Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)

@criodanomurchu

Science Outreach and Communication Living in Rural South Galway Socialist, Environmentalist, Dog Lover "Woke, lefty, beard bro" - My haters/fans

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Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jun 23

Forecast for Thursday showing a possibility that the temperature record in Ireland could be broken? Everything is most definitely fine...

Harmonie Forecast for Ireland for Thursday 25th June at 4pm. Shows the country covered in red temperatures.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jun 10

Sometimes working in Dublin has its perks

A female duck sits on top of a log, in a pond, in the sun. There are six ducking along the log with her, one to the left, and five to the right.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jun 3

Officially became homeowners today!

Long stem grass garden. There is a willow tree in the background. There is a green shed to the right in the background. A white lurcher is jumping through the grass.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· May 24

Emi enjoying 12 O'Clock Hills this morning before the heat kicked in.

A white lurcher stands in the middle of a gravel track. In the background you can see distant houses, lakes, and pockets of forest. The sky is dominated by blue.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· May 8

Is it excessive though? Between surveys, planning and drawings, foundations, construction, roadworks, etc it's pretty reasonable in my estimation It's a fab facility that will keep bikes not just dry from overhead, but safe from the humidity and offer staff/patients an alternative transport option

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Apr 28

Myself and Emi enjoying 12 O'Clock Hill at the weekend ❤️ #spéirgorm

A white lurcher with a tan face stands on a gravel/dirt track on a hill. In the background is the landscape with lakes and forests.

View from 12 O'Clock Hill. The foreground has some red mosses and reeds. In the background is the landscape, including lakes and green fields.

A sundial style ornament. Surrounding the point in the middle are various locations and distances, pointing in their cardinal direction.

A stream runs through the photo. It is flanked on the left and right of the photo by shrubbery like gorse, reeds, and a solitary willow tree (I think it's a willow)

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Apr 12

Blood donation #10 today - got a lovely pin to go with it.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Mar 21

This is what greyhounds actually want to get up to!

A white greyhound, with a tan-white face lies on a grey blanket. She is fast asleep with her front paws stretched out in front of her.

A white greyhound lies on top of a grey blanket with her head propped up against a blue cushion. She is fast asleep with her teeth exposed

A tan-white faced greyhound lies across my green jumper, in my lap. Her eyes are closed and she is fast asleep.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Mar 5

It's doubly insulting when the Minister for Housing comes out with stuff like this when dozens of people in Galway have been served eviction notices coinciding with these new rules and regulations. They were warned and did not care to act.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Feb 26

I know of at least 5 people in Galway who have been served evictions notices coinciding with this legislation. Renters are about to be taken for everything they have - the largest landlord body in the country has already confirmed as much!

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Feb 24

Why are a Sinn Féin TD and my local councillor attending this bananas protest? There is nothing legitimately founded in this opposition - it is all nimbyism and fear-mongering. Between renewable and non-renewable resources, I know what I'd like to have beside my community.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Feb 20

Looking at the planning permission and none of it is on bog or peatland.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Feb 2

Celebrated my birthday early with a weekend away in Schull, Co. Cork. Got lucky with the weather! Laura knows how to pick presents, that's for sure.

Photo of Toormore Bay, Co. Cork, from near the altar wedge tomb. The sky is clear and the water is a blue green colour. Rocks dominate the foreground between me and the water.

Altar Wedge Tomb, Toormore, Co. Cork.

The tomb consists of tall, thin rocks holding up a capstone. The capstone is about 6 inches thick, 2m in diameter and 3m in length. The tomb is surrounded by grass, with a house in the background.

From a sign there: The tomb was first erected at the end of Stone Age 3000-2000BCE. Archaeologists have radiocarbon dated human bones to 2000BCE within the tomb. It was used as a mass rock by priests during the 18th Century when saying mass in churches was banned.

View of Mizen Head Visitor Centre from the air. In the background, the sky is clear and light blue in colour. The ocean is a deeper blue, except in the foreground where it is white as it washes up against the coastal cliffs.
In the left background, you can see the Mizen Head Bridge, a tourist attraction.

Aerial view of ruins of a possibly 19th Century watch tower and other building remains in Brow Head, Co. Cork.
The structure of the watch tower is in good shape, standing two stories tall with an intact roof.
To the right of it, as looking at the photo, there are the remains of a large seemingly single storey building, a shed, and another small building.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jan 15

Irish media reporting on this as if they haven't spent the past 18+ months encouraging rabid suspicion and hatred of immigrants coming to Ireland

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Dec 16

I pointed out similar contradictions to Louis O'Hara but I've no inkling if he took it onboard as I never received a reply.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Dec 13

My local Sinn Féin TD's response to my email. Pathetic on this.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Nov 13

Probably because it is condensed into the weather warnings already publicised by the national weather service which does mention possible flooding for the areas with a yellow and orange warning.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Oct 17

A ringing endorsement! #Áras25

Monthly Homeless Report for December 2021.
The total number of homeless individuals is 8,917, a decrease of 182 (2%) on the total for November 2021.

13,318 recorded accessing emergency accommodation in December – a decrease of 196 (-1.5%) on the total of the previous month.

The Monthly Homeless Report for December 2024 records 14,864 individuals accessing emergency accommodation, a decrease of 335 (-2.2%) on November 2024.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Oct 8

I posted this on Instagram a few days ago. Should be paying back more than the original value he stole.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Oct 3

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Aug 25

Adopted Emi two weeks ago from Cara Rescue Dogs. Safe to say she's selling in well and we are delighted to give her her forever home. #adoptdontshop #lurcher

A goofy, white lurcher with an orange collar sleeps upside down on a couch. Her four paws are up in the air, with her legs bent. She looks totally relaxed, with her eyes closed.

Emi sits in a turlough, just deep enough for her to lie down in. The turlough has reeds and grasses growing in it surrounding Emi, a white lurcher.

Emi sniffs through one of my mother-in-law's flower beds. There is a green-yellow leaved plant in the foreground which Emi is walking past.

Emi is upside down with her head against a fluffy, purple cushion. She is wearing her orange collar with green writing saying Cara Rescue Dogs. She has a goofy, teeth-y smile and one of her ears is sticking out to the side, whilst the other is completely hidden.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jul 31

Gearing up to leave Berlin on our overnight train to Amsterdam.

Alexanderplatz, Berlin.
There are dozens of people in the photo, with the World Clock feature and TV Tower in the background. The sky is overcast with some blue poking through.

Myself standing beside the most beautiful woman in the world, in the square where Nazi's burned over 20,000 books deemed incompatible with Nazi ideology.

The Memorial for Soviet Troops in Berlin. There is a small set of steps leading up to a multi-column monument. Atop the centre column is a bronze/copper statue of a Soviet soldier. There is golden Cyrillic writing on the front of the columns, and an inscription on the side saying "Eternal glory to heroes who fell in the struggle against the German fascist invaders for the freedom and independence of the Soviet Union."

Neptune's Fountain, by Alexanderplatz, Berlin. The fountain features an alligator, snake, and turtle/tortoise shooting two jets of water upwards from their mouths towards a man with a spear on top of the fountain. There is a church in the background with a mostly overcast sky.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jul 30

Munich was fun, though a few things were closed/inaccessible due to maintenance or other works. Last day in Berlin tomorrow before off to Amsterdam for the last leg of our holiday.

Maximilian Joseph Graf Von Montgelas statue, in Munich. In the foreground there is a plague with the name and a short explanation as to who he is.

The statue is tall and metallic coated, with horizontal lines of two shades, giving a zebra sort of look. In the background is a bizarre tribute to Michael Jackson.

A picture of a fountain with a fish on top of it. In the background are some balconies with an assortment of flowers.

Karolinenplatz Obelisk in Munich. The obelisk is a dark shade of grey, standing on three steps up to it.
Surrounding the obelisk is grass and flowers.

The entrance gate to Dachau Concentration Camp, near Munich. The gate has "Arbeit Macht Frei" written in the top section of it, only wide enough for one person at a time to pass through.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jul 25

Enjoying Vienna with my bestie Thinking it might be the (second) last flight I take Off to Munich tomorrow, more pics to come

Donnerbrunnen, or Providentia Fountain, Vienna, Austria

Flower Clock, Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria

Monument Against War and Fascism, Vienna, Austria

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jun 23

Don't jump for joy yet, unfortunately. Long way to go here

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Jun 9

"Milk-livered man That bear’st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs—"

Statement by the Tánaiste on urgent need to end blockade and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza

The Madleen was an effort to get food and medicine to the starving people of Gaza; an unarmed civilian effort in the midst of devastation and catastrophic humanitarian conditions.

But it was much more than that; it was a powerful symbol of the urgent and essential need to end the blockade on humanitarian aid.

What the flotilla has highlighted is the urgent need for humanitarian aid to get into Gaza. What has happened is another effort by the Israeli authorities to stop the entry of aid. It should not fall to any small group of civilians to get aid into Gaza.

Ireland has consistently called on Israel to lift its blockade and allow unimpeded access of humanitarian aid at scale into Gaza, in accordance with international law and humanitarian principles.

The UN and humanitarian organisations must be allowed to work independently and do their job. It is a shame on the world and international community that people are starving in Gaza.

The question we should be asking today is not a debate about the merits or not of the flotilla but how it has come to this; that the world is turning a blind eye to starving children in Gaza.

ENDS

Press Office 9 June 2025

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· May 28

Significant omissions of information as well. In this paragraph she moves from hospital attendees to serious injuries, glossing over and omitting that cars remain the most likely to cause serious injury by a factor of 10:1. Incredibly poor work and/or deliberate misinformation.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· May 24

As the sun sets, just checking in to see over 42% of the houses electricity has come from solar this month. That's up from 20% in March, and 30% in April. Providing solar energy to households with interest free state loans could help us meet our climate targets hugely #pv #solar #cleanenergy

Solar energy management app screenshot, showing 42.94% of energy coming from solar this month of May so far 24th

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· May 19

Enormous fires in South Galway/North Clare this evening. Acres of damage done. Firefighters will have a busy evening ahead of them.

Aerial photo of fires across some forestry plantations. Multiple, large smoke plumes can be seen from different sections of land.

Aerial photo overhead some forestry burning. There are multiple large stacks of smoke that can be seen.

A house in South Galway/North Clare enveloped by nearby smoke from the forest fire. The smoke plagues the photo, with most of the background obscured.

Criodán Ó Murchú (he/him)@criodanomurchu· Apr 22

This is the current weather here, completely overcast, and still we're getting 89% of our electricity from solar at the same time. Amazing #solar #cleanenergy #climate #solarpv