Friends of Fridays For Future Dublin

🍂Thanks to Ceara from the excellent Book of Leaves podcast for having us on to talk about why we need more people calling for aviation to do its fair share for climate action. 🖋Petition - my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke... 🎧Listen below to Louise O'Leary on the podcast. shows.acast.com/5fea6e9433e5...?

This was us yesterday. Apparently we're a bit mixed up on the exact number of weeks and haven't quite reached the 8 year mark yet, but we won't quibble over that when there are much bigger things at stake! #ActOnClimate

Week 404

We're keeping up our weekly presence outside the Dáil. Just haven't been recording it here. So this is a bit of a catch up of photos from recent weeks.

Sign our petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke...

The vote wasn’t rigged. It was oil rigged. Fossilvision.com #eurovision

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic... 📈It remains unconscionable that our Government continue to pursue even more polluting flight traffic, when experts are warning of increased likelihood of climate breakdown. 📝Sign and share our petition my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke...

95+ groups across 25 countries have responded to the jet fuel crisis with a manifesto proposing ten measures to reduce air traffic. The manifesto highlights aviation’s impacts, from climate heating to militarisation. @staygroundednet.bsky.social childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2026/04/29/j...

Dr John Legge calling out the lack of political will to act on road safety.

Absolutely sickening. Israeli bulldozers wrecking solar farms in southern Lebanon yesterday. It’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from an “army” that bombs hospitals, schools and refugee camps & slaughters children for fun.

Imagine if we and the media spent as much time discussing real solutions to this fuel crisis as we do on the continued obsession with aviation and maintaining business as usual.

Pod of this week’s Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper is now available. Also had a good hop off the new Sitka Spruce ‘book’ being circulated to primary schools by the timber industry. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

📣 A public inquiry into the proposed gold mine in the Sperrins — supposedly for the public, but not giving them time or opportunity to respond to key evidence 🧵👇

4/The climate is now changing in a way that is bringing us out of the hospitable, stable period which has allowed the development of modern farming- bad news for farmers which is bad news for everyone

I don't often think Matt Cooper is dead wrong, but I certainly do on his call to scrap carbon taxes, which, apart from being a terrible idea, would also hand the far-right "protestors" a massive win and embolden them for future chaos. www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

Open letter from 16 organisations to Minister O'Brien calling on him to urgently halt the Government’s interventions to legislate exemption from climate obligations for the Dublin Airport cap. childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2026/03/18/j...

I sat through a wonderful concert tonight that had only two parts of a trio - the petrol pumps are dry - and I realised that if *this* is the trigger that convinces Irish people to switch to EVs, the irony would be exquisite.

“Red meat is actually very good for human health” says health expert/CEO of Dawn Meats, Niall Browne. Browne is just as completely, delusionally wrong about land-use impacts of plant-based diets vs meat, but hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.

Nooses. Death threats. Some of these “protesters” like the ones who wrote this sign are fascists itching for violence.

Madness. Approving a motorway in a climate crisis. Roads don't reduce traffic, they create it. It's induced demand: build it, they will drive. Meanwhile, public and active transport get sidelined. More emissions. More inactivity. More locked-in carbon. We're pouring concrete on a burning planet.

¡Viva España!

I'm struggling to process the layers of irony here. Fuel price protestors, blockading roads and fuel depots, have caused more disruption than a war in the Middle East that stopped a good share of global oil trade.

Just when we thought it couldn't get worse: New law means major energy projects won't be checked for their climate impact They're ramming through laws so they can ram through climate-wrecking projects and undermining our legislative system in the process www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

If #climate protesters had ever caused even a fraction of the disruption now being experienced across Ireland, there would likely be calls by now from rural TDs for the return of the death penalty.

🚲🚶‍♀️🚌 As we're rightly reminded by our Govt, our journeys count in climate emergency. ⚠️ But they seem to have forgotten flying less! www. wri.org/insights/climate-friendly-choices-ranked We know they're busy trying to remove ANY airport limits, so we've taken time to rectify this bizarre omission

In 2024, 24 GHG permits were issued by the EPA to data centre operators in Ireland for diesel generators. These permits are for facilities with thermal input >20 MW, the equivalent energy to power 13,000–16,500 homes. Will DCs be asked to conserve energy? www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

We can use this crisis for good. 🚲 Roll out temporary cycle lanes 🚋 Make public transport free for a time ⚽ Car free days in cities 🚘 30 km/h speed limit in urban areas We do not have to double down on fossil fuels. We can choose a different path. My piece in the Journal this week.

A blustery day with sunny spells and rain. We had all that during our presence outside the Dáil today! We think we're now actually at week 382 - hard to keep track! #NoMoreDataCentres #KeepIrelandLNGFree #KeepThePassengerCap #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice @darraghobrientd.bsky.social

Week 379 (despite what the sign says😀) and it was lovely to have @magdalenasedlmayr.bsky.social join us. Great outreach today! #KeepIrelandLNGFree #NoMoreDatacentres #KeepDublinAirportPassengerCap

Week 378. Some of our signs showing a lot of wear and tear. Would be nice if we didn't need them any more. But the way it is, seems like our Government is trying to INCREASE emissions - between LNG, data centres & airport expansion! Contact your elected representatives to demand they ActOnClimate!

Week 377 and it was great to join up with @foeireland.bsky.social 's data centres protest and to have @ciaranahern.bsky.social step in to show support.

Week 376. Blue skies above. #KeepIrelandLNGFree #KeepThePassengerCap #ClimateJusticeNow @darraghobrientd.bsky.social

Week 375 demanding climate action @darraghobrientd.bsky.social #NoLNG #KeepThePassengerCap

Hope everybody is okay. This happened just after our protest for safer streets in Cabra. It underlines the need for safe cycling and walking infrastructure.

Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe. #Climate action, my eye.

Last year, we urged the Irish government to introduce a nationwide ban on fossil fuel advertising. They chose not to act. But across the globe, cities and countries are stepping up—reclaiming the narrative and taking bold action. Ireland, meanwhile, remains a climate laggard. #BanFossilAds🔥

Tá ár Rialtas chun an eitlíocht a mhéadú. Go raibh maith agaibh, a Éadaoin agus a Angela as labhairt amach ar son páistí agus a dtodhchaí ar Raidió Na Gaeltachta: nóiméad 10.35-15.45 www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/c... agus ar Raidió na Life soundcloud.com/rnl/teorann-... #CeartaLeanaíTharEitiltí

An appalling proposal is hidden at the end of the Government’s Bill on the airport cap; it would exclude decisions under the legislation from the current obligation on almost all public bodies to consider their climate impact and to be consistent with climate objectives.

Our action going totally viral on Twitter news right now! We will not let the oil industry rest. They are suffocating our planet. They are fuelling war. They are supporting genocide in Palestine. Support our work: gofundme.com/f/support-foss… (Being shared a lot w/o credit to us)

Week #373 (It's hard to keep track - we've been protesting for climate justice for so long, I think we can be excused for displaying the wrong number occasionally). #KeepThePassengerCap #KeepIrelandLNGFree @fiannafailparty.bsky.social @darraghobrientd.bsky.social Fine Gael

Week 372 of protest as Govt demonstrates cognitive dissonance, trying to ram through a State LNG import terminal as the climate crisis deepens and Ireland is battered by rain and floods. Contact your TDs & tell them to #KeepIrelandLNGFree put a #MoratoriumOnDataCentres and #KeepThePassengerCap

The ongoing extreme weather and flooding across Ireland should trigger unprecedented climate action from our government. The question is though, will they act? It's time for Ireland to ban fossil fuel advertising! 🔥 #BanFossilAds

Week 371 protesting for climate justice outside the Dáil. Meanwhile, Minister Darragh O’Brien is trying to ram through legislation to allow him to approve a state LNG terminal. Here’s an action you can take on this NOW! action.uplift.ie/campaigns/em...

Week 370 demanding climate justice, while our Govt pursues new fossil fuel infrastructure in the form of an LNG import terminal in Co Clare and continues to facilitate more and more energy and water-guzzling data centres. The utter madness of it!