Susan G
@susangriff.bsky.social
🇮🇪Limerick born & back now. Ex-Wales & ex-Cork. Likes film, good tv, books, music, Munster Rugby. Wife, mother, dog mama, ex-academic. Retired early. Living with Heart Failure. Anti-racist. Anti-fascist. I care about our world. Worried about it right now
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Susan G
@susangriff.bsky.social
· Sep 21
A timeline cleanser for your Sunday. 15 seconds of the "sounds of the sea" today at Doughmore Beach, Co Clare. I wish I could share the sea air too!
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All #Speirgorm spelling variants in one feed #Speirghorm
This one seems to cover all the same variants as the original!
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
All #Speirgorm spelling variants in one feed #Speirghorm
It's a good job I've no intention of visiting the place anytime soon. Doubt I ever will, now.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's a good job I've no intention of visiting the place anytime soon. Doubt I ever will, now.
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A really enjoyable read & great reporting from Orla O'Donnell. The judge schooled him in more ways than one. You know someone's serious when they break out a 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary for accuracy and remove the family from court before it even starts.
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
Enoch Burke has 'something to hide' over income - judge
A High Court judge has said teacher Enoch Burke and his family could be using his court case to make money and that it was clear Mr Burke had "something to hide" about his income.
www.rte.ie
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A really enjoyable read & great reporting from Orla O'Donnell. The judge schooled him in more ways than one. You know someone's serious when they break out a 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary for accuracy and remove the family from court before it even starts.
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
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Folks this is the new Speir Ghorm or #Speirgorm feed. It should be identical. Not sure what happened
#Irishpol #IrishSky
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#Irishpol #IrishSky
bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Folks this is the new Speir Ghorm or #Speirgorm feed. It should be identical. Not sure what happened
#Irishpol #IrishSky
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#Irishpol #IrishSky
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
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Ireland caps political donations. The system is not foolproof but it has a strong protective effect certainly. See Sipo.ie for details.
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Ireland caps political donations. The system is not foolproof but it has a strong protective effect certainly. See Sipo.ie for details.
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I wrote this about the UK government appeasing the far right in February.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I wrote this about the UK government appeasing the far right in February.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
I don't have *that* music app, so I can't share what I was listening to all year. I can share what I just listened to tonight. It is joyful.🥰 It is for you to enjoy. You are most welcome. ❤️
Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I don't have *that* music app, so I can't share what I was listening to all year. I can share what I just listened to tonight. It is joyful.🥰 It is for you to enjoy. You are most welcome. ❤️
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Today is "International Day of Persons With Disabilities". A good day to issue this reminder to all my Bluesky friends. #speirgorm. Worth keeping in mind if you see someone struggling in this "busy" pre-Christmas "season".
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Today is "International Day of Persons With Disabilities". A good day to issue this reminder to all my Bluesky friends. #speirgorm. Worth keeping in mind if you see someone struggling in this "busy" pre-Christmas "season".
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📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm
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Bloody hell.
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Bloody hell.
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
"In both Irish and Welsh." My two favourite languages! I may not have learned to speak much Welsh in my 3 years working in Aberystwyth, (it's hard!), but I loved to listen to it being spoken all around me, and this kind of collaboration is lovely to see.
🦌 ho ho ho 🦌
'Nollaí,' a magical and heartwarming adventure about a giant Irish deer, will premiere on December 14 @TG4.
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/animated-christmas-movie-nollai
'Nollaí,' a magical and heartwarming adventure about a giant Irish deer, will premiere on December 14 @TG4.
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/animated-christmas-movie-nollai
New animated Christmas film to be broadcast in both Irish and Welsh
"Nollaí," an enchanting new animated Christmas film about a giant Irish deer, will be broadcast this holiday season in Irish, Welsh, and English.
www.irishcentral.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"In both Irish and Welsh." My two favourite languages! I may not have learned to speak much Welsh in my 3 years working in Aberystwyth, (it's hard!), but I loved to listen to it being spoken all around me, and this kind of collaboration is lovely to see.
Ah no. Such sad news. I always thought he seemed like such a lovely man when he appeared on tv. May his gentle soul rest in peace. #speirgorm
Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.
Home of the Year judge Hugh Wallace has died aged 68
Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.
www.rte.ie
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ah no. Such sad news. I always thought he seemed like such a lovely man when he appeared on tv. May his gentle soul rest in peace. #speirgorm
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#Bluetongue Virus's arrival in Ireland is a #climate change story as well as an animal welfare concern.
Endemic in sub-tropics, but unheard of in Europe until the late '90s. Changing humidity and temperature allowed the infected midges to survive in ever more northerly areas.
Graphic: WOAH
Endemic in sub-tropics, but unheard of in Europe until the late '90s. Changing humidity and temperature allowed the infected midges to survive in ever more northerly areas.
Graphic: WOAH
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
#Bluetongue Virus's arrival in Ireland is a #climate change story as well as an animal welfare concern.
Endemic in sub-tropics, but unheard of in Europe until the late '90s. Changing humidity and temperature allowed the infected midges to survive in ever more northerly areas.
Graphic: WOAH
Endemic in sub-tropics, but unheard of in Europe until the late '90s. Changing humidity and temperature allowed the infected midges to survive in ever more northerly areas.
Graphic: WOAH
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Get ready for the Irish Garden Bird Survey, which kicks off on Monday 1st December! We need records from as many gardens across Ireland as possible, so please spread the word! birdwatchireland.ie/irish-garden...
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Get ready for the Irish Garden Bird Survey, which kicks off on Monday 1st December! We need records from as many gardens across Ireland as possible, so please spread the word! birdwatchireland.ie/irish-garden...