If elected as a TD, Janet Horner will lead on George's Dock becoming a public amenity once again - a place for swimming, recreation, and community in the heart of our city. She took am early morning trip into it this week! @janetphorner.bsky.social

Experts in their fields 💚 ✨

I've always felt the best way to get people subscribe to @dublininquirer.com, is just to publish good articles and wait and hope. But I'm told, that people are busy and might have other things on their minds than us, so I'd better make a pitch, better ask. So here goes. 1/

This stuff has to be pointed out for the extremism it is — Wanting to live in places, rural and urban, where you are safe and free to go about daily life without depending on the expense of a car — or being terrorised by users of them — isn't wanting to "live like hobbits", it's freedom.

🚨 The collapse of our natural world is a direct threat to the UK’s national security. 🌍 The Nature + National Security Bill is a new, urgent, science-led response to this emergency. 📣 Ask your MP to choose the #NNSBill in the private members’ bill ballot. Head to 👉 zerohour.uk/write

The latest post on the Irish Biosphere by @aislinnn.bsky.social. Restoring nature is not just about people helping ecosystems return to life; it's also about ecosystems transforming society, the antidote to estrangement, isolation and disempowerment. biosphereforireland.substack.com/p/a-child-of...

Farmleigh House & this gem in the city is closed for six months. No notice, no compensation for them & 20+ staff & no way to mitigate the losses. Workers are pawns in the preparation for the pomp & ceremony for #EUPresidency JFC Ireland 🤦🏽‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol www.thejournal.ie/silk-road-ca...

It's hard to look at the OPW's behaviour here and wonder if they just didn't sit in a room pondering the question "how do we make citizens hate the EU?"

this is the kind of thing that makes me miss living in Ireland something fierce. A full-day conference in TCD tomorrow on the blackbird in literature, nature, music and culture. www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...

Another searing analysis by Sinéad O'Sullivan of Ireland's refusal to build for the future. www.butthistime.com/p/i-is-for-i...

huh! good to see internet rewilding being taken up as a frame and a rallying cry by @mozilla.org Be great if you guys linked to where the idea was born and the people already working with others and bending the whole shape of our lives around how to do it: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

The OPW spends €1.2m of our money each year on car parking for civil servants. If a bike shed costing €127,000 stands for 20 years, the OPW will have, in that time, spent €24,000,000 of our money to rent car parking for well-paid office workers. www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-...

V good article: "The reason our European peers have seen a 12 per cent drop in road deaths since 2019 in the same time we have seen a 31 per cent rise in ours is because we simply are not using the evidence-based solutions that already exist." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

A must read by our very own @johnlegge.bsky.social! "We need to hold the Government to account on making our roads safer as a matter of urgency."

Dr John Legge calling out the lack of political will to act on road safety.

If farmers cannot afford to buy land, then we are not protecting farming. We are preserving land as a portfolio for the wealthy, while others simply work it. open.substack.com/pub/aislinna...

super analysis by @hannahdaly.ie: "We can, and should, aim to make this our last fossil fuel crisis, but Ireland still lacks a serious plan to leave that system behind, with no serious timeline, and after this week, less money to achieve that." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Increasingly, Ireland’s problems are ones that only institutions, not money, can solve; and the institutions were never built.

A thought-provoking and insightful piece — well worth a read. “Governance by Liveline” aptly sums up how Ireland is being run.

This by Sinead O'Sullivan is an astonishingly sharp analysis of how the Irish state's failure to invest in public institutions, year after year and with no excuse, is creating a vacuum that our own Maga or Brexit will fill.

@aislinnn.bsky.social and I continue our musings on what a Biosphere for Ireland might look like substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The worst thing we can do is convince ourselves that change is no longer possible. Because that is the real trap. Not failure, but resignation." If you're need of a bit of hope, I recommend giving this Substack by @aislinnn.bsky.social a read!

Was there ever an own-goal on climate action and energy security so predictable, so predicted, so concentrated in its benefits and so general in its costs?

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

“Loss of nature is a loss of what it means to be Irish”. A clear statement of people’s values following a year long consultation. Translated into a plan for nature jointly devised by farm orgs and enviro NGOs. But will government fund it? #RTECountrywide Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

In Brussels around this time last year, Thomas introduced this idea to me and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. I’ve been delighted to collaborate on it as a thought experiment around what a national biosphere could mean for Irish nature restoration.

Flood prevention is not the only, or even the most important, benefit of nature restoration, but it's helpful if nothing else to show how repairing nature is a solution, not a luxury or an imposition.

For generations, we have extracted from the land until little was left to give. A national biosphere offers a chance to reverse that trajectory. A collective act of repair. A living country cannot simply be inherited. It has to be rebuilt. This is our time to go all in.

Fuel prices are going up again. A quick thread on the wonders of e-bikes

Man when a cyclist = cyclist. Man when driver = man. Don't ever tell me the media does not dehumanise people who cycle. And it's your job not to follow press releases word-for-word, so don't bother using that as an excuse. It only took a quick email to confirm it was the driver who was arrested.

Is there a mansplaining logo we can slap on such trite letters to the Irish Times so people know that they don't have to bother reading them? This is a tediously uninformed riposte to @hannahdaly.ie's excellent op-ed about energy security www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Cycling in Dublin for commuting rises 50% as most residents back more bike lanes

#Dublin, time to electrify the ferries to Holyhead, Liverpool et al. And while you're at it, maybe make them easier for foot passenger & bike travel, integrate with Irish Rail and even allow for roll-on-roll-off trains? No better time than when we need to replace the fleet of ships anyway

Just thinking about how Irish history can be defined as an eternal conflict between tenants and landlordism.

Not that many good news at the moment so take this one into the WE. DK gov got EC state aid greenlight for a 1bn euro investment in farms buy out for nature restoration. Partbof the deal negotiated with farm unions and NGOs to meet climate and nitrogen targets.

The current cabinet is populated by a comparably stupid bunch of people sustained in office by the inertia of two decades of centre-right rule, but this is embarrassing, even for them.

The montage towards the end hits especially hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_71...

if you want do ONE practical thing today in response to all that is is unfolding, get Proton Mail/suite today, to reduce your exposure to/dependence on Gmail. Yes, the docs are more clunky but still. There are a lot of other steps, but this is one that is both easy (5 minutes) & sensible. #Proton

The TFFF is the biggest and boldest plan yet to staunch the loss of tropical forests that are a pillar of climate stability. Its success depends on buy-in from governments and financial institutions that until now have directed their funds towards destruction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram. European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

This is a brilliant idea 💡 Let's not make one of the most historical buildings in Dublin a fecking mall! This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/th... @uplift.ie

‘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/...

How common is this kind of self-evidently useless result from all the new AI features that are freighting our internet experience?

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the Nature Restoration Law. Right-wing populists tried every dirty trick to kill-off the NRL but thanks to a continental wide grassroots movement the NRL refused to die. Those same regressive forces are still working to undermine change #RestoreNature

Rewilding on a massive scale is required across Europe, including Ireland, to protect our countryside, protect communities and minimise both fire risk and fire impact.

In my mind the next person in supreme command of the Irish Defence Forces must be someone who believes in the principle of maintaining an army; a force well-trained, well-paid, and well-equipped for the threats and challenges of today’s world. #Aras25 www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/cons/en/...

If you're in need of a bit a hope, give this beautiful piece a read!

Climate action is the EU’s unique selling point, and a Just Transition is critical to our future. My thoughts from the #MacGill25 Summer School: cuffestreet.blogspot.com/2025/07/frac...

Fears of a Russian invasion are palpable in the Baltic states. My views at #MacGill25 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

🤖 Where might advanced AI take us next? At CFG, we’ve spent the past few months exploring not what should happen with AI, but what could. Advanced AI Possible Futures outlines five distinct scenarios for how the AI transition might unfold. cfg.eu/advanced-ai-...