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Karen Mulreid
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Mam, feminist, reader. Runner up in Miss Junior Cherry Orchard 1985. #FreePalestine She/Her Kildare, Ireland. #FuckConorMcGregor
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Brave brave woman. So thrilled for her that she has been vindicated. Fuck Conor McGregor forever
Trying to book a routine annual-ish asthma check up for my young lad in the GP and despite there being like six doctors in the practice, there seems to be no availability for like the next nine weeks? Nothing at all, all slots greyed out and booked up. Nine weeks?!
February 5, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Do you think - and this is just a suggestion now - that the absolute thundering racist cunts on social media platforms could give it a fucking rest, for one day like? Do you think? That awful bus crash in town and the first comment on nearly every platform is some form of blaming migrants.
February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I would take a picture of, and show you, the size of the mouth ulcer inside my cheek but it'd put you off your dinner for a full calendar month. It's easily half the area of my mouth. It's all glamour over here of a BH Monday, I tell you. Though, I bought a fab yellow jumper today so that's nice.
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Shrinking is back!! Yay! It's so good. And I just love Harrison Ford in it.
January 28, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I used to work in local newspapers and wrote news articles about local Cllrs giving out about scramblers in parks and in estates, warning how dangerous they are. That was 27 years ago. Nothing changes. Enforcement doesn't seem to work. That poor girl and her poor family left behind. #speirgorm
January 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The shite thing about chronic illness is often not the illness itself, it's sometimes the tiredness that comes along with it. I'm so wiped at the minute by 5pm I'm just done, everything goes on the long finger, there's energy for nothing else. The spoons have been used up! #Crohns #spoons
January 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
So where are we with the Beckham wedding video? You've had almost 24 hours and I'm getting tired of waiting. Someone has it, it's a matter of public interest at this stage. Make no mistake, I WILL riot if I have to.
January 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I need to see Brooklyn Beckham's wedding video of THAT first dance more than I need my next breath. We put man on the moon, we can unearth this video. #speirgorm
January 19, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The absolute mortification and awkwardness of having someone in your house doing a job for you (plumber today). He's entirely normal, I am the basket case nervously hovering in my sitting room. Like a gobshite! I am 47, I can no longer be normal with people. Is it an Irish thing?! #speirgorm
January 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I hope there's some proper outcome here for his Mam. One of the strangest cases I've ever read. I hope there's some justice.
A long-awaited inquest to set to get under way into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe.

The 14-year-old was found dead in a storm drain in June 2020, six days after he went missing as he cycled to meet friends.
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Long-awaited inquest into death of Belfast teenager Noah Donohoe due to start later
The 14-year-old was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020, six days after he went missing as he cycled to meet friends.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Have stuck a banana and a chocolate coin (still wading through the Christmas chocolate) into the child's bag for school tomorrow as they're starting the free hot lunches in his place this week. It's so odd not to be making sandwiches! We'll see how it goes! #speirgorm
January 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM
My kingdom for chicken breast pieces that aren't full of gocky gristly bits. That's all!
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Checked my bank balance there thinking 'surely the February child benefit went in today, didn't it, happy days'. Yeah, it's January 13. There'll be no child benefit for another three full weeks despite it having been January already for six months.
January 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I'm in the loo and just heard my son downstairs shriek something and then my husband said OH MY GOD really loudly so either someone puked or Liverpool are losing or possibly scored? I don't know if they're even playing tonight but loudness in this house is usually puke or LFC. I can't.
January 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Ah, it'd be rude not to.
January 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I would like it known please that on this day, in the year of Our Lord 2025 I did the weekly grocery shop with BOTH my knickers AND my tights slipping down to the tops of my thighs. The WHOLE shop. With BOTH my knickers and tights fallen down. Please, no autographs. #speirgorm
January 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Listen, eat what you want. Truly, whatever you want to put in your mouth, do so. But fat free Greek yogurt, with cottage cheese and manky protein powder isn't a cheesecake. Alright? I don't care what vile concoctions you make, but cheesecake has biscuits and butter and cream cheese and sugar. Ta.
January 7, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Burger for dinner but with a rocket salad for HEALTH you see. Balance. It's all about the BALANCE. And HEALTH. *wipes burger grease off chin* Yars, indeed, HEALTH.
January 6, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The year of our lord 2025 and nobody has invented a 'peel here' tab that actually peels. Cars can drive themselves, we have the whole world on a 6 inch screen in our pockets, pictures of Neptune, you name it. Yet I'm still attacking the ham packet with a knife?
January 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
My husband bought me a big tube of Smarties for Christmas as a nostalgia present as I always had one in my stocking as a kid and lads - LADS - I had forgotten about it and found it today!! A whole big giant tube of Smarties for me! Truly, this is a New Year resolution I can get behind!
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Happy New Year! #speirgorm
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
The beige food has been plated up. I repeat - the beige food has been plated up. Happy New Year! #speirgorm
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
There is no justification for this. None. If you're condoning this you're a genocidal scumbag.
Israel has announced the suspension of more than two dozen humanitarian organisations from working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in its latest action taken against NGOs that operate in Palestine.
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Israel bans Doctors Without Borders and around 25 other NGOs from working in Gaza
NGOs and UN agencies have consistently disputed Israeli claims about how much aid is entering the devastated territory.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Having a boiling cup of tea (burnt the mouth off myself) cos I'm bloody freezing. I've been making 'grand stretch' jokes since the 21st but seriously when is the actual grand stretch coming cos I'm at the end of my rope with this dank cold business. Like seriously meteorologists, when is it coming?
December 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I don't struggle with 'what day is it' over Christmas anymore cos my old lady peri menopause heart palpitation pills come in a daily blister pack. So I always know what day it is! #auld
December 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM