Can we not just focus on the climate crisis.

I'll be in Dingle over the May Bank Holiday weekend for two talks related to Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara as part of Féile na Bealtaine

365 Challenge No. 1 - 2026 publish daily old unpublished pics Day 103 - wet streets and curvy tramlines, Lisbon, Portugal 2025 #fotosbyfaj #faj365challenge2026 #photography #blueskykin #lisbon #portugal #tramlines More at fotosbyfaj.com

Cois claddaigh trathnóna #spéirgorm

I thought all it would take to end the protests was a meeting with gov? Now it seems it will also take: -oil & gas exploration off west coast -Abolition of carbon tax -Price caps on fuel -Wider undefined cost of living supports …and as of this morning, bringing down the government

It's when you read this you sort of think, well that explains why the IFA didn't ask him to join them at the negotiating table

Sorry, what now? You want the carbon tax abolished and VAT and excise cut, but it transpires that you don’t actually pay your taxes. Right so.

A great success story which is hopefully being mirrored in Ireland (where we know cranes are breeding but accurate numbers are lacking, albeit much lower than in Britain) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sailín Chuach - ceann do bhláthanna an Earraigh is deise liom.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Could Ireland’s burial grounds become memorial places where our late loved ones are remembered not with the deadly permanence of plastic, but with plants, flowers and trees that will, like all of us, eventually return to the earth? www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

“Energy security, affordability and climate action are not competing priorities. They point to the same solution: urgently reducing dependence on fossil fuels.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan - mo Mhamó agus mo Dheaide ar a corróig, a máthair fhéin lena taobh agus cliabhán ar a droim.

I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct. Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

Why are thousands of rare and protected species drowning in fishing gear off the Irish coast, including in our only marine National Park? jrnl.ie/6968217

Is scéal mór nuachta é seo ó @news.rte.ie nach bhfuair aird chuí le cúpla lá anuas. Is gá tabhairt faoin dúshlán seo le fonn agus le fuadar ag leibhéal ard straitéiseach sa tseirbhís phoiblí féin agus sna hollscoileanna. www.rte.ie/news/nuacht/...

'Dúirt Jim Keogh ó Arramara cheana nár cheap sé go mbeadh an comhlacht ag cur cosc ar aon duine a bhainfeadh feamainn d’úsáid phearsanta.' Ní leor 'nár cheap sé' shamhlóinn, agus céard a bheadh i gceist le 'd'úsáid phearsanta' meas tú? 🤔 tuairisc.ie/aighneacht-l...

Communities on Ireland's west coast say they will fight to safeguard their traditional seaweed rights against what they describe as a "corporate takeover "of their livelihoods.

Angel Sharks are in real danger of going extinct locally, which would speed up their demise globally, because of the way the Irish government is issuing tangle net licences. #RTECountrywide Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

Global ecosystem collapse is a real prospect. An appropriate response would be for us to restore our own ecosystems and diversify our food production. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Nature and climate funding must now be articulated as infrastructure: as essential to food systems, public health, energy stability and geopolitical resilience. In security terms, biodiversity is not sentimental, it is strategic. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

After Midelton was flooded in 2023 Leo Varadkar said we needed a Land Use Plan. The Plan is ready but @micheal-martin.bsky.social won't publish it. Instead, he's legally designating rivers as "highly modified" jrnl.ie/6946724

The @irishexaminer.bsky.social view on tangle netting: "a shameful matter that needs to be addressed urgently" www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourv...

Trathnóna álainn i gConamara

Last week a UK national security assessment warned that collapsing ecosystems around the world will trigger conflict and food shortages

Seosamh Mac Donncha ag moladh go mbunófaí ‘ionad taighde cuimsitheach’ a dhireóidh ar an bpleanáil teanga, ar Adhmhaidin. #pleanailteanga #gaeilge

Na gealáin thuaidh i gConamara

Bhí cnoic Mhám Tuirc draoíochtúil inniu.

If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland? www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

Lá seaca ag spaisteoireacht cois locha.

Conamara ar an chéad lá don bhliain nua.

Mé fhéin agus mo mhac ag snámh ar lá Nollag. Nollaig shona

In a very confusing press event with journalists, Heather Humphreys has denied ever saying Catherine Connolly made money from people’s misfortune Quote from Sunday and today below: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

In case you're wondering, the EPP is the EU parliamentary group co-founded and adhered to by Fine Gael, Heather Humphrey's party. Be in no doubt: a vote for her on Friday is a vote against nature.

Per the Sunday Independent poll earlier: Humphreys would have taken 60% of Gavin’s first preferences, Connolly 24%, the remainder non-transferrable. Reworking the poll accordingly: Catherine Connolly 36 Heather Humphreys 32 Undecided 33 #aras25

🚨 Jim Gavin has withdrawn from the Presidential Election. #aras25 @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Jim Gavin théis tarraingt amach as an toghchán.

Catherine Connolly chun tosaigh sa bpobalbhreith is deireanaí.

Séasúr na misiriúin linn 🍄‍🟫

Aimeréal dearg sa ngrian inniu.

Sionnach ag ithe plumaí ón talamh inniu

Is breá liom an bláithín seo - Odhrach bhallach agus an bheach ag soláthar air.

Beithígh Bhaile na hAbhann ar a sáibhín só ar an trá.

Bhí Rúibín sásta a bheith ar shráid na Céibhe inniu i nGaillimh.

Thanks to @npwsireland.bsky.social for inviting me to witness the spectacular release of white-tailed eagles in Galway last week 🦅

Leamhain é seo ní féileacán.