www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous... Yesterday the Irish Government dumped and disowned the critical land use review its been sitting on for a year - today -'top adviser' lobbies to drop environmental law. Quite the start to our EU Presidency where Irishclimate leadership is tokenism #spéirghorm

“The government has thoroughly disowned this report. As unpopular in their view as a fart in a submarine.” But without it we get developer led planning of the Irish countryside and even more missed targets. The govt washes its hands of the Land Use Review. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

"Global fossil fuel subsidies are projected to exceed $1 trillion in 2026" I wonder if there's a way to move beyond fossil fuels...

A year after receiving it the government has published its Land Use Review. But … Published “without being adopted by government”. And “it is not an articulation of government policy”. Neither is it “a new strategy in relation to land use”. That’s a long barge pole. 🧵#SpeirGorm

The mafia regime in WH -policy as grifting - #giftarticle www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Really love this story of family, place and belonging and how the Mooney brothers, Richard and John, in 1969, found and saved one of the most precious treasures from Ireland's Bronze Age - the Doogarymore Chariot wheel -now in Kildare St National Museum. #LoveBogs #Heritage

Ireland facing €13 billion bill for ambition to fail on climate targets - quite a headline for day one of Ireland's EU Presidency - hard for Minister to dismiss fiscal watchdog as "environmental fundamentalists" #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

How the Vikings through Happiness made it into the USA Declaration of Independence - fascinating story of the evolution of language through layers of migration, invasion and intermixing and how no language, ethnicity or culture is 'pure' www.bbc.com/future/artic...

"Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda" Livestream Tuesday 30 June, 10am-3pm: Programme and link: www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/ou...

"Meanwhile, a three-year-old child has been found dead in a car in the Paris region, days after two young children were found dead in the family's car in the southern town of Carpentras" - #climatecrisis deaths showing all ages - not just very old. Quite the price we're paying for fossil fuels.

in French cities people are painting their windows with blanc de meudon - white chalk paste la-droguerie-eco.com/en/blanc-de-... to keep apartments and buildings cooler in every increasing heat- but there's an even more organic solution - yoghurt! www.bbc.com/news/article...

We've caused climate change through burning of fossil fuels - but we're interconnected to every earth life system that is impacted. When we talk of climate crisis and solutions we need to see humans and nature intertwined - connected - not separate. We thrive together. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

What everyone needs to be aware of is that such heatwaves are now locked-in And - given we are still pumping out 41 billion tonnes of CO2 a year - they will get much worse Whatever we do, the planet's temperature will stay elevated for many thousands of years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Humans are not separate from nature. We are part of it. A new paper argues that treating humans and nature as separate is a serious barrier to building sustainable futures. The authors introduce three ways to understand how humans are embedded in nature. Learn more: buff.ly/y83KGX3

Mad Max Fury Road looking like documentary soon - it's all about water #climateChange www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Americans still don't get that most Europeans don't have air-con. Also .....it's a metaphor. There's no sticky plaster for societies who are failing on both climate mitigation and adaptation

UK cannot ‘air con its way’ out of this heatwave says Professor www.channel4.com/news/uk-cann...

www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir.... Hype without data in coverage of aviation. No mention of emissions or long term consequences for Dublin as a car congested city - without even a rail link to airport. There's no growth on a planet we can't live on.

the stage we're at .....

We held an amazing event yesterday to mark the anniversary, with all UK broadcast media planning to cover the story all day today about heatwaves being hotter now & in the future. During the event, the PM resigned and the Met Office issued a red heatwave warning. And the media focus melted away...

It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it

How much hotter can Europe get? A lot hotter, for a lot longer, with extremes then on either side. Time to call climate crisis a shared emergency and accelerate phasing out fossil fuels and reducing GHGs ? Or will we continue to park it - delay, deflect and deny? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

While Europe broils, showing our overheated future - we delay, defer and even deny our climate realities and need to urgently phase out fossil fuels. EU, if it had any sense of shared responsibility, would declare it as a shared emergency and prioritise #climate action. #spéirghorm

BBC: Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being bombed in her home by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

imagine if we connected all the political, NGO and grassroots groups saying no to hyper-scale data centres stripping precious energy and water resources for global corporations ? #spéirghorm Ireland's case is not an outrider #climate

the illusion of freedom of speech, press and how corporate big tech controls communications - for profit - not the public good.

failed Iran ceasefire and deal while White House deflects to its disaster of a 'reflecting' pool - even attempting to prosecute a three time Olympian who simply picked up a piece of the floating failed cover-up job - the pool is certainly reflecting the regime www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/u...

"The president had a tube of super glue in his hand, the book says, and was trying to adorn the marble fireplace mantel with new golden decorations". @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

you couldn't make up Cafaro - deNiro champing to play him in the movie - idea company is called Greenwater Service Ltd is just too good www.cbsnews.com/news/company...

revenue should take a much closer look at this individual - hopefully US gets him back www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

www.tocharwetlands.ie/community-st... The meaning of Meitheal - Gertie Murphy and a life in Kilteevan, Roscommon #TócharStories

a dead pool sums up the White House

The reflecting pool has become a metaphor for the entire Trampy regime www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Good piece by @philipb-h.bsky.social on the commercial peat extraction business still operating despite the law and regulation and framing the EU court case against Ireland #LoveBogs

If you would never drive a Tesla, you should also consider not buying cheap crap from Amazon. Stop funding the oligarchs.

We're running a @dublininquirer.com Summer School at the end of this month, with sessions on how to get information from local government about what's its doing/not doing/ planning in your neighbourhood, and how to annoy them into making positive changes. Come join us!

🐖 Denmark’s “pig election” shows people want action on pollution from industrial farming. The government promises cleaner water, stronger climate action & better animal welfare 💚 Yet EU plans to weaken manure rules... With nitrate pollution rising, it's time to defend protections 💪😬 @desmog.com 🗞️

For those of us struggling to keep heads and spirits above water in a sea of climate denial, delay and deferral - it is the volunteers on the ground like Eugene Dunbar ( out every day in his mid 70s for the common good) who keep the lights on #climate #biuodiversity #bogs #environment #nature

Gradually growing our Spotify podcast of audio stories from the project - It's called Where the Curlew Calls - and latest episode is with Marie Gilmore, Guide at Galway's Living Bog #LoveBogs open.spotify.com/show/5hj0Qcn...

"Sky News has verified the identities of everyone from the school who was killed. 120 students, 73 boys & 47 girls, aged from 6 to 13, & 26 teachers, who were killed in the strike". Tom Cheshire reports on the primary school bombed by the US. 120 children & 26 teachers, all murdered.

Our self-destruct button - @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social once again puts her finger on what's behind dead fish #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Quite the look #Ireland - no #climate action plan 2026 by middle of year and now Govt launches a public consultation - not responding to draft plan but a limited 'survey' on key themes often without essential information, for example Govt has not published Land Use review. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

For those of us struggling to keep heads and spirits above water in a sea of climate denial, delay and deferral - it is the volunteers on the ground like Eugene Dunbar ( out every day in his mid 70s for the common good) who keep the lights on #climate #biuodiversity #bogs #environment #nature

The White House in the gutter as caged fighting, crudity, hatred, casual violence marked not a birthday but a nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

You can have billionaires/trillionaires or you can have a liveable planet with a fair crack of humanity surviving the next few decades. You sure as hell can’t have both.

The emperor was so enraged that TV channels were live streaming the denaming that he insisted on a tarpaulin to hide his shame ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SvjzURhZO0

what a gorgeous piece - www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... redemption through song