The Living City Initiative only works if the property owners have access to the capital needed to undertake the renovation works which can be complex and costly. Hence 👇🏼 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Incredulous 👇🏼😢

The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.

We’re taking action to make housing more affordable — for more people, more quickly. 📢 Today, we’re launching a public consultation on our revised State aid rules to help Member States boost affordable housing. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Beautiful colours out there this morning 🏃🏻‍♀️☀️🏃🏻‍♀️

‘if you cannot persuade decision-makers that killing people is wrong, you will never persuade them that killing other life forms is also wrong’

Beautifully autumnal 🍁🏃🏻‍♀️🍂 out there 🏃🏻‍♀️🍁🍂🏃🏻‍♀️🍁🍂🏃🏻‍♀️🍁🍂🏃🏻‍♀️🍁🍂🏃🏻‍♀️🍁🍂🏃🏻‍♀️🍁🍁

Gorgeous morning out there! 🏃🏻‍♀️😎🏃🏻‍♀️

Good run 🏃🏻‍♀️ on a lovely #Dublin morning

Failing to address climate change is very expensive.

A heavy drizzle 🌧️ but not cold 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️Happy Friday!

Gorgeous morning 😎🏃🏻‍♀️🍂

“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.” Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities

“Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests.” “Unlike age or genetics, this is something we can change.”

Stimulating public lecture on strengthening democracy by @anthonyzach.be from @demsoc.org organised by @dublincityuni.bsky.social fabulously captured in this illustration

Lovely lovely #Dublin morning out there - to be enjoyed before the rain ☔️ comes.

#Art #ModernImpressionism

Don’t you just #LoveDublin Gay Spar, the George’s Street Arcade, traffic junctions: 52 reasons to love Dublin right now www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Delighted to be listed in today’s Irish Independent as one of the best new non-fiction “books to watch” for autumn 2025.

Wonderful weekend away in the sunny south east - beautiful part of the country, a real get away from everything!

Looking forward to reading this 👇🏼

By @karolbalfe.bsky.social ‘Instead of false promises, we need real solutions: direct emissions cut at source, progressive taxation on polluters, public climate finance that supports just transitions, and investments in renewable energy and adaptation.’ www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

“Can’t put solar panels on your roof? Plug-in ‘balcony solar’ may be for you. Balcony solar promises to cut energy costs and grid reliance for renters and apartment-dwellers. I did a trial run at my home.” Shown in historic Paris — can we avoid yet another “aesthetics vs sustainability” debate?

What a wonderful win - the women are really rocking it at this year’s #150 ⁦‪@DublinHorseShow‬⁩. Today Laura Kraut with the only clear round showing us at 59 years young that age is not a barrier to world class winning #RolexGrandPrix

Superb day at ⁦‪Dublin Horse Show‬⁩ capped off with tremendous Puissance win for Rachel Proudley - the first woman in 61 years to win jumping 2.15m 🏆🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Good to hear IBEC’s Danny McCoy on Morning Ireland call out the huge negatives of this 🇺🇸🇪🇺 trade deal! Cant believe the level of non Paris Agreement aligned fossil fuels committed to - what impact will that have on decarbonisating 🇪🇺energy systems? As for weapons 🤬 🇪🇺 grows reliance on 🇺🇸

En presencia de Feijóo, el arzobispo de Santiago ha calificado de “inaceptable” utilizar a los migrantes “como arma política” y ha “condenado con firmeza” la “violencia racista” y la “criminalización colectiva”, durante la Ofrenda al apóstol social.elpais.com/zqpnb10

“After years of advocacy, pilots, and planning, New York is preparing to launch a universal secure bike parking & e-bike charging network that could include up to 500 stations across all 5 boroughs.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

‘Tis Friday 🏃🏻‍♀️🤗🏃🏻‍♀️🤗🏃🏻‍♀️🤗🏃🏻‍♀️🤗

Sitting here with an advance copy of this and it is hard to imagine a more timely book! I think this book from @akpress.org/edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social will save lives, and I encourage you all to preorder and nudge your local library about it. #BookSky www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

Center-left lawmakers will not support Thursday’s motion of no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen, giving a timely boost to the beleaguered European Commission president.

What a wonderful hopeful read to start the day! Inspiring & inclusive development of social and environmental wealth in a rural community From hedgerows to heat pumps: how the Dingle Peninsula is modelling a new way for rural Ireland to thrive www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

“If extraordinary sums can be mobilised for the military, with far lower economic returns and much lower social benefits, then the refusal to fund a just transition and stronger public services is clearly political, not economic.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

HOUSING THE HOMELESS SAVES MONEY: “a study showed the savings in emergency healthcare, social services and the justice system totalled as much as €15,000 a year for every homeless person in properly supported housing.” It works, helps people AND it saves money.

And what now?? Where’s the cost benefit analysis of pulling out of shovel ready projects vs going ahead? The other cost is HAP to those waiting on the homes! Housing Minister pulls plug on almost 500 social homes across six sites over rising costs jrnl.ie/6725958

Simple but effective proposal that could transform this street 🙌🏼🐝🙌🏼🦋 dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

‘A wealthy but still penny-wise pound-foolish Government hasn’t made the link between functioning infrastructure and housing output, and indeed climate.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Completely agree with @malcolmnoonan.bsky.social on reuse of existing buildings for housing. It’s a win/win no brainer ticking housing, climate local business, reversal of street deterioration. It’s distressing 😢🤬😢 that the Mins is putting the Bill on the back burner www.thesun.ie/news/1530650...

Hosting a seminar at International Social Housing Festival #ISHF2025 It focuses on maximising existing buildings as a sustainable means of delivering affordable housing in the context of the European 🇪🇺 Affordable Housing Plan 📆 Thursday 5 ⏰ 11am 🚪 Wicklow 2B

Am hosting a sustainable housing seminar at #ISHF2025 Focus: maximising 🏗️ existing buildings 🏭 for affordable housing 🏢- good practices showcased followed by discussion within the context of the 🇪🇺 European Affordable Housing Plan. Outline & speaker see confpartners.eventsair.com/QuickEventWe...

‘’The neglect of Mary’s grave is a metaphor for the continual airbrushing of women out of Irish history.’’ ‘’There is a sexist old saying that, in Mary O’Connell’s case, bears repeating. Behind every great man is a great woman. We should respect her memory, lest we forget.’’

Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams & debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today's information society. That's why curriculum of students in Finland includes media literacy lessons, aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth.

@teresaribera.ec.europa.eu “Climate change rarely makes the evening news or front pages’’ ……. there is “a lack of messaging coming from the institutional and political level” at the same time as a “debasement of the debate around how to manage” global warming.  www.politico.eu/article/euro...