Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺

This week, the LDA will open a lottery for nearly 200 new cost-rental apartments at Horgan's Quay. Cost-rental means “not-for-profit” renting, with rents typically about 25% cheaper than regular market rents. For more information, and to apply for the lottery, see: lda.ie/homes/lda-co...

Show me your budget, and I'll tell you your policies.

Throughout the entire Fare Hike saga, Government maintained this was a decision by the NTA We now know it was the Dept of Public Expenditure & it was decided 12 months ago Government lied to to the public, the did it repeatedly, & they did it intentionally

My latest monthly newsletter is out now. This month, we have updates on: 🎟️ Lottery for Horgan's Quay cost rental homes 🚸 Pedestrian improvements across the ward 🏘️ Progress on Traveller accommodation As well as all my motions and questions for the month.

I assume everyone who wrote about the hospital bike shed in their columns and talked about the hospital bike shed on their radio shows and tweeted about the hospital bike shed on their Nazi owned micro blogging app are very excited to discuss this

It is a beautiful day today in Serbia. After 14 years, Vučić and SNS have been defeated. The students of Serbia showed that protesting and mobilizing can bring change. We celebrate alongside our Member Party Zeleno Levi Front.

To be consistent with the UN Charter, which the Government says the new Defence Act will be, "peace enforcement" requires a mandate from the UN Security Council. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are in gobbledygook-land, if they are trying to square a consistent policy out of this.

This is what climate change looks like... The evidence is here. We need to make it impossible to ignore. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

The compromise is having farmland to provide food, and rewilded areas for nature. As things stand, it's only the first and none of the second. But you think that's compromise? Nature would disagree.

In 5 years (or less) Jim O'Callaghan will be leading either Independent Ireland or Renua 🔮

Thanks PJ Coogan and the Opinion Line for having me on during the week to discuss conditions faced by residents at Spring Lane. Cork City Council has issued invitations to tender on redevelopment of the site. In the mean time, sanitation, electrical, play and housing conditions remain deplorable.

It's not remotely controversial at this point to say that new fossil fuel developments are a blow to humanity, not just "climate campaigners." The International Energy Agency has said for years now that no new oil and gas fields are needed if we're to stay within livable warming limits.

Thanks Donal O’Keeffe and the Echo for continuing to report on conditions at Spring Lane. Last week a tender to redevelop the site was finally issued — but already a whole extended family are still unaccounted for in the plans, as well as individuals living in crowded conditions across the site.

Thanks Eoin Shortiss and Cork Beo for reporting my comments on the invitation for tender for Spring Lane/Ellis Yard finally going out. This is an enormous step forward but the time it has taken means we are still behind the curve, with one extended family and many individuals still unaccounted for.

Thanks Kevin Galvin and the Irish Independent for reporting the appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála to allow development in the gardens of historic Hyde Park House. The decision to rezone from a Landscape Preservation Zone passed by the narrowest of margins, the Lord Mayor's casting vote, in 2022.

A new raised pedestrian crossing installed at St Luke's Cross. More crossings like these are being installed along Ballyhooly Road from the entrance to the Glen River Park. On Monday, the Transport & Mobility committee is meeting too to discuss 30km/h zones across the city, including here.

🇵🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸 Sikorski: Since January of last year, the U.S. has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it, Europe.

Summer 1987: New York City mayor Ed Koch announces a bicycle ban in midtown. Slow-ride protests led by bike messengers fought the ban, & city residents sided with the cyclists. The ban was lifted before it ever went into effect. 📷Carl Hultberg

Today's lesson for Europe: if your national security relies on US oligarchs' tech, they'll cut you off when you most need it.

One company's software surreptitiously hacking into another company's software so as to cheat a positive response to a quality assurance test is not the good thing you think it is.

But by all means everyone, keep kowtowing to the far right.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

With this government & the minister of state in charge of road safety we have effectively de-regulated the purported #VisionZero effort. Another pedestrian death today. But that was everyone’s responsibility!

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

Thanks Amy Campbell the Echo for reporting my comments on the unpicking of carbon tax in Budget 2027. Relief from price spikes can be done without undoing climate policy (e.g. energy credits). Worse again, blaming climate policy for an energy crises (one caused by a climate denier) is a bad idea.

Catherine Martin introduced a guaranteed income scheme for artists. Patrick O'Donovan couldn't get your 16-year-old a cinema ticket.

I can't think of a single non-malevolent reason they would do this.

Ireland cannot “credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of data centres” …or while cutting carbon taxes! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Budget Day in Ireland. Seems like greyhound racing did well: sadly can't say the same for climate action.

This is DPER. This is literally DPER. Chamber's own department: Public Expenditure and Reform. Unless, it's DOGE. It's a ha'penny DOGE, isn't it? Because whoever is whispering into the minister's ear doesn't know what a DPER is, but is all like, "What Ireland needs is a DOGE, bro."

Important international meeting of cities from across Europe at Cork City Hall today — the WHO Summit of Mayors on Climate and Health. Ending in a call to action on nature, food, transport, communities, and future generations. ℹ️ www.who.int/europe/news-...

Don't be confused, this is just a public grant to gambling companies

2015-2025 have all been the hottest years on record, each surpassing the previous. But sure, Jeremy of Clarksons Farm, next year will be "normal" again.

Why is the EU refusing to help the International Criminal Court?

In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive through violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies, and the destruction of healthcare and vital infrastructure.

"On a per capita basis, Ireland is subsidising fossil fuels at a rate up to 5 times the EU average." "The total fossil fuel subsidy figure for 2026 may well now be more than €6 billion." Compare: the new Children’s Hospital cost €2.24 billion & the total Education Budget for 2026 is €13.5 billion.

This is amazing. Forget, "Is AI alive?" Deliberately seeing AI through the lens of 'Computational Demonology' is a fantastic idea!

Same guy also said the Luas made no economic sense and would fail to attract significant numbers of riders. Today, it's so popular it's free.

A surprise Sheela-na-Gig on Railway Street in Cork. Happy birthday, Sheela!

Imagine taking either of these loons seriously - when geek met geek.