Roisin Markham

for those new to who I am this is a tiktok I created and went viral on using micro Irish greetings

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since then I’ve used email in meetings and email signatures, now people also respond with slán even if they are not Irish it’s a small but mighty action I take every day

the trees are creating more forrest type habitat

don’t know if they had an exception growing year, with the dry warm summer, scutch grass seems to be not growing
trees are in 25-18 years

ldifferent types of mushrooms

I had an email from someone whom I’m working with - they addressed me as
Roisin, a chara

it has endeared me to them for ever, kinda also made me very emotional as someone recognises that we can use our own language to greet each other
like if you are Mexican why are we using English?

underneath our trees is really changing this year

is a deciduous trees main function to produce health soils?

can you say more about this

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1 The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Powerful storm.. My first geography paper as a masters student was research on shoreline erosion from coastal storms on New Jersey barrier islands, and impact of human made structures (jetties, seawalls, artificial dunes) on beach width. The Ash Wednesday storm 1962 was the most destructive/erosive.

I’d know a lot about the liberties but I heard things on that tour I never knew. It’s a real heart & soul tour.

I did it during the summer as part of a co-design project we were doing in the area it was epic, really recommend it.

Wales has positioned its language as part of its National wellbeing indicators, that’s a real commitment to national heritage

www.gov.wales/wellbeing-wa...

Yes I'm being nosey. But hearing Irish "in the wild" feels wonderful. I'm inspired to start practising again - no one in my family speaks it fluently but by my early 20s (thanks to extracurricular activities) I got pretty close to that level. Maybe I still have more of it inside me than I realized!

supermassively happy for two of the most attractive things in the universe

realised only recently the field of pheasants you pass on the train Rathdrum - Arklow south bound is actually a breeding ground

about two weeks ago I noticed young pheasants behind a fence with feed

probably the local gun club but that maybe jumping to conclusions

anyways the field was full

Fourteen households served with eviction notices from Killarney homes owned by investment fund One tenant moved to Killarney from Cork because of the housing shortage there.

Fourteen households have been hit with eviction notices from the investment fund that owns their homes in Killarney, Co Kerry.

The move affects 15 children and 25 adults.

A Desi group asked BuyMeACoffee not to let influencers make money from anti-Indian hate – and got ignored Researchers say the role of crowdfunding platforms in the spread of harmful ideologies is largely overlooked.

A Desi group asked BuyMeACoffee not to let influencers make money from anti-Indian hate – and got ignored. Researchers say the role of crowdfunding platforms in the spread of harmful ideologies is largely overlooked.

one of our sons driving home last night past Jack Whites got hit by a deer 🦌 from the central meridian one of those 2am phone calls that just discombobulates you

he’s fine

his car isn’t
only the deers head hit the front of the car whole wing munched

Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’ Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

Social Media apps and smartphones are doing enormous damage to young people everywhere.

I’m glad to see some governments are really grasping the nettle and taking serious action.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Ok finally an Irish doughnut economics network newsletter is gone out - if you are on our mailing list check your inboxes

it list some amazing things going on around Ireland and Internationally for @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social Global Doughnut Days

plus it has a compelling ask

Join us on 8 Oct for Collecting Ireland’s History, a lecture for the Dublin Festival of History in collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

Explore 700 years of Irish manuscript collecting.

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

this is not my paid work
but it’s critical work for the type of society Ireland becomes

the next 4 years are critical

our education systems only really educates one form of economics

so if we want something different we have to create something different

education = a lever for change

if you know an economics teacher interested in reclaiming economics - ecological or regenerative send them my direction

currently Ireland Gov open submissions on

- circular economy
- economic curriculum in schools review

I’m half way through the circular economy one & I’m impressed by the realism of the Construction sector

it also states a new economic model is required

hence the second submission prep

The Nobel Prize for Economics was invented in 1968 by the Central Bank of Sweden, they pay the Nobel Foundation to award it. This is one of those facts which I think should be commented on more often.

this was 30 minutes later from the beach at Cahore, coffee was good, noticed a jellyfish on the shore that’s unusual there

enjoyed the little seal popping its head up and two early skin swimmers in and doing a full lap

Sunrise at Cahore is another beauty, the sky is gone all mellow now

shimmer on the sea was 👌🏻

Howth or Bray/Greystones either way a great and different way to see Dublin - if you go to Howth maybe listen to the giggler by roddy doyle or the snapper

oh is the Dead Zoo still closed?

Recommended Dublin trip:

* Dublin 8 guide tour with inourshoeswalkingtours.ie
*take a DART from city centre north or south, enjoy one of the most beautiful views from from public transport anywhere in the world

• Epic museum
• Dead zoo
• National Museum
• IMMA
• Kilmanham Gaol

Hey #speirgorm can we recommend best old buildings and museums and other interesting historical sights for David?
My starter is The Little Museum of Dublin

Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500,000 cars Researchers say inhalers in the US alone generate annual emissions equivalent to 530,000 cars.

Researchers say inhalers in the US alone generate annual emissions equivalent to 530,000 cars.

S31 is on Death of A Candidate.

But it needn’t detain us as it doesn’t count if it’s just their campaign that’s died.