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Jane Mellett

@janemellett1.bsky.social
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Tròcaire; Laudato Si'; Climate Pilgrim; Theology; Author; Retreat facilitator; Yoga 🧘‍♀️; views my own.

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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Silent protest in Grafton St today, preceding a procession to the Dáil and our usual protest. We were marking over 8 years of weekly protests.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some actual good news. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530018...
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Wind and solar generate more electricity than gas globally for first time
Ember report confirms wind and solar surpassed gas generation last month, as governments rushed to secure 'cheap, homegrown and secure' sources of energy
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
130+ Faith Organisations Urge EU to Tax Massive Fossil Fuel Profits & Lead Global Transition🌍 Launched during #LaudatoSiWeek, the landmark campaign "Europe, Be Faithful to our Common Home" brings together over 130 Christian organisations from 20 EU countries as @janemellett1.bsky.social explains!
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Jane Mellett @janemellett1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The theme for #LaudatoSiWeek 2026 is "From Hope to Action". Love a bit of 'active hope' &really looking forward to these two webinars from #Trocaire's church team. Please share &join us. @trocaire.bsky.social @synodalpathway.bsky.social @bishopfintan.bsky.social @irishjesuitsint.bsky.social
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
One of TIME's 100 Most Influential People & world-renowned climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe visited Trócaire to learn about our work & give her insights. She gave her concerns on how the world's tackling the climate crisis & how the head, heart & hands must work together to take climate action.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Violence is like a shadow that follows mining around the world” - Trócaire Policy Advisor @chris-oconnell.bsky.social appeared before a public inquiry into gold mining in the Sperrins Mountains to give evidence on the negative impacts of mining. Read more 👇 www.thedetail.tv/articles/min...
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Mining sector is among the world’s ‘deadliest and most dangerous’, inquiry hears
Trócaire said it had observed many harms in mining projects around the world
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
One of the world's leading climate scientists, Professor Katharine Hayhoe, explains to us how inequality, injustice and faith interconnect to demand us all to take meaningful climate action to save our planet🌎
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Two weeks since we welcomed Parents Circle Families Forum to Dublin and their message of peace, dialogue and reconciliation has not left our minds since.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
'Over a million people displaced, thousands killed, & trauma right across the country. The humanitarian situation in Lebanon is dire following Israel's ground invasion, but thanks to Irish Aid support, we are doing all we can to support those in need. Trócaire CEO Seán Farrell gives us the latest.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The situation in Lebanon is deteriorating rapidly. Trócaire's Lebanon team & our partners are doing all they can to support civilians but we urgently call for an end to Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The international community must do everything possible to ensure peace & the protection of civilians.
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Jane Mellett @janemellett1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Not to be missed: Looking forward to this Climate Gathering on Thursday 26th March 7pm in UCD, joining Mary Evelyn Tucker, Dr. Lorna Gold, Sadhbh O'Neil, John Connell and others on what motivates us to act for climate justice. Details: climategathering.org @trocaire.bsky.social
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The Climate Gathering | Creative climate conversations in Ireland
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 18/03/2026
If only there was some nascent global movement with a key upcoming milestone trying to point a way out of this 50-year quagmire. Like, I dunno, @fossiltreaty.bsky.social ?
Poster for a FossilFuelTreaty.org/events webinar on 26 March, previewing the Fossil Fuel Phaseout Summit in Santa Marta Colombia planned for April.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
'You have to save humans and nature together' Did you miss our annual Lent lecture from Dr. Hugo Slim? No worries! 👉Read our summary, or watch the full lecture back here: www.trocaire.org/news/you-hav...
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“You have to save humans and nature together” - Trócaire
Hugo Slim on Caring for Creation Amidst the Cries of War
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Bishop Fintan Monahan @bishopfintan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Dr Hugo Slim from Oxford delivering the annual @trocaire.bsky.social lecture this evening @StPatsMaynooth
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St Patrick's Pontifical University @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Dr Hugo Slim, Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall in Oxford, offered a research seminar today to faculty and staff of St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth. The seminar explored the question of “The Church and Humanitarian Aid in War and Disaster.”
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A full house tonight at our Annual Trócaire lecture in Maynooth! As keynote speaker Dr. Hugo Slim said “when we should be focused on the survival of humanity and the earth, we are instead focused on defence and preparations for war.”
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Jane Mellett @janemellett1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The first of Trócaire's Lent Webinar takes place tomorrow, lunchtime at 1pm, with Sean Farrell, Trócaire's CEO. Details can be found here for registration: www.trocaire.org/news/trocair...? @trocaire.bsky.social @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social @bishopfintan.bsky.social
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St Patrick's Pontifical University @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
You are invited to attend the St. Patrick’s College Maynooth Annual Trócaire Lecture 2026: “Care for Creation Amidst the Cries of War ~ Working for Peace in the Earth Community” To register, please contact maria.murphy@trocaire.org More details: sppu.ie/news-events/...
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If you're not for social justice, what are you for? On this World Day of Social Justice, be proud of standing up for peace, human rights, and justice! At Trócaire, we have been fighting for social justice for 53 years, and we'll never stop supporting those who need it most 💪
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
UN Special Rapporteur Astrid Puentes Riaño visited Ireland last week, and it's encouraging to see her calling out the worrying developments on LNG and EU simplification as justice, human rights and environmental issues. 👉Read her press release: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Ireland should mainstream human rights to protect environmental advances: UN expert
DUBLIN — Ireland has made important progress in protecting the environment, but these advances are at risk unless strategic projects, infrastructure and activities with potentially significant environ...
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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Week #374 We managed to escape a downpour! Increasingly erratic weather is part & parcel of the climate crisis that our Govt seems intent on making worse - with plans to abolish the Dublin airport passenger cap, build fossil fuel import terminals, support of nitrates derogation etc.
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Jane Mellett @janemellett1.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
As part of our Trócaire Church Team Outreach for #Lent we are excited to offer a series of webinars exploring the challenges of responding to global poverty; Climate Justice in Rwanda; Eco-Spirituality and more. You can see details here: www.trocaire.org/news/trocair...
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Trócaire Lent Webinars 2026 - Trócaire
Join us for a series of webinars this Lent from Trócaire’s Church Team.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Delighted to welcome Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Ireland, to our office for a visit. We spoke with the Ambassador on our work with partners in Gaza & campaigning efforts in Ireland. We’ll keep doing everything we can for peace & justice for Palestinians.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Powerful words from Trócaire's @chris-oconnell.bsky.social in The Irish Times over the weekend. 'This mania for 'cutting red tape' causes real harms, peeling away key rights and protections from people in Europe and around the world.' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Will Ireland stand up against EU’s race to the bottom?
The holy scripture known as the Draghi report would make us all more vulnerable to predatory corporate profit-making
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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Week #373 (It's hard to keep track - we've been protesting for climate justice for so long, I think we can be excused for displaying the wrong number occasionally). #KeepThePassengerCap #KeepIrelandLNGFree @fiannafailparty.bsky.social @darraghobrientd.bsky.social Fine Gael
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Trump condemned for revoking scientific finding on climate change
The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that has been the central basis for US action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and ...
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 12/02/2026
Sr Dorothy Stang was murdered for defending the climate, the Amazon, and the people she helped sustainably farm within it, on this day 21 years ago. She should not be forgotten.
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On Martyrdom
Minneapolis, Dorothy Stang, and The Stranger
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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Week 372 of protest as Govt demonstrates cognitive dissonance, trying to ram through a State LNG import terminal as the climate crisis deepens and Ireland is battered by rain and floods. Contact your TDs & tell them to #KeepIrelandLNGFree put a #MoratoriumOnDataCentres and #KeepThePassengerCap
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Minister for Environment Darragh O'Brien is attempting to rush through approval for a €900 million LNG reserve at the cost of the taxpayer & the planet. The proposed legislation would give the Minister full responsibility for the planning application & completely change the normal planning process.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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St Patrick's Pontifical University @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Make a difference in a high demand career Our HDip and Master’s programmes in Healthcare Chaplaincy provide a strong academic foundation alongside supervised clinical placement in healthcare settings. Apply now for 2026 at sppu.ie/centre-for-m... or get in touch with us. #healthcare #chaplaincy
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 27/01/2026
Pope Leo ally Cardinal Tobin of New Jersey urged Catholics to lobby to defund ICE/DHS as "lawless organization" on a Zoom call with hundreds on Sunday night. Explicitly compares the moral necessity of resistance now to resistance against fascism.🧵1/
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Seán Farrell is in the West Bank seeing how Israeli settlers are using ever-increasing violence and intimidation to force Palestinian people off their land. This is what illegal occupation looks like. We must oppose this occupation and keep supporting these communities in their fight for justice.
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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Week 370 demanding climate justice, while our Govt pursues new fossil fuel infrastructure in the form of an LNG import terminal in Co Clare and continues to facilitate more and more energy and water-guzzling data centres. The utter madness of it!
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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Week #369 of our weekly protest outside the Dáil from 1 to 2pm on Fridays, demanding #ClimateJustice. Our Government treats the climate crisis like an afterthought, instead of the existential crisis that it is. Come join us any Friday to help shine a spotlight on the dire need for action on climate!
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
'Some say young people are not as interested in global issues...' Trócaire CEO Seán Farrell was blown away by the ingenuity, creativity & commitment of young people from around the country at last week's Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. The next generation are leading the way!
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Jane Mellett @janemellett1.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
#ClimateStrike #Dublin week 366!. 7 years this month and still here. Here's to more #FridaysForFuture in 2026 and, more importantly, some climate action. @philkearney.bsky.social @trocaire.bsky.social
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St Patrick's Pontifical University @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It’s official, Christmas has started! A magnificent night at the annual Maynooth Carol Service last night, bringing three amazing nights of performance to a close. A signal for many that Christmas is here.
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/11/2025
This is a really good piece on the quite frankly shocking (to some) developing Catholic (and other denominations) opposition to fascism. More Romero than Franco. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church | Simon Tisdall
Inequality, immigration and civil rights are the battlegrounds on which the church, and some other Christian denominations, are fighting, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Melton Luhanga from our partner CARD Malawi, tells us what he wants to see in the days ahead at COP30. Did you know that loss & damage caused by Cyclone Freddy in Malawi in 2023 is over $506 million? This is why Loss & Damage funding is vital for countries on the frontline of the climate crisis.
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Trócaire's @siobhancurran.bsky.social explains why we need a fossil fuel phase out, and why the Irish government must start putting people and the planet first, not corporations. As thousands marched to the Dáil on Saturday, the message couldn't be clearer - we need climate justice NOW!
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
At COP30 today, 62 faith institutions have announced their divestment from fossil fuels 🌍 This is one of the biggest fossil fuel divestment announcements to date, and a real example of climate leadership and a commitment to a fairer future. Learn more➡️ laudatosimovement.org/news/62-fait...
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Climate Pilgrim @climatepilgrim.com · 20/10/2025
New episode - The Irish Mafia. With @janemellett1.bsky.social, Eamon Ryan, and Bishop Martin Hayes. open.substack.com/pub/aclimate...
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Touch the Feckin' Grass
Bishop Martin Hayes of Kilmore; former Irish environment minister and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan; and campaigner Jane Mellett.
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Jane Mellett @janemellett1.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
#Fridaysforfuture Dublin week 338 today... #LaudatosiWeek
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Phil Kearney @philkearney.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Friends of #FridaysforFuture, Dublin, hanging in there - Week 327. Sorry for the lapses in posting, but the drumbeat goes on. We're already at this much longer than a US presidential term. See www.antaisce.org/News/high-st... on IFAC/CCAC report on Ireland failing to meet climate obligations.
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Janine O'Keeffe @climatejanine.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Amazing work, thank you. #FFFMapSolidarity, 10 people, recorded, Dublin, Week 323 is amazing thanks @janemellett1.bsky.social, @philkearney.bsky.social‬ et al bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Phil Kearney @philkearney.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Friends of #FridaysforFuture, Dublin. Week 323. ‘Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son? Oh, what’ll you do now, my darling young one? From Dylan’s ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.’ Maybe it’s falling. Nobel prophet.
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Jane Mellett @janemellett1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Save our beer - join the climate strike, Fridays at 1pm, Dail Eireann. #climatejustice
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