People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore news.un.org/en/story/202...

A poetry that survives bombs. Incredible, heartbreaking poems from the Gazan poet Batool Abu Akleen.

New video interview with Greta Thunberg from AJPlus just released. She is in Barcelona, about to set sail with hundreds of people from 44 countries on dozens and dozens of boats and ships to take humanitarian aid to the millions of people in Gaza facing extermination at the hands of Israel.

A picture paints a thousand words...: #gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

from the brilliant Sally Rooney: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Israel has a hideously chilling strategy. They want the destruction of the Palestinian people to be a done deal - like indigenous people in the US or Australia. A brutal wake-up call from the ever-brilliant @omarbaddar.bsky.social

Tomorrow in West Cork: strike out from the historic town of Bantry - on foot or bike - for Ireland's southernmost point and at the same time help fund Medical Aid for Palestine. www.gofundme.com/f/west-cork-... #Cork #Palestine

Emergency Fund for Malnourished Yazan chuffed.org/project/save...

Brilliant from @irishtimes.com more of this please! www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

'It is deeply disappointing that EU members have still taken no collective, concrete action.’ - Mary Robinson www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Helping feed my Children and Family chuffed.org/project/1377...

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The world will remember how the EU and its member states respond to this catastrophic tragedy. Silence and neutrality in the face of genocide constitutes complicity. Inaction emboldens perpetrators and betrays every principle the Union and its states claim to uphold www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

#BREAKING | Thousands of children’s shoes placed in town square of the Dutch city of Almere in protest against Israel's war on Gaza.

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New statement in from Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calling on the international community to ensure safe passage for the Madleen.

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Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

“To have a hope of combating the end times fascists … we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all.” joinspread.com/post/d615ba6...

Swallows are returning! Or are already here. Many don't survive the incredibly perilous journey - made more so by climate change (the Sahara is larger than it was). So we WELCOME those amazing birds 📷 Neil Fletcher

"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants." We CAN beat them, but to do so, the rest of humanity must unite for this, the most vital fight ever. An absolute *must-read* from @naomiaklein.bsky.social

Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

This is every poet trying to write in these crazy times!!

It's hard to sum-up the joy and sense of hope that Robin Wall Kimmer's book, 'The Serviceberry' gives - you'd have to read it yourself! But just to say, I think that it carries in its pages that special aura of the gift economy - one imbued with relationship, reciprocity, placeness, and love.

Welcome to Rewild! If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you! www.rewildyourland.ie

Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen We will reach 2C by 2045 Collapse of critical ocean current AMOC as early as 20 years I would say it will be even sooner Humanity has destroyed their own future www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements have been condensed into a single vital number. theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

The photographs of Los Angeles on fire speak variously of environmental collapse, policy failure, ineluctable helplessness—but they won’t be lasting images. “Our ways of seeing are not yet adequate to our predicament,” Teju Cole writes.

The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌏

Terrific programme for Ballincollig Winter Music Festival. I've written a new poem for this event on theme of 'The Gift' - who/what inspires us as artists. Also sean-nos singer Stephanie Keane, harpist Alisa Vasilisa & poet @eoinsheg.bsky.social . Free event but book below - whitehorse.ie/bwmf5/

"What our medical teams have witnessed on the ground … is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza” www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...

Love this...it's so simple really: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

For #smallpoemsunday these eight lines by Anaïs Nin! 🖤 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project." Read that again: **116** times. Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding?? www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

'If our overheating planet is a result of human greed, then it must be a special kind of greed, a kind that emerged puzzlingly late in the long history of our species[..] but we can give it a better, more specific name: capitalism.' From the brilliant Sally Rooney: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Brilliant from Carole Cadwalladr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now I must get off my own device! www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Flowering wood sorrel growing amidst the mosses on rock in an Irish Atlantic rainforest. 🌎

Such an incredible and inspiring story...I'm in awe at how he prevailed, with hope and faith, despite so much brutality and cruelty. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

G for Genocide In the last 80 days, Israel has used a level of munitions equal to more than two nuclear bombs on Gaza. Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined[..]those in Gaza are left with two choices: Leave, or die by bombardment, disease or starvation. #Gaza_Genocide from @irishExaminer

'Rebecca Solnit, has located hope in the “spaciousness of uncertainty” which invites and demands that we act in the here and now with generosity and optimism...hope [as] a vital ethical disposition.' Looking at the year ahead, it's a message we need. Wishing you all hope and love this Christmas.

'Solstice' by Michael Longley

"COP28 climate deal a 'stab in the back', says Greta Thunberg." And she's 100% right. www.rte.ie/news/2023/12...