I've spent the last few days (ok, nights in the pub) with cousins who I haven't seen in a few years but they were always there when we were kids. The laughing, craic and slagging has been something else. We really have the best memories with them, don't we? #Speirgorm

This is why science matters! What an amazing breakthrough!

The far-right Irish Freedom Party has lost its official status as a political party after the Registrar of Political Parties moved to cancel its registration today jrnl.ie/7079220

so sick and burnt out last week I missed my own Irish Examiner op-ed on how communities have organised to resist the far right and repair the damage left behind once politicians have lost interest and the press have moved on to the next story www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Two women went to the police knowing it would mean a public ordeal, and today a jury believed them on every count. A former DUP leader stands convicted of child sexual abuse and rape. The word tonight belongs to them, and to the courage it took to be heard. #Spéirghorm

Can confirm that no trouble is expected this evening in Belfast after Jeffrey Donaldson was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting two children.

I could not be happier for those two women today. Their strength and courage is just amazing. I hope they find comfort now. I wish the perpetrators nothing but misery. #Speirgorm

It's not too late to donate to this brilliant fundraising effort for #IrishDogsForTheDisabled. Link in the posts👇 #Speirgorm

They brought these procedures in in the first place because trans women kept dying. Oh well I guess women who are trans deserve to be raped and die in men's prisons in Britain.

Lads!!! I'm still absolutely buzzing after @emmalangfordmusic.bsky.social's (the trio) gig in Kilkee last night. A must see (and hear) if they're anywhere near you! The song with lots of swearing went down well 😉 #Speirgorm

TDs who voted against removing the three-day waiting period for those who seek an abortion:

70 seats occupied by people who attempted to subvert the mandate given to the legislature on this issue. 70 people who do not trust women. 70 people who ignore experts. I'm literally fucking begging you, particularly if you're a woman. Join a party. Stand for election. Take their seats. #Spéirgorm

#OtD 18 June 2017, a new sculpture in Midleton, Ireland, was dedicated to the Native American Choctaw nation, in recognition of support from the Choctaw people during the great famine in 1847. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9014...

Tonight will be a difficult one for partners who experience violence connected to football. Contact: National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247（Open till 10pm) Samaritans: 116 123　(24/7) National LGBT Domestic abuse helpline: 0800 999 5428 (however this is only open till 4:30pm)

Changes to accessing emergency accommodation are a cynical attempt to massage homelessness figures. To make matters worse, it's a symptom of this govt's pandering to rising anti-immigrant sentiment. One thing is certain: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael still are not taking the housing crisis seriously.

"Mirror journalist asks why violence committed by white men never seems to matter" www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

For my #Calling353 piece in @thejournal.ie this week I had a look at the phrase "legitimate concerns" over time. www.thejournal.ie/calling-353-...

Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.

Another great piece from @louthforever.bsky.social #Speirgorm

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

This is how @bbcnews rewrite a story about the NHS forcibly detransitioning trans kids . Full of terf phrases. The BBC has no interest in the 50+ deaths since puberty blockers and hrt were withdrawn - or Wes Streeting’s conversion therapy. Guessing the parent group mentioned is religious.

Starting out for another day, heading back North East to make up some more Kms over the next few days. Thank you all again for all the donations. #PushNorth #IrishDogsForTheDisabled #MappedBy #SplashMaps #KeepingUpTheKs

🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Moving the Ireland-Israel game to a neutral venue isn't a solution. It's cowardice. A neutral venue does not make a neutral game. FF in government have prevented football matches going ahead before, like in 1999. They have a chance to do the right thing again. It’s not too late. Stop the game.

I'm really fuming. I'd love to ask those 78 TDs to look at their families and friends. Then I'd ask them to ask those people what they think of the way they chose to vote last night because these days in Ireland we all know at least one survivor, or we are one. #Speirgorm

Ireland must not play Israel in the UEFA nations league. #StopTheGame

@louthforever.bsky.social has written another excellent essay. Well worth a read. #Speirgorm

A genocide cannot be met with silence. If the Government believes action is needed, it must show leadership and act on that belief. Ireland should stand on the side of human rights and accountability.

As expected, the Dáil has voted down a motion from Sinn Féin calling for the boycott of the Republic of Ireland’s Nations League games against Israel. TDs instead backed a countermotion saying it’s “the role of the FAI to decide to fulfil” the fixtures and the govt acknowledges its independence

Oh boy, I'm waiting to see exactly who those 78 are. I'm fuming! Jim O'Callaghan is a disgrace. He does nothing to protect any vulnerable people in our society. #Speirgorm

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya in court in Jerusalem today “I am a pediatrician. I provide medical care to patients, the injured, and vulnerable people in the Gaza Strip. I have carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary.”

Cracked the halfway point. Thank you so very much everyone who’s donated so far to an awesome charity. 2 weeks of hard yards coming up to push to the South Coast. #SoloAcrossIceland #IrishDogsForTheDisabled #MappedBy #SplashMaps

Sky News correspondent just said "there's a sense of a community coming together in the aftermath of what happened here." He should have said that it was a community coming together that caused it too. #Belfast #Speirgorm

An extensive suite of measures is needed to address the financial precarity of caring. Thousands of carers have been forced to cut back on heating and eating in order to provide for some of our most vulnerable people. The cost of care has become unmanageable. @eoinhayestd.bsky.social

We do not want our Nations League home game against apartheid Israel moved, we want it boycotted! Moving the game is still crossing the Palestinian picket line, still sportswashing genocide, all while taking away our right to protest. Just #StopTheGame 1🧵

Ye spineless cunts. Ye dirty, despicable, sportswashing cunts. Moving it to Hungary? Don't go, don't support it, don't watch it, an empty stadium, fuck this shit. Hope the players stand up. We only need 1 player to say no,the rest will follow. Be a good footballer or be a great human.

Moving the game is not the answer. The FAI must not play Israel, there is a longstanding Palestinian call for a sporting boycott of the apartheid state. Moving the game is still crossing the Palestinian picket line while taking away our right to protest. Just #StopTheGame

Friedrich's Ataxia has been in the news a lot over the past week. @niamhnih.bsky.social wrote this piece about it for us in January. She, too, is waiting for Skyclarys. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The nation quite literally holds its breath. This is far more important than the FAI seems to realise. #StopTheGame #Speirgorm

Boycott Allianz leaflet

Heads up. @noelf is back with a new account and he's as vile as ever. #Speirgorm

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They could genuinely refuse to play the match. It genuinely could make a difference. It genuinely could spark action from others. Maybe it wouldn’t, but it could. Doesn’t that feel worth it?

🥳 We absolutely love to see it! Eurovision viewing figures *plummet* by 35 million due to the five countries boycotting and so so many viewers saying no thanks to the artwashing of apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians. We'll keep campaigning until the EBU expels Israel. #BoycottEurovision

Eoin Lenihan who styles himself as an influencer-academic is really just a dishonest grifter - great piece. #speirgorm.

Just a reminder, please register if interested/coming! #sociology #emosoc

I'm speaking at this event in Maynooth University next week, if anyone's around: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/arts-and-hum...

I never watched Buffy but I waited for next ad to drop to see how their romance was going to play out. #Speirgorm