Good article by @colmanos.bsky.social clarifying some of the confusion around #solar pv and changeover switches in Ireland. Living in #WestKerry w/ frequent power cuts, it was a no brainer. Of 12 quotes I got for solar 2 yrs ago, 3 were willing/ able to install #speirgorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

#Spéirgorm Opinion: Do you know our national bird? We aren't taking nearly enough care of it share.google/54MiiJZ29yM3...

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

We’re entering a fascinating new phase of the #climate end-game, one where leaders, from Mark Carney in Canada to Micheál Martin here, perfectly understand how dire the situation is, yet decide - choose - to do absolutely nothing. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Will this be like #Blackwater fish kill where"an investigation"is held but no accountability for wanton destruction of nature? What is needed for an Irish government to implement Citizens’ Assembly recs & enshrine protection of nature in our constitution? #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

While we approve more data centres, expand aviation and long-finger tackling systems solutions in agriculture, construction and transport - we see our ability to decarbonise and reduce emissions decline. Government burying the long-term consequences for people #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 9, 2025 ~ Arctic FUBAR "If orange rivers are the first sign, what comes next could redefine the planet’s climate system, and faster than anyone imagined. What began as an aesthetic anomaly has become a planetary alarm..." www.ecoticias.com/en/arctic-tu...

If you wonder why we are failing to reduce our transport emissions and why we have a dysfunctional car-centric transport system. This is why. This is who are invited to aa Oireachtas committee to discuss transport and climate targets... The mind boggles.

18457 children murdered by a genocidal regime. And that's just up to the end of July. Imagine if every married couple with kids in Kerry had a child murdered-beyond comprehension-yet whole families are being slaughtered in Gaza with complete impunity #speirgorm 💔 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Also Caitriona Graham, Chris Andrews, Colm Byrne, Cormac O’Daly, Diarmuid MacDubhghlais, Donna Schwarz, Louise Heaney, Maureen Almai, Michael Fix, Paddy Kelly, Patrick O’Donovan, Sarah Clancy, Tara O’Grady, Tara Sheehy and Thomas McCune

Back to the actual and current Presidential candidates -with all the Jim Gavin shenanigans of the last 24 hours it may have not grabbed people’s attention that Heather Humphreys just threw trans people under the bus in response to a Grift dot ie reporters question!So there’s that! #aras25 #speirgorm

Seven hours in 30 seconds: time-lapse of #StormAmy in wild West Kerry. Hard to tell #MountBrandon exists! Unfortunately the camera just doesn't do justice to the rainfall and spray blowing from the sea. Plenty of seaweed on the other window from earlier! #speirgorm #WildAtlanticWay #dinglepeninsula

Such a huge loss to Ireland, Irish culture, Irish nature, agus an teanga #Gaeilge Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís ☹️ #speirgorm

Refreshing to see a politician call out the root cause of current rise in populism, focus on hope rather than fear, and propose policies that will have a positive outcome for the whole of society! Read @zackpolanski.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #hopenothate

☀️ New column! ☀️ Optimism on climate is hard to find, but solar power's meteoric rise is one very bright trend. "Solar is fast becoming the world’s new energy superpower" www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

‘Solar power is reshaping economies, industrial systems and geopolitics, largely under the radar of mainstream debate. We are living through an energy transition that, for once, feels exponential rather than incremental.’ @hannahdaly.ie www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Great thread by @hannahdaly.ie on the problems and (a few) positives of the Irish farming lobby approach to decarbonisation #speirgorm #climatechange

The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’

Deputy Whitmore asking the question we all want to know the answer to. Although they didn't say it, it seems the answer to the question about when the EPA pull the plug on a non-compliant discharge licence is never. They never have to date. Polluters can do their thing and still get licenced.

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

I'm all for grand visions of societal transformation towards sustainability, but also I suspect it leaves people paralysed and confused about what actually works. So with @seai-ie.bsky.social, I wrote this cheat sheet - the "how and why" of the energy transition www.seai.ie/sites/defaul...

Such a privilege to help represent #DinglePeninsula receiving award for Ireland's greenest place from @irishtimes.com and ESB today.To counterbalance"drowning in #climate doomerism" take hope from communities like these working to benefit local place AND planet earth- @kosull.bsky.social #speirgorm

Delayers and obstructionists paint decarbonisation as a threat to our way of life They're trying to persuade people that it's better to carry on with the way things are But maintaining our way of life isn't an option - either we change it, or climate and nature breakdown change it for us

Another damning report. We continue to mortgage the health of both current and future generations to realise short-term economic and development gains in the present.

Nature in Ireland is in a “very poor” state with the country’s economic growth achieved at the expense of the environment, EU analysis has found. - @codohertynews.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Just became an annual subscriber ... excited to see what the amazing team @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, Jane Ferguson, Lynsey Irvine and Imogen Carter have in store for us!

Google has deleted its political ad archive for the EU, thus the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads for countless elections across 27 countries are gone www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...

“To be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me” - Dr. Levke Caesar, co-lead of Planetary Boundaries Science Lab

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life. Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed Story by me on latest planetary boundaries report www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Main cause is an overload of phosphorus & nitrogen from agriculture, including farm runoff, fertilisers & animal waste”. The price of our current model of industrial farming is the death of nature. Is that *really* a price worth paying? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I have a new column out today in The Irish Times: “Why ‘No Additional Warming’ Is a Dangerous Climate Loophole.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Scotland is to protect a further 60,000 km² of sea from bottom trawling 👏 When, if ever, will we see any action in Ireland? oceanographicmagazine.com/news/scottis...

EU laws are there to protect nature. By doing so, they protect us - our health, quality of life, economic resilience. Now, the European Commission wants to weaken these laws… This is a critical moment to have your voice heard. Have your say: swanireland.ie/take-action/... #HandsOffNature

Have you not seen Attenborough's sequence on bottom trawling? This is going on all around Ireland including in 'Special Areas of Conservation' youtu.be/IzG9AwlypaY?...

The Dairy industry is killing us all Starting with our rivers "ammonia levels in the discharge were 52 times over the permitted limit" from North Cork CoOp Creamery the morning after biggest fish kill in history of the state #SlientSpring #BiodiversityCollapse #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?

🤔🧐 Putting 2 & 2 together: it looks like January's extrajudicial arrest of @aliabunimah.bsky.social of @intifada.bsky.social in Switzerland might be linked Swiss FedPol police chief Nicoletta della Valle's political & financial interests, since she now works for Israeli security fund. 🤯🤦‍♀️

#Speirgorm There is a call to action for Irish folks as well. I will post that next www.irishlegal.com/articles/leg...

Dairy Industries Ireland wants free licence to pollute our waterways despite the evidence of collapsing ecosystems from the Blackwater in Cork, Lady's Island Lake in Wexford, Lough Neagh etc etc... I say no: the polluter must pay. www.independent.ie/farming/news...

The share of battery-electric cars in Europe is only going in one direction: Upwards. But there are remarkable differences amongst countries with some countries exceeding 50% and others below 5%. Much of this can be explained by policy or absence of it. Source @electricnick.bsky.social

My great great granduncle opened Spillane's Bar in #Maharees on the #DinglePeninsula in 1875, and it's been in my family since. Incredibly proud of all my parents did with it and how my sister is carrying on the tradition ❤️ #Speirgorm #WildAtlanticWay #WestKerry #Ireland

A group of legal experts have written to the Central Bank confirming there are ample powers under existing EU law to refuse to authorise the Israel Bonds programme and that authorisation is incompatible with Ireland’s obligations under international law. academicsforpalestine.org/2025/08/28/l...

Had an unexpected hitchhiker today - a green lacewing. Such a lovely iridescent green, just thinking I should have captured her contrast with my purple Renault Zoe! Taking pleasure in the little things when the big thing seem so broken! #speirgorm #biodiversity #natureisbeautiful #wildatlanticway

Israel believes it is untouchable, but its brutal violence against civilians, its use of hunger and famine as a weapon, its targeting and murder of journalists, its genocidal campaign against Palestinians will define its name and record for generations - it will be accountable.

A heron reflecting on life in Fahamore. Taken Friday before #StormErin showed up! #speirgorm #DinglePeninsula #WildAtlanticWay

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

More than half a million people in #Gaza are trapped in famine, according to a new IPC analysis. Famine is confirmed when three critical thresholds – extreme food deprivation, acute malnutrition and starvation-related deaths – have been breached. Read more: ow.ly/h3wb50WK7B2

My full statement on the Gaza Famine :