Yvie Ní

After sexual violence, it's victims who get punished the most. Victims who lose their jobs and have to leave their industries. Victims who lose their friends and support systems. Victims who lose their health and sanity. Perpetrators might lie low, sometimes, before being handed it all back.

New plans for International Rugby Experience revealed The proposal is being brought before cabinet this morning.

Lovely news to read first thing!!
"Minister O’Donovan is expected to propose that the site be repurposed as a permanent cultural institution under the remit of the National Museum, with plans moving forward to establish a dedicated women’s museum in the heart of the city." #Limerick #Women

Greyscale cartoon of myself at a desk, writing furiously with my tongue sticking out in concentration, the paper spooling out over the desk as a rook grabs the other end and flies into the air. The word NEWSLETTER occupies the space above, and an assortment of cartoons from the newsletters float above it. #art #speirgorm #speirghorm #bskyart

With the social media landscape artists depend on crumbling into a big lake of shite, now's a good time to mention I've a newsletter with snippets of Irish folklore & history, doodles, and fun nonsense, with zero involvement from fascist billionaires. Subscribe for free: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

💜💜💜

Tomorrow! Join Limerick @ipsc.bsky.social Wednesday 25th February, 7pm, Absolute Hotel. Hear how Palestinian citizens of Israel face an escalating campaign of repression, criminalisation and state-backed efforts to erase their Palestinian identity and their presence in their homeland #FreePalestine

Yesterday we took to the streets in our thousands to demand sanctions on apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people. There is no ceasefire. Ireland stands with Palestine, always. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Sunday Sofa Activism 🛋️

Here NI are seeking the experiences of LGBTQIA+ women aged 30+ living in Northern Ireland. Your responses will help build evidence to improve support and services as well as influence policy change.

You can submit your response at the link 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/KMSZWMF

Please share✨

Great opportunities for young people in Ireland.

This work experience could bring your to new places, new spaces with people from so many cultures & could change the trajectory of your life 🤩💪🏾 Give it a go!

#spéirghorm #EU #Disabled #ChronicIllness #MS #JobFairy

Join Limerick @ipsc.bsky.social Wednesday 25th February, 7pm, Absolute Hotel. Palestinian citizens of Israel face an escalating campaign of repression, criminalisation and state-backed efforts to erase not only their Palestinian identity, but their very presence in their homeland #FreePalestine

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

Poster with blue background on top and blue and green stripes on the bottom. Text says: Experiences of Being Single: Women's Perspectives Underneath text says: EDGE Research based in TUS are partnering with Women’s Collective Ireland - Limerick to conduct research on women’s perspectives of being single and are asking women to fill out a questionnaire and share their experiences of being single in Ireland in 2026. For more information or to fill out the questionnaire please go to: womenscollective.ie/wci-limerick Four logos are across the bottom: EDGE, Equality Diversity Inclusion, Women's Collective Ireland - Limerick and Social Sciences ConneXions

Experiences of Being Single: Women's Perspectives
📢TAKE PART
We're partnering with EDGE Research to look at women’s perspectives of being single&are asking women to fill out a questionnaire&share their experience of being single in Ireland in 2026.
To take part go to womenscollective.ie/wci-limerick

📣Calling single women in Ireland!📣

Take part in new research exploring women's experiences of being single in Ireland in 2026. Fill in a short questionnaire and share your perspectives.

#Women #Research #WomeninResearch #SingleStudies

"The tone, language and rhetoric of X’s user base risks becoming normalised when it is the context in which we engage with Government bodies. Irish people are forced to wade through racism, misinformation and child sex abuse images to access information we need."

‘The hysteria that has developed about abuse of women’ (Chomsky in an email to Epstein).To all the Chomsky defenders, esp those on the left-this sentence, alone, dripping with misogyny & a sexist dismissal of sexual violence against women condemns him.There is no acceptable apology for this #epstein

Immigration ‘vital’ for future of Irish society, economy and HSE Report outlines necessity of overseas workers to offset population decline in a country where healthcare is already reliant on recruits from outside the EU

The government’s own economic advisers are giving it perfect political cover to reject Jim O’Callaghan’s increasingly brutal immigration policies but it won’t because our government ministers are amoral spoofers who don’t care about anything beyond the next poll

www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

New month, so the reminder. Limerick County has never elected a woman to the Dáil and Limerick City elected 2, about 70 years apart.
#seeherelected

Madam, David Quinn tells us that not much is known about St Brigid but that "she almost certainly existed". He castigates the image of Brigid as a feminist icon and goes on to lambast modern feminists, telling us exactly what Brigid would have thought of us. I suspect that, if Brigid existed, as goddess or saint, or both, she was perfectly well able to speak for herself, without interpretation by religiously conservative men. That's why we modern feminists find her inspirational and empowering, and some men find her, and us, so frightening. Bernie Linnane Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.

Sunday Independent...
#FeckOffIona

As a keen forager whose speciality is seaweed and sustainable sourcing I beg you to sign this. There are currently two corps with applications to strip the Irish west coast of seaweed. We cannot let this happen.

Please sign and share. #irish #ireland

There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed.
There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally.
Please sign and share.

Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

''Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast.''

Sign the petition and lets stop this from happening ✊️

#SpeirGorm

my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

Utterly disgraceful. We are complicit in the torture of Palestinians.

📣ACTIVISM THURSDAY📣

The phenomenal Yvie Murphy @wci-limerick.bsky.social , Limerick Repeal, Rape Crisis MidWest, Community activist, solidarity builder, inclusion campaign designer - my friend & hero - showing us how to organise & build movements

#activismthursday #activism @yvieni.bsky.social

I had the best morning yesterday speaking with psychology students about activism, inclusion and building movements for change. Thanks so much to the fabulous @karsugrue.bsky.social for the invitation. 💜 You do not need permission to do good in the world. 💜

How Ireland used to celebrate St Brigid's Day in the past From the Biddy boys and Brat Bríde to holy wells and Brigid's crosses, February 1st was marked with great gusto in old Ireland

Great piece on St Brigits Day traditions by @marionmcgarry.bsky.social on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
Íontach ar fad

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

#Speirgorm

Everybody knew, nobody said’.
#OTD in 1984, Ann Lovett lay down in the rain in the grotto behind St Mary's Church, Granard & gave birth to a full-term baby boy. She was found alive around 4pm by three schoolboys but died later that day. www.dib.ie/biography/lo... #DIBLives

Cartoon of myself gesturing at some prints with a description of the type available, a variety of gallery-quality giclée prints of original art on Hahnemühle textured paper and hand-printed lino prints printed locally, shipped to Ireland and beyond in environmentally-friendly packaging, ideal as gifts. The word SALE is in large letters above it in red. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn #HandMade

📢 FINAL day of the sale, with reductions across the site including on already reduced print bundles - every print sold supports local art AND local weird women who wander the bogs at night searching for meaning and/or left-over sandwiches. Shop here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Grok is being used to create sexualised images of women and child abuse material which are posted on X.

So, why is the Department of Education still posting images of children to X?

If Government Departments are going to continue to use X, can they at least stop posting images of children?