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Dublin, Ireland based Climate Activist - Born at 314.8 PPM CO2

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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Participants today included people from Tuvalu and Nepal which was really special. Sadly, these countries are drastically affected by the worsening climate crisis that's being caused by rich countries like Ireland. It was also wonderful to have students from Belvedere join us.
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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Govt is regressing on climate action, with plans to import LNG, to lift the Dublin Airport passenger cap, to raise public transportation fares, the glut of data centres, the extension of the nitrates derogation and the list goes on. Join us any Friday between 1pm & 2pm to apply pressure on Govt!
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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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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We're keeping up our weekly presence outside the Dáil. Just haven't been recording it here. So this is a bit of a catch up of photos from recent weeks.
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Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin @ffff2018.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Week 404
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📚Children's Rights Over Flights will be at the Radical Book Fair - Saturday 30 May 2026 - Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin, D01 T6V6 - 2.30 to 5 pm Come say hello and learn more about our campaign and how to support it! rupture.ie/bookfair
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Dublin Radical Bookfair
Books, zines, clothing swap, exhibitions, poetry, art, campaign groups and workshops all under one tent; the Radical Bookfair promises to be a fun and exciting part of 2026’s cultural and political ca...
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Open letter from 16 organisations to Minister O'Brien calling on him to urgently halt the Government’s interventions to legislate exemption from climate obligations for the Dublin Airport cap. childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2026/03/18/j...
childrensrightsoverflights.ie
Joint Letter on Aviation Emissions and Passenger Cap
Calling for “an urgent halt to the Government’s intervention to remove the Dublin Airport passenger cap” out of concern for “the negative implications that the resultant increase …
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Roderic O’Gorman TD @rodericogorman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Big claims, but a weak case presented by the airlines this week on the Dublin Airport passenger cap. EU legal opinion is that the passenger cap is likely lawful. The “Open Skies” argument is untested and unproven. What sounds convincing… isn’t holding up in court.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
18th March - standing against the Bill to abolish the Dublin Airport cap - presentation at pre-legislative scrutiny hearing followed by protest - links to read and watch on our website: childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2026/03/18/h...
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Health professionals and children’s rights advocates rip up Minister’s bill to abolish Dublin Airport cap
18th March 2026, Kildare St, Campaigners including Children’s Rights over Flights and Irish Doctors for the Environment led led a protest in opposition to the expansion of aviation – sp…
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📄Today we presented as part of pre-legislative scrutiny of the alarming Dublin Airport Capacity Bill. Called for withdrawal of Bill and halt to reckless Gov plan to increase polluting flights in climate crisis. www.irishtimes.com/business/eco... Listen from minute 34: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Dublin Airport growth would see it compete with housing for water and power, committee hears
Residents groups set out concerns for planned scrapping of annual passenger cap
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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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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Outrage at plan to scrap Dublin Airport cap childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2026/02/10/c...
childrensrightsoverflights.ie
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUP EXPRESSES OUTRAGE AT PLAN TO SCRAP AIRPORT PASSENGER CAP
Campaign group Children’s Rights Over Flights is outraged that the cabinet plans to approve legislation today that would prevent any limits to passenger numbers at Dublin Airport, even as the State…
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
So-called Minister of "Climate" has just made a choice. That it's more important to increase flights, than to protect ourselves against flooding, homes uninsurable, people worldwide loosing their livelihoods, a tightrope with tipping points to world wide chaos. www.goloudplayer.com/podcasts/new...
airplane emitting large amounts of polluting smoke
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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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Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We ask teachers to hold the emotional weight of the future — often without the language, support, or permission to be honest. Today, Climate Courage Schools is launching The Hardest Lesson, a short film about that quiet pressure inside the classroom. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-5...
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The Hardest Lesson | Climate Majority Project
YouTube video by Climate Majority Project
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"Warnings" about execs being restricted in their private jet use www.irishtimes.com/business/202... As families and small businesses try to recover from the historic flooding of Storm Chandra, it's shocking to read negative framing about proposals to limit private jets #KidsRightsOverPrivateFlights
irishtimes.com
DAA weighed cutting business jets at Dublin Airport to comply with passenger cap
Business aviation operators and industry bodies warned such a move could prove deeply damaging for investment in Ireland
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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 · 07/01/2026
An Coimisiún Pleanála's decision for a commercial Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal at Tarbert, north Kerry is due by January 13th. If approved, this would be absolutely devastating for Ireland's climate and human rights obligations - let us explain why ⬇️
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Ireland is dangerously off track on its climate targets, facing fines of €26 billion. An Coimisiún Pleanála are currently considering a planning application for a commercial LNG terminal in north Kerry. The potential consequences are stark. 👉Learn what's at stake: www.trocaire.org/news/climate...
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Trócaire @trocaire.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🛑Did you know that the Irish government is trying to bring in legislation to ratify the #ISDS pillar of the #CETA trade deal that would allow for big corporations to sue Ireland in investor courts for huge sums of money? Register now for the webinar on Thursday, 15 Jan, 7:30-9pm: ow.ly/eaRb50XU0xP
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CETA: private investor courts, corporate power, and how we stop it
Online event on the Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025, its trade justice risks, ISDS/ICS under CETA, and how to take action.
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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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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"Flying in the Face of Climate Change - Letter in yesterday's Irish Times criticizing the promotion of frequent flight based holidays www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Flying in the face of climate change

Sir, – Regarding Conor Pope’s article “How to maximise your annual leave in 2026 and hit the hotspots at the right time.” January 6th: This article is utterly irresponsible in encouraging readers to fly to four or five destinations throughout the year – given the climate apocalypse we’re facing if we don’t slash greenhouse gas emissions urgently and the fact that flying is the most polluting thing that the average individual does in terms of causing these emissions.

There is only one reference in the article – and a very casual one at that – to the climate impact of aviation, where the author suggests that the reader consider a staycation in June “cutting down on your carbon footprint and saving yourself a few bob on flights and accommodation too”.

If the author is going to include the cost of flights, he should include the cost in terms of greenhouse gas pollution too.

For instance, that return Dublin/Rome flight may cost ¤179 per person. But in terms of carbon emissions, the cost is about half a tonne.

Including the carbon pollution information would help readers understand the cost of flights to their future and particularly the future of their children, generations to come and indeed, and to people in Ireland and around the world who are at the frontlines of the crisis (like the people of Midleton, Co Cork). – Yours, etc,

ANGELA DEEGAN,

Dublin 7.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Ireland's growing aviation pollution problem: SEAI "Energy in Ireland" report shows that aviation caused 6% of Ireland's emissions in 2014, but has climbed to almost 10% of Ireland's emissions in 2024, with 2025 projected to show a further rise. www.seai.ie/sites/defaul... @seai-ie.bsky.social
Graph showing emissions from electricity, transport and heat, with transport shown with and without international aviation.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
😮We don't recall Ireland's high outbound tourism being acknowledged when 'economic' arguments were being used for our Government to bypass planning processes on the Dublin Airport Cap, and push for expansion of polluting aviation. Do you? www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eco...
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Economics of air transport in Europe
Challenging assumptions on the economic benefits of air transport growth
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We marched as part of the climate demo in Dublin on Sat 15th Nov, with hundreds of others. We sent a clear message, during COP, that all sectors, including aviation, need to play their part in a safer climate future. More in our latest newsletter: childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2025/11/18/a...
Montage of people at demonstration with climate placards, including one reading "Kids need more Kites less Flights"
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
www.thejournal.ie/someone-in-i... @thejournal.ie
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Ireland's richest produce more carbon than poorer groups, report says
Oxfam Ireland is calling on the Government to increase taxes on wealthier households.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Children's Rights Over Flights is a signatory to this complaint by the climate movement in Ireland re lack of questions on climate in the Presidential debates www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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RTÉ receives formal complaint over ‘exclusion’ of climate issues from presidential debates
Letter signed by academics, NGOs and medics alleges breach of public service obligations
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Article in @irishtimes.com highlighting the greenwashing airlines persist with, despite multiple rulings from advertising standards authorities. Flying is *not sustainable*, and has *no prospects* of becoming sustainable in the timeframe of the climate crisis. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Airlines are never going to tell us that flying is not sustainable
Messaging about ‘green fares’ or ‘responsible’ aviation is often misleading
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Opportunity Green @opportunitygreen.org · 03/11/2025
✈️ 🇮🇪 Ireland has a climate policy gap: aviation.   Our new report highlights the aviation industry’s free passes on climate and how the Irish gov should lead on cutting aviation emissions int'ly and at home. www.opportunitygreen.org/publicatio… 🧵1/6
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Closing Ireland’s aviation climate gap — Opportunity Green
In 2026, Ireland assumes the Presidency of the Council of the EU. This report examines how the country can place climate action at the heart of its leadership while generating significant revenue through introducing a fair air travel levy and expanding the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to inc
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Xodus.online @xodus-online.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Launching xodus.online ! Building a movement away from toxic social media, towards alternative social media (open social web) - the why, the where-to and the how! Please support our launch ! xodus.online/2025/10/30/l...
People with alternative social media icons on their shirts running joyfully away, arms linked, from angry toxic media icons trying to grasp them from a device.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Letter in today's Irish Times highlighting the contradiction that travel is "responsible" if it is based on flying
Responsible travel?

Sir, - Saturday’s article, “Lessons
learned from visiting 59 countries”, is
an echo-chamber of encouragement
to those who continue to fly despite
the climate crisis (Magazine, October
26th). Flying is a highly greenhouse
gas-emitting activity.

With so much disinformation and
misinformation around climate
change on social media, we badly
need newspapers that are truly “in-
formed and responsible”. - Yours, etc,

CO’REILLY,

Dublin 18.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Between lifting the cap and new Derry flights, is Darragh O'Brien minister for climate, or just transport? www.thejournal.ie/readme/opini...
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Opinion: Between lifting the cap and new Derry flights, is Darragh O'Brien minister for climate, or just transport?
Darragh O’Brien needs to make sure that his transport portfolio isn’t making things harder for his climate portfolio, Dr Catherine Conlon
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If the government lifts the passenger cap, it will lose what little legitimacy it has left on climate action. Such a move would be a betrayal of current and future generations in Ireland and around the world. There is no boost to the economy on a dead planet.
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Coalition moves to scrap passenger cap at Dublin Airport in multi-billion euro boost to economy
Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien is planning to scrap the controversial passenger cap at Dublin Airport in a move which could create tens of thousands of jobs and boost the economy by billions of eu...
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Angela Deegan @adeedub.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This Government is apparently willing to sacrifice a livable future for short term profit. In just the last 3 decades, Ireland's aviation emissions have grown by 500% & this Government seems hell-bent on increasing them more. We must contact our TDs & Senators & tell them to keep the passenger cap!
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Appalled to hear that Minister O’Brien is attempting to push through the removal of the passenger cap at Dublin airport. It's shocking that a minister tasked with tackling climate crisis is taking steps that would massively increase the pollution causing it. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
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Legislation to end Dublin Airport passenger cap due soon
The process of drafting legislation that will remove Dublin Airport's 32 million a year passenger cap is expected to happen soon.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Dublin Airport Authority ad has been ruled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority. This ad is part of an ongoing climate greenwashing campaign by DAA, a semi state body childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2025/07/29/c...
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CAMPAIGNERS CALL FOR END TO AVIATION GREENWASHING AFTER WATCHDOG RULES DAA AD ‘MISLEADING’
Credit: Children’s Rights Over Flights campaign group welcomes decision that requires greater transparency on claims about airport pollution 23rd July, Dublin – Parents, grandparents and…
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Apart from being an enthusiastic lobbyist in undermining state policy on emissions reduction, DAA chief Jacobs also holds shares in assorted airlines. He has to resign, or be fired. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
irishtimes.com
DAA chief failed to tell Eamon Ryan about airline shares before appointment
Kenny Jacobs told minister he had ‘no conflict of interest’ when joining board of State airport company
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Last time I checked, a ‘mass casualty incident’ was a motorway pile-up, train or airline accident. “Mass casualty” is an odd way to spell “massacre”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This criminal barbarism by apartheid Israel against Palestinians in Gaza must be stopped immediately. #SanctionsNow 'Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones www.972mag.com/drones-grena...
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Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones
Israeli soldiers tell +972 they deliberately target Palestinian civilians with drone strikes so others will ‘learn’ not to return.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is what a more people-friendly, healthier, greener, and more sustainable Dublin could look like. Yes, these changes might appear dramatic, but it's what we need to be doing. Every day! Let's go!
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Friday's Dublin Airport Authority co-hosted "sustainability" event called out as irresponsible greenwashing childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2025/06/04/c...
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Campaigners call out Dublin aviation “Sustainability” event as irresponsible greenwashing
Wednesday, 4th June, Dublin – A Chapter Zero Ireland event this Friday, 6th June titled “Cleared for Clarity: Rethinking Aviation, Transport, and Sustainability”, is being called out by the C…
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Sparkle @serenesparkle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
While people point out Greta was on the ship, it needs to be screamed louder that there was also a member of the European Union’s Parliament aboard: Rima Hassan Israel just kidnapped a foreign government official in international waters on humanitarian aid to a sovereign people.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Tune into Dublin Community TV on Virgin Media channel 802 or www.dctv.ie/live/ at 7:20pm tonight or any night this week to see an interview with members of Children's Rights Over Flights, calling out the DAA co-hosted aviation greenwashing event on Friday, and discussing other campaign topics.
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Live – Dublin Community Television
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
It’s all in the framing: (1) This is NOT a “war”, it’s an ongoing genocide waged by an occupying force almost entirely against a defenceless civilian population. (2) If Hamas are “militants”, shouldn’t the IDF be described, per ICC, as engaging in egregious war crimes?
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Great to join Eamon Ryan for his formal departure from public life earlier this evening. He is one of the most consequential politicians of the last few decades.
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Phil Kearney @philkearney.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years
Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030
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Phil Kearney @philkearney.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Analysis: There is no hiding place from latest EPA data on greenhouse gases www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Analysis: There is no hiding place from latest EPA data on greenhouse gases
Do we want to spend our money on fines or ensure Ireland becomes climate resilient?
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Phil Kearney @philkearney.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
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Keep the Dublin Airport Passenger Cap - Help protect children from harm
I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too?
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