Scarlet indeed. But, also, I feel they fail to account for the degree to which we can be a nation of awkward f**ckers when someone gets our back up. And I think Progress Ireland might just have done that.

Excellent piece by Andrew Jackson, UCD Law School: On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse” elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

My feelings around this are... Duh? But then again, some people think that small, dark apartments are apparently the solution to the housing crisis.

Pushers, written by and starring Rosie Jones, is some of the best TV I've watched in ages. Genuine laugh-out-loud comedy with some really important messages about disabled community. The crips help crips scene = perfection. youtu.be/_pqKGw6xOD4?...

I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...

When disabled activists say that our disability doesn't exist just in our bodyminds but in society's failure to accomodate them, we aren't just describing how we think disability works, we are making a demand for a world that treats people better.

"The research is so flawed and inconclusive that ECT would have absolutely no chance of obtaining MHRA approval in the UK, or FDA approval in the USA, if it were introduced today." Users and survivors of psychiatry have been talking about their experiences of ECT for years. But we needed a study...

The couple have been in a relationship for *two decades* but had to suffer this indignity. Glad the application was dismissed, but concerning to see the Court proposing a test that many of us would not be able to pass. Not sure I knew the ‘potential consequences’ of marriage when I headed into mine.

Really sad to hear that Alice Wong has died. A brilliant activist and writer who made the world a better place.

Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.

“...people are being held three or even four to a cell, little bigger than a car parking space, with one sleeping on a mattress on the floor. All of them confined in this space next to an open toilet... for up to 23 hours a day. This is inhuman, degrading, and unworthy of Ireland in 2025.”

Dóchas go scaipfidh sampla an Chéad Saoránaigh i leith na Gaeilge ar fud na seirbhíse poiblí. Meastar go bhféadfadh an tUachtarán nua dearcadh níos dearfaí i leith na teanga a spreagadh ar fud na seirbhíse poiblí tuairisc.ie/dochas-go-sc...

‘Given our history, the normalisation of war and genocide has never been and will never be acceptable to us.’ - From the inauguration speech of the tenth president of Ireland. president.ie/en/media-lib...

"The housing crisis will end when steps are taken to end it. It will end when entire streets’ worth of houses can’t be bought up by vulture funds, it will end when short-term rentals such as Airbnbs are banned or heavily restricted, .." www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.

Remembering Rosalind Franklin. Attribution matters and Watson and Crick weren't the only contributors to the discovery of DNA.

“Interrogating the arguments for small homes as a solution to the Irish housing crisis “The paper critically interrogates main justifications & argues role of small homes as a potential solution to Irish housing crisis is overstated” new research-Dr Mark Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Absolutely devoured Midwinter of the Spirit, an ITV production now on Netflix. I'm shook to learn there's a whole book series that was never adapted. I want multiple series of Revs. Huw and Merrily trailing across Herefordshire using the bones of Tommy Canty (St.) to banish evildoers.

Look, Galway in the summer is, in theory, wonderful. But for me there are just too many people about. Galway in the Autumn. That's my time of year.

"I do not find worthiness in virtue I no longer try to be good It didn't keep me safe Like you told me that it would." Sympathy Magic by Florence + The Machine is glorious. youtu.be/wRfet_VLbzU?...

Smaller homes with no daylight are not a solution to the lack of affordable housing. Neither is excluding disabled people through an exemption on the requirement to have a lift in a four storey building. Tells me all I need to know about this think tank. progressireland.org/the-blueprin...

I've said thsi before but the normalisation of the concept of the "Nazi phase" is grim as fuck. Most people do not have a phase of their life where they are Nazis actually. Fascism is not a fucking developmental stage, it's an ideology that you choose to engage with.

Recent Aras elections saw multiple candidates get through process via Oireachtas or local authority support - 1997 had 5 candidates, 2011 had 7 and 2018 had 6. There is no need to change the system because the 2025 motley crew were late to process, poor quality or not serious about running at all.

as we look towards Galway West, a reminder that Independent Ireland's 2024 candidate, Noel Thomas, has been consorting with a seditious group of conspiracy theories who claim to be Ireland's legitimate government and are trying to set up their own courts www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Má tá vóta agat in Éire inniu, úsáid é! Tá na hionad vótála oscailte go dtí a 10. ——— If you have a vote in Ireland today, use it! Polling stations stay open until 10. #áras25 #spéirghorm

A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Ireland is mentioned three times by the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in her latest report on the genocide in Gaza: ⚫ For the transfer of weapons from the United States to Israel through Shannon airport ⚫ For trade - importing over $3 billion of dual-use integrated circuits from Israel

Longstanding and systemic violations of international law by Israel against the Palestinians have been “facilitated through Third States’ direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation”.

“Rural pursuits” consist of the following: being cold indoors, having a preference about how turf is stacked, being nosey and having no public transport. Rural pursuits do not include galloping a pony across a farmer’s land in the wet and cold with the intention of having a dog kill a fox

Just spit out my breakfast in the middle of Morning Ireland as RTE says something vague about the "cab file" rule and then says that the truth lies somewhere between Catherine Connolly and Fine Gael's position. Reader, barristers are not their clients. Full stop: www.lawlibrary.ie/statement-fr...

I had completely forgotten about this. Give it a listen...it's fucking glorious. Damn I'm gonna miss this guy... youtu.be/WwvMNkCruGw #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm #Áras25

Can anyone recommend a podcast to accompany a #TwinPeaks rewatch, please? Episode by episode, autistic/obsessive hosts preferred. KidB (first timer) is finally ready. #SpeirGhorm

Looking forward to hosting Michael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, for a guest lecture on the role of his office. Thursday 30th October @uniofgalway.bsky.social - registration now open. www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

Conference on public interest litigation and access to justice organised by @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social on 14th & 15th November 2025. Link to full conference schedule and registration portal will go live later today:

I can't but if you can please do! #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Well this was a joy to read. "The distinction some people seek to make between their persona as a living human being and their persona as a fictitious non-living legal entity is not one recognised in Scots law, or indeed in any other jurisdiction we are aware of."

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 12,000 blood donations over the next four weeks as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

I'm a bit late sharing, but I read one fiction book in September. PhD is wrapping up, so not much surplus brain space. But I could not put it down once I started reading Sunrise on the Reaping. Great book, although, can I say, poor Haymitch! He has a tough time in this one. 5⭐ #BookSky

Translation: farmers vote for us, and we can't reduce our greenhouse gas emissions without doing something about the cows. Talk about unimaginative. Failure to mitigate climate change means you are hanging out to dry anyone who relies on our temperate climate to make a living.

It would be a positive side-effect of this election cycle if this issue got some sympathetic attention.

Sharing given Irish political discourse today. "The rule means that barristers cannot discriminate between clients, and that they must take on any case provided that it is within their competence, they are available and appropriately remunerated." share.google/aXe7xny8t9xf...

Autism hive-mind: does anyone have a sense of the etymology / origins of 'meltdown' as a metaphor for autistic overwhelm? When it was first used / popularized as an analogy? Whether it was a community-originated term, or a medical one? Particularly influential deployments that lent it currency?

The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

I mentioned that some of them simply weren’t true, and @eilymay.bsky.social had the best response: “why would you let something like the truth stand in the way of being a hater?”

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25

Not about America - there is a small island across the Atlantic, you may have heard of it - Ireland - there is a presidential election on at the moment (yes we have elections too) and one of the candidates is a man named Jim Gavin - this post is about that #speirgorm indicates Irish related content

Worth reading in its entirety.

I was feeling rather anxious yesterday as our first storm since Éowyn approached. #StormAmy appears to be upon us, and I'm hoping it's not as destructive. Thermos has been filled with boiling water, and battery packs are charged if we lose power. Just got to ride it out now!