Jim Robertson

Only the wealthy can afford to sit on empty properties
A walk down Adelaide St in historic Cork city centre is another stark reminder of this, the area is being destroyed
Have no doubt hoarding properties in a housing emergency is akin to hoarding food in famine #DerelictIreland

Just before sunrise this morning here in #Kerry

There are multitudinous policy conflicts involved in the effective management of deer populations, and not least the lack of reliable scientific data. Ashley Glover himself points this out in the recent Conservation and Science podcast. It’s so easy to oversimplify the problem at hand

Isn’t it ironic that with a “perhaps” 100,000 population (around 50% of the sheep population in Wicklow), a professional hunter still can’t locate one?

boosting because good and we need more good

Hard to reconcile this with the “we are the custodians of the environment” rhetoric that we are constantly hearing

I cannot watch the current format of @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and the gleeful antics of so-called political journalists whilst we are all terrified of the way the world is panning out. #bbcnewsnight

His question illustrated perfectly how utterly stupid he is. No question regarding global warming is “simple” other than in his own head

Are Reform still a thing?

I assume that Booking.com and the myriad of other short term holiday letting agencies would be included in the booting out?

For ‘people’ read farmers

Whilst in full agreement with your premise Eoghan, I feel that the time has come for the ‘backup’ to be appropriately implemented. Natural regeneration will always be the optimum but we have an ecological equivalent of a salted earth which requires immediate pro activity as time is not on our side.

Bearing in mind the ace at which geopolitics is currently moving.. That is a really big call

For “America is back!” read “Wendy… I’m home!”

That view of an apparently ‘bucolic’ Kilcatherine Point is actually an excellent example of ecological carnage hiding in plain sight

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Aye… and they’ll still want their names on any published work 🙄

I’m introducing my own tariffs.. I will no longer purchase any US produced goods or services. #trump #musk #usa #boycott

Whilst agreeing with you Eoghan, I know too many eejit farmers would persecute any introduced predators just as they have the indigenous ones. Without the farming community on board I struggle to see the way forward

I was completely unaware that a subjective hierarchical table from worst to least worst existed. I am very much aware that ecological damage and the causes can be measured and traced objectively.

"While $135 billion is spent annually on biodiversity conservation, up to $3.3 trillion in public subsidies are directed toward sectors that harm nature.

This imbalance mirrors the broader issue of wealth concentration."

Great @theecologist.org piece on making the connections around nature loss.

This is also a fact.

Whilst you were in Killarney NP yesterday Eoghan, I was out on the Sheep’s Head witnessing vast swathes of potential habitat being incinerated to ‘maintain’ the grazing of Ireland’s already ecologically depleted landscape.

My blood boils along with yours

You really have to recognise that evil nasty electric car salesmen have no regard whatsoever for who you are.. you are simply a series of ones and zeros, as is your GP and family

This looks like an exciting new book by Richard Nairn about the wide array of nature restoration projects that are underway in Ireland.

I think Eoghan is using the term in the context that they are remnants of what previously existed. I’m not sure the term “rainwood” is a thing yet.

I find it insufferable to watch BBC’s Nick Watts and his theatrical performances on Newsnight and Politics Live 🤬

950 Mbs this morning here in Kerry!

Had the truth come out during the Leveson Inquiry, would there have been a criminal investigation? If so, then why not now?

..and what proportion of those were “affordable”?