Deryck
@dfit.ie
Transport geek, software sector consultant, husband of Justin, servant to Freya, author of Connecting A Nation connectinganation.ie 🏳️🌈 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
I think all train carriages should have a dog.
#dogsontransit
#dogsontransit
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I think all train carriages should have a dog.
#dogsontransit
#dogsontransit
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Just under four hundred years ago this week, someone in Sweden said:
"Look. Let's just get it out there. We can fix any issues post launch."
#vasa
"Look. Let's just get it out there. We can fix any issues post launch."
#vasa
August 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Just under four hundred years ago this week, someone in Sweden said:
"Look. Let's just get it out there. We can fix any issues post launch."
#vasa
"Look. Let's just get it out there. We can fix any issues post launch."
#vasa
I know the Burkes are batsh*t crazy, but do they really think that the Hebron Free Presbyterian Church in Ballymoney is a "state church implementing government ideology"?!
The PSNI is carrying out inquiries into an incident where members of the Burke family confronted a DUP councillor outside a Presbyterian church.
Investigation after Burke family confronts DUP councillor
The PSNI is carrying out inquiries into an incident where members of the Burke family confronted a DUP councillor outside a Presbyterian church.
www.rte.ie
August 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I know the Burkes are batsh*t crazy, but do they really think that the Hebron Free Presbyterian Church in Ballymoney is a "state church implementing government ideology"?!
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Connecting a nation : the story of telecommunications in Ireland is available to request from your local library - librariesireland.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...
#irishhistory #spéirghorm #booksky
#irishhistory #spéirghorm #booksky
#westmeath features quite prominently in the history of telecommunications in Ireland, partly due to the radio transmitter at Moydrum. Its power caused problems at the start of WW2:
July 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Connecting a nation : the story of telecommunications in Ireland is available to request from your local library - librariesireland.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...
#irishhistory #spéirghorm #booksky
#irishhistory #spéirghorm #booksky
Spotted in the Irish Writers Centre. Never converted to euro so hasn’t been used for at least 23 years. #speirgorm
July 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Spotted in the Irish Writers Centre. Never converted to euro so hasn’t been used for at least 23 years. #speirgorm
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I've lived in London for 30 years.
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
July 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I've lived in London for 30 years.
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda.
Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2
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Look at this cool map by @briggsrogers.bsky.social visualising the number of reports to collisiontracker.ie per 30m/sq, including accidents, near misses and hazards.
July 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Look at this cool map by @briggsrogers.bsky.social visualising the number of reports to collisiontracker.ie per 30m/sq, including accidents, near misses and hazards.
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Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London.
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
They hate London because it is beautiful
Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London.
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Harry Gruyaert took the photo bottom right in Kerry in 1983, but where? #Kerry people do you recognise this Maxol forecourt?
#Ireland #speirgorm
#Ireland #speirgorm
June 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Harry Gruyaert took the photo bottom right in Kerry in 1983, but where? #Kerry people do you recognise this Maxol forecourt?
#Ireland #speirgorm
#Ireland #speirgorm
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May 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Absolutely true!
April 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Absolutely true!
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Russian propagandists and their geopolitical ambitions. This clip is from earlier this week.
"And we'll help Trump take Greenland. And Canada."
"And Ireland."
"He didn't ask for it."
"It's a holiday. St. Patrick's Day."
"Maybe Ireland wants to go to Russia. How do you know?"
"How? Again?”
"And we'll help Trump take Greenland. And Canada."
"And Ireland."
"He didn't ask for it."
"It's a holiday. St. Patrick's Day."
"Maybe Ireland wants to go to Russia. How do you know?"
"How? Again?”
March 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Russian propagandists and their geopolitical ambitions. This clip is from earlier this week.
"And we'll help Trump take Greenland. And Canada."
"And Ireland."
"He didn't ask for it."
"It's a holiday. St. Patrick's Day."
"Maybe Ireland wants to go to Russia. How do you know?"
"How? Again?”
"And we'll help Trump take Greenland. And Canada."
"And Ireland."
"He didn't ask for it."
"It's a holiday. St. Patrick's Day."
"Maybe Ireland wants to go to Russia. How do you know?"
"How? Again?”
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For the day that's in it 👀 #speirgorm #speirghorm
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A Notorious Brit - T-shirt
Wrestling oddities and angry socio-political rantings
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March 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For the day that's in it 👀 #speirgorm #speirghorm
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Canada giving Marco Rubio the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere.
March 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Canada giving Marco Rubio the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere.
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The share of renewables* in energy for heating and cooling reached 26% across the EU in 2023. Ireland ranks the lowest, at 7.9%.
*heat pumps, biomass, renewable waste heat etc.
*heat pumps, biomass, renewable waste heat etc.
March 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The share of renewables* in energy for heating and cooling reached 26% across the EU in 2023. Ireland ranks the lowest, at 7.9%.
*heat pumps, biomass, renewable waste heat etc.
*heat pumps, biomass, renewable waste heat etc.
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The fact that there might be a conclave so close to a movie about one has really motivated me to finish my screenplay "The Tech CEO Who Died of Diarrhea So Explosive The Coroner Said He Had No Lower Back to Speak Of"
March 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The fact that there might be a conclave so close to a movie about one has really motivated me to finish my screenplay "The Tech CEO Who Died of Diarrhea So Explosive The Coroner Said He Had No Lower Back to Speak Of"
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Zelensky must have been surprised. He went to Whitehouse and ended up speaking to Kremlin.
March 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Zelensky must have been surprised. He went to Whitehouse and ended up speaking to Kremlin.
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Front cover of The Star sums it up....
February 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Front cover of The Star sums it up....
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The Daily Star this morning is brutal.
February 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The Daily Star this morning is brutal.
February 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes.
There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.
Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.
Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
February 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes.
There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.
Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.
Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
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Well #SpéirGorm it's official we've the best postcode system youtu.be/1K5oDtVAYzk?...
The Hidden Pattern in Post Codes
YouTube video by CGP Grey
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January 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Well #SpéirGorm it's official we've the best postcode system youtu.be/1K5oDtVAYzk?...