My brilliant colleague, Ciara Murphy, from @jcfjustice exposing how the fuel blockades last week reveal how "deeply unserious we are about the climate crisis and the pressing need to decarbonise." www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/15/w...
A "Sitka Spruce, the Amazing Timber Tree" book was sent to every primary school in Ireland this week.
sigh
This is a very interesting development...
A graph showing the connection between GDP and infrastructure in the EU. Ireland a massive outlier - one of the richest, with the worst infrastructure
This graph should be on the front of newspapers.
From Sinead O'Sullivan: www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap
This is very good from Conor McCabe and one of the few piece's of analysis I have read that clearly links the fuel protests with Ireland's deeply unequal and dysfunctional grass-fed agricultural system.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Today, Thursday the 8th of April 2026, the Galway City Ring Road was granted approval by An Coimisiún Pleanála. The timing could not be more ironic: amidst a global fossil fuel crisis and a climate emergency. The current fuel crisis is exposing just how vulnerable our fossil-fuel-reliant transport system truly is. Building more roads will exacerbate this further. Roads don't reduce traffic, they create it. It's induced demand: build it, they will drive. Meanwhile, public and active transport are sidelined.
As a consequence, Irish transport emissions have yet to see a meaningful decrease. This road will lead to more emissions, more inactivity, and more harm to human health. It will lock in carbon and these effects for generations to come. Our response to a planet on fire from climate change and fossil-fuelled conflicts is to pour more concrete on the ground. Irish Doctors for the Environment have, over the years, written numerous statements and letters opposing the ring road. Although it may be sold as a solution, it is not. Decades of road building and car-centric sprawl across the world have shown us that.
The alternatives are clear: a tram system, world-class active travel infrastructure, better rail, and improved bus connections. Galway could become a city that prioritises health for the people and the planet. Instead, politicians and planners seem hellbent on turning it into yet another city surrounded by a massive road. Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.
Our statement on the Galway Ring Road.
Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.
Cars are kings in Ireland.
Another perfect example of our dysfunctional, unhealthy, car-centric transport system, where cars and drivers are prioritised above all else.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Three cheers for @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. Am reading and listening to too many self-styled fans of liberal democracy saying, in effect, 'let's park international law for the moment and talk about....'
Chart taken from recent NTA survey showing 69% in Limerick support additional safety infrastructure for cyclists & other mobility users.
Great to see such strong support for more safety infrastructure in #Limerick.
Just goes to show that the fundamentalist fringe on Facebook etc, while loud, are a distinct minority.
Will it be okay? - is that on May, and can someone get to it?
“I may fall out of the chair onto the road” — video highlights impact of footpath parking
The "real and often overlooked challenges caused by illegal and inconsiderate parking" is the theme of a new video launched by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, but that applies across the country. In…
Road Safety Authority Ireland data showing 64% of pedestrian serious injuries occurred during daylight hours
Road Safety Authority Ireland data showing 89% of pedestrian serious injuries occurred on straight stretches of road
Road Safety Authority Ireland data showing 89% of pedestrian serious injuries occurred on urban roads (60km/h or less)
#Pedestrian serious injuries in #Ireland 2020-2024
- 89% on straight roads
- 89% on urban roads (<60km/h)
- 64% in daylight
If you can't see me on a straight urban road in daylight it doesn't matter what I wear. #HiVis
Data from #RSA Link below
www.rsa.ie/docs/default...
7 deaths on our roads over the weekend including a 16 y/o girl walking her dog.
Why the obsession over hi-vis? Why the reduction in active travel funding?
Where are the 30km/h zones?
Where are the red light cameras?
Why no enforcement?
Why aren't intelligent speed systems default on new cars?
Many of the same people who shake their heads at the US issuing bullet-proof rucksacks to schoolchildren as it does nothing to address the actual problem will tell you that mandatory hi-vis is a good idea.
Hi-vis should never take the place of more effective controls or be used for victim-blaming.
Join Kate McAney for the talk ‘Leather Wings and Bushy Tails’
Learn about the conservation work of VWT Ireland, focusing on the Lesser horseshoe bat, pine marten and Irish stoat.
7:30pm, 18 February 2026
Tara Building, Room T1.17, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
@irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social
The really remarkable thing about the return of Presbyterianism to the Falls Road is the central role of a former IRA prisoner in instigating it. Signs of significant social progress (Also, Omnis gloria Deo!)
www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...
Beg buttons relegate pedestrians to second-class citizens, forcing them to apply just to cross the road safely.
It’s time to get rid of them and prioritise people, not cars.
#ReimagineDublin
Reducing - and enforcing - speed limits for ALL vehicles to 30km/hr in urban areas & cameras to detect cars breaking traffic lights would save scores of lives annually, but it might annoy some motorists so instead we get this performative BS from gov’t.
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
The Netherlands is not a pedestrian paradise, but I'm confused why anyone thinks Ireland is better irishcycle.com/2026/01/01/t...
Poignant letter by Dr Lisa McNamee in the Irish Times this morning.
The Minister for Climate and Environment actively working to increase emissions and worsen environmental harm.
#NitratesDerogation
The Irish government are doing exactly the opposite of what the science is telling us to do.
Almost all (90%) of Ireland’s natural habitats are in a poor condition, including coastal & freshwater.
This is 5% more than 6 yrs ago.
51% are declining while only 9% show signs of improvement.
Rather than solutions, govt are adding problems e.g. derogation😞
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
BREAKING: Ireland's nitrates derogation has been renewed.🗳️
This has no scientific basis & fails nature, the public, & farmers.
“The evidence simply did not exist to justify renewing Ireland’s nitrates derogation"
"Meanwhile, our precious water and wildlife suffer.”
swanireland.ie/2025/12/rene...
Wow!
“There is still hope in the handwriting that refuses to be mass-produced for the world.” Leena Norms
Let me recommend the Advent Poetry Calendar by @annierutherford.bsky.social raising funds for #MSF
This year’s selection fits the world we live in like a glove
mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...
The price Ireland's ( & world's) native wildlife pay for our excessive gluttony of meat & dairy is truly horrific & barbaric. 🤷♂️
More plant based diet we can manage, the more wildlife survive. 💚🌳
