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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In contrast to the false narrative so desperately sold by some, rewilding and re-peopling of the countryside actually go hand in hand. With many rural communities in Ireland struggling due to lack of jobs and vitality, it's about time we started recognising this, bringing nature AND people back.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Me too. Regardless of tomorrow’s by-election result, the hysteria in today’s Daily Mail suggests something very significant is happening in the green corner of UK politics.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Listening to Brendan O'Connor, I'm inclined to think the Budget will swing it for Catherine Connolly.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Bolder. Effective.And surging! Come on @greenparty.org.uk team. Let's go! Join.greenparty.org.uk
The party is louder and more left wing than ever.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"It's possible to reverse our way out of loss and extinction; there’s nothing inevitable about it. To stay silent in the face of it is, in the end, an active choice. Hope feels like an indulgence we can no longer afford; what’s needed is people coming together to act" share.google/Z1Mmpr5RXpaX...
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There’s nothing inevitable about extinction. It’s possible to reverse our way out
Success stories including the leaf-toed gecko in the Galápagos, the wood white butterfuly in Wales and the corncrake in Ireland give hope
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
British politics is "moving into" a contest between the Greens and Reform, the former's leader Zack Polanski told PolHome He said he was "very open" to “progressive, particularly left-wing" about defecting to the Greens @sophiealichurch.bsky.social reports from the party's Bournemouth conference
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British Politics Is Already Greens vs Reform, Says Green Leader Zack Polanski
The Green Party is already on its way to being the main opposition to Reform, leader Zack Polanski claimed in an interview with PoliticsHome at the...
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The last in my series of reports from Ireland's 8 national parks is from Brú na Bóinne/ Boyne Valley in County Meath www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
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This could end up being the most radical of all our national parks...
Brú na Bóinne/Boyne Valley National Park may show us the way back from intensive farming practices that leave so little space for nature
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
No, "the world's taste for soya" isn't to blame: most people won't taste any soya, but the meat, dairy, eggs and fish produced very inefficiently with the soya as feed. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social often says: "If you want to eat less soya [to help save the Amazon], eat soya!" shorturl.at/bOvl1
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I don't expect people who rely on trawling to make a living to ever be in favour of Marine Protected Areas. That is why we need to offer them a way out: buy outs of gear, cheap loans for new businesses, training etc. www.independent.ie/regionals/we...
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Wexford fishermen resistant to pending legislation – ‘The people who propose these things have probably never been out at sea’
Wexford fishermen have once again raised concerns over the need for further legislation in the industry while also appealing to the government to talk to the fishing communities of Ireland directly ab...
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Wild, native plants growing in rivers are not litter and don't need to be 'cleaned'. After farm pollution, digging up rivers is the biggest reason for poor health of rivers in Ireland. www.mayonews.ie/news/westpor...
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Council agree to proceed with cleaning of west Mayo river
Mayo County Council agree to start clean-up of the downstream section of the Moyour River in Kilmeena
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Good ocean news that a legal effort to overturn a ban on bottom fishing gear in 87 areas of the Atlantic continental shelf has failed. These areas are now closed to all bottom trawling and dredging as well as bottom set longlines, gill nets and pots. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
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EU court upholds ban on deep-sea fishing in Atlantic
Experts say the ruling is likely to have a positive impact on other legal cases on bottom trawling happening across the EU.
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The Zero Carbon Act in 2019 represented then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's promise to tackle her generation's "nuclear-free moment" head on. Six years on, analysis (by me) suggests the law has been hollowed out to little more than a husk. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’
The Zero Carbon Act promised to lock climate ambition into law. But with key policies repealed, delayed or watered down, the once 'world-leading' legislation has become a husk of its former self.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A leaked Israeli intelligence report reveals what was obvious all along: The vast majority of Palestinians slaughtered by Israel in Gaza are civilians. There was never an excuse for not knowing the truth. This is a genocide. Not a war.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The gutting of nature from the Infrastructure, Climate & Nature Fund to finance transport, energy & water infrastructure projects in the National Development Plan is very alarming. Great to see our view on the NDP referenced in a recent @irishtimes.com editorial www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
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The Irish Times view on funding for nature: not an optional extra
At both EU and national level, commitments on environmental spending are being scaled back
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Nature is worryingly absent from the National Development Plan review www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Nature is worryingly absent from the National Development Plan review
It is imperative that nature is adequately funded, writes Ciarán Brennan, communications officer at the Irish Environmental Network
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Sounds about right for this FF/FG government! ⬇️ Where’s the Biodiversity Minister fighting his corner in this crucial first year? For that matter where’s the SF crowd? The opposition except when it comes to the environment where it doesn’t seem to even recognise biodiversity.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Beautiful day for walking, but for many this is what passes for nature in the Irish countryside - a handful of native trees in plastic guards designed to screen the wall of alien conifers that blanket the hills
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
More good news heading into the weekend. This will surely be the largest rewilding project we've seen so far in Europe in the marine environment! oceanographicmagazine.com/news/major-d...
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Major Dogger Bank restoration project launched - Oceanographic
In a bid to restore and safeguard the ecological heart of the North Sea - the Dogger Bank - an exciting rewilding programme will be launched in 2025.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
High Court judge blasts Bord Pleanala for being far more worried re. visual amenity than #climate breakdown or compliance with State’s legal climate obligations. Judge also calls on ABP to educate its staff, many of whom clearly have no clue on climate. Epic. www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...
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High Court rules An Bord Pleanala must prioritise climate law in wind farm case likely to affect all public bodies
The High Court has ruled that planners did not fulfil their duty to comply with climate law in a judgement expected to have far-reaching implications for all public bodies.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2025
remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Irish environmentalists & farmers have shared concerns regarding the threats posed by #Mercosur Today @envpillar.bsky.social wrote to Simon Harris calling on the Taoiseach to block the adoption of this deal by communicating Ireland's opposition to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago. We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better. It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
In Ireland Far-right candidates fail to break through, defying global trends. Something to be celebrated: The Irish parliament will remain a fascist-free zone. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Far-right candidates fail to break through, defying global trends
National Alliance’s vote management falls short on results with even high-profile candidates missing out
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Excellent demonstration of how a ploughed field transformed into a forest in 50 years with no tree planting and at zero cost. This should always be the priority for forest creation whether for nature or commercial timber* youtube.com/watch?v=km32...
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Tough day for the Green Party, could be a complete wipe-out. Meanwhile, the #climate crisis deepens by the month. If there are history books in the future, wonder what they’ll make of all this?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
1. The one benefit of Brexit was a new farm subsidy system, that would pay for public goods such as ecological restoration. But now the government has frozen the new grants, while swiftly cutting off the old ones, leaving farmers high and dry. It's deeply unfair and highly destructive. 🧵
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An entire article on the demise of the Irish fishing industry & not a single mention of overfishing. The same producer organisations quoted have fought tooth & nail to prevent their large trawlers from being banned from the inshore. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘We’ve heard these promises before’: is this the end of the line for Irish fishing?
Devastated by quota changes post-Brexit, fishers are pinning all their hopes on Ireland’s politicians as they head into a general election
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Israel is plotting to colonise Gaza. This is all being openly discussed in the Israeli media. It is a damning indictment that Israeli newspapers offer more details of what's actually happening than newspapers in, say, the US or UK. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israeli-me...
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Israeli media: Israel is plotting to colonise Gaza
The Western media keeps covering up Israel's crimes - but if you read Israel's newspapers, there is a different story.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A huge number of us are or will be carers at some point in our lives and the lack of either respect or support by so many politicians, including the leader of the country, for the enormous work done and the emotional and physical toll it takes is infuriating. Completely out of touch.
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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It's perfectly simple, we're expected to believe that the Simon who got all tetchy & walked away cause someone was challenging his record is not the real Simon. But the Simon who posted a video on Instagram the following day about how his own behaviour made him feel bad IS the real Simon.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Angel sharks are nearly extinct because of fishing (not directly, they're a victim of bycatch). The solution is to stop, or at the very least modify, fishing but we're still waiting for something to happen... www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Angel sharks are now so rare that maritime scientists can go an entire career without seeing one
Clew Bay and Tralee Bay are their last known refuges here, where their numbers are so low it may be too late to help them. Still, scientists refuse to give up hope
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Contrast the rich ground flora of a native rainforest, and the barren grasses that replace it with sheep grazing. Society MUST start offering farmers a viable income option from rewilding. Until that happens, we are all to blame for the ongoing death of Irish nature. 🌏
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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 22/11/2024
Once described as “a gigantic marine aquarium”, Lough Hyne in Co Cork is facing a barrage of stressors. Reporter @oliveheffernan.bsky.social investigated this over the past year. She found multiple pressures and lack of management are wreaking havoc on life in the lough. Read our findings:
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Europe’s oldest marine reserve, located in County Cork, is in decline. What’s going on?
The Journal Investigates finds multiple pressures and lack of management are wreaking havoc on life in Lough Hyne Marine Reserve.
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Dr Olive Heffernan @oliveheffernan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Been a great story to work on! Thanks to the Pulitzer Center for funding this work and to Maria Delaney for helping to bring the story to life!
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lockit.bsky.social @lockit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
stop immigration so we can take care
of our own

im starving. 

fuck off.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1. The difference so far (and for god's sake let's keep it that way) between X and Bluesky is not between right and left but between abuse and respect. A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean? A short thread.🧵
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A lot of coverage recently of Israeli quadcopters killing civilians in Gaza, including in NPR. ⁦‪Spencer Ackerman‬⁩ wrote about this dangerous and horrifying new trend for Zeteo more than six months ago. zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...
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Israel's Armed Quadcopters in Gaza Mark a Dangerous New Era in Drone Warfare
Israel is pioneering yet another deadly innovation in drone warfare. What happens in Gaza won't stay there.
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AndrewT @andrewt500.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽 #FarmersProtest
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
5 million fish are killed every minute by fishing industry Super trawlers are devouring the ocean of marine life These ships can catch, process and store hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish This is not sustainable Make it stop Ban super trawlers now Before the ocean is a dead zone
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Natalie💫 @natalie01.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Farming is in the bin because of Brexit, they should be stoning farage not marching with him … idiots! 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
negotiators *expect* Saudi Arabia to be obstructive at UN climate talks. If they're shocked, it must be *bad* www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/c...
excerpt from New York Times article detailing how the Saudi delegation is using procedural objections to stall COP29 climate negotiations in Baku
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"From pardoning Trump’s enemies to holding pre-confirmation hearings on his dangerous Cabinet picks, Biden and Senate Dems must move fast to protect democracy from the dictator-in-waiting." Important piece from @normornstein.bsky.social for Zeteo. Hope White House & Senate Democrats listen to him!
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'Extraordinary Times Demand Extraordinary Actions' - Here Is What Biden and Democrats Can Do to Counter Trump Before Jan. 20
From pardoning Trump’s enemies to holding pre-confirmation hearings on his dangerous Cabinet picks, Biden and Senate Dems must move fast to protect democracy from the dictator-in-waiting.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The political discourse in Denmark around intensive livestock pollution seems to be decades ahead of Ireland. www.arc2020.eu/political-de...
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Political Deal reached on Denmark’s Green Tripartite - What’s in it and what's not? | Agricultural and Rural Convention
After a long silence saturated with rumours and speculations, a broad majority Monday presented a political deal on implementing the informal green tripartite agreement (IGTA) from June. The deal sees...
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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our beautiful ring ouzel is on the very cusp of extinction, just one pair left. This is no surprise - Ireland is one of the most ecologically abused countries in Europe. We must change our ways or there'll be more. 📸 Rob Vaughan A snippet from Track 12 - Wild Silence. tinyurl.com/zbaed97j
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The @labour manifesto proposes to reform the legal mandates of Coillte, Bord Na Móna & other semi-states to support Nature Restoration & Climate Action. This is something the current government promised & failed to deliver #PublicLand labour.ie/manifesto/
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Manifesto - The Labour Party
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Wolf Within - I'm looking forward to watching this free documentary on the recovery of Europe's wolves and the future of coexistence www.waterbear.com/watch/the-wo...
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The Wolf Within | WaterBear
In a landscape torn between harmony and conflict, 'The Wolf Within' delves deep into the relationship between wolves and humans in Europe. Through the lens of diverse characters, the film unveils the ...
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