What's the point of negotiations if there isn't a commitment in advance to give an inflation-busting pay raise to workers who have seen their real incomes eroded by 5% over the last few years?
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
October 16, 2026 at 10:45 AM
What's the point of negotiations if there isn't a commitment in advance to give an inflation-busting pay raise to workers who have seen their real incomes eroded by 5% over the last few years?
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers #SpéirGhorm
I don’t think the government and their fellow travellers in the medija realise how very angry people are - with the spectacular mess they’ve made amid a rising cost of everything crisis #uptheworkers
Stephen Collins in today’s IT 🤬🤬carrying water for a government who don’t want to engage with the unions,casting blame on a public service that delivers for people & not a government that’s supine before a tech bro driven neo capitalist agenda!My 19 year old self was right-bring on the revolution. ✊🏼
October 16, 2026 at 8:07 AM
I don’t think the government and their fellow travellers in the medija realise how very angry people are - with the spectacular mess they’ve made amid a rising cost of everything crisis #uptheworkers
Yesterday's strike showed the reality that it's workers, with public sector workers at their heart, that makes our society run.
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
October 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Yesterday's strike showed the reality that it's workers, with public sector workers at their heart, that makes our society run.
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
No weather forecast, no Dáil, no schools, no street cleaning, massively reduced hospitals.
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
"Streets not getting cleaned, the Dáil not sitting, the weather not being forecast. You see the power of public sector workers."
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
October 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
"Streets not getting cleaned, the Dáil not sitting, the weather not being forecast. You see the power of public sector workers."
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
The reason for the level of support is clear - people get it. A win for public sector workers is a win for all!
#FightForYourRights #JoinAUnion #UpTheWorkers
Dismal.
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Virkkunen ends her speech, mostly about how the EU will be an “AI Continent” with a reference to Sean’s Heaney’s Digging, saying every generation has its instrument - and maybe our pen / shovel is AI
Our culture is really being mined here today
Her speech ends and she and An Taoiseach flee
Our culture is really being mined here today
Her speech ends and she and An Taoiseach flee
October 14, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Dismal.
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Mortifying
Stealing culture and human creativity like all techbro goons
Hope Seamus Heaney's family sue for this misrepresentation!
#UpTheWorkers Remember, today is the day of the #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
If you are working from home and cannot attend outside your county for whatever reason, ask the local workplace rep or union rep to allow you to join the strike locally. #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM
If you are working from home and cannot attend outside your county for whatever reason, ask the local workplace rep or union rep to allow you to join the strike locally. #uptheworkers
Make sure you email your TDs and tell them you support the workers Striking. #uptheworkers #speirgorm
I support all the public and civil service on strike today. #SpeirGhorm #TradeUnions
October 14, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Make sure you email your TDs and tell them you support the workers Striking. #uptheworkers #speirgorm
Taking the opportunity to teach my kids what a strike is, what a picket is and how to support the workers.
#UpTheWorkers
#UpTheWorkers
I love this. I toured the town with my boys to beep at them. Then we visited their school with treats for the teachers.
My little lad who's FOUR says "mama roll down my window" as we were leaving. I complied.
"Up the workers" he shouts at them 🤣
I've never been prouder
My little lad who's FOUR says "mama roll down my window" as we were leaving. I complied.
"Up the workers" he shouts at them 🤣
I've never been prouder
October 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Taking the opportunity to teach my kids what a strike is, what a picket is and how to support the workers.
#UpTheWorkers
#UpTheWorkers
Big crowd at Mater & Mountjoy too ... #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Big crowd at Mater & Mountjoy too ... #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
#Spéirghorm this is how it's done! #uptheworkers
Myself & my senior infant (with baby in tow) did a wee tour of the local pickets and honked away while I explained strikes to her. Then we picked up her sister from preschool and made buns for her teachers before walking down to give them out at the picket line. #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
#Spéirghorm this is how it's done! #uptheworkers
No, it's Machine Learning that is useful to scientists -conflating it with AI means people equate ML with #LLM #GenAI and #AIslop
It's PR shilling talk, they are not the same
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
It's PR shilling talk, they are not the same
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
"There are huge potentials for AI in biology.
We are using AI to understand the fundamentals of biology.
We use AI not only because of speed (discusses how tasks that'd have taken days now take hours) but AI also enables discovery."
Nora Khaldi, Nuritas #AISUMMITIE
We are using AI to understand the fundamentals of biology.
We use AI not only because of speed (discusses how tasks that'd have taken days now take hours) but AI also enables discovery."
Nora Khaldi, Nuritas #AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
No, it's Machine Learning that is useful to scientists -conflating it with AI means people equate ML with #LLM #GenAI and #AIslop
It's PR shilling talk, they are not the same
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
It's PR shilling talk, they are not the same
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Lol this might be what crashes it!
But the poor electronic engineers that designed the chips have designed themselves out of jobs?
Yeah, but #VibeCoding track record & lack of error handling etc...
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
But the poor electronic engineers that designed the chips have designed themselves out of jobs?
Yeah, but #VibeCoding track record & lack of error handling etc...
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
$NVDA - NVIDIA AND CHIPAGENTS LAUNCH EVALUATION FOR AI-POWERED CHIP DESIGN - THE INFORMATION
October 14, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Lol this might be what crashes it!
But the poor electronic engineers that designed the chips have designed themselves out of jobs?
Yeah, but #VibeCoding track record & lack of error handling etc...
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
But the poor electronic engineers that designed the chips have designed themselves out of jobs?
Yeah, but #VibeCoding track record & lack of error handling etc...
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Funny how it's theft when someone does it to them #OpenAI
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
OpenAI: Files leaked by employee also include manufacturing data about devices - OpenAI brief in Apple vs OpenAI lawsuit $AAPL
October 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Funny how it's theft when someone does it to them #OpenAI
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #IoT #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
It's a big week for AI summits in Dublin so in anticipation of the regulation rhetoric about to stem from the industry at these meetings, I'd like to remind you of reasons to bear a healthy scepticism in mind on this matter...
Full interview: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cla...
Full interview: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/cla...
October 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Mairead McGuinness nods as Zalando and Siemens talk about value creation, application layers and 8% increases in inventory something something
Meanwhile the guy who had to fly through Munich appears to be falling asleep, and whoever the Redbull can was holding a seat for never showed up
Meanwhile the guy who had to fly through Munich appears to be falling asleep, and whoever the Redbull can was holding a seat for never showed up
October 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The trains out of it are lovely & quiet tho! #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
The trains out of it are lovely & quiet tho! #UpTheWorkers
Got talking to Elaine at the picket at Cheeverstown about why she's out protesting today with her union and other workers.
The support from the public is really overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
The support from the public is really overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Got talking to Elaine at the picket at Cheeverstown about why she's out protesting today with her union and other workers.
The support from the public is really overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
The support from the public is really overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
Of course effin' BoNo
I bet he's going to AI himself full #TESCREAL narcissistic weirdo that he is
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
I bet he's going to AI himself full #TESCREAL narcissistic weirdo that he is
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Martin kicks us off, after a Riverdance-esque drum & dance show to the recorded tones of Bono
October 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Of course effin' BoNo
I bet he's going to AI himself full #TESCREAL narcissistic weirdo that he is
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
I bet he's going to AI himself full #TESCREAL narcissistic weirdo that he is
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Here's where An Taoiseach is on the day of the #GeneralStrike
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
There is a smoke machine, but shoes are shiny but sensible, the handbags are YSL, a man refuses to move a can of redbull to let a person on crutches sit down, the Taoiseach walks in and takes his seat and no one notices.
October 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Here's where An Taoiseach is on the day of the #GeneralStrike
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
This is the rhetoric at the AI Summit today in Dublin, on the day of the #GeneralStrike
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
The CEO of Ryanair making a quip that French air traffic controllers go on strike "because it's a Tuesday" got warm giggles from the audience. So that's the vibe at the AI Summit taking place during a public sector strike and which afforded all of 5 mins of speaking time to 1 rep from a trade union.
October 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This is the rhetoric at the AI Summit today in Dublin, on the day of the #GeneralStrike
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
#UpTheWorkers #PublicSectorStrikes
#AIslop #DataCenters #Idiot #SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGorm #AISummitIE
Talked to Sorcha at the massive picket at SDCC about why she's out protesting today with her union and other workers.
The support from the public is overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all.✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
The support from the public is overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all.✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Talked to Sorcha at the massive picket at SDCC about why she's out protesting today with her union and other workers.
The support from the public is overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all.✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
The support from the public is overwhelming. A win for public sector workers is a win for all.✊
#JoinAUnion #FightForYourRights #UpTheWorkers
Myself & my senior infant (with baby in tow) did a wee tour of the local pickets and honked away while I explained strikes to her. Then we picked up her sister from preschool and made buns for her teachers before walking down to give them out at the picket line. #uptheworkers
October 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Myself & my senior infant (with baby in tow) did a wee tour of the local pickets and honked away while I explained strikes to her. Then we picked up her sister from preschool and made buns for her teachers before walking down to give them out at the picket line. #uptheworkers
Extract from the Cork Examiner, 1938 where my great grandfather Christopher Lettice is nominated to represent Cork Vehicle Builders on the Cork Workers Council. Proud to carry on that tradition of solidarity today. #UptheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Extract from the Cork Examiner, 1938 where my great grandfather Christopher Lettice is nominated to represent Cork Vehicle Builders on the Cork Workers Council. Proud to carry on that tradition of solidarity today. #UptheWorkers
Out and about today so lots of beeping for the workers on strike. @forsatradeunion.bsky.social #speirgorm #UpTheWorkers
October 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Out and about today so lots of beeping for the workers on strike. @forsatradeunion.bsky.social #speirgorm #UpTheWorkers