NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

broligarchy.substack.com

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3mo ago

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

"Water quality will not improve unless nutrient pollution is reduced. Right now, there is no clear sign of long‑term reductions in nutrient levels, making it unlikely that we will see meaningful improvements in water quality anytime soon." www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Water quality in Irish rivers and lakes remains ‘unsatisfactory’

Assessment showing Ireland’s best rivers continue to deteriorate ‘must concern us all’, says EPA director

irishtimes.com

Turns out "cattle catch TB from other cattle **15 times** more often than from badgers." Yet the slaughter of innocent badger families goes on. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Cattle in England to get tuberculosis vaccine from 2030 as badger cull to end

Targeted vaccination and improved testing planned as part of drive to eradicate disease by 2038

theguardian.com

Worth reading @hannahdaly.ie's full research here - it contains some really stunning numbers. The most important point is the 80% renewable mandate delayed by six years: meaning six years of massive gas use and emissions, breaching carbon budgets and spiking bills zenodo.org/records/2058...

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3mo ago

Data centre electricity demand could exceed power usage of entire country

Never understand why news orgs don't link to reports when they write about them! A link below to the @ccacireland.bsky.social report referred to by articles in today's Journal and Irish Times, for any (like me) looking for the source material. #spéirgorm #coastalerosion #maharees #climatechange

4,500 homes are at risk of coastal erosion by 2050, and experts say that figure is an undercount

2,279 properties and 570 kilometres of roads are currently at risk from coastal erosion.

thejournal.ie

Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland@ccacireland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today the Council published a working paper by Dr Eugene Farrell on 'Managing Coastal Risks in Ireland'. The Council working papers represent unrefereed work-in-progress by researchers who are solely responsible for the content and any views expressed therein. tinyurl.com/yc22s7cv

New fish kill reported: current estimate is in excess of about 20,000 fish dead in Louth from what is "believed to be an agricultural discharge upstream of Tallanstown," all species, including salmon, trout, roach, pike, eels, perch" are impacted

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 4mo ago

There has been a "significant fish kill" on the River Glyde in Co Louth, according to Inland Fisheries Ireland, and "a definite line of enquiry is being pursued"

First public consultation on Ireland’s draft National Nature Restoration Plan is now open Deadline for submissions is 1 July. Have your say #RestoreNature www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

The May issue of Rundale on the theme of housing is out now. Five new contributions that approach housing and inhabitation in Ireland from new angles, offering different framings of (and answers to) ‘the housing question’. Quality analysis that you just don't find elsewhere. rundale.org

Right #SpéirGorm ...how do we build an Irish coalition and get our politicians to change direction?! “A habitable, equal 21st century is materially possible,”“What stands in the way is not technical impossibility but political choice and the hard but crucial work of building a coalition behind it.”

‘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

theguardian.com

We have a couple of summer student vacancies at the moment If you are interested in historical GHG emissions and temperature impacts... ...check out our vacancies page www.ucc.ie/en/epmg/abou... SEFS Summer Student Job Specification

About | University College Cork

Learn about the Energy Policy and Modelling Group and our research at University College Cork

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Just watching the @epaireland.bsky.social webinar on updated GHG projections to 2030 (and beyond). LULUCF ... #OMG!

Successive Irish governments have refused to adequately protect our marine ecosystems, feigning concern while in reality acting in the interests of those getting rich from ecocide. Now the EU has had enough, and begun legal proceedings against the state. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

What will it take for Ireland to prioritise marine protection?

The Irish Government has developed a pattern of setting ambitious environmental targets, not delivering them, then seeking to merely negotiate the penalties

irishexaminer.com

Happy Lá Bealtaine - the swallows have arrived and summer's on the way 🔥 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 5mo ago

A report by the Hope and Courage Collective, which works to build resilience in communities against rising far-right hate and disinformation, has found a widening gap between public attitudes and political discourse

Missed the last few sunny days at home in #WestKerry doing a course in Cork. Got home to grey clouds, but my goodness, did the #Maharees sky make up for all of that this evening #spéirgorm #WildAtlanticWay #sunset

Independent Advisory Committee on Nature Restoration Report. Under the Nature Restoration Law, Ireland is required to have a Nature Restoration Plan by 01 September. Today, an Independent Advisory Committee on Nature Restoration provided their recommendations: 🔗 assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

Imagine the EU reaction to their citizens bring kidnapped by any nation other than Israel!?!

Irish Examiner@irishexaminer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Imagine if we and the media spent as much time discussing real solutions to this fuel crisis as we do on the continued obsession with aviation and maintaining business as usual.

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

Feeding wild birds is NOT 'helping nature'. In many ways, it's the very opposite.

RareBirdAlert@rarebirder.bsky.social · 5mo ago

RSPB advice to cut summer feeding sparks backlash from suppliers RSPB has said it will stop sales of seed and peanuts during breeding season but bird food companies push back against new advice www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/R...

We've already given solutions to Dep. of Finance & Oireachtas All home should be registered with Revenue as either 1. Primary Residence - either homeowner / rented 2. Non-residence Habitable Homes -holiday homes/vacant homes/short term lets 3. Uninhabitable non-residence homes -derelict #Speirgorm

Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 5mo ago

Is a bad definition of "derelict" partly behind the bad dereliction in Dublin? The Department of Finance, with Revenue and the Department of Housing, is looking at a new definition, said a spokesperson.

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 5mo ago

Khalil was killed and her colleague injured in what Lebanese officials are calling a 'double-tap' strike by Israel https://aje.news/5nsarp

Kerry is in hiding. And full of trees - maybe they have a time machine and have seen the future, and have successfully rewilded Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara with native forests. I'm all for their vision of the future really (apart from the bigotry, racism, sexism, hatred etc) #spéirgorm #SpéirChiarraí

Ireland against Fascism@irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Oirish Paytriots " should at the very least know where our counties are FFS 🙄🤬🤬 #TraitorsAndKnuckleheads

Ireland's recent €505m rescue package was a “ransom” to the #fossilfuel system: @hannahdaly.ie Subsidising demand makes fuel cheaper, keeping people locked in addiction to imported oil, and at the mercy of future geopolitical shocks. #spéirgorm

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

How Ireland’s war-driven fuel blockades revealed the true cost of Europe’s oil addiction

I spoke with The Guardian about Ireland's fuel blockades and the silver lining of this whole mess for the energy transition.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

How Ireland’s war-driven fuel blockades revealed the true cost of Europe’s oil addiction

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed

BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.

bbc.co.uk

Wondering why Ireland gets an honourable mention here as one to be emulated- any thoughts #spéirgorm? While infinitely better off than those under thumb of many of the megalomaniacs she mentions, our leaders still shill for #TechBros, #BigPharma, #BigAg etc (and gift shamrocks to orange muppets!)

the Juice Media@thejuicemedia.com · 5mo ago

The Government™ has made an ad about the era we're living through, and it's surpsingly honest and informative.

How many solar panels could you buy for the €500m fuel supports for the blockers? How many council houses?

Environmental Pillar@envpillar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An Ireland Thinks poll has found 56% of Irish people think the “Government is not doing enough fast enough to cut Ireland’s reliance on fossil fuels”, compared with just 21% who think the Government is doing “too much, too fast” www.environmentalpillar.ie/majority-of-...

And oh boy, are the Irish powers that be doing everything they can to change supplier: pushing hard to get lots of lovely LNG from our near neighbour (across the Atlantic) and making sure any extra renewables we bring onstream are gobbled up by hungry data centres #spéirgorm

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW ANALYSIS: My new article in @natenergy.nature.com argues Europe keeps responding to energy crises by changing supplier. 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas was imported in 2024. The structural fix: reduce fossil fuel demand through electrification and efficiency. www.nature.com/articles/s41...