Why are we so quick to tell others what they should call themselves? ‘Empathy is a key element of our education system … listen to students and let your interactions with them be led by their needs, not your own ideology’. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (c. 1837–1930) fearless Irish-American schoolteacher turned labor organizer and fiery orator who championed the rights of workers, particularly coal miners, in the early 20th century "Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_...

Was just chatting with a taxi driver about this and it seems about 1000 taxi drivers have come together so far to create an alternative to the big apps. They hoping to bring more drivers in but they need people to use it. He asked that ppl try this app first! apps.apple.com/ie/app/tap-a...

Having a fossil fuel crisis reliably every 2-10 years is fine apparently but God forbid a single wind farm has an issue and it's wall to wall " RENEWABLES ARENT RELIABLE THOUGH?!?!"

Interview now available to listen online or download - starts at 29:30 @manchesterup.bsky.social player.talkradioeurope.com/ondemand/Tal...

“We do not publish exhaustive career histories alongside every piece,” said McConnell about an article calling for defence spending – written by a man who works for an arms consultancy that asks, “READY TO COMPETE MORE SERIOUSLY IN THE UK DEFENCE MARKET?” www.ontheditch.com/daniel-mccon...

every environmentalist who has for DECADES been saying we need to get off oil and gas, watching governments panic at this energy crisis

‘Why an Irish women’s group is now focused on immigration’ Good to show the misuse of stats and facts by these ring wing groups! Countess Markievicz must be turning in her grave at the use of her name by these people. #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...

The next #EDI lecture in the series will be on the Conradh na Gaeilge Archive. Come along and listen to @niamhnicharra.bsky.social talk about the Irish language rights, and the Irish language archival terminology project. Thurs March 26th at 1pm Tickets 🎟⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/ara-irela...

Haha, it's great that we're all waiting to see if the sitting President of the United States destroys the global economy tomorrow for no reason, right? This is fun. Love the suspense of all our lives hanging in the balance on the whims of an unstable, raging narcissist.

#DIBLives Born #OTD 1731, Elizabeth Rawdon's Dublin residence was described as ‘the gathering place of people of genius.’ In 1783 she was the 1st woman published in 'Archaeologia' when she submitted a discourse on the remains of a human skeleton discovered on her estate. www.dib.ie/biography/ra...

Not goin go to the US anytime soon … imagine coming across one of those ICE thugs in security. Could end up in some awful concentration camp in Louisiana … yeah, no not going.

‘Maureen FitzSimons (O’Hara) was born on August 17, 1920, in Ranelagh—a working-class suburb of Dublin, Ireland’. I read this and thought of all the ways AI got things wrong in the article, this is probably the most egregious .. for people in Ranelagh! 🤣😂🙃🙃🙃

This quote from Micheál Martin is striking but not surprising. It is fairly common among commentators of his age. But what did it really mean to live through the Troubles in Cork? I can imagine this sentiment is fairly offensive to people in Belfast or Derry. www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

To far right gobdaws defending ‘Irelands historical homogenous society’ a history lesson - do you know how many times we’ve been invaded or people came seeking safety - Huguenots for eg. Just take 1169 - Welsh, Normans, Flemings, English, Bretons etc landed on our shores & stayed. Homogenous, not!

Countries that are further along in their transition to renewable energy will get off easier in this upcoming recession. Meanwhile Ireland has Darragh O'Brien promising that we're going to miss our climate goals and face a multi-billion Euro fine on top of everything else. #speirgorm

Is it any wonder toxic masculinity and the manosphere continue to exist and infect young men when the fathers of the Paddy’s Day ‘Epstein float’ lads defend their actions as ‘a bit of fun’! A float that normalised rape of women and girls is ‘about of fun’ 🤬🤬🤬 #spéirghorm archive.ph/buLli?fbclid...

American dystopia? ‘The bill would also ban telehealth abortion care, or the ability to prescribe abortion pills via mail, and force women to use catch kits ― which stop any fetal remains from going down the toilet after ending a pregnancy ― and bring the medical waste to their physician’.

This is what ff/fg has enabled: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

In the UK, the House of Lords (also called Peers 🤔) voted to pardon women who had already been convicted of illegal abortion and to expunge police records of those arrested. This comes after the gov't decriminalized women in June. The anti-choice movement is furious women can't be jailed anymore.

I don’t usually share X stuff here but was sent this-what on earth happened to Naomi Wolf? A hissy fit about a great logo for the Paddy’s Day secular parade & festival … she’s retweeting the so called ‘Christian’ muppets, who are generally racist, anti migrant and transphobic, having hissy fits!

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Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

The UN reports over one million displaced in Lebanon as Israeli attacks escalate, with children accounting for one-third.

Stop normalising sexual violence as entertainment. NWC condemns the appalling inclusion of a float depicting the crimes of Epstein in a St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Co. Mayo. The float was offensive and deeply insensitive to victim survivors of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. #EndVAW

When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)

There is a protest at the Dáil tonight to show opposition to the shameful decision to concrete over the site of these atrocities with no regard for victims. I'll be there - come along! #SpeirGorm #Politics

Bessboro Mother & Baby Home: Between 1943 and 1944 there was a reported 82% infant mortality rate. Eight decades ago,the State abandoned a threatened investigation into the Bessborough mother and baby institution, despite the deaths of nearly 700 children. #spéirghorm www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

A system that would do this is not fit for purpose and must be either changed, repaired or abolished and replaced with something that puts human beings at the centre of it.

Yesterday some ‘Christians’ of this county were having a hissy because the President called Patrick a migrant & by his first name instead of Saint. Today those ‘Christians’ are delighted a new bill will make family reunification more difficult for migrants here. Patrick would be horrified by them.

If you want to read the full text of St Patrick’s letter where he cites ‘weep with those who weep’ - it is right here - www.confessio.ie/etexts/epist...

Could someone tell Maria Steen- the drunken hook ups are tradition! In 1681 ‘an English traveller, Thomas Dineley, reported that on March 17, people wore green & attached shamrocks to their clothing – that few could be found who were still sober by nightfall’. theconversation.com/who-was-st-p...

“As a neutral, independent country, a postcolonial society, & a people marked by famine & forced migration, we are uniquely placed to offer a valuable perspective on the challenges facing our world, not least war and displacement.” - Irish pres Catherine Connolly www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I didn’t get any details of the government sponsored hook up - where and when?

Happy Patrick’s Day all … except the war monger in the White House … may the bowl of shamrock whither and die in his hands! #stpatricksday2026

"The results are astonishingly clear. On rewilded land, biodiversity surged across the board, with the number of bird species up 261%. The variety of bumblebee and butterfly species more than doubled, their abundance increased over 10x." The cure for nature loss exists. share.google/w30RUdw1902W...

This is why we all voted for her

Feminism: don't put flowers on her grave just yet. (Not my title but definitely my essay.) Nicely timed to remind us all that Harvey Weinstein is not at the Oscars (and never will be again). On how change works and what it takes to actually perceive change.

‘The fringe women’s anti-immigration group … Excellent takedown on the misinformation, misuse of data, incorrect analysis of data, dangerous racism & deliberate ignorance of the women’s coalition on immigration .. a side hustle of the anti trans The Countess gang www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

So that you can go to the pub and talk angrily about how modernist architecture had been misrepresented by the lecturer with your friends. This is how you actually learn thing…

Happy Mothers Day to my mother Nancy - very proud of her three volumes of photographic memories of her home place - Ballylongford. I suppose I didn’t lick the interest in history from the stones! #happymothersday #mothersday2026

Woooo hoooo Triple crown winners - great match Ireland 🇮🇪

Fearmhíniú - love it! The word, that is, not the practice!!

#OTD in 1994, the man who raped a 14-year-old girl in the notorious Irish ‘X’ abortion case was sentenced to 14 years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting her, but the sentence was reduced to four years on appeal by the Court of Criminal Appeal. The man was later identified as Sean O’Brien

Oh just great - the tech bros are a such a serious danger to women’s rights and lives!

X, C, A, B, MZ: I’m thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

In an Irish Atlantic rainforest, a 'wolf' oak: the term for a tree much older than those all around. A grandmother tree, progenitor and nurturer of the ecosystem, she very possibly grew when – even because – wolves still hunted these parts. A nice twist on the word.

13th March 2022: New York-based Irish LGBTQ+ group, Lavender and Green, makes history by becoming the first queer group to march in the Bronx St Patrick’s Day Parade. #OnThisDay #Queerstory 👉 buff.ly/JgEOpC9

‘One woman was locked up ​o​n suspicion of being a lesbian – simply because she had written a letter discussing sexuality’ I have often wondered if this (suspicion of lesbianism) happened with women and girls incarcerated in Magdalen Laundries?