For comparison, the car park at Mayfield library was recently resurfaced, something that has to be done periodically — at a cost of approximately €3,500 per space.

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 2d ago

Bike parking enabling 60 hospital staff to cycle to work is a win for the taxpayer Comment & Analysis: A cost of €85,000, or €1,416 per space, for a secure bicycle shed for the National Maternity Hospital is cheap compared to building car parking, which is estimated to cost €5,000 to €85,000 per…

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

Looking at the celebrities attending Glen Hansards funeral. #Speirgorm

Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

@tomflood.bsky.social

Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.

The Day the World Didn’t End

At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...

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Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm

‘Renewables offer humanity an unlikely exit ramp off our current highway to #climate hell – if only our politicians & business leaders had the wit & mettle to grasp this slenderest of lifelines’ My take in Irish Examiner today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Renewables are a lifeline our politicians are too cowardly to grasp

Every month that passes brings us another step closer to tragedy

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Whether they were “narcotraffickers” or not is moot. These are illegal extrajudicial murders.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that someone within Google was actively sabotaging the company by enshittifying its services, or in this case deciding to stop offering something I’ve used for years and thus actively making my life more difficult, all for just £14/month

I’m not clear when this was first recorded

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d ago

A centuries-old annual bird chick hunt, known as the Guga Hunt, has been banned this year due to conservation concerns. First recorded in 1549, the annual hunt, first recorded in 1549, took place on the remote, uninhabited Scottish island of Sula Sgeir. u.afp.com/SHUM

Deniers of human caused climate change are fascinating cos even without the all the science, if you showed a small child what we've been pumping into the atmosphere for 250 years they'd just assume we fucked it. Like, even without all the overwhelming evidence, it's the obvious default position!

You'd think, wouldn't you, that if you were running a five-star resort near a nice river full of fish, you'd want that river to be nice and clean and full of fish. Not these dopes. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Five-star Castlemartyr Resort convicted of polluting river and killing more than 100 fish

Hotel fined €10,000 in connection with discharge from a pump house handling sewage into river on its estate

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www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Before he scurried away, this propaganda was circulated by the Government to schools from Michael Healy Rae. Himself (surprise-surprise!) who profits from sitka spruce — just as he does whenever he gives his opinion on petrol/diesel or drink driving laws. 📰 www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/leitrim...

Pádraic Fogarty@whittledaway.bsky.social · last wk.

I spoke to @newstalkfm.bsky.social yesterday about fires, land use and the urgent need for native forests on our hills www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Gotta say it thrills me to see US production companies saving money by making The Price Is Right in Ireland using the S481 tax break that was designed to create an indigenous film industry while many Irish filmmakers (including me) don't have a fucking pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

Thankfully you can still watch this groundbreaking information about Multiple Horse Theory on Bluesky. If you know of anybody at TikTok, let me know.

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 2w ago

What if someone told you there's MORE than one horse? Have you ever considered that?

And indeed why does it use it when it suits it

Judicial review is a fundamental part of democracy. Why does our government attack it? 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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It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.

If you didn't know anything about this issue and read this "report" you would swear the "gender critical" movement had their event reinstated by Feile, unless you read all the way to end. Checked Robbie Meredith's Twitter following. *drumroll* Lots of GC activists there. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Féile: Women's organisation withdraw legal challenge over cancelled event

The Women’s Rights Network NI says it has reached an agreement with Féile while the festival said it as “vindication” for its position.

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TodayFM spewing out anti EU propaganda in the guise of humour. This would never happen if Ian Dempsey was back from his holidays

Indeed & it’ll get worse. But it’s on purpose. The financialisation of Irish housing for exploitative rentier capitalism is aided & abetted by this & recent #FFFG governments. Gross inequality, exploding poverty & deprivation across the country. It’s disgusting 🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol

“Many of our Irish politicians remain convinced that the #climate crisis is not coming for us. I beg to disagree” Another clip from @tonightvmtv.bsky.social a short time ago.

A weather model suggests temperatures of almost 50 degrees are possible in France. Anyone who claims there is no climate change, who disparages science in this field, or who denies that human activity is the cause, is making a statement that has nothing to do with reality #ClimateEmergency #FarRight

Greenpeace still out there screaming at the world to wake up.

RTÉ News: Upwards of 20 Gazan students, all with fully funded scholarships for third-level courses, have had their visa applications turned down. www.rte.ie/news/educati...

Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students

Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

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‘Studying in Ireland was the hope I was holding on to’: Palestinian teacher ‘dying inside’ since visa refused

Teacher of English was accepted onto Master’s programme at UCD’s Belfield campus starting in September

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