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Launch of Hedgehog Conservation Ireland — new initiative to support and conserve the small mammals nationwide

"Best things you can do are try to leave little parts of your garden a little bit wild - log piles or piles of leaves. Put away the chemicals - the slug pellets are bad news for hedgehogs"

Welcoming the Year of the Horse — a fresh stride into light, luck, and new beginnings. May this new year bring calm momentum, steady progress, and moments that feel like open sky. 新年快乐 to all celebrating today.

Just popping in to say that Small Prophets is lovely, melancholic, funny, sweet, strange and deals with serious topics with the lightest of touches. Everybody please watch so that Mackenzie Crook keeps getting to make things like this.

Pleased to report Small Prophets is ace, a Joy. Mackenzie Crook is a national treasure.

And Kerry

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just had a quick look and the product sounds good. They are HQ’d in the USA though.

European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

You might find this site interesting- European alternatives to a wide range of software: european-alternatives.eu

The Kerryman and Kerry’s Eye. Not sure about Letters to the Editor though.

🚨 BREAKING: #NoBarriersToBlanch 🚨

Did you know? ANOTHER Vulture fund has quietly went under the radar to turn the Leisureplex into retail units. Objection windows have passed!

Sign our petition; Change.org/NoBarriersToBlanch

Keep up to date; linktr.ee/Luke.Daly
#dubW #DublinWest #spéirgorm

Save Dublin's Iconic Landmark: Help Preserve St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre from Redesign by Signing Now! 5,180 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

Here's the link to the petition to help preserve St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre from the proposed monstrosity. #SaveStStephensGreen #Dublin #SpeirGorm

c.org/BgQnkd8DCN

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She did & kept her alliance in place

Can’t remember the details but there was and probably still is a weekly meet-up for people wanting to chat in Irish in Listowel. If you’re North Kerry, you probably already know the Writers Museum/Seanchai & I’d guess they might know where & when they meet

RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab

Pink & Green Aurora over some rooftops

Mostly Green aurora

Three bursts of green aurora with a faint touch of pink

Pink Aurora with some pale green and a sliver of cloud

Dublin City

Fabulous version of your intro music this morning - keep that one!

A Dora ble (adorable)

Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh! 👯🍸🎄

A pale full moon over Co. Clare, over a fairly still high tide, with a pier in the foreground

Golden sun descending towards Tarbert Woods and the light reflecting on the full tide and the old pier

The first full-moonrise of 2026 and sunset over the Shannon #Speirgorm #IrishSky #FullMoon #sunset #Kerry

Forgot to hashtag! #Speirgorm #IrishSky #NYE #NewYear #2026

People lining up with torches

Musicians and torch-bearers getting set up for the march

The crowd builds as people fall in as the march passes

Everyone gathers back in the village Square to countdown the New Year & then sing a few songs. It’s a great place to meet old friends as do many return for this special night. People hug and wish each other well in front of the Christmas tree

Beating Out the Old Year in Tarbert, Co. Kerry. It’s a very old tradition that’s died out in many other places. We take the light to the different corners of the town.

Just started now! #Solistice #Newgrange #SpeirGorm #IrishSky

The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice

Know the weather forecast isn’t great for Sunday morning but delighted that the Solstice is being live-streamed & broadcast again from Newgrange www.gov.ie/en/office-of... 🤞 the clouds clear for those few minutes #SpeirGhorm #IrishSky #Solstice #ShortestDay #Nollaig #GrandAuldStretch #Newgrange

The Speir Gorm feed is gone, this replacement Spéir Ghorm collects the same set of hashtags in text and alt-text as the deleted one. #speirgorm

Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week

"There’s no genuine, citizen-driven demand to ban veggie burgers or sausages – just a meat industry push to protect its profit margins from a rising tide of dietary change” - Joel Scott-Halkes, @weplanetint.bsky.social

Yes, I find them weird and feel they lack soul.

Adopting this as my excuse!

#MeidasTouch ad that isn’t being played on US #FOXNews.

#Share #Canada #USA #UK #GERMANY #France #Ireland #Scotland #Finland #AUS #NZ #SouthKorea #Taiwan #EU #Ukraine #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Sweden #Japan