An Taisce

The latest homelessness figures, at 17,885, include 5,830 children (a record high) and represent a 9.3 per cent increase in a year and a rise of 358 in a month. In my visualisation, red blocks represent some of the Derelict and Vacant Sites in Cork City. #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland #Cork

A huge shoutout to Louth County Council Integration Service for a fantastic #BeachClean at Port Beach recently! 🌊 👏 Together, they removed over 41kg of rubbish from our coastline, including plastic waste and small pieces of rope. 🐚🌍 A massive thank you to everyone who got involved! 🙌 #CleanCoasts

Longstanding failed maintenance of the Carraigglas Manor House and Gandon Yards has been the subject of repeated requests for action for Longford County Council to ensure Protected Structures do not fall into endangerment and take action if endangerment occurs. www.independent.ie/irish-news/a...

They're back! With the heavy rains, the Whoopers have returned to the bogs for the 26/27 season. Their habitat is of limited capacity as the pumps continue to remove the water however.

Such phenomenal news - few elections matter to all life on Earth than those in Brazil! 🇧🇷 www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...

“Dublin Bay has a long list of protections: it’s an Unesco biosphere, much of it protected under EU law for its birds & habitats. But if our dogs are allowed to run rampant, what’s the point?” Ella McSweeney on Ireland’s problematic relationship with wildlife. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

'Not just an environmental problem' A brief insight into what's happening at the Cop17 Global Biodiversity summit in Yerevan from Jane Stout of @tcddublin.bsky.social @fintankelly.bsky.social & Minister Christopher O'Sullivan www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Given the time of year, I thought for this week's edition of our Monument Monday newsletter we might visit one of the places that always comes to mind when we think of haunted and cursed places in Ireland – the infamous Hellfire Club on Montpelier Hill in the Dublin Mountains.
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🎥 CILL STUIFÍN Film Screening & Q&A: SOLD OUT! 🎟️ Please return tickets if you can't attend, so those on waitlist can join! 🌊 #CleanCoasts #FilmScreening #CillStuifin More:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cill-stuifin-qa-with-director-kev-l-smith-and-surfer-ollie-o-flaherty-tickets-2001168250106

A five-year, 70+-reporter investigation found much of the farmed fish you consume can be downstream from "forced labor, rancid waste, harmful chemicals" bearing no trace of the global supply chain's harms to people and environment that were required to produce it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Huge thanks to all those who could add their name to the #HandsOffNature petition. It has been officially given to our EU Environment Commissioner @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu on our collective behalf letting her get a clear message that we don't want environmental polluters to dictate EU law.

Ending Ireland's dependence on gas and oil is proving painfully slow www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Prof. Shane O'Hanlon (Geriatrics, UCD/Mater) talking sense about joined up safe cycling infrastructure & keeping older folks mobile #ActiveTravel. A must listen for local Councillors who often oppose such measures in their bailiwicks. #Cycling4All love30.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The Council's Industry & Waste Sectoral Review shows stronger action is needed to cut industrial emissions and reduce waste. Industrial emissions remain off track for 2030, while Ireland generate high levels of waste and has one of the lowest circularity rates in the EU. www.ClimateCouncil.ie

Do you have experience in evaluation, applied social research or impact assessment, ideally involving culture, communities, climate and environment? Seeking expressions of interest from experienced Embedded Project Evaluators for exciting Creative Climate Action Project. www.antaisce.org/vacancies

Counting real cost of factory farms: “We can easily reduce the number of caged animals and redirect existing and future funding towards a just transition – a transition that benefits farmers instead of the profiteering by global agrifood corporations.” www.desmog.com/2026/07/08/n...

Join me for a pre COP31 webinar with @ejni.bsky.social @antaisce.bsky.social with panel Dr Ciara Brennan, Prof John Sweeney and @swimsure.bsky.social Nov 5th 11.30am register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What’s on the Line at COP31? Join An Taisce & Environmental Justice Network Ireland for an urgent briefing on what COP31 means for Ireland, global emissions and the race to shift from promises on climate to action. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @ejni.bsky.social #COP31 #ClimateCrisis

A glimpse of a hopeful future. 💚 Created for the Good Anthropocene project with people from around the Firth of Forth, this beautiful artwork imagines what could be possible when we choose care and stewardship for nature. #MarineLife #Nature

Limerick: e-bike loan scheme for parents! Interested in trying an e-bike for eight months? Researchers at the University of Limerick are exploring how borrowing an e-bike can support everyday travel for families. Contact iscycle@ul.ie for more information.

If climate change didn’t exist, air pollution alone would be reason enough to end fossil fuel dependency.

National Climate Demonstration 2026! 🌍The climate crisis and water are linked. Climate change is having negative impacts on both water quality and water availability.  We need action now! 📆 Save the date: 14th November 2026. 📍Garden of Remembrance, 1pm ✊Join us there!

The world has lost the opportunity to prevent global warming significantly exceeding the critical threshold of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, according to a major new UN report.

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

WOW Week is making headlines! Check out this amazing report from RTÉ news2day! 🚲 📺 Reporter Cathal Dowd spoke to students at Gaelscoil Inse Chór and Julianne, one of our fab Travel Officers, about active and sustainable travel during a disco-themed cycle around the school. 🎶 Watch below 👇

Cement accounted for around 37% of Ireland’s industrial emissions in 2025. The Council says lower-carbon cement and concrete technologies are important to reducing these emissions, but some have been awaiting approval for several years. Read more: https://climatecouncil.pulse.ly/4q3baeb0hf

Please consider signing this petition. Salmon aquaculture in Ireland is polluting coastal waters, contributing to the collapse of wild salmon and driving overfishing for its feed – all despite organic labelling. And is a future we want? Chicken-remnant-fed fish? swanireland.ie/take-action/...

World has notional emissions cuts planned to 2030. @unep.org says to have any hope of reining in temperature rise we have to triple those notions. And then deploy carbon removal technologies that don't actually exist. It's beginning to sound a lot like fantasy www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Join us tomorrow at 11.30 am for an interesting webinar to learn all about the Irish Festival of Samhain, the connections with the harvest and many other Irish myths and celebrations. 🐦‍⬛ 🦇 Book your spot here: greenschoolsireland.org/mini-webinar...

Europe's waters are under massive pressure 🐟☠️ Yet @ec.europa.eu is proposing new manure loopholes for intensive livestock farming in nitrate-polluted regions 💧🏭🐮 Ignoring its own evidence will wave through more pollution, kill ecosystems and risk our drinking water 🚨 What happened to due process?

Know Your Environmental Rights: Great webinar to help you navigate local authority planning portals & understand more of how the planning system works, plus tips on engaging more effectively with An Coimisiún Pleanála. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziCE... #EnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalJustice

Join our great team! We are now recruiting an Infrastructure Officer for Safe Routes to School Do you want to make a huge positive difference to help support active travel in schools? Closing date 5pm on November 6th, 2026 For more: www.antaisce.org/vacancies @srts-ire.bsky.social

Will I Light The Fire? 🔥 Solid fuel burning is lighting any solid fuel such as wood, coal, peat briquettes or turf in an open fire or stove. When these types of solid fuels are burned in an open fire or stove, they release harmful pollutants such as particulate matter (PM). These harmful (1/2)

Monasterboice • Louth The round tower at Monasterboice served as a bell tower, as well as housing the monastery’s library and other valued objects. Disaster struck in 1097 when the Annals of the Four Masters recorded that the tower, along with all its books and treasures, were burned. #Ireland

‘Public faith in politics will wane if we keep signing off on climate action plans while pursuing transport strategies that make emissions reductions impossible’ - Eamon Ryan on delaying BusConnects. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

📢 We’re hiring! The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is looking for a (Senior) Accounting Officer to join our Finance team. Help ensure sound financial management in support of a future where people and nature thrive! 📍 Brussels 📅 Deadline: 2 November 2026

Check out these pictures of Callystown NS, in Louth. This scheme features works at both entrances to the school including pencil bollards and colourful roundels, as well as the development of active travel links to the school and village with shared use footpaths and numerous new zebra crossings.

Picked it up… then left it behind! 🐕💩 Bagging the dog poo is only half the job. Leaving the bag on a beach, path or roadside just moves the problem somewhere else. ❌ Take it with you and bin it properly. It will only take two minutes!🚮 #SmallActionsBigImpact #2MinuteBeachClean

An Taisce has requested a Notice of Endangerment be issued for Carraigglas (Carrigglas/Carraig Ghlas) Demesne & Gandon Yards, a nationally significant piece of architecture and natural heritage in Longford due to its continued neglect & advanced dereliction www.antaisce.org/news/heritag...

What's so amazing about these old Irish Halloween turnip carvings is how accurately they also represent what it feels like to live in the 21st century

🚦🔴Stop using the toxic chemicals we know are harmful, 🟠prevent toxic chemicals from reaching the market, people and ecosystems, 🟢realign incentives and redesign systems. 🔗 Read more and watch the recording here: www.pan-europe.info/blog/invisib...

Here at The Irish Cycling Campaign we see cycling as not just a cheap and easy way to get around but a simple, enjoyable life-changing choice benefiting individuals AND society. For €15 you get 😍 Events insurance; 💰 5% off bike insurance;⚡️20% off bike lights www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/membership/

Explore a medieval marvel in County Laois in today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #IrishHistory #Medieval

'The question for us is: who will pay farmers to keep our water clean, and how much longer can we afford not to?' www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

Today is the deadline Help send the message that we can't allow polluters to dictate law. Many EU leaders are bending to pressures to weaken our vital health and environmental protections. Clean air, clean water and healthy ecosystems can't be compromised. www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

Rejected due to lack of "capacity on the electricity grid, the lack of planned on-site renewable energy generation and the failure to engage with corporate power purchase agreements" www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster... We're just getting started! 💪 👉DEMO: 7 Nov - 12pm - Garden of Remembrance👈

Planned measures are not enough to materially change Ireland’s industrial emissions trajectory, with EPA projections showing little difference between existing and additional planned measures. The Council says that further action is needed before 2030. https://climatecouncil.pulse.ly/xc3delslcx

Last 24 hours: Add your voice to Hands OFF Nature before the petition closes! More than 1 million Europeans have already signed, sending a clear message: my health and nature are not up for sale. Sign the petition now: www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

The #HandsOffNature petition closes tomorrow, 20 Oct! We are now at over 1,200,000 signatures - let's keep the momentum going 💪 ✍️ iwt.ie/what-we-do/h... @eeb.org @wwf.eu @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu