After a video call with her husband on Sunday night – their first in 5 months – Smyth told Culleton’s family in Ireland he had lost weight and hair and had sores and infections. “There’s no hygiene there. He’s been asking for antibiotics for the last four weeks,” his sister..told RTÉ.

Kerry has won nine awards at this year's Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition including the overall prize won by Aoibheann Daly of Mercy Mounthawk. The winning students attend Mercy Mounthawk, CBS The Green in Tralee, & St Michael's, Listowel. www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-w...

A #painting from a few years ago. "Listowel" is a County Kerry town I've done a few paintings of, but this particular painting came out of a time I was cycling in north Kerry and having the time of my life. Mind you in fairness whenever I'm in north Kerry I have the time of my life. #art #SpeirGhorm

“China isn’t just building gigantic amounts of power; its businesses are reshaping technological foundations to electrify the world.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation

Russian attacks across Donetsk Oblast killed four people and injured seven, including a 7-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy in Kostiantynivka. Video taken in Kostiantynivka #Ukraine #UkrainianView

Cork Mural Sparks Nationwide Conversation on Immigration and Irish Identity. Cork students paint 50m mural quoting James Connolly on Sullivan's Quay. Source: Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign (on Facebook) #SpeirGorm

#speirgorm #irish #diaspora

Yesterday was Holodomor Memorial Day. And I wanted to post something about it, but couldn't force myself. From all the events throughout the history when Russia tried to wipe out the whole Ukrainian nation, Holodomor remains for me as one of the most horrific, cruel and inhumane. #UkrainianView

President Trump has announced that he will place 100% tariffs on foreign-made films in a fresh blow to Britain’s film industry

‘We’re right and you’re wrong’ Mo Chara www.irishtimes.com/video/video/...

Breaking News: As planes with children sat on a tarmac, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of Guatemalan minors and demanded assurances that they would remain in shelters until a more permanent ruling.

Riham Jafari ActionAid said: "The time has run out for the people of Gaza. There is no time for words or statements, the time should be allocated for action” www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Katherine Thomas is playing a blinder @roseoftralee.bsky.social #speirgorm #roseoftralee 🌹🌹🌹

Ballybunion sunset last night was magical #speirgorm

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif reporting from Gaza, shortly before Israel killed him tonight: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, 28, has been killed alongside 3 colleagues after a tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital was hit in Gaza City. Israel accuses him of Hamas ties, which the network rejects. #Gaza

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Listen to Oliver Callan’s interview with the amazing Irish sisters Catherine Wrightstone and Paula Fay who discuss abuse, the path to justice and recovery . www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #abuse #speirgorm

Meanwhile, in Cork

'Man-made mass starvation' in Gaza - WHO chief www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Twenty states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging new Trump administration rules that bar undocumented immigrants from a host of federal programs, including Head Start and career and technical education offerings.

Did Michael Flatley say he .. eh., might .. run for President of Ireland on the Brendan O Connor show? #speirgorm #thingsgettinginteresting #ireland

Hey. Okay. Looking for some help from the #FineArt crowd. Have this print that’s at least 35 years old and am trying to learn more about it and the artist who I think is named Paul Greene. It’s not signed in the usual place, so I’m not positive that is the artist’s name. #Art #Artsky

People waiting for aid among dozens reported killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

Beautiful Ballybunion Beach #speirgorm #heatwave #wildatlanticway #Kerry

Staggering.

Teen missing in West Cork as Gardaí issue urgent appeal for info www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

14-year-old Liza was last seen yesterday wearing a black Adidas top and brown jeans

Bog snaps #speirgorm

"The BBC should hang their heads in shame" for not airing the 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' film, said Gary Lineker at a screening in London tonight. Luckily, Zeteo bought the global rights to this hugely important documentary and is airing it here: gazadoctors.film

Mickey MacConnell, a true legend — songwriter, poet, lyricist, composer, columnist, journalist, balladeer, husband, and dad, has died. He lived amongst us in Listowel. Tá sé smith ar shlí na fírinne. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast

I was last there in 2018. I was in the West Bank/Ramallah/Bethlehem, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Eilat. We walked over the border from Jordan and drove from Eilat north. Saw a lot.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said peace was now the 'only hope' www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

At least 24 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip, local health authorities said, in the latest bout of chaos and bloodshed to plague the aid operation reut.rs/4kivoGZ

Happy faces on Day 3 Listowel Literary Festival #LLF25 📚#books next up @johnboynebooks.bsky.social at 6.30pm #speirgorm #writersweek #blueskybooks @mairelogue.bsky.social @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @writersweek.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @kerrygroup.bsky.social #writers

So looking forward to my first time being part of the Listowel @writersweek.bsky.social tomorrow. Tickets in the link below. My late mother-in-law, Kathleen, was a proud Listowel woman. I dedicated Leonard and Hungry Paul to her. writersweek.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

#3goodthings (belated, sorry) 1. Great gig with @sophiegrenham.bsky.social in Listowel. Thanks to all who came. 2. Guess which bunch of bananas @mairelogue.bsky.social gave to me - and delighted I was to get them. 3. A sign outside the institution that is Woulfe's bookshop in Listowel.

Listowel Literary Festival 2025 #LLF25 was kicked off tonight by Ned O’Sullivan to a packed room of well wishers in the Arms Hotel. 4 days of workshops, readings, poetry music, drama, and lots of chats ahead. #kerry @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @discoverkerry.bsky.social @kerrygroup.bsky.social

Thousands of hungry Palestinians arrive at a new aid distribution center in Gaza, after a three-month blockade by Israel that reduced aid shipments, and leave with boxes of food while Israeli soldiers fired live rounds in the air to disperse the crowds.

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... #ireland #cooleypeninsula #WW11 #history

Listowel Literary Festival LLF25 Co-produced by 3 local arts groups Writers Week ❤️ St John’s Theatre ❤️ Seanchaí ❤️ Tickets selling fast. Festival office in Listowel Arms Hotel during the week or visit bit.ly/4dwDd9f #speirgorm @mairelogue.bsky.social @kerrygroup.bsky.social