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Saoirse McHugh

@saoirsemc.bsky.social
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Nature, land, food On windy Achill island 🏝️

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch
Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants
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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Did tax cuts bring more tourists? No. The answer? More tax cuts!
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Alice-Mary Higgins @aliceeire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yesterday I demanded answers from the Minister about the Irish Government position on shocking proposals to give AI companies access to our personal data which are being negotiated right now on Ireland's watch. The public across EU want rights protected & more regulation of AI and big tech not less!
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE.
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision
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Kevin Teljeur @kevinteljeur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This should be a headline item, @thejournal.ie and @news.rte.ie
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If people can be paid to show up so easily, why don't they try it themselves? www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
irishexaminer.com
Cork greyhound racing stadium that attracts no paying customers to spend €50,000 on track upgrade
Youghal Greyhound Stadium, which was previously the subject of several bailouts, is to have its track surface overhauled
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hahahaha a pro greyhound racing guy on liveline saying that the protestors at a greyhound race was paid to be there. Some people literally can't imagine doing anything because they care about it
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've no idea what the two people who attacked TDs over the last few days did it for. I do notice though that all the people celebrating it online are the Irish patriot fuel protestor types. I hope that TDs might start waking up to the fact that pandering to these people only emboldens them further
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
"if there are circumstances where it is considered unsafe for gardaí to remain in a country, how is that assessment reconciled with the decision to return people there?" www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
irishtimes.com
Safety of gardaí abroad part of reason for State chartering return deportation flights
Public Accounts Committee is told more than €3m spent so far under a contract to transport people from Ireland
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The science shows regenerative grazing simply doesn't work And I get it, it's a captivating well funded story ($200M from McD's otw), and it's easier to convince many that small tweaks are all that's needed vs. actual systemic changes away from beef 🧵here's 8+ reasons why this won't make beef eco
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fact that somebody as openly and famously crooked as Micheal Lowry is back in government is mind boggling
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Śéáń @fiercemilder.com · 14/09/2026
Man asks computer "say 'I am alive'"

Computer: I AM ALIVE 

Man: oh my god.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The more surveillance they cram into gadgets and devices the closer I am to becoming a complete anti tech zealot and ripping out the electricity in my home.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes!! Any journalist should force them to name what exact values they're talking about
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Patricia Devlin @trishdevlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Six years ago, Ireland was promised a dedicated Wildlife Crime Unit. It never materialised, and no one really explained why. I went looking for answers. It took a year-long battle with the NPWS and an Information Commissioner investigation to get them. Here’s what I found ⬇️ jrnl.ie/7135559
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The FOI Files: The year-long battle for records on Ireland’s promised Wildlife Crime Unit
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage claimed disclosure could harm wildlife crime investigations and future prosecutions, but the Information Commissioner disagreed.
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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know how we can integrate people who come here? Allow them to work and recognise their professional qualifications instead of letting them just languish in accommodation and then say they’re “sponging” off the State.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I feel that the reporting on the UN overshoot report was light on the fact that we rapidly and immediately need to cut methane. There are things that can be done!
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it's good that the fancy poshos that get the buses are supporting the poor, hardworking, trodden down people who drive around in 70k jeeps and ridiculously big pickup trucks
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/09/2026
Commuter groups have described increases in public transport fares as "absolutely unacceptable", accusing the Government of asking bus, rail and tram users to "in effect" cover the "astounding cost" of an extension in cuts to Excise Duty on petrol and diesel
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Bus, rail users funding excise cuts, commuter groups say
Increases in public transport fares for adults have been described as "absolutely unacceptable" by commuter groups.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hare coursing has to be banned. It's a disgusting bloodsport. What sort of creep goes to something like that
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A National Parks and Wild­life Ser­vice ranger who mon­itored the ter­ror­isa­tion of hares at a cours­ing meet­ing in Lim­er­ick, repor­ted that fol­low­ing its con­clu­sion, “one hare had to be put down by the vet as the femur bone was vis­ible out­side and not attached to the foot of the hare.”
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 26/08/2026
Sorry for shouting but... THE ENTIRE POINT OF CCS IS TO ENABLE MORE FOSSIL FUEL USE. That it captures jack shit doesn't matter. All fossil fuel interests need to do is claim that the emissions their extraction produces will be removed from the atmosphere. At some point. Somehow.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I wish every creep out killing baby foxes bad cess for the rest of their lives
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love this. The very least they should do here is link the vacant homes grant to the vacant homes tax. Same with dereliction. It's either vacant or it's not
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ahhh. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I genuinely hope that this summer will have woken up a lot of people to how desperately our agricultural systems needs to change. Not only for the effect that it is having on climate and wildlife and water but because we desperately need a food system built around resilience and
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“And now the weather…”
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
REINTRODUCE THE BEARS
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Arday RIP was literally hounded to death by the media and even this morning (in this country) they're asking people to text in with their thoughts about him oh my god what a ghoulish world
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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Finance guys finally coming to the realisation that economics is downstream of the environment, and our relentless pursuit of the former should not come at irreparable cost to the latter. Welcome to the fight, greedy capitalist pigs. euobserver.com/232026/eu-fu...
euobserver.com
EU fuelling economic ‘doom loop’ by weakening climate rules during record heatwave, Dutch bank says
Dutch bank Triodos argues that by prioritising “competitiveness” over tougher carbon pricing amid this summer's heat crisis, the EU is leaving its economy more exposed to future climate shocks.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a complete distraction. Ireland cannot build a nuclear power plant fast enough to matter. Making a decision to do so would excuse punting on all the wind and solar things it can and must do. This is a lobby project of the tech industry to have something to say when building data centres.
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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Irish Wildlife Trust are disappointed to see the number of newspaper articles reporting on this accident without giving the details of what happened. @irishenvnet.bsky.social @fairseas.ie #BlueShark #IrishSharks
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David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
People with Meta glasses can look directly at it. You’ll be totally fine. Have a good old gawk
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I need to know if the shark is okay?
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If I had been hooked In my mouth and dragged onto a boat I would 100% bite whoever did it
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Omg that guy who was but by a shark had dragged him out of the sea and had him on a boat... Of course he was bit
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
IT: Before dismantling the central accountability mechanism of its climate law, the Government should answer one question. Which projects have actually been stopped by Section 15, rather than the European rules that will survive its removal? JN: None.
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The Irish Times view on planning and climate: pointing in the wrong direction
Which projects have actually been stopped by Section 15 of the Climate Act?
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I WAS SINCERELY ASKED FOR ID TODAY. 💅🏻
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Reading about landwars in Ireland and it's always stunning to me the amount of violence it took to turn Ireland from a land full of people growing food to a land of livestock for export. A form that seems quite natural now but was resisted for centuries
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I once had a boyfriend break up with me because I "was boorish". I was devastated at the time but the older I get the more I love this. BOORISH
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Don't worry: we can simulate those extinct animals in the Metaverse.
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Fred Logue @fplogue.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
How many climate related cases against NDP projects have there been?
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Fuck Musk and his stupid junk hitting the Moon
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
monbiot.com
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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Redwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Magnificent aromas of potato scones, blackberry muffins, and rhubarb and maple crumbles assailed their nostrils from the top shelf of the oven.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@amflynn.bsky.social I just read that you're finishing your column in the mayo news. That'll be a huge loss to the the paper. Youve been a bright light in the mayo news for years xxx
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Never want to hear any of these tech companies talking about their ethics again. This has zero use cases outside of generating disinformation, and they pushed it out there anyway
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