National Transport priorities in this weeks NDP dodcument are shown here . But the funding in Galway City is the reverse. The ring road is allocared more money than Busconnects, and I cannot find any active travel projects in the budget! Full document www.gov.ie/en/departmen... 1/3

Funding allocations for The National Development Plan... We can’t cut transport emissions 50% by 2030 with these allocations. This plan doubles down on car-centric thinking—more pollution, less movement, and zero vision for healthy, sustainable transport.

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?

Excellent piece by Sadhbh o'Neill about the car-centric approach to transport. I have absolutely no doubt that virtually none of our elected reps rely on public transport to go about their daily lives. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Unsurprisingly to any who follow me, I care a lot about data, access to data, and ensuring that folks understand it. I particularly despise when people try to pull the wool over our eyes when clear data exists to show that it is nothing more than deceit. Don't try to lie to me when I have the data

Maybe we should reconsider the notion that the politicians and diplomats were going to save us?

"If An Garda Síochána is serious about improving safety, then the next video should focus on the group with the greatest capacity to cause harm: motorists." - @olaln.bsky.social on the misguided approach to road safety by An Garda Síochána olanordrum.substack.com/p/the-wrong-...

The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it? Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly. If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.

This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

This is what Ireland does. Ignore EU law and continue with business as usual. Receive warnings and a time scale or derogation Ignore warnings. Continue as usual. Get taken to court and fined Appeal Pay fines eventually See nitrates derogation and carbon emissions for more of the same...

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

Excellent letter in The Irish Times about proposed new restrictions on judicial review and access to justice…

Correct. So what is he waiting for? Could someone please remind this man that he is, in fact, the Minister?

"Daddy why did you go into politics?" "Well, I always hoped that one day I might be able to make a difference. Like if people were fleeing war and persecution, and they arrived on our shores desperate and afraid, then maybe I could be the one to suggest we nicked their jewellery."

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

This! So...Much...This!

In Ireland, if you have money it is legal to drive your car at 200km/h. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

👀 Irish data centres are now using 22% of all electricity generated in Ireland, more than all urban homes combined & drawing an unquantified amount (lots) of Ireland’s water capacity Could AI demands be related to recent push to fast-track infrastructure, side-step safeguards & reduce court access?

"The 'reduction in enthusiasm' [for climate action] among rich nations didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies."

Lookit...I'm just sayin...just doesn't feel like a coincidence is all. #COYBIG #Ireland #Leftie #Speirgorm #VoteLeft

New CCAC #climate report covered on multiple RTÉ news bulletins just now, incl. Morning Ireland interview with chair, Marie Donnelly. Total mentions of agriculture, Ireland’s largest source of emissions: zero.

So glad for this article by Paulie Doyle on the 'Serious Guys' who flood our media with their repetitive and vacuous arguments in support of EU militarisation, ending Irish neutrality, US FDI and developer-led policy at all costs. www.ontheditch.com/comment-taki...

Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility

We were told the interchange would cost €100 million and solve the congestion and tailbacks. It cost €225 million, and it didn't. The people who were 100% wrong about this – and blew 9 figures of public money on it – have a new suggestion. More lanes. www.independent.ie/regionals/co...

Just finished Deluge by Stephen Marley. Really good book but feels a little too close to the bone and it'll stick with me for quite a while I think...

Here we go again, new bed wetting just dropped

Two faces of our Taoiseach, from Martyn Turner…

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?" Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.

Today I endeavoured to speak for the rivers, to provide a counter balance to the lobbyist's narrative on the polluting nitrates derogation. Our rivers, lakes and seas deserve a chance to run healthy, wild and free from pollution www.antaisce.org/news/an-tais...

Exceptional, searing column from Mark O’Connel.

The Taoiseach is telling world leaders at COP30 that they need to speak honestly to the public about climate change. Meanwhile his government is sitting on the land use review because he has no intention of telling farmers about the scale of change needed share.google/7UFl4nDNHxip...

Very good thread about data centers and electricity

Why is the Government playing chicken with Europe on climate? My latest for the Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Ireland is one of the few European countries where road deaths have risen since 2019. That’s not a coincident, but rather the result of a transport system that prioritises cars and speed over people and safety, with weak enforcement and timid road-safety policy. Data from the European Commission.

Nevertheless, I have explained it. www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/half...

The Government lurching to the right was 100% inevitable after the presidential election; this is how they deal with failure rather than any form of reflection. But I'm fairly shocked at the speed and vigour with which they've done it, not letting the attempted murder of refugees get in their way

It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition. #SpéirGorm #ClimateChange

Here we fucking go. 💀 BUILD MORE HOUSES YOU TRAMPS

This is good. "People vote for parties that speak to their hopes, not their fears."

I'm old enough to remember when criticising the EU was framed as unacceptable Or is it only good to blame the EU when you're scapegoating your own failures #HowIrelandWorks #spéirgorm #everyoneshouldhaveahome

'Member all the Irish wankers bemoaning "political violence" when Charlie Kirk was murdered - has anyone seen if they have anything to say about the attempted murder of women and children in the Drogheda IPAS centre? No? Funny, that.

“If this was, as Harris framed it, a referendum on Ireland’s proud history of better-things-aren’t-possible centrism, then surely he must accept that his conceptualisation of Ireland is actually… wrong.” This week’s column is about how FG and FF have responded to the election results.

Very glad to hear Prof John Sweeney draw a direct line between Hurricane Melissa and the need for climate action on RTÉ Drivetime a little while ago. Would be good if our political leaders showed a bit more willingness to draw the same connections rather than looking for excuses not to act.

In their Letter to the Editor published in the Irish Times @irishtimes.com, the scientists set the record straight by rebutting multiple errors in John FitzGerald's opinion piece last week: "Framing the debate as a false dichotomy...distracts from the real choices" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

The UN has estimated that nations' carbon-cutting pledges imply a far-from-sufficient 10% emissions cut by 2035, cautioning that it was unable to provide a robust global overview after most countries failed to submit their plans on time

Negotiating or trying to cut a deal with physics really is a mug’s game, as our children will find out soon enough. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Remember to set your clocks back one hour tonight, unless of course you wanted Maria Steen to be president, in that case set them back to 1952. #PresidentialElection #Aras25

"Nothing works like negative campaigning" Not today. #Áras25