I know it’s not simple or trivial to do so, but we have to start imposing sanctions on Israel, sooner rather than later. They are literally in the process of annexing Palestine and parts of Lebanon, and slaughtering those in their way. This cannot be allowed to continue.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
— Orwell, 1984
Computer programs are good if we use them in good ways. Electricity is good if we use it for good things. More is better if we use the new stuff for good things.
These sentences are almost too obvious to type out, yet strangely contentious in techno-optimist circles, where the vibe is just "more."
Urgent.
_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis." https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu
Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.
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.
Is war and killing people not a matter of morality?
1,000,000 signatures reached! 👏👏👏
— but, if you haven't signed yet, please still do!
Inevitably, some signatures will be duplicates or incorrect when checked by national authorities.
Your signature now will ensure a head room over the 1 million mark and guarantee the initiative is legally valid.
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
Patrick O’Donovan is a danger to humanity. Why on Earth was he made a Minister?
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COMMUNITY - NEXT STEPS Join us to help establish a Northside Cork SEC Following our Solar PV information session, we are now taking the next step toward creating a Sustainable Energy Community (SEC) for the north side of Cork City. With KIERAN LETTICE Energy Cork & SEA Mentor to Sustainable Energy Communities • Learn what an SEC is and how it works • Understand supports available through SEA • Begin forming a local energy community • Explore collective energy projects (solar, retrofitting, etc.) THURSDAY APRIL 16 7.30PM St. Joseph's Community Centre, Old Youghal Road All residents welcome - come along and get involved Organised by CLLR OLIVER MORAN
Half-price solar on the northside of Cork? Let's set up a Sustainable Energy Community (SEC) for the northside of the city.
🗓️ 7:30pm, Thursday, 16 April
📍 St Joseph's Community Centre, Old Youghal Road
Attended by Kieran Lettice, an SEAI mentor to assist communities setting up and running an SEC.
The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks.
Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December.
So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland.
#fuelprotests #speirgorm
FT report on ten minute - 100 strike no warning air strikes on Lebanon. “At first, I didn’t understand why the paramedics were taking so long to get here. We thought it was just us but we soon realised all of Beirut was on fire — all of Lebanon.”
Shock and awe: “At first, I didn’t understand why the paramedics were taking so long to get here. We thought it was just us but we soon realised all of Beirut was on fire — all of Lebanon.”
Lebanon’s 10 minutes from hell @rayajalabi.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/5501...
After driving Palestinians out of their homes and stealing long held property the Netanyahu government is now allowing forced removal of Christians from their own land.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
I don’t think Hegseth is a woman.
This morning, the Israeli Police prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.
"Green jet fuel" is neither green nor will it help Europe. It'll just cause food costs to rise because that's what it's made out of, food.
For that Philip, you get the weekend off. 😜
Fuel prices are going up again. A quick thread on the wonders of e-bikes
It's been a good week for Greens across Europe, with Mayoral wins in France and Germany and now a second place result for the Green Left @sf.dk in Denmark!
Congrats - tillykke! 🇩🇰
So much for the "narrow interests" which the government says use judicial review.
When they went out and asked people what they thought 1,470 asked for Access to Justice to be upheld, only 30 sided with the government
So which interest is the "narrow interest"?
"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
Benjamin Zephaniah "If you didn't have troublemakers, most women wouldn't have the right to vote, a black person wouldn't be talking to a white person and I'd be back in slavery. We need troublemakers to challenge the establishment. I want to be one of those people."
Cork City Council has agreed to begin a new community-led e-bike library for city residents.
The new library will lend e-bikes to anyone who wants to try one out in the real world for up to three months, with a deposit of just €50 — organised through local community groups, including sports clubs.
No it’s a white elephant
Seems like the Finnish state owned oil company #Neste has not been too accurate, when reporting about the origins of it's #aviation #biofuel...
#palmoil #climate #nature
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...
Trump's playbook: pressure Europe into scrapping protections for people and nature. Today Greenpeace Belgium activists are sending a strong signal from Brussels: our rights are not up for negotiation.
Europe must #ResistTrumpsAgenda!
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
