Morag Friel
@moragfriel.bsky.social
She/her
Loves swearing + outdoor socialising
Hates fash of any kind
Proudly pro LGBTQI+, pro 🇵🇸 + pro anything that opposes people fucking up the planet
12 months into Long Covid; it sucks
Wd like to see more non-US politics posts on Bsky
#spéirgorm
Loves swearing + outdoor socialising
Hates fash of any kind
Proudly pro LGBTQI+, pro 🇵🇸 + pro anything that opposes people fucking up the planet
12 months into Long Covid; it sucks
Wd like to see more non-US politics posts on Bsky
#spéirgorm
Captain Picard sings "Make it So" (Let it Snow)
YouTube video by Mike Millington
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December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Disgusting. And Irish politicians are encouraging this type of behaviour with their not so subtle dog whistling against immigrants/asylum seekers.
Asylum seekers have told of how they were followed by men on motorcycles before being subjected to an alleged attack in rural Co Dublin yesterday.
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
The incident – which saw the young men beaten and their car windows smashed – has been condemned.
www.thejournal.ie/brittas-asyl...
'They started punching us': Asylum seekers followed before alleged attack in Co Dublin village
One man who came on the scene told of how the men had been ‘badly beaten’ and left bloody by the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Disgusting. And Irish politicians are encouraging this type of behaviour with their not so subtle dog whistling against immigrants/asylum seekers.
Irish govt slaughters (“culling” is such a cop-out word!) innocent badgers because farming practices are causing rampant bovine TB. The irony of them being a protected species…. It’s cruel, lazy and stupid - shd have been outlawed years ago.
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
www.thejournal.ie/badger-culli...
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
www.thejournal.ie/badger-culli...
Over 80% of badgers culled in government TB programme found to be free from the disease
More than 8,000 badgers destroyed by DAFM in a nation-wide crackdown to eradicate bovine tuberculosis were found to be infection free following post-mortems.
www.thejournal.ie
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Irish govt slaughters (“culling” is such a cop-out word!) innocent badgers because farming practices are causing rampant bovine TB. The irony of them being a protected species…. It’s cruel, lazy and stupid - shd have been outlawed years ago.
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
www.thejournal.ie/badger-culli...
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
www.thejournal.ie/badger-culli...
This is so fucking sinister. The proscription of Palestine Action is so wrong - and the consequences for people like Sally Rooney, not to mention the protesters arrested by the UK police, are totally unjust.
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Sally Rooney’s books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to 'uncertainty' caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the High Court has been told
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is so fucking sinister. The proscription of Palestine Action is so wrong - and the consequences for people like Sally Rooney, not to mention the protesters arrested by the UK police, are totally unjust.
Dr Zhivago eat
yr heart out!
yr heart out!
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Dr Zhivago eat
yr heart out!
yr heart out!
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What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
Ceasefire, my arse
BREAKING: Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 10 Palestinians since dawn, according to local sources on the ground.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g1ie0l
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g1ie0l
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ceasefire, my arse
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A series of artillery, air attacks hit near Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, as well as Gaza City.
LIVE: Israel attacks Gaza as large-scale recovery of bodies set to begin
A series of artillery, air attacks hit near Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, as well as Gaza City.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
A series of artillery, air attacks hit near Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, as well as Gaza City.
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I Am Not an Alcoholic: I was told the prosecco was free but the water was €7
I Am Not an Alcoholic: I was told the prosecco was free but the water was €7
Part 27: When I tell a waiter, ‘No, thank you, I don’t drink’, no sooner have the words left my mouth than my confidence wavers. Am I being too cocky?
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I Am Not an Alcoholic: I was told the prosecco was free but the water was €7
Colour me flabbergasted; our bottomless desire for cheap shit means that those who produce it are treated horrendously. 😡
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Colour me flabbergasted; our bottomless desire for cheap shit means that those who produce it are treated horrendously. 😡
Please sign this - not that we shd have to petition for an end to the use of victim’s counselling notes in legal cases against their abusers, but it seems we do…
Break down the barriers, put survivors first, end the use of Councillors and therapy notes in trails relating to Gender based violence ✊️
#Speirgorm
my.uplift.ie/petitions/en...
#Speirgorm
my.uplift.ie/petitions/en...
End the use of Counselling notes in sexual offence trials
Survivors of sexual violence deserve safety, dignity, and privacy when seeking counseling and support. For too long, the possibility that deeply personal counseling notes could be used against them in...
my.uplift.ie
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Please sign this - not that we shd have to petition for an end to the use of victim’s counselling notes in legal cases against their abusers, but it seems we do…
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This is so disgusting, so cruel and so inhumane. Not in my name.
Justice and Migration Minister Jim O'Callaghan said he's committed to ensuring Ireland is 'not viewed more favourably than the UK by those seeking to claim asylum'.
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
O'Callaghan 'committed' to ensuring Ireland not viewed 'more favourably' than the UK by asylum seekers
A new International Protection Bill to reform Ireland’s asylum system will be published later this year.
jrnl.ie
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is so disgusting, so cruel and so inhumane. Not in my name.
If you haven’t already pls sign this petition to ban fox hunting in Irl (can’t believe it’s not already 😡)
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
There's a bill to ban hunting foxes with packs of dogs coming before the dail on Dec 17th.
Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...
Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...
Petition to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland
Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?
my.uplift.ie
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you haven’t already pls sign this petition to ban fox hunting in Irl (can’t believe it’s not already 😡)
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
#spéirgorm #spéirghorm
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Yet another reason that Irish people support Palestine; we know the Israeli m.o. only far too well….
www.thejournal.ie/israeli-sold...
www.thejournal.ie/israeli-sold...
Israeli soldiers shoot at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
No injuries were reported in the incident.
www.thejournal.ie
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Yet another reason that Irish people support Palestine; we know the Israeli m.o. only far too well….
www.thejournal.ie/israeli-sold...
www.thejournal.ie/israeli-sold...
Kneecap sure do have a way with the focal!!
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Kneecap sure do have a way with the focal!!
Oh, Canada; Zionist tool….
Former Special Rapporteur Prof Richard Falk was en route to examine Canada’s role in the israeli genocide on Gaza, so Canada arrested him
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Oh, Canada; Zionist tool….
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Disgusting treatment of pro-Palestine protesters by British govt and prison system. No wonder they want out of the ECHR - they don’t want to be held accountable for their actions
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Disgusting treatment of pro-Palestine protesters by British govt and prison system. No wonder they want out of the ECHR - they don’t want to be held accountable for their actions
About time the cops took this seriously.
My two takeaways from this article; they’re blaming Eastern Europeans for the increasingly organised and violent development of the fash. And that Irish politicians are not called out for their role in encouraging anti-migrant and anti-Moslem rhetoric/action
My two takeaways from this article; they’re blaming Eastern Europeans for the increasingly organised and violent development of the fash. And that Irish politicians are not called out for their role in encouraging anti-migrant and anti-Moslem rhetoric/action
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
About time the cops took this seriously.
My two takeaways from this article; they’re blaming Eastern Europeans for the increasingly organised and violent development of the fash. And that Irish politicians are not called out for their role in encouraging anti-migrant and anti-Moslem rhetoric/action
My two takeaways from this article; they’re blaming Eastern Europeans for the increasingly organised and violent development of the fash. And that Irish politicians are not called out for their role in encouraging anti-migrant and anti-Moslem rhetoric/action
WTF?!
It's upsetting to see a chart like this. A radical overhaul of Ireland's approach to road safety is needed, centred on education, enforcement, and design
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
WTF?!
Fuck racist pols, scapegoating immigrants for problems actively created by government policies.
As an honorary Clare man (aka blow-in), I second Rob's call that the people of Clare deserve better leadership.
Clare has a strong history of welcoming immigrants, be they intercounty like myself, Northerners escaping the troubles, or of Indian, Asian, or African descent, or from anywhere else.
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Clare has a strong history of welcoming immigrants, be they intercounty like myself, Northerners escaping the troubles, or of Indian, Asian, or African descent, or from anywhere else.
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My letter in today's Clare Champion calling out the xenophobic dog-whistling from our local TD, Timmy Dooley, as well as Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy.
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Fuck racist pols, scapegoating immigrants for problems actively created by government policies.
Completely emboldened by the success of the genocide in Gaza settlers, supported by the Israeli state aiming to annihilate the rest of Palestine. While the world mostly turns away. It heralds a horrible future for all of humanity….
I’m following the situation in the West Bank for 6 years now
I have never seen so many incidents of settler violence PER DAY!
I have never seen so many incidents of settler violence PER DAY!
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Completely emboldened by the success of the genocide in Gaza settlers, supported by the Israeli state aiming to annihilate the rest of Palestine. While the world mostly turns away. It heralds a horrible future for all of humanity….
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"Nothing about us without us"
Our communities know the difficulties that come with deprivation and drug abuse.
The people on the ground involved in delivering these essential services have to be included in the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy.
Our communities know the difficulties that come with deprivation and drug abuse.
The people on the ground involved in delivering these essential services have to be included in the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy.
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Nothing about us without us"
Our communities know the difficulties that come with deprivation and drug abuse.
The people on the ground involved in delivering these essential services have to be included in the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy.
Our communities know the difficulties that come with deprivation and drug abuse.
The people on the ground involved in delivering these essential services have to be included in the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy.