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Meet our speaker! We’re delighted to welcome Ciara Pidgeon, Head of Research and Evaluation at Department of Children, Disability and Equality, presenting key findings from Growing Up in Ireland Study at our upcoming conference. Haven’t registered? Sign up now: www.socialjustice.ie/event/annual...

Growing up in rural Tipperary, I know the car is not going anywhere, nor should it. What I want is something much less dramatic: an Ireland where having a car is useful, but living without one is possible. - Aislínn Kelly

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

This says everything about where we are with climate in Ireland #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

What is this weird fascination with women athletes bodies? Bra checks in the Tour de France Femmes! www.rte.ie/sport/cyclin...

With Europe’s borders back in the headlines, please consider reading ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ if you haven’t already. It’s very important to have a fuller picture before weighing in.

"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares

Wildfire on bogs. Really interesting thread and very transferable from Wales across to Ireland. TLDR must deeply rewet bogs before they become a fuel source for wildfires.

Queueing for the car wash during a water shortage .... and the cars aren't even that dirty .... sometimes I just dont understand people

Incredible new report finds that an illegal Israeli settlement club has progressed to the Israeli Premier League and has received millions of dollars in funding from the UEFA Foundation and US government. Other illegal clubs are having games streamed on FIFA+ and playing in UEFA competitions.

The row back on public participation continues apace. For Starmer and UK, substitute Ireland and FFGI.

Absolutely wild scoop: Australian gas company Santos demanded recipients of disaster funding help supply the company and the broader oil/gas industry with good PR in hilariously explicit terms Read the whole amazing story here: drilled.media/news/santos-...

This looks very like a miscarraige of justice in the UK. These young brave protesters against Elbit who are arming the Israeli genocide against Palestinians should not be in prison.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

As the Palestinian Activists continue their hunger strike in UK prisons well into the danger zone, this article is well worth reading. www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...

Five young pro Palestine activists are at an advanced stage of hunger strike in the UK. The Government refuse to talk to their reps. This is apalling at anytime but especially at Christmas. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Young activists for Palestine on hunger strike in British jails. Please share and amplify.

Are they seriously going to let the Palestine Action hunger strikers starve to death

Ahead of Ireland’s presidential elections, ISD & H&CC found 172 false/misleading posts, as well as 43 AI-gen ones including a deepfake claiming Catherine Connolly’s withdrawal & the election’s cancellation. The brief urges tackling both harmful content & the algorithms that amplify it. More below.

As an old (but not conservative) person, I totally endorse this. Despite everything, if the Conolly vote does not come out, Humphries will win. So get out there and keep encouraging others to. The "she has it in the bag" narrative is designed to make Connolly voters stay home. Don't fall for it.

We should carry that sentence in our heads whenever we feel weary or overwhelmed or encounter the disillusioned, the apathetic..."Fascism doesn't need your support, just your silence."

Oil giants like Shell are fuelling climate chaos. Share this video.

Great funding opportunity for green businesses in Tipperary.

THE FOUR STAGES OF PRO-FOSSIL EXPLOITATION OF MAJOR BLACKOUTS [a thread with videos] Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy" [we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]

It's really really getting worse in the USA. If the Supreme Court is ignored.... there are no checks and balances left.

Seminal study on how the world's population could sustainably feed itself - the EAT-Lancet study - recommended shift away from meat to more plan- based diet It faced fierce backlash We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Blast from the past. Remember overhead projectors? Anyway I have load of printable acetates. Any of you clever people have an upcycling need for them? Sad to just bung in the green bin.

"Remember, it didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It built under media capture. It developed with intolerance and hate speech, and when people stopped caring, became desensitized, turned a blind eye and let it happen.

Great memories of Italia 90 when life was a lot simpler and football was our passion. Great job Michael D to bring the team together

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

Saturday is International Womens Day! Time to raise our voices! Doctors Without Borders estimates that around 30% of women fleeing across the Mediterranean are pregnant. Again and again, pregnant women suffer miscarriages due to the extreme conditions—whether shortly before their escape, during

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all who can celebrate. Thinking of women in Afghanistan whose freedom is so brutally curbed.

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

I'm very much looking forward to returning to the lovely Lough Gur in county Limerick today, to give a talk on 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest' at the visitor centre there. 🌳 🌿 🌍

Every time the world attention is turned towards Trump's antics, or any other distraction, Israel uses the opportunity to ratchet up the genocide of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of West Bank. PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.

Looking for accomodation on the usual websites? Not when they also list properties in the Occupied Territories thanks. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

When Mary Robinson calls out the EU commissions rollback on corporate responsibility, it's time to sit up, take notice and lobby your MEP.

Reasons to avoid AI. 1,2 ,3.

Monbiot on the importance of community building and community resilience in the face of potential chaos. Powerful piece at the end of this article