The whole world needs uncaptured politicians like Mamdani.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3w ago

In just six months, Mamdani has already made huge progress on: -Lowering rent -Enacting universal childcare -Taxing the super rich -Improving city buses -Cracking down on junk fees and subscription traps -Protecting gig workers from wage theft This is what delivering for the people looks like.

e-scooters marketed at 6 year olds? No thanks! We need to tackle illegal e-scooters at the point of sale instead of trying to play catch-up once they're on the road. The law says it's illegal for anyone under 16 to use them on public roads and that they should be limited to 20km/h.

The deeply primeval feel of a relatively intact Irish rainforest is impossible to communicate. The only way to know it is to spend quiet time in one.

Today, Taoiseach Micheàl Martin presented the Irish presidency plans to MEPs . German MEP Terry Reintke called out the Irish Government’s row back on climate action as co-chair of the Greens/EFA grouping, saying they can’t do the same in Europe

Irish water quality declines: 'The farmers are not the problem here. The measures and the plans are the problem'

Sustainable Water Network (SWAN)@swanireland.ie · last mo.

"What we would say is that the government is failing both water quality and it's failing farmers"  We were asked last week at Oireachtas Committee about the need to give farmers credit for work done & not just blame for water pollution. Something we are often asked. Listen to our response here.

Yesterday @antaisce.bsky.social and @FIE launched a legal challenge to the new judicial review cost caps. These new caps mean, if a member of the public or eNGO wins their case, they will still have to pay tens of thousands to correct the mistake by the State. 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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What the government is trying to pull off is hugely dangerous to Irish nature, local communities, and citizen's most fundamental rights. Immense kudos to @antaisce.bsky.social and Friends of the Irish Environment for fighting this in the courts 👏

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · last mo.

Yesterday @antaisce.bsky.social and @FIE launched a legal challenge to the new judicial review cost caps. These new caps mean, if a member of the public or eNGO wins their case, they will still have to pay tens of thousands to correct the mistake by the State. www.antaisce.org/News/environ...

Tonight SF are bringing forward their legislation that would start the process of planning for the possibility of a constitutional change that would see Ireland return to being a 32 county country. That constitutional change must be by co-design with all sides of the North’s communities involved

Clean Coasts@cleancoasts.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s #WorldSandDuneDay! Our sand dunes are biodiversity hotspots, home to Marsh Orchid, Sand Pansy, Marsh Hellborine, Birds-foot-trefoil, Bee Orchid and more. 💙🌾 It’s also #DublinPride and #PrideMonth! A day full of lots of lovely things 🐝🪻🌈 #Biodiversity #ProtectOurDunes #SandDunes

Great day at #DublinPride with some of my favourite greens! @janetphorner.bsky.social @oisinoconnordublin.bsky.social @hazelchu.bsky.social @feljin.ie

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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Again today 1pm ❤️ Grand Parade, Cork City, Ireland

Frank O'Connor@frankoconnor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Solidarity is beautiful ❤️ Cork City Ireland now

The photo and the piece on #DerelictIreland in The New York Times in 2024 was done by Robert Stothard, who came on one of our dereliction walking tours in Cork City earlier that year Here is a flavour of the piece:

Frank O'Connor@frankoconnor.bsky.social · last mo.

And here is the 1st house we shared in 2020 to start the year-long daily thread, featured in The New York Times in 2024 Check out the pose of the pigeon on the roof😀 #DerelictIreland

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

The older I get, the more certain I am that the real meaning of existence is love for life. That is, love for the natural world, all of humanity, and advancing coexistence based on true justice, rights, and respect. 🌍

BBC: Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being bombed in her home by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil killed by Israeli strike

Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died from her injuries after the Israeli strike.

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My latest monthly newsletter is out now. This month I have updates on: 🚧 The demolition of the Old Cork Prison 📊 Using data about littering on the northside 🧑‍💻 What Cork can do for European tech sovereignty As well as all my motions and questions to Cork City Council for this month.

June 2026

Hi, there! — Welcome to the fifty-second edition of my monthly newsletter to keep you up to date on my work for Cork City North East.

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Update: The Cork Midge™ gets a call out from Paul Weller at Live at the Marquee just now — says he'll be back for the opening. 🦟 #SpéirGorm @paulwellernews.bsky.social

Oliver Moran 🇪🇺@oliver.ie · 2mo ago

OK, #SpéirGorm, it's time to talk about "the midge" again, since this is a story we made together. I'm going to have to do a whirlwind of all the media reporting because... honestly, — the last week has been something else. 🧵

Dublin Pride was a fantastic show of support for our LGBTQ+ community, a community of activists that our leader and many of our members are so proud to be a part of. #Ireland #Dublin #DublinPride #HappyPride #LGBwiththeT

New pedestrian crossings are installed at St Luke's Cross — finally! All four are raised crossings (📸 in thread below). One's a zebra crossing and one's fully signalised. Lights still not active at the new signalised crossing, but progress at last.

Someone has been sitting on this historic property on Fr Matthew Quay, Cork city centre for a very, very long time Everyone else has to suffer consequences Built around 1800, sad to see this level of vandalism, captured so well by the photo, particularly the bleakness & scale #DerelictIreland

Vacancy & dereliction are not inevitable There are straightforward policies that can change things & bring homes back into use Irish government is doing more than before but why does it always seem new policies are designed to fail Me & @judesherry.bsky.social talk to Harry McGee, The Irish Times

As already warm cities become more and more vulnerable to extreme heat events, or just the “new normal” of hotter and hotter cities every day, here’s just one more reason why more street trees and other greenery are good for streets & cities. It’s just common sense, really. Cooler, cleaner, smarter.

BIG news in the fight for Dublin 8 pitches! We've just seen the initial planning documents for a fullsize pitch at Donore Avenue. Our local committee will get a presentation on Wed 17th with full planning lodged the next week. Plenty of road left to travel, but this is great, great news!

Today, Green Party NI and the Green Party of England & Wales stand together. Zack Polanski and Mal O’Hara are united: what is happening in Belfast is not isolated. It is a coordinated far-right pattern - the same faces, the same tactics, the same hatred. 1/2

“We’ve had racist pogroms on our streets for three summers in a row now. Hand wringing and platitudes from Executive parties is not enough. If we don’t see concerted policy responses from the parties in government this will happen again next year.” Mal O’Hara on Talkback

Green MPs' response to the violent unrest in Belfast.

We can’t allow horrific and tragic incidents to continue to be used as an excuse by the far right and bad actors to cause violence and destruction in our cities, we’ve seen it in Dublin, we’ve seen it in Liverpool, and we’ve seen it across the past three years in Belfast.

Our members are the heart of our party If you want to be part of a national and international movement with social justice at its core, join us.

Day 10 of protest in Albania where people will not back off from their fight against the Trump Kushner’s ignoble speculation in their country.