How about having a directly elected Mayor head this up, rather than a secretary general from the civil service?
The same body will be chaired by the CEO of An Post. What civil society involvement will there be?
South Lebanon today. Reports soon @irishtimes.com
The pictured car is now under 13.000€ in Germany. I just looked it up yesterday because a neighbour told me EVs were too expensive, she said 30k. While my EV was charging almost for free behind us through PV.
Ireland currently uses ¼ of its generation capacity on data centres, and is heading for ½ . Microsoft sought consent to build a new one in Dublin and were refused, unless it generated its own power (which they’d likely do with gas). And that’s without considering their water consumption for cooling.
Oh great. Now we’re to blame for the end of times! 😬
#SpeirGorm
Curlews need our help. I’m sponsoring Cathy the Curlew, are you?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#cathythecurlew #Conservation #WorldCurlewDay #Curlew #Yorkshire
The acre of wildflowers is coming to life for year 2.
Coming soon!
The Moths of the British Isles, black cover with gold lettering and decoration of moth and branch with two leaves.
Book Cover of the Day:
Monday’s front pages 📰
We need to see more climate visuals which lead to us being empowered to take action and O’Neill’s book charts the various issues which are currently holding us back.
'The Visual Life of Climate Change' by Saffron O'Neill
climatewithbrian.com/2026/04/19/r...
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%
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The deaths of young children has fallen by 60% in the past 25 years! The number of under 5s dying worldwide is down 60% & new-born deaths have halved. That's millions of lives saved thanks to immunisation, better nutrition & health services. Well done world 🌍👏
data.unicef.org/resources/le...
Today, @rte.ie replaced Galliard Battaglia as the opening theme tune for @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social with something from the suite for the station's "new on-air audio identity".
The new identity for Sunday Miscellany doesn't work.
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youtu.be/EfYBnwous6U
The US far-right are determined to interfere and influence European and Irish elections. Here’s James Geoghegan and John Dallon, who portrayed themselves as ordinary farmers / contractors, hobnobbing with Kevin Posobiec, an American far-right influencer.
Still a long way to go, but one of the cruellest cancers (it took my dear father in just six weeks) is starting to look less untreatable. Medical science is humanity's greatest gift to itself.
'Environmental impact of these vast facilities remains largely secret, despite the data flowing into a publicly-funded database.
... lobbying from major data centre operators was successful in keeping specific information from individual data centres confidential and out of the public domain'
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
Searching for ancestors is surprisingly emotional 🥲 #1926Census #Archives
We're going to be burying Mummy on May 23rc 2pm in Lurgan. Keep that day free 09:30 What do vou mean has she not buried already 10:27 No. She's in Ethna's house 10:33 w Why 10:38 Why what? 10:38 w We just never buried her 10:39 Oh fair, whyd it take so long to bury her? 1 thought you usually do that pretty quickly 11:21 Also, does Ethna not find it creepy having her in he house 11:22 Oh fair, whyd it take so long to bury her? I thought you usually do that pretty quickly Cos we got her cremated and just never bothered 11:33 Well she had the aravestone at the side of the house for years. 11:33 She's in the kitchen 11:33 Oh right ok her being cremated makes alot more sense than what I was thinking 12:12 Ha ha haaaa!!!! 12
This is an actual conversation I've just had with my son about burying my Mum who passed away two years ago.
Have I failed as a mother? 😂
@akellyucc.bsky.social
Join us for a clean-up of Cabra with @antaisce.bsky.social National Spring Clean this morning - meeting at 10am at the Cabra Pond!
#SpeirGorm
@phibsboro.bsky.social @leafybatter.bsky.social
Therein lies the greatest threat to humanity
"I've never experienced hate like it," Eileen Flynn told The Journal, after a video of remarks she made in the Seanad about the recent fuel protests went viral in certain circles online on Wednesday.
jrnl.ie/7014874
Sunny spells and showers make for great rainbows. The full rainbow just now after a shower. Captured by drone near Tullow.
The Irish government is doing more to house computers than it is to house people, and is somehow making less money from it.
#SpeirGorm
