'Outrageous industry propaganda': how I described on RTÉ Liveline yesterday the video and book promoting Sitka deadzones sent to every primary school in Ireland.
So much more to say on this, but glad to have at least got a few words in to dispute such misinformation.
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"DATA CENTRE OPERATORS successfully lobbied the European Commission to amend legislation intended to bring transparency to the continent’s booming data centre industry, a new investigation has revealed."
#SpeirGorm
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“Every sound of an explosion makes the children scream and run. Every day that passes increases the danger to our lives and makes it harder to think about returning to normal.” - a mother in Tehran.
Mahmoud Aslan reports for Zeteo from Iran:
This looks like one of the State’s special all-timer bad ideas.
@news.rte.ie Ireland is hosting a dedicated pavilion at one of the world's most significant property conferences this week, on the French Riviera, as part of an effort to attract billions of euro in foreign investment into our housing system
The Irish government will do absolutely anything, including inviting in more absentee landlords, in order to avoid having to do something about the housing crisis. It’s not foreign investment, it’s international financial feudalism.
Rossacroo woods in Kerry is overrun by invasive sika deer, making natural regeneration of trees impossible.
A new fence will change that for some years, as another did in the past before it was breached, as this one inevitably will be.
Our native forests need natural predators like lynx back.
Ireland's animal cruelty crisis: From puppy farms to sulky racing, hunting and coursing... Despite the changing public opinion, Ireland's weak laws, poor enforcement and Government inaction are allowing gross abuse of animals, writes Jennifer Whitmore...
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NEW: A review of SNA allocations to primary schools has been paused by the Minister for Education. Hildegarde Naughten has written to TDs saying she wants to "ensure that SNAs are with the children who most need their care" @virginmedianews.bsky.social
Plenty of politicians today (justifiably) concerned about schools having dramatic cuts to SNA allocations for the forthcoming school year.
After a root around I can find one (one) TD who raised issue when the NCSE signalled the soft policy change in a revised policy document that led to these cuts.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
"No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land
Remember that this is what the European Parliament, including the Fine Gael MEP’s, voted for. Horrible. Just horrible.
Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters
"That the Irish Government still allows this form of destructive fishing throughout Irish coastal waters is an absolute disgrace"
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"The Citizens’ Assembly had urged complete decriminalisation of possession of drugs for personal use. The new strategy stops short of making such a commitment"
Infuriating!
Micheál Martin has posted photos of schoolchildren on X twice since this controversy began
Israeli strikes kill at least 21 in Gaza as Rafah patient crossings halted
Six children among dead as Israeli agency restricts evacuations two days after crossing to Egypt reopened
Tech giants Meta, Google and TikTok are before the Oireachtas Media Committee today... as was long flagged, X has refused to take part.
X even went so far as to reject a written request from the Taoiseach to appear before the Committee.
Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years
Majority of rural people want foxhunting ban as poll suggests Dáil vote out-of-step with public jrnl.ie/6945424
exactly. this is not difficult.
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#SpéirGorm Aramark also has the contract for lots of DP facilities, and it owns Avoca. Think twice before going for your bougie lunch at Kilmacanogue!
Whenever flooding hits, we hear in detail all about the wrecked homes, livelihoods, property, and related misery.
But NEVER the major cause: that Ireland has been totally stripped of the native ecosystems like forest & bogs that would naturally have absorbed the water.
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Democracy
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a small Greek startup, exported by Rome, commodified by britain, weaponised by america, only to be shot dead on the streets of Minneapolis.
Mary Lou McDonald has written to the Taoiseach seeking the resignation of Larry Murrin as chair of Bord Bia. Sinn Féin says it’s inappropriate for him to chair an Irish food promotion board after it emerged that Dawn Farms, of which he is CEO, imports beef from Brazil to be sold in the Irish market
Important to point out that people do not become homeless. They are MADE homeless. And with homelessness rising from a few hundred people to over 17k in the last decade it’s clear that the government are in the homelessness business.
For the record: as of right now, the Grok app is still doing all the things they’ve said it is stopping, for users with free/unpaid accounts.
Tomorrow is the deadline for submissions against what @antaisce.bsky.social is describing as one of the greatest threats to our environment ever.
Please don't wait til it's too late, get it in today.
Cabinet to sign-off on major plan to build data centres today.
Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.
