Peter McGuire

Just listened to the @irishtimes.com podcast between Hugh Linehan and Eoin Lenihan (no relation I presume). Hilarious, Eoin is such a sensitive soul, & sulked for the later half of the podcast ‘cause he didn’t like the line of questioning. Lordy these far righties are such man-cry-babies #speirgorm

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Student awarded €7,000 over ‘incessant’ landlord demands and charge for using dining table Conduct amounted to ‘very severe’ breach of tenant’s peaceful occupation of house, RTB says

You’d hope that, as well as having to pay their tenant €7,000 over ‘incessant’ demands and charge for using dining table, landlords Gabriela and Michael Hennigan might suffer from the public embarrassment of their actions. But some people are shameless.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Kathy Sheridan: Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people? Number of trans people in Irish society is tiny – and each one is a human being

Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people? Deeply empathetic essay from Kathy Sheridan. The take of the young girl at the centre of transphobic outrage at a match is a horror story, but this where transphobia takes people! #speirgorm

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Penneys claims it's making clothes to last - so we put them to the test From jeans that changed colour to a jumper that bobbled after a handful of wears, a lot of these clothes did not hold up.

Penneys claims it's making clothes that are “designed to last” as the company attempts to position itself as planet-friendly.

Our investigative team put these claims to the test, finding that a lot of their clothes did not hold up.

www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

Helpful and easily digestible thread on Chomsky and why the left needs to shift on their stance of this very problematic man.

A "baleful and malign presence, an intruder, stalking the school, its teachers and its pupils".

The judge sums Enoch Burke up perfectly.

"He said Mr Burke was entitled to his religious beliefs but not to his own reality."

You'd really feel for the students having to deal with this weirdo around them all the time, Enoch Burke is not a behaving in a normal way. #Spéirghorm

Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.

Watching season 2 of #TraitorsAUS and I’ve never seen such a collection of catastrophically idiotic, jaw-droppingly stupid Faithfuls. Like, thick as a bag of boiled shites. I genuinely don’t think they should be let out of the house without a responsible adult, for fear of banging their heads.

Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years.

There's something very on brand for Dublin about this. Building something as a temporary stopgap, putting 'temporary' ("pro tempore") in the name, doing nothing more for 200 years, and then eventually going "OK lads let's just stick with this one cos we're clearly never going to build the other one"

"This could take down Democrats, too."

I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.

Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Mary McAleese, Catherine Connolly, Michael D Higgins and Mary Robinson

Gonna tell my kids this was Fleetwood Mac

Mary McAleese, Catherine Connolly, Michael D Higgins, and Mary Robinson in Áras an Uachtaráin, 11 November 2025.

Four presidents

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.

On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.

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Alan carr

Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors

Very glad at a traitor win. Once Joe was gone, it just had to be Alan Carr. Particularly glad David didn’t win - he’s sound & smart but he stumbled his win to the endgame #CelebrityTraitors

Headline from the journal dot ie under a photo of Simon Harris Headline: Harris says it is a ‘dog whistle’ to compare him to Nigel Farage Subhead: SocDems TD Cian O’Callaghan emphasised the importance of leadership not “inflaming” the debate around migration.

Scene from the US Office "I am a victim of a hate crime" "That's not what a hate crime is" "Well, I hated it a lot, okay?"

he literally did the meme

This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.

If you work in media & didn’t know that Ivan Yates was deeply compromised, you’re too naive for this industry. And if you did know, well… remind me again, why have people stopped buying papers or trusting legacy media?
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.

April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.

November: Housing crisis here until 2040.

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.

My last thought on the presidential elections is that we had to suffer through every stray thought that passed through Ivan Yates' brain, amplified by the media, without him ever saying he was being paid by one side, but it was only after the election that I read a 'who is Béibhinn O'Connor?' piece.

What I find least credible in this Ivan Yates saga

Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity

to be on air, discussing the presidential election, making wild and bullish statements about what candidates should do, while omitting the fact that you’re literally working for a campaign… it’s just not very good behaviour is it. doesn’t suggest good character, does it.

it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.

it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:

cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.