Treating housing as an investment and leaving it up to “the market” to supply stock has been a complete disaster everywhere, and yet politicians almost everywhere (including our own) refuse to let go of this utterly failed policy and it’s ENRAGING
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Treating housing as an investment and leaving it up to “the market” to supply stock has been a complete disaster everywhere, and yet politicians almost everywhere (including our own) refuse to let go of this utterly failed policy and it’s ENRAGING
No part of this is a normal thing to say. It's hard to know which bit to point at first.
Israeli 'war bond' sales no longer facilitated by the Irish Central Bank
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
There’s so much about this article that is *unhinged*, but let’s start with this: “the boy’s death does not appear to involve self-defense” Well no, because HE WAS AN 11 YEAR OLD CHILD. Do they even hear themselves anymore? edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/u...
I’ll watch The Traitors Ireland purely for Siobhán McSweeney. I don’t even know the premise.
We could do it in a consent-centred way, where we just say it without the handshake, if preferred, or high five or fist bump instead.
My favourite park!
I felt very awkward about it as a kid, but the whole shaking hands and saying “Peace be with you” thing was quite nice. We should do it now, but without the pervasive shaming and incarceration of women and children.
It was. When I see him the words “sure, we all partied” echo in my head, brings me right back to when he said it. The sinking feeling that there’ll be no justice or recourse for little people, but the crowd in the Galway races tent will be grand.
What really gets me about the whole Bertie running for President thing is his apparent complete lack of shame. Genuinely, I get shivers when I see him after all the pain and despair for so many people that followed his time as Taoiseach. Please, fuck off.
PLEASE.
*will do *to keep it as I hereby give up on any hope I once had to write a typo free post.
A lovely evening with friends yesterday that will hopefully keep me going all week and my new calathea👇 I do my best to keep as beautiful as it is right now. Sending wishes for a better day soon.
For the day that's in it.
It seems a friend of mine adopted a cat on the way home from dinner last night. Dinner party, poetry, and cat adoption ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ The lesbian trifecta?
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I’m so thrilled with it! A friend gave it to me for my birthday because she rocks😁
I’m actually incapable of thinking in terms of tactics and strategy. I don’t even know when other people are doing it and I’m deeply disappointed in them if I find they have been. So I guess I won’t be doing that.
Lifts my heart!
You know it’s that time and it’s getting ridiculous or serious when Mr spreadsheet himself Gavan Reilly is back. Love you @gavreilly.com #Árars25
Where would be without Gavan? In the dark is where.
Now…..
DONE! We ate, we drank, and we put the world to rights (and we had enough chairs). Also, the sweet satisfaction of lining up empty wine bottles for recycling after a night well spent💜
I'm often critical of the Irish Times, but credit where credit is due - this is great reporting and work.
Oh god. Unfortunately I still come across things like this all the time.
The Irish ambassador to Germany has conveyed her concern to German authorities after an Irish demonstrator was assaulted by police during a pro-Palestine protest in Berlin. Germany is so fascist in its support of the Genocide in Gaza and #Palestine! #EU #Spéorgorm www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
Palestinian officials blocked by US from going to the UN... while a genocide is happening. This is fucked up beyond belief. share.google/1YljvVAcRmid...
I get why ppl want a presidential election to be ruthless, but is there any chance the ruthlessness of it leads to a ballot filled almost entirely with ignorant twats, while quality candidates stay out to avoid months of exhausting scrutiny and being slammed for every tiny mistake they’ve ever made?
I’ve been awake since 6am and I swear I’ve been awake forever. How can a day be this long?
The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
And don’t @ me with your blank screen arguments, analysts. Contort your face appropriately. It’ll be ok.
Please choose a therapist who is suitably horrified by this.
They say he's demoted but they're just going to move him to another server.
Ah that’s lovely! Mine isn’t until tomorrow, but getting sorted for it now:)
Love the woman right now shopping in Tesco with hair up in rollers and full going out face on at 8.30am
Thanks so much, Robin🥰
Ahh, thank you!🥰
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It sucks😢
Thank you!😁
Haha, I feel this. I only thought to count plates and glasses this evening. There’s a slight glass shortage but they’ll just have to be decisive and choose alcoholic or non-alcoholic. I can’t be expected to provide both at the same time😂
Same for Ireland imo. Yes, waitlists are a disaster, the trolley situation is insane, & we have a long way to go still in terms of addressing paternalism in the system, but at least we pay no more that €80 per month for medications and won’t go bankrupt for having cancer or a heart attack.
And her chocolate torte.
I always forget the endless logistics required for having a dinner party. “Chairs! Jesus! I don’t have enough chairs!” *Texts friend to please bring fold up chairs*
Yep, I would find some safe enough to send and others I would lack the courage for. You’re showing us what can be done - both of you.
That’s beautiful. I do email my therapist if I need an extra session or if I just want to send her an article or something, but I am very prone to shame around ‘needing too much contact’ or being ‘unboundaried’ or whatever so I think it’s really cool you can do that even if ambivalent about it!
Sweet baby Billy😻😻😻
Oh I love that you’ve had conversations around replying. I imagine that really eases anxiety around it. And YES, having it made clear that we’re not *too much* is just so important in the more vulnerable moments. I can totally relate.
Why The Irish Dance That Way 😂💃🎉 youtu.be/yhfPQOZUUQg?... #Ireland #Irish #Irishdancing #speirgorm
A friend was hoping I would make a trip to the US with her (she’s going to see older friends of ours who can’t travel) and I said no as I just wouldn’t feel safe. She understood completely, but it struck me that I may not see my friends again in person.
It’s quite terrifying.
That’s lovely. I’m so glad you have such consistent support in GVD to help hold you through such rough months. We’ll do our best here too!
Thanks Alejandra! I’m having a quiet day today and will have dinner with friends at the weekend which is perfect for me😊
Aww, thank you. I will for sure and I like this age!🥰
I’m happy to share that I’ve started my own private practice. I’ll be seeing individuals virtually anywhere in CA. Feel free to check out my website for more info and to connect. www.nadeemhasanpsyd.com
Thanks Meggs!🥰
“….projected shifts in North Atlantic convection are a real concern. Even if a collapse is unlikely, a major weakening is expected, and that alone could have serious impacts on Europe’s climate in the decades to come. But the future of the Atlantic circulation is still in our hands.”
“We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is quite a shocking finding as well and why we have to act really fast in cutting down emissions.”
“It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.”
Looking for members help. Dr Maria Luddy and Dr Judith Harford are writing a book on the experiences of Irish women national school teachers, 1890-1950. They would love to hear from anyone with material such as diaries, letters, photographs, or other artefacts. email judith.harford@ucd.ie.
Thank you!🤩
Go raibh maith agat!
Oh I love that idea😅💜
47 today. I’m big.
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Moral injury was exactly what came to mind.
I also thought you were in the U.K. and this has thrown me for a loop😂
This is madness. You would have about 50 patients per week even if you saw them once per month? Like, how? I don’t think I could even remember the names of 200 patients btw.
How much more can we take?
I think it’s lovely. I envy your bedhead!
They will eventually get to "Universal Basic Income is good" around five minutes before the sea swallows the land and the sun collides with the earth
Ah, I like it actually. People in glass houses really shouldn’t throw stones🤷♀️
Or maybe we’re connected by our birthdays, or by being August Virgos, or being contrarian and picky, or by a wish to find a way back to one another.
A birthday gift from a friend came in the post. (A day early - it’s tomorrow - but it’s her birthday today, so our birthdays always seem connected, as do we, even if we’re fighting)
Another Normal People post: Daisy Edgar-Jones’s accent is phenomenal. Have any other non-Irish actors managed to pull off a specific regional accent so well?
Good news! Homosexuality is IN!
I’m torn. One part of me wants to see him try to bumble his way through the debates and fail spectacularly. Another part of me absolutely does not want to relive those years nor deal with the second-hand cringe of him thinking he has any hope at all. I think the latter is stronger.
The Normal People TV adaptation is so good, but god, I envy the constant smoking. And the beauty of them all and their Trinity degrees, but mainly the smoking. *This is a ‘you don’t have to hate it to not do it’ reminder*
Yes, there’s a nice range of voices and accents on there. It takes a bit of exploration to find the good ones ime, but there are LOADS to choose from.
My go to meditation on rough days. It’s a lovely meditation with a slow pace, kind tone, and a soft Scottish accent:) insig.ht/WlhQtoDS7Vb
I know what I really want the minister for health thinking about is our army and where it is deployed. That seems like a salient area of concern right now.
After a morning when I have a migraine and everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and I was just about to give up and go back to bed, by some divine grace my migraine lifted and the sun went in while I was cycling to work. (Because arriving feeling sweaty and disgusting was just TOO much)
Fair play to Christy, a legend who has always spoken out against injustice. Email addresses and phone numbers are on the video. Let them know how we feel. #StopFundingGenocide #DoNotRenew #SpeirGorm
The absolute nerve of him.
Sigh! With the state of politics in 2025 this is just what we need now; a resurfacing brown envelope gombeen man! I hope the young generation realises he and his governments laid the foundations for the current housing crisis they are suffering through #speirgorm
Yep, as I get older I’m discovering the ways this should have been addressed when I was a kid. Should have been strengthening the muscles around my joints all along. Also knew nothing about the muscle tension it causes as I try to ‘hold myself together’ all day.
Dreamt that a drag queen runs the fire service.
Hyper-mobility has probably been the weirdest thing about me since childhood. Bending my thumbs back against my wrist, putting both my feet behind my head, and eh, doing this👇 with my fingers😂
Wow. I hope it goes as well as possible. This is courage💜
I’m just angry wondering whether or not to get it is even a thing for you. Anyway, I hope you can make it work🙏
I’m trying to imagine the kind of worry this must cause and it’s just horrible. I’m sorry you even have to think about this.
Woop!😁 It’s what I need right now.
I thought “When’s Bake Off on? I feel I should be watching Bake Off by now” and lo, there it is, starting on 2nd September ✨
Yes, absolutely.
Yes!
If I’m trying to talk to someone who knows nothing about queer experiences (someone inclined to understand but doesn’t), I don’t know how helpful it would be to use the terms I’m used to If I need to reach them, I will use language they can understand as long as it’s not a slur or obv offensive
I think this is really interesting. I’ll use whatever terms people prefer for themselves, but there are times when these terms can get in the way of communication Sometimes, when we’re politically very socially conscious and our language reflects that, we can end up speaking over people’s heads imo