'I tried not to let Hutch set the tone of the conversation': Janet Horner on her byelection campaign www.irishtimes.com/video/video/...

While optimistic noises may be made about our progress in limiting emissions, the underlying problem is not being tackled by effective policy measures. While our EU partners have achieved average emission reductions of 40% since 1990, we have managed a measly 5%. www.antaisce.org/news/is-the-...

Inconvenient Truths on carbon budget compliance: 'Significant ‘successes’ achieved in recent years have been achieved despite (and even contrary to) Government policy and technical adjustments to recorded GHG emissions' World events also played a role in reductions www.antaisce.org/news/irish-g...

Week #374 We managed to escape a downpour! Increasingly erratic weather is part & parcel of the climate crisis that our Govt seems intent on making worse - with plans to abolish the Dublin airport passenger cap, build fossil fuel import terminals, support of nitrates derogation etc.

Week 372 of protest as Govt demonstrates cognitive dissonance, trying to ram through a State LNG import terminal as the climate crisis deepens and Ireland is battered by rain and floods. Contact your TDs & tell them to #KeepIrelandLNGFree put a #MoratoriumOnDataCentres and #KeepThePassengerCap

Week #369 of our weekly protest outside the Dáil from 1 to 2pm on Fridays, demanding #ClimateJustice. Our Government treats the climate crisis like an afterthought, instead of the existential crisis that it is. Come join us any Friday to help shine a spotlight on the dire need for action on climate!

I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...

Great article by @orlakelleher.bsky.social on the much propagandised Judicial Review bogeyman. Developer interests need something to deflect from real failures of a system which has been deliberately designed by them to produce profit, not homes.

@orla-hegarty.bsky.social is such a calm and effective communicator. Here quietly exposing @progressireland.bsky.social’s regressive, but highly influential, deregulatory schtick dressed up as “progress” podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

Very much looking forward to this conversation with @whittledaway.bsky.social around THE LIE OF THE LAND this Sunday from 2pm in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City centre. Do come along if you’re free.

Old fogey friends of FridaysforFuture. Wet & windy Week 361.

I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...

Clear and accessible rejoinder to the 'squash all JRs brigade - except those being taken by developers. See also: www.linkedin.com/pulse/money-...

'Humans have stripped 1/3 of the trees from Earth's surface. We humans outweigh all the wild land mammals by a factor of 20; our livestock weighs 30 times as much as the mammals beyond the fences.' On Freedom @timothysnyder.bsky.social P. 170. Illus. Anton Logov: Close the sky over Ukraine!

I discussed the management of our National Parks earlier with Minister Christopher O'Sullivan. There are positives but we're not at the stage where we can say that the State is managing Parks to a high standard. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Full credit to @autofac.bsky.social, Prof John Sweeney, @hannahdaly.ie & @swimsure.bsky.social for authoritative and persuasive presentations to the Joint Oireachtas Committee.

Global Sumud Flotilla braces for escalating dangers as it approaches Gaza amid drone attacks, Israeli threats.

I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke... @uplift.ie

Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists

I've been privileged to get my hands on a review copy of @thinkorswim.bsky.social's fantastic new book which is an important chronicle of Ireland's climate failures (and occasional successes). Lot's of people will want to read this!

🧵THREAD on agri-methane and ‘no additional warming’ Why is it so important to reduce methane (CH4) emissions from agriculture in the near term? What happens when countries like #Ireland use ‘no additional warming’ to set climate targets? PAPER: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... (1/18)

If “no additional warming” replaces net zero, is that progress — or backsliding? Ireland is our case study in a new paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748... We found it: (1)Grandfathers high emissions from wealthy livestock nations, (2)Shifts burden, (3) Fails on food security #Methane #ClimateJustice

However, the ongoing & increasing critique of the Irish agri-food sector is ignored by this Review. Scientific, agricultural experts, NGOs & small farmers see it. Complacency benefits the sector's big profit-takers in the short-term, but the public & nature bear the cost. The CCAC could say so. /fin

Friends of #FridaysforFuture, Dublin, Week 344. ‘We live for a few short decades, if we are lucky, on this miraculous planet. It’s remarkable, and we ought to pay attention to its everyday glories. We are nature, you and me; it isn’t something abstract’ @herdyshepherd.bsky.social, James Rebanks.

Friends of #FridaysforFuture, Dublin, Week 343. ‘Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see?’

I've signed this petition in solidarity with activists and leaders in Palestine Action and reject Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to proscribe them as terrorism organisation - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/we...

Don't stay silent on Gaza. Netanyahu's actions violate human rights and Europe needs to act. I've just emailed EU politicians to demand the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. ➡️ Send your email now and make a difference. share.greens-efa.eu/s/JKiMWZKN

BREAKING! The 16th #BankingOnClimateChaos reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $7.9 TRILLION since 2016. See how your bank is using your money at bankingonclimatechaos.org #DefundClimateChaos #BOCC

There is still a small chance of rescuing Wexford lagoon from the same fate as Lough Neagh www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

John Gibbons @thinkorswim.bsky.social is in barnstorming environmental communications form in this week's Last Word podcast with Matt Cooper @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social on TodayFM. Next week you can send in questions for the extended 200th edition!

An Taisce submission to Carbon Budgets Consultation: "The Climate Change Advisory Council’s (CCAC’s) Dec. 2024 carbon budgeting proposal basis for the 2031-2040 recommendations is non-compliant with the requirements of the Climate Act 2021 in two key aspects" 1/2 www.antaisce.org/Handlers/Dow...

Eager achiever: Frank McNally on introducing the beaver to Ireland www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

“We are watching a systematic starvation of 2 million people. A live-streamed genocide & the world's silence is deadly. That is why we have to keep trying everything we can, even if the odds are against us.” Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.

‘I walked through the fire all by myself’: An image of a child lays bare barbarism in Gaza www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

‘It is valuable and disturbing to know that grand oak trees can take 300 years to grow, 300 years to live and 300 years to die. Such knowledge, seriously considered, changes the grain of the mind.’ @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social in ‘The Wild Places’, p. 100.

Friends of #FridaysforFuture, Dublin. Week 338. International visitors giving much appreciated support. Attending launch of @trocaire.bsky.social’s ‘Fuelling Injustice’ report. Essential reading at t.co/IVfksIPoxP

The new Save Our Sprat campaign will be holding a public demonstration in Bantry Square at 11am on Friday (day after tomorrow), calling for a moratorium on sprat fishing in Irish waters. I'll be there, can you come along too? The more, the better!! ✊️✊️✊️ 🐟 🌊 🦭 🐋 🐳🌊

I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social

Analysis: There is no hiding place from latest EPA data on greenhouse gases www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"Sorry, kids. We blew your climate budget - but we really love our SUVs." Some honest commentary from Prof. John Sweeney: has the IE Climate Advisory Council abandoned global climate justice? Do politicians- and citizens - support that? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Please think - have you ever heard of anything more cruel, done by a State which the EU, US and UK support to the hilt?

I was privileged enough to give a keynote speech to the Mary Robinson Climate and Nature Conference earlier on the theme of courage in crisis. The speech that emerged from my brain was a nerve wrackingly honest and personal look at where I find my courage. soundcloud.com/elaine-mc-go...

Stop Climate Chaos calls @epaireland.bsky.social's new emissions projections "alarming and shocking" and says what @micheal-martin.bsky.social does next is the acid test of his commitment to delivering the Programme for Government and upholding the climate law www.stopclimatechaos.ie/news/2025/05...

End the Sale of Israeli war bonds in the Central Bank 🙅 my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

bsky.app/profile/phil... Hungry for Peace in Gaza second five-day fast this week May 12th-16th, Monday -Friday, @ Dáil Éireann. Come by & support or just fast. See www.facebook.com/share/1XjVdK... & www.instagram.com/hungryforpea...