hard to believe that a site bought and paid for by a Nazi would somehow become a site for Nazis, but here we are

The really embarassing thing is that this might work.

'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

ICE technology is a dead man walking www.businessgreen.com/news/4528540...

Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds Chemicals known to affect brains of common garden birds, and to kill unborn chicks, found in most feather samples

Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm sure of it, it wont happen. Its like forestry back to grass, technically possible with replacement elsewhere. Nearly never financially possible.
Meanwhile when AD contracts runs out you still have grassland
I'm more likely to be in direct competition with ADs in future but emissions need to fall

Reform UK Candidate Runs Firm Hired by Sanctioned Pro-Putin Bosnian Serb Leadership Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnational far-right political network

How do we know that Reform UK is the British component of Putin International? Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnational far-right political network

Individual action is vital, but systemic change requires a coalition. Today, I join people, NGOs and organisations around the world to deliver a direct message to world leaders: stop the tunnel vision and #SeeTheBigPicture.

#EarthDay2026

Yes, we have no bananas. A Dunnes Stores supermarket in Galway completely devoid of Musa acuminata provisions.

One for the historical archives: The Great Banana Famine of 2026.

Hard to believe that here we are, in 2026, as fossil fuel giants literally torch the living planet, and Irish media is STILL queuing up to whitewash Valero/Texaco as it cynically leverages sponsorship of a competition aimed at the very kids whose future it’s destroying for profit.

Wisteria season in Brussels

It’s a good opportunity for Gas Networks Ireland to rebrand their fossil fuel as Sustainable Gas.

The AD in Nurney mixes pig slurry with much of Tesco’s food waste, no grass as far as I remember. Packaging all turned into plastic fencing, furniture etc. Has a feeling of genuine circularity to it.

Good quality tillage land going to solar really doesn't sit well with me. We're going to need that food production land in the future. And I'm not convinced about post solar clean up back to tillage.

It would be a saving of 2.6m tons of CO2e according to MACC. Which in the context of Ag’s underperformance is not nothing. But still … there’s the whole land/food/fuel wrestlemania.

If only we had a published (and not muzzled) Land Use Strategy.

Solar PV delivers about 20 times more energy per acre than grass/ biodigester combination. Not one acre of grass should be fed into a biodigester.

Our target for Anaerobic Digesters still implies using the grass of 120,000ha of farmland to make 10% of the gas in the pipes “sustainable”. That’s 3,500 farms. While we import 5m tons of feed.

This one makes my head hurt.

##speirgorm
Always interesting to see where our electricity is coming from. It's very variable. Follow @greencollective.io for these lovely graphs and insights

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 60% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 79% at 15:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 30% of demand. 1% of generation was exported, 9% of demand was met by imports.

The venn diagram of farmers and fascists does overlap. They are in pretty much every profession. We need to acknowledge that to be able to do something about it. The far right aren't oddballs in they mammies basement. They are farmers, teachers, politicians, doctors, etc.

It’s not you who should be ashamed Rob. I lived somewhere almost identical for a year and for many years in a place only marginally better. As you say, as a renter you have zero enforceable rights and it’s a constant low level stress. It is literally a national disgrace.

Landlords have all the power if you're relying on tenant complaints to enforce legislation. Tenants are too exposed to risk. We can't flag issues because a property being deemed unfit for habitation hoofs us into the street. As bad as this place was, I've seen much worse.

I'm embarrassed to share this, but this is where I lived for years because I couldn't afford anything better in a housing crisis. It's a literal deathtrap. If a fire happened between me and the door I had no alternate escape route. I didn't complain because I couldn't risk losing it.

Jess from the Fast Show. A disheveled man standing in front of a shed. Rubbish is piled up beside it

Today I ‘ave mostly been living in a modular home.. #spéirghorm

A cartoon depicting billionaire Rupert Murdoch sitting with a mountain cookies. He tells a white man sitting at a table with a single cookie and dressed in a hard hat and high viz vest "Careful mate - that foreigner wants your cookie!" As a person of colour sits on the opposite side of the table with no cookies.

There's about 80k unoccupied residential units, plus at least 20k derelict. Lack of housing stock is not the cause of homelessness. The hoarding of property, to increase rents, is the main cause of homelessness in Ireland. That's the problem that needs tackling.

But the critical difference is that one can deplore the dire public investment in infrastructure in solidarity with migrants, who are as affected by this failing as everyone else, often more so. The point of "IIF" is simply to exclude migrants.

To say "Ireland is full" is not to hold or outline a view - it's a formally meaningless statement of course - it's rather to make a signal to the violent minority for whom this phrase is a claim to racist and fascist solidarity. Time to stop treating II like a normal party maybe. #speirgorm

5 years from now Fine Gael will announce their "rent a cupboard" policy.

It will allow those renting garden sheds to get on the property ladder by renting one of the cupboards in the shed at market rates. #Spéirgorm

If Ireland's centre-left crowd ever wanted an American-style "issues" campaign to ape, surely this here's the one.

#spéirghorm #ireland

An absolutely honest & hilarious entry from the recently released 1926 Census!
#Speirgorm #SpéirGhorm #IrishHistory #IrishGeneology #1926Census

Minister expresses gratitude to Kerry CAMHS whistleblower Minister of State with Responsibility for Mental Health Mary Butler has expressed her gratitude to the whistleblower who highlighted concerns in Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

The HSE should hire her back.

www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...

#speirgorm