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Mark Robins

@byhedge.bsky.social
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Semi-retired ecologist/nature restoration advocate. Enjoying loads of good projects in West Cork.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 14h
Join us Saturday 10th Garden of Remembrance to march against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza in which it has slaughtered some 74,000 Palestinians, its ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and to protest the Irish government’s continued refusal to hold the apartheid state accountable. #FreePalestine
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bang on the money from Diarmaid Ferriter today : Irish govt still mouthing platitudes about #climate while the world burns down around us. Hope it’s not true when they say we get the politicians we deserve. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Diarmaid Ferriter: Weather whiplash leaves us with no illusions about the reality of climate change
And yet the Government is still speaking out of both sides of its mouth
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are reportedly 100s of feral goats – as well as countless sika deer – in Glengarriff's upper reaches. Both are highly invasive alien species, devastating what remains of the natural rainforest ecosystem, promoting rhodo infestation, and spreading Lyme disease. How is all this still ignored?
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coillte are a BIG problem..
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Currently, we have 130,000 acres rewilding at around 80 sites. We have bought land to save it. But sometimes we enter into rewilding agreements with existing land users’. What’s not to like!?! e360.yale.edu/features/ter...
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Finland Drained Its Peatlands. He’s Helping Bring Them Back
Tero Mustonen has led a successful effort to restore roughly 80 areas of ecologically critical peatlands across his native Finland. In an interview, he talks about the importance of bringing Indigenou...
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Age of Stupid ⬇️
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is 7 years since Coillte committed to removing the plantation surrounding the Derryclare forest in Galway but still not a single conifer has been removed. We now have national restoration targets for 2030 but we'll need get a lot quicker if these are to be met www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Does Ireland have the will to undo the disaster of plantation forestry?
Plans to remove commercial plantation around native forest have stalled for years
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s
Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
This is how a boreal forest should look like. The Finnish government removed boreal forests from the nature restoration plan without consultation. There are still unprotected small areas in southern Finland left from phased clear-cutting management. #RestoreNature 🌲
Spruce trees next to a path.An old pine in a mixed forest.A mixed protected forest.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re being mugged! ⬇️
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...And the Matterhorn’s bare snowless slopes are more than a striking image… www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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There's something 'highly unusual' about this photo of the Matterhorn
Experts say it is unusual for the 4,478m peak to be snow-free at this time of year, with climate change considered a key factor.
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our useless FF/FG government ⬇️
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is this soccer ‘club’ advised by the Trump Corp? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Disguised funding and dishonest witnesses: key findings in Manchester City case
After the Premier League published the ‘core decision’ of its independent commission, we pick out the key elements
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Russia has committed an aggression and is conducting an unlawful war... against Ukraine... I want Putin to get in front of the ICC." UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, responds to critics who say she's pro-Russia. My full Zeteo interview with her: zeteo.com/p/albanese-t...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Compare this to how one-off 'drone incidents' are treated as evidence of escalating hybrid warfare. "We cannot keep treating extreme events as one-off emergencies, simply repairing the damage while people continue to live in fear of the next major event." www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...
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Ireland must prepare for climate extremes, CCAC warns
Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advi...
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advisory Council has warned. (RTÉ News)
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Ireland must prepare for climate extremes, CCAC warns
Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advi...
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drivelling journalism ⬇️ ‘Feud’!? ‘Proud of his country and army’!!! This match should never have happened. Genocide mongers can’t see their own genocide! www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Israel captain stokes feud by saying ‘our country is 10 times better than Ireland’
Manor Solomon has reacted angrily to the Republic of Ireland team’s behaviour before their Nations League match in protest at Israel’s military action in Gaza
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Dr. Raphael Weyland @raphaelweyland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well done, all climate deniers, fossil fuel lovers, farm lobbyists against nature restoration, center-right politicians etc: Belgium's facing its worst drought since the 1970s! #ActTheFuckNow #RestoreNature #EUGreenDeal cc @wwf.be @greenpeace.be @natagora.bsky.social @natuurpunt.bsky.social @rtbf.be
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Belgium facing worst drought since 1970s
Belgium is heading for its worst drought since the 1970s, according to a warning issued by the Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI).The country had one of the driest summers since records began and no...
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Samhain’d Lad @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
100% of Israeli humour: “okay but what if we murdered you in front of your family”
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re truly in the era of the Age of Stupid! ⬇️
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage. They claim lifting people out of poverty is inflationary. Can't recall millionaires restraining on profiteering, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Have they tried living on minimum wage? archive.ph/h0pVc
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Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage
Companies warn that a steep rise in labour costs will fuel inflation and cut jobs for young people
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What a headline! ⬇️ UK Labour hang your head in shame.
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sadly taking the soup is where we are 😢 Important piece by Colin Sheridan, Irish Examiner #stopthegame #dontplay www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...?
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Ireland? I will not be watching this team again. My children can decide for themselves
Ireland’s footballers could have shown what happens when people with something miniscule to lose decide that principle matters more than their own convenience. They chose self-interest
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IanMoore3000 @ianmoore3000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Join a union jrnl.ie/7174957
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Flahavan's workers win pay boost of up to 21.5% as unrest ends at porridge company
Unite said the new deal brings the pay terms of different workers in line with each other.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This is a do-or-die moment for the Amazon, really.” If Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, is elected he will erase the Amazon forest for profit Lula is not perfect but he is a much better choice than Bolsonaro www.newscientist.com/article/2590...
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Future of Amazon rainforest may hinge on Brazil presidential election | New Scientist
A general election in Brazil next month is widely seen as a choice between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
England - under a Labour government. ⬇️
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 27/09/2026
‘They weren’t fierce people’: Memorial unveiled for Dubliners who fought fascism in Spain
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‘They weren’t fierce people’: Memorial unveiled for Dubliners who fought fascism in Spain
Sculpture at Richmond Barracks, Inchicore, described as ‘a gravestone for the international brigades’ of Irishmen
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A controversial match has just become more controversial.
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is Israel even in the European champions? Weird and rather telling..
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
82% of Britons say protecting nature is important to them, new polling by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows “You don’t often get that degree of consensus” on any issue, says @luketryl.bsky.social - speaking at an event at Labour Party Conference with the heads of the big nature NGOs
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well done to the Irish Mirror, also to Off the Ball which is not broadcasting either game despite having the rights as they don't think we should play Israel, and the RTÉ staff who won't work on the games. These games should not go ahead. #StopTheGames www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
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Israel v Ireland - the Irish Mirror's coverage will be different... here's why
The big decisions can sometimes be the most straightforward
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
World Rivers Day offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on how we can reverse these trends for good By taking action and following the best available evidence, we can create lasting solutions to pollution. Healthy rivers are essential for nature, communities & future generations. #WorldRiversDay
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties than any country in history." Benjamin Netanyahu Murderer of 30,000 Children
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Jim @jimstewart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The arm is sore and the conscience is partially clear. My 5G reception is fabulous. Flu and COVID vaccines done.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Safe to say the FAI board needs replaced. This stain won't wash out.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The answer to "Does Israel have a right to exist?" Is NO. It was setup on stolen land given by one colonial invader to another and Genocide was their first action when they arrived. It has NEVER had a right to exist.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#StopTheGame #BoycottIsrael #ShameOnFAI Statement by Irish Sport For Palestine:
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well done 💚✊️ Showing he's got a backbone, where the others do not ! Via ~ Virgin Media News
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Will Lawless @willlawless.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's only one Gavin Bazunu
Gavin Bazunu, a man of integrity
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