Karen O’Connell

a woman in a black dress is standing in front of a blue background with her arms outstretched . Alt: Short clip from video for the Ketchup Song - 3 women wearing black dresses dancing on a beach

Watching Ep 4 of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast be like #iykyk - all the nostalgia with this soundtrack

The amount of events and festivals around the country using genAI for their promotional images is slightly maddening. All about supporting local, except their local artists.

#AICIC26 – All-Ireland Conference on Integrated Care @ificinfo.bsky.social
12 May 2026 | UCD

From goodwill to good systems: leadership & governance that make integrated care work in practice.

Join the conversation! lnkd.in/eNarXdv4

#IntegratedCare #Sláintecare #HealthLeadership

🚨 🚨 🚨 Murder She Wrote in Ireland ep at @tg4.bsky.social 5 noiméad #spéirgorm

AI will not save us In fact, it's probably going to make our lives much, much worse

In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words.

On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape.

www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...

FWIW from me, as someone who’s watched almost all full Limerick Council meetings since John Moran became mayor (and a considerable number before as well), I wouldn’t describe it as “credible”.

I’d describe it as “accurate”.

I could take a thousand words to say that, but that’ll do.

It’s accurate.

Andy Farrell (behind) and Martin Corry, of England, tackling Ronan O’Gara. Ireland won that game (2007 in Croke Park) 43-13, the biggest ever margin of victory for Ireland over England.

Andy Farrell has been involved in both of Ireland’s biggest wins over England this century.

I really try not to wish people to suffer for eternity, but I have friends with MS and the thought that RFK and his enablers have blocked a cure for the whole world makes me think there’s no torment great enough

Samhradh

Something compelled me to make this

👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

Every American needs to watch this:

Only 7,496 Irish people have actually signed this petition.
Don't presume someone else will, please sign it. 🙏🙏

This isn't just another random petition of the 100s you have signed the last 2 years, this is an officially recognized citizen portal to getting laws changed in Europe.

#Speirgorm

“While the UK government is making plans to build skyscrapers over the remains of Gaza’s buried children, Khalid’s actions expose the barbarity & racist hypocrisy of the UK legal system.By Monday, we can expect this young man to be well in the process of dying if not dead.”

No. It should instead regulate provider and enforce existing laws around the generation of CSAM and image-based sexual abuse content.

The government shamefully votes down a Bill to tackle the dereliction crisis.

It's a national scandal that we have over 50,000 homes sitting vacant for more than six years during a homeless crisis. We need use it or lose it legislation.

We don't need our laws strengthened, we just need the laws we have to be enforced.

First rule of Dingle football, there are always more Geaneys 😂

Can someone tell Cork City Council its a housing emergency, with record nos of families & children without a home They've spent €1.1m in last 5 years alone on shuttering hundreds of empty homes This one is empty since jude sherry & I moved here in 2018 #DerelictIreland

Can someone tell Cork City Council its a housing emergency, with record nos of families & children without a home
They've spent €1.1 million in last 5 years alone on shuttering hundreds of empty homes
This one is empty since @judesherry.bsky.social & I moved here in 2018
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

It's 21 years since these 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork were complete They've never been used Shame on owner Dunnes Stores, Cork County Council & the Irish Government for allowing this in a housing emergency This is why we need compulsory rental & custodian squatting #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

It's 21 years since these 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork were complete
They've never been used
Shame on owner Dunnes Stores, Cork County Council & the Irish Government for allowing this in a housing emergency
This is why we need compulsory rental & custodian squatting
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

A bumper year for Irish athletics: 25 medals won and the athletes who won them It’s rare for Irish athletes to win medals across such a wide range of events in a single year

A bumper year for Irish athletics: 25 medals won and the athletes who won them

Social Democrats ‘hugely concerned’ by nitrates derogation extension The extension of the nitrates derogation must be used to draw up plans for its phase out, says Jennifer Whitmore of Social Democrats.

“This will be our sixth nitrates derogation since 2006. Every time the derogation is extended, we hear the same commitments that water quality will improve.

It has yet to happen. In fact, our waterways are continuing to deteriorate."

Well said, Jennifer Whitmore 👏
www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

I been saying.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I really believe the County parade is our first step towards a United Ireland.
#LateLateToyShow

It’s a vocation

Put all the Eurovision budget into next years Toy Show.

#LateLateToyShow #ToyShow

This month's #WeeDote Award goes to Keelan and Dylan #LateLateToyShow

A man in a jumper wipes his eye with a tissue as two boys smile and laugh beside him

Literally everyone watching the #LateLateToyShow right now

#LateLateToyShow

Normalise boys showing emotion.