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"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."
This is how you do a just transition.
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We hope you can join us. Also bring a friend it’s more fun. That or make new friends. 🙌
Stop killing dandelions.
Dublin City has no active travel projects under construction, putting rollout of 214km network by 2030 into further doubt irishcycle.com/2026/04/18/d...
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Residents with EVs have been told to remove their on-street electric car chargers, or else. The Department of Transport says it’s working on a home-charging solution for those who don’t have driveways.
Cherry trees are blossoming earlier than ever.” A chart shows peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto from year 812 to 2025. Pink dots mark individual yearly peak bloom dates, and a dark green line shows the 20-year average. For most of the record, the average sits around mid-April, but it drops sharply in recent decades. Callouts highlight 8 April 1995, 3 April 2015, and 25 March 2025, showing how unusually early blooming has become. Source: Our World in Data, using Kyoto data by Yasuyuki Aono. European Greens logo at bottom right.
🌸 This is a VERY visible effect of the climate crisis.
😢 Last year, the peak cherry blossoming day was on 25 March, 15 days earlier than in the 1950s and almost 20 days earlier than the 1900s.
We need to transition ❌ out of fossil fuels and ✅ into renewable energy.
We’re looking for old Stoneybatter Festival volunteer T-shirts!
If you’ve volunteered before but are not around for this year’s festival 19-21 June, you can drop your Stoneybatter T-shirt in to our Book Swap at An Siol 11am-12.30pm Sat 25th April, & your T-shirt will go to a 2026 volunteer 😊
Solar panels that generate power from raindrops! Just perfect for Ireland
Congratulations with man and woman singing and playing guitar in background, GDA logo in bottom right corner
The Vibrant Community Fund 2026 awardees have been announced!
Supporting inspiring projects across Grangegorman and the wider neighbourhood.
🔗 Find out who received funding on our website. bit.ly/4mtsAZy
#VibrantCommunityFund #Grangegorman
As storms that meteorologists once treated as thousand-year events appear more frequently, some researchers have proposed “sponge cities," which slow, spread, sink, store, reuse, and release rainwater before it becomes destructive. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mHBsTg
Have you been unemployed for a year or more?
As part of the Dublin Learning City Festival 2026 the Rediscovery Centre is hosting a Community Employment open day, where visitors can chat with our team about training opportunities.
Register for your free spot: https://ow.ly/JEqk50YI84H
#Careers
🌍Today is Ireland's Overshoot Day. If the rest of the world consumed like Ireland since Jan 1st, the Earth would run out of resources on Apr 14th.
Last year, this date was May 17th.
This is not just! The climate crisis is happening NOW, and is impacting families in Ireland & around the world.
A primary school yard full of bikes!
Love to see a primary school yard full of bikes...
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
Dubliners are to get a bit more transparency around where some old clothes end up. Enable Ireland has the new contract to operate 56 clothes banks in the city.
Free screening! April 16th from 7.30pm
Ireland’s continued reliance on fossil fuels leaves households, communities, farmers, the transport sector, healthcare and other essential services exposed to global instability. We have the renewable resources to build a cleaner, healthier and more secure future, but we are not moving fast enough. The US-Israeli war on Iran has once again showed us how dependent Ireland remains on imported fossil fuels. When supply is disrupted, costs rise and communities feel the impact immediately. The response however, cannot be more fossil fuel subsidies or lower fuel prices that further lock in this dependence. The response must be to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, starting now.
People across Ireland are under real pressure. The cost of living is high. Any subsidies should directly benefit people, not fossil fuel companies. But decades of policy decisions have tied our economy and daily life to fossil fuels, leaving us vulnerable. At the same time, burning fossil fuels is driving climate change and harming health. Air pollution contributes to heart disease, respiratory illness and premature death. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more damaging. Reducing fossil fuel use is a health, economic and environmental necessity. The Government’s Moving Together transport strategy sets out a clear direction: better public transport, safer walking and cycling, cleaner air and more liveable towns and cities. These are practical solutions that reduce costs and improve quality of life.
Yet, the ongoing protests in Dublin are blocking public transport and active travel routes. These actions are disrupting the very solutions that can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and lower costs for people. Calls to remove VAT, carbon tax and excise duty on fuel chain us ever further to fossil dependence that is subject to geopolitical volatility – a price that we are so fortunate to pay with only our pockets, and not our lives, as do others around the world. Ireland is well placed to change course. Our wind energy can power homes, transport and industry while reducing exposure to volatile global fuel prices.
Investing in electrified transport, rural infrastructure and sustainable farming will improve health and strengthen our economy. Renewable electricity has already reached record levels, supplying more than half of demand at times in late 2025. We need to accelerate this progress. We call on governments at all levels to act now and deliver a faster transition to clean energy for a healthier, more secure and more resilient Ireland.
Our statement on the fuel protests.
We call on governments at all levels to act now and deliver a faster transition to clean energy for a healthier, more secure and more resilient Ireland.
Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱
😎 Stoneybatter Festival 2026
19 - 21 June
First festival meeting Wednesday 15 April 7:30 - 8:30 An Siol 19 Manor Street. All welcome!!
Yesterday I used the Bohemians Library of Things for the first time to take out a Pressure Washer for the day. Great service for Bohs members! More of this around Ireland please!
@bfcdublin.bsky.social @connectingcabra.bsky.social @phibsboro.bsky.social @cosybatter.bsky.social
Fuels counter-protest this evening!
⏰ 5.10pm
📍 Garden of Remembrance
🚲 Cycle to Dáil
End fossil fuel dependence 🌏
Close-up of someone opening the base of a stainless steel kettle with a screwdriver during a repair.
Volunteer repairing a toy train on a table, with the train opened up to expose its wiring.
Smiling woman sitting beside a volunteer while a necklace repair is underway, with sewing and repair supplies on the table.
Our next Repair Café is on this Saturday at TOG Hackerspace, 12–4pm.
Got a broken toy, kettle, lamp, bit of jewellery, or some other household item needing a second look? Bring it along and we’ll see what can be done.
Free tickets: www.tog.ie/2026/04/apri...
#RepairCafe #RightToRepair #DublinMaker
Easter is a traditional time to reflect on change & Hare are a significant symbol of Spring.
Native Irish Mountain Hare once lived on North Bull Island — this photo is from 1992. Now they’re gone.
We can mourn what’s lost, but we must not lose hope.
Let’s protect nature and help it recover.
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
“Yes, do store food, but be prepared to share to maintain social solidarity.”
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...
‘Ireland is not only already in the midst of the climate crisis, but that it is not doing nearly enough to avert its intensification, and to cope with its already inevitable consequences.’
