I’m a member of a veteran farmers group. Political affiliation all over the map. We had a meeting on Sunday. Everyone agrees that they’re f*cked this year because fuel and fertilizer prices and shortages are destroying them.

Holy hell Cormac Lucey making incredibly intelligent remarks on Primetime Made excellent point that comments by a former Taoiseach were just "for effect", a nicer way than I'd put it but yea it was an obvious troll #speirgorm

Least fun part of spring, calves that need drips

Jaysus and the price of it!

There was never anything wrong with the voting machines, for some reason people just were less likely to vote FF in them. The millenium clock getting filled with sludge and breaking was a sign from the old gods of Eire to stop our decadent Celtic tiger ways before it was too late #speirgorm

After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute. [Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".

"It's the culchies creating a rural urban divide" In bogger land we have a phrase about kettles and pots This place has been littered with the most obnoxious snobbery & outright bullshit since the protests started. It's so bad even people who hated Leo are suddenly on his side #speirgorm

The government is talking through it's arse here. Aer Lingus and Ryanair hedge their fuel costs, like most airlines do. They're prepaid to the end of the year. Increase in fuel costs now change nothing! Shortages will be a major issue though, yes, but changes in tax do ZERO to help that. #SpeirGorm

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

⚡️ It is total nuts that data-centres use over 30% of the electricity in Ireland. Even more nuts that it’s forecasted to grow substantially. Even more 🥜 again is they pay 1/2 what everyone else does. Can we please stop listening to tech CEOs. They have one allegiance 💸 #spéirghorm #speirgorm

But what about all the landlords? Do you not care for small Irish "entrepreneurs"?! They need those contracts to feed their family, and their secret family, and the super secret family up in the big shmoke. Some even need it to buy new flat caps! #speirgorm

Holy shit the Dems are so bad at politics they're going to lose 2028 too aren't they?

Rumen Radev, a Russia-aligned former president, looks on course to win Bulgaria’s election today, but will need to team up with other parties to form a governing majority.

Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup. He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal. He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage. He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

More thoughts and prayers for #speirgorm as many who said essentially the same thing as our former Taoiseach now try to pretend their view of the protests isn't essentially the same as his.

the most interesting thing about this story is not the survey itself—which is a year old and has since been retracted over huge problems with the sample—but that media outlets keep trying to push stories of a massive religious revival among the young in absence of any evidence

Most developed countries have now submitted the 2026 editions of their formal greenhouse gas emissions inventories to the UNFCCC. You can check out how their 2026 edition compares to earlier editions on my website: robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou...

There is so much I cannot ever forgive Trump and Vance for, but their treatment and betrayal of Ukraine and boosting Russia is right up there at the top of the list.

I'm really really tired of articles that never mention main reason so much of our fruit/veg comes from North Africa & South Spain Its always about gov policy on dairy/beef contrasting with an idyllic vision of hort. Ignoring realities of exploitation #speirgorm www.aljazeera.com/features/201...

Sitting in my tractor agitating slurry before it's spread today listening to @philipb-h.bsky.social talking about an electric Fendt tractor and decided to do some sums with the help of Claude. When I started we were burning 15.5 lt/hr of diesel, it's dropped a little now

The Irish version is people who think this bleak dead brown nothing is ruined by a wind turbine #speirgorm

Exactly one year ago today:

Proper journalism here #speirgorm

We should be learning from other countries...

Whew sure am glad I don't live in an economy entirely based on companies like this and the jobs they create. Man it would suck if I had a government who'd hollowed out all indigenous industries in service of these companies too #speirgorm

Someone explain to me how with oil price this high we're still below where we were in June 2025 for gas price? I get its skyrocketing in Asia because of supply disruption but global supply isnt affected & Ireland definitely isn't. So maybe there shouldnt be scaremongering around 30% rise? #speirgorm

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Germany insisted on delaying phase out of combustion engine. Iran war caused energy shock, et voilà: BYD was one of the fastest-growing brands in Germany in Q1, with a 135% rise in purchase queries for the Chinese EV heavyweight during that period. www.reuters.com/busi...

Data centre operators successfully lobbied the European Commission to amend legislation intended to bring transparency to the continent’s booming data centre industry, a new investigation from @investigate-europe.eu and @investigates.thejournal.ie has revealed. jrnl.ie/7013368

"Generational landowners" Christ what is wrong with some of the urban Irish left? It's so much yank talk. There's Dubliners with houses worth more than average farms who post on this app constantly.

Defining "left" in rural terms is sometimes at odds with "left" in urban terms. Causes that the urban left have adopted are at odds or irrelevant to much of the rural left. The rural left who gets the most amplification nationally are often just left who happen to live rurally not community members

Searches for EVs on DoneDeal Cars have more than doubled since the outbreak of war in Iran. DoneDeal sid there has been a 125% increase in EV-specific searches on its site as drivers “look to insulate themselves from pump-price volatility”. jrnl.ie/7013379

The Field. Not many 10 yr olds had opinions on why the priest in that movie was the real villain...

the far-right is strongest in western europe, not eastern europe. italy literally has a neo-fascist prime minister ffs. but whatevs, yankee tankies need to paint as dire a picture as possible of eastern europe in an attempt to make their beloved stalinist states look less bad than they were.

There's a persistent myth that Ireland lost this glorious past of diverse market gardeners when the Irish had rich homegrown diets before big bad dairy and corporations took over. That's a completely ahistorical take & delusion of some from growing up in 50/60s. Truth is we went from #speirgorm

One of the measures: Promote and support social leasing schemes for clean technologies (e-vehicles, heat pumps, small-scale batteries) I’ve warmed up especially to this third category: it’s the giving someone a fish to feed them for a day vs. empowering them to feed themselves for a lifetime

Hormuz's closure has trapped one-third of global fertiliser supplies - Amid fears of a food crisis, for @ecfr.eu I explore how Moscow is applying its covid-19 vaccine diplomacy playbook to fertilisers in a bid to curry favour in the global south and secure sanctions relief ecfr.eu/article/sowi...

We're going to see Reform/Nige ( a Trump Superfan that wants to under cut oor farmers & food industry by flooding it with US imports ) on a Tractor or something as Farmers drive aboot in their tractors 🙄. Farmers, Reform aren't your friends.

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

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Spot on Like in principle many small/medium sized farms & their small/medium contractors are a socialist dream, proles who through collective action gained control of means of production. Collective ownership in coops to force better pay But 'big tractors is shiny' seems to invalidate this

Just remember when people say "where will the EU get all the money to do X". Here. This is where #EU #speirgorm

A small irony for those who followed Orbáns path that now Manfred Weber is celebrating Orbán's loss as a 'historic day for Europe' - while Weber for a long time played an important role in keeping Orbán/Fidesz in the EPP until 2021.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

You know shit is bad when financial reporters are like "Actually the stock market is full of irrational dipshits"

This is an actual paragraph that had to be written by an actual newspaper.

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Politico as every election approaches: “Here’s why the far-right might win!” Politico after each election: “here’s why the far-right’s crushing defeat is good news for the far-right!”