'The proposed (LNG) project would be close to a €1bn investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure. This is completely inconsistent with Ireland's legal climate obligations.' Dr Aideen O'Dochartaigh appearing at recent Oireachtas Committee session on proposed 'Gas Bill' @aideenod.bsky.social

Draghi isn’t going to save Europe. Cutting back chunks of the union’s landmark laws and regulations won’t do the job either - Writes Jack Power #HandsOffNature www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

We are hiring. An Taisce is seeking a remote Climate Action Officer, based in Galway or throughout the Midlands. Full job spec and application form can be found here: www.climateambassador.ie/join-our-team/. Apply by COB 16th Feb 2026. #climatejobs #greencareer #joinourteam #JOBFAIRY

Some EU leaders are meeting the chemical industry in Antwerp today, and then all EU heads of state/government are meeting in a Belgian castle tomorrow to discuss "competitiveness" What do they really mean when they say that? 👇

We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad

This is the price our bays & estuaries pays for agricultural nitrogen pollution. These measures treat the symptom, they don't address the source. This is what the nitrates derogation exacerbates. Is this worth celebrating? Is it a price we're willing to pay? www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment” How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods. #RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Have we tried putting the judicial reviews in hi vis jackets?

There are literally 100s of flood relief schemes in place, and only a handful have been judicially reviewed. Enniscorthy hasn't even got planning permission but judicial review is being blamed for delay.

Restricting JRs will fix everything 💡 It'll fix the bad decisions which allowed for development on the flood plains, it will fix climate change drivers & impacts which our government are ignoring. It will fix the fact that we abuse our rivers and turn them into glorified drains. But yeah, JRs..

'Environmental groups and climate campaigners have described the project as a “Trojan horse” for new fossil fuel developments, backed by a strategy that “punches a hole” in the country’s climate laws.' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not

And there we have it folks, having failed to do anything to halt the injury and death toll on our roads the government now plans to criminalise cycling. This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

NEW member benefit: An Taisce is delighted to have a special reciprocal membership arrangement with Tuatha As a member of An Taisce, you can enjoy 30% off Tuatha membership, or if you're a member of Tuatha, you can enjoy a 30% discount to join An Taisce www.antaisce.org/news/members... @tuatha.ie

Water is life: celebrating the importance of our wetlands An Taisce has fantastic free pond-creation resources available to download — including manuals, posters and more ... Available here: www.antaisce.org/ponds-for-bi... #WWD2026 #CelebratingWetlands #WetlandsandCulturalHeritage @ramsar.org

Late last year the government designated 466 rivers as 'highly modified', meaning they will continue to be dredged for the purposes of agriculture, ensuring towns and villages face greater flood risk www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

'I do everything in my power to “be safe, be seen”, but in fact I have very little power in this situation. A slogan like “Look, don’t kill” would be more to the point.' www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

“Access to justice must be a universal right and not one that is determined by the financial means of those bringing it. "This measure would be a regressive step and would weaken the rule of law and erode essential democratic safeguards.” - Rosemary Loftus, President, Law Society. #justice #power

CLM is standing with a grandfather, youth climate activist and a child, to challenge the Gov's inaction on climate change before the High Court on January 27th & 28th. Visit below for more info and case updates: communitylawandmediation.ie/centre-for-e... #ClimateJusticeNow

How much do we think Trump's desire to "own" Greenland is a result of the distortions of the Mercator projection? #MapsMatter

FANTASTIC NEWS The European Parliament has voted to send the #EUMercosur trade deal to the European Court of Justice for a legal review This dodgy deal must be stopped – it would be highly undemocratic for the EU Commission and national governments to push for ratification #StopEUMercosur

1400 submissions on the JR costs cap & the majority appear to be questioning the legal validity of this. But instead of, you know, actually listening to the public, instead the Gov is said to be 'bracing for a legal challenge'. How about they just don't do it?! www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

We are entering an utterly horrifying new reality, in which the most advanced technologies, planet-killing industries, and naked fascism are combining forces against us. Our only hope is that the 99% of us who are for life on Earth unite and stop them. We are many, they are few.

Astonishingly, in 1989 a motorway was planned to be built through Booterstown Bird Sanctuary in Dublin, held in trust by An Taisce. This RTÉ clip from the time shows An Taisce's John O'Sullivan and playwright Frank McGuinness defend vital importance of the sanctuary. www.rte.ie/archives/col...

Delaying the 2026 Climate Action Plan is deeply concerning. Efforts are already way off-track & the CAP is the main tool for closing the delivery gap this decade. Saying we must wait for post-2030 carbon budgets is conceptually backwards - delay now makes future targets harder and more expensive.

'Unlike planning enforcement, EU environmental law gives citizens and community groups meaningful rights ... Communities are not choosing environmental law because it is convenient. They are choosing it because, right now, it is the only law that listens' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Still possible to do a very short email before 5.30pm deadline. Please let your voice be heard. Submissions can be sent by email to [email protected]

1 HOUR LEFT TO DO THIS If you have a spare few minutes please use them for this really important issue.

Deadline to make a submission is 5.30pm today. Submissions can be sent by email to [email protected] Info on consultation from Govt (found under DCEE): www.gov.ie/en/departmen... For more on why you should make a submissions and support on content: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

The Government is seeking to dramatically erode public right of access to justice via courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on those challenging unlawful planning or policy. Today is the last day for making submissions, please have your voice heard. www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

Dept wants to put limits on recoverable costs, leaving people facing six-figure bills even when they win. That would be the end of public-interest environmental litigation, favouring wealthy and commercial interests, and undermining environmental protection. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I would have referenced it above, but I ran out of space What I’m saying here is that the cabinet have been given a legal opinion to justify them explicitly acting against the interest of individuals or groups of citizens The effects of this impunity would be stark. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-exe...

What's the definition of 'public interest'? Is it leaving just the deep pocketed corporate players on the field, who make enough profit to pay their lawyers hundreds of thousands to defend their own economic interest, further stacking the deck against the environment in favour of corporate profit?

⚖️ DEADLINE TOMORROW ⚖️ Submissions on this are due tomorrow. Please do take a few minutes to make a submission, it sounds like a dry topic, but the negative consequences for the Irish environment could be profound. We need as many people as possible to push back on this.

⚠️ All Hands on Deck Needed to Respond to the Latest Attack on Access to Justice ⚖️ "This is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced" - @antaisce.bsky.social 🔗 Details and call for public submissions: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

If you live in Ireland and truly care about nature and our environment, please make a submission objecting to the government's plans to *severely* restrict communities' ability to defend them in the courts. Instructions below, it only takes minutes, and the deadline is the day after tomorrow!! 🙏

Founded in 1948, @antaisce.bsky.social is Ireland’s oldest environmental charity, now says in all that time, it has never faced a threat to its ability to fulfill its legal functions regarding planning on a par with current government proposals. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

So often, a judicial review has been the only way communities can defend their local ecosystems, like the wild native kelp forests in Bantry Bay, West Cork. Now the government wants to put that avenue out of reach. Please tell them you're totally against this disgraceful step.

'These new rules will harm the environment because the important role civil society plays in protecting the environment and their communities will be neutralised by insurmountable financial barriers and unfair procedures'

This is not how you conduct a public consultation, you'd think DCEE, the Dept. with responsibility for the Aarhus Convention would do better. The legal costs changes are asking the public to give up critical access to justice rights. This needs far more careful and rigorous public consultation.

Please do one impactful thing for the Irish environment and make a submission on this. It's shocking erosion of the public right to access justice. If this goes through, environmental decision making will inevitably disimprove. And it's not like we've been covering ourselves in glory to date.

"When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going" – Audre Lorde

Well I'm definitely awake now! #WinterSwimming

By pushing an anti-green, anti-sustainability agenda, farming unions in Ireland and the EU have helped to create the political conditions for #Mercosur to pass. My letter in today's Irish Times.

The Environmental Pillar has long argued that the Mercosur deal lacks sufficient safeguards to protect Irish family farms and consumers from food produced to lower health standards using inputs banned in the EU.

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

I'm sorry to keep posting about this but this should be a government-destroying scandal at this point. How the fuck are you not coming down like a ton of bricks on this? There could hardly be a less ambiguous situation, and yet...!!!

The spinelessness of our government is astonishing. "The fascist enabling, CSAM-producing platform has some good features too, yanno?", is a hell of a take. Christ. They need to be raked over the coals for this at every opportunity.