First time I've turned on the heating eeekkk it's gonna be a long season ❄️

They've lost the 9yos

OH! MY! GOD!

And a good scientific night to you!

Spoiling your vote is such a stupid form of "protest" (putting protest in quotation marks as it doesn't even feel worthy of being called one)

I feel like as soon something is called 'a system' all the individuals in that 'system' become less accountable

In fairness to Maria Steen it's a tough tightrope to walk to find nominees who hate women enough to support the Iona Institute but not so much that they wouldn't nominate one.

The most perfect ending to #TraitorsIRL 🥂👌

www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig... I feel like this is such a sign of a new Ireland when this new potential saint's sisters are actually really put out by the whole thing.

Eh, I can personally attest to the fact that you can’t actually say “whatever the fuck your want” on RTE 🤷🏼‍♀️

Can you make a living as a writer? Join us Nov 4 as we explore the art of writing for a living, with our panel of writers and editors Naoise Dolan, Martin Doyle and Lisa McInerney, in conversation with journalist Gemma Tipton 🎟️ bit.ly/3IAMYZa

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK & US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these times beyond proof 'we have always been here'? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/queer-histor...

I can stand up in a room of people and tell them my secrets but I can't ask a barista if they could fill my water bottle please lol

Catherine Connolly may not be the 'perfect' candidate for president, but she'll still be getting my vote. We need to build a viable alternative coalition to FF-FG, and as the preferred choice of a united opposition, Connolly represents exactly that. share.google/mL0DS53POT5z...

Jim Gavin and Heather Humphreys are right-wing. Brenda Power knows this. What she’s arguing for is a right-wing socially conservative candidate and that’s fine. But can we stop conflating watery performative social liberalism with socialism?

Under the bonnet of my car's POV.

Google be making cute little '3 years since' and it's something like this 😭😂😶‍🌫️

Queen

"Israeli soldiers were targetting particular parts of the body on particular days. One day, it was head and neck. One day, chest. One day, legs. One day, testicles. Target practice. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes." - Dr Nick Maynard speaking in Cork. #speirgorm

President Higgins says Israel should be expelled from the UN, and that countries should not trade with a nation involved in genocide.

Today, September 13, women in England march through the streets of London against racism and fascism. #AntiRacismDay #Resist #Pinks

Can't believe I'm back wearing a blanket at the desk already, September is merciless. ❄️

As it's happened again, starting to wonder if any career path other than the arts makes people who ask what your job is immediately try to convince you that you'd be better off not doing it. Serial killer, maybe.

The 4th annual Circling the Square Festival comes back to The Source Arts Centre! ⌚31 October - 2 November 🎭The Source Arts Centre, Thurles 💷Tickets: €14.00-€17.50 💸Book your tickets here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/cir...

Definitely feel like revenue should send out little 'I did it stickers' or lollipops after self-employed people file their taxes 🥱

Forever swimming in an ocean of links to dead poets when I google anything to do with poetry. Poets are like dinosaurs in the mainstream really aren't they, extinct.

But for real, shout out to Julia Roberts’s media training when that whack reporter asked a racist ass question and shout out to Andrew Garfield turning his whole body in disgust and Ayo Edibiri for answering a disingenuous question the way it needed to be answered.

Every time I have to do garda vetting, I say to myself 'I'll keep all my previous addresses somewhere for the next time' and I never do and end up again on Google Maps trying to figure out if that house or that house was the mouldy one I was a lost, little student in. 🫠

there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good

Don’t know who took this photograph but it’s a whole play in a picture. The look she’s giving the cop. The look of “I’m ignoring you with closed eyed disdain” in the officer’s face. The guy in the middle who appears to be saying “Aaaaawkwardddd”

'If he were minister, what's the first thing he would do? In reference to the controversial departure of the head of the Arts Council he says: "I would apologise to Maureen Kennelly."' Colm Tóibín in @irishtimes.com 👏

This this this ⬇️

For all the years that Linehan had been *obsessively* targeting trans people (such that he’s been in court over it, he’s been warned be police over it, he’s lost his career and family over it…) the media have never shown *any* interest in speaking to his victims. None. Zero. They simply don’t care

whose marginality is the source of her power. The lecture is free to attend and will take place online via Zoom on Monday 10 November 2025, 7:00pm GMT. Register now: bit.ly/Seuss25

Calling all arts managers and producers 📣 Next week, we're hosting a workshop with Safe to Create and Migrant Rights Ireland to help arts orgs support and employ migrant artists 🌎 🗓 Wed 10 Sept | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Online Book here: safetocreate.ie/training/wor...

Delighted to be reading at Ó bhéal go béal in Cork next Monday. Poems from the new and newest books, featuring some Seán Ó'Ríordáin and some birds

The website for Circling The Square is now online. You can see full details of the festival, links to the poets' websites and information about the founding of the festival here: circlingthesquare.weebly.com @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @maryodonnell.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social

It’s my Gran’s birthday today (84!) Here’s an oil painting I did of her a few years back during lockdown #oilpainting #artist

happy labor day! all value is created by labor and all profit is stolen.

Writers Sarah Clancy and Naoise Dolan to sail with the flotilla setting sail today. www.thejournal.ie/aid-flotilla...

"I think individualism is starting to come apart a little.” Hoping.

Am over-sharing in the echo echo echooooo ✨✨✨✨ www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...

Have you seen this hornet? Nest seen in sycamore tree on south side of Cork city. Sightings to be reported to NPWS. www.rte.ie/news/2025/08...

Think Vona Groarke is amazing tbh and am so delighted she's Ireland chair of poetry.

So delighted to be selected for @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025, and really looking forward to it. Congratulations to all those selected. Thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for selecting me.

Am reading for a literary journal & am a real / sucker / for / poems / that frequently use / a slash / / / / /

Sigh! With the state of politics in 2025 this is just what we need now; a resurfacing brown envelope gombeen man! I hope the young generation realises he and his governments laid the foundations for the current housing crisis they are suffering through #speirgorm

Watching The Biggest Loser doc and seeing the Serena Williams GLP-1 ad and the responses to each is an incredible lens through which to chart (dis)continuities in body and fitness culture Big changes in science, some in language, NONE in fetishization of hard work and thinness as unquestioned goods