Don't know if I can do another 15 minutes of this...the nerves. 😬 #CZEIRL #COYBIG

In Irish tradition, a bean feasa (“wise woman ”) was a healer and seer who worked with herbs, lore, and the wisdom of the land. Biddy Early was one of the most famous. Denounced by some clergy as a witch, she was brought to court but never convicted. #vss365 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

'Why is it always the women that get punished?' Link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dublin, Thursday 26th, 6.30pm, Pearse Centre, public talk: Genocide, Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing and Suppression in Historic Palestine with Rula Nasr-Mazzawi. #FreePalestine

The rest of the world should be warning their citizens about the risks of travelling to the USA. There are too many similarities between the current US regime and that of Germany in the 1930s. #speirgorm @cnn.com

Dan Lambert on Kneecap and (Bohs) youtu.be/2OJByxR_X-o?...

No Group Chat tonight? @virginmedianews.bsky.social I was looking forward to the usual catch-up on the week's news and hoping that @newschambers.bsky.social would give a nod to the new LOI season kicking off - with a special mention of Bohs v Pats on Sunday in Lansdowne Rd. ♥️🖤#speirgorm

Quelle surprise. 🤷‍♀️ Well done @wereontheditch.bsky.social

President Donald Trump said the US used a weapon he referred to as a "discombobulator" to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this month, but a senior US official said he's likely conflating tools used by the US military. https://cnn.it/4jZkjer

@jimsciutto.bsky.social You just talked about your president's designs on Greenland calling it a 'territorial acquisition'. The word 'acquisition' implies something transactional within which each party gains something. Please don't sanitise it, language is important. This would be an invasion. #CNN

2026 Told To Wind Its Neck In Or Else https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/01/19/2026-told-to-wind-its-neck-in-or-else/

I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

Nail on the head @newschambers.bsky.social Our government is so terrified of offending Donald Trump - and by extension, Elon Musk - that their response to Grok, and Venezuela, and the threats to Greenland, is just appeasement. And remember where that got Europe in the late 1930s. #speirgorm

Guinness was not a bit impressed with his bow tie and tux from Santa. 🤭

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

Tuesday 9am update on #StormBram as storm starts to hit with strong and damaging gusts ahead. Watch video for latest

Brilliant thread. 🤣

Today is two years since Israel murdered writer, educator and activist Professor Refaat Alareer in Gaza. In memory of him and the thousands of beautiful Palestinians whose lives were stolen by the apartheid state, we keep fighting for freedom, justice and equality for Palestine. Let's it be a tale..

Delighted to see the announcement from #RTE that Ireland won't participate in the Eurovision next year. Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands also boycotting. Big 👏👏👏 to them. #BDS #Gaza #Speirgorm 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

“It always starts with art and then it ends in real estate.” @emmetkirwan.bsky.social

He wasn't such a Sensible Simon when he signed off on the new children's hospital, was he? Who's the hypocrite? #speirgorm

So it seems the claim of 30% increase in judicial review in 2025 was based on the number to 26 June & *a guess* at a number for July to Dec (which wasn’t fact checked & is wrong) .. & that erroneous claim is the entire justification for govt plan to limit access to the courts #Speirgorm #Planning

Herzog was born in Belfast, grew up in Dublin and left for Palestine in 1935 at the age of 17. He was heavily involved in what were considered by the British as Zionist terrorist activities. While he is a well known Irish Jewish person to conflate his life as rep of ‘Irish Jewish’ is problematic.

Spineless, gutless coward.

Whoever the cabinet minister that is quoted here is, who thinks Palestinian children aren't still being murdered because they don't see it on the 9'O Clock News, is not fit to sit at a tidy towns committee table, not to mind the cabinet table. #IrishPol

You would think that someone with a degree in history would understand that renaming a park cannot and will not erase any history of any community or group, similarly to how the taking down statues of slavers has not erased the history of slavery! #speirgorm

December 17th meet at Bohs 🏃

Why? Why bring party politics into it? There are more than enough Irish writers, artists and poets to choose from. James Joyce? Samuel Beckett? Patrick Kavanagh? W.B. Yeats? Harry Clarke? John Lavery? Or what about naming it after a woman? Radical, eh? #speirgorm

🪧 New apartments for sale Manchester 2-bed £299,995 (€341,000) Belfast 2-bed £189,950 (€216,000) .. & yet according to Dept of Housing urban apartments cost €535,198 to deliver in Dublin 🧐

I wish Tony O'Donohoe would just leave Troy Parrott to enjoy his moment. #COYBIG

What a sunset. #speirgorm

RTÉ news : FAI to bring motion to UEFA ban Israel from Euro competition www.rte.ie/sport/soccer... #Spéirghorm

Hey kids, we are a small Irish family business. We make lovely things by hand. Could you buy something so we can pay for our Christmas packaging? Thanks a mill. #Boycottamazon #shoplocal slated.ie Reposts would be fabulous. #SLATED

No. It definitely exists. I'm still traumatised from my late mother's efforts to force feed it to me and my Dad - a man of Portarlington origin. Her other house speciality was tripe and onions. 🤮

Great letter in today's Irish Times highlighting our government's absolute refusal to reflect the will of the majority of people here who want sanctions on apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes against Palestinians. They promised they would enact the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill, where is it?

Just caught up with The Group Chat on +1 now and have to commend @newschambers.bsky.social for his comments on keeping a respectful space between journalists and politicians. Good to hear a discussion on an ethical approach to journalism expressed passionately and eloquently. We need it! #speirgorm

Art Auction for Palestine! Hyde Bridge Gallery Yeats Building Sligo. Viewing from November 22nd Auction 29th November ( mostly small works)

Well Niall/Neil/Noel has never been big on disclosure. #speirgorm

Message from FG HQ: Mission accomplished Agent Yates. You may return to base. #YatesGate

Dublin City Council has approved plans to borrow €34 million to help fund the redevelopment of Dalymount Park. jrnl.ie/6863851

Call for papers: Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939) Deadline for submission: 10 November 2025. Please share!

It's a two horse race, and Fine Gael are currently in third place #SpeirGorm #Áras25

Absolutely delighted for our @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social alumna, Catherine Connolly, on her likely election as President of Ireland! Gach rath ort, Catherine! #Áras25 (Photo by Aengus McMahon, taken at our conference on Replacing the Offences Against the State Acts in 2024)

An hour and a half after the opening of the boxes, we have senior govt. ministers conceding the election, live on national radio, congratulating Catherine Connolly. Such is the magnitude of the United Left victory ✊🏼 #Áras25

Hearing Connolly supporters were described as “MAGA like” on RTE. So we’re already at the ‘media blaming the voters for being too stupid to vote as they were told’ phase.

Two stories from #aras2025. Left unity and mainstream media dysfunction.

At the last minute, Simon Harris hinged FG's presidential hopes on the argument that "This country is not far left. This is a centrist country." So, now that the 'centrist' has been absolutely routed by 'far left' candidate... can we expect Simon Harris to reevaluate his idea of Ireland?