Finally Nolan's crimes have caught up with him and he's received a (paltry) custodial sentence. However, by all accounts he has posted bail and will be appealing the sentence as far as I'm aware. www.thejournal.ie/youtuber-bec...

In Ireland, you can't eat any better meat than wild venison. No antibiotics or other chemicals, no animal welfare issues. And with way too many deer around grazing ecosystems to death, putting it on your plate actually *benefits* nature.

Having to follow laws meant to keep people, including kids and families, FROM BEING KILLED, feels like “bullying” to some people who frequently and blatantly break those laws. Guess what I think of that.

Driver who racks up between $300 and $400 a month in speeding and parking tickets feels like he’s "being bullied.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

An Israeli drone has crashed into the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Spain: sending a Naval ship. Italy: sending a Naval ship.

Unfortunately what we're facing at Ladys Island in #Wexford is only the tip of the iceberg of a substantial national problem.

The EU is waging war on decades of progress in environmental protections all in the name of corporate greed (competitiveness). At a time when many Irish rivers are heavily polluted with agricultural Nitrogen the EU has moved to allow an almost 50% increase in the allowed nitrogen load from manure

If he's protecting us from them, who's protecting us from him?

Nolan already had 47 prior convictions, including public order charges, 19 for drug offences and he had also been jailed previously for six months for dangerous driving. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Trump Urges Erdogan to cut back on purchases of Russian oil

Loughrea in Galway becomes the lastest water body to suffer acute poisoning. People warned not to swim or let their dogs near the water. www.galwaybeo.ie/news/galway-...

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

We have a serious problem with cars in Ireland.

The new U.S. Attorney that Donald Trump installed specifically to indict James Comey and Letitia James HAS NEVER PROSECUTED A CASE IN HER CAREER. READ THAT AGAIN 😳😡

@Love30.ie: “We are asking all supporters of lower urban speed limits to join us outside the Dáil Chamber on Kildare Street from 10:10-11:30 on Thursday 2 October to demand urgent action on the implementation of the default 30 km/h urban speed limit. This issue affects everyone, so spread the

Ireland is beautiful!

Ticknock with Sugar Loaf mountain: from The Fairy Castle

“Developers to get tax breaks for new build apartments” thinking: developers will save 8%.. & cut prices reality: all development land gets increase in residual value (on paper) so increasing future prices.. & exchequer loses a large tax take, likely for a long time businessplus.ie/economy/tax-...

I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”

2025: Minister insists Ireland can do nothing in the Med to protect Irish citizens in the Sumud Flotilla. 2023: Irish Naval Service in Med. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41... #spéirghorm

The latest report on Basic Income for the Arts is clear - the pilot delivered net benefits for participants, society and for the State coffers. The Green Party believes the time has come for the Govt. to make this a permanent scheme in Budget 2026. @donnacooney1.bsky.social shorturl.at/lSI97

Tonight RTE's Prime Time looks at Marine Protected Areas... or rather the lack of them. I was interviewed for this and stressed the importance of doing it quickly but also doing it right 🐳 www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mari... - oh this is a real gem from Maria Steen - so much will come out in the wash if she makes into the ballot!

Should be an absolute no-brainer to give the same subsidies for cargo bikes that EVs get.

#Afghanistan: Last week the MSF clinic opened in Patang camp, after the earthquake in #Kunar province. Our teams have carried out over 1,350 consultations, an average of 200 per day. Half of the earthquake survivors treated in the clinic are women and children.

“...We’ve drifted thoughtlessly into a situation where we’ve prioritised the free passage of private motor vehicles through public space over the rights of people of all ages... Play streets are a small practical demonstration that there are other possible worlds...” irishcycle.com/2025/09/11/d...

😢 How are flights so much cheaper than trains? Indeed, why are we forced to pick between cheap & polluting and expensive & sustainable? Well @greenpeace.eu has the answer: subsidies and MASSIVE tax breaks.

The European Commission has shown the world that it is hostage to industries and their political friends who are hellbent on squeezing every cent out of the destruction of the natural world Our comment on the EU *again* delaying its vital law to protect the world's forests, #EUDR

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

BREAKING: Russian aircraft three times violated Norwegian airspace, says PM Jonas Gahr Støre

Ireland radio and TV presenter Patrick Kielty sends a message to Jimmy Kimmel in the USA.

It is up to ordinary citizens in the West to do all we can to stop one of history’s great crimes. Italian workers have shown all of us how it can be done.

Delighted to be working with Save Lady’s Island Lake to highlight water pollution and work towards solutions that will reduce it.

Personal announcement: after six great years as Environment Correspondent at the Irish Independent, I have a new job. I'm now Climate and Science Correspondent at the @irishtimes.com

If there's never any Palestinian state, then what does Israel plan for the West Bank? Millions of Palestinians living for all eternity under occupation, apartheid and colonisation? No, Israel doesn't plan this. Israel wants all Palestinians between the river and the sea gone.

Those most sheltered from the climate crisis – the super-rich and oil and gas giants – keep profiting while the rest of us pay the price The social cost of climate pollution: ExxonMobil: $1.38 trillion Chevron: $1.16 trillion Shell: $1.03 trillion BP: $960 billion TotalEnergies: $830 billion

Recognising Palestine is not a substitute for stopping the genocide. When I was in the West Bank, No Other Land’s Basil Adra told the devastating truth.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

A very accurate headline.

Millions of bots and trolls aren't a legitimate audience.

The government is: ❌ Failing to provide good quality active transport infrastructure ❌ Failing to introduce a 30 km/h default urban speed limit ❌ Failing to protect people Make no mistake, the rise in people being killed is not an accident — it’s the result of political choices.

And our so called road safety agencies failing us by only seeing safety from behind a windscreen.

Every time one of our Worcester city counselors says that pedestrian safety is the responsibility of everyone and pedestrians need to do X, Y, and Z, I want this shown in chamber:

Canada, Australia, UK & Portugal recognise the State of Palestine. The importance of this is indicated by how hard the far right government in Israel has worked to stop it.

🧵This article published today about the perceived barriers to housing in Ireland opens with a well known Orwell quote. Opinions put forward in it, require that Orwellian concept of Doublethink - "the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accept both as true". 1/11