‘Saving the family’ is really about putting women back in their boxes www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Margaret E Ward: ‘Saving the family’ is really about putting women back in their boxes
An unholy trinity of conservatives, Christian nationalists and tech bros are planning to strip American women of their rights
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'And so we get to the real crisis: Ireland’s land-use policy is a fragmented, siloed, splintered mess.' - Excellent, honest writing, as usual, from @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Ireland doesn’t have time for wind farm battles
Ella McSweeney: A recent verdict showed climate law can’t fix what politics won’t
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We are currently hiring for a range of #seabird jobs at @birdwatchireland.bsky.social , with a deadline of 22nd March. If you'd like to join our Seabird team this summer see birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...
Weaknesses in policymaking: A challenge to the Convention on Education www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Weaknesses in policymaking: A challenge to the Convention on Education
Reviews of the Department of Education have found it to be overworked, reactive, overly absorbed in short-term operational issues and lacking space for long-term strategic thinking
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c... The potential impacts of this deregulation effort are truly devestating.
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
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@npwsireland.bsky.social now seeking tender submissions for #habitat #mapping and habitat condition assessments across the Blaskets Islands, Skelligs, and Puffin Island. Deadline for submissions is 21 October, 2025. www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/pre...
European Dynamics - View CfT Workspace
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Mike Flippin' Murphy, indeed! Mike's cadence and distinctive tones lit up this interview. Always a class act, my parents had fond memories of him dining in the restaurant - several pictures adorned the walls in pride of place. Thank you, @roisiningle.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Mike Murphy: ‘It should have been the RTÉ payments scandal, not the Ryan Tubridy payments scandal’
Broadcaster talks about Roy Keane and the mothers of Cork, angry Trumpite golfers and finding a fan in Martin McGuinness
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‘It’s all over’: The uphill struggle to revive Europe’s shrinking rural populations www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
‘It’s all over’: The uphill struggle to revive Europe’s shrinking rural populations
Across the continent, remote villages are fading amid declining births and residents departing for jobs in urban centres
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A lovely thread, with interesting snippets on the importance and values of trees in the Brehon laws, reflecting their cultural and practical significance to Irish society of the time
Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · last yr.🧵 In Ireland, for some 2000y, there were laws relating to trees & woods. This was because of their economic, spiritual & cultural importance. The history & traditions associated with them are relatively unknown, so let’s take a brief look! Reenadinna Ancient Oakwood, Killarney [1]
At a time when the boom is even boomier, this statistic should mortify us www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Fintan O'Toole: At a time when the boom is even boomier, this statistic should mortify us
The stark fact is that there are students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams today who went to bed hungry last night
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Nature research paper: Warming accelerates global drought severity https://go.nature.com/45alUJe
Warming accelerates global drought severity - Nature
Increased atmospheric evaporative demand in recent years has increased drought severity by an average of 40% globally across both dry and wet regions, and the trend is likely to continue under future warming scenarios.
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Ireland to ratify high seas treaty and scale-up marine-protected areas, Taoiseach tells UN summit www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Ireland to ratify high seas treaty and scale-up marine-protected areas, Taoiseach tells UN summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges world leaders to move ‘from plundering to protection’
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Where are Ireland’s ‘sitting ducks’ - the places most vulnerable to extreme weather? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Where are Ireland’s ‘sitting ducks’ - the places most vulnerable to extreme weather?
Cork is ‘very, very vulnerable’, but Dublin, Galway, the east coast and areas along the Shannon are also at high risk
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The IUCN is launching a €2.1M EU-funded Rapid Response Fund to tackle invasive species across Europe. 💸 Grants of €10–50k for urgent action, plus training and expert support. First call opens June 2025. 🫰 👉 Find out more: iucnsos.org/funding-rapi... #Bioinvasions #EUGreenWeek #SavingOurSpecies
Funding rapid action to combat invasive alien species in Europe - IUCN SOS
Invasive alien species remain one of the biggest causes of biodiversity loss and species extinction. These non-natives animals, plants or microorganisms are
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Ireland’s plan to weaken legal protections for waterways will push many of them beyond recovery www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Why is Ireland planning to all but give up on protecting its waterways?
Ella McSweeney: The Department of Housing is proposing to give up trying to restore or naturalise many of our rivers
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Speaking rights for Michael Lowry would not be on my list of issues critical to our democracy www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Speaking rights for Michael Lowry would not be on my list of issues critical to our democracy
Row is yet more evidence of politicians’ preoccupation with trivia as storm clouds gather abroad and housing crisis worsens at home
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light
He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist...
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www.irishtimes.com/environment/... action does lead to change if implementation reaches critical mass - but change is only real if those actions are sustained and become ingrained
Decline in nitrate levels and sewage pollution found in Irish coastal areas
Coastwatch survey finds nitrate levels were lowest since 2012, while raw sewage discharges also declined
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... The EU is on the wrong side in this one, both ecologically and ethically (and some might suggest economically 👉 2012 Lenfest Report)
Sandeels vs the EU: how the puffin’s favourite food sparked first post-Brexit courtroom trade battle
This week the EU will argue the UK’s ban on catching the tiny fish, celebrated by conservationists, amounts to discrimination against Danish fishers
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How to do Managed Retreat, and how not to. First look at how the French are responding to flooding in the Pas de Calais. Houses built on flood wplains will be demolished and the area will absorb water during floods, protecting the higher density city of Blendecques. #Climate #Adaptation
Rewilding: A meaningful response to tackling the biodiversity crisis www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Rewilding: A meaningful response to tackling the biodiversity crisis
The concept is an eco-centric approach which is nature-led and human-enabled
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Political science must not trump climate science. Here are the key tests for the new government www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Eamon Ryan: Political science can’t trump climate science. Here are 4 key tests for the new government
The scale and speed of change required to tackle climate issue is unprecedented and not always immediately popular
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