Dr Sarah Sinnamon

This dark, tiny Dublin room honours survivors of Ireland’s barbaric Magdalene laundries Róisín Ingle: You are reminded of things Irish society ignored for decades until women like Mary Merritt spoke out

"Thousands of women were incarcerated in Magdalene laundries, a slave trade that thrived in holy Ireland where blind eyes were turned"
Sinead Ingle, The Irish Times
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How does CETA, and the ammendments made so swiftly & efficiently to the trade agreement in December, impact attempts to prevent these applications going through?

How does CETA, and the ammendments made so swiftly & efficiently to the trade agreement in December, impact attempts to prevent these applications going through?

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EU digital rights are under attack! @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu is weakening protections against Big Tech and its AI, instead of defending our democracy and privacy. Let's make our voices heard: demand she stands strong. Sign the petition now! share.greens-efa.eu/s/lDdo7N8s

Jennifer O'Connell: Nobody is talking about the Great and not-so-Great Irish Men whose names won’t make headlines We’re happy to talk about the Epstein files all day long - just don’t mention our own shameful record

Jennifer O'Connell: Nobody is talking about the Great and not-so-Great Irish Men whose names won’t make headlines

Department of Children not yet committed to key measure to support children in care who are a risk to themselves Advocates call for the full implementation of an expert report on special care, and welcomed plans for legal reform to get state agencies working together.

💯 “How can a government give allowances to every TD who chairs a committee – while they are on a very good salary – and then refuse to give an allowance to people doing one of the hardest jobs in the country?” Terry Dignan, CRAVA
Laoise Neylon, DublinInquirer
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Who gets paid €270m to home children in Tusla’s care – and how do they perform? Three quarters of the children placed in residential care in Ireland live in commercial accommodation. Investors have entered this growing industry, where inspections of the largest owners’ children’s...

We should not be allowing investors to benefit financially from providing care for children.

"Who gets paid €270m to home children in Tusla’s care?" Louise Neylon & Thomas Hubert, Dublin Inquirer, January 2026
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Domestic abuse victims left waiting years for social housing after fleeing abusers One woman took council to court after being told she had voluntarily left the home she was renting

"Domestic abuse victims who flee the social housing they shared with a perpetrator are deemed to have “voluntarily” surrendered their tenancy and may have to wait for up to three years for new accommodation."
Ellen Coyne, The Irish Times
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Colin Sheridan: Chomsky’s downfall highlights conditions that allow a wider cancer like Epstein to spread We do it constantly. We name parks, build statues, award the freedom of cities to people who are often one leaked email away from being exposed as-at best-flawed, ordinary people, and at worst somethi...

"The more you read about Epstein, the more you realise you’re not dealing with one monster, but with an ecosystem of monsters, enablers, and cowards." Colin Sheridan, The Irish Examiner
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Luisa on Instagram: "The Rage. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 #epstein Why are we not rioting? The bare minimum should be absolute carnage." 6,346 likes, 468 comments - luisaomielan on February 5, 2026: "The Rage. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 #epstein Why are we not rioting? The bare minimum should be absolute carnage.".

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"X lied to your minister. X lied to your government. Now they're giving two fingers to this parliament..."We know the horrific effect this abuse has on victi... Will they act?

"X lied to your minister. X lied to your government. Now they're giving two fingers to this parliament..."

We know the horrific effect this abuse has on victims of it. That's why there is already legislation to criminalise it.

Are there criminal investigations into X themselves or not?
#SpéirGhorm

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I recently wrote this piece about why the body and not just the brain is important for thinking

Theory paper developing these ideas and arguments more formally will follow up soon

Watch this space 😎

Poster for brights day celebration in Dublin

Celebration of resistance and hope #láfhéilebríde #spéirgorm

My friend, carer and disability activist @bernardmulvany.bsky.social is fed up of carers and people with disabilities being left behind by this government.

Full tortoise shack podcast out now: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

I'm a classical musician - having your instrument destroyed is soul-crushing. It is so unspeakably cruel and inhumane to do this.

Free Palestine, free Palestine, free Palestine. We must continue to divest and boycott and pressure wherever we can, and support those in Palestine.

Carlow Weather: 'Ireland has flood forecasts - we’re just not allowed to see them' Hobbyist meteorologist, Alan O’Reilly, says Storm Chandra has shown how secrecy and delay are leaving communities exposed to extreme flooding events.

Did we have the data but no system in operation so warnings weren’t sent out?? JFC 🤦🏾‍♀️

“Hobbyist meteorologist, @carlowweather.bsky.social Alan O’Reilly, says Storm #Chandra has shown how secrecy & delay are leaving communities exposed…”

www.thejournal.ie/readme/storm...

#spéirghorm
#Floods

Limerick principal warns housing crisis is driving record school absences While post-pandemic health confusion remains an issue, she argues the biggest problem of all is emergency accommodation.

"Children are living in hotel rooms...That is devastating. That is something that we need to be more focused on than attendance rates and blaming parents if their children are missing 20 plus days."
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One year ago today, on 26 January 2025, during the ceasefire, pharmacist Ahmed Khalil Abdullah Al-Absi (38) was killed by Israel in Gaza.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health 11 other Palestinians were killed in Gaza on that same day.

gazahcsector.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1068

Only 2000 signatures needed now for Ireland to pass the threshold. We're at 70%, France is at 300%!! For gawds sake.

C'mon #speirgorm we can do better than France!

Don't just share on the socials, send direct what's app, message, get the phone out at break time. ✊ 🇵🇸 🇮🇪

#JusticeForPalestine

A quiet message for anyone struggling today.

“We might ask — does the law ever work? How can we have faith in international humanitarian law when it did not protect Hind and her rescuers?”
~ Deirdre Garvey

Irish Examiner

☕️🥐

The first thing that occurred to me when I saw a pair of Meta’s smart glasses is that the *only* thing they offer that differs from a regular smartphone camera is covert filming. That’s it, that’s the business case

Tusla logged child as having yearly visits with father who was actually dead, as report exposes ongoing failings Tusla has continued to fail to comply with court orders relating to vulnerable children, even after being excoriated by a judge over the problem last year.

"Tusla has continued to fail...."
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Armed gardaí raided hotel room as father threatened to kill son, three months before their deaths Gardaí referred the incident to Tusla on the night.

ARMED GARDAÍ FORCED their way into a hotel room to save 11-year-old Oisín O’Reilly after his father Wayne threatened to kill him in October, three months before their deaths.

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Irish social systems are failing the children they are meant to protect.

#spéirghorm

[8] … I gained from it was the importance of everyone working together online, not fighting, not quibbling, not platforming the hate posts but addressing issues without referencing the bigots saying them or even satirical responses. We trended, they didn’t despite their $$$

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Surrealing in the Years: We're entering a new era of lawlessness. Don't expect much help from our leaders Am I going completely insane?

'What is that supposed to mean? That the law is obsolete in the face of a white supremacist sexual exploitation material-generating machine?'

It's the first column of the new year and it's grimmer than ever before, my friends.