If these guys spent a fraction of the time actually reducing environmental damage that they spend looking for dig-outs from the EU we'd be climate leaders. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Doubts raised about companies’ ability to meet EU climate targets

Minister has asked if flexibility will be allowed if firms do not fulfil carbon capture obligations

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If anyone is weaponising anything, it is our own officials and politicians, who continue to fuel the most destructive force of all: runaway climate change. My letter to the editor this morning.

Weaponising climate laws: Ireland’s politicians and officials fuel the fire

It is unfathomable to learn that officials proposed scrapping the ‘linchpin’ of State climate legislation

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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…

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 space in 2025. Added to this are the health benefits of staff cycling to work, including the general finding that active commutes mean fewer sick days (sources: …

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The cost of public & active transport infrastructure gets scrutinised within an inch of its life while motor vehicle infrastructure spending at whatever cost is treated as an unarguable necessity, if not ignored entirely. As here, motor vehicle infrastructure is overwhelmingly a terrible investment.

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…

Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing, Living My Life by Grace Jones

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

‘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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A reminder that this legislation was passed at Final Stage by 129 votes to 10, with every political party bar Ind. Ireland supporting. This headline shows: > Enormous over-reach by officialdom on an unequivocal democratic mandate, > The craven backtracking of FFG in this gvt on climate action.

Evergreen

Ban e-scooters! Give these drivers a €160 fine and 3 penalty points and send them on their way! #SpeirGorm #RoadSafety

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 4d ago

Motorist caught driving 172km/h as gardaí detect almost 1,600 speeding offences

Manufacturing consent... The truth that has an actual evidence base is that there are more cars in the road, they are bigger, they cause more harm in an accident, and drivers are inattentive and dangerous, so parents don't let kids out on the roads. A vicious cycle hurting us all.

Katherine Nolan@dochara.com · 6d ago

Ireland Thinks poll. Why are kids cycling less? Um, the answer I want to give isn't there.

Not surprising. The app is confusing and generally poor which, in a place where parking enforcement rarely happens anyway, makes the "is it worth the hassle of paying?" calculation less certain than it should be.... www.independent.ie/county/galwa...

Almost €400,000 income loss from Galway parking after transition to app payments

Galway City Council recorded a drop of almost €400,000 in parking revenue during the second half of 2025 after moving away from pay-and-display machines and introducing an app-based payment system.

independent.ie

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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The wildfire in Tipperary covered 700 hectares. The smoke could be smelled 100km away at Cork Airport. Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael have spent the summer setting the climate act aside, saying it has been "weaponised" by NGOs.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

EU crisis chief urges tougher climate action amid France, Spain wildfires https://aje.news/eifpm5

It's not going to become 'the norm' though, is it? That's what so fucking terrifying about it. It's going to become a lot worse, very quickly.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

Would you be happy if this summer's weather became the norm? Happy: 38% Neither: 22% Unhappy: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Very good, on the Irish government’s authoritarian push to dismantle planning oversight and judicial reviews, by one of our own parish @cathalmalone.bsky.social

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

irishexaminer.com

The first rule of road design should be: Make drivers afraid of damaging their cars.

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · last wk.

Public works has reduced the driving space so much that you almost can't do anything but drive the speed limit past this elementary school. This is outrageous. It's like they have no concern for the people who left home 5 minutes late to drive their kids to school two towns over.

Imagine my surprise when finding promised social homes on Daft.ie 🙃 140 apartments which should have been public homes now being advertised for €2400-4500 per month

Deal for 140 Dublin social homes falls through as €4,500 rental ads appear online

A total of 140 social homes slated for Dublin 9 are instead appearing online for rent privately for up to €4,500 a month.

independent.ie

The Development (Strategic Gas Reserve) Act 2026 was signed into law last week Luckily the Government’s lack of concern for the climate is matched by their lack of competence in delivering large projects So there is still time to stop this! Here’s how: extinctionrebellionireland.com/resist-lng

Surely that should speed things up because the shrinkage means that stations are closer together?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

More rail services in England set to slow as heatwave shrinks soil

And in fairness, not all AGS accounts get it wrong. AGS Kilkenny clearly explain the difference here. Which makes you wonder, why can't all, or AGS HQ, get it right? It all comes down to proper education and enforcement, which is what the real issue is. www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

The scary thing is... it *is* going to get worse, it's already too late to stop temperatures rising. But every tenth of a degree of warming that we prevent is important.

The more I learn about it the more I think "the fossil fuel industry has an enormous, massively funded propaganda apparatus" is one of the most under covered and under appreciated stories of our era

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago

A new report exposes what's behind the "clean" gas lie

Aside from the utter negligence & stupidity of this from Chambers & the gov, blaming "NGOs" is also a trigger phase for the far right. Sadly, someone I know has fallen down that hole & all they do is blame NGOs for everything. #IrishPol

John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing attack on civil society and environmental justice by a government lacking either vision or basic competence. www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber...

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... Cool. Metro and rail for Dublin and Cork, but here in gridlocked* Galway, it's even more driving. *terms and conditions apply, doesn't occur when lack of school transport isn't relevant.

MetroLink, Galway ring road among fast-tracked projects

The Government will today announce a list of nine projects to be fast-tracked under new legislation that prioritises critical infrastructure.

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If you need any more evidence that we have a blind spot on cars, think on this story. The man is charged with dangerous driving because he used a car. What would the charge have been if he’d used any other weapon? #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan...

Man charged with dangerous driving over Skerries incident

Four people, including three teenagers, were injured in an incident in Harbour Road, Skerries on Saturday night

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"Even when your car is parked it can kill". The language was stronger back in the day but it would have been better if UK (and the lagging Irish) authorities had re-engineered roads so that these 'bombs' cannot be planted. Likewise we can design out speeding; yes there is resistance but it passes.

Stephen Holden Bates@stephenholdenbates.bsky.social · 2w ago

@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org Thought you’d be interested in this 1986 Department of Transport advert in the NME…

Important to remember that this is a zero-sum game in that Garda resources spent enforcing e-scooters means even less time on speeding, drink driving, breaking red lights and the many other dangerous driving habits that cause most deaths & injuries on our roads www.southeastradio.ie/news/wexford...

Former Garda Superintendent warns e-scooter crackdown will fail without enforcement

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introducing his argument for nuclear power, Michael McDowell says imagine a world in which people can have as many cars as they want and no limits on parking. utter nonsense

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2w ago

Michael McDowell: Unless we embrace nuclear, Ireland will remain partly dependent on gas

The European Environmental Bureau point out that the Common Agricultural Policy subsidies, instead of being used to fund resilience to climate change, they “continue to fund harmful practices that contribute directly to these crises — fuelling an expensive and unsustainable feedback loop”