It looks like FF do not know what #COP30 is for as An Taoiseach doubles down on fossil fuels and LNG ! @greenpartyie.bsky.social

"Myanmar: War with the Junta" is the first documentary from #MyanmarExposed, an @ajiunit.com reporting project investigating abuses and battlefield dynamics in the Myanmar civil war. Al Jazeera's Ali Fowle discusses the film's significance in understanding the conflict. Watch now: aje.io/junta

More than 1,400 citizens from 36 African nations are reportedly fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials claim these African soldiers are fighting for Russia’s ‘meat assaults’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

🧵1/2 🇲🇲 The Arakan Army (AA) must stop using ethnic minorities in Rakhine State for dangerous forced labor at the conflict frontlines.

“The Israel Defense Forces and the nation’s football teams operate in lockstep as instruments of nationalism.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

Cllr Brian Smyth didn’t mince words in City Hall. Belfast needs an overdose prevention facility. Not debate. Not delay. It’s about saving lives, treating people with dignity, and getting real about harm reduction. It’s time for Belfast to choose compassion over judgement.

The hokey is right.

Education Minister Paul Givan faces no-confidence vote over Israel visit. The trip cost Israel's gov almost £4k, according to his updated Stormont register of interests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

November 11, Martinmas: “Of all the Irish customs that may or may not have been rooted in pagan origin, it is astonishing to consider that blood sacrifice was practiced in Ireland well into living memory.” Read more: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

A really important reflection on culture, tolerance and language by @clairehanna.bsky.social This is leadership. “The abuse – and there was abuse, even if there are now attempts to deny it ever existed – reveals that there is much to be done across the island.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

On his final day in office as @president.ie after fourteen illustrious years as Head of State, here’s a citation I wrote in 2024 when Michael D Higgins received the John B Keane Lifetime Achievement Award at Listowel Writers’ Week: www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

The National Centre for the Circular Economy has said consumption of textiles in Ireland is currently double the EU average

Can’t understand why their US can’t match this. After all in Ireland we have…no wait…we don’t have this either. 🤨 #SpeirGhorm #SpéirGhorm

Q. Where would you get two bestselling Irish authors in one utterly charming bookshop on Tuesday? A. Ennistymon, Co Clare Q: For? A: A FREE event! Conversation, book signing, readings refreshments and Q&A Join @roisinm.bsky.social and me in Banner Books on Tuesday at 7pm ... #spéirgorm 📚 💙

Teachers: No spare time? Same. This free Irish Wildlife School Garden pack breaks it into 10-minute micro-lessons + simple routines that survive summer. 🌱🦋🌎 Editable .docx: gardeningwell.ie/school-pack Please share/repost #SchoolGardens #speirgorm #GreenSchools

Trees having the chats #Castleward #Strangford #SpéirGhorm @nationaltrust.org.uk

#Spéirghorm This is a great development for those of us who followed #smearthebejasus #smearthebejasis

Feicin eejit.

Before we got MDH elected the first time, the rightwing media bias brigade tried to convince us it was a pipedream. That's what they do anytime a leftwing threat to their cosy consensus appears. We knew MDH would be a leader led by morals just like we know CC will be. #Aras25 #Speirgorm

The only place that Ireland's Muslim population pose any kind of threat to society is in online spaces like The Liberal dot ie, Gript and the far-right accounts on FB and X: Violent attack on Muslims in Portlaoise #speirgorm www.laois-nationalist.ie/news/violent...

Declan Ganley & his debts reminds me of 2008. The whole country depressed/angry/both with the death of the Celtic Tiger, except for the big developers who partied on with the help of NAMA. I recall seeing a pic of Johnny Ronan on a yacht with a couple of women &lots of champagne. This is the same.

Samhainween and i wanna get my spooky on #speirgorm #samhain

Why don't bloody cyclists use the cycle-lanes? This is the new cycle-lane on E Wall Rd. It's like this all the time. This is a common issue with cycle-lanes all across the city. The drainage here was never adequate. Who audits these projects to check if they're constructed correctly?

"It’s an outrageous way to frame a housing crisis..& reveals...a hope...the audience watching is stupid enough to buy into it. But hey, when you’ve nothing left to lose, just smear the bejaysus out of someone. It’s what we’ve come to expect." #spéirghorm#IrishPol www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

“To be without the forest is like a flower without water. Without the forests, there is no life. Without forest there is no oxygen, so all of us here on this planet need to find a way to protect the forest - Gardenia Cooper, Warao leader at #COP30 share.google/33Td0j8yTtiX...

Obviously it's never an unpopular move to take money away from lawyers. I get that. But if you make it uneconomical to work as a solicitor or barrister suing the Government, then that same Government can essentially do whatever it wants without fear of being stopped in the courts.

How screwed is the climate, how do we stop it screwing us, how do we unscrew it. Three episodes of Global Warning has considered answers to all the above, and @aljazeera.com has made it free to watch on YouTube. Ep 1: How Screwed Is It? 👉 youtu.be/F8vI5_gN90g?... 1/3

On the ground in Belém as COP30 kicks off. Nature and Community take Center Stage. President Lula has managed to walk a fine line between urgency and optimism, uniting world leaders around what connects us, rather than what divides us. I’m excited for the week ahead. #climatehope🇧🇷💚

We've transformed our city in many ways in the last five years. This street used to be full of cars. Now there's music, laughter, food, people sitting down. Life slows down a little bit on Parliament Street.

Lamis (whose account has been suspended but can be found here @lamisadwan.bsky.social ) still needs help despite the ceasefire with her three children - Please donate (any amount) or share - thank you ❤️(verified by Ahmed @1ahmed0.bsky.social directly in Gaza)

#speirgorm might be interested to see this, as we await President Connolly’s inauguration this week. A vision of what might have been 😬

From End Deportations Belfast. 'After the IPAS arson attack in Drogheda, PSNI were pushed into action by Gardaí who requested they search a home of an alleged member of a far-right terror cell. The accused, from Annalong, cemented that this campaign of hate & destabilisation is all-island..'

This thread! Mamdani

A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement

Fiiiiiiiirrreeee 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Video from the 110 kV Substation T-25 in Taganrog, City in Russia.

One of a series of violent racist incidents over the last while in Portlaoise. In this case two men set upon and beaten by a mob. This is the part of the post where you say that politicians, including ministers, need to stop stirring the pot but they aren't going to do that.

The Irish language is in an all-time underfunding crisis, with Gaeltacht housing ever more unaffordable and record secondary school exemptions. Rather than lowering our expectations, we need to fight for Irish and for everyone’s chance to access it m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

My favourite part of the North Dublin Coastline at Bremore. Hundreds of finches, larks, and Tree Sparrow today, as well as Curlew, Common Scoter and Red-Throated Diver. And a reminder that Johnny Ronan’s company is in pre-planning stage to concrete this over and turn it into a Port!!

“Every person using ChatGPT costs OpenAI more money then they pay them. Every free and paying user asking how to make a fluffy omelette or getting it to draft an email to their kid's teacher drains their resources.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-...

The United Nations mission in Lebanon has called on Israel to stop attacks near peacekeepers after a convoy of Irish troops came close to an airstrike in Lebanon. jrnl.ie/6869005t

Embassy of the State of Palestine to Ireland: “What size is Palestine compared to Ireland? “In answer, we created these 3 maps in collaboration with an Irish cartographer and our colleagues at the Negotiations Affairs Department in Palestine.” 3rd one below. Size: West Bank cf Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Today, in Cork.

I see the doc/dramatisation of Ann Lovett is on RTÉ 1 tonight at 9.55pm. I honestly... Every time I pass one of the many, many grottos across Ireland, I think of her. 😢 Yet just one of 1000s...10s of 1000s of experiences of Ireland's shameful past. A shame that continues today. #SpeirGorm

Donegal farmers launch wild venison snacks venture - In many parts of Ireland deer numbers will need to be reduced to restore and re-establish native woodlands. Expanding the market for wild venison is only a good thing. share.google/F5Eb6fyEQz57...

Extremely interesting discussion/debate around what's going on in our national parks. In short: some good stuff (but not nearly enough), and still a lot of bad stuff. As Pádraic outlined, a huge part of the problem remains a lack of management plans and statutory legislation for the role of NPs.

On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Trespasses: Gillian Anderson steals every scene in this miraculous TV heartbreaker