The EU Court has found that we have failed to even bring in the laws we’d need to comply with our obligations to combat water pollution.

During his meeting with high school students in Slovakia, PM Fico said that EU would allocate money "to continue the war" in Ukraine. When the students objected, he told them to go to Ukraine if they support the war. The students walked out.

My letter in today's Clare Champion calling out the xenophobic dog-whistling from our local TD, Timmy Dooley, as well as Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy. Immigrants are not the reason I've struggled to retain housing or buy my own home - Government policies are. Landlords like Timmy Dooley are. #Spéirgorm

‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago. In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.

In discussions about Ireland's infrastructure deficits, the focus on 'inefficiencies' in the planning system completely detracts from the more fundamental contradiction between for-profit, developer-led planning and planning for social needs within ecological limits. 🧵

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian

One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

For those in any doubt, the ongoing nitrates derogation debate is not about the science on water quality, it's political wrangling, with our rivers, lakes and seas caught in the crossfire. Our waterways deserve better- one can't drink politics. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace. 📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook

😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣GASP!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😅

Simon Harris said this week that 80% of asylum applicants fail, but as Mick Clifford points out here, that is a highly selective figure cherry picked with a very obvious agenda. Read this. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

Banjaxing TWO Presidential campaigns in the same election - Irish politics' own Typhoid Mary

This is attempted murder on a mass scale - a hate crime.

"The general problem is that the traditional right adopts the rhetoric of the far right, but instead of gaining seats, they lose them to the extreme right. This is something we see in almost all of Europe."

Sweet! I wish it was the whole song, but this was enough for a little hit of joy. "Mad World" indeed!

A public consultation is open until Monday on a new pedestrian crossing near the Glen River Park. Residents have also asked for more traffic calming measures. The crossing is an opportunity to create a raised table. If you can, add your voice to that demand. ℹ️ consult.corkcity.ie/en/consultat...

From the 1990 Presidential Campaign an Anti Mary Robinson and Austin Currie Leaflet from a group called Clann Na bFinini (The Family Group). #aras25

#thicktrunkthursday #giants #sequoia #treescape #trees #uphill #phonephotography #towering #USNPS #NPS #wanderlust #arboreal #nature #westcoastkin #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #naturephotography #elders #wayoutwest #ancients #giant #conifers #coniferous #conifer #phonephotography #slope

I do wonder if the bar of perfection we expect these days may be a bit much. We know so much more about every facet of a candidates political stances, personal lives, previous jobs, etc. I think it'd be rare to find someone more than a 75% match with your personal values. Just go with the closest.

"There is a lesson here for me, for my team, for the people of Ireland that if you put your head above the parapet and you dare to speak out and give a rational opinion that is based on evidence, this is what we will do, we will take you out, and this is really a very serious point in the campaign."

Very interesting discussion on RTÉ radio one with Philip Boucher Hayes now about which agency does what in relation to water, fish, the environment. “That’s not our role” seems to be most of the answers #blackwaterfishkill

This is an amazing success story.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Last word on Jim Gavin-the former tenant & money story was important but his lack of answer/evasion around the #womenofhonour question is more revealing for me- both of Gavin & the media.The media ran with the money,the issue of violence against women,nothing, just ignored,typical #aras25 #speirgorm

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Who’s responsible for probably the greatest environmental disaster this century in Ireland? Nobody! What caused it? Nothing! What are we going to learn from it…? Just take a guess… www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Uruguay, y'all. I been sayin.

A reminder that the OPW could not find a kingfisher on our lovely River Bride in Blackpool. All they really needed was a magic kingfisher stick and a highly motivated individual to find them. Filmed this evening. It wasn’t difficult. #cork

Today @hannahdaly.ie and I have published a policy brief on Ireland's carbon budgets and the implications of basing them on an approach called temperature neutrality. @ucc.ie You can find key messages and recommendations in here ⬇️

"Israeli soldiers were targetting particular parts of the body on particular days. One day, it was head and neck. One day, chest. One day, legs. One day, testicles. Target practice. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes." - Dr Nick Maynard speaking in Cork. #speirgorm

A neural network trained on the archives of the World Values Survey can predict the nationality of a person from their survey answers with nearly 90% accuracy. The study identifies the 60 most predictive answers. In PNAS: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Something to declare: Herzog sends a message on an artillery shell to be fired into the densely inhabited territory of Gaza. 2023. Make it count, he wrote. Make law count.

As @greenparty.org.uk has always said, the #BadgerCull is unscientific, unjustified, inhumane and disastrous for the #Biodiversity on these battered islands protectthewild.substack.com/p/over-23000...

A lot of scare mongering about the proposed Greenway to Kinsale. Unfortunately the noisy minority get the headlines Thought this was a great contribution from Conn Murphy (farmer ) in Ballinhassig to the whole thing (southern star epaper)

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

Read it and weep. Is this representative of EU values?

Great video by @caolanrob.bsky.social about the New York Times and its New York Times-ing of the war in #Ukraine, ie the sort of thing that is the reason why the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social exists. youtu.be/SxCOJCxps0U?...

The State should be regulating and funding Ireland’s agri-food industry to make sure it’s *actually* sustainable, not funding the greenwashing of its image. Imagine if the State was so invested in the image of *any* other industry.

I look forward to the OAIC and governments response. All data in the cloud hosted by USA companies is fair game for an US agency that can argue they need to access your data. Trust is falling fast and this erodes it further #auspol www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/m...

Unbelievable.

In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]

WATCH & SHARE: This is very good. A prominent youtuber is actually giddy (but also very thorough in covering the joys, advantages, issues and challenges) about how trying biking for transportation in London has changed his life. Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.