Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, I repeat Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, this is unpreced—

<wait my producer is just whispering something in my ear>

Apparently this is precedented

100 properties to rent in Cork but a not a single one for HAP A stark reality in Simon Community’s Locked Out of the Market report

A stark reality for vulnerable renters

Death by Shakespeare
Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays
#ShakespeareDay

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

Five principles for good public engagement: How to get people involved in the climate conversation This briefing is aimed at politicians, policymakers and practitioners working to engage people with climate action and sustainable behaviour change. It draws on CAST’s extensive evidence base, as well as wider research.

Want to learn more about how to get people involved in the climate conversation? Read our CAST briefing 29: "Five principles for good public engagement: How to get people involved in the climate conversation": cast.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

5 key messages from five years of CAST research: CAST Animation Drawing on five years of CAST research conducted in collaboration with policymakers, local authorities, charities, businesses and community groups, CAST’s latest report: ‘Catalysts of Change: People…

Watch our 3-minute key messages summary animation: youtu.be/vhbvlLlZlAc?...

BJPolS abstract text discussing a study on social media abuse towards politicians. It highlights the gender-related abuse faced, especially against women, mentions the challenge of perceptible versus the unseen offenses, and notes how traditional gender roles manifest in the presence of gendered language online...

NEW -

Clicks and Stones: Women Politicians and Gendered Hostility Online - https://cup.org/3OumED3

- Annie Jarman

#OpenAccess

Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids Martin Shipton A Reform UK Senedd candidate shocked those attending a hustings meeting by suggesting that women should stay at home and look after their children instead of going out to work. Mark…

Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids

Margaret E Ward: ‘Saving the family’ is really about putting women back in their boxes An unholy trinity of conservatives, Christian nationalists and tech bros are planning to strip American women of their rights

authoritarians use five consistent mechanisms: controlling women’s bodily and reproductive autonomy; blocking equal access to the workplace and public life; reducing penalties for domestic and sexual violence; and reinforcing strict gender and sexual hierarchies’.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Margaret E Ward: ‘Saving the family’ is really about putting women back in their boxes An unholy trinity of conservatives, Christian nationalists and tech bros are planning to strip American women of their rights

Excellent, disturbing piece by @margareteward.bsky.social in the Irish Times today www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏

To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space.

Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform.

Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut

📹 Sen

Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy.

Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

They just saw the cutest octopus, one I have never seen in midwater, but this stupid app still won't let me upload videos tonight. Maybe a still image will work. If so I'll share the video tomorrow. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 909 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife

Yesterday I spoke on RTÉ Liveline about the book and video promoting Sitka sent to every primary school in Ireland.

One thing I didn't get to mention is that the tree is also highly invasive. Coincidentally, I later found one in my own place.

We may as well be planting rhododendron everywhere.

A juvenile jack fish wears a jellyfish like a helmet immune to its sting, it uses the jellyfish for protection while drifting in the open ocean at night. [📹 Chris Gug]

Original post

Goniatite googly eyes 👀

Fossilized Goniatite shells - 300 million years old relatives of modern Squid and Octopus.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.

Modern childhood in too many places today 😢

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

This was never about the worst of the worst.

We have continually demanded answers about how many of our children were taken into federal detention. Trump’s DHS has continually refused to give us information.

sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

"Sometimes they're very strong but cry and sometimes they need just hugs."

President Zelenskyy on how meeting the families of fallen soldiers is one of the hardest parts of his job.

To celebrate #EarthDay2026 we are highlighting Irish people who contributed to our understanding of the natural world, starting with Ellen Hutchins. She was Ireland’s first female botanist & an expert on mosses, bryophytes and lichens, several of which are named for her. www.dib.ie/biography/hu...

Photo by MartinPrescott on iStock

#Opinion: Dr Paul Davis of DCU Business School says by treating governance as contract administration, we are letting our sovereignty erode gradually through every decision we outsource. Read more via @irishexaminer.bsky.social: launch.dcu.ie/3QjYOKN

Mick Kelly: We’re only ever nine meals away from anarchy. That risk is no longer just theoretical Ireland is sleepwalking into a food security crisis. We have just 74 field-scale vegetable growers left, down from around 600

The consolidation of the dairy + beef industry, profiting a handful of export-led processors, pushed by the Irish state for 50 years.

-> food insecurity, fossil fuel dependency, environmental degradation, massive income inequality and farmer indebtedness.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Squid dance!! 🦑🦑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #squid #coralcitycamera

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

Catriona Crowe: Where are the protests over the torture, beating and slavery of 100,000 Irish citizens? Are we going to 'literally concrete over' the sufferings of children and grieving mothers failed by Church and State?

Catriona Crowe: Where are the protests over the torture, beating and slavery of 100,000 Irish citizens?

Hannah Daly: When the crisis is caused by oil dependence, the solution isn’t cheaper oil The tactics used by protesters show that our vulnerability is the fossil fuel system itself

Hannah Daly: When the crisis is caused by oil dependence, the solution isn’t cheaper oil

Kathy Sheridan: Fuel protests were a display of mine-is-bigger-than-yours machismo The extreme machismo element was introduced by Christopher Duffy, the self-appointed leader who had ‘the country by the balls’

Kathy Sheridan: Fuel protests were a display of mine-is-bigger-than-yours machismo