There's a bill to ban hunting foxes with packs of dogs coming before the dail on Dec 17th. Fuck 'rural pursuits' sign and share and contact your FF, FG, and SF TDs and tell them to support the ban my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe...

If you love trees, birds, dolphins, forests, butterflies, elephants, wildflowers, whales, or any nature, then this regards you directly. Even if you don't, it still regards you directly, because we all depend on nature for our survival. It's *all* political.

If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker. This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…

#Agrivoltaics moving into the mainstream in #Italy Would be good to see some horticultural production in the mix, beyond sheep. Italy awards 2 GW in agrivoltaic tender backed by #EU funds. #agsky #energysky www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/12/i...

A well battered bone fragment found on the shoreline. Not enough left to make an ID but any and all guesses welcome. 🤔 County Clare, Ireland.

Mad about Literature? Not mad about literature? Shopping for something for the Bluestocking in your life? Looky here! www.anniewest.com/books-cards #IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #ChristmasGifts #Christmas #ActualArt

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has called for the Occupied Territories Bill to be passed by Christmas jrnl.ie/6874857

The new Vietnam.

The difference between immigrants and expats is... 🤣🤣🤣 The irony is beyond striking!!🙄

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💯 this. Cop is a complete farce. Michéal Martin's contribution and his subsequent action back here is proof of that.

Rain or shine, 1pm tomorrow at the Garden of Remembrance is the place to be for the big #climate demonstration, a chance to remind our politicians that this crisis hasn’t gone away.

It's still November, no to this kind of thing!! youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...

Vance channelling his inner Simon Harris

For any Irish housing plan to succeed, point number one on it has to be getting FF and FG out of government, and point number two, keeping them out for as long as is humanly possible. They have failed. They will never succeed. Time to give someone else a chance.

Have a look at Micheál Martin scrambling. He doesn't like his gross hypocrisy called out. He wants to bring in dirty fracked gas. Speaking out of one side of his mouth at #COP30, and back to usual when he's home.

@mattcooperlastword.bsky.social if this is the quality of work that's currently deemed acceptable, then I dread to see what future builds will be like.

Jesus Christ. If ever proof was needed that regulations need to be tightened up and not relaxed. 🙄

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

NEW – IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam Read here ⬇️

When I started to criticize wild promises for carbon dioxide capture & removal in 2022, I took *so much shit* from the energy modelers and journalists promoting it, but those same people are silent now that even the scientists who first imagined the tech are increasingly mounting the same criticism.

Like a stubborn bloom Living in cracks of concrete You cannot kill hope. #poetry #Haiku Photo by Stockcake

Bit of a foggy morning in Ballina this morning. I didn't have the heart to tell the heron that there's no fish in the pond.🤷

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

#Breaking Catherine Connolly has signed the Declaration of Office at St Patrick's Hall in Dublin Castle to formally become the tenth President of Ireland | Follow Live

Don't let them get away with trying blame migrants and give themselves cover. The housing, healthcare, and cost of living crises we face are a result of continuing government policy. All the government is talking about doing is turning up the dial of performative cruelty on a minority - on asylum

Britain and South Africa have returned to a Ghanaian traditional king over 130 gold and bronze artefacts taken between the 1870s and the early 20th century, his palace announced.

Nearly 460 motorists have dodged convictions and avoided penalty points by making a donation to the court poor box since 2022. The controversial practice has persisted despite a prior High Court ruling on judges accepting poor box donations. www.thejournal.ie/poor-box-pen...

Plantation forestry is an ecocidal abomination across the entire planet, not just Ireland. share.google/xRB80UAPYR5t...

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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For decades, the European Union has relied on the United States to act as shock absorber and chief powerbroker at global climate talks. No longer. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Sesame Street premiered on this day in 1969. It was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett through the Children's Television Workshop. The show was developed with the help of Jim Henson, who created the characters like Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, and Grover.

"Will the Government use its financial and political capital now to secure a cleaner, cheaper, fairer future, or will it keep betting that Europe won’t enforce its own climate law? If the latter, we’ll lose time, money, and the chance to build a sustainable country." GREAT piece by @hannahdaly.ie

President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end. Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president. #VMNews

PHOTO OF THE DAY. England goalkeeper Gordon Banks catches a dog (1965). 📷 Chris Morphet

Sabina Higgins said it has 'been wonderful' to be by her husband’s side as he served as President of Ireland, adding: 'I was privileged to do it'. His successor, Catherine Connolly, is due to be inaugurated on Tuesday jrnl.ie/6869649

A fossil filled concretion chunk - eroded out of shale layers. Almost all of the visible fossils are Goniatites - ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus. County Clare, Ireland.

On the left, goldenrod growing as an epiphyte on an oak in my place. This is rainforest.

FFG le déanaí.

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

I watched this with my parents, and the scorn with which they reacted to the FG dude was surprising, in a good way. They know migrants are not the issue. The majority of people in Ireland know migrants aren't the problem.

"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.

ICYMI: Trump gives Hungary Russian energy sanctions relief after Orban visits the White House

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israeli forces kill two children near Jerusalem - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-kill-two-children-near-jerusalem