Aoife Bhreatnach

How am I supposed to yearn for a HEA in #OurUniverse when the FL doesn't deserve either the adorable baby or the capable in-law? She needs to do something huge to redeem herself.

It's v funny to me that the US, which I think of as ultra modern, isn't into the most basic of kitchen appliances, the electric kettle

H.R. 7761, also known as the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act", would give politicians control over what is being read by anyone under 18 years old.
In light of current events, I should think Congress would have bigger fish to fry on this subject.
#FreedomToRead #bannedbooks

Why does the council take so long to renovate homes when so many are in need of a home
And why do they make our streets feel like prisons with these horrible hoardings
#spéirgorm #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland

Persuaded 2 friends to buy rice cookers and now I get regular updates on their lives with their new appliances. Good rice is life changing.

Possibly turning my bookclub into a #kdrama group - tonight's discussion will be on Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and #TheTrunk

Tremendous piece on a subject most Irish people never even give a thought to, but has huge impact on so many immigrants’ lives. Please read and share #speirghorm

This. Exactly this.

No thoughts to rebalancing the system, taxing the wealthy, diversifying trade, rebuilding infrastructure, moving from cyclical market economics...

Just putting things back to what suited Civil War voters the handiest. And we're suffering.

#spéirghorm #ireland

Is the funniest part in Undercover Miss Hong when everyone insists #ParkShinHye looks ancient or when #KimWonHae chews the scenery?

Best Anne Enright punchline:

'I am also not turned on by bonobos.'

Are they getting bored not using the ones we already have?

sorting the Taoisigh into dry/wet #SpeirGhorm

Cosgrave - Dry
De Valera - BONE DRY
Costello - Dry
Lemass - Wet
Lynch - Dry
Cosgrave - Dry
Haughey - Dry
FitzGerald - Dry
Reynolds - Dry
Bruton - Dry
Ahern - Wet
Cowen - Wet
Kenny - Dry
Varadkar - Wet
Martin - Dry
Harris - King of the Wets

#SpéirGorm #Spéirgorm #Spéighorm

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On what feels like the 152nd day of rain in 2026, this feels too appropriate Ireland 🫠☔️🥶🌊

#spéirghorm

Soo good! Because I watched it just after Idol I, gave me lots to think about re celebrity culture

A large-scale photorealistic street mural painted on the side of a dark grey building on Christ Church Lane, Cork city, Ireland. The mural depicts an elderly man in a green jacket leaning over a table overflowing with fruit — including bananas, apples, mangoes, and grapes — alongside a fish, evoking the style of a European old master still-life painting. The artwork incorporates the building’s real windows into the composition. A ‘Foot Solutions’ shop sign is visible to the right.

Incredible street mural in Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪 features a giant old master-style still life on Christ Church Lane — a man, cascading fruit, and a fish, in stunning photorealistic detail. It blends European classical art with modern street culture. 🎨 #CorkCity #StreetArt #Ireland #Mural #PublicArt

Cutting down the manuscript word-count to fit the journal requirements🤦🏽

This did not occur to me at all. OK, I'm not British but still should have spotted it. All that Michael Howard as Dracula satire used to give me creeps...

Date for your diaries! Our next lunchtime seminar will be on 4 March when our own David Coughlan will speak on "The Laws of the Locked Room Mystery". All welcome! @unioflimerick.bsky.social #ULEnglish #spéirgorm

Have someone in your life who loves you as much as the Irish Times loves ‘deregulation’ to sock it to the poorer classes #daa #uber #GenAI #spéirgorm

Ya know I hadn't even considered that he's either without make-up altogether or asked for his face to be painted *around* the ash. Yikes.

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Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part

The hate “ban and burn these books” only makes me more determined to continue to translate and fill shelves with Gay and Transgender Studies texts, especially ones by Magnus Hirschfeld #MagnusHirschfeld #lgbtqHistory 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔻Ο
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXM423VD

Did he ask for extra ash?

Revenue review of medical consultants yields €61m The Public Accounts Committee has heard that €61 million has been yielded by Revenue following a tax review of medical consultants which it began in 2010.

Every time I see people moaning about "welfare cheats" and "benefit fraudsters", I remind them that in the 2010s, Revenue had to set up a special unit to force medical consultants to pay what they owed. And they owed A LOT.
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Rhetorical question, right?

The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway

Deja vu for anyone who remembers 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' by Azar Nafisi (2003)
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Karp is worth twelve billion dollars. His colleague Peter Thiel is worth over twice as much. They have surveillance contracts riddling the international public sphere. They are fascists and lunatics. This is all absolutely insane. But it's the reality our "leaders" insist on imposing on us.

"Oh wow, you're in the US State Department? That's amazing! What do you do there?"

"I scour the internet for Nazi content to upload on a US government run portal which makes sure Germans can read it without using a VPN."

"Would you..?"

"Yes, I'd call myself an American hero."