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Aughinish Alumina: 'A ticking environmental time bomb' Irish Times investigation found: 🛑 Aluminium levels 4,700x safe EU limit 🛑 Arsenic levels 129x EU limit 🛑 Zinc levels 125x safe limit An Taisce calls for a full investigation by Government into plant www.antaisce.org/submission-o...
Astonishing attack on civil society and environmental justice by a government lacking either vision or basic competence. www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber...
Chambers claims climate law has been 'weaponised' by NGOs to halt infrastructure projects
Friends of the Earth have said disapplying climate laws sets ‘an alarming precedent’.
thejournal.ie
While we spend our time publishing reviews and setting targets plants and animals that have called Ireland home for thousands of years are going extinct www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Decline to near extinction of a mountain passerine: the status of the Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus in the Republic of Ireland in 2021
The Ring Ouzel has declined to near extinction on the island of Ireland, with just nine occupied sites recorded during a national survey in 2021, all in County Donegal in north-west Ireland.Little ...
tandfonline.com
Despite years of studies and discussions the fortunes of the hen harrier have yet to turn a corner. The NPWS told me that a "step change" will be needed in how we manage the landscape and that recovery is at least a decade off. 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
irishtimes.com
This ⬇️…
Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · last mo.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...
‘The massively polluting Russian-owned Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, which is shipping raw materials to Russia, which is being used to feed Russia's war machine’ open.substack.com/pub/tull/p/a...
The Killing Fields of Aughinish
Ireland enabling Russia's Barbarity
open.substack.com
Díreach sular thosaigh an toirneach agus tintreach ⚡️
A quarter of our cleanest rivers lost since 2010-2012 — sites supporting iconic species like Salmon & Freshwater Pearl Mussel Nutrient pollution identified as main driver of decline — 43% of our rivers have excess nitrogen, primarily due to intensive agriculture www.antaisce.org/news/no-impr...
No improvements to decade-long decline in Irish water quality
The EPA have today released their Water Quality in 2025: An Indicators Report which shows that our waters have continued to be polluted by human activity, and that we have not made any significant ove...
antaisce.org
The extremely remote, deserted pre-famine village of Coimín na Gaorthaidh, meaning "commonage of the wooded river valley". Almost no trees now remain. The clues to the ecological catastrophe that has befallen the Irish landscape are so often in the place names.
Seachtain sna sléibhte na hAlbain Am Monadh Ruadh. A week in the Scottish Cairngorms.
I feel like I've been reading the same article about the State's failures for 30 years www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
European Commission takes Ireland to court over turf-cutting enforcement failures
EU authorities say enforcement efforts have improved but remain inadequate on smaller peat-cutting sites
irishexaminer.com
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival. The new report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) aims to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to navigate the polycrisis that is pushing the world toward climate breakdown, political extremism and ever greater economic and social tension. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
Cabáiste an Mhadra Rua. Ach i mbéarla tugtar St Patrick’s Cabbage ar an bplanda beag seo.
Leave out some shallow water for hedgehogs and foxes tonight. They'll be thirsty
Ceann do phlandaí an phortaigh is breá liom an Drúchtín móna. Go leor acu le feiceál inniu. #speirgorm
#TeaTimeRush in Galway West. Went from an average turnout of 21% at 4pm to 38% by 8pm
Let The Great World Spin, Colm McCann Country Girls, Edna O’Brien The Untouchable, John Banville The Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan Cré na Cille, Máirtín Ó Cadhain #top5irishnovels
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3mo agoHave your say: List your top 5 Irish novels of all time. #top5irishnovels
The end of environmental public interest litigation? In a highly Trumpian move, the Government yesterday signed new regulations which will all but bring an end to public interest environmental litigation in Ireland. More: www.antaisce.org/news/the-end... #environmentaljustice #environmentlaw
The end of environmental public interest litigation?
In a highly Trumpian move, the Government yesterday signed new regulations which will all but bring an end to public interest environmental litigation in Ireland.
antaisce.org
Fíantas dochreidtí i sléibhte Bhosnia & Heirseagaváin.
This is a very balanced piece on the angel shark issue. It's the subject of a public talk in Dingle next weekend that I'll be speaking at with a local fisherman. www.independent.ie/life/are-we-...
‘Are we waiting for this species to go extinct?’ Inside the fight to save rare angel sharks off west coast of Ireland
It’s as rare as a snow leopard and is shaped like a snow angel. The angel shark is one of the world’s rarest and most vulnerable sharks.
independent.ie
