Pod of this week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper now available. I ripped into humbug & hypocrisy of Irish opposition to #Mercosur trade deal. We also discussed Ireland’s dire performance on emissions cuts, which will cost the taxpayer dearly. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Martin Turner, national treasure, strikes gold once again.

This week’s Last Word on the Environment with Matt Cooper on @todayfm.bsky.social coming up within the hour. We’ll be discussing Ireland’s rejection of #Mercosur deal, plus our missing #climate targets & Dublin Airport passenger cap lifted.

It's extremely unlikely that Patrick O'Donovan is this clueless. Far more likely is that he, along with government colleagues, are prepared to look the other way no matter how depraved are the atrocities the US tech bros inflict on society. www.thejournal.ie/patrick-odon...

What a year it’s been, and it’s only 8 days in…

Best idea I’ve heard this week. We’re paying a heavy price for media illiteracy and disinformation; it’s never too young to start teaching people how to recognise and defend themselves against it. apnews.com/article/fake...

Nature is healing :)

Used to LOVE Twitter. Having c.45,000 followers gave me a modest but useful media mini platform. Last January, I took the painful decision to quit, given its takeover by a raging fascist. It’s now automating tools to make swastika bikinis & AI kiddie porn. 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just finished an interview on East Coast FM on Ireland's woeful #climate performance – and who's largely to blame

Am due on Shannonside FM shorty to discuss why Ireland is set to badly miss its 2030 #climate targets

Gosh, it looks like Ireland is in for some “stark” weather, just perfect, apparently, for lounging around in the park, catching some rays. Come on, media, you could at least make an effort at trying to communicate the disaster that is #climate change.

“But they’re too expensive, they’ll never catch on, they’re just a green gimmick” etc etc. Nope.

Hell of a way to report that a lawless wannabe dictator has just illegally kidnapped the head of a sovereign state. Legacy media scrambling to justify criminal behaviour is utter cowardice.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

There’s a lot of evil in the world, but is there anywhere on Earth where it is more concentrated, persistent and malign than in the genocidal coloniser state of Israel? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

“We have no choice but to radically change our food systems to keep global temperature [rise] below two degrees”. Am quoted in a piece in the @irishtimes.com on the future of food, by Sylvia Thompson. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Happy new year everyone!

In 8 years as an EV driver I have never, ever encountered a single instance of this “I switched back to diesel” yet here it is, being flagged as a “Story of the Year” for 2025. Gives some idea of the mountain to be climbed in terms of overturning persistent myths & misconceptions.

Noooooooooo. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Seasonal best wishes to all! Am of course in no way suggesting that the below would make an ideal stocking-filler, but you never know!

Ok, 16 innocent people brutally killed in Bondi Beach attack – response is wall-to-wall global news coverage & condemnation. Meanwhile, 400+ innocent people brutally killed by Israel *since* Oct “ceasefire” – response is near-total silence from world’s media. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Pod of my final Last Word on the environment for 2025 with Matt Cooper on Today FM is now available. Did my level best to put as positive a spin as possible on what has been yet another grim year for #climate, environmental issues. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Just finished the final weekly Last Word on the environment of 2025 with Matt Cooper on Today FM. We discussed the EU’s ill considered back-pedalling on phaseout internal combustion vehicles, plus rise of renewables & remarkable drops in battery costs that are a potential game-changer.

I just finished this powerful & shocking book. The detail - and copious references - starkly show how we have been deceived & lied to. Govt leadership on the issue is collapsing despite ordinary ppl wanting action and taking action (domestic PV & heatpump installs, EVs, cycling, retrofits, etc)

Thinking of signing up up to Threads? Those nice, trustworthy people at Meta would like to gather one or two pieces of information about you, for their files, of course. Nothing at all sinister about this. Honestly.

The increasingly far-right EPP grouping in European Parliament, which sadly includes Fine Gael, has just come up with genius plan to resuscitate obsolete, #climate- destroying late 19th century technology, at the whim of fossil fuel lobby. A triumph for Putin, China & utter ignominy for Europe.

Pleased to present copies of THE LIE OF THE LAND to Opposition politicians on recent visit to Dáil, including Jennifer Whitmore (SocDems), Paul Murphy (PBP), Ivana Bacik & Ciarán Ahern (Lab). Copies also delivered to SF parliamentary party. Many thanks to @oisinc.bsky.social for assisting.

Delighted to make the list of favourite nature & climate books in 2025, in today’s Irish Examiner by @miseanja.bsky.social

If you're looking for more meaningful Christmas presents, make sure to consider @thinkorswim.bsky.social's recently bublished book Lie of the Land: a gripping, vital read.

Below is 'before' and 'after' of website of the US-EPA, after the Stalin-esque purge of facts that the Dear Leader isn't happy about. Those whom the gods would destroy, first, they make mad. Will discuss this & other topics around 5.30 on my weekly environmental slot on The Last Word on Today FM

These two stories are somehow connected. Apparently, if you lobby tirelessly for more pollution & ecological wreckage, that’s exactly what you get.

"Irish farmers’ nitrates derogation extended by EU for further three years" www.irishtimes.com/world/europe... If you would like to know why this was a bad decision, you may want to read "The Lie Of The Land" @thinkorswim.bsky.social

What a shocker. Agriculture minister who’s also a livestock farmer thinks livestock farmers should be free to continue to pour shit into our waterways with impunity, all the while pocketing taxpayer subsidies. This is his “ambition”. What a country we live in. www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...

When dirty politics meets dirty money, the public interest is the real loser, and nowhere is this clearer than in extending the licence to pollute, aka the nitrates derogation. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Very much enjoyed a return to @rte.ie radio this morning, to take part in an in-studio debate on “car bloat” with presenter David McCullagh and Michael Sheridan. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Fair fecks to RTÉ - and to Ireland - for having the cajones not to go along meekly with Israel’s endless genocide, unlike so many of our yellow-bellied European neighbours. One day, they too may well claim to have been against this all along. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

This week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper is coming up in the next half hour on Today FM. We’ll discuss pesticides, nitrates, private planes and more…

I recently bought my mother a copy of @thinkorswim.bsky.social ‘The Lie of the Land’. Her four word review: ‘This is some book!’ On special offer here: www.kennys.ie/shop/the-lie...

Just did a piece on LMFM on vast risks posed by an AMOC shutdown later this century, and how many Irish people could find themselves as forced #climate refugees in that scenario.

“It holds bountiful oil, gas, minerals & fish. And it promises to shorten global shipping routes”. Well hallelujah, collapsing Arctic ice sheet will allow full-scale looting of one of world’s last remaining pristine landscapes. Capitalism (and media) looks increasingly like a global death cult.

Was on @newstalkfm.bsky.social earlier to discuss the existential risk to north-western Europe posed by a shutdown of the AMOC. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/the...

Pod of this week’s Last Word on environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM now available. We did a wrap-up on highs & (mostly) lows of #Cop30, plus we discussed why Iceland is making emergency preparations for possible AMOC shutdown - why isn’t Ireland doing likewise? www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

All kicking off shortly in the Convention Centre, Dublin shortly further the Irish Book Awards. Excira and delira just to be here!

Just two hours to go to the Irish Book Awards gala event in Dublin’s Convention Centre, suited up and nearly ready to head into town. Thrilled to be among the six books Shortlisted for the non-fiction Book of the Year, here’s to a fun evening…

An Amoc shutdown later this century could see millions of Irish people become #climate migrants; this is something our politicians talking tough on cracking down on migration to Ireland should keep in mind, as I discuss in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Some nice Xmas non-fiction book gift suggestions just out from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social…

In Wicklow town this sunny morning for the Youth #Climate Conference, ‘Our Climate, Our Future’. Looking forward to discussing the ideas in THE LIE OF THE LAND.

In a functioning democracy, companies that repeatedly flout regulations and pollute our rivers would be shut down permanently, and their senior executives prosecuted. We live instead in a light-touch regulatory paradise for polluters. (Reporting by Niall Sargent) thecurrency.news/articles/208...

The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.

Pod of this week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper is now available. I argued for the futility of trying to solve Ireland’s congestion crisis with more roads, while also having a hop off a pet peeve: petrol-powered leaf blowers. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...