Mike, DJing at PLUGD, 1pm

Happy 50th birthday to "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy! "That chick who got up and she slapped Johnny's face" is probably in her seventies now.

#Onthisday 1949, the Republic of Ireland Act officially came into force, formally declaring Ireland a republic & severing its final constitutional ties with the British Commonwealth www.rte.ie/archives/202...

Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life." They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

Did you know you can pop a nice card in the post to a senator Eileen Flynn Via Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 Or even just send her a supportive email [email protected] Cos messages of support help when dealing with gobshites lashing out. #speirgorm #Mná

AI has all but shut down the routes to proving yourself via grunt work in so many industries. All the best juniors I trained came in via that way. They didn’t have the social connections or money to position themselves for the success they proved more than capable of, AI is gutting social mobility

Seo é. This is it here lads. @saoirsemc.bsky.social is a voice which we must be hearing 👌🏼🎧

Grand Parade #Cork 1982 with Mandys in the background #FlashbackFriday #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📷E MacArthur

An excellent piece. Starmer has terrible judgement, zero interest in politics, and does not care to understand how government works. His only “success” has been to make Labour completely toxic to its own traditional voters.

The Press Ombudsman has given Eoin Lenihan a good kicking in her decision on his complaint about the interview where he had a complete meltdown because he was gently asked some probing questions about his background directly related to the book he was promoting pressombudsman.ie/omb-2496-202...

My newest for @bandcamp.com Daily. One of the privileges of my work is to document Irish music - and there are few figures more consquential or vital to our island than Wicklow's Roger Doyle, who kindly sat for a chat about his discography. daily.bandcamp.com/features/rog... #spéirghorm #ireland

Oh, that's just me and @ailsy.bsky.social, top of the bestsellers at our local @dubraybooks.bsky.social. Signed copies of 'Have I Got Your Attention?' are available in Dubray's Cork and Dublin outlets, and non-signed copies are everywhere now! #spéirghorm #ireland

Is Bluesky scut-acting for anyone else? #spéirghorm #ireland

It would be a mega-driver of my self-esteem...

here in Ireland Wicklow County Council did it for the car park at county buildings back in 2022. no reason why we shouldn't have them everywhere

Oh, that's just me and @ailsy.bsky.social, top of the bestsellers at our local @dubraybooks.bsky.social. Signed copies of 'Have I Got Your Attention?' are available in Dubray's Cork and Dublin outlets, and non-signed copies are everywhere now! #spéirghorm #ireland

I love how Ray d'Arcy, a lovely fella by all accounts, is positioned as some sort of frothing, irrational contrarian to the righteous and necessary work of [checks notes] the Iona Institute. The money must be drying up! #spéirghorm #ireland

The first ever Strand-type supermarket

There is nothing you will read today that is more important than this. Maith thú @louthforever.bsky.social. #spéirghorm #ireland

"The left has one job in the months ahead, and it is not to run their play from the other side of the pitch. It is to name what it would build, who it would build it with, and by what methods."

Lelia resigned from RTE way back in 1968, along with Bob Quinn and my late grandfather Jack Dowling. Here they are on the Late Late Show: www.rte.ie/archives/exh...

Yes. Saw this years ago and thought I'd imagined it - a documentary on the Irish basketball craze of the 1980s. youtu.be/awAgOu0B9MA

2,000 Striking Ambulance Staff To Be Ignored By Government Unless They Can Shutdown Country's Transport Network https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/04/14/2000-striking-ambulance-staff-to-be-ignored-by-government-unless-they-can-shutdown-countrys-transport-network/

Called it. #spéirghorm #ireland

I kind of love how nobody who's ever met the man has anything nice to say about Perennial Loser John McGuirk. I met him once, when he excitedly told the room how he thought Rome: Total War was the greatest video game ever and we were all like "yeah you fuckin LOOK like one of those cunts alright"

"Join us as we protest for improved healthcare, expanded legal rights, and a better, more inclusive Ireland for all!” 🏳️‍⚧️ Read 👉 buff.ly/aWMtXxo #GCNnews

My newest for @bandcamp.com Daily. One of the privileges of my work is to document Irish music - and there are few figures more consquential or vital to our island than Wicklow's Roger Doyle, who kindly sat for a chat about his discography. daily.bandcamp.com/features/rog... #spéirghorm #ireland

My prediction: the Cute-Hoor Technical Group votes confidence in the government in the end, because the vast bulk of their whole deal is Fuck Ye, We've Got Ours. Some of them will be electorally banjaxed forever, but not enough to warrant them jettisoning their pensions. #spéirghorm #ireland

His local Tesco will hate to see him coming.

You know, if government has actually been, you know, like, *doing* things to reduce our dependence on petrochemicals for the past decade plus instead of mediocre half measures, they could have avoided this.

Floodgates have been opened "Fuel tax cuts will be factored into pay negotiations with Government over the next year, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has said, in response to the Government's package of aids to the fuel industry." #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

You can probably support the working class and demand support for people who are struggling because of capitalist inequality and also not pretend massively bigoted rhetoric and action isn't happening or being Trojan-horsed in under the guise of taking down those in power, by the way. Just a thought.

Good times.

Half a billion of god's euros could have been used to improve EV charging infrastructure across the country to make it viable for more hauliers to switch to electric trucks and never worry about fuel again

Just saw @newschambers.bsky.social share this on insta. Was thinking about this earlier, I used to work in the community as a nurse looking after children with life limiting conditions ... the last few days would have been v difficult. I hope Govt aid nurses with fuel costs #SpeirGorm #Spéirgorm

Irish Instagram is quietly radicalising adults, and it's not teenagers you should be worried about. From nostalgia reels to rage-bait algorithms, here's how ordinary feeds are reshaping Irish political opinion.. Read now on Goosed.ie 👉 goosed.ie/news/how-iri...

Ireland’s COVID lockdowns were prolonged & severe because (thanks to decades of mismanagement and underfunding of or Health service) we had the lowest per capita of ICU beds in the EU. The energy crisis will be particularly severe here, and @tupped.bsky.social explains why…

Reminder that when GPAHE sounded the alarm about the rise of the far right in Ireland some years ago, the chief opinion writers of two national newspapers got together to have a good laugh about it on twitter, mostly because Gript & TERFS were included as far right.

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼 #Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism 🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d

Ireland's continuing lack of awareness of the presence of global far-right influence/activism in Ireland literally keeps me awake at night

"There's not a fucking oil truck moving in this country until we get what we want because if we can't afford it, they can't fucking have it. "We have the country by the balls!" Christopher Duffy, not even slightly fascist, addressing a rally in Dublin. And by "they", or course he means "You".

I see Malacy Steenson turned up at the protests in Dublin. Asked about far-right infiltration he said "certainly not. Where are they?" Ten seconds after that he was on his usual hate filled rant about asylum seekers and Muslims 🤷‍♀️ #SpeirGorm

The Muslim Sisters of Éireann are among the best of us. How many of these "Irishmen" fed the homeless over the last two days? To abuse these wonderful people that feed THEIR OWN (the ones they say we should look after first) is moronic and makes them look like fools, and worst of all, ANTI-Irish.

Today! @bandcamp.com Daily! Essential Releases! A few words on the new @fixitymusic.bsky.social, ahead of vinyl release and launch gigs. #spéirghorm #ireland daily.bandcamp.com/essential-re...

Disabled ppl have been protesting the Irish govt for €400 to help with the cost of living crisis after cuts last budget that went to hospitality sector tax cuts A few right wing business owners block traffic because they own heavy machinery, suddenly the govt has hundreds of millions of euro spare

"allowed a bull to become trapped between a pillar and concrete wall where it died, records state." Jesus www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

What a surprise.

During the Great Famine, John Milton Niles of Connecticut declared in the U.S. Senate that “Charity begins at home" as he argued against the U.S. Government sending direct aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. The ignorance and selfishness of this ‘protest’ is beyond belief.

I've got my conspiracy board out again desperately trying to find a connection between: "Gardaí escort far right harassers into library" "Far right board bus of refugees to headcount them" "Far right blockade runs unchallenged for months" & "Far right shut country down for several days unchecked"