The radio silence from the @lawsocietyireland.bsky.social is concerning though

About time somebody said this www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

The headline focuses on impacts on sea views, but the real story is that Irish Rail is planning for 1.3m sea-level rise over the next 50 years - that's the story www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

We are delighted to welcome Luke McCann to the team at @fploguellp.bsky.social

Hate to say ‘I told you so’, but let’s just say that if you’ve read THE LIE OF THE LAND, none of this will be even remotely surprising. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Reminder: Our Govt is obsessed with shutting off Court oversight of bad environmental decisions. #JudicialReview #Environment #Law www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Nature in Ireland is in a “very poor” state with the country’s economic growth achieved at the expense of the environment, EU analysis has found. - @codohertynews.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

"The chosen people of God is all humanity."

'Novel' court action launched against EPA permit for data centre group's power plant Campaigners claim that the EPA is failing to meet Ireland’s climate obligations in its licensing of power for the data centre. www.thejournal.ie/data-centres...

Just back, and there are so many people cycling compared to 10 years ago

EU Commission sued over lack of environmental transparency - @fploguellp.bsky.social acting for @clientearth.bsky.social in this case before the General Court euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...

"The problem is no longer confined to specific policy areas or individual member states such as Hungary or Slovakia. From German local authorities attempting to oppress pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Italy’s prime minister discrediting the judiciary .. a dangerous pattern is emerging across the EU"

Autocracy in America: "the attack on law firms is part of a two-front strategy to neuter an indispensable branch of government. Trump and his allies are choking off lawsuits before they reach the judiciary on the front end while questioning the legitimacy of successful lawsuits on the back end."

I've often thought that these reports would make for good assignments to energy engineering students - how many basic errors can you spot?

Unherd of: Information commissioner orders landmark release of cattle herd location data thecurrency.news/articles/200...

Reading environmental reports for gas power stations and data centres lately. All prepared by huge consultancies which appear not to understand the basic laws of physics. Very often they assume that power stations are 100% efficient

Precisely the question I keep asking myself: 'It begs the question: what on earth is the point of the EPA licensing regime if companies – in broad daylight, visible to us all – repeatedly breach the rules meant to protect our fragile rivers?' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

These lads don’t care what burble they have to put before they reach the pre-determined end of their decisions. In this guy’s case I’d say it is, at best, 50/50 that he even reads it all himself.

Whether or not they caused the horrific fish kill, serious questions need to be asked why North Cork Creameries has been repeatedly in breach of their EPA discharge licence. Do we need 46,000 fish to be directly attributable to their pollution to stop it? 🧵 www.thejournal.ie/fish-kill-ri...

Looking for the next coloniser Brits->Church->???

Dairy Industries Ireland wants free licence to pollute our waterways despite the evidence of collapsing ecosystems from the Blackwater in Cork, Lady's Island Lake in Wexford, Lough Neagh etc etc... I say no: the polluter must pay. www.independent.ie/farming/news...

Fish kills are preventable. Our massive dairy expansion in recent years has consequences, and North Cork Co-Op Creamery Plant must come clean on why pollution discharges were 52 times permitted levels. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

One by one our waterways are being poisoned to death to maintain buoyant farm exports. The Boyne is just the latest to enter its death rattle phase. www.independent.ie/regionals/lo...

We have a brand new paper, again by a team of crack undergrads, about the networks of these anti-wind lawyers. The Marcella case happened to be first. 10/n www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-e...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Heritage Foundation: Enabling fascism in the US, promoting authoritarianism in the EU vsquare.org/heritage-fou...

Not for the first time, a client has instructed me to withdraw a Join Spouse visa application because the DOJ's excessive delay in processing it has led to the marriage's breakdown. The supposed special protection of marriage in the Irish Constitution is a sick joke sometimes.

Top two sidebar stories on Page One of the FT tomorrow.

Autocracy in Hungary (latest): Orban's Soviet-reminiscent "Office for the Defence of Sovereignty" is targeting a law professor (for 1st time tbomk) for the "crime" of speaking at a roundtable on what could happen should the opposition win the next parliamentary elections... telex.hu/belfold/2025...

An agreement by @irishwater.bsky.social to connect a new Supermac’s motorway plaza to the water network in Ennis, Co Clare is heading for the courts, in what’s believed to be one of the first such challenges of its kind. www.thejournal.ie/supermacs-en...

Two years on from the finding in the European Court against Ireland for not implementing the Habitats Directive, what has changed for Ireland's network of protected areas for nature? www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Ireland's govmt & agencies have made VERY slow recent progress toward GHG data transparency: ➡️ SEAI good, EPA & CCAC ok; DeptCEE worse, Teagasc still dreadful. Yet, @robbieandrew.bsky.social: comparable charts *with data/image downloads* for 🇮🇪 & every country! robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou...

Northside Cork city preservation group raising funds for legal battle to stop housing development www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Privacy preserving age verification is bullshit @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/b...

“This approach doesn’t just weaken climate ambition, it entrenches inequality”. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... 🧵1/

NHNA priorities include 🔴 Stopping new fossil fuel infrastructure 🟡 Advocating for a just and fair transition 🟢 Supporting widespread development of indigenous renewable energy For more information on the harmful impacts of LNG and our past and ongoing campaigns, visit www.lngfree.ie

This is a great study on a complicated, but very important topic. I encourage all with an interest in climate, agriculture, nutrition or justice (i.e. everybody?) to engage with it...

Institutional bulwarks against lawlessness only function for as long as the institutions play that role. After that, they are just another means to give the exercise of power the colour of law. Devotion to institutions, per se, is a kind of foreshortening of the imaginative horizon. They fail.

Refusal of planning permission on climate grounds triggers ISDS arbitration www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What's truly extraordinary here is that Ireland's planning approval Commission thinks it can ignore the Climate Act, energy experts & scientific reality, despite knowing its *cumulative* decisions are adding up to breaking the law & exceeding carbon budgets. Guess we'll see how 🇮🇪 & 🇪🇺 judges decide.

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We are quite smug in this country and like to think we are a haven of democracy, I have thoughts - a🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

So Cork Co Co took six years before it enforced the law. Surprising that the usual chorus isn't chirping about this.

‘The type of delay the judge said “suggests an unacceptable level of official tolerance for continuing breaches of the environmental protection code, including the requirements of EU law.”‘ Local authorities must do more to protect the environment. www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan...

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

A Fred 🧵. ✅

We are quite smug in this country and like to think we are a haven of democracy, I have thoughts - a🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

For shame www.propublica.org/article/trum...

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...