IDE and Galway Hospital GreenED support the urgent Connemara Greenway completion. Greenways are a proven, cost-effective intervention that improve physical and mental health, reduce air pollution and road danger, strengthen local economies, and expand sustainable tourism.

very excited to be speaking as part of the panel on this excellent webinar - Driving sustainable Emergency Care with speed and scale! Still time to register, it's free and starting at 12.30 Irish time eusem.org/webinars/104...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Get more cartoons and other funny stuff in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/h...

Really enjoyed sitting down with @universityofgalway.bsky.social economist Professor Karen Morrissey for the latest @irishdocsenv.bsky.social podcast episode. Now available on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/2Mmc...

📢 PRESS RELEASE Alongside the Dublin Commuter Coalition and other advocacy groups, we are calling on the Department of Transport to recommit to introducing a 30 km/h default speed limit in urban areas.

it’s wild that in canada we’re talking about building oil and gas pipelines instead of just hitting the accelerator on electrification. the longer we stay wedded to fossil fuels, the more we’re jeopardizing not just our environmental future, but our economic one too.

Given how important Israeli voices are in this context for obvious reasons: we now have Israel's two leading human rights NGOs in addition to many of its leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars calling the IDF's actions in Gaza a genocide. There is no debate. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Excellent FT piece on how the EU succumbed to Trump’s trade extortion: “Rather than join Canada and China with instant retaliation and inflict pain on US consumers and businesses, the EU — hamstrung by divergent views among its member states — chose to take the pain” on.ft.com/471fKvG

My letter in the Irish Tines today about the ongoing catastrophe being wrought upon the Palestinians by Israel, and the profound repercussions that the failure to act will have on us all

⚡️Historic! International Court of Justice rules: 👉Climate crisis = health crisis 👉Failure to act = failure to protect life. "Health workers & advocates now have powerful legal backing to demand bold climate action rooted in justice.” said @jenimiller.bsky.social ➕ bit.ly/3GZDdCY #ClimateICJAO

Healthy environment is a human right, top UN court rules in landmark climate case

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

It's time to prioritise people, not cars. It's time to make transport a source of health and wellbeing. #SustainableTransport #ActiveTransport

After almost 2 years of refusing to use the word “genocide” The NY Times publishes this now that the slaughter of Gaza is in its final stages. Get ready for loads of revisionist history from Corp News on the Gaza genocide just like with the invasion of Iraq. And coming soon, the climate emergency.

Awarding the UN's Francesca Albanese a Nobel Peace Prize would be powerful global recognition of her great courage in speaking out against genocide in Gaza. It would be a clear statement of utter disgust from us all. Please sign this @avaaz.org petition and share. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

B roll holiday pics. Italy and Switzerland showed me again that investment in cycling reaps a huge return on investment. Tourism through the roof, healthy people, lowered urban traffic, transport networks that work symbiotically and e-bikes literally everywhere. We are a decade behind already.

Feels like the reversal of the southern oceans circulation is…a big deal? Obvs not as important as todays @irishtimes.com article on *checks notes* a sleeping passenger missing their flights lunch service @irishdocsenv.bsky.social www.icm.csic.es/en/news/chan...

‘No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It blows my mind that the fossil fuel industry is still allowed access to decision makers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Gee, I wonder why. Maybe because they’re doing a bad job on climate.

Spot on letter by @wildmed.bsky.social! Galway’s councillors continue to hold its people hostage with their outdated approach to transport — a second ring road. The problem in Galway is not too few roads, but too many cars and too few viable alternatives.

Can’t wait for this!

Current heatwave expected to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales - analysis - The spike in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, scientists say, with the elderly most at risk #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Spot on letter to the editor in today's Irish Times by our very own Dr Vinnie Wall on our dysfunctional, carbon-intensive transport system and the desperate need for change!

This is how the climate crisis hits us all- if you can’t get a mortgage you can’t buy (or sell) a house, so house prices in huge swathes of developed nations plummet, causing a global financial crisis like 2008 on speed. Then a mad bottle neck for houses in relatively safer regions. Buckle up!

My letter to the editor in the Irish Times today on why we ought to target one million people cycling every day instead of one million EVs on Irish roads by 2030. #ActiveTransport

Alongside our sister organisations across the Nordic countries, we put together this short video calling for health action through climate action. Please watch it and share it!

Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.

Would be wonderful if our Irish leaders could follow suit

We reflected last weekend at IEMTA ASM on 5 Seasons and 74 episodes of TCR and extended our thanks to 142 guest speakers who made it possible ❤️ Stay tuned for a ✨ conference special ✨ episode to follow 👀

"IEA analysts highlighted that even if global oil prices fall to $40 per barrel, EVs remain cost-effective especially with home charging. This way drivers can continue saving money by switching to electric vehicles." It wasn't long ago that this wasn't considered possible.

So what’s the plan here folks we’re gonna drill baby drill then try turn down the sun before we all burn baby burn?? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This is by far and away the most important podcast episode I have ever recorded

Tune in Monday as we tackle the greatest threat to Global Health of the Century ⚠️ Planet Earth is our patient and she is critically unwell, threatening the health of all life on earth 🌍 NCHDs Callum and Johnny begin the resuscitation and work hard to stabilise life as we know it 🫀 #ClimateCrisis

This month on Climate Conversations, emergency doctors @wildmed.bsky.social and @johnnycollins.bsky.social work to resuscitate the most important patient of all—our planet—alongside the inspirational Professor Hugh Montgomery. Earth has arrived at the emergency department. There’s no time to waste.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Brilliant letter by our very own Dr Callum Swift in the Irish Times this morning! #ActiveTransport

Removing cars is the best way to make cities better.

Irish wind farms provided 48 per cent of Ireland’s power in February, making wind the State’s leading source of electricity last month, the group said. The increased supply of wind energy also pushed the wholesale price of electricity downwards.

I absolutely loved sitting down with Dr Niamh Shaw to chat all things space, sustainability and happiness for the @irishdocsenv.bsky.social podcast. Check it out below.

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

Great summary of how I’ll prepared we are for climate breakdown and how it affects health in the IT ‘weather events in Ireland pose a significant threat, not just to our quality of life, but also to the health of our population.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the biggest challenges facing not just this government, but the next five or six Irish governments, and they are in no way prepared for it.

This is an incredible idea! What a way to improve the health of your workforce and communities 🙌 @irishdocsenv.bsky.social

Nailed it

🧵A new Ireland Thinks poll has found that 55% of voters - 59% of @Fianna Fáil voters & 55% of Fine Gael voters - want the new Government to do MORE on climate change than the last Government.🌍 (1/n) www.friendsoftheearth.ie/press/new-po...

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!