As a spoken language, Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees.

They love pulling out the attorney general to get them out of a pickle 🙄

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st... #Spéirghorm #Ireland #ChatControl

Attention humans. My Dublin listings spreadsheet has been updated. I have experimentally left the Everything tab sorted by date but the other tabs have the newly added things first. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #speirgorm #spéirgorm

Thanks for the shout out to #DerelictIreland by Martin Leahy on Opinion Line Come See Martin sing his famous #EveryoneShouldHaveAHome on Saturday #SpéirGorm

Have I mentioned that this ebook is FREE for the next five days? I know that the web is littered with free books, but this one normally costs money. #PucaFestival #Halloween #Samhain #SpeirGorm #Octocon2025

What businesses? Tell us so we can boycott them. #Speirgorm #otb #Irishpolitics

"I believe the idea that foreign investors would leave Ireland has been much exaggerated,” said @aliceeire.bsky.social, of the joint committee on foreign affairs and trade, who backs the inclusion of services. “What is the alternative? To reward profiteering in goods and services on stolen land?”

This seems like a wild move for the electoral commissioner? #aras25

Sarah Clancy and Chris Andrews have both been kidnapped by the IDF. Contact Dept of Foreign Affairs: Address: Iveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 VY53 Website: www.ireland.ie/dfa Telephone: +353 1 408 2000 #globalsumudflotilla

Ivan is 51, living in a nursing home because the gov can't be bothered to house people properly. The manufactured housing crisis is ruining lives

“Catherine is right. I was asked. I gave a strong recommendation. I see no problem with that and I’m surprised that anybody does,” Mr Ó Cuív told the Irish Independent. “My view at the time was that if you want to bring about peace, you have to take these steps. And time has proved me 100pc right.”

TCD: “Politics and sociology students said they are both leaning towards Independent Catherine Connolly as their preferred candidate. This is a choice which seems overwhelmingly popular among their peers on campus.” #Áras25 #Aras25 @catherinegalway.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Please sign this petition to support families living with #Huntington’s disease in Ireland. They have been neglected & failed for decades. Promises have been made - of care, of dignity, of action - but appropriate action has not been taken. #spéirghorm #Brain my.uplift.ie/petitions/hu...

There is a real story here Niall if you'd care to write about it, someone is leaking Garda vetting information for political gain. Breaching confidentiality and GDPR requirements. Every underage coach, every volunteers data is not secure. Confidence in vetting undermined. That's the story. #Aras25

It's wildly depressing how a few voices managed to cause so much harm and in cases deaths, of an already vulnerable community.

Because, regardless of the candidate helped or hindered , it is very bad news if the police intervening in elections by leaking intelligence or operational data passes without comment.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Sorry, but this is some old baloney. But also, I have GDPR questions about the emergance of this story.

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

This should be a truly massive scandal in the Jewish world. Obviously, many of us knew and assumed this was occurring, but the proof is now out there and it needs to be called out. We have US-based influencers pretending to speak for themselves but actually working directly for the Israeli govt.

Patronising the population is an interesting way to court voters. #aras25

No, we definitely did understand that the Care ref was going to enshrine in the constitution the expectation that disabled people would be cared for by relatives and that the government would have no binding responsibilities of their own towards us bsky.app/profile/caro... bsky.app/profile/caro...

Peaceful activists are dragged off boats at gunpoint for trying to feed Gaza. But the war criminals committing the genocide get applause in parliaments, billions in funding, and handshakes from presidents. We are watching pure evil live streamed.

‘You’re living on bread and marmalade if you’re lucky’ – elderly widow on struggle to pay bills as costs continue to soar Georgina Clarke (88) is faced with constant financial anxiety #Spéirghorm m.independent.ie/irish-news/y...

There were definitely a few Irish Citizens on the same boat as Greta Thunberg in the Global Sumud Flotilla for #Gaza that Israel have kidnapped. Now watch while the Irish government continues to try and water down and block the Occupied Territories Bill and refuse to sanction Israel. #Spéirghorm.

@bansheepress.bsky.social open for book submissions from 1-15 Oct 👇 (Pl read the sub guidelines.) bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

#Colombia President Gustavo Petro announces concrete steps in response to Israel's attack on #GlobalSumudFlotilla vessels. #BDS #R2P #StopIsraelimpunity t.me/QudsNen/189212

Irish academic and university staff across the island of Ireland have appealed to President Michael D Higgins to nominate Dr Francesca Albanese for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Gaza flotilla ‘illegally intercepted’ by Israel with soldiers boarding boats, activists say

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Every council should be doing this with all derelict buildings.

Why are we so bad at this?

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The death of a woman while detained in a garda station was one of the referrals made to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in 2024, according to its annual report

We urgently need more schools specifically for children with disabilities. Trying to make children with additional needs fit into neurotypical schools is cruel.

if a jogger was killed by someone driving a car, would it make sense to limit people's running speed?

The best summary I've heard in a long time about how the housing crisis is a result of FFFG decisions based on neoliberal ideology. #IrishPol #Áras25

I'm putting this out there now. I'm not accepting any austerity measures when the AI bubble bursts. The stupid fucks who thought a plagiarism-fueled magic 8 ball was the future of the economy can cover the cost of the fuckup this time. I will start fires before I endure service cuts.

We could all do with some good news.

So Ebay Ireland has suspended our store, deleted all the listings which took us hours to photograph and post. We appealed, but to no avail. The shop is permanently banned from ebay Ireland and they will not give us a reason why. They will also keep all the money from the sales for 120 days or more

This is an US based Etsy shop our kind friends from Wunderporium gifted us, in the hopes that an established shop won't get banned. But we are shipping from Ireland (free shipping for Irish folks) and we just guessed shipping costs for other countries, if they seem off just contact us ❤️

Ok, it's a bit of a wild question! But where could you get a life-size Mary Magdalene statue? Not the Virgin Mary. It must be Mary Magdalene.

Fuckin yikes, man

My sister is doing the Purple Run fundraiser in October for Down Syndrome Ireland if anyone can spare a bit! purplerun.ie/fundraiser/s...

How can they do that when they're paying over 50% on rent??