It is gas that this is announced at the official opening of a petrol station* 😂
* The Banner Plaza is nice though, even though Pat McDonagh could pay people more. Check out the Clare Irish Traditional Music room upstairs.
#IrishPol
"On his way into Cabinet, Tánaiste Simon Harris said the measure was aimed at “taking the planner out of your back garden so that we free up planning expertise to work on big projects”."
Haha, no.
#IrishPol
This must be an April Fools?
If it's not, then shame on the IT for publishing this complete raiméis that offers no justification of points other than "just because" & shows a complete inability to think beyond one step into the future, like a baby struggling to develop object permenance
#IrishPol
Human Rights: Do what we tell you, not as we do 🤦🏾♀️
“The collective West invokes exceptionalism & systematically undermines the principles and purposes of the United Nations, consistently voting against peace initiatives, demilitarization, economic & social development.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Law
Something nobody asked for, that will only benefit the more well off, when everyone & their mother wants them to pass the OTB like they campaigned on & promised to during the election, & committed to in the PRG.
#IrishPol
Darragh O'Brien, are you listening?
#IrishPol
A question for Irish musicians due to play in NCH, do you agree with the NCH board that it's OK to host a charity who's chair says Israel isn't commiting a genocide in Gaza?
#IrishPol #Speirgorm
Tom Clonan making the excellent point that, whatever about FDI & political points of view, our grand children will ask us why didn't we speak up when the Irish State facilitated multiple wars & death through Irish airspace & airports.
#MondayGR #IrishPol
James Lawless also says, in the context of student accom, that private sector can deliver much faster than the pub sector, so best of both worlds is using pub sector guidelines & private sector delivery.
Easy neoliberal raiméis to say when pub sector doesn't deliver anything.
#MondayGR #IrishPol
James Lawless, in the same sentence, says that the gov is investing in LNG but needs to get off fossil fuels.
#MondayGR #IrishPol
FFG's actions show they don't care about the Climate Emergency, hence they don't care about raiding the CAF to bail out the oil industry with these measures.
Our climate targets are in tatters & they want more fossil fuel infra.
The opposition should shout this from the rooftops imo.
#IrishPol
Young leaders, brilliant 🤩
But younger #FF is still same tired, extractive & classist ideology.
“I believe as someone young and energetic, I can offer a clear new voice for both Fianna Fáil & Galway West.”
A bit of a smack of this off #FF trying to be all young & vibrant 🤦🏾♀️
#spéirghorm #IrishPol
You’re so right & it’s impossibly frustrating to think of the squandered opportunities & lives negatively altered 😞🤯
#FFFG so absolutely, resolutely committed to ‘The Market’ & financialisation of housing that change is
impossible. This suits them just fine.
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Housing
Out: Mom & Pop Landlords
In: Robert Troy Landlords
#IrishPol
"If our politicians demand sweeping societal change, they need to show up with generational funding and their sleeves rolled up, not just honeyed words and expressions of concern."
#IrishPol
www.instagram.com/reel/DWc2H8A...
#spéirghorm #spéirgorm #speirgorm #irishpolitics #irishpol #irlpol
“A time to tear and a time to sew, a time to keep silence & a time to speak,”Ecclesiastes
This week’s stunning figure of 17,308 homeless people, a 12.5% increase in one year & doesn’t include 1,000s in precarious sleeping arrangements.
Today is not the day for this🤦🏾♀️
#spéirghorm #Housing #IrishPol
“We’ll explain to them that our national identity is founded on the edict that no political change is worth the shedding of a single drop of human blood. So, we’ll mind our own business and they can fuck right off.”
#spéirghorm #TripleLock #Peace #Identity #IrishPol #FFFG
Should these new business landlords be mandatory or compulsory Regina?
“Landlords who view housing as their business and not just a pot of money that’s going to be realised when they get to 65 or 66."
Do you think FG voters have copped on that FG are abandoning them for the funds?
#IrishPol
No way. This cannot happen.
The debacle of our €€€ National Children’s Hospital has been a gross example of appalling planning, dubious decision-making & now they add ROBOTS to make it extra anti-care??
Too many pigs at the trough for any semblance of propriety 🤦🏾♀️
#spéirghorm #NCH #IrishPol
"Asked if the plan would bring the monthly homeless numbers down, he said "I believe it will", but refused to be drawn on when they would begin to reduce, stating "I’ve never gotten into the forecasting game, I’m always about results""
- Nov 12, 2025
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
#IrishPol
This revelatory paper helped me understand why Irish health, social, care, education, support policy & systems can seem so perversely & frustratingly anti-human 😳🤦🏽♀️
I have such very, very brilliant & clever friends 🤩
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Systems #PublicPolicy
"It starts with the recognition that human wellbeing is fundamentally relational — produced through ongoing connections between people, between people & their communities, & between communities & the institutions that are meant to serve them."
#spéirghorm #IrishPol
publicpolicy.ie/papers/refra...
Relational Public Services (RPS):
"...good outcomes emerge from trusting, human relationships & continuous learning rather than from rigid targets & standardised transactions...practitioners work with people as whole persons, adapt support..."
#spéirghorm #IrishPol
publicpolicy.ie/papers/refra...
Can someone ask Darragh O'Brien if he & the gov still plan to build fossil fuel LNG infrastructure to give in to Trump's coersion to buy US LNG, & in the process subvent planning laws, against the recommendations of the Oireachtais Climate Cmtte, & saddle the state with stranded assets?
#IrishPol
@shazbear.bsky.social
#irishpol
Oh, look.
They are trying to do what our government can't
Laughable ‘standards’ regarding the Data Protection Commissioners
“…we don’t do gamekeepers. It makes Ireland a very convivial environment to operate in. It means that giant US & Chinese firms can operate with impunity in Europe, violating European Law & we’re the back door.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol
“.. similar allegations at the federal level….
“The jury started deliberations Monday and found Meta specifically breached New Mexico’s unfair practices act through alleged unethical business tactics that took advantage of children.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Tech
“This sanewashing has been going on for a long time, and I’ve written about it before. But it keeps getting worse, and the mainstream media keep making the same mistakes in their coverage of the King of Crazytown.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol
Darragh O'Brien stood up at this COP & supported the plan to phaseout fossil fuels.
Then he came home & has been pushing to build fossil fuel LNG infra, to appease the orange madman & push Ireland's Climate targets even more out of reach.
What happens at COP stays at COP for FFG.
#IrishPol
