Spring Savings! 🌸
Get 1 month’s membership for €57 at a Dublin City Council Sports & Fitness Centre and get 1 month FREE for someone else!
Offer: 16–30 March 2026 (4:30pm).
T&Cs apply.
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If you are curious about Ireland's beautiful placenames, you might enjoy this story on the origins of the name Tallaght. There are many more facinating stories about the placenames of Ireland in 'That Place We Call Home'. Now Available in bookshops & online. #seachtainnagaeilge
Near FM logo in green, white, and orange
Ní neart go cur le chéile. #spéirghorm
Our Song by @urchinette.bsky.social and Three Apples fell from the sky by Narine Abgaryan.
Both gorgeous books!
"A contemporary and gorgeous story of adoption from Vietnam to Kerry, the love of her small family and the power of the Irish language to overcome loss, racism & online trolls"
March 5th marks #worldbookday Would you like to support me? Consider my book!
www.newisland.ie/shop/p/anseo #irishauthors
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"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
Can't stop laughing at a story my friend told me yesterday about going to meet a work contact at the gates of Trinity. He went up to another waiting man and said "Are you Michael?" "Yes" "Will we go for a coffee?" "Sure." Over a coffee he realises it's not the Michael he's meant to be meeting.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
This.
A 13min mobility and strength improvement routine to learn, and use 3x weekly.
No kit.
No complicated instructions.
You can do this in your pyjamas.
You work at your own level - and watch yourself progress.
Thanks @profdevisridhar.bsky.social
I’ve seen some bizarre exercises online. If I were an influencer, this is the one workout I’d recommend | Devi Sridhar
A new logo from now until #StPatricksDay. 2 weeks+ of celebrating an inclusive and diverse republic.
Fáiltímid roimh obair as Gaeilge 🇮🇪
Filíocht, Ficsean, agus Neamhfhicsean.
13ú – 23ú Feabhra
🫶
howlwriting.ie
@forasnagaeilge @gael_linn @cnagaeilge @glor_nangael @irishwithmollie @gaeilgevibes @gaeilge_bheo
Utterly floored by every interview of Gisèle Pelicot’s, and her ability to speak about the terrible things that happened to her with such eloquence.
And what a much-needed right it is in the world that she has been able to find love again. ‘Hope is allowed’
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
📚 The Dublin Literary Award 2026 Longlist has been revealed!
This year’s longlist features 20 titles nominated by 26 libraries from around the world and includes novels by two Irish authors.
Explore the longlist here: https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/prize-years/2026/
The Straight Story
Florence Foster Jenkins
I know where I'm going!
Like someone in love - Björk 🥰
Four years ago, an Irish language and cultural centre located in the former Broadway Presbyterian Church, which opened in 1896 but closed in 1982, opened its doors for a congregation to return.
Heartwarming is a perfect word for this story, worth being on bluesky lest you miss it.
A vigil was held at the site of the former Stardust nightclub in Artane today, 45 years on from the devastating fire that claimed the lives of 48 young people jrnl.ie/6957348
In Ireland, we don't call it Home Alone. We call Mo Chónaí Culkin and I think that's beautiful
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE MINNEAPOLIS painted on a wall in the style of the Free Derry Corner.
This rules. I love how delighted they all look!
Worth adding that it's also ridiculously easy to get a library card, and these days your card gives you access to eBooks, online magazines and newspapers, and more (including, in some libraries, 3D printers!). AND your card can be used in any local authority's library!
A vending machine library, with a sign telling us it is The Little Library (in Irish An Leabharlann Beag).
I love this in Tallaght University Hospital. One day all hospitals will have libraries for bored patients and their families.
All credit to South Dublin Libraries. That’s the kind of innovation we like to see.
Women behind the mic broadcasting course starting soon
The world needs more women on the airwaves!
Have you ever listened to the radio and thought: “Why does no-one talk about…? Why does no-one ever play…? I’d love to do that!”
How long are we going to hear about “legitimate debates and concerns about immigration?” It’s time we told the truth and deal with it. Net migration is low, we need more migrants, we are an ageing population. Highly skilled and low paid jobs are dependent on migrants. We need safe and legal routes.
Post a banger not in English
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Cannot wait to read the forthcoming novel by @louisekennedy.bsky.social. Set between Ireland and England, starting in 1982, it tells the story of Róisín and Red.
Out in September @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stations-...
