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Stay Grounded @staygroundednet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New factsheet on e-fuels! 📄🔥 stay-grounded.org/wp-content/u... In here, we dive into the latest insights on e-fuels revealing the industry's lies and their critical challenges: ⏳ Not available in time ⚠️ Severe resource limitations 🌫️ Extremely difficult (if not impossible) to decarbonize

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Recognising the power of collective action is essential to protect us from climate destruction. Fantastic piece by Jennie C. Stephens in Irish Times today www.irishtimes.com/environment/... which links to our petition as example of action you can take. Sign and share - my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke...

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It takes collective climate action to fight climate destruction

Working together on petitions, campaigns and taking a united stance is the way individual effort can have real impact

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

"While the sector experienced a modest post-COVID bump in activity (...) data show that the country's domestic aviation emissions have declined in each of the past three years, descending 22% during the period 2023 through 2025." #Sufficiency works, if we dare. climatetrace.org/news/austria...

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Austria and France banned short-haul flights to boost train travel and reduce emissions. Did it work?

Climate TRACE data point to encouraging outcomes, with much greater emissions reduction opportunity if such a shift were widely adopted globally.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are doing a push to get the number of signatures on our petition to over 1,000, to ramp up pressure on Government not to increase the Dublin Airport Cap. Please sign if you haven't already. my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke...

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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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Oli Frost @olifro.st · 22/06/2026

Private jets don’t pay duty on fuel So we made wings to turn your car into one Jetsetset.com

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

People of Ireland! #YourJourneyCounts Except of course if you’re this guy! Our Minister for Transport & Climate chose to FLY to Kerry this week. The most recklessly polluting journey he could possibly choose. Even as Europe burns.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

❤️ Thanks Art - yes we did. ( ⬇️ letter in Monday's Irish Times) We hand-delivered a letter, reminding our children's Minister for Climate that there is a worsening climate emergency threatening the future for every child.

Sir, – I see reports on social media that a group of mothers from North Dublin hand-delivered a giant letter to Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien during the week calling on him not to remove the passenger cap at Dublin. The group, Children’s Rights Over Flights, is concerned about the effects increased flights will have on their children’s health.

None of the mainstream media picked up the story, and I haven’t heard any response from the Minister.

What I have heard all week is people saying that the hot weather we’re experiencing is due to climate change caused by fossil fuels. And that it is going to get hotter.

It is surely blatantly obvious that rather than scrapping the cap at Dublin Airport, the Minister should be looking for ways to reduce the number of flights. – Yours, etc,

ART Ó LAOGHAIRE,

Bray,

Co Wicklow.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🚨 New research: aviation growth isn't paying off for ordinary people. Ireland is facing the largest rent increase of any country studied, with average rents projected to rise by €250 a year by 2031, driven directly by aviation-fuelled tourism growth. www.transportenvironment.org/articles/boo...

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Booming air tourism could fuel European rent hikes of up to €250 a…

Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Our giant letter to the Minister, delivered outside the Dáil, while he recklessly expands aviation climate pollution: We write to urgently remind you there is a worsening climate and and biodiversity emergency that threatens every child's future.....

Dear Minister O'Brien
We write to urgently remind you there is a worsening climate and biodiversity emergency that threatens every child's future.
Protecting kids from the worst of climate harms depends on rapid cuts to fossil fuel pollution. You are obliged to do this to prioritize their welfare.
Instead by pursuing a reckless plan to remove limits to Dublon Airport passenger numbers you are forgetting them. Your bill will lead to more fossil fuel pollution when aviation pollution is already out of control.
Kids need real action to give them the best chance we can, but instead your bill would do them even more harm.
Kids need you to remember there is a climate emergency and their rights demand it.
On behalf of the children in our lives.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As Dáil debated the reckless Passenger Cap Bill, we delivered a special letter to Minister O'Brien to remind him there is a Climate Emergency. We reminded him of his obligations to rapidly cut fossil fuel pollution across *every* sector incl aviation. Call darragh.obrien@oireachtas.ie to #KeepTheCap

Activists deliver large person-sized hand-written letter in giant envelope titled Urgent - Minister for Climate. Others hold signs "Kids need climate action not airport expansion", "Stop aviation emissions from rising - Keep the Cap", "Children's rights not future flights"

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If you wish to donate to CROF, we now gratefully accept donations through this link. Monies raised will help us with our campaign expenses – website hosting, printing leaflets, banners, contributions to the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition (which we just joined!) etc. opencollective.com/children-rig...

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Contribute - Open Collective

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

👌Well said Celestine! (letter in Irish Times) The hugely conflicting actions of Minister O'Brien must be called out. Reckless plans to remove any passenger limit at Dublin Airport will sadly wipe out any emissions savings from more EVs on the road. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Sir, - In case it has escaped anyone's
attention, our Minister for Climate,
Darragh O'Brien, is on the one hand
shelling out grants for EVs to save
burning fossil fuels, while at the same
time removing the passenger cap to
increase flying — our most heavily fossil-
fuel burning form of transport - under
pressure, it seems, from US airlines. -
Yours, etc,

CELESTINE O'REILLY,

Foxrock,

Dublin 18.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

⬇️Great explainer below on gross inadequacy and corporate capture of ICAO - UN body meant to be regulating aviation's climate-harming emissions. ICAO and CORSIA are referenced by airline reps, semi-state DAA, and Dept of Transport as excuse for not taking action. influencemap.org/insight/The-...

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The Aviation Industry's Playbook to Stall the EU ETS by Leveraging CORSIA

This analysis highlights the three-step playbook that aviation industry groups—Airlines for America (A4A), Airlines for Europe (A4E) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA)—have deploye...

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 19/05/2026

👀 Coming tomorrow. How “ultra-frequent flyers” are threatening Europe’s housing market and leading cities to blow past their climate targets. Stay tuned!

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 08/05/2026

NEW: European aviation emissions reached its highest point ever last year, with flights departing from European airports surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time in 2025. Meanwhile, two-thirds of aviation’s CO2 emissions escaped carbon pricing by not being covered by the EU ETS. 🧵⤵️

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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 · 09/05/2026

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic... 📈It remains unconscionable that our Government continue to pursue even more polluting flight traffic, when experts are warning of increased likelihood of climate breakdown. 📝Sign and share our petition my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke...

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Committee urges climate review before lifting Dublin Airport passenger cap

Oireachtas transport committee has also recommended legislation be curbed to limit the potential powers of the transport minister

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

95+ groups across 25 countries have responded to the jet fuel crisis with a manifesto proposing ten measures to reduce air traffic. The manifesto highlights aviation’s impacts, from climate heating to militarisation. @staygroundednet.bsky.social childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2026/04/29/j...

10 Measures to Stop Airport Expansion & Reduce Air Traffic
Stay Grounded.
Let's end the most destructive and pointless flights and make way for a fair and liveable future for all.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This Earth Day, ⬇️sign this petition: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/take-action-this-earth-day 🌈🤱🧒🏽We will be standing up for kids today, Wednesday 22/4 joining a protest at the Dáil at 5.30pm, calling for the real and urgent climate action they need for a safe and stable future. Please join us.

The energy crisis is the climate crisis
Join the protest!
Wednesday April 22nd, 5:30pm, Leinster House

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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...

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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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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

🚲🚶‍♀️🚌 As we're rightly reminded by our Govt, our journeys count in climate emergency. ⚠️ But they seem to have forgotten flying less! www. wri.org/insights/climate-friendly-choices-ranked We know they're busy trying to remove ANY airport limits, so we've taken time to rectify this bizarre omission

Image of airplane with slogan "Your Journey Counts" and text "Flying less is one of the most impactful things any of us can do to give our kids a better chance for their future. #YourJourneyCounts

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

European Commission: calls on people to drive less, fly less and work from home where possible Irish Minister: discusses all these options *except* flying less www.rte.ie/news/politic... Unrelated observation: Minister meets with lobbyists from both Irish and US aviation industry.

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Govt information campaign to help people conserve fuel

The Government is to bring forward an information campaign to assist people to conserve fuel during the energy crisis, according to the Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

👏 Great letter in Irish Times on inappropriate aggressive lobbying of American airline lobbyists to remove Dublin airport cap. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Sir, – Your report on US airlines demanding the “immediate removal” of the passenger cap at Dublin Airport highlights an increasingly troubling dynamic in international aviation policy and diplomacy (“US airlines demand immediate removal of Dublin Airport passenger cap,” March 14th) .

With Taoiseach Micheál Martin in the United States, it is timely to recall a principle that both Ireland and the United States regularly invoke in other contexts: the rule of law and judicial process.

The dispute over the Dublin Airport passenger cap has already entered the legal arena. Proceedings initiated by airlines, including the US trade group Airlines for America (A4A), were referred by the Irish High Court to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

In February, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in Luxembourg, advocate general Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordonaan advised that such a passenger cap could legitimately be considered an operational constraint within EU slot allocation rules.

In that context, the increasingly explicit lobbying by US airlines for the Irish Government to legislate immediately, before the European court has delivered its judgment, raises uncomfortable questions.

It risks appearing as an attempt to pre-empt or circumvent an ongoing judicial process.

More striking still is that the lobbying is not confined to Irish policy debates. Airlines for America has also sought intervention from the US Department of Transportation and even threatened retaliatory measures against Irish carriers serving the United States.

Such moves go well beyond normal commercial advocacy and edge toward political pressure designed to influence a sovereign state’s planning law and regulatory framework.

It is an avid reminder of 2011 when A4A challenged EU requirements for airlines flying internationally to pay for their pollution. Though ultimately the airlines lost in court, their relentless lobbying led to that legislation being “paused” for 13 years.

While this legislation (the Emissions Trading System) is back for review this year, it is clear that A4A will again attempt to interfere in EU domestic environmental policy.

Giving in to pressure from external lobbying will only embolden them to challenge even more domestic and EU policy.

Increasing airport capacity at Dublin Airport will result in unchecked growth of the aviation sector and increased fossil fuel use, despite Ireland’s binding climate obligations.

Legislation facilitating increased passenger throughput must be rigorously assessed and not be fast-tracked through parliamentary and judicial process to assuage commercial interests.

As the Taoiseach engages with US business leaders this week, he might usefully emphasis that Ireland remains open to international businesses that remain committed to the principles of the independence of courts, and the importance of environmental action. – Yours, etc,

SORCHA TUNNEY,
Senior Manager, Ireland.
Opportunity Green,
Dublin.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

⚠️Even if you're not interested in the Dublin Airport passenger cap as an issue, there are many alarming things in the Heads of Bill drafted to remove it, that should be of concern to a great many people in Ireland. We break it down in a LinkedIn post here ⬇️: www.linkedin.com/posts/childr...

What you should know about the Bill to remove the Dublin Airport passenger cap

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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...

irishtimes.com

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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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Speak up for children's futures and public health! Join Irish Doctors for Environment, Children's Rights Over Flights, others Wed 18th March, 1pm-1:30pm outside the Dáil on Kildare St Protest the Gov's reckless plans to expand Dublin airport by lifting the cap - entailing more climate pollution.

Protestors holding up signs - Keep the passenger cap, Children's Rights Over Flights, Children's Rights not Future Flights

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Debunking myths that there are *any* routes to limiting aviation climate pollution, which don't involve *substantial decreases* in the volume of planes in the air theshiftproject.org/en/publicati...

For a round trip 370 between Paris and Montreal (12,000km) without fossil fuel, approximately 360 liters of fossil kerosene per passenger would need to be replaced by one of the following alternatives:
- 370 liters of used cooking oil: about two month's collection from a fast food restaurant
- 1,000m2 of lignocellulosic crops: equivalent to 4 tennis counrts of annual harvest
- 1,800 kg of firewood or wood waste: enough wood to heat a well-insulated home for a winter
- 8,000 kWh of electricity: twice the annual electricity user of a typical French household

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By Land And Sea dot ie @bylandandsea-ie.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Encouraging school tours to use land and sea based transport, in the Department of Education March newsletter on Education and Sustainable Development assets.gov.ie/static/documents/b82a…

Did you know that one passenger on one return flight Dublin-Paris causes as much climate pollution as a parent who lives 7.5km from a school driving a car to and from a school twice every school day for the whole year (167 days) ?

But if that passenger did that trip to and from Paris using ferry and train, that would be equivalent to only 12 days of the same school runs ? *

Your school can have a big impact by opting to stay in Ireland for school tours instead of flight-based school trips. There are plenty of excellent and fun school trips which can be done on the island of Ireland. Or if you do have a school trip abroad, for cultural exchange for example, your school can look into travel by land and sea! Travelling in this way is a great experience for students, who see the places they are travelling through, and have fun on the journey!

The website http://ByLandAndSea.ie has lots of useful information about travelling by land and sea to and from Ireland. Will your school join the Slow Travel movement ?

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Last year, we urged the Irish government to introduce a nationwide ban on fossil fuel advertising. They chose not to act. But across the globe, cities and countries are stepping up—reclaiming the narrative and taking bold action. Ireland, meanwhile, remains a climate laggard. #BanFossilAds🔥

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'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts

Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Ireland should not remove the Dublin Airport passenger cap, a United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on environmental rights has said. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Government failing to consider how key policies are damaging climate, says UN expert

Plans for LNG, Dublin Airport passenger cap and data-centre expansion ‘need scrutiny’

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