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Gerard Cunningham

@faduda.eurosky.social

Formerly a productive member of society. Denied a 2023 Hugo, probably.✒️ #journalist #writer Occasionally here, but mostly https://mastodon.ie/@faduda Recent(ish) project https://guth.ie/space-navigator/ • https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/space-navigator

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Green Collective@greencollective.io · 12h ago

For the first time, Ireland generated more electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels in the first half of the year 🍃 The chart below makes the trend clear. Will 2026 be the first year with majority clean energy? We at Green Collective hope to be the first to report it!

A bar chart of electricity generation on the island of Ireland for June months between 2019 and 2026, inclusive. Each year has two bars: a green one for renewable generation, and a grey one for fossil fuels. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Renewables comprise wind, hydro, solar, and biomass. Fossil fuels comprise coal, gas, oil, and waste-to-energy. Source: EirGrid, SEMOA treemap of the electricity mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, oil, gas, and waste-to-energy. Larger sources are annotated with the GWh and percentage of total generation that source comprised. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
Teresa Collins@queen-crafty.bsky.social · 4d ago

Irish Farmers Journal podcasts: How farmers fought the Slievenamon fire This is worth listening to. A community response to the wildfire. Now is the time to pivot and change the land use. #Speirghorm Episode webpage: shows.acast.com/farmers-jour... Media file: sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65f...

How farmers fought the Slievenamon fire  | Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

This podcast tells the story of the devastating fires on Slievenamon in County Tipperary through the voices of the people who lived it.

shows.acast.com

Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 13h ago

It was only a matter of time before the knives were out for Re-Turn, a project that puts the entire burden of waste management on the consumer and gives businesses no incentive to improve their packaging.

Helen Shaw - Athena Media@athenamediaie.bsky.social · 14h ago

"The not-for-profit company paid out total compensation of €700,000 to Foley and private sector executives from Coca-Cola HBC Ireland, Britvic, Heineken, Musgrave and Diageo who sit on its board": Coca Cola, number 1 plastics polluter/ no bio for board on website www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Liz Carolan@lizcarolan.com · 11h ago

We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen

Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 12h ago

If you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Den M@mousketeer.bsky.social · yesterday

That is an excellent observation. Perhaps women should start wearing recording devices as a matter of course. Ones capable of recording and live streaming at the same time - for those extra special men we meet along life's path.

TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 2d ago

If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.

Eils_G 📎@eils1.bsky.social · yesterday

Happened to hear the Lord Mayor of Dublin talking about e-scooters on Radio 1. He said that people in social housing should be banned from using one! WTF? He wasn't put off when told that this was discrimination. He just doubled down muttering about anti social behaviour! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · yesterday

Greenway users forced onto busy national road in peak tourist season as farmer closes route Users of the Great Western Greenway have been pushed out onto the N59, a national secondary road with a 100km/h speed limit, for around a 200-metre section of the greenway between Westport and Newport after…

Greenway users forced onto busy national road in peak tourist season as farmer closes route

Users of the Great Western Greenway have been pushed out onto the N59, a national secondary road with a 100km/h speed limit, for around a 200-metre section of the greenway between Westport and Newport after a farmer closed a shorter section outside of his farm. The section closed by the farmer amounts to around 40 or 50 metres, but because of fences and greenery in the way, detouring around the closed section involves using the main road for 200 metres.

irishcycle.com

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d ago

That harm to women and girls in general is not taken seriously, combined with multiple high-profile men continuing to get passes based on power, talent, or activism with other causes, creates a very worrying landscape for women. Tolerance is still way too high. It needs to start actually mattering.

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · yesterday

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Flags on the Abingdon Road