Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialEoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Update: new footpaths installed. Absolutely fine job but in no way respects the Architectural Conservation (ACA) or the heritage value of the original limestone kerbs. We should expect better. #Cork 354
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialOliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 25/09/2026I've been in touch with officials about footpath repairs at Madden's Buildings, and especially the limestone kerbs. I've been told all salvageable kerbs will now be reinstalled. Unfortunately, some broke apart during excavation. The remainder will be reinstated part of the works, which are ongoing. 1102
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 15224451312
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialEoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Footpath works on Maddens Buildings, Blackpool this week. It would be great if #Cork City Council could confirm that the historic limestone kerbing is safe and will be returned as part of the job. Any ideas @damianboylan.bsky.social @oliver.ie 122
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialCork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 02/08/2026On the evening of Wednesday 12th August at about 7.15, Cork will experience a 96% solar eclipse, 011
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialDes @despod.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026Solar eclipse public viewing events in Cork City on 12 August. Free glasses provided. #Speirgormbco.ieSolar Eclipse Viewing - MTU Blackrock CastleThis partial eclipse will see 96% of the Sun blocked by the Moon which will bring about a noticeable reduction in the daylight. The eclipse will begin at 18:15 and reach maximum at 19:13 and ending… 0108
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialPádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The case for more trees, like a lot more trees, in our towns and cities jrnl.ie/7095293jrnl.ieHeat is here to stay: Irish cities urgently need more treesAs Europe swelters through another summer of record temperatures, trees, wetlands and other nature-based solutions are becoming essential tools for keeping cities cooler. 612543
madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 08/07/2026What are we paying taxes for. Seriously, any business run this badly would be bankrupt and shut down aeons ago 🤦🏼♂️ 031
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialFrank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Someone has been sitting on this historic property on Fr Matthew Quay, Cork city centre for a very, very long time Everyone else has to suffer consequences Built around 1800, sad to see this level of vandalism, captured so well by the photo, particularly the bleakness & scale #DerelictIreland 0219
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Please consider becoming a member of @thenerve.news to help us continue our public interest investigations. We can & will keep going but need your support 🙏 9/ www.thenerve.news/membershipthenerve.newsmembership | The NerveFearless, independent journalism on culture, politics and tech 517264
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialFrank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Future generations will look back on these as the equivalent of slave traders Plunderers & exploiters, nothing but criminals 095
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialMark Braggins @markbraggins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Haha, nice one @privateeyenews.bsky.social ! 181414502
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialtimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The Lakota are suddenly taking notes, here. 091
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialJorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #Conservationnews.mongabay.comSeabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected areaNearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve... 14899193
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialBertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Ladybird books have always had their finger on the pulse for the young reader. I swear by them. 19664158
madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 24/04/2026@badparkingcork.bsky.social Two days in a row now on Southern Road @garda.ie 011
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialFrank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026A conflict of interest is .... Independent Landlord Junior Minister TD Michael Healy-Rae #speirghorm 02610
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialFrank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Yes landLORD minister #speirghorm 0196
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialCork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 08/02/2026On Monday, where you will be welcome, UCC’s Prof Paul Callanan will discuss the current state and future promise of the imaginatively named Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones, a mountain at an altitude of 3,046 metres in Chile’s Atacama Desert.It is in the process of being built by ESO 021
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialFrank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Did I mention poor Michael happens to be our biggest Landlord Minister #speirgorm 23812
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialCork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 04/01/2026We are back with our public lectures on the 12th of January. How to take a picture of an exoplanet” by Dr Evert Nasedkin of Trinity College Dublin (pictured). Check our website for more. corkastronomyclub.com 021
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialIrish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026dlvr.itPaul Hosford: People living in hotels long-term should have the homes we let to touristsShort-term lets have their place. But 16,000 people are homeless in Ireland and it’s right to question if leaving homes empty for much of the year is a choice we can stand over 053
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialJohn Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Someone stole my wife's maroon Raleigh Motus bike in Dublin City Centre this afternoon. If you see it, give me a shout 13149
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialJohn Wenger @johnwenger9.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Cork needs more green spaces. Sign the petition to turn a derelict site into a park. 0137
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialJoe Healy @jtphealy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Glimpses of History: Joe Healy's 'Cork in Decades Past'. A highly anticipated event for photography lovers and anyone interested in the heritage of Cork. All welcome. 031
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialFrank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Dereliction is a social crime Former Odlums, Port of Cork City #DerelictIreland 1164
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialIrish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025dlvr.itColin Sheridan: Assata Shakur’s death recalls life’s living strugglesShakur’s death should remind us that the struggles of the 1970s are not relics. They are living, breathing, unfinished 011
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialAn Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 07/07/2025#BuiltHeritage Cork city — derelict historic buildings in prominent locations negatively affecting amenities & character of city. Targeted action req'd for renovation/reuse (Derelict Sites & Section 59, P&D act) 📷 1 Fr Mathew Quay 2 South Tce 3 George's Quay 4 Odlums, Marina Rd #DerelictIreland 1127
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialMichael O'Sullivan @michaelos.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Patricks Quay. Total block of footpath. @badparkingcork.bsky.social 023
madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I find these lovely buildings depressing every time I see them. Surely these are a protected structure and the OPW can intervene? #Cork #Ireland #vandalism 020
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025You think what's being done to land-based ecosystems is bad? Take a look at what's happening under the sea. It's as if all birds and other wild animals were being hoovered out of forests for our mass consumption, shredding the trees and everything else in the process. Out of sight, out of mind. 1316274
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialThree Red Kings @threeredkings.bsky.social · 30/04/2025He Who Remains Stephen Archer is retiring this summer, so I had a look back at this 300 cap legends time at the club. It's free to read. www.threeredkings.com/cult-hero-0w... 1536
madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 30/04/2025We live in eternal hope 😳 #derilictCork 000
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialCork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Our next public lecture is on 14th of April. Check out our website for more details. I am really looking forward to this one. corkastronomyclub.com/calendar/ 001
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialGreen Party / Comhaontas Glas @greenparty.ie · 31/03/2025Figures released to @rodericogorman.bsky.social show just €7.5m was spent of €150m State fund to purchase vacant and derelict homes. Read more below 👇 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous... 23522
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialRoderic O’Gorman TD @rodericogorman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Commercial LNG operators clearly receiving positive signals from the new Government. A commercial LNG facility will lessen the drive towards renewables, make it harder to reach our climate targets and puts profits right into the hands of polluters.... www.rte.ie/news/ireland...rte.ieShannon LNG granted planning permission for power plantAn Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission to Shannon LNG Limited for a power plant, with a total installed capacity of 600 megawatts. 22311
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialCork Astronomy Club @corkastronomyclub.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Check out our website for more details on the partial solar eclipse that will be visible in Cork on the 29th of March corkastronomyclub.com/ireland-to-w...corkastronomyclub.comIreland to witness brief total lunar eclipse early Friday morningIreland can witness a brief total lunar eclipse early Friday morning. However, dawn twilight will make it difficult to see and the Moon will set while still in total eclipse. Times for an observe… 011
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialLeeforum @leeforum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025It's depressing to see the OPW pursue this environmentally and economically damaging scheme. Upstream storage would cost just 1/10th of the cost of this over engineered monstrosity. Even if it's done, businesses won't be able to get insurance. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...irishexaminer.comCork’s €20m Blackpool flood relief scheme faces fresh calls for fast-trackingWhile the village escaped flooding in the recent rains, it has suffered devastating floods before – most recently in 2010, 2012 and again in 2013 041
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialrewildyourland.bsky.social @rewildyourland.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Welcome 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.ierewildyourland.ieHOME | Rewild!Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency 19652
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.social🌊 Cork Coast, Ireland @corkcoast.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Cork Astronomy has just landed here on BlueSky! Become a member here: corkastronomyclub.com/membership/ #speirgorm #spéirgorm #coast #ireland #irish #cork #corkCity #mastodaoine #ucc #astronomy #telescopecorkastronomyclub.comWhy Join?The Club offers the following benefits to its members: Monthly observers’ group Monthly lectures on astronomy related topics at UCC (lectures are public, but everything else on this list is fo… 1103
madoptom31.bsky.social @madoptom31.bsky.social · 10/02/2025corkastronomyclub.com/the-third-te... Great lecture tonight, really enjoyed it. See you again soon. 👍🏼 #Cork #astronomy #EAS2025corkastronomyclub.com“The Third Test” – 10th February 2025Prof Paul Callanan will give a public lecture with the mysterious title of the “The Third Test”. (Don’t ask us because we don’t know either—you’ll have to come along to see for y… 011
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialIrish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025dlvr.itESB urged to use record profits to pay for Storm Éowyn damageChief executive said cleanup from the storm would likely cost 'tens of millions', which will eventually likely 'find their way back into the overall cost of our distribution system network' 013
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialTheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This is the empty saline seabed where I traced the source of liquorice which makes fishermans friend no longer taste like recently washed human anus 21292
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialLeeforum @leeforum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The LLFRS in Cork is to have 40+ pump stations to manage surface water. That's a lot of potential for failure, and subsequent flooding. 031
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialFree Trees Ireland @handle.invalid · 20/01/2025Want to know how our application and distribution of free native provenance Irish trees work? You can find all the information on freetrees.ie/next 11210
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I published this on Monday but forgot to post here. If you'd like to sign up to newsletter (it's free unless you'd like to & can afford to pay) then please do so. The rule from here is that none of these platforms are to be trusted (inc Substack) broligarchy.substack.com/aboutbroligarchy.substack.comAbout - The PowerGirl power vs Tech bros. Click to read The Power, by Carole Cadwalladr, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 619746
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialPádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Shameful decision from Sweden which has no excuse for exterminating wolves like this. Imagine India decided to halve its tiger population, or Kenya its lions? There'd be an outcry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comSweden begins wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s populationFive entire families can be killed, totalling 30 wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU law 63850275
Reposted by @madoptom31.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/01/2025A social distancing cheat chart: 11155707411152