Stephen Spillane

Reintroducing myself with some updates: ​🏗️ EMEA Health & Safety Manager ⚖️ Peace Commissioner & Cork City Local Community Safety Partnership Member 🏳️‍🌈 Chair of Gay Project ⛪ Churchwarden & Volunteer 📢 Political Activist & Campaigner Focused on safety, governance, and political change in #Cork. 👋

Transend-XR have released a video update on the work done so far, featuring me! www.linkedin.com/posts/transc... #testicularcancer #cancersurvivor

November at St Anne's, featuring our second Giving Thanks Christmas Market on Friday 20 (6 to 9pm) and Saturday 21 (11am to 5pm). Local makers and producers, raffles, tea and coffee, and special announcements on the Friday evening. More in the thread. ⠀ #ChristmasMarket #Cork

Thank you to everyone who made yesterday's Civic Harvest at St Anne's such a joy. Sheila Connolly, Cork Alliance Centre, the Lord Mayor, the Jazz Festival Committee, Lamorotte Jazzband and Carrigtwohill Gospel Choir, and all who helped decorate and prepare. #Shandon #Cork #CivicHarvest

Shandon on a Sunday

Clocks go back an hour this Sunday (25/10). Don't be early for church! Enjoy the extra hour in bed. ⠀ #StAnnesShandon #Shandon #Cork

One of the few politicians to support the Dublin Race Crisis Centre. Him and Green Party @oisinoconnordublin.bsky.social Gary Gannon says justice minister ordering removal of consent ad sets ‘dangerous precedent' jrnl.ie/7202000

what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not

Summary of Weather Warnings for #Ireland tonight & tomorrow: 🟡 Status Yellow Rain & Wind warning for Leinster & Munster: 7pm Thur – 10 am Fri. 🔶 Orange rain warning for Cork, Kerry, Waterford: 10 pm Thurs – 5 am Fri. 🔶 Orange rain warning for Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford: 2 am – 8 am Fri #Speirgorm

As predicted no UK mainstream media has mentioned the overturning of the New Zealand puberty-blocker ban, despite it being covered by Reuters.

The UN Biodiversity Conference in Yerevan 🇦🇲 has started. We are working to turn promises for nature into action: speed up delivery, boost funding, and include local communities and Indigenous Peoples. The EU stands behind our global commitments. More 👉 link.europa.eu/kYhGkc

I, an inteligent man, just presumed all rectangular flags were in the same ratio. I was wrong.

Hearing lots of beeps on South Mall as people drive pass the picket outside the Passport Office!

The Green Party supports union members who have been driven to take strike action this Wednesday. The Government needs to stop posturing, recognise that workers have been hit by months of inflation, and deliver a fair day's pay for a fair day's work.

Since UKIP & the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage has relied on Russian bots to amplify social media support, but, oh dear ... "Reform UK supporting accounts have almost gone silent after Ukraine hit a few of Russia’s big data centres" via Karen Maunder

Bit of positive news to start the week: the online voter registration system voter.ie is now live nationwide (having previously worked only for Dubliners) - now anyone in the State can register or update their details on the electoral register in a couple of minutes using only their PPS number.

Due to a break-in overnight at St Anne’s Church Shandon, the tower will remain closed today Sunday October 11th following our 10:15 am service. We will update our website if our closure continues beyond this www.stanneshandon.ie

Great update from Cllr Dan Boyle here on plans to stop parking on the new public square at South Main Street. Can't come soon enough! #Cork

When will political Unionism realise that Jamie Bryson is undermining its cause at every opportunity? He is a self serving parasite, with a record worse than Spurs start to this season.

Tonight at St Anne's: Blessed are the Cheesemakers. Free talks and tastings, 7:30pm to 8:30pm, part of the new Old Butter Roads Festival with @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social. ⠀ #Shandon #Cork #OldButterRoads

This gets more and more dangerous. I watched a driver exit here this evening by driving along the footpath and cycle lane to bypass traffic on the road. #Cork

Today's pins! #TheTraitors #Canada 🇨🇦 #lgbtcommunity 🏳️‍🌈 #ProtectTransLives 🏳️‍⚧️

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

Important international meeting of cities from across Europe at Cork City Hall today — the WHO Summit of Mayors on Climate and Health. Ending in a call to action on nature, food, transport, communities, and future generations. ℹ️ www.who.int/europe/news-...

A tenner a week for ordinary people in #Budget27 while corporations get €186 million in Capital Gains Tax reductions, €120 million in R&D tax credits. And if you have a shedsit, it's now called a "Designated Auxiliary Dwelling" and you don't have to pay any taxes on it!

#CorkTraffic Reports of a second collision on the N40 South Ring Road, westbound, between Mahon and Bloomfield. Take care on approach.

#CorkTraffic Reports of a multi-vehicle collision, eastbound, on the N40 South Ring Road between Junction 9 (N28) Ringaskiddy and Junction 10 Mahon (Cork). Take care on approach.

Like fucking clockwork. Utterly reliable in their shitery.

Meet West Cork Cheeses, Hegarty's Cheddar, Toonsbridge Dairy and The Bakestone, Perry Street. ⠀ Details: buff.ly/e3F0P4l ⠀ #Shandon #Cork #OldButterRoads

Blessed are the Cheesemakers: free talks and tastings at St Anne's, Friday 9th October, 7:30pm. ⠀ Part of the new Old Butter Roads Festival with @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social, celebrating Cork's food heritage in Shandon, where all butter roads once led. 🧀

In last years budget, SEAI was allocated €640 million to support home retrofit. Min Chambers has just announced that SEAI will get €654.5 million in 2027 for retrofit. A €14.5 million increase. A 2% increase.

A good morning at the WHO Summit in #Cork today. Looking forward to the rest of the summit.

Last few days to nominate in the Out and Outstanding in Cork Awards run by the Gay Project! gayproject.ie/out-and-outs... #Cork #Speirgorm #Corcaigh

Our new Bishop, Andrew Orr, was consecrated on Wednesday at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Read about the service and see the photos here: buff.ly/rSaNfqI #Cork #ChurchOfIreland

Congratulations to Bishop Orr, consecrated today as Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. Every blessing from all of us at St Anne's Shandon. His enthronement is at St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, on Sunday 4 Oct at 3:30 pm. ⠀ #Shandon #Cork

This march was designed to spread tensions and hatred, and to intimidate the community and families who live there. Scotland should not be providing policing resources for sectarian events like this that are called to inflame tensions.

Don't make me to print it out and bring it to you..

Newspapers should be required to fact check their columnists. Anti-train columnist Colm McCarthy claims that the only publicly available cost benefit analysis of MetroLink is from a preliminary assessment in 2022. An updated cost benefit analysis was published last week.

Green Party statement on Drumcree. It's time for independent international mediation.