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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

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The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Water quality will not improve unless nutrient pollution is reduced. Right now, there is no clear sign of long‑term reductions in nutrient levels, making it unlikely that we will see meaningful improvements in water quality anytime soon." www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Water quality in Irish rivers and lakes remains ‘unsatisfactory’

Assessment showing Ireland’s best rivers continue to deteriorate ‘must concern us all’, says EPA director

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Turns out "cattle catch TB from other cattle **15 times** more often than from badgers." Yet the slaughter of innocent badger families goes on. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Cattle in England to get tuberculosis vaccine from 2030 as badger cull to end

Targeted vaccination and improved testing planned as part of drive to eradicate disease by 2038

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/06/2026

Worth reading @hannahdaly.ie's full research here - it contains some really stunning numbers. The most important point is the 80% renewable mandate delayed by six years: meaning six years of massive gas use and emissions, breaching carbon budgets and spiking bills zenodo.org/records/2058...

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Data centre expansion in Ireland: the conflict between grid connection policy and national energy and climate targets

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Never understand why news orgs don't link to reports when they write about them! A link below to the @ccacireland.bsky.social report referred to by articles in today's Journal and Irish Times, for any (like me) looking for the source material. #spéirgorm #coastalerosion #maharees #climatechange

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4,500 homes are at risk of coastal erosion by 2050, and experts say that figure is an undercount

2,279 properties and 570 kilometres of roads are currently at risk from coastal erosion.

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New fish kill reported: current estimate is in excess of about 20,000 fish dead in Louth from what is "believed to be an agricultural discharge upstream of Tallanstown," all species, including salmon, trout, roach, pike, eels, perch" are impacted

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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

First public consultation on Ireland’s draft National Nature Restoration Plan is now open Deadline for submissions is 1 July. Have your say #RestoreNature www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The May issue of Rundale on the theme of housing is out now. Five new contributions that approach housing and inhabitation in Ireland from new angles, offering different framings of (and answers to) ‘the housing question’. Quality analysis that you just don't find elsewhere. rundale.org

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Right #SpéirGorm ...how do we build an Irish coalition and get our politicians to change direction?! “A habitable, equal 21st century is materially possible,”“What stands in the way is not technical impossibility but political choice and the hard but crucial work of building a coalition behind it.”

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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 26/05/2026

We have a couple of summer student vacancies at the moment If you are interested in historical GHG emissions and temperature impacts... ...check out our vacancies page www.ucc.ie/en/epmg/abou... SEFS Summer Student Job Specification

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About | University College Cork

Learn about the Energy Policy and Modelling Group and our research at University College Cork

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Barry McMullin @autofac.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just watching the @epaireland.bsky.social webinar on updated GHG projections to 2030 (and beyond). LULUCF ... #OMG!

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Successive Irish governments have refused to adequately protect our marine ecosystems, feigning concern while in reality acting in the interests of those getting rich from ecocide. Now the EU has had enough, and begun legal proceedings against the state. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

irishexaminer.com

What will it take for Ireland to prioritise marine protection?

The Irish Government has developed a pattern of setting ambitious environmental targets, not delivering them, then seeking to merely negotiate the penalties

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy Lá Bealtaine - the swallows have arrived and summer's on the way 🔥 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Painting of a swallow flying over a bonfire, with the word "Bealtaine" above it.

#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm #Ireland #Bealtaine #Art #ArtSky #BlueSkyArt

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thanks - the camera never does do it justice! The sky was completely ablaze behind the headland, just stunning 🌅

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

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Year-on-year datasets tracking changes in public sentiment in Ireland between 2024 and 2025 show
that 66% agree that immigrants contribute positively to Irish culture and community, which is up 2% up from 64% in 2024.
79% believe working-class people are struggling due to systemic inequality which is also up 2% from 77% in 2024.
Those who believe wealthy people are successful because they were given more opportunities than others has risen from 63% in 2024 to 69% in 2025.
The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024.
80% agree that Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities face greater barriers to success than white people, up 5% up from 75% in 2024.

Research Framework
Ireland in Focus draws on multiple sources of data to provide a clearer understanding of how hate, disinformation and far-right mobilisation are evolving across Ireland in
2025. This includes H&CC's analysis of far-right developments in political organising, informal networks and far-right agitators, giving insights into how narratives, mobilisation and organising strategies are emerging and shifting.
company Dynata. The data was independently weighted by Ireland Thinks using demographic and methodological controls such as age, gender, ethnicity and voting behaviour at time of poll fielding to ensure representativeness and statistical robustness. The consistent methodology across both waves allows for reliable year-on-year comparison of sentiment and social trends and the large sample size gives high levels of statistical significance.
Ireland in Focus also draws data from 89 communities' crisis responses (49 in 2024 and 40 in 2025) supported by H&CC to capture how local communities responded in real time to moments of tension, protest and disinformation.
Ireland in Focus, assesses public attitudes through two large, nationally representative, anonymous surveys conducted in 2024 and 2025, each with approximately 3,000 respondents via independent polling
The consistency in design across both years provides a robust basis for tracking how attitudes are shifting - making this one of the first datasets of its kind in Ireland to capture changes in public sentiment over time. Finally to understand how narratives were spreading and evolving in the public sphere, narrative benchmarking was analysed using a commercial social media research tool.

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Missed the last few sunny days at home in #WestKerry doing a course in Cork. Got home to grey clouds, but my goodness, did the #Maharees sky make up for all of that this evening #spéirgorm #WildAtlanticWay #sunset

Sunset over Brandon Bay, Garrywilliam, Ireland

Atmospheric hazy sky over Brandon Bay, Stradbally, Ireland #bluesky

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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Independent Advisory Committee on Nature Restoration Report. Under the Nature Restoration Law, Ireland is required to have a Nature Restoration Plan by 01 September. Today, an Independent Advisory Committee on Nature Restoration provided their recommendations: 🔗 assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Imagine the EU reaction to their citizens bring kidnapped by any nation other than Israel!?!

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Imagine if we and the media spent as much time discussing real solutions to this fuel crisis as we do on the continued obsession with aviation and maintaining business as usual.

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is a very balanced piece on the angel shark issue. It's the subject of a public talk in Dingle next weekend that I'll be speaking at with a local fisherman. www.independent.ie/life/are-we-...

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‘Are we waiting for this species to go extinct?’ Inside the fight to save rare angel sharks off west coast of Ireland

It’s as rare as a snow leopard and is shaped like a snow angel. The angel shark is one of the world’s rarest and most vulnerable sharks.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Feeding wild birds is NOT 'helping nature'. In many ways, it's the very opposite.

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Jude Sherry @judesherry.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We've already given solutions to Dep. of Finance & Oireachtas All home should be registered with Revenue as either 1. Primary Residence - either homeowner / rented 2. Non-residence Habitable Homes -holiday homes/vacant homes/short term lets 3. Uninhabitable non-residence homes -derelict #Speirgorm

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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Kerry is in hiding. And full of trees - maybe they have a time machine and have seen the future, and have successfully rewilded Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara with native forests. I'm all for their vision of the future really (apart from the bigotry, racism, sexism, hatred etc) #spéirgorm #SpéirChiarraí

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ireland's recent €505m rescue package was a “ransom” to the #fossilfuel system: @hannahdaly.ie Subsidising demand makes fuel cheaper, keeping people locked in addiction to imported oil, and at the mercy of future geopolitical shocks. #spéirgorm

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 23/04/2026

I spoke with The Guardian about Ireland's fuel blockades and the silver lining of this whole mess for the energy transition.

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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed

BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yeah, our reliance on FDI & GDP as measures for national flourishing often work against best interests of citizens. Was more wondering why @thejuicemedia.com included Ireland with Hungary, Bangladesh and Bhutan as countries the rest of the world should aim to be like. Presidential result maybe?

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Wondering why Ireland gets an honourable mention here as one to be emulated- any thoughts #spéirgorm? While infinitely better off than those under thumb of many of the megalomaniacs she mentions, our leaders still shill for #TechBros, #BigPharma, #BigAg etc (and gift shamrocks to orange muppets!)

Screenshot of @thejuicemedia.com's Honest Government ad parody video suggesting Ireland is among the governments to be lauded

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm in the wesht... we have Mount Brandon! Or “Sliabh nDaidche” as I understand it was called before the Navigator went off and discovered America 😊 #SpéirChiarraí #WildAtlanticWay

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

How many solar panels could you buy for the €500m fuel supports for the blockers? How many council houses?

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

And oh boy, are the Irish powers that be doing everything they can to change supplier: pushing hard to get lots of lovely LNG from our near neighbour (across the Atlantic) and making sure any extra renewables we bring onstream are gobbled up by hungry data centres #spéirgorm

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: My new article in @natenergy.nature.com argues Europe keeps responding to energy crises by changing supplier. 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas was imported in 2024. The structural fix: reduce fossil fuel demand through electrification and efficiency. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas. We are about to feel a very painful food shock. 1/

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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Never ending slaughter from the Israelis.

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Get quotes from multiple installers (at least 3, 5 or more is better!) Don't be taken in by hard sales tactics like discounts if you sign up today etc. Some of the big name national companies are notorious for poor pricing and hard selling.

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

think some of the helpful people on that FB group are also active on boards.ie, I rarely (almost never) use it, but might be an option to search for info. Prices have dropped massively in last couple of years, so more recent posts might be of more use than older ones www.boards.ie/categories/r...

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Now Ye're Talkin'

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I have an EV and do charge it for free on solar sometimes - but again, consensus among those in the know tends to be charge car on cheap rate at night and sell solar during day.

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If financing isn't an issue, there is another system called thermodynamic solar (not solar thermal, which is the old evacuated tubes, newer technology) which works kinda like a mini heat pump, a friend has it and swears by it for year round hot water

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

general consensus is using solar PV to heat water is a waste while payment for grid export is as good as it is atm. With large enough battery, you can charge it on cheap rate at night, run house from battery during day and sell everything you produce back to grid - called load shifting

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

There can a lot of incorrect info floating about, even from installers. When I got system two years ago, got 10 quotes, 3 were willing to do changeover, multiple told me it was illegal. It wasnt, got SEAI grant without issue

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

While not advocating the metaverse if you have managed to wean yourself off it, the Irish Solar Owners Group on FB is an absolutely phenomenal resource, with loads of great advice. Im in West Kerry, have a system that allows me to run house during outage, happy to answer any questions!

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ireland has a €9 billion surplus - but instead of this we're encouraging people to build, without planning required, rental chalets in their back garden with zero rights for tenants but tax breaks for those homeowners #spéirghorm

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thats why they're going hell-for-leather to get bypass done. There'll still be nuts traffic, but at least those not going to Adare can go round.Mad what an international sporting fixture can do for national infrastructure-wish they'd lined up a match or two for Children's Hospital! 🤔 #NCH #spéirgorm

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

yeah, I have a Renault Zoe, which I love but no option for V2L. That and her lack of CCS charging are her biggest drawbacks. Do love being able to charge for free on a sunny day though!

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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

An Ireland Thinks poll has found 56% of Irish people think the “Government is not doing enough fast enough to cut Ireland’s reliance on fossil fuels”, compared with just 21% who think the Government is doing “too much, too fast” www.environmentalpillar.ie/majority-of-...

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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy #EarthDay from a wild #WestKerry #spéirghorm. So grateful for this amazing planet we get to call home! My camera didn't quite capture it, but got treated to a spectacular quadruple rainbow 🌈🌈

Quadruple rainbow in West Kerry, West of Ireland

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