We have all learned a lesson here. Any future protests need to have a few tractors and claim to speak for rural Ireland and we will be able to grind the country to a halt with no state pushback

Like I get what he's saying but Ireland actually mostly exports high value luxury items like dairy and meat and ingredients like milk powder. We actually import most of what people actually eat

The vast vast VAST majority of highly subsidized agricultural produce from Ireland is exported. I wonder would he see that as sending money abroad while we have to import most of the food we actually eat

responding to the looming risk of a catastrophic disruption to global supply chains that could last for months if not years by shutting down the national road network to demand tax cuts is a more cutting indictment of the pettiness of Irish politics than I could ever write

"I support the right to protest but this will just turn people off their agenda" etcetc

I don't understand why the government isn't recommending that people do save fuel where they can?

Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide it with redactions. A technical fail made it easy to reveal what sat behind the black rectangles. The board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based”. www.dublininquirer.com/documents-sa...

My latest column: Ireland’s data centre policy will drive significantly greater fossil fuel use, contradicting multiple statutory and policy targets which require rapid reductions instead. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"Destruction of eelgrass beds and other benthic habitats from bottom trawling have eviscerated nursery grounds for many species."

I stg if storm Dave destroys my emotionally load bearing cherry blossom flowers that are going to start opening any hour now I will riot

Seeing all the big brains like 'the war on Iran proves we have to get real and start importing LNG for energy security' has made me very suspicious that they don't actually know what LNG is. Do they not know that it's frozen gas? That it too has been affected by the war?

Irish govt announcements for everything from housing to energy to healthcare:

This has been known for decades, and known widely for many years. Who exactly is it still a secret to?

My hole is sickened listening to airline guys warning that an airport cap will drive prices up as if they're going up magically and that's just what happeneds. What they mean of course is that they will keep raising prices. Not paying their staff more or anything though

Having a fossil fuel crisis reliably every 2-10 years is fine apparently but God forbid a single wind farm has an issue and it's wall to wall " RENEWABLES ARENT RELIABLE THOUGH?!?!"

every environmentalist who has for DECADES been saying we need to get off oil and gas, watching governments panic at this energy crisis

The first major project from our new investigations unit. From the Shannon to Siberia: How alumina from a Limerick refinery enters Russia’s weapons supply chain www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Just watched that manosphere documentary and now I believe that forget banning teenagers from social media, we all need to be banned

We’re going to have to end up burning out Data centres like they are a Big House in the 1920s

The dose of sunshine I got today has really gone and solved 80% of all my problems

Amazing effort by the custodians of Lough Neagh to mark Patrick’s Day. Other Irish lakes, waterways also green today - and every day- to honour our national holiday.

The fringe women’s anti-immigration group supported by three elected politicians

Luckily Northern Ireland’s best are on it…

Very good piece from Olive Heffernon on the fishing crisis in the south west. There's a real urgency now to taking action before yet more damage is done. oceanographicmagazine.com/features/cre...

Every time you see a fox it’s the best thing that happened to you that day.

Ah.... Wonderful

Apple sauce needs better publicity. It's so delicious and sweet and fresh and zesty. I have been sleeping on apple sauce for years, it's so much nicer than you'd think... I encourage you all to go make some apple sauce

There's no way to say this without people rolling their eyes or feeling defensive and annoyed but what happens in slaughterhouses would shock even the most hardened of is

There is beef between the Government and the Irish Farmers Association 🥩 🐮 Why? "Hubris - though some of them might think that’s a sheep drench.” www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Meanwhile, Irish agriculture system entirely incapable of meeting fundamental food needs of our population, with its export-based model predicated on massive fertiliser, animal feed imports. We are shockingly vulnerable yet nobody is even talking about it. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

When people look at Connemara and other areas in Ireland, they see them as bare. But they don't have to be like that, we just need to stop the sheep grazing and they could look very, very different!

A friend of mine adopted a sick stray old cat and her roommate is allergic to cats but loves them and just dealt with it

Building data centres to house the AI that picks targets for war crimes that cause spikes in prices for the fossil fuels we burn to power the data centres that we keep building so the war criminals will give us tax money to build data centres to house the AI that....

Everytime I learn anything new about Charlie haughey Im in disbelief that this man was a minister and taoiseach for so long

Again

I've spent the last few days moving frogs off the road and about 1 in 5 of them cover their head with their hands when you go to pick them up 😭

What sort of dump of a country deports kids with special needs? Fair play to the school rallying around him and fighting his deportation www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Please sign, send onto people, and share on social media! We need to turn off the toxic algorithms that effect all of us, but especially children. Our bill will be brought to the next stage of the Dáil on Wednesday March 4th, with TDs likely voting on it THAT NIGHT. my.uplift.ie/petitions/tu...

Last chance to contact Councillors from Donegal, Kerry and Mayo and tell them to say no the corporate takeover of Irish Seaweed. Email tool is set and ready to go action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st... #SpeirGorm

I had the opportunity to contribute to @immikesheridan.bsky.social's brilliant doc Amplified, on how US culture wars and extreme ideas are influencing Ireland. It's now available to watch on Apple TV, Amazon, and Google Play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaFJ...

A really important piece of writing that exposes the inherent racism at the core of our Dept of Justice.

No other journalist in this country writes about the migration system - particularly its byzantine inhumanity - like Shamim does. If we had more people who did, I think the public would be better informed and have a VERY different view of it

Funny how the Minister and Department keep telling us their own process is too slow and opaque, but will happily drag out cases for years trying to find cause to refuse, then need to be taken to court to reveal why. Almost as if they have another goal entirely 🤔

Those pictures of you, your family and friends won't nudify themselves! I for one am happy to subsidize such a service 🫡

Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹 m.independent.ie/business/per...

Get in loser, we're doing the cancel culture panic again www.public.news/p/end-the-wi...

Clarity on today's email tool! Only Councillors in Donegal, Mayo, Galway and Kerry have the opportunity to share their opinions with MARA in relation to the corporate takeover over of Seaweed harvesting. But ANYONE can email them ✊️ action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st... #SpeirGorm

Please email Donegal, mayo, Kerry and galway councillors and tell them to stand against corporate seaweed harvesting Nothing like a ton of emails to light a fire under some councillors!

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.