Native Irish Woodland Plant Nursery looking great. Can’t wait to get all of these plants in the ground. #nativeplants.

I totally empathise with Mary Costello’s distress here as she admits the horrors of Gaza have frozen her creative impulse. However I would say that my friend Wafaa Alothmani, writing as a displaced citizen in Gaza, has a gentle clarion call in her article “Why I Write”. (Link in reply)

The absolute cruelty of the US and Israel in this war is spirit-breaking. Heedless, wanton destruction and vindictiveness. All I can do is pray that their time will be over soon.

Nothing like some sunshine and spring flowers to lift the spirits on days when there's a lot of sad news in the world.

Not a particularly rare book, but this first edition of Gill's Irish Reciter from 1905 has a very handsome cover design. Tá téacsanna as Gaeileg ann chomh maith. thebookshop.ie/j-j-o-kelly-...

My new book Nature’s Acre — about wildlife gardening, community and biodiversity in Ireland — launches next week at Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre. @irishtimesnews.bsky.social @irish_examiner.bsky.social @independent-ie.bsky.social gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre

I would go further. I would say that the praise of “spare prose” and “not a word wasted” has its roots in eating-disordered thinking which in Irish history particularly links back to post-famine generational trauma.

I went for a cycle along the lovely Lee this Saturday morning. I spotted four photographers along the way and this here snoozy seal. #cork

🚨 A historic double-header for the Irish grid today with two major records broken: - this morning, battery discharge reached almost 500MW, or roughly 8% of electricity demand 🔋 - just after 12pm, solar output exceeded 1GW (roughly 20% of demand) for the very first time ☀️ Much more to come!

In Fingal, councillors are pondering expanding the Community Car scheme. Through it, volunteers give lifts – and company – to people who need to get to hospital appointments, mass, or wherever they're going.

Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school. 175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12. The My Lai massacre for our generation. The Hague - and Hell - awaits.

Rejection latest. Got turned down for the Writing Place, Writing Planet programme where authors collaborate with scientists on nature-related stuff. I get rejections all the time and don’t have pity parties, but I might have a small one for this one, as I am a bit gutted.

There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it. Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement. I think this is Israel.

Don't go searching for OP, leave them alone. I just think that what they uplift is important and explains why many people simply cannot engage in activism and organizing regularly. And the truth is that it's hard to figure out actual ways around this because organizing in fact a labor.

My son’s class were drawing Keir Starmer yesterday and the photos on Dojo are HILARIOUS. I kid you not - they ALL drew him with a square head. Wish I could share the others, but here’s my son’s depiction of our robot overlord.

The Planter’s Daughter is for sale in the following bookshops: Carmel’s Cove (Cobh) Midleton Books Bantry Bookshop Leaf and Bower (Ballincollig) Carrigaline Books Or available online in paperback and ebook at the link below.

Probably the largest protest I’ve seen in UCD - in solidarity with the UCD medical student who suffered horrific #GBV I’m proud to see so many of my students here.

Went to the strength and conditioning session at the gym tonight and it’s finished me off completely. I was by far the slowest and least fit person in the class but since my sole objective is continuing to kick cancer up the hole, I can live with that.

So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.

❤️Absolutely love this Q&A with Áine Toner, Features Editor at the Belfast Telegraph❤️ @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @belfasttelegraph.co.uk booksirelandmagazine.com/you-can-keep...

This end up being the experience with every landlord in this country😔

Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan

We're hosting another microfiction contest to celebrate the upcoming release of @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod scifi MULTITUDE! ✍️🦑🪐 The theme is a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want!

Has he considered not shelving rail projects? Not cutting funding for expansion of public transport could be worth looking at too.

I'll tell this clownbag for free - IT'S TOO MANY FUCKING CARS DARRAGH. Darragh O’Brien drafts in state agencies to find solutions to traffic congestion in the capital | Irish Independent m.independent.ie/irish-news/d...

I think it is important, if one must use air travel, to preface it with “regrettably” or some such word. To acknowledge that it is not a good thing for the climate and to not normalise it.

Regretfully, shamefully, I will be flying both ways.

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🙌 🙌 🙌 I’ve been a political, emotional writer from the start. So much so that the Irish Times mocked me for it and did their level best to destroy my career. Said I was too mean about the British military. And yet I have never wavered and will never waver.

When is any government going to express and reflect the public, global revulsion towards the Trump regime and Israel?

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I must say, seeing all these Irish articles about holiday makers in Dubai coming out are incredibly tasteless. They blew up a school for fucks sake. In a previous strike last year by Israel they blew up a prison wing filled with trans women. Did you know that?

#Monday:

Cowed is the word. And dangerous: if the law is cast aside by our cowed leaders, how can they expect anyone else to respect it? Their jobs depend on it being respected.

The Kate O'Brien Award 2026 winner is Gethan Dick with Water in the Desert, Fire in the night. "Short story collection of excellence." The prize this year is €5000, very kindly sponsored by Bill and Denise Whelan #LLF2026

Seeing someone struggling off and back onto a footpath because some fucker was parked on it was the reason I started this account years ago. It still boils my blood to this day seeing people park on footpaths

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🙌 🙌 🙌 I’ve been a political, emotional writer from the start. So much so that the Irish Times mocked me for it and did their level best to destroy my career. Said I was too mean about the British military. And yet I have never wavered and will never waver.

Why are we so bad at biodiversity? Why do we treat our land and wildlife cavalierly and abusively? Why do we protest against renewable energy and dress it up as “concerns”? Because of generational trauma and dislocation from our land. I wrote a novel about it. I’m told it’s a good read.

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And yet, still going to travel to the US for Paddy's Day to extend Irish welcomes & gifting shamrock. The Irish public has been very vocal in expressing its feelings on US-Israel relations. Listen to your people. A Mhíchíl, thá sé seo craiceáilte amach is amach; níl fearúlacht ar bith ann.

These fuckin people. Thick as two planks, no disrespect intended to dead wood.

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Been only intermittently catching up with news about Iran and the US regime’s bloodlust and pandering to Israel. The ayatollah is awful and if he is gone he will not be missed. But this appears to be motivated by two horrible men wanting to save their own skin. It’s wearing on the nerves.

The recent flooding has shown us that nature based solutions are central to environmental solutions. To the forefront of that are our farmers who know this land better than anyone. @malcolmnoonan.bsky.social and @acornprojectcollaboration discuss Farming and Nature #Greens2026

Here’s Roderic 🙌 🙌 “The Green tide is rising.”

Standing cheer for @hazelchu.bsky.social who is making her maiden speech as deputy leader. “Politics is the reality of daily life.” 💪

If you decided "family voting" was suddenly a problem in Ireland, you don't know our country's voting history

Now @niallgalway.bsky.social is talking about the previous government investment in public transport - @hazelchu.bsky.social gives a shout out to Eamon Ryan for that. Janet Horner says she has come across constituents who are missing the provisions since the current lot are not delivering.