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DART+ SW has been "paused" with no inflationary increase in active travel budgets yet more roads are going to be built in a health and climate crisis. Make it make sense.

DART+ South West is shelved until 2030. It has full planning approval since 2024, no judicial reviews and is ready to go but construction won't start until after 2030. A lot of housing around Adamstown and Clonburris built in anticipation of this upgrade.

This is disgraceful. The trains are already overcrowded with a whole load of housing being built on the basis of the rail upgrade. At this stage it is a health and safety issue at the stations and on the trains with the existing volumes of passengers.

Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.

BREAKING: Documents reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...

Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.

The amount of tax-payer money that these same people have handed to greyhound racing in the last few years would pay for this hospice for children with life-limiting conditions. The existence of one is contingent on private charity, the other has it's existence guaranteed by the state. Priorities.

Ireland's World Cup dream is alive and well after a remarkable, come-from-behind victory in Budapest, beating Hungary 3-2 at the Puskas Arena

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

In 2015, a NYTimes reporter received an email from Jeffrey Epstein, notorious sex trafficker of teen girls, with pictures of Trump & young women in Epstein’s home, claiming that he “gave” a 20-year-old girlfriend to Trump after 2 years, once he was done with her. and this…was not deemed newsworthy?

Peston is aghast that @zackpolanski.bsky.social backs a sporting boycott of Israel, saying, its a democracy! Israel has been engaged in a brutal occupation & apartheid for decades & denies millions under its control their basic civil rights. Was apartheid South Africa a democracy too?

The right wing xenophobes want you not to vote. It really is up to you and your friends. Pick a candidate and vote. #Áras25 #aras25 #TonightVMTV

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet. If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S. Read this in @bloomberg.com👇 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

No knock on the Journal, who have journalistic rights and duties, but someone supplied them with this information and that data transfer seems to me to be in want of a legal basis under either Art 6 or Art 9 GDPR.

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.

How many chances should be given to get it right? Non-compliance under our licence system appears to be more the norm than the aberration when it comes to protecting our water quality Insights from last night's Joint Committee on Climate, Environment & Energy session on River Blackwater fish kill

People have been able to get nominated in previous elections, those tended to have a record of doing something in the community or are known. So the process works. It just doesn't work if you're an extremist or have no record of doing anything positive for the community. #aras25

“She is a person of principle. When she speaks you know that it is honest and from the heart. I think that she would make a fantastic president.” - John MacDonagh, Labour Party, Galway. #Spéirghorm #IrishNeutrality @catherinegalway.bsky.social

2003: Michael D with Catherine Connolly (and her two sons out of pic) in a protest against the disastrous war on Iraq. 📸 Joe Shaughnessy #Áras25

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

A few hours ago the Familia boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla was struck in Tunisian waters. It’s yet to be confirmed if this was an attack by Israel. Although this flotilla has already been directly threatened by Israel. 1/2

I think the bicycle industry and advocates should abandon the use of "e-bike" when referring to an electric assisted bicycle. E-bicycle should be a protected phrase, like Champagne, to only mean road legal electric bicycles which are treated the same as bicycles. Tell me why I'm wrong.

Always great to see families safely cycling on floating bus stops on the way home, an essential ingredient for ensuring people are kept safe on main roads

We stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine Join us tomorrow at 19.15 in Sallins for a Cycle for Gaza 🍉🚴🍉 www.eventbrite.ie/e/ride-for-g...

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

We need to stop burning stuff for energy, period. Combusting wood, coal, oil, gas ... it's ALL helping to collapse the climate.

2025: A fossil fuel lobbyist meeting Ireland's Minister for Climate Action for a friendly chat and posting it on LinkedIn. #climate #fossilfuels #lobbying

Merz: "Germany represents just 2% of the problem in terms of climate emissions" Well, no

Soviet Union post-war housing above: 1 room (with seperate kitchen) ≈32 m2 below: 2 rooms (with separate kitchen) ≈ 40m2 both dual aspect for daylight & ventilation, & having separate kitchens with windows This is *better* standard than what’s planned for Ireland in 2025 #housing

This article will soon be illegal. Designating Palestine Action a terrorist organisation on an equal footing with ISIS is a grotesque attack on democracy. It's those who facilitated genocide who should be on trial. Piece for @newarab.com.web.brid.gy 👇 www.newarab.com/opinion/if-p...

Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he believes that Hungary is setting a “political trap” for the European Union in its attempts to ban Budapest’s Pride parade this weekend. Read more: jrnl.ie/6744346

The genius philosopher Jordan Peterson will enthrall thousands of people (ok, gullible young men, mostly) in the 3 Arena next month. For a sneak preview of this legend at work, here’s a new clip of him getting rinsed by a teenager & losing the rag as he’s openly mocked. By a kid.

Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs

This is not news to anyone but dem elites www.commondreams.org/news/harris-...

As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.

Not that this isn't worth pursuing - but I know I'm not the only person for whom this sticks in the craw given the persistent failure of successive governments to resource Irish universities at a sustainable level.

🗣️ "We saw an emergency response in COVID, you haven’t treated it like that", @RoryHearneGaffs 🗣️ "The reason why the Housing Activation Office is being established is...", @malcolmbyrne #TonightVMTV

Trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months Dublin City Council won its legal case after years of Court battles. We cannot listen to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options. Please sign and share!

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

Local group and Climate and Health Alliance join call for trial of Strand Road cycle path -- A petition echoing the call has so far gained 773 signatures on my.uplift.ie. The call to support the trial was made after politicians and others are continuing to try to block the trial after Dublin City…

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

Vast numbers of pheasants are released for shooting in Ireland too. Each one survives by constantly devouring native wildlife alive. They artificially boost fox/mink populations, impacting vanishing native ground-nesting birds. They help spread Lyme disease to people, etc. This madness MUST end.

It sometimes seems like a huge task to explain what’s being done to trans people to casual observers who don’t pay much attention to it, but Séamas does a great job here of plainly and succinctly explaining why you should be appalled