Picture of windmills and text - The Only Future is Fossil Free

Join the Earth Day protest today! 5.30 at Leinster House

First shared by @greens-efa.eu almost four years ago, this message feels just as urgent today amid a deepening energy crisis.

We can’t keep ignoring the root cause: our dependence on fossil fuels - driving conflict, damaging our environment, and pushing costs ever higher for ordinary people.

End the Energy Crises: Support the Earth Day Motion The ongoing crisis in the Middle East has demonstrated that the objective of affordable, secure and decarbonised energy cannot be met through importation of fossil fuels which are carbon intensive and...

Today, 22 April, is Earth Day, a day where people everywhere are called to defend our shared home.

To mark this day, the Green Party is bringing a motion to the Dáil on the climate and biodiversity emergency.
my.uplift.ie/petitions/no...:

The real source of youth unemployment- Robert Watt holds 40% of all jobs

Call to join a protest for climate change saying the energy crisis is the climate crisis on a green background with a megaphone

JOIN THE EARTH DAY PROTEST: 5.30pm, 22/4

Next Wednesday, 22nd April, Party Leader Roderic O'Gorman will bring a Green Party motion to the Dáil to mark Earth Day.

It calls for a renewed commitment to our 2030 climate targets, the protection of the Climate Act, and increased investment in nature.

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.
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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Text: We can't afford your fossil fuel wars Pictures of Putin, Trump, Netanyahu

The energy crisis is the climate crisis Join the protest Wednesday 22nd of April, 5.30, Leinster House

On Earth Day, Wednesday 22nd, join the protest for climate action. 5.30 at Leinster House

Ep 13 - The Iniskea Prospect Should Ireland leave all its oil and gas reserves in the ground or drill to achieve energy independence?

The suggestion that Ireland should reverse the ban on drilling for oil and gas has popped up again.
I made a programme looking at this from every imaginable angle.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Spoiler alert: The arguments for drilling don’t add up.

End the Energy Crises: Support the Earth Day Motion The ongoing crisis in the Middle East has demonstrated that the objective of affordable, secure and decarbonised energy cannot be met through importation of fossil fuels which are carbon intensive and...

Time to end Energy Crises now, and forever. Support the Earth Day motion and see you next Wednesday at the demo! my.uplift.ie/petitions/no... @uplift.ie

Today I am voting no confidence in the Government.

They have not only failed in their reactions last week, but are now failing to lead us away from our fossil fuel dependence.

Until we break this addiction, Irish families and businesses will all be at the mercy of the whims of Putin, Trump...

Circulating in Waterford fb groups yes

How Ireland's far-right movement got involved in the fuel protests and tried to hijack them While many are protesting fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

While many protesters in Ireland are complaining about fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

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Can the government cut carbon tax, and what would happen if it did? Carbon tax is back on the agenda. Here’s what any changes would mean in the short and long term.

Yes this Government needs to do more to help in the cost of living crisis, but abolishing the Carbon Tax, the one tax that is ring fenced to help the most vulnerable, would be the wrong thing to do.

Can the government cut carbon tax, and what would happen if it did? jrnl.ie/7007865

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I co-run a political party page on there - literally hundreds and hundreds of intensely racist, homophobic, abusive and climate denying comments on every single post, from people using real names and often with named employers on their profiles. No bots required

Tom McDonnell is not just welcome at the O'Connell Street blockade – where he has been ensconced since Tuesday, barracking any TDs who come down to try and talk with the protesters – they had him making announcements for them last night about when people should arrive today. he's their guy

In all the talk about twitter, it’s been Facebook that is the actual real radicalising danger - it’s a complete cesspool, but completely filled with actual people.

The self-appointed "leaders" of the Fuel Protests are truly scum of the Earth.
Why our media choose to interview the likes of Duffy here re the protests is beyond me. Do they really think he cares one iota about anyone but his own self?

☑️Climate change is real
☑️It's impacting Irish weather
☑️It's costing you money
☑️and it's getting worse year-on-year.

The Climate Change Advisory Council's report "Our Changing Climate 2025" shows us that extreme weather is no longer the exception, it's the new reality.

Data centre expansion policy prolongs reliance on fossil fuels Current State policy embeds fossil gas at the heart of the data centre sector’s growth

"The central issue is straightforward. Data centre demand is so large, spatially concentrated, inflexible and growing so quickly, that neither the electricity grid nor renewable generation can keep pace. Fossil gas is filling that gap."

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Janet and a large group in front of a mural that says East Wall

Janet and a group in front of some houses

Janet and a group in front of a hedge

Janet and a group by the road at night

A great week of canvassing, thanks so much to the amazing team who are out with me every day knocking on doors, having valuable and engaging conversations. Special shout out to GPNI and DLR Greens who covered lots of ground in East Wall

#DublinCentral #EastWall #NorthCircularRoad #Dublin #VoteGreen

UK (GB), Find Out Now poll:

Scenario: Restore Britain (RESTORE-*) and Your Party (YOUR~S&D) contest

REFORM~NI: 25% (+1)
GREENS-G/EFA: 19% (-1)
LAB-S&D: 16%
CON~ECR: 16% (-1)
LDEM-RE: 10%
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+/- vs. 3-4 March 2026

Fieldwork: 25 March 2026
Sample size: 2,948

➤ europeelects.eu/uk

HVO, green aviation fuel, green data centres - so much depends on biofuels which may turn out to be not so green…this type of investigation very important

Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says. In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong. The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Five years ago, solar energy output in Ireland would have been close to zero

Horticulture Following the news of the collapse of carrot producers Hughes in Kilkenny last week, Philip talks to another horticulturalist, Kenneth Keavey of Green Earth Organics in Co. Galway about the issues fac...

Farmers growing fruit and veg has dropped from 600 to 73 since the noughties. Which was also when then Trade Minister Micheál Martin removed the ban on below cost selling.

It’s not the only problem they face, but it didn’t help says one indie producer.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

New: Study says #heatwave made 800X more likely by climate change and 5°F more likely. 1/
www.worldweatherattribution.org/record-shatt...

Last Reminder! The public consultation for the Chapelizod Road & Conyngham Road Active Travel Scheme closes today, 20th of March.

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