This is a unique atrocity. Nowhere before has a captive population been steadily flattened into a smaller and smaller area by bulldozers. Now Israel is repeating this model in Lebanon because the international community has broadly supported them. The bulldozers themselves are provided by the US.

“The rise and spread of private equity has been a great disaster for the world, and for the food system in particular. For them, whether it’s armaments or food retailing, it’s all the same; They’re in the business of maximising returns on their investments, globally – everything else is irrelevant.”

Happy news for @suzannacrampton.bsky.social The original Vine was a great fun.

€200 off the fabulous Kreidler Eco 3 Sport! Be e-bike smart for Bike Week. Bosch electrics and top class German engineering now €3,299. Also qualifies for Bike to Work. cityviewwheels.com/kreidler-vit...

UN climate chief: the pros of renewables are now ‘impossible to ignore’

European State of the Climate 2025 is out, and it’s clear: Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average. Hidden away on page 145: the laws that can help Europe take action. climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025 Thanks @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social and @wmo-global.bsky.social for your work.

UCC campus and her trees looking splendid this afternoon. #ucctrees

It’s a quick read, but quite topical. open.substack.com/pub/grownotg...

I just fact checked this and that's eleven significant attempts

Ireland’s tallest building( today ). A fine example of the 15minute city. Affordable housing, social housing and 7 floors of elderly living, all in the city centre. No cars needed. 25 storeys of new residents, keeping the city alive. #Cork #15minutecity #Highrise

Or…. “Ireland still the only neutral country in the EU”

This is very poor

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

It’s also worth noting that senior planners in cork city council are also against the idea of an access road and turning circle in Marina Park. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Wellington road badly needs speed bumps to slow people down, ridiculous some of the speeds people are driving down it And don't get me started on the pedestrian crossing by Patrick's Hill, it may as well not be there the way people blast through it as your standing OR half way across it! Rant over

Flying chainsaw. Hovering near the house as of it was lost and afraid to ask for directions, then a second one went past followed by a third. #Speirgorm

Spring has never been this quiet. In Europe, we've lost 19% of our birds in 40 years, 60% for farmland birds. Yet EU laws protecting wildlife, clean air and water are being weakened. If you haven't already, please sign #HandsOffNature petition — www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

"A bicycle needs no fuel. It requires no oil refinery, no pipeline, no tanker route through a contested strait. A worker who cycles to the office has removed themselves entirely from the chain of geopolitical dependency that currently makes Ireland vulnerable." www-tinyurl.com/1b95e30a

No subtle climate-delay tactics on display here from Deputy Danny Healy-Rae during Ireland's Earth Day parliamentary debate - just classic, old-school climate denial, "we can't control the weather". www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...

A day out at @teagasc.bsky.social in Carlow for the apple growers morning. Incredible amoumt of information gathered and being shared by Alberto and team from @teagasccrops.bsky.social

It would cost an estimated €125bn to decarbonise the Irish economy by 2030. A one off charge of €75 on people who post on social media about wellness, hyrox and or seaweed baths will bring in approximately €127bn over 4yrs. This isn’t complicated, folks.

Environmental progress is built through everyday action Every person has the power to create change. Join in. Teach others. Make sustainable choices daily. When individuals act, communities form. Clean air, safe water, and climate resilience aren’t optional—they’re essential #earthday26

The Cork Choral festival must be one of the happiest events in the annual calendar anywhere. Choirs everywhere, singing everywhere. Loads of it in Cobh too www.corkchoral.ie/festival_eve...

“Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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/

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced." This is how you do a just transition. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

Sounds to me like they are just trying to match the US government’s way to doing things to see if that works. Saw a meme yesterday that asked “Does anyone know if the Strait of Hormuz opens on Sundays and if so at what time?”

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Drove all along Sheepshead Peninsula and much of Beara last week. The hills are dead. Eaten to barrenness to feed the export market. #SpéirGhorm

In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

This really is the only answer. Our dependence on fossil fuels must end. For our planet, and for our society.

Please be conscious that there are petitions going around that may appear to be calling for something you want, but for very different reasons than yours. Read the small print!

Wow 🥺 The Iranian national soccer team players with tiny backpacks as tribute to honor the children and teachers killed at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran ❤️‍🩹

National Party stickers all around O’Connell Street incase anyone has any doubts as to who has been front and centre of this.

On this day in 1998 the Belfast Agreement was signed. A producer at Sky News, Kieran Devaney, needed a headline and came up with Good Friday Agreement. Nobody says Belfast Agreement anymore.

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

Our statement on the Galway Ring Road. Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.

Meanwhile, a very different protest is happening:

thetowtruck.ie who paid for the ads appears to be Sonny Boyde (www.linkedin.com/in/sonny-boy...) who seems to have some lovely posts in his history /s

It's so ironic that people like Ciarán Mullooley are supporting the traffic protest today. Reactionary populists like him (I know he's Trump-lite as opposed to full-on) are exactly why we're in this fuel price mess right now, but there he is, without a speck of self-awareness, egging it on.

Who's one of the main organisers of the Dublin fuel protest? ( If you want to protest about fuel price rises, do it outside the US and Israeli embassies) It's James Geoghegan, a racist, climate change denying bigot.

James Geoghegan, one of the organisers of the fossil fuel protests, on Prime Time this evening asking for the government to open Irish oil fields. This is absolute madness. Yes, we need to support people, but this is not the way.

There’s a pic in circulation in Irish farmer WhatsApp groups purporting to be of petrol prices in Portugal today. It’s being used to suggest the govt here isn’t doing as much as others to support farmers. I’ve been sent it several times. It must be old or unrepresentative. 1/2