Amy Moran

The Irish state's role in housing today is to create scarcity. That is what the funds want. There is no such thing as a capitalist solution to a social necessity. Every time you blame a migrant for this crisis, a capitalist angel gets its wings.

A month salary for min wage in Ireland is €1,770-1,820.

#SpeirGorm
#HowIrelandWorks

Based on the number of people I’ve seen posting racist, far right content we should maybe ban the over 50s too.

Transgender people turning to DIY-healthcare due to lack of trust in National Gender Service The Journal Investigates heard from transgender people pushed into accessing healthcare outside the official channels

Many transgender people told our team they are being forced to pursue gender-affirming healthcare outside of the official channels due to serious issues with the National Gender Service

Self-medicating like this is known in the trans community as DIY HRT

jrnl.ie/6691757

PDF of kebab and chips

there's a local kebab place whose website claims to have a PDF of the menu, but when you open the PDF it's just a single photo of a kebab and chips

Spring 🌺💐🌼🌻🌸🪻

Hear me out: Barry Keoghan in a Ronnie O’Sullivan biopic

Once I went to a municipal beach club in Portugal where the council served beer, wine, food that you could eat on a sun lounger. Glad to see the notion of public luxury making its way to DCC gyms.

In an ever worsening housing crisis, SinnFein should be out chatting all day and all night about housing. What the Supreme Court says about a law that doesn’t apply anywhere on this island, should be none of their or our concern. Average rent in Belfast and Dublin is clean mad and getting worse

More than 50,000 staff now employed in Civil Service New figures show number of civil servants has increased by about 16,000 in last decade

"All sectors of the public service, except defence, now employ more people than in 2013".

Yeah it's almost as if the recruitment freezes, pressured retirements and other staff cuts during austerity were a bad thing that needed to corrected almost immediately?

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Register | Fingal Libraries

There is a free Netflix for libraries app, called Kanopy and its selection of films &TV is already better than most paid for streamers.

You can sign up to join Fingal Library online and then get an account on the Kanopy App.

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Can’t believe we’re getting mugged so badly. Last time I had to access emergency healthcare I was in the North and they just fixed me and sent me on my way no questions asked.

Maybe I’m just out of practice with the healthcare system but I had to see a doctor to get emergency medicine yesterday (read: emergency) and the whole experience from being seen to getting a prescription set me back €120???

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Screenshot of an ad by Ryanair with a photo of a sandy beach. Text reads "THERE'S MORE TO MOROCCO, VISIT DAKHLA" Below the picture reads: "Picture this. Endless golden sands, the sound of waves crashing, the Atlantic breeze in your hair. Welcome to Daklha, Morocco's best-kept secret."

This is bad even by Ryanair's standards.

The airline recently announced it will start flying to Dakhla, which is part of Occupied Western Sahara.

Calling it Morocco is reinforces Morocco's claim that it owns Western Sahara.

More the occupation is Morocco's dirty little secret.

Yis don't trust evoting machines to calculate PR-STV transfers quickly but you'll let AI decide a young person's future. Hmm.

Correct. #USMilitaryOutOfShannon

New York City Voters Support Municipal Grocery Stores - Climate and Community Institute Read our Substack piece on why municipal grocery stores can bring down costs and repair food supply chains.  The rising cost of groceries has driven nearly 50 …

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices.

"The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

imagine if they spent money for endo studies on researching cures instead of this nonsense 🙃

Lest our German friends become too smug.

Why do only half of Irish fathers take paternity leave? ‘Flat rate’ payment in Ireland means many fathers can’t afford to take time off work

“unless their employer tops up the €289 benefit payment, and there is no legal requirement on them to do so, few fathers can vindicate their right to time off work to care for their babies at one of the most expensive times for a young family”, Ictu said.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

I think covid pulled some kinda psychic ripcord for anyone already primed for political derangement. The combinaton of social isolation and algorithm-driven radicalization just broke people. Everyone I talk to has a story of some relative that nobody talks to anymore.

Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly Government reviews use of human rights law to argue for people being allowed to stay, which PM called a ‘loophole’

A Labour government, led by a human rights lawyer, describing a long-established interpretation of Article 8 ECHR as a “loophole”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

they should protest in the appropriate way, such as barricading a road for weeks, or perhaps setting fire to the same building several nights in a row

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers

This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

Nothing I’ve read so far this year has really grabbed me leaving me to wonder if I have somehow become ungrabable.

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...