The world health community must acknowledge its responsibility: Restoring and protecting nature is crucial to restore and protect human health and the time for doing so is now. Very proud of this article recently published in the BMJ Leader! #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth

Only about 10% of the world's population has ever flown. Yet, the aviation industry is responsible for roughly 2–4% of global CO₂ emissions. Does that seem fair? Why should our flights around the world be subsidised and encouraged at such a cost to the planet? This must change.

If you're wondering why we're not seeing the action we need to see. Look no further. 5,350+ fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP26 to COP29, including representatives from 180 oil and gas corporations. It's time to ban fossil fuel advertising and kick fossil fuel lobbyists out of the climate talks!

It's time to make the polluters pay and healthcare workers have a key role to play!

Talking about the benefits of active transport is as well and good, but what really makes the difference is the infrastructure. Build it and they will come! Let's get moving Dublin!

Ireland is one of the few European countries where road deaths have risen since 2019. That’s not a coincident, but rather the result of a transport system that prioritises cars and speed over people and safety, with weak enforcement and timid road-safety policy. Data from the European Commission.

Numerous reasons. This is a fairly terribly bike lane to begin with, but the lack of basic maintenance (as pointed out here) is an obvious reason as well. Most cycle lanes being installed in Dublin are nothing more than a tick box exercise.

This is not on individual farmers. But the fact that farming organisations & politicians can watch an ecological and climate catastrophe unfold in real time & still demand “discounts” on climate fines & more derogations is staggering. It is indefensible & shows a blatant refusal to face reality.

Conor Pope argues that an air-travel tax would be unfair. We would like to remind him that the vast majority of people on Earth will never take a flight. It is a wealthy minority (read: us) who pollute, while others around the world bear the consequences. So we ask: is that fair, Conor?

It’s concerning that Michael O’Leary can seemingly just call up The Irish Times and have inflammatory nonsense like this published that includes derogatory remarks about public officials. There’s no genuine newsworthiness here — just provocation. Do better Irish Times! Please.

It’s concerning that Michael O’Leary can seemingly just call up The Irish Times and have inflammatory nonsense like this published that includes derogatory remarks about public officials. There’s no genuine newsworthiness here — just provocation. Do better Irish Times! Please.

What about their emissions? Asking for 8.1 billion friends.

Doing something isn’t success. Active-travel infrastructure needs to be safe, wide, and usable — not squeezed beside a canal because nobody will take space from cars. #ReimagineDublin

✈️ This is irresponsible, head-in-the-sand journalism at its finest. ⁉️ One of the most polluting companies in Europe reports soaring profits, partly due to the company switching more capacity to regions “cutting aviation taxes and incentivising traffic growth”. 🔥 Yet, no mention of emissions.

Ledwidge was, or still is a voice for a magical landscape that still flickers. The question is, do we choose to revive that landscape or do we continue down the road of capitalism, colonialism and destruction.

Which one drains public money, fuels inactivity and sedentary lifestyles, pollutes the air, harms our health, and leaves people in debt?

Brilliant article. Would love to see more forest schools in Ireland.

New Climate Conversations episode out! We discuss how sustainable healthcare can deliver the triple wins of improved patient care, lower costs and lower emissions. A must listen for all healthcare workers looking for a viable path forward in these tumultuous times.

Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers. The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes. Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??

Discarded clothes at #DublinMarathon — we can do better. Poignant short read from Drs Sonja Moore and JP Murphy. Please read and share!

Proud of our very own Drs Sean Owens, Caoimhe Clarke, and Vinnie Wall for their stellar work with the Climate and Health Alliance report on Active Travel: The Magic Pill 🚲✨ This report details the exact reasons for the health case for investing in spaces and travel designed for people, not cars!

Fantastic insights today into Ireland's broken agrifood systems and failures rooted in colonialism - as well as the groundbreaking sustainable initiatives out there! 🌍 Featuring the inspirational @rupamarya.bsky.social and friend of IDE @thinkorswim.bsky.social 🍏🌾

Movement is medicine! Brilliant interview with our very own Dr Caoimhe Clarke! As part of the Climate Health Alliance, we launched the 'Active Travel: The Magic Pill' report today!

Discarded clothes at Dublin Marathon — we can do better. Very poignant piece by Drs Sonja Moore and JP Murphy. Please read and share!

This should be an opportunity to talk about our dysfunctional, unhealthy, and unsustainable car-centric transport system. Instead, politicians compete over who can promise cheaper tolls or remove them entirely.

A 30km/h default urban speed limit will save lives. Dilution and delays will cost lives.

These are absolutely shocking numbers. Ironically, they're a testament to the almost complete lack of enforcement on Irish roads. It's a free-for-all — speeding, breaking red lights, parking wherever people want, endangering people walking or cycling — and it's only getting worse.

A brilliant, poignant letter from by our very own Dr Caoimhe Clarke in The Irish Times this morning! #ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport

Sorry for the inconvenience. My letter to the editor this morning is about how we should use the lessons from events like the Dublin Marathon to make Dublin a healthier, greener, and more people-friendly city, not just every blue moon, but on a permanent basis. #ReimagineDublin

A fully integrated transport app for Dublin and its surrounding areas is an obvious quick win — making our transport system healthier, greener, and more people-friendly. It won’t fix the lack of public or active transport options, but it’s a solid step in the right direction.

I care about the climate crisis but what can I actually do? From small daily adjustments to influencing national policy, doctors can make a difference, @emahase.bsky.social hears

Nature doesn’t negotiate. Our leaders’ hope for a ‘discount’ is a yet another shocking, unforgivable, betrayal.

The commission may well acquiesce. Sadly physics doesn’t do discounts or bargains and it keeps receipts. If we want a liveable future for future generations on a world that has a climate even recognisably like ours our energy should be being spent on doubling down on climate action…

"It’s vital that we put money behind the idea of ecological capital, which is the natural wealth of soils, water, and biodiversity that underpins our entire economy. Without acknowledging its value, we keep treating it as free and infinite, right up until it’s gone."

"At a time when we never have to know who grew the food on our plates, McNally’s is a reminder of what’s possible – that even in a capital city, it’s possible to know the name and the story of the woman, her husband and their children, who have laboured so we can eat well." This is brilliant!

More than 76,000 complaints made to councils last year

If you've visited other European cities recently, you’ve probably noticed that many of them have fully integrated transport apps. In Dublin? Not so much, writes Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum. jrnl.ie/6850086

We deserve a world-class fully integrated public and active transport app for Dublin! Other European cities have had them for years: plan, pay, ride, all in one place. My piece in @thejournal.ie this morning. #ReimagineDublin

Imagine if getting around Dublin was as easy, and healthy, as it is in Copenhagen or Oslo. Our very own @olaln.bsky.social writes in @thejournal.ie on why Dublin needs a fully integrated integrated transport app to get us moving. 🚋🚲🚌

October in Ireland. Apples from New Zealand. Our food system is completely broken. We could grow these ourselves, but instead, we ship them 18,000 km. If we can’t grow and eat what’s in season here, how can we talk about food security?

Spoiler: Dublin is not as green as it appears at first glance! 🌳🇮🇪 Learn how Dublin's green space is inequitably shared, and why our health should be a key reason to protect one of our last urban farmlands! 🌱 A collaboration by our own @olaln.bsky.social and @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social ! #Dublin

Yes, our food system is broken, but it takes a good bit of mental arithmetic to write a piece about it without specifically mentioning meat and dairy…

Yet another study linking air pollution to adverse health outcomes. There is no safe level of air pollution.

Almost the exact same sh1te appears whenever plans try to put people before storage for private cars.

For cars in Ireland: build and they will come. For bikes: build something, tick a box. In my latest Substack, I look at Dublin’s new cycle routes and why "better than nothing" is not nearly good enough! If we built for bikes the way we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed. #ReimagineDublin

Pretty worrying to see certain residents of the South Circular Road prioritise parking spaces over pedestrians and cyclist’s safety 🙄

Three in four doctors concerned about health impacts of climate change. We are not prepared for what's coming.

Wild to see this kind of disinformation still popping up. Parking doesn’t equal safety — safe, protected cycle lanes however, do!

This isn’t an accident. It’s policy by design. The required reallocation of space from cars back to people simply hasn’t happened. We’re still designing cities around cars... And the consequences? Huge impacts on our health, our shared environment. and the planet.

“Our new research shows that to address global poverty and create a more stable world for everyone, we must confront the climate risks endangering nearly 900 million poor people.” www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...