RTE news: Number of households in arrears on electricity bills at highest ever level. 24000 more households in arrears since the government announced it's *taskforce*. Meanwhile, they got EU approval for €300m support package for large energy users. 😑 www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Record number in arrears on electricity bills

The number of households in arrears on their electricity bills rose to the highest level on record in April, according to latest figures from the Commission for Regulation of Utilities.

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Go nuclear they say! Meanwhile... Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor

Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output

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Yet another example of how bad ISDS is why we should not ratify deals like CETA. "Crucially, the lawsuits have had the effect of prolonging the deadly and growing global obesity crisis, costing countries billions of dollars in legal and healthcare costs" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO

Exclusive: Director general accuses corporations of obstructing efforts to tackle obesity crisis after investigation by Guardian and others

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EU options paper on Israel settler imports is ‘misleading’ and designed to ‘justify inaction’, legal scholars say euobserver.com/230910/eu-op...

EU options paper on Israel settler imports is ‘misleading’ and designed to ‘justify inaction’, legal scholars say

A group of leading scholars has questioned the legality of an EU Commission options paper on restricting imports from Israeli settlements, before EU foreign ministers revisit the issue in September.

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Minister dined with Meta lobbyists at US ambassador’s residence amid US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech www.independent.ie/business/min...

Minister dined with Meta lobbyists at US ambassador’s residence amid US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech

Peter Burke’s intimate dinner with the tech giant’s reps was aimed at discussing ‘the digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency’

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Opposition unite to oppose deeply flawed government legislation that risks even higher energy bills and locking Ireland into fossil fuel dependence sinnfein.ie/news/opposit...

Opposition unite to oppose deeply flawed government legislation that risks even higher energy bills and locking Ireland into fossil fuel dependence - Sinn Féin

Opposition parties have today criticised the government for guillotining the Development (Strategic Gas Reserve Bill) 2026. In a joint statement, Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly, Labour TD Ciarán Ahern, People B...

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Meta Pauses an AI Training Program After Data Leak. A screenshot showed that the leak exposed employees' private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions. The incident was classified as a SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being the most severe. share.google/4gtxw6AMmktt...

Meta pauses an AI training program that tracks employees' keystrokes after an internal leak

Meta pauses an AI training program after sensitive employee data leaks, sparking internal backlash and highlighting security concerns.

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Refusal to staff energy regulator a clear nod to big tech – @lnbdublin.bsky.social "We need a fully resourced energy regulator that has the teeth to do its job." sinnfein.ie/news/refusal...

Refusal to staff energy regulator a clear nod to big tech - Lynn Boylan MEP - Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan has slammed reports that the Department of Public Expenditure refused requests from the CRU to increase staff. Speaking from Brussels, Ms Boylan said: “At a time when it is e...

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2017 Legal opinion by EU Commission’s then top lawyer, said the bloc was legally entitled to suspend cooperation with Israel, such as its Horizon Europe science grants and Erasmus student-exchange scheme due to Israel’s violations of international law in the West Bank euobserver.com/221434/stric...

Leaked memo: EU has known since 2017 it had legal right to freeze Israel trade deal

A "strictly confidential", but leaked, EU legal memo from 2017 said Europe was entitled to freeze Israel science grants and free-trade perks over its West Bank aggression. "What was then a legitimate ...

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Almost one in five Israeli-labeled food shipments entering the European Union are actually from settlements in the occupied West Bank or from the Golan Heights, according to a new investigation published Wednesday. www.politico.eu/article/food...

Food from occupied territories enters Europe disguised as Israeli, investigation finds

As the EU tries to crack down on settler violence, dates, tahini and oranges from the West Bank are entering the EU with a “Made in Israel” label.

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“Warning lights flashing” over data centre power usage dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

"Warning lights flashing" over data centre power usage

Members of the opposition have said that "warning lights are flashing" over the amount of power used by data centres, with a UN report showing that data centres use 21% of all electricity used in Irel...

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Nothing to see here, move along... 👀 The Department of Foreign Affairs refused to release briefing note for Harris’s meeting with US ambassador to Ireland Edward Walsh, in response to my FOI.

The Ditch@wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Government claims that releasing a briefing note prepared for Simon Harris’s meeting with the US ambassador in the aftermath of an FAI motion to suspend Israel from European football would “harm” the state’s “capacity to conduct international relations”. www.ontheditch.com/government-h...

Our motion supports the Stop the Game campaign - the call is quite clear for the game not to proceed in Ireland or anywhere. "There is no support for our national team to play, under our tricolour, against Israel while there is a genocide ongoing." #StopTheGame

The Trump administration is ditching a vital deep-sea monitoring system at a dangerous time of record-breaking sea temps, an imminent super El Niño & fears a critical system of ocean currents could collapse, ushering in global chaos. www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/c...

The oceans are in deep trouble. The Trump administration just ditched a vital deep-sea monitoring system | CNN

The Trump administration will dismantle a $368 million monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans, sparking alarm among scientists

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Evolving landscapes for Judicial Review, Rule of Law, International Law and Human Rights. www.eventbrite.ie/e/environmen...

Environmental Law Ireland's 2026 Annual Conference

The evolving landscapes for Judicial Review in Ireland, and for the rule of law, International Law & Human Rights at an International level

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More than 20,000 fish feared killed in pollution incident in Co Louth river

More than 20,000 fish feared killed in pollution incident in Co Louth river

Inland Fisheries Ireland says source has been identified as agricultural discharge

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PM #Sanchez is absolutely right - the US sanctions on judges of the #ICC is an assault on OUR judiciary, and if there is no one to protect #InternationalLaw - there is no one to protect us..

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good article on a silent scandal. "Sanchez wants the European Commission to use the EU Blocking Statute – a regulation that aims to protect EU companies and individuals from the effects of extraterritorial sanctions imposed by third countries.

Ireland shouldn’t play Israel in the nations league - it’s as simple as that. Today I launched a scarf designed by artist Nimhur so that football fans from all clubs can send a clear message to the @FAIreland - the match must not go ahead. #BoycottIsrael #StopTheGame

A controversial pro-Israel lobbying group made an “urgent suggestion” to Micheál Martin’s department about lines to include in a speech he gave – and the taoiseach complied. The Claims Conference said, “We realize that this is very short notice." www.ontheditch.com/micheal-mart...

Martin complied with pro-Israel lobbyist's speech suggestion

“We realize that this is very short notice, but the concept is pretty simple.”

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When you put no value on the lives of others then death becomes big business.

Ursula von der Leyen faces blowback over diplomatic ‘overreach’ As the Iran conflict enters its second week, national diplomats say the European Commission president is overstepping her role and wading onto their turf. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

Ursula von der Leyen faces blowback over diplomatic ‘overreach’

As the Iran conflict enters its second week, national diplomats say the European Commission president is overstepping her role and wading onto their turf.

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A presentation at the European Commission described plans for the rapid movement of European and NATO soldiers across the EU including Ireland – raising questions about Irish neutrality The commission is arguing for the deregulation of EU transport rules www.ontheditch.com/eu-plans-for...

Rapid movement of NATO and EU soldiers across member states

Micheál Martin insists Ireland’s neutrality is defined by not being part of any military alliance.

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The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers. This puts European energy & climate leadership into doubt, while those very policies are precisely the ones that can attract new investment and create jobs, which is what everyone ultimately wants. share.google/p9I18rnQIqnJ...

The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers

Green transition pioneers complain they are paying price for rewarding industry laggards

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ireland needs to grow up and take responsibility for its own defense, the time of nato freeloading is over we must scrap our entire education budget and instead buy 3 fighter planes to instantly get shot down in a friendly-fire incident there is no "magic wand" to wave to make this not necessary

Cycling in Dublin for commuting rises 50% as most residents back more bike lanes The vast majority of residents across the State’s five main cities want increased investment in cycling infrastructure, even when that results in less road space for cars. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Cycling in Dublin for commuting rises 50% as most residents back more bike lanes

Residents of Ireland’s five main cities want more space for cyclists, even at the expense of cars

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The US has openly admitted that they are going to commit more war crimes in Iran. Yet Micheal Martin & the EU are too cowardly to condemn these actions. Ireland must have no part in the war crimes of America & Israel - Get the US military out of Shannon airport.

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Strategic Gas Bill does not deliver the solution to Ireland’s energy security needs - Pa Daly TD - Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin spokesperson on Climate, the Environment and Energy, Pa Daly TD, has said that the government’s Strategic Gas Bill is not the solution. He has warned that ordinary people should not have to ...

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Power grid faces the extra pressure of data centres and 300,000 new homes – until 2029 EirGrid, has also predicted that data centres will be using 32pc of all the electricity consumed in the country by 2030. www.independent.ie/business/iri...

Power grid faces the extra pressure of data centres and 300,000 new homes – until 2029

Ireland’s power network will remain strained for nearly three more years – but, according to EirGrid, the construction of as many as 300,000 new homes by 2030 will not overwhelm the system.

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‘It’s a slap in the face’ – Irish households are paying twice as much for electricity as data centres www.independent.ie/business/per...

‘It’s a slap in the face’ – Irish households are paying twice as much for electricity as data centres

Households in Ireland are paying almost twice as much for their electricity as data centres.

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Patrick O Donovan threatens to suspend funding to football teams after flare incident but when he was Minister for OPW he took zero action against OPW for illegal disturbance of roost of rare species of bat. A NPWS report recommended prosecution.