The Cork Choral festival must be one of the happiest events in the annual calendar anywhere. Choirs everywhere, singing everywhere. Loads of it in Cobh too
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15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.
We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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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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IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE
Sounds to me like they are just trying to match the US government’s way to doing things to see if that works.
Saw a meme yesterday that asked “Does anyone know if the Strait of Hormuz opens on Sundays and if so at what time?”
This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Drove all along Sheepshead Peninsula and much of Beara last week.
The hills are dead.
Eaten to barrenness to feed the export market.
#SpéirGhorm
In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.
This really is the only answer. Our dependence on fossil fuels must end. For our planet, and for our society.
Please be conscious that there are petitions going around that may appear to be calling for something you want, but for very different reasons than yours.
Read the small print!
And that’s before you look at his predictably racist, homophobic and climate denying rants on social meejah …
Iranian national soccer players pose solemnly with tiny purple and pink backpacks in front of them
Wow 🥺 The Iranian national soccer team players with tiny backpacks as tribute to honor the children and teachers killed at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran ❤️🩹
National Party stickers all around O’Connell Street incase anyone has any doubts as to who has been front and centre of this.
On this day in 1998 the Belfast Agreement was signed. A producer at Sky News, Kieran Devaney, needed a headline and came up with Good Friday Agreement. Nobody says Belfast Agreement anymore.
A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.
If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.
Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Today, Thursday the 8th of April 2026, the Galway City Ring Road was granted approval by An Coimisiún Pleanála. The timing could not be more ironic: amidst a global fossil fuel crisis and a climate emergency. The current fuel crisis is exposing just how vulnerable our fossil-fuel-reliant transport system truly is. Building more roads will exacerbate this further. Roads don't reduce traffic, they create it. It's induced demand: build it, they will drive. Meanwhile, public and active transport are sidelined.
As a consequence, Irish transport emissions have yet to see a meaningful decrease. This road will lead to more emissions, more inactivity, and more harm to human health. It will lock in carbon and these effects for generations to come. Our response to a planet on fire from climate change and fossil-fuelled conflicts is to pour more concrete on the ground. Irish Doctors for the Environment have, over the years, written numerous statements and letters opposing the ring road. Although it may be sold as a solution, it is not. Decades of road building and car-centric sprawl across the world have shown us that.
The alternatives are clear: a tram system, world-class active travel infrastructure, better rail, and improved bus connections. Galway could become a city that prioritises health for the people and the planet. Instead, politicians and planners seem hellbent on turning it into yet another city surrounded by a massive road. Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.
Our statement on the Galway Ring Road.
Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.
Meanwhile, a very different protest is happening:
An interesting article, but I would question why it talks of the need for an LNG terminal and even nuclear, without referencing our disappointing record on renewables
China is rapidly and resolutely electrifying its energy and transport network, recognising that energy shortages can be minimised.
thetowtruck.ie who paid for the ads appears to be Sonny Boyde (www.linkedin.com/in/sonny-boy...) who seems to have some lovely posts in his history /s
It's so ironic that people like Ciarán Mullooley are supporting the traffic protest today. Reactionary populists like him (I know he's Trump-lite as opposed to full-on) are exactly why we're in this fuel price mess right now, but there he is, without a speck of self-awareness, egging it on.
Who's one of the main organisers of the Dublin fuel protest? ( If you want to protest about fuel price rises, do it outside the US and Israeli embassies)
It's James Geoghegan, a racist, climate change denying bigot.
James Geoghegan, one of the organisers of the fossil fuel protests, on Prime Time this evening asking for the government to open Irish oil fields. This is absolute madness.
Yes, we need to support people, but this is not the way.
There’s a pic in circulation in Irish farmer WhatsApp groups purporting to be of petrol prices in Portugal today. It’s being used to suggest the govt here isn’t doing as much as others to support farmers. I’ve been sent it several times. It must be old or unrepresentative.
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was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands
