Public land must lead the way in Nature Restoration 🦡 Restore Nature: Native Woodlands project - identifies where public lands can support the expansion of Ireland’s most important remnant woodlands. All that's needed is vision and political will 🌱🌳 www.environmentalpillar.ie/app/uploads/...

Fish kills have happened on the Tolka River in 2014, 2018, 2023 and now 2026. We can't go on treating our rivers like this.

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 3d ago

Inland Fisheries Ireland has launched an investigation into a “significant” fish kill in Co Dublin and has said it has established a "definite line of enquiry". It’s thought that over 500 fish have died in the incident on the Tolka River near Damastown. jrnl.ie/7119840

After a month of very little rain the Ballynastockan Brook is still flowing into Poulaphouca helping to supply Dublin City with water. Take care of our uplands and they will take care of us.

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

‘What was a beautiful habitat now is black soot’: Ireland’s wildfires devastate wildlife

‘What was a beautiful habitat now is black soot’: Ireland’s wildfires devastate wildlife

Mammals, small reptiles and amphibians losing shelter and food due to blazes in Tipperary, Wicklow and Waterford

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Beautiful deep heather on the slopes of Seefin Mountain. Merlin, Red Kites, Ravens cutting through the air. Crossed dried out sphagnum pools and saw the burn scars around Kippure. A procession around the old passage tomb. Driving home, Glencullen wreathed in flame, Glencree choked in smoke.

"Civil and public servants sometimes get things wrong, and there has to be somewhere the citizen or resident of this country can go when they do. We call that 'somewhere' a judicial review." www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers

A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone

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Ireland has ambitious targets under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation to re-establish native woodlands 🌱 From Killarney to Glendalough, Glengarriff to the Avoca Valley we have mapped key native woodlands with potential for ambitious restoration using public lands 🌳 Red more: l1nq.com/21qjl5y

NEW INVESTIGATION: Despite escaping the 'mega fires' seen in countries such as Spain and Greece, Ireland actually has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites, we can reveal

Ireland has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites

Following a spate of devastating wildfires, analysis has found that more than half of the land burned here over the past decade overlapped with protected nature areas – significantly higher than the...

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I won't lie I really want the future euro banknotes to have birds on them 🤑🦩

European Central Bank@ecb.europa.eu · 2w ago

Ten selected design proposals for the next series of euro banknotes have been unveiled. Explore the proposals and tell us which ones you prefer. Have your say surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/ecbeuro/

What's happening on Slievenamon has been happening all my life, and it could happen on any mountain in Ireland tomorrow. There is something fundamentally wrong with a society that normalises entire mountains being incinerated and does nothing when we know this is only going to get worse

Linda@lindaoh.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hadn't realised the Slievenamon fires were this bad. Terrifying.

Meanwhile the farm lobby has successfully lobbied for: More fossil fuel based fertiliser More methane emissions More diesel subsidies Easier destruction of wetlands Harder transition to resources saving &healthier plant based diets. "Food security" is weaponised to destroy our actual food security.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

9 million tonnes of crops destroyed by just one heatwave across Europe, which lasted 13-14 days. #FoodSecurity

Repeat after me: "the EU is placing competitiveness at the heart of its economic agenda and all will be well."

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2w ago

Wildfires have raged through Sicily, southwestern France and central Spain, sparking thousands of evacuations and claiming the life of an Italian firefighter

🚨 EU politicians are planning to break down the #pesticide law. We need to move in the opposite direction. 🚜 We don't have to poison crops and fields. 📢 Help us and write to EU Parliamentarians. 📝 Sign here: www.pan-europe.info/ban-pesticid...

Ireland holds the EU presidency at a moment when its own citizens are being treated like dangerous extremists for opposing genocide and ethnic cleansing. How much longer can we go on pretending everything is normal? www.joe.ie/news/terrori...

JOE.ie - Terrorism trial for Irish man in Germany to begin on Wednesday

Seven Irish politicians are travelling to Germany to observe the trial of an Irish citizen detained in the German city.

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During the green deal, the farm lobby killed the attempt to reduce farmers dependence on nitrogen fertiliser. Now the EU just spent 540 milion €, in one go, on extra fertiliser subsidies. This is money taken from taxpayers and handed to Russian and Gulf regimes.

Timely guidance from the European Commission on sustainable tourism in Natura 2000 sites. More people out in nature is positive, but pressures need managing. Linking carrying capacity to conservation objectives, with zoning, access rules & engagement, is key. environment.ec.europa.eu/news/natura-...

Natura 2000 Network offers sustainable tourism opportunities

New guidelines help sites across Europe to integrate tourism and recreational activities while highlighting the growing importance of ecotourism.

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There is going to be a rash of these kind of stories about Ireland’s attempt to pull a stroke. Whether they are or aren’t warranted depends entirely on what the Irish government does next. 🧵 (And yes, it’s burps not farts, and Greenpeace should know that)

Greenpeace EU@greenpeace.eu · 3w ago

Silent but violent, cows' and other farm animals' farts (agricultural methane) heat the planet 80 times more than CO2 over a 20-year time frame But Ireland wants the EU to give cow farts a free pass, raising serious questions about its claim to be a climate leader www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/c...

Climate crisis: Ireland's response appears to have not grasped the urgency involved in dealing with climate-proofing our agriculture, energy and transport systems. What world will we be leaving for the next generation? #climatecrisis #climateaction

The Nitrates Directive remains necessary, relevant and effective! It's time to tackle pollution at source by implementing the laws that were designed to deliver clean rivers, lakes and coasts for all of us.

European Environmental Bureau🍃@eeb.org · 3w ago

✅ Good news for Europe's waters! The Commission's report on the Nitrates Directive gives it a clean bill of health! The law works, and the benefits outweigh costs 3-7 times over 💪 The challenge now isn't new rules, it's implementation. 💧🌍 #WaterResilience #NitratesDirective #PolluterPays

Nice one- Aalborg water utility in DK suing the government for failure to enforce the #nitrates directive on farmers. It correctly argues that Aalborg citizens should not foot the bill for new expensive treatment plant to clean water that legally should not have been contaminated in the first place.

To de-escalate a panic attack, run cold water over your wrists and repeat the mantra "the EU is placing competitiveness at the heart of its economic agenda."

Erin Sikorsky@erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 3w ago

My Google news alert today tells me militaries are battling wildfires in France, Spain, and California and floods in Missouri, Ghana, and Bangladesh.

Native woodland is striving to return to the shores of Loch na hOnchon, the Lough of the Otters, beneath Cam an Doire, the Pass of the Oak Wood. Allowing nature to recover is an act of ecological and cultural revival.

The Teagasc National Farm Survey illustrates: large income differences between enterprise types, strong dependence on public support across most sectors, and extreme inter‑annual income volatility. Simplification risks failure by over-simplifying our response to complex and diverse challenges

Im grateful to An Taisce & Friends of the Irish Environment for challenging the Irish Governments unconstitutional legal cost rules, which would make access to justice the preserve of elites. If the powerful arent accountable to the law, we are no longer a democracy www.antaisce.org/News/environ...

Environmental groups launch legal challenge against new regulations that severely restrict access to justice

Together, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...

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A hike in the Wicklow uplands is always a mix of joy, despair, and hope. Native trees growing on walls and bare rock. Remnant woodlands lingering like a terminally ill patient. Vast areas just waiting for nature’s potential to be unleashed. Do we have the vision and leadership to make it happen?

If I read one more reference to 'gold plating' of EU law in Ireland....Can anyone show me the evidence? Should we look to the over half our rivers and lakes polluted? The trend which is getting worse? The 25% of our most pristine waterbodies now lost? A 🧵 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Top Government adviser calls for action to roll back ‘gold-plated’ environmental law

Laws exempting key projects from national climate goals should be followed by moves to curtail environmental screening, says taskforce chief

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Gold plated environmental standards? In a country where: 90% of protected habitat types are in unfavourable conservation status 371,884 t of peat exported in 2025, with no compliance with env or planning law At least 9 env cases in the CJEU & 16 infringements www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Top Government adviser calls for action to roll back ‘gold-plated’ environmental legislation

Laws exempting key projects from national climate goals should be followed by moves to curtail environmental screening, says taskforce chief

irishtimes.com

Incredible that the NPWS would say this: "a national conservation objective, and deadlines for habitat restoration within SPAs, was not a priority, as there was a need to keep a flexible approach." The State is running down the clock on the Hen harrier. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Embattled hen harrier clings on - but its future is far from certain

Once-common bird of prey is at the centre of tensions over land use for farming and forestry

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We have submitted our recommendations for Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan — over 300 actions calling for real political leadership, proper funding, and transparent delivery to restore farmland, rivers, coasts, forests and towns for nature and communities. files.constantcontact.com/4a14a939001/...