the mid 18th century which tells of how common land was legally stolen and privatised by enclosure.

This Reuters headline. Oof. Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

My arse.

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean. If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

That's terrible for him. Maybe he shouldn't have been there?

Jim Gavin is gone. Heather Humphreys has stated her far-right transgender views. So that just leaves Catherine Connolly 🤷‍♀️ #Speirgorm #Aras2025

Right wing FG candidate for Irish President, Heather Humphreys, being called out for her anti-trans nastiness by noted feminist & women’s equality campaigner Ruth Coppinger TD. Whatever your views on human rights, you can’t claim that Humphreys would be a president who was inclusive.

It seems that a barrister who doesn’t understand the Constitution is throwing her toys out of her Hermes bag. 🤔 #Áras2025 #SpeirGorm #Steen

Oh dear. Anyway!

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Voters: "The EU Parliament doesn't really seem to do anything, seems kinda useless" EU Parliament: "Oh yeah? Could a useless parliament do this?!" *pants fall down, trips over, falls into orchestra pit and gets stuck head first in a tuba*

Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.

Gwan the boys “We will fight you in court again. We will win again.” #Spéirghorm

Bloody hell! It turns out that Jim Gavin’s former tenant is the Deputy Editor of the Sunday World. To run as a candidate in a presidential election when you have a long outstanding debt owing to a journalist, is beyond stupid. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #Áras2025 #SpeirGorm

Well at least she didn't accidentally use footage of Danny DeVito instead

One of the guys putting up Union Jack flags in Manchester - to protest immigrants - has a conviction for people smuggling immigrants into the UK in the back of his van.

It was great to have @catherinegalway.bsky.social out in Dublin South West. The choice for the presidential election is now clear. #Connolly4President has clear momentum and we need to continue getting more people to volunteers on the campaign to keep going for the next 2 weeks! #SpéirGhorm

Achtung! 'It was an error': Humphreys removes campaign video mistaking Belfast for Berlin jrnl.ie/6838547

if nothing else it's very funny to say you want to get rid of english degrees two days after you give everyone chocolate with "britian" written on it

I’m shocked.

🗣️ ‘It’s McBudget that they’ve put out this year - and it’s a bit hard to swallow.’ @sineadgibney.bsky.social says the Government’s VAT cut for hospitality benefits big corporations and developers, not small businesses.  📺 Watch the full debate ➡️ https://youtu.be/GsQDqw8Oe4E

I'm sure it's not over but, after 2 months of filing copyright infringement reports, as of today I finally managed to get all of my paintings removed from Temu.

Not our sweet Heather. Never!

Heather Humphreys is spreading misinformation that Oireachtas political staff need so-called garda clearance – they don’t, according to documents obtained by The Ditch Alan Shatter joined in – posting a fake document on X purporting to be official policy www.ontheditch.com/heather-hump...

18457 children murdered by a genocidal regime. And that's just up to the end of July. Imagine if every married couple with kids in Kerry had a child murdered-beyond comprehension-yet whole families are being slaughtered in Gaza with complete impunity #speirgorm 💔 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...