The way we stop upland fires is dramatic rewetting and rewilding of our hills and reducing emissions like it's a life or death situation... Using every lever available to the state domestically and internationally to immediately cut emissions everywhere. It's literally the only way we can stop them

10 min read! A short paper on @publicpolicy.ie which gives a summary of MUSPACE project findings. Delighted to share the work in this way. @researchireland.ie @micireland.bsky.social @miceducationfac.bsky.social publicpolicy.ie/education/wh...

Who Do We Hear? Rethinking Music in Diverse Schools - Public Policy

Drawing on research in significantly diverse Irish classrooms, this paper discusses the role of music in schools to facilitate spaces of belonging, agency and inclusion. It highlights that relational ...

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Elon Musk did that.

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 4w ago

The United Nations warned that at least one million women and girls had lost access to critical support due to dramatic cuts to foreign aid spending since January 2025

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books

The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere

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All aboard the golf train to Adare, Ireland’s answer to North Korea www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Sinéad O'Sullivan: All aboard the golf train to Adare, Ireland’s answer to North Korea

Pyongyang built real train stations that seemed fake. In Ireland, we are building a fake train station that will, for a brief period, seem real

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@fotoole.bsky.social “But it is not too late to stop this madness. The sun itself is sending us its message: protest and survive.” @irishtimes.com #climatechange #climatejustice www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Fintan O'Toole: Red alerts issued by Europe’s met offices must also be issued by citizens to their governments

At a fundamental level, we do not believe what we are experiencing: the catastrophic effects of global heating

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Work this one out: €207 million is the actual clean-up cost for an 88-acre pharma site in Co Clare. €31 million is the EPA-approved fund/provision for future remediation of the 1,300-acre Aughinish site in Co Limerick.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · last mo.

1. Actual cost.

So much to love about Pico waving the Irish flag, not least that he, a proud Irishman of African heritage and as Dublin as can be, embodies the kind of Irishness that the far right can't abide but is a thriving feature in communities across the island.

Appalling abandonment by Bus Éireann in Cork. Bus broke down at Blackpool, waited an hour for next bus, it came & was full. No provision made for extra bus, no mechanic, no communication. Eventually, people just walked back into city (some old and vulnerable). PT needs serious investment & change.

CMAT magic in Cork tonight!

Nice start to the weekend when these were both waiting on my porch! @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social @songlinesmagazine

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

Ecargobikes are a great way to move around the city 4 shopping, leisure, work or schooldrops. Our campaign has 2 types of ecargo bikes available for families/individuals to trial out. Contact Limerickecargobike@gmail.com for queries #limerick #ecargobike @irishcycle.com @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social

Thanks @kennyailbhe.bsky.social for the company today! Day 6 fundraising.breastcancerireland.com/fundraiser/C...

We had an incredibly engaging roundtable at #esai26 discussing so many issues with inclusion and diversity in classrooms. So great to re(connect) with so many at ESAI this year and share findings from the MUSPACE project @researchireland.ie @iesjournal.bsky.social #educationalresearch #esai

Less than one hour between these two stories.

From Simon Lewis: “we have a situation where parents who don’t believe send their children to teachers who don’t believe to prepare them for a sacrament many of them don’t believe in” -every year we have this conversation in Ireland…nothing changes @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

I’m a school principal. We need to talk about what First Holy Communion has become

If you ask about the religious aspect of the day then it is often brushed off as naive or beside the point

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An open letter to Minister for Further and Higher Education, James Lawless regarding Concern at Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan. At the time of posting this letter has amassed over 1,000 signatures and more are sought. Consider signing and circulating. openletter.earth/concern-abou...

Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan

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Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

RIP Desi Wilkinson. Desi worked with us for many years in @micireland.bsky.social sharing his enormous talent and extensive knowledge of trad music. What a privilege to have known this incredible man who was also so generous, humble and kind. youtu.be/UDqFAWupCuE?...

Desi Wilkinson in conversation with Barry Kerr

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Rainforests being pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says. The living biosphere is being murdered on *our* watch, so every one of us is living at probably THE most crucial moment in human history. Get into the fight to save nature 💪🏽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds

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Overproduction of meat and dairy creates unmanageable amounts of manure, ruining streams and rivers The biggest lake in Ireland is so heavily polluted that it poses serious dangers to people's health and local wildlife It's time to stop farming more animals than the land and waterways can support

‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake

Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics

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Honestly, if you are NOT following these Limerick city and county council meeting threads, you are missing out! Highlight of my day - thank you for your service @seamusryan.bsky.social

Seamus Ryan@seamusryan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There is a SECOND Special Meeting of Limerick City & County Council today at 14:30pm. It will be very late starting, as the 11:30am one has just ended. Feel free to follow along.🧵 Gott in Himmel #CouncilMeetingThread

Limerick Cycling Campaign were out in force today to spread the good news! Lovely group spin around the city and let’s hope it helps create more awareness of the need for greater cycling infrastructure @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social #activetravel #bikeweek #cycling

🌟 New publication in BJME Special Issue on Music & Inclusion. “Musical participation and nonparticipation at the intercultural school: a study from Ireland”. 🔍 critical questions around: - Who has access to music in schools and who does not - Where, why and how (non)participation happens

Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter Comment & Analysis: There's never money for people on the front line, says Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance Pearse Doherty when he's complaining about a secure…

Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter

Comment & Analysis: There's never money for people on the front line, says Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance Pearse Doherty when he's complaining about a secure bicycle shed in Dublin and Kerry for... checks notes... hospital staff. He has repeatedly said it is "pure waste", but even if a project has an overspend, how are the bicycle parking sheds pure waste if they are used by staff?

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If you are whinging about a secure safe bicycle storage facility at a hospital which cost about what you'd imagine it would cost, we can't be friends

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

Bike Week in Limerick kicks off on Sat 9th of May. The highlight is Limerick Rolls on Saturday 16th, a street party and group cycle All events here: www.limerick.ie/discover/wha... @pedestrianlk.bsky.social @limerickecargobike.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social 🚲

The personal toll the slashing and burning of large parts of the Higher Education sector, especially in Arts and Humanities, in Britain and now the North of Ireland on our colleagues should not be underestimated. This is horrendous but grimly unsurprising.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'In one history department, the situation is even worse: “Seeing colleagues in despair crying at their desks, as well as talking about suicide in meetings, was a particular low point,” a respondent said.' 2/3