"The traffic congestion in a city like Waterford is not normal. [...] My life in Waterford is dominated by driving, due to a lack of safe and segregated bike paths, severe urban sprawl and abysmal public transport."

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

"The NTA is planning to redirect the service through Athenry, adding to the journey times for commuters, and cutting out a six-kilometre stretch of the Monivea Road." Athenry already has a rail station and bus services.

Such a tempting prospect...

Someone stole my wife's maroon Raleigh Motus bike in Dublin City Centre this afternoon. If you see it, give me a shout

"Grid capacity is being diverted to new hyperscale sites, transmission upgrades are being driven by their load, the state is pouring billions into emergency generators to stabilise supply. Households face higher bills, electrification plans have stalled, climate targets are slipping out of reach."

Santa cycles.

#ClimateAction is not just cutting emissions. Rich countries must rapidly reduce GHGs while also funding adaptation on a massive scale. For vulnerable nations in the Global South, adaptation is a matter of survival. #ClimateJustice requires those who caused the crisis to help others stay afloat.

Q: How do you get better service with as many cars as we have on the roads? A: More buses, more bus lanes, more decongestion pricing.

Roughly 10% of commuters in Ireland have daily journeys of an hour or more. Each way.

"From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world." Donald Trump, 20th January 2025.

Aidan Robbins has been making videos on temperate rainforests all over the world, but says Ireland's were the hardest to cover because they are now so rare. Great to see these precious, neglected ecosystems getting some global attention. They deserve so much better. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qq9...

Planning for bad things? Planning for any thing, more like.

'I will end that war in one day. 24 hours. But I won't say on which day that will happen.'

🎙️ Ep3 of Climate change-off the record out now “…what we eat and how we heat…” those are the big things when it comes to tackling climate change - Paul Deane @ucc.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social @drclarenoone.bsky.social #climatechange #climateaction #climatecommunication

@kevpluck.bsky.social ICYMI

Menschen machen Fehler - nur wer nix tut, macht keine Fehler. Intelligente Menschen geben Fehler zu und lernen aus ihren Fehlern. Diese Eigenschaft ist besonders bei echten Experten wichtig. Phillips OBrien analysiert seine Fehler von 2025. Und genau DAS macht ihn für mich glaubwürdig! ☝️

Self reflection on one's own failures is always courageous and most insightful. Doing this openly in public even more for others to also learn their pieces. I especially admire this one and hope we Europeans take our share from this. Shout out to @phillipspobrien.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/phil...

This example – reflecting on the mistakes you have made as an analyst over the past year – is worth emulating.

Great piece, & so refreshing to see commentators reflect on their mistakes I also find it quite cathartic to admit where I have been wrong

4 km?

"There's certainly in excess of 175,000 fixed-charge notices that have been issued for speeding so far this year. And again, that's not something that people talk about too much."

Galway City Council: 'We cannot implement congestion charging unilaterally, because if we do, people will just drive to Limerick or Athlone.' (That's an actual quote. Check out @GTU_Galway on Xitter.)

Unfortunately, 20 years later, for too many bus services in Ireland "real time information" is mere placebo.

Simply sublime. youtu.be/_zq1plZTTHY

Darragh O'Brien forgot his high vis vest.

Tis the season to be speedy. Radar sign on R337 Kingston Road constantly flashing red. Quite a few motorists driving at 65-75 km/h in a 50 zone. Level of deterrence: zero. #SlowDownDay apparently no different from any other day, at this location in any case. @garda.ie @news.rte.ie

"Our national slowdown days are key days when we actually try to create a conversation around speeding, and that's the aim ... because it is something that we do need to talk about all the time." ~ @garda.ie

@irishtimes.com admiring the problem of traffic congestion rather than focusing on solutions. It's time for Ireland's media to stop cheerleading road construction proposals while moaning about "hard-pressed" car commuters. #ClimateAction demands a complete reorientation of public transport policy.

"We must work together to celebrate diversity, to champion sustainable solutions to the climate crisis and to advocate for peaceful resolutions to conflict and war. Is fúinne, atá ábalta, atá sé tabhairt faoin mbliain nua, le dóchas agus fonn, na hathraithe is gá a éileamh agus a chur i gcrích."

'It's a vicious cycle: Because methane breaks down into hydrogen in the atmosphere, more methane means more hydrogen. More hydrogen means methane emissions stick around longer, doing more damage. "The biggest driver of H2 increase in the atmosphere is the oxidation of increasing atmospheric CH4."'

Be off with you, Marquess of Waterford. You'll find that the natives' right to solar energy predates your hereditary hunting rights by 4000 years or so. m.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Walking home for Christmas.

@angus.bsky.social It's a bombshell allegation, no? Evidence would have to be commensurately convincing.

Cable news.

From the RTE archives. 👇 Galway, 1967. Not for viewers with a sensitive disposition, or for people with romantic ideas about the quality of public administration in this country. www.rte.ie/archives/201...

why did they redact this

Progress on the Bóthar Stiofáin Cycle scheme in Knocknacarra:

A highlight for me this year was the launch of @rewildyourland.bsky.social and I met dozens of people across Ireland who are already enjoying the thrill of rewilding. There are more plans in the pipeline so here's hoping that 2026 will see rewilding go from strength to strength in Ireland!

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Interesting thoughts on the proposed second ring road for Galway. 👀🧵👇 "One motorway road alone will not cut it. It just becomes the new bottleneck. Galways answer to the M50 and all of its issues today, where it's not about being on it, it's about getting off it."

The McLaughlin Building contains two operational hydropower turbines: a restored 1932 Francis turbine (42 kW) and a later 32 kW unit. There is potential to generate useful amounts of renewable electricity in the heart of Galway City, using the various waterways and old mill races.

In the ruined turbine hall of a DTEK power station, shattered by russian attacks, a choir sings Shchedryk. Truly, a performance worth a million words 💔

"War is inherently psychological." ~Mike Martin MP (@ThreshedThought on Twitter).

Not just one. All of them.

Applied Meth. 👇👇👇👇👇 😂

"On December 18, 2000, my wife, children, and I walked to Av. Caracas and Calle 72 station in Chapinero, #Bogotá. Just two days before, the first 16 kilometers of the #TransMilenio bus system had opened, after just three years of construction, under then-mayor Enrique Peñalosa."