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Eoin Hegarty

@eoinsheg.bsky.social
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“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.” Szymborska. It's where I start each day.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Macklemore has terrified the Israel lobby. Why? Because they depend on fear - and he's just delivered a shattering blow to it.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 17/08/2026
Land degradation is already affecting up to 40% of the world's land, with far-reaching impacts on food, water, livelihoods, and economic stability. As world leaders gather to accelerate land action and to address these challenges #UNCCDCOP17, get all the latest UNEP updates here: bit.ly/3U4Re8C
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
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Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel
There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A great pleasure to give my annual walk and talk yesterday as part of the Eyeries Family Festival on my Beara rainforest journey, crashing nature, and its main solution: rewilding. People are so hungry for hope, and rewilding offers that in spades.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17/07/2026
Former Irish president Mary Robinson and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark have warned of the potential disappearance of the Palestinian territories and called for an end to what they called Israeli "impunity"
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Israeli govt wants to make Palestine disappear - Robinson
Former Irish president Mary Robinson and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark have warned of the potential disappearance of the Palestinian territories.
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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The Guardian view on climate equality: a richer life and real public abundance, not just more stuff | Editorial
Editorial: The Global Justice Report offers a hopeful bargain: tax extreme wealth and replace consumer excess with social and economic security for all
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: Somali referee Omar Artan to miss tournament after being barred from entering US
Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals, is dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 05/06/2026
Warning signals are everywhere. The past 11 years have been the 11 hottest on record.  In his #WorldEnvironmentDay message, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for action #NowForClimate to cut emissions, protect nature, support vulnerable communities & speed transition to renewable energy. 
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
After so many lies and atrocities, truth takes on a different character I think - is more powerful, is something experienced, felt as something profound and sacred even...such was my experience in reading this review of Omer Bartov's book: Israel - What Went Wrong www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view
An erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"At a time when other pollen is scarce, they open up their faces wide to allow every passing insect a feast" Such an amazing gift from nature But many survive only in the gutter as heartless neat and tidy monsters mow or spray them out of existence www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Country diary: It is our duty to delight in the dandelion | Josie George
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: These early spring bloomers are a favourite of mine, a model of nature’s generosity, yet so often ignored
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Yes! 🌿
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We reiterate our demands, we uphold the Palestinian boycott call, UEFA must expel Israel for its crimes against Palestinians, until then the FAI should refuse to play these fixtures. No-one should play the apartheid state, anywhere. #BanIsrael #FreePalestine
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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This Ramadan in Gaza we pray for mercy, share what we have and light a single candle for hope | Majdoleen Abu Assi
I mourn the vibrant life we lived before. But though our faces anxiously turn to the sky, our hands are joined in a solidarity that rises above hunger, says Majdoleen Abu Assi, a humanitarian practiti...
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
'All my life I’ve been proud of my flag. Now I’m ashamed of those limp symbols of hostility hanging off lampposts. [...] tokens of racism or intolerance.' Excellent from Fergus Finlay www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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Fergus Finlay: I was always proud of the Irish flag — now it is just a symbol of hostility
Behind the flags there is more than racism. We need to debate this — and we need to do it honestly
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A poetry that survives bombs. Incredible, heartbreaking poems from the Gazan poet Batool Abu Akleen.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
New video interview with Greta Thunberg from AJPlus just released. She is in Barcelona, about to set sail with hundreds of people from 44 countries on dozens and dozens of boats and ships to take humanitarian aid to the millions of people in Gaza facing extermination at the hands of Israel.
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A picture paints a thousand words...: #gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ella Baron on Gaza’s man-made famine – cartoon
The UN-backed IPC has officially found that people in and around Gaza City are suffering a famine as a result of Israel’s actions
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
from the brilliant Sally Rooney: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Israel has a hideously chilling strategy. They want the destruction of the Palestinian people to be a done deal - like indigenous people in the US or Australia. A brutal wake-up call from the ever-brilliant @omarbaddar.bsky.social
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Tomorrow in West Cork: strike out from the historic town of Bantry - on foot or bike - for Ireland's southernmost point and at the same time help fund Medical Aid for Palestine. www.gofundme.com/f/west-cork-... #Cork #Palestine
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Donate to West Cork Walk 4 Gaza, organized by Sam Simpson
Communities from all over West Cork are coming together on Saturday 9th August to ‘Walk the Length o… Sam Simpson needs your support for West Cork Walk 4 Gaza
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Emergency Fund for Malnourished Yazan chuffed.org/project/save...
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Emergency Fund for Malnourished Yazan
Emergency fund set up for Yazan and his family experiencing extreme malnutrition.
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Brilliant from @irishtimes.com more of this please! www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Ireland’s nature lovers on their favourite trees: ‘I felt I could talk to it, like going to a good therapist’
Connecting with woodland can have a profound influence on our lives
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
'It is deeply disappointing that EU members have still taken no collective, concrete action.’ - Mary Robinson www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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Martina Devlin: At 81, why is it left to Mary Robinson to stand up for Palestinians when the EU won’t?
Mary Robinson is a headline act. In a landmark address at the United Nations delivered with passion and precision, she spoke truth to power – her call to action over Gaza flagged the need to suspend t...
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Helping feed my Children and Family chuffed.org/project/1377...
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Helping feed my Children and Family
Mohammad Nashwan: The Story of a Father Who is facing Famine and trying to provide for his family
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The world will remember how the EU and its member states respond to this catastrophic tragedy. Silence and neutrality in the face of genocide constitutes complicity. Inaction emboldens perpetrators and betrays every principle the Union and its states claim to uphold www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Former EU ambassadors warn: Europe’s silence on Gaza is complicity
In an open letter, 58 former EU envoys urge the bloc to end arms exports, sanction Israel, and stop atrocity crimes.
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Sign the Petition
Save our marine life! Stop fishing of Sprat in all Irish coastal waters now!
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
#BREAKING | Thousands of children’s shoes placed in town square of the Dutch city of Almere in protest against Israel's war on Gaza.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot
The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
New statement in from Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calling on the international community to ensure safe passage for the Madleen.
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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"To Stand With Palestine is to be Human" Greta Thunberg
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/05/2025
Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais
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Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais
In Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren’t Gazans being protected in the same way?
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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14,000 babies in Gaza could starve
Sign this urgent global appeal to world leaders
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Harry Burton @hbtoons.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“To have a hope of combating the end times fascists … we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all.” joinspread.com/post/d615ba6...
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Spread by Robert Cawley: The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Swallows are returning! Or are already here. Many don't survive the incredibly perilous journey - made more so by climate change (the Sahara is larger than it was). So we WELCOME those amazing birds 📷 Neil Fletcher
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants." We CAN beat them, but to do so, the rest of humanity must unite for this, the most vital fight ever. An absolute *must-read* from @naomiaklein.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is every poet trying to write in these crazy times!!
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Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It's hard to sum-up the joy and sense of hope that Robin Wall Kimmer's book, 'The Serviceberry' gives - you'd have to read it yourself! But just to say, I think that it carries in its pages that special aura of the gift economy - one imbued with relationship, reciprocity, placeness, and love.
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rewildyourland.bsky.social @rewildyourland.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Welcome to Rewild! If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you! www.rewildyourland.ie
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HOME | Rewild!
Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen We will reach 2C by 2045 Collapse of critical ocean current AMOC as early as 20 years I would say it will be even sooner Humanity has destroyed their own future www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/01/2025
The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements have been condensed into a single vital number. theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...
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My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yet
These ‘warming stripes’, adopted around the world as a symbol of climate awareness, action and ambition, now include another dark red stripe for 2024.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/01/2025
The photographs of Los Angeles on fire speak variously of environmental collapse, policy failure, ineluctable helplessness—but they won’t be lasting images. “Our ways of seeing are not yet adequate to our predicament,” Teju Cole writes.
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A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed
The images of a burning Los Angeles won’t last, simply because our ways of seeing are inadequate to our predicament.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌏
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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Terrific programme for Ballincollig Winter Music Festival. I've written a new poem for this event on theme of 'The Gift' - who/what inspires us as artists. Also sean-nos singer Stephanie Keane, harpist Alisa Vasilisa & poet @eoinsheg.bsky.social . Free event but book below - whitehorse.ie/bwmf5/
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The Gift (Free) – The White Horse
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"What our medical teams have witnessed on the ground … is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza” www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...
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Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
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