Another picture of Sadie from social media #speirghorm

Sadie is missing from Mount Temple Road Stoneybatter. Keep an eye out D7 folks

Destroying our national credibility at EU level, while helping to destroy the #climate system, that’s quite the double whammy from Ireland ahead of taking over the EU Presidency in July. www.euractiv.com/news/ireland...

Ireland loves nothing more than creative accounting to avoid action

I'm very grateful to Deirdre and the Irish Examiner for giving me the chance to offer a voice for rural Ireland that reflects the diversity and vibrancy of our communities. It is long past time to dismiss the reductive idea that rural Ireland can be reduced to two industries. #Spéirgorm

The era of clownish politics is truly upon us. Agri Ministers ask to make Cormorants huntable to... protect "food security". Beyond commenting. Here's the list of the clueless: Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Croatia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...

I don't know exactly what the mechanism would be but if a site hasn't been paying the vacant or derelict sites levy then it shouldn't be eligible for the vacant or derelict homes grant. It's either vacant or it's not 🤷‍♀️

Mr Sakila didn’t just become passively unresponsive at the scene - the video shows multiple men restraining him on the ground with their body weight, including one who knelt and then with his hands pressed down in his neck. Truly disturbing footage www.thejournal.ie/yves-sakila-...

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

I however found this comment, which was a rare opposition and conveys a hard and rather more realistic account of the long term effects of cars on rural Ireland, and is a well written example that parallels my own feelings on the changes brought by car dependency in the place where I grew up.

I'm going to start calling all multi story car parks 'car sheds'

Hospital patients and staff should just pile their bikes on a scrap of grass and hope it doesn't rain

You would think that making it more comfortable for people to use free cycling would be good with fuel so expensive. This seems like an outright attack on the least well off tbh

People complaining about the 127k for a bike parking facility obviously have not tried to buy a window or get any work done recently. This seems like it's just anti public services sentiment with a particular anti cycling flavour to it.

And if you are cynically weaponising this non story for political gain, we are now sworn enemies

If you are whinging about a secure safe bicycle storage facility at a hospital which cost about what you'd imagine it would cost, we can't be friends

The Taoiseach wants consideration of nuclear. I made a programme that did that. Long story short: an Irish nuclear power plant wouldn’t generate any electricity until 2066 at the very earliest. Link at end of thread.

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

attacks on rural Ireland: regulating airBnB, lowering the speed limit, reducing water pollution, banning animal sports, all drink driving laws for some reason not attacks on rural Ireland: property hoarding, land consolidation, ecocide

Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️

Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) warned, decrying a campaign of "collective punishment" against Palestinians

Brand new 115 metre monster ship set to ravage the world's oceans but thank goodness it has an "advanced eco-efficient design" and "among the most environmentally responsible trawlers of its type". Phew thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/...

Guys I had a look at that government website pushing AI (aiready dot ie) and holy shit it's bad Not just in an "AI bad" sense but it's corporate internal training propaganda style stuff encouraging terrible use cases and behaviours. Whoever put this together is clueless

Latest figures show another increase in record numbers in emergency accommodation - 17,517 at the end of March. The figure is up over 2000 since the same period last year, while more than half of the increase in March 2026 is children, perhaps reflecting impact of tenancy reforms

"The idea of fuel rationing may sound drastic, but in reality, fuel is already rationed. All goods are. At present, they are just rationed according to price" A great piece and it's mind boggling why our government won't step in and address demand and waste throughout the fuel system

i knew there was a far side comic for the news today

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It's very funny to see the people that've been cynically flogging the urban rural divide for YEARS act all upset when it's talked about in any way other than "x change is an attack on rural Ireland"

Someone needs to ask a parliamentary question by way of followup on this news…

Programmes for Wild Mind festival in Fenit are out, featuring me lil' doodle. Really looking forward to this! 🌿 wildmind.ie

At 2.30 today, I will be bringing our CEG Arms Embargo Bill back to the Seanad for Report & Final stages. Our Bill would end the flow of weapons through our airports & airspace to illegal military action by Israel, move us from zero inspections to mandatory inspections & tackle illegal overflights!

Solar PV delivers about 20 times more energy per acre than grass/ biodigester combination. Not one acre of grass should be fed into a biodigester.

15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas. We are about to feel a very painful food shock. 1/

At 3.3% food inflation is already running ahead of general inflation in the economy. The Food & Drink Federation in the UK is forecasting that, even if the straits reopen permanently now, food inflation will be triple that rate by the end of the year. www.fdf.org.uk/fdf/news-med...

Landlocked Malawi gets 52% of its fertiliser from the gulf. 11 out of 28 districts have declared a state of disaster. When I was there three years ago farmers told me there was only one response to fertiliser price increases - plant less food

We can't avoid reckoning with the amount of crops globally used to feed farmed animals. They require massive inputs relative to the output in calories.

There are renewable powered alternatives to much of this. But only if other heavy users like Data Centres aren’t prioritised. Production of bio-fuels from feedstuff will have to be re-examined too. We are burning the equivalent of 15 million loaves of bread a day in Europe.

I wish people would just leave the basking sharks alone. they are completely tormented by drones and boats and paddle boards etc

It is both true that rural areas are subsidized by urban areas and that planning (or lack of) in rural areas has made the provision of the most basic services incredibly difficult and impossible in somecases... Making rural areas hard places to live

Yet another gushing story of how bogs are "prime areas for development" with plans for a "radical transformation of swathes of the midlands". Bogs are important in their own right should be restored not converted to data centres www.independent.ie/business/iri...

Finally www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Look at my little house. Have you ever seen anything cuter?😍😍

Patrick o Donovan is like a man who still listens to 2012 US talk radio. Remember him trying to start the war on Christmas rubbish?

Eileen Ní Fhloinn expressed how far right use of the tricolour has created a sense of fear around what is supposed to be a unifying symbol, in response to which she is now being bombarded with hateful remarks by thousands of people, incited by Gript and various far right social media outfits

Bigotry against Travellers is where many Irish racists cut their teeth.

the storm of hate directed at Eileen Ní Fhloinn has come not only from the Irish far right, but the massive international networks of far right influencers on social media. even Libs of TikTok got involved. this is what people risk every time they dare to criticise the far right anywhere

1926 census out tomorrow 💃💃

The father of a disabled child has been refused access to a disabled car parking spot in his complex. He has a blue badge, he has offered to pay, but as a social tenant, he is shut out.