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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sending our solidarity and support to the cycling campaigners of Toronto who have taken to the streets to block the removal of existing cycling infrastructure.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is an untrue and dangerous take from George Lee, Environment Correspondent for our national broadcaster. Emissions do not "cancel out" other emissions, nor do they negate efforts made towards a healthier world. Shameful, climate-denying reporting. www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

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Niger methane leak may cancel 40% of Irish emissions cuts

A major oil well blowout in the African country of Niger has been releasing methane into the atmosphere over the past 18 days.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Minister Jack Chambers said in a recent Newstalk interview: "I think the debate is over as to whether we've spent enough money on health". Solidarity with all public service workers today - my physio colleagues, teachers, admin staff, porters - this is what you're up against 🇮🇪✌️ (thread)

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@irishtimes.com IT just dropped their Winter Edition of climate reporting and imagery dissonance. The Super El Niño will cause extreme weather, when more people than ever will struggle to heat their homes due to fossil dependency. Celebrating this phenomenon is ignorant, harmful journalism.

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Will El Niño and the polar vortex bring snow to Ireland this winter?

UK Met Office prediction has led some commentators to fear a very cold winter across Northern Europe

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sparks flew on this week's Last Word on the Environment as I lambasted this govt's spineless u-turn on carbon taxes in #Budget2027 and its unforgivable backsliding on #climate, as the world literally burns. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

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The Last Word On Environment With John Gibbons

John Gibbons joins The Last Word to delve into why the 2027 Budget is a disaster for Ireland's climate targets.To listen to the full chat, press 'PLAY' on th...

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Mind-boggling that there's so much demand for cycling and yet such a lack of infrastructure to keep them safe", is what was said - in a parallel universe where we have leaders who actually listen to evidence and care about public health and safety. A girl can dream.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People need assistance during this fuel crisis, but this is not the way to do it. Government has bowed to pressure from right wing lobbyists that chain us to fossil fuel dependence. The debt for this will be paid in human health and wellbeing. www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

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Carbon tax on home heating oil and gas to be reduced

The Minister for Finance Simon Harris said that carbon tax on on home heating oil and gas is being reduced and will not increase again in the lifetime of this Government.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New report uses publicly available data to explore data centre development & 'disproportionate drain on public resources' — 'Data centres may have consumed as much water in Ireland last year as about 340,600 homes, some 18.5% of total number of occupied dwellings' www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Data centres ‘may have used as much water’ last year in Ireland as more than 340,000 homes

New research highlights poverty of information about energy-intensive sector’s footprint

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon emissions into real-world climate impacts like heat exposure and coral bleaching, looks super useful. ➡️ carbonimpactstracer.com

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New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused

Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can absolutely picture myself gliding down Killineer hill into Drawda on this now #spéirghorm #activetravel

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gavin Bazunu's statement on pulling out of tomorrow’s game against apartheid Israel. We salute him, he will go down in history for this, a legend. And we hope more of the players will take such a principled stand. There is still time for the FAI to do the right thing. #StopTheGames

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the definition of cowardice. Taking backwards steps instead of adopting real, long term solutions - for fear of being held to ransom by the far right and some of the agri sector? Yes, these sectors should be supported. But not like this. There is no action towards real food security.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Timely release coinciding with the "Be Emergency Prepared" leaflets - which give little useful info and mention nothing on our food security, actually! Huge thanks to @thinkorswim.bsky.social for letting me run away with his brilliant vision of a Department of Food Security! 🌍🌽 Enjoy folks!!

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SHACKLE HIM

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just visiting an old friend 🌊 An t-uisce, an taisce ♥️ This is Blue Health. 📍Clogherhead, Co. Louth #BlueHealth #spéirghorm

A paddle board on a calm blue sea, with a faint orange horizon as the sun sets, and blue sky

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Never mind AI ending humanity in a decade, the real story here is white collar crime of the century: the biggest heist of intellectual copyright of millions of people, organisations ever seen - all to feed the Frankenstein AI monster created by tech broligarchs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When we let fossil fuel companies influence policy, we weave failure into governance. The science-policy-action interface is not so much a gap as it is a wilful roadblock, built on inertia, status quo bias, cognitive dissonance and above all, greed.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The situation is dire. I gave two talks last year on Planetary Health - I had to actually update my slides from the July event to the October one, in order to reflect ANOTHER boundary being crossed. THAT'S how fast this is happening.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sean Canney today: (I'm aware this is my second Frinkiac post in under 24hrs.) #spéirghorm

Using well known Simpsons meme where Skinner tried to find the truant children at a library and asks himself "am I so out of touch? No. Its the children who are wrong". This version referring to Sean Canney says "Am I just a terrible Minister for Road Safety? No. It's all road users, including victims, who are wrong."

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When you meet so much inertia or opposition to Active Travel and the chokehold of car dependency, you realise you've just grown up to fill every 90s hippie stereotype: 🚲☮️✌️ Anyway I'm buzzing to see @tomflood.bsky.social tomorrow evening!! #ActiveTravel #WaronWalking

A tie-dye, ponytailed hippie character from the Simpsons, telling Principal Skinner (who has just complained about the price of gasoline) "it sounds like YOUUU are working for your CARRR. Simplifyyy, maaan!"

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

16,000 heat-related deaths in Germany - yet the German government now spends €2.5billion on fossil fuel subsidies. Meanwhile, here in Ireland, we don't even know how to calculate our heat-attributable deaths, and are expected to spend a whopping €7.5billion in fossil fuel subsidies this year!!! 🤯

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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 20/09/2026

A majority of Brussels residents would like to see more car-free days introduced in the capital, with one in four supporting at least 12 such days a year.

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Seven in ten Brussels residents want more car-free days

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Breaking: In a potentially landmark decision, a major data centre project in Mayo has had planning permission overturned over climate concerns. More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social this evening.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

See you next week Dublin! Still can’t believe it sold out and moved to a bigger venue - absolutely wild.

Poster of a kid in front of a large truck
Reframing road safety - Sept 22

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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A very good question. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

For decades the Department of Agriculture has operated as though it were a branch office of the Irish Farmers’ Association, its instincts bent reliably towards the producer and away from the consumer, the environment and the taxpayer. The Government wasted valuable European capital opposing Mercosur, a deal which will benefit many other parts of the Irish economy. It fought to keep the nitrates derogation, leaving Ireland the only EU state still spreading slurry at these levels while its waterways decline even further. The time has come to ask whether the cosy understandings and close relationships on which these policies are based really serve the country as a whole.

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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Re Dublin airport.. ⬇️

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seeing Ed Sheeran's own band quitting on him is, I have to say, really doing it for me. Restoring one shred of hope for humanity.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A bitter-sweet moment to receive copies of Manchán's final book

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lads I dunno about ye but I sure could go for a scream into the abyss right about now

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our government is patching over our energy crisis with paper and spit, at the cost of climate and health. They must stop sending the bill for their gross incompetence to the general public, who will be bled dry - figuratively, and almost literally!

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My letter in today's @irishtimes.com regarding our government's myriad terrible decisions - data centres, fossil dependency, energy sovereignty, and of course, health! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

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Budget unlikely to resolve surging energy prices

Coalition determined to defend data centres with fossil fuel price cuts as they siphon 23% of our energy supply

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is what it looks like - think underground multistorey car park, but serving far more people. No air pollution, much safer, much healthier, and a LOT more fun. And it's FREE. Imagine if we prioritised bikes like we do cars. (Photos from this summer's v̶i̶s̶i̶t̶ pilgrimage) #ActiveTravel

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

God, this just shows you how deeply status quo bias can run within some people. Sár-obair, GRMA!

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Crude oil has not dipped below $60/barrel since Feb 2021, currently at €100.05, expected to rise to €100.9 in Q3. In Ireland, the pump price of diesel & petrol has not dipped below €1.50/litre since June 2021. Remember, these prices are WITH excise duty/tax reductions & fuel support package.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The decline of our Irish language is intrinsically linked with colonial ecocide. Tá ár dteanga, ár mbithéagsúlacht agus ár gcuid sláinte fite fuaite. Our language, biodiversity and health are intertwined. Labhair Gaeilge, agus bíodh grá agatsa don fhuinseog 's dair www.who.int/europe/publi...

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Role of the arts and culture in addressing the health impacts of climate change: Behavioural and Cultural Insights policy brief series

Publicaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Since moving back to Ireland last year, I've found that reconnecting with the Irish language has helped me deepen my relationship with nature, heritage & history. The yew tree my village is named after is gone, but you wouldn't know this with the English name alone: www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008...

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Tenure · The Schools' Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Detailed math as shared in the post. “How much does your commute cost (or save) society? Source is Discourse Media.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These solutions mean we can look after our patients wholly, beyond their medical condition, at some of the most difficult and distressing times of their lives. Instead of this, Minister Chambers would rather entrench us in fossil dependence. There is no debate about public health expenditure.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Regarding this, Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers was asked: "Do you think they simply don't have enough money to do what they need to do?" Minister Chambers: "I think the debate is over as to whether we've spent enough money on our health system." www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Four HSE regions to lose power over day-to-day spending

Jack Chambers criticises ‘completely ineffective management of the control system’ and ‘really poor performance by certain regions’

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shocking , but true; those suffering the worst impacts of #climate breakdown have done little or nothing to fuel the crisis. That’s on the wealthy 10%, which includes the majority of people living in Ireland. www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...

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Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ - Carbon Brief

Of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, a new study estimates that 65% was due to the emissions of the wealthiest 10%.

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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Climate destruction will indeed ruin our economy. But let's be very clear - chasing perpetual economic growth is not compatible with a healthy planet. We cannot rely on technological solutions to dig us out of the hole we've made. @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell

Warning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month ever

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Environmental Protection Agency Ask Government To Remove 'Environmental' & 'Protection' From Title If They're Just Going To Ignore Them loom.ly/geH7WzU

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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 09/09/2026

Stop the fare hikes! Join us, opposition parties, commuter groups and environmental groups outside Leinster House at 6pm on Thursday 17th September to call on the Government to scrap the fare increase and step up investment in public transport!

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Farmers are stewards of our land, and should absolutely be supported as such - but in the right way. We must adopt new models of agroecological farming urgently. How we farm in Ireland - mostly livestock - will cost our farmers, our land and health immensely. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Irish farming is unprepared for impact of climate change, says advisory council

Extreme weather events being treated as ‘isolated incidents’ rather than fundamental change, says Climate Change Advisory Council

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