We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

Much of Europe is sweating in an exceptional heat wave. Heat in Europe has increased 4 times more than in other mid-latitude areas, which has been linked to the Atlantic #coldblob in several studies. #AMOC Slide from a talk I'm about the present at London Climate Action Week #LCAW2026. 1/

Thanks to Isobel Ryan of Baldoyle Wild Towns for a wonderful guided tour of the wildflowers of the Baldoyle Portmarnock Greenway, including orchids and viper’s bugloss.

Well done to Abbey Park and District for their work in having a planning decision taken by An Bord Pleanála in breach of the Fingal Development Plan remitted to An Coimisiún Pleanála. Their legal challenge was successful in front of Holland J in the High Court. davidhealy.com?p=1983

Following the excellent training by Leave No Trace on North Bull Island last week, I'm continuing to try to get @fingal.ie to adjust our beach management on the beautiful Burrow Beach to protect and restore the sand dunes. Details and photos, good and bad: davidhealy.com?p=1978

The Liffey is an icon of Dublin, but it’s also a dividing line. It divides the north from the south. There’s politicians in this election who want to further that division. But I don’t think that’s what we are about. When you’re on the Liffey you can see clearly that we are one city and one river.

The Land Development Agency is consulting on their proposals for Stapolin Square on the Baldoyle side of Clongriffin Station. davidhealy.com?p=1963

My response to @fingal.ie's consultation on car parking charges on Harbour Road, Howth: *integrate with the Harbour *cover the areas affected by parking issues *address safety issues and improve conditions for people walking in Howth. Details and a link to the consultation: davidhealy.com?p=1959

Case taken by @clientearth.bsky.social @foeireland.bsky.social & Friends of the Irish Environment against @utilityregcru.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Rezoning greenbelt land, rather than zoning a brownfield site and right beside a train station, is bad planning with negative consequences for all of us. @fingal.ie executive and a majority of councillors are getting it wrong. Thanks @michaellanigan.bsky.social for this detailed coverage.

In response to proposals to rezone green belt land, I have proposed instead changing the zoning of brownfield and disused sites currently zoned for employment to mixed use or residential. The zoning proposals will be discussed by the Council on Monday. davidhealy.com?p=1943

Congratulations to ace environmental lawyer Fred Logue on another great victory over the powers of darkness …

Today is your last chance to respond to the College Green Consultation!! You have until midnight tonight to add your support for this vital public realm project engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...

Thanks to Claire Byrne of Newstalk for our discussion of parking cash out law, where employers who offer car parking must offer a cash alternative. Giving people this option leads to a 30% shift away from driving to work. Podcast: pca.st/episode/c5d0... More info: shoup.bol.ucla.edu/Parking%20Ca...

An appalling proposal is hidden at the end of the Government’s Bill on the airport cap; it would exclude decisions under the legislation from the current obligation on almost all public bodies to consider their climate impact and to be consistent with climate objectives.

Thanks to my fellow councillors for agreeing unanimously that @fingal.ie should stop using X, especially mayor Tom O’Leary for taking the suspension of standing orders and John Smith for suggesting that approach.

As developer plans a new community with hundreds of drive-up homes, a councillor suggests another vision. “It’s not that the people who live there don’t have cars,” he says. “It’s that the neighbourhood is not a car park, and the car parking is on the edge.”

My submission on the application for 1350 housing units at Belcamp calls for design of a safe walkable neighbourhood, with shops and childcare, and good quality public transport including a reservation for light rail. davidhealy.com?p=1926

John Gibbons, author of The Lie of the Land: A Game Plan for Ireland in the Climate Crisis, will speak at a public meeting in the Marine Hotel, Sutton at 7.30pm on Wednesday 4th February.

My article online this week quoting @davidhealy.bsky.social: dublinpeople.com/news/northsi...

Construction generates between 10 and 20 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, but cities can slash their climate impact by designing buildings in a more efficient way

A strange car parking rule is in @fingal.ie bye-laws which discriminates against people living in apartments rather than houses, not in any way connected to whether they have access to off-street parking. We've agreed to start the process of changing it. www.dublininquirer.com/apartment-dw...

Subsequent to this article, I have put my queries formally to the Council Executive. davidhealy.com?p=1906 We seem to be failing to take account of some major residential planning permissions in exactly the right highly accessible locations.

@nearfm.ie @davidhealy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSXN...

@darrenjprior.bsky.social @nearfm.ie @davidhealy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TiG...

The Active Travel Unit of @fingal.ie runs “Second Spin”, in conjunction with @rediscoveryctr.bsky.social. The scheme provides free, upcycled bikes to teenagers who have had theirs stolen. To apply: www.fingal.ie/news/fingal-...

If we're to turn the tide on nature loss, we're going to need a government that treats it with the level of priority that was given to holding on to the nitrates derogation www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Ireland's energy regulator finally published its data centre connection policy. It facilitates a new era of fossil growth to facilitate this enormous energy user. hannahdaly.ie/2025-12-12-C...

Join #BirdWatchIreland for an online webinar on the latest insights into the seabird population on Ireland’s Eye and the measures implemented to protect them. 📆: Wed, 10th Dec, 8 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... A Zoom link will be shared on the afternoon of the 10th.

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...

Shovel-ready Luas and Dart projects delayed “to free up funding for more roads” The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order "to free up funding for more roads", the Green Party's transport spokesperson, Cllr Feljin Jose, has…

Essential reading on development, the environmental crisis and the rule of law in Ireland.

A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Tomorrow afternoon, as COP negotiations continue in Brazil, the Green Party will be one of over 60 groups and organisations coming together to march through the streets of Dublin calling for climate action, now! We hope to see you there!

Some corrections to recent misinformation on judicial review and context around facts behind the application of EU law in Ireland, access to justice teased out on the Echo Chambers Podcast with Sabrina Kemper and Fred Logue pca.st/episode/824e...

One person, reacting to my take on a pattern of emerging opinions, described it as a media pile-on! open.substack.com/pub/padraigm...

Powerful letter asking if we’ve been collectively gaslit by the construction industry — exposing how public input is blamed while elite networks quietly rewrite planning rules. It's time to defend transparency and democracy in development. #PlanningJustice #Ireland www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

The attack in Drogheda is shocking, but not surprising. This government ignoring right wing violence has led us here, and without meaningful response will only lead to deaths

Now this absolutely what we should be doing - renovating existing buildings with nature based materials. Demolishing the old should be consigned to the dustbin of construction history. Take note M&S who now have changed their minds and advocate for a Plan B. www.dezeen.com/2024/12/05/m...

It's consultation time again... Dublin City Council want to know what you would like to see in George's Dock. It's a short survey, take two minutes to have your say engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...

Under Fingal's draft Development Contributions Scheme developers will pay a levy on each m2 of housing people but they'll pay nothing for car parking. Including car parking spaces in the development contributions would bring down the rate per m2 for housing. davidhealy.com?p=1886 #parking

🇮🇪Out Now: Good new science-informed "Report on proposed Carbon Budgets" from (parliamentary) Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy'. Recommendations 1-10 echo scientific & eNGO concerns for CB transparency in meeting Paris Agreement goals. data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachta...

The Residential Zoned Land Tax #RZLT is essential to take land hoarders to task and ensure that our many empty sites lying idle in the country are put to use. Government loopholes are gutting the Land Hoarding Tax. Empty sites stay empty. Hoarders keep winning.

Have your say on the identification of bathing waters by the deadline on Friday 26th consult.fingal.ie/en/consultat...

My planning observation covers *designing to prioritise walking and cycling, *active travel access to/from the new housing area *not materially contravening the Fingal Development Plan limit on car parking *providing for the childcare needs of the existing and future residents davidhealy.com?p=1868

An Coimisiún Pleanála has accepted it was wrong to give permission for demolition without getting my observations on the response to my appeal. I hope the planning system will give effect to the policy requiring that demolition proposals are assessed on a sustainability basis. davidhealy.com?p=1869

The EU doesn't need unanimity to suspend trade agreement with #Israel: Ireland must push hard for action now. We have to act to stop this ongoing tragedy #GazaStarving greenparty.ie/news/time-eu... @janetphorner.bsky.social @rodericogorman.bsky.social @europeangreens.eu @ciarancuffe.bsky.social

In a landmark global victory, the International Court of Justice has ruled that governments must step up and protect our right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. act.gp/3IB7w3 ...🧵