Try sit through a Tipperary council meeting. Make you wonder if there’s radiation in the area.

Tipperary council seeks new law to compel walkers, cyclists, e-scooter users to don hi-vis Tipperary County Council's elected members have unanimously passed a motion to request the Minister for Transport to make it mandatory for these road users to wear hi-vis jackets or vests in the inter...

Why not paint every car in Tipperary bright yellow instead?
These cllrs want everyone else to dress differently while dangerous driving goes unchecked. Nothing about improving disastrous active travel infrastructure in their areas. Victim blaming at its finest.

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West Corking

Is more security needed on Irish Rail? - Josh Crosbie Reports

Happy to contribute to this piece on saftey on trains in Limerick.
It’s easy to get bogged down in the negatives, but we need to see the bigger picture.
Limerick has real potential, the demand is there, it just needs decisive backing 🚆

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More nauseating industry propaganda being pumped into our schools with no State regulation or oversight whatever, endorsed by that biodiversity champion, MHR.

Industrial forestry taking a leaf from livestock sector playbook.

I love this supplier map in The Fumbally <3

“Furthermore, a country that imports 83% of its vegetables is not food secure, no matter how competitive its dairy exports. This is the Gordian knot that needs to be cut, and no amount of tax credits will do it.”
Excellent read!

Build a good bike lane - it'll get used.

Rialto, Dublin. 14th April 2026

The fuel blockades are reason number 1 million we need to move away from fossil fuels and export focused agriculture

Some very creative accounting was needed to greenlight the Galway ring road Deeming this project climate-compliant is untenable, argues architect and transport planner Ciarán Ferrie.

Some very creative accounting was used to deem the Galway ring road compliant with Ireland's climate plans, writes architect and transport planner Ciarán Ferrie. jrnl.ie/7009217t

Imagine a place where "paths cross landscapes where people walk not through protected areas but through the ordinary living fabric of the country".

Well worth a read to fuel your hope and imagination.

The Inverted Fence Turning Ireland’s landscape inside out

@aislinnn.bsky.social and I continue our musings on what a Biosphere for Ireland might look like
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the Limerick Leader should act like a real newspaper rather than some random twitter goon

One more road doesn’t build resilience, it deepens the same dependence that got us here. If anything, it delays the shift we actually need.

Tractor Runs A protest about fuel that reveals a deeper failure of resilience

If there is any lesson to take from this moment, it is that the status quo is not neutral.

It is actively producing the vulnerabilities we are now confronting, while at the same time benefiting those insulated from its consequences.

That said, the answer is not more fossil fuel subsidies.

Tractor Runs A protest about fuel that reveals a deeper failure of resilience

Climate resilience is not an environmental ideal, it is whether a country can sustain itself under pressure.

What the recent fuel protests reveal about Ireland’s approach to climate action.
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Gombeen

Mad traffic in Castletroy this evening

Speaking from a newly opened petrol station.

“A national biosphere, stretching the length and breadth of the island, would be a visible, shared project of nature restoration for the whole country (Ireland) and a worthy response to the climate, biodiversity and social crises of our age.”

Particularly enjoyed Michael O'Leary being given a good give minutes uninterrupted airtime telling customers to book flights 'tonight' to avoid missing out

Whitaker State of Mind On pessimism, possibility and choosing change

"The worst thing we can do is convince ourselves that change is no longer possible.

Because that is the real trap. Not failure, but resignation."

If you're need of a bit of hope, I recommend giving this Substack by @aislinnn.bsky.social a read!

Whitaker State of Mind On pessimism, possibility and choosing change

Ireland doesn’t have a shortage of ideas on nature restoration.

It has a shortage of belief, of the confidence to embrace change, and of the political will to back it.

We’ve been wrong about that before.

Full piece:
open.substack.com/pub/aislinna...

It’s mad that our campus still isn’t safe to cycle to: there’s no proper cycle lane in any direction leading up to it, and everything about it feels completely car-centric. But sure look, at least we’re getting complimentary high-vis jackets 😘🥰😍❤️

Hollow Smoke Staunch characters, old buildings and dancing in decay

So here’s a question I’ve been chewing on. Is loss inherently sad?

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In Brussels around this time last year, Thomas introduced this idea to me and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

I’ve been delighted to collaborate on it as a thought experiment around what a national biosphere could mean for Irish nature restoration.

What if Ireland went all in on nature? Why Ireland needs a bold, joined-up vision for land, climate and community

In our first joint post, @aislinnn.bsky.social and I explore how a national biosphere for Ireland offers a chance to reverse a legacy of extractive land use – not as nostalgia and not as bureaucratic compliance, but as a collective act of repair. substack.com/home/post/p-...

What if Ireland went all in on nature? Why Ireland needs a bold, joined-up vision for land, climate and community

For generations, we have extracted from the land until little was left to give.

A national biosphere offers a chance to reverse that trajectory.

A collective act of repair.

A living country cannot simply be inherited.

It has to be rebuilt.

This is our time to go all in.

What if Ireland went all in on nature? Why Ireland needs a bold, joined-up vision for land, climate and community

What if nature restoration in Ireland wasn’t distant or technical, but something you could walk through, shape, and belong to? 🌿

What if land, sea, and community were treated as one living system again, and brought together under a shared biosphere? 🌍

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Have you ever considered you might be the problem