These adaptations are never accurate to the manga - this just seems like fanboy belly-aching.

Considering recent court findings against "gender-criticals" in the North, I neither fancy their chances, or the optics of Lady Mouldcastle openly intervening in matters that don't concern her. Love the lack of fadas in the statement, too, very respectful. #spéirghorm #ireland

McDowell is grand with state subsidy when it furthers his market ideologies. It was public services and semi-states he hated. #spéirghorm #ireland

Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...

And, as ever, my wee monthly radio show, Raidío Mar Dhea, is a look at the month's new music and sound from the island of Ireland - on @eistradio.bsky.social and @flirtfm.ie. Independent, DIY, unheard or just plain interesting - find it here. Catch up: soundcloud.com/eistcork/set...

At the end of the month, I'll be piloting a Slow Trad Session in Cork City. Dust off your instruments and we'll all learn a slow air together in a welcoming environment! Friday July 31st, 7pm-ish; Quay Co-op, all welcome, pay-what-you-can. #spéirghorm #ireland

Later that day, I'll be stage-running for Ireland's psych-folk legends, Dr Strangely Strange! Saturday July 25th @ 8pm, at St James' Church in Mallow town centre - done by the last train back to Cork! Tickets €20 (plus bkg fee): mallowartsfestival.com/2026/05/06/d... #spéirghorm #ireland #cork

A busy couple of weeks ahead with gigs, book stuff and such - 🧵 time. First off, @ailsy.bsky.social and I return to book-pluggin', with an event in my hometown of Mallow, Co Cork! Saturday July 25th, 12pm, Philip's Bookshop. Free in, parts of Mallow Arts Fest! #spéirghorm #ireland #adhd

Plan for hyperlocal municipal councils to return, a decade after abolition. Report recommends return to town bodies amid criticism of Republic’s centralised system. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The Avengers The Official Avengers The Provisional Avengers The Continuity Avengers The Real Avengers

Not only career-ending, but the beginning of ceaseless and unremitting mockery.

If anyone from #Speirgorm would like to help - I've been curating (and watching) this list of Irish films to give me more cultural references. Any and all suggestions welcome (except Angela's Ashes and Wild Mountain Thyme) letterboxd.com/mofette/list...

...and to which he responded by doom-mongering about the UK becoming 'an island of strangers'.

Don't forget said cult leader making the trophy-lifting ceremony all about himself!

Antonio Inoki becomes the bull in Gaki no Tsukai’s “Running of Anton”. The comedians scatter as Inoki pursues them, catching each one for a slap, and occasionally something closer to a punch. Japanese television somehow persuaded Inoki to do this, although he hardly appears reluctant October 1995

The Minister for AI when I become Benevolent Socialist Forever Taoiseach

George Hamilton would have known who Adrien Brody was I can tell you that much

Content warning for ecocide, animal cruelty and pure unwarranted ignorance. We 🇮🇪 are a damaged people who have lost our connection through the land and are obsessed with property ownership to the point that it blinds us to the destruction we are inflicting.

Declassified White House files confirm Russian election interference for Trump, who instead blames China for backing Biden

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day: By the new time This phrase is used to mean "at a great rate" or "without delay": "She set up a new business and she's getting customers by the new time."

The "crisis of identity" is coming from the various well-poisoners and wall-fallers that keep making things up for people to be afraid of, in order to protect (if not distract from) their own wealth and connections. #spéirghorm #ireland

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

Barry Heneghan is just pulling the same old stunt that Mattie McGrath and the Healy Raes always do. 1. Say something stupid. Ideally in the summer when the papers are hungry. 2. Everyone talks about you non-stop=🙌attention🙌 @ciaraioch.bsky.social had a perfect diagramme of this for the Healy Raes

The register of lobbyists needs to be on a website with live updates on who's gotten to who. #spéirghorm #ireland

Rowling is disingenuous at best when she says the Amnesty UK report is anti-women. Anti rights groups focused on in the report are against women's rights, too. They are anti-abortion, pro fixed gender rolls. #spéirghorm #boycottHarryPotter

A busy couple of weeks ahead with gigs, book stuff and such - 🧵 time. First off, @ailsy.bsky.social and I return to book-pluggin', with an event in my hometown of Mallow, Co Cork! Saturday July 25th, 12pm, Philip's Bookshop. Free in, parts of Mallow Arts Fest! #spéirghorm #ireland #adhd

Returning to education can have a positive impact on your life 📚 We can help with reading, writing, maths or computers. You can: ✅ Learn with NALA in your own home; ✅ Learn in your local Education and Training Board. Learn more ⤵️ http://nala.ie/free-courses #LiteracyIreland

They all drove off on their own

Why not suspend data centres, whose consumption of water is the real bastarding problem here? #spéirghorm #ireland

But we can't call them fascists?

And a few more:

Could be worse. Could be a voodoo cane. A voodoo cane has no place in professional wrestling.

Aura.

Your stunning Second Act. “Don’t tell anybody what you’re going to do, because they’ll try & tell you that you can’t. Don’t share it with anybody. Just get on & do it.… Follow your dreams. Feel the fear & do it anyway…at least you won’t die thinking: ‘I wish I’d done that.’” #spéirghorm

The UFC fight last night

Found a video of McGregor losing and it’s pretty funny. He scuttles around like one of those bipedal robots encountering a step

An accurate description of Cork City today

I get all my news from my dreams.

How many Irish people have ever experienced the wonder of old-growth natural forest in our own country? Given that it now covers less than 0.1% (<1/1,000th) of Ireland, likely only a tiny few. What a terribly sad thought. Allowing surviving remnants to expand naturally should be a *top* priority.

Autistic and ADHD friendships…

Still reckon it should be brought back to linear telly, meself. 'Tis the type of thing public-service broadcasters should be championing. #spéirghorm #ireland

Of all the things that annoy me about Sky buying ITV's television channels and ops; by far the worst is that both Sky's zombie ITV and the region-consolidated ITV Studios will both be called "ITV". Like, Granada is a historic name, and it's RIGHT THERE. #media #uk #tv #telly

MAYOR MAMDANI HELP

This is a really great piece. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Why do they let him do this? He's either slowly wandered into the mist, or is saying stupid shit for attention. What do his handlers and staff think they're enabling?

A thread of articles I have written covering Sinn Féin's drift to the right on social issues: I have been covering this in depth since 2023, and I have been consistently covering how Sinn Féin think they can take progressive voters for granted (a thread) #spéirghorm

Death of Stalin-ass government

This is how much the State cares about disabled people like my daughter #Disability

Dog bless the buskers, but honestly, fuck the leprechauns. They don't do anything that hard-working buskers don't do ten times better - and the Paddywhackery and AI shit sickens me hole. Puts me in a foul humour. #spéirghorm #ireland #cork