A happy and joyful Christmas to you all. Nollaig Shona Daoibh.

Denying US visas to former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and others in Europe who tackle hate speech represents extraordinary over-reach by the US Government. It is a dangerous throw-back to the witch-hunts of the McCarthyite era. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Erik the Red founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland. Donald the Orange should leave it alone. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

Quite a view of Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge from the Woollen Mills this evening.

Thank you Caoimhe Butterly, Greta Thunberg and Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb of Médecins Sans Frontières for your words this evening in @bfcdublin.bsky.social linking climate justice with social justice in Gaza and elsewhere.

Victorian railway engineers were extrordinary. Threading the Loop Line through Georgian Dublin and literally cutting windows in half on Gardiner Street inches away from the railbed was an amazing achievement back in 1891.

Finally! A Housing Plan from Brussels. Time to increase supply, tackle short-term rentals and help those priced out of homes: europeangreens.eu/news/homes-f...

A U-turn on diesel and petrol phase-outs creates uncertainty, stifles innovation, and weakens Europe. It pollutes our air and allows China to take the lead. europeangreens.eu/news/europea...

Terrible news of an attack on the Jewish community in Sydney on the first day of Hanukkah. My thoughts are with the families and friends of those impacted by this antisemitic atrocity. www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...

Ireland is an outlier for houses. We need more three storey medium-density terraced housing as an alternative to semi-Ds or apartments. Here are examples from John Dobbins, and Amsterdam. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

Good to meet with European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen today as part of our Green leaders gathering. When it comes to confronting authoritarians and autocrats in Moscow or Washington we are as one.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is trying to silence Budapest's Mayor, supporter of LGBTQI+ rights. We stand with Gergely Karácsony europeangreens.eu/news/hungari...

"Hug a pylon" was the headline in the Economist a few months back, but as Dublin's Luas breakdown shows us, power systems are vulnerable. Good to see the European Commission launch a grids plan to upgrade our electricity infrastructure. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Met Sofiia Bodun and her Mum from the Ukrainian Green Party at our @EuropeanGreens.eu Congress last weekend. On her phone she showed me that power cuts from Russian attacks bring 'Black Fridays' every week in Kiev.

High tides on Dublin's Victoria Quay beside the Guinness brewery this afternoon, reducing traffic to one lane. Now's the time to prepare for future storms and rising sea levels. #StormBram

Trump's threats must be a wake-up call for Europe. The White House is playing into the Kremlin's hands.

Loud for people, loud for Europe, loud for planet. Super to spend time with friends and colleagues taking on challenges both large and small. Thank you @europeangreens.eu @greenpartyie.bsky.social for your time, dedication, and crack in Lisbon this weekend

Trump makes it worryingly clear in his National Security Strategy: he wants to take down the EU, destroy the European Green Deal and allow unfettered EU access to US tech, oil and gas companies. This must be resisted.

And of course, our own @ciarancuffe.bsky.social is leading out this weekend as Co chair of the @europeangreens.eu with @vulatsetsi.bsky.social and @partidolivre.pt leader @ruitavares.bsky.social

Not unsurprising that the United States’ new National Security Strategy proposes a ‘Golden Dome for the American homeland’, and looks forward to ‘a new Golden Age’. The Midas touch, it didn’t end well. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

"This is a time to stand up for Europe, and stand up for European values. Housing, social justice, social protection. These are not just issues in Lisbon but for all in Europe. " 🌻 @ciarancuffe.bsky.social

Hola Lisboa! Welcome to Lisbon @europeangreens.eu

Twenty years since Eamon Ryan and and I hosted a Civic Forum on Climate Change in Dublin's Mansion House. We've seen some progress, but so much more is needed to reach our goals.

Cities: they're on the frontline for housing, migration and climate action. The European Commission must follow up on yesterday's announcement with dedicated urban funding. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Now that's quite a #dublinghostsign reveal on the side of Cumiskey's pub at Broadstone today. Here's hoping it'll be held on to.

“Ceann Comhairle, Cathaoirleach, deputies and senators, dear friends, dear Ireland, thank you for your attention to Ukraine.” Welcome to Ireland President Volodymyr Zelensky. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

A tough week for Ukraine, here’s hoping tomorrow’s meeting between Presidents Volovdymyr Zelenskyy and Emmanuel Macron in Paris leads to progress. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Tháinig an gcigire Ceadúnas Teilifíse chuig an doras inniu. Anois, sin rud nach bhfaca mé le fada an lá.

I contributed to this important article by @gerherbert.bsky.social regarding the safety on our roads. So many of these deaths are preventable tragedies m.independent.ie/life/red-lig...

Took this clip of the Middelgrunden wind farm off Copenhagen last summer. Here’s hoping the Tonn Nua project on the Waterford coast also gets the green light. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?

Nice! The neon is back on the Ambassador Theatre. Good to see a venue built in 1764 given a new lease of life. www.theambassadortheatre.com

A clear message from The Lancet: the political power of the ultra-processed food industry is growing, and it’s killing us. Global Irish food companies, sadly are part of the problem. www.thelancet.com/series-do/ul...

Good news from the G20 in South Africa. You might dismiss climate concerns on a chilly November day, but heat records are being broken this week in Japan, Australia and Central America, and 90 are dead in Vietnam floods. g20.org/wp-content/u...

And the COP of trust ends in Belém, ‘resolving to keep 1.5°C within reach’. No fanfare, no fireworks, just a nauseating sense of politics increasingly distanced from scientific truth. #COP30 unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

Two more road deaths in urban areas in the last 24 hours. A failure to introduce default 30 km/h speed limits in Built Up Areas reflects poorly on the Irish Government. #VisionZero road deaths? A pipe-dream unless attitudes change. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

EU Housing Advisory Board’s report dropped today. Some solid proposals: 🏘️ Promote Cost Rental model 💶 'Site Value' Taxes 📖 Amend State aid rules 🌵 Limit speculation 🏡 Better, not less planning Now, let’s act housing.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...

🚨BREAKING: Copenhagen has its first Green mayor! Delighted for @sissemariewe.bsky.social of @sf.dk who secured the post in overnight talks. Housing, integration, family policy and green development, what’s not to like? cphpost.dk/2025-10-23/n...

Is the sabotage of Polish railways state-sponsored terrorism? "Russia wants our society to be afraid" says Kaja Kallas EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs to Suzanne Lynch of Bloomberg this evening.

Caught up with my @europeangreens.eu colleague @BenedettaScuderi.bsky.social MEP at #Restructura in Turin. As Italy's economy flatlines, targetted funding for renovations could provide decent jobs, improve air quality and lower energy bills. #EPBD

“It is a symbolic act, but a political message. The negotiators in the COP need to build the route of the road to bury and finish off the fossils once and for all" elpais.com/america-futu...

March for climate? March for energy you can afford, cleaner air, safer streets and an end to dependency on oligarchs, dictators and snake oil salesmen! 1pm, 15 November 2025, Garden of Remembrance, Dublin

Spare a thought for those poor souls on the Irish Ferries MV Ulysses tonight, still circling around the Irish Sea near Holyhead after leaving Dublin just after dawn this morning.

“We talk about petrostates, but something new is emerging, electrostates”. An interesting take from @chrisstark.bsky.social at the IIEA yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Cu...

Child labour, deforestation? Thrown under the EU's omnibus europeangreens.eu/news/greens-...

Spent the morning in Naas today at a colloquium of planners. A sense that An Coimisiún Pleanála and the Regulator are doing good work, but constant legislative and regulatory changes are slowing down delivery.

Strong words from President Catherine Connolly earlier recognising "the existential threat of climate change and the threat of ongoing wars, both of course are inextricably linked." president.ie/en/media-lib...

And so #COP30 kicks off today. Here’s hoping the rhetoric in Belém is met with urgency at home. news.un.org/en/story/202...

On Monday COP30 climate negotiations kick off, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. Here's hoping for agreement on funding to help poorer countries that are suffering most from heatwaves and droughts. enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...