Dr. Orla M
@orlanimh.bsky.social
Living with complex regional pain syndrome and an unhealthy obsession with shoes and handbags!
For once, I am sad to say goodbye at the end of a year! What a year, finished my PhD, got my dream job, and have lost 102lb so far (health results are more important than the number though). Going into 2026, feeling good! #speirgorm #NY2026 #speirghorm #goodbye2025
December 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
For once, I am sad to say goodbye at the end of a year! What a year, finished my PhD, got my dream job, and have lost 102lb so far (health results are more important than the number though). Going into 2026, feeling good! #speirgorm #NY2026 #speirghorm #goodbye2025
Discovered my cousins were in Galway. Wanted to pop by to say hello... Adam booked us is for 2 nights and surprised me! I have had the best time. Can't remember the last time I saw the three of them together! #speirgorm #galway #family
December 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Discovered my cousins were in Galway. Wanted to pop by to say hello... Adam booked us is for 2 nights and surprised me! I have had the best time. Can't remember the last time I saw the three of them together! #speirgorm #galway #family
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One side of the hot press is now sorted! Old sheets and pillows emptied out and the rest refolded and tidy! Avoiding the left side of the press... all my shoes and handbags 👀 #CristmasTidy #SpeirGorm
December 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
One side of the hot press is now sorted! Old sheets and pillows emptied out and the rest refolded and tidy! Avoiding the left side of the press... all my shoes and handbags 👀 #CristmasTidy #SpeirGorm
It's nearly bed time 🎉🥳
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It's nearly bed time 🎉🥳
The view when I arrived at a school in Lough Allen in Leitrim this morning 😍 I was delivering day 2 of our STEM Passport for Inclusion. Tough going for teenagers when they finish up this Friday, so fair play to them all for lasting! Only one or two dozed off for a few minutes 🤣 #SpeirGorm #STEM
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The view when I arrived at a school in Lough Allen in Leitrim this morning 😍 I was delivering day 2 of our STEM Passport for Inclusion. Tough going for teenagers when they finish up this Friday, so fair play to them all for lasting! Only one or two dozed off for a few minutes 🤣 #SpeirGorm #STEM
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At midnight tonight, something small but avoidable happens.
You lose SLATED guaranteed Christmas delivery.
Order before midnight: calm, organised, smug.
Order after: explaining shipping delays like they’re part of the gift.
Slated.ie
Regret isn’t a great stocking filler.
#SLATED #spheirgorm
You lose SLATED guaranteed Christmas delivery.
Order before midnight: calm, organised, smug.
Order after: explaining shipping delays like they’re part of the gift.
Slated.ie
Regret isn’t a great stocking filler.
#SLATED #spheirgorm
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
At midnight tonight, something small but avoidable happens.
You lose SLATED guaranteed Christmas delivery.
Order before midnight: calm, organised, smug.
Order after: explaining shipping delays like they’re part of the gift.
Slated.ie
Regret isn’t a great stocking filler.
#SLATED #spheirgorm
You lose SLATED guaranteed Christmas delivery.
Order before midnight: calm, organised, smug.
Order after: explaining shipping delays like they’re part of the gift.
Slated.ie
Regret isn’t a great stocking filler.
#SLATED #spheirgorm
This is how my night started going... thankfully, they had a spare room at the back! I'm extremely sensitive to noise, even with ear plugs! I'm teaching teens STEM for the next two days. I can live without a superior river view, for silence! Don't mind morning noise, I'm awake at 5.30am! #SpeirGorm
December 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is how my night started going... thankfully, they had a spare room at the back! I'm extremely sensitive to noise, even with ear plugs! I'm teaching teens STEM for the next two days. I can live without a superior river view, for silence! Don't mind morning noise, I'm awake at 5.30am! #SpeirGorm
Working late on a work trip 👀 Delivering our STEM programme tomorrow and Wed. Dinner and 1 glass of wine, sprinkled with a bit of systematic reviewing before an early night! #speirgorm
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Working late on a work trip 👀 Delivering our STEM programme tomorrow and Wed. Dinner and 1 glass of wine, sprinkled with a bit of systematic reviewing before an early night! #speirgorm
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Any one around Dublin and fancy having some festive fun for a good cause ?
Join us at 4pm outside the GPO tomorrow (friday) we will be singing, collecting for ATD Ireland and sharing some festive joy in the Dublin Streets.
Singing For Change !!
www.atdireland.ie
Join us at 4pm outside the GPO tomorrow (friday) we will be singing, collecting for ATD Ireland and sharing some festive joy in the Dublin Streets.
Singing For Change !!
www.atdireland.ie
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Any one around Dublin and fancy having some festive fun for a good cause ?
Join us at 4pm outside the GPO tomorrow (friday) we will be singing, collecting for ATD Ireland and sharing some festive joy in the Dublin Streets.
Singing For Change !!
www.atdireland.ie
Join us at 4pm outside the GPO tomorrow (friday) we will be singing, collecting for ATD Ireland and sharing some festive joy in the Dublin Streets.
Singing For Change !!
www.atdireland.ie
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Some key highlights from Ireland's 2025 country health profile
Better than EU average: life expectancy, smoking
Worse: drinking, obesity, health spending per capita, accessibility (unmet need)
eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...
Better than EU average: life expectancy, smoking
Worse: drinking, obesity, health spending per capita, accessibility (unmet need)
eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Some key highlights from Ireland's 2025 country health profile
Better than EU average: life expectancy, smoking
Worse: drinking, obesity, health spending per capita, accessibility (unmet need)
eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...
Better than EU average: life expectancy, smoking
Worse: drinking, obesity, health spending per capita, accessibility (unmet need)
eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...
Had to step in for the boss and host, talk, and do the Q&A of a webinar that I also had set up! Collaboration between Maynooth and the Center for Justice at Columbia University. About experiences of the criminal justice system and education. Blown away by the work people do! #speirgorm
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Had to step in for the boss and host, talk, and do the Q&A of a webinar that I also had set up! Collaboration between Maynooth and the Center for Justice at Columbia University. About experiences of the criminal justice system and education. Blown away by the work people do! #speirgorm
The Virgin Mary GS Ballymun singing out the Toy Show and CMAT popping in. Absolutely DELIGHTED for them! That equals the excitment of when Aer Lingus took 4 from every class in Ballymun up in a plan for an hour! #ToyShow #AerLingus
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Virgin Mary GS Ballymun singing out the Toy Show and CMAT popping in. Absolutely DELIGHTED for them! That equals the excitment of when Aer Lingus took 4 from every class in Ballymun up in a plan for an hour! #ToyShow #AerLingus
St Patrick's House by night #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
St Patrick's House by night #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm
Very proud of my nephew, who's turning 16 next week, who raised 1227 euro with his Halloween lights! Mayo Roscommon Hospice has confirmed his total 👏👏👏 #SpeirGorm #MayoRoscommonHospice
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very proud of my nephew, who's turning 16 next week, who raised 1227 euro with his Halloween lights! Mayo Roscommon Hospice has confirmed his total 👏👏👏 #SpeirGorm #MayoRoscommonHospice
Alarm is set for 3.30am, aim to be in the car for 4.30am 👀 Have to drop some stuff to CityWest for 8.30am and can't risk heavy traffic on m50 😭🫣 #SpeirGorm #PrayingForSleep
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Alarm is set for 3.30am, aim to be in the car for 4.30am 👀 Have to drop some stuff to CityWest for 8.30am and can't risk heavy traffic on m50 😭🫣 #SpeirGorm #PrayingForSleep
I do have the best friends! One of my friends (since we were 4) booked me a room in her hotel for 50 euro with breakfast, city centre, for my Xmas work night! We text a couple of times a year, and I only see her if she happens to be working when I stay. I hate asking, and she loves it when I ask 🤣🥰
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I do have the best friends! One of my friends (since we were 4) booked me a room in her hotel for 50 euro with breakfast, city centre, for my Xmas work night! We text a couple of times a year, and I only see her if she happens to be working when I stay. I hate asking, and she loves it when I ask 🤣🥰
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Old Kinsale Head and Hook Lighthouse have joined the SLATED Landmark Collection.
Two meticulously crafted icons with so much quiet luxury they practically whisper.
Consider this your gentle nudge to “accidentally” fall in love with both.
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
Slated.ie
Reposts would be 👌
Two meticulously crafted icons with so much quiet luxury they practically whisper.
Consider this your gentle nudge to “accidentally” fall in love with both.
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
Slated.ie
Reposts would be 👌
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Old Kinsale Head and Hook Lighthouse have joined the SLATED Landmark Collection.
Two meticulously crafted icons with so much quiet luxury they practically whisper.
Consider this your gentle nudge to “accidentally” fall in love with both.
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
Slated.ie
Reposts would be 👌
Two meticulously crafted icons with so much quiet luxury they practically whisper.
Consider this your gentle nudge to “accidentally” fall in love with both.
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
Slated.ie
Reposts would be 👌
Yesterday we launched our National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education at Maynooth University! Our key note Professor Penny Jane Burke is an inspiration, as is our director Professor Katriona O'Sullivan! Mercy College choir provided some uplifting music for us. #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Yesterday we launched our National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education at Maynooth University! Our key note Professor Penny Jane Burke is an inspiration, as is our director Professor Katriona O'Sullivan! Mercy College choir provided some uplifting music for us. #MaynoothUniversity #SpeirGorm
What an eventful day! Unbearable pain, thought I would need an ambulance. Thankfully, I was able to see a nurse (thinking bad kidney infection). Saw nurse, then Dr, and turns out it's likely a kidney stone 😭 I'm hoping that pain was the worst of it and don't get another! #SpeirGorm
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What an eventful day! Unbearable pain, thought I would need an ambulance. Thankfully, I was able to see a nurse (thinking bad kidney infection). Saw nurse, then Dr, and turns out it's likely a kidney stone 😭 I'm hoping that pain was the worst of it and don't get another! #SpeirGorm
I really felt I needed this new coat in my life! #faux #SpeirGorm
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I really felt I needed this new coat in my life! #faux #SpeirGorm
About 3pm I got my laptop out. Adam started laughing... have you reached peak boredom... eh yes... I can't cope with another nap 👀 #SpeirGorm
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
About 3pm I got my laptop out. Adam started laughing... have you reached peak boredom... eh yes... I can't cope with another nap 👀 #SpeirGorm