The resignation of Paschal Donohoe leaves three ministers starting new briefs just ten months into the Government’s term. His departure also triggers a by-election in Dublin Central, adding pressure to a coalition already facing a challenging electoral landscape. #VMNews

The Government has agreed to a statutory public inquiry into spina bifida and complex scoliosis services

This is the best single description of Black Friday I've come across

When you're watching a movie with your partner and his dad calls and sings ballads to him for 40 minutes... #OnlyInIreland #Speirgorm

Crazy we need to petition for autism services in schools but that's where we're at I guess. my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie

Bastards

Love this so much. 💜

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

There's a bill to ban hunting foxes with packs of dogs coming before the dail on Dec 17th. Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...

This is a long shot, but I'm in Limerick regional hospital with my mum and she'd be a lot more comfortable with an electric fan but the hospital doesn't have one to spare. Would anybody out there have one I could borrow? #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

“Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring ..restricting access to justice unlikely to speed up housing & infrastructure. What it will do is undermine one of few tools left to hold govt to account in midst of climate, biodiversity & pollution crises” www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...

God they'll do just about anything but build social housing and cap rents. Ffs

Whoop whoop!

On a day that saw our govt publish a housing strategy with no targets, benefiting business interests, CATU Meath were out knocking on doors talking to people about housing issues. We are all stronger together, and when we work together we can do so much than on our own. catuireland.org #spéirgorm

Gorgeous Museum of the Moon at Merrion Square tonight. I think it's on all weekend? Check before you go tho - I just happened on it. There was a live orchestra as well, it was all gorgeous ☺️

Spot on.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

“Globally, despite extreme heat, floods and devastating wildfires, populist leaders, some sceptical but others in outright denial about the science, are talking up the costs of action rather than the consequences of inaction.” 6 global mayors defying climate denying populists

‘That is cowardice’: Government lambasted by #Kildare rep for ‘delay in supporting #abusesurvivors’ #KildareNews #IrishGovernment #LocalPolitics #Ireland #Newbridge #IrishNews #NewbridgeNews #IrishPolitics

The only chart that matters when it comes to housing — Between 2019 and Q2 2025, planning permission for 329,637 units granted, but only 213,790 started. There’s no issue with zoning, no issue with planning. They are just not being built — except 2024, then the new government crashed that.

every company in 2025

Lad who works remotely from Lear Jets, tax-free Monaco and his Carribean compound has some views on the rest of us ...

Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew Then came the backlash. Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers. This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...

Am I the only one who thinks that the timing of this backsliding & heel-dragging about climate action is driven specifically by trying to appease Trump, by responding directly to his pushing of American LNG? Any concrete evidence? #SpeirGhorm www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Ahern gonna Ahern.

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

Good folk doing the right thing being treated like extremists. #climate www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly? m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

Lindsey Graham, who has received over $1M from AIPAC, was out within minutes of Ireland's FAI vote to suspend Israel from UEFA. He's far more interested in defending the genocidal state than his own constituents going hungry because of the shutdown in America #speirgorm #FreePalestine

“A searing account of the unequal process of JR’s, a system which often penalises the applicant and allows media to vilify those working for better outcomes.” open.spotify.com/episode/2E4P...

I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)

In case you missed it, wide-ranging and insightful. "there's actually a connection between global heating and the rise of fascism ... this like general sense of fear that things aren't going well, which makes a populace susceptible to authoritarianism" www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGeT...

“Irish housing system is speculative, volatile & expensive.. urban land system is dysfunctional: land is not available in appropriate locations at a cost that will allow affordable housing to be provided..housing affordability must be built into supply of housing” (2018) www.nesc.ie/news-events/...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social shows us how to fight back - without throwing ANY minority under the bus.

“When American organisations with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions fund UK litigation, there are legitimate questions about whether this serves British democratic interests” cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social

"The AI industry has been developed through hugely extractive and abusive behaviours."

I think it's possible for Ireland to be a compassionate country who provides for our most vulnerable & who offers asylum to people fleeing war/persecution. Very little I've seen from FFG convinces me they are the party who can oversee that Ireland though. In some places gov policy drives division.

Zines from Gaza Hear the words of people from Gaza. Despite the relentless efforts of Israel over nearly 100 years to silence Gaza it is a place where learning & literature flourish, where strong voices speak out - often at great personal cost. Subscribe. www.coastallinespress.com?r=1mkujo&utm...

"What should be occurring to us around this time, as we take stock of a prominent figure in politics and media, are questions like: ‘Did any of these people who pay Ivan Yates to share his opinion ask him if he had any conflicts of interest?’ Is that not a question we ask these people?"

1️⃣ "Analyzing documents from the 1920s, John Quigley brings into question the legality of the British “Mandate for Palestine,” which the UN in turn misinterpreted when partitioning Palestine and establishing the state of Israel in 1947-1948. Continue reading to get a closer look into the documents,

this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.

It's scandalous Irish Water is handing out millions in bonuses, it should be run as any other arm of the State is run.

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Solidarity with the strikers

'There are so many young women living in Ireland that have been subjected to FGM, and they are severely mutilated.' @Investigates.thejournal.ie reveals the long and painful wait Female Genital Mutilation survivors face for medical care in Ireland. www.thejournal.ie/female-genit...

Portiuncula Hospital has apologised to the family of Maria Fitzpatrick, who died in 2009 after two misreported smear tests. The High Court heard today that if Maria Fitzpatrick was referred for further investigation she "would be alive today". #VMNews

A European Parliament hearing on the housing crisis has heard testimony about the scale of homelessness and the lack of affordable homes across the EU, with one delegate describing a warehouse in Slovakia where 100 people sleep each night

It's all pretty disgraceful and disappointing

I hope this man never holds a position of power again. That poor child, this story is horrific.

Hello sunny Madrid!