For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Bicycles may be banned on Dublin's MetroLink while most European metros allow them at least off-peak irishcycle.com/2025/12/31/b...

Night night sweet dreamies When I go to bed and cannot sleep, I don’t waste time by counting sheep; I count all my blessings, one by one.” – Eldred Herbert Take care all and thank you for your friendship Love George 🐈

Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota. This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants ‘recourse’ when ICE agents act improperly

The United States is behaving like a rogue state. The President has carried out an illegal act of war, kidnapped a foreign head of state, and is now threatening military action against NATO allies. This is a constitutional crisis. Impeachment must be on the table.

Critically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc

Am due on Shannonside FM shorty to discuss why Ireland is set to badly miss its 2030 #climate targets

Greenhouse gas emissions per capita. The broken grey line is the path required for 2030 targets. Ireland is miles wide of it. The nearest neighbours are crushing it. #climate

Me points to a stone 'what about that one?' 'That's a pebble' 'that one then' 'That's a rock' 3 hours later, that one? 'a build up of dead sea creatures from millions of years ago' #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

“It was jaw-dropping,” said Wilson, a former oil and gas worker from Texas who has documented methane releases for more than a decade and estimates xAI’s Colossus datacentre was spewing more of the planet-heating gas than a large power plant. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hello every TD, government department, agency, semi state, local authority...........

Be grand www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Question I get: "The world shut down for COVID. Why isn't it shutting down for this serious flu season?" Lots of reasons. One of them is that H3N2 IFR (infection fatality rate) is 0.03-0.1%, while pre-vaccine COVID IFR was 0.7-0.9%. That difference is enormous when paired with contagiousness.

"It's full steam ahead" on MetroLink says transport Minister as legal challenge review withdrawn irishcycle.com/2025/12/23/i...

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

I’m launching a Substack. Why? Because Trump is completely unfit for office, his enablers are cowards, and the truth needs to be said plainly by someone who knows how these guys tick. Subscribe if you're with me. open.substack.com/pub/gtconway...

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

"Across every single region in Ireland and across every age group, there is large majority (72%) support for a ban on fox hunting ... In fact, there doesn't seem to be any real-life support for fox hunting at all, from any sector." www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic

'Sean Canney, the independent TD, and, it seems, Minister for State with responsibility for inaction on road safety' 😂

The Press Release below was issued on Wed 17 December 2025 in response to the reversal of the reform of the Road Safety Authority. @news.rte.ie @nuachttg4.bsky.social @newstalkfm.bsky.social @todayfm.bsky.social www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/road-safety-...

Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams & debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today's information society. That's why curriculum for students in Finland includes media literacy lessons, aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth. youtu.be/UZV9uw4usEE?...

Dutch company ASML commands a global monopoly on the microchip-etching machines that use light to carve patterns on silicon. These machines are essential for Nvidia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.

They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.

I flagged this a possibility when it wasn't included in the NDP last month. The line exists and is in good condition. Reopening it would have connected Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, Cork and Galway with Wexford/Rosslare. It would have been great for regional development.

And this is what happens when you let FF - FG run the show by themselves. They honestly can't help themselves

You'd wonder what will it take for more state bodies, local authorities to get off twitter or at least post to alternatives like bluesky or mastodon. @kerrycoco.ie leading the way on the LA side. Any others?

This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.

Cork cyclist had object thrown at them after challenging driver on phone use www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

In 2021, two new cycling bridges were opened on the border between Dutch places 's Hertogenbosch and Vught. Previously, there was a level crossing intersection but with the arrival of a new turbo roundabout for car traffic, this was no longer desirable in terms of safety and traffic flow. 🧵 1/3

José Antonio Kast, a former lawmaker who wants to build a barrier on Chile’s northern border and deport undocumented migrants, will be the country’s most rightwing president in 35 years of democracy on.ft.com/3XUmp5q

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

Mia Tretta was a freshman when a classmate opened fire at her California high school. Now the Brown University junior worries how she’ll recover a second time. “I found a place where I finally started to feel comfortable. And it’s been taken again.”

Kamal al-Helbawy, the spokesman for the anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood, appeared on BBC only one time, in 2011. Nigel Farage, the anti-Semitic head of Reform UK, has appeared on BBC QT 38 times since then, is a nightly feature on the news, and had his own show on GB News Who is the bigger danger?

Incredibly brave man. Next time a maniac commits some atrocity, remember that for every Islamic terrorist there are millions of peaceful Muslims just living a peaceful life. Or, like this wonderful guy, risking everything to save strangers of a different religion.

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

Tony Holohan is absolutely right to point out the human health impacts of worsening pollution. Of it's all connected! www.irishtimes.com/environment/...