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Oonagh Duggan

@naturenymph.bsky.social
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Head of Advocacy at BirdWatch Ireland. (pic : Hen Harrier by Dick Coombes)

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ireland imports 80% of its wheat. Not great food security. Concentration on livestock farming elbowed Irish wheat out. Imported wheat and flour add considerably to the cost of living crisis. But new crop science opens the door to Irish grown wheat. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/listen/clip/...
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Food Security: Bread
Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We take a look at what needs to b...
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Solidarity to our Italian Partner LIPU and their brave volunteers in the Naples region who have been victim of an intimidatory arson attack. They have been working against the illegal shooting of migratory birds for 20 years, and have no intention to stop.
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Huge turnout last night to see @tomflood.bsky.social deliver his genius, funny messages in person. 'BICYCLES DELIVER THE FREEDOM THAT CAR ADS PROMISE' (l to r) Ciara and nlsj.bsky.social of JCFJ, Tom, Claire Byrne of TCD and Damien our NCC
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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New job alert 🪶🧪 We are hiring a Conservation Scientist to work on links between hydrological restoration and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker conservation Deadline: 7/10/26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme @naturalengland.bsky.social 📷Ben Andrew
A Lesser Spotted Woodpecker perched by its nest hole
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nature Restoration works. We know what needs to be done, we just need to scale up the action & with the much needed funding. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Endangered lapwing seen as national symbol benefits from ‘bumper breeding season’
Birds at Annagh Marsh Nature Reserve in Co Mayo receive ‘much-needed boost’ as 143 chicks raised this summer
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BirdWatch Ireland @birdwatchireland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thanks to dedicated staff and experts, volunteers, and funders, conservation success stories like this are still possible. Learn more about the Lapwing's journey at Annagh Marsh reserve and our work: birdwatchireland.ie/conservation...
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stunning, accessible and informative report here: sowb.birdlife.org
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State of the World’s Birds | BirdLife
BirdLife International’s report on the state of the world's birds — trends, pressures, and conservation responses.
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good coverage of our new milestone assessment of the state of migratory birds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One in nine migratory birds threatened with extinction, global report says
Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BirdWatch Ireland’s In Your Nature has returned with a new series with a strong #Laois flavour www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/eco-liv...
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Two Laois people lead new series of Ireland's biggest nature podcast
BirdWatch Ireland’s In Your Nature has returned with a new series
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Birds are indicators of the health of the environment. We need to restore habitats for birds, climate and people. The laws that underpin protections are critical and are threatened. Ring-fenced funding for restoration is essential including in the CAP, LIFE and a separate nature restoration fund.
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Seabirds are falling victim to kinks in the food supply chain due to climate change. birdwatchireland.ie/seabirds-are...
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In Brussels w/Environmental Pillar colleagues advocating on the proposed Common Agriculture Policy, funding for farmers for nature, EU budget, LIFE, supporting better implementation of the Birds & Habitats Directives & beating back proposed gutting of protections for birds. Lots on, lots to do.
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some key stats here: "Spain’s high-speed rail sees passenger numbers double as fares fall by 40%... Liberalisation has not simply redistributed passengers between competing railway companies. Rail has attracted travellers who might previously have chosen to fly." www.railwaypro.com/wp/?p=141129
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Jellyfish 2-0 up.
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Jellyfish Swarm Overwhelms Nuclear Power Plant For The Second Time In 2 Years
Climate change will likely make similar events more common, scientists warned.
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
DPER officials sought to scrap climate clause. Incomprehensible. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Irish officials proposed scrapping ‘linchpin’ of climate legislation
Move would have ‘scuppered any notion that this Government takes climate action seriously’, environmentalists say
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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Commitments made in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 climate action plans are delayed (and at least one from the 2019 climate action plan). This year, the climate action plan itself is delayed. It's August and we still don't have a 2026 plan www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Backlog revealed of more than 60 delayed climate-action initiatives
‘Legacy’ measures in latest Government progress report damaging in several ways
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Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Job opportunity: Irish Bird Atlas Project Manager BirdWatch Ireland is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to lead organisation of the upcoming Bird Atlas 2027-31 across the Republic of Ireland. Closing date 11th Sept. Find out more: birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-84-... For the moment, we are not even trying to stop making things worse. Let alone trying to fix the problems.
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Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025  - Carbon Brief
Most countries failed to meet a 2025 target to identify all of their subsidies that could be “harmful” to biodiversity, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The current political concensus is that "nature conservation has gone too far". Sadly, the reality is the very opposite. Predicted decline in common bird and butterfly species even under conservation policy scenarios in Europe | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/KnsJvVsTNy6E...
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The European Central Bank warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’. When will we see Micheál Martin stand at the podium in front of Dáil Éireann & outline the urgent action needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and restore nature? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Worrying times for oil giant Shell as it racks up record multibillion dollar revenues profiteering off the deliberate, intentional but highly lucrative destruction of our one and only biosphere.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Many of our Irish politicians remain convinced that the #climate crisis is not coming for us. I beg to disagree” Another clip from @tonightvmtv.bsky.social a short time ago.
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Five-star Castlemartyr Resort convicted of polluting river and killing more than 100 fish and fined a paltry 5k. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Five-star Castlemartyr Resort convicted of polluting river and killing more than 100 fish
Hotel fined €10,000 in connection with discharge from a pump house handling sewage into river on its estate
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Undermining of democracy in our own country www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers
A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone
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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Birds on the € notes!? You can make it happen! 🐦✨ Vote now for your favourite design! www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... The European Central Bank is redesigning the euro banknotes and is asking the public for feedback. And one of the themes is birds and rivers...😈
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Do not adjust your screens: Daily Telegraph, purveyor of hard-core #climate denial, has temporarily noticed reality. Don’t panic: normal service on behalf of its energy industry sponsors will be resumed shortly.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s #pesticides law - High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife By @zdboren.bsky.social @grilledmedia.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Seems 🐦‍⬛🐦🦉 watchers were much more successful than recreational anglers🎣in advocating for design of future 💶 banknotes. Your work @arielbrunner.bsky.social? No 🐟🦈🦀, but U might want to support biodiv motives 👉 lnkd.in/eF4SrCmT @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @nabu.de @kostyabiodiv.bsky.social
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Portlaoise estate agent wilfully destroyed 57 House Martin nests with eggs and chicks by power washing to sell a house. Given probation act and a fine of 10k. Horrific destruction. www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/crime-c...
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Man and woman in court after 57 nests ‘blasted’ off Laois house
The woman who works for an estate agent directed the man to clean the house
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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The clover is burning up. Even the fecking clover #speirgorm
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
'57 data centres use a total of 4.78 million litres of water a day on average.' 'average' figures can mask all manner of ills. Some of these will only take water when the temp is over 25 degrees. What volume of water are they taking currently? In the drought? www.independent.ie/weather/data...
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Data centres now using almost five million litres of public water per day
There are around 100 operational data centres in Ireland, but not all use water from the Uisce Éireann network
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The timing of this the day our former national airline announces reducing routes while in the middle of one of the worst heatwaves Europe has experienced (but not for long!) is chef's kiss #speirgorm
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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🚨 A new investigation by the Guardian reveals how COPA-COGECA, one of Europe’s most influential farming lobby groups, used its political weight behind the scenes to undermine EU efforts to reduce pesticide use. Read the full article: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #HandsOffNature
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Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Projections for farming productivity by 2100 under mid to upper level #climate emissions scenarios expressed in terms of numbers of people fed. Detail available down to 10km² cadi.econai.org/ssp370_relat...
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
One of the great tragedies of our time: hoe the von der Leyen-led European Commission caved into the farm lobby and gutted its own ambitious European Green Deal. New report details how the farm lobby so successfully achieved its ambition to gut the EGD. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"EU prosecutors find “no grounds” for complaint on NGO funding". The scandal that never was. Pretty terrible slandering of EU NGOs has occurred in the last year and the witch hunt continues in more subtle ways. @lise-witteman.bsky.social @ftm.eu www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Where’s the urgent world summit on the climate disaster? How many people will have to die because of climate events?
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Reminder: world’s oceans absorb 90% of global warming; this massive heat buffer is now almost completely saturated. 🚨 “Nearly 40% of oceans worldwide undergoing marine heatwaves, with intense hot patches in Mediterranean Sea & Pacific Ocean >10F hotter than usual”. grist.org/climate/heat...
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The oceans are full of heat, and it's coming ashore
The oceans have absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming. It doesn't all stay there.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ever get the feeling that we’re just exiting the Oops phase of #climate change?
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Italian government is trying to take hunting legislation back to the 1980's. In brutal violation of EU law. Against all scientific advice. Threat is to birds from the Arctic to Southern Africa. We need support. Here is our Italian Partner's petition: share.google/g92NXJnrh4pC...
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@GIORGIA MELONI FERMA CACCIA SELVAGGIA!
Un disegno di legge prevede la liberalizzazione dell'attività venatoria, con un impatto distruttivo sugli uccelli migratori e la natura. Aiutaci a convincere la Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni...
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Great to see our partners at @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social meeting Commission President Von der Leyen and other top EU officials to influence direction of nature protection and restoration and climate.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 07/07/2026
The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We know what needs to be restored and how to do it. All we need is the political will.
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We hope our Plan for Restoration of Habitats of Red and Amber listed bird species informs the National Restoration Plan as reporting on relentless declines of bird species is not fun. The time for restoration is now. Take action birdwatchireland.ie/help-make-ir... youtu.be/4_gKFT73XOw?...
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BirdWatch Ireland's Habitat Restoration Plan for Birds
YouTube video by BirdWatchIreland
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
EU Omnibus proposal increases pesticide risks | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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EU Omnibus proposal increases pesticide risks
More efficient environmental risk assessment and stronger protection are achievable
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Oonagh Duggan @naturenymph.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today BirdWatch Ireland published a Restoration Plan for habitats of threatened bird species in Ireland. We identified 71,450 ha of land w/restoration potential for 52 bird species. Plus farmland habitat+ 38 locations w/colonies of an additional 10 seabirds +more. birdwatchireland.ie/nature-resto...
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Breaking news: European Parliament ask Albania for a moratorium on all projects in Protected areas untill national law brough back in compliance with EU laws. www.birdlife.org/news/2026/06...
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European Parliament backs nature as Albania’s Flamingo Protests reaches Strasbourg
MEPs vote to call on Albania to repeal legislation allowing destruction of protected areas and to suspend all new developments within protected areas until it is done.
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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🎯 Our poor beleaguered waters 'The data tell the story:they’re filthy with pollution, clogged with man-made barriers & wrecked by State-funded drainage schemes that channel them, pour herbicides along them & cut vegetation that otherwise offers much-needed shade' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Wild salmon are on the verge of extinction. There is not one fish to spare
What happened on the river Glyde in June is not a local incident. It is a national emergency
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