Also delighted to meet my friend an excellent researcher Isabelle Jeffares!

Great to see Emma Murtagh of @thewheelireland.bsky.social at this morning’s @ucddublin.bsky.social ECR Company Networking Breakfast this morning! And great to learn and share about the opportunities civil society holds for ECRs

Highlighting our poster on the Research Together Initiative with Noreen Lacey at the 2025 All Island Research Culture Network conference in Belfast. Collaboration between @maynoothuniversity.ie and @hrci.bsky.social so valuable!

Went to SuperValu at lunch to get stuff for tomorrow. Panic buying seemed to focus on loo roll, crisps and booze. Bit like Good Friday in the old days. Meanwhile I'm going to shelter in place with cats and cake. Do take care out there tomorrow especially if you're in the west.

Storm Éowyn: across the barricades from Norn Iron to the Republic. She knows no boundaries. We'll be panic-buying bread and loo roll in both Belfast and Dublin.

Ireland rolls out the red carpet for Storm Eowyn on Friday. Warnings may change over the next few days. Keep an eye on met.ie for updates, and take care.

This is the time of year where I post the obligatory self-congratulatory picture of my New Year’s Day swim at Kinnegar beach in Rathmullan