Ken McDonagh

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Ireland's first four-hour battery storage system launched Statkraft, the largest producer of renewable energy in Europe, has launched Ireland's first ever four-hour grid-scale Battery Electric Storage System beside its windfarm at Cushaling in Co Offaly.

Statkraft, the largest producer of renewable energy in Europe, has launched Ireland's first ever four-hour grid-scale Battery Electric Storage System beside its windfarm at Cushaling in Co Offaly

Maybe they could start by not posting on a racist website. If you look at their account stats on X: their posts normally get around 20K view. Their post about Edwin Edogbo got _7 milllion_ views. Organizations still there are opening their employees to racist abuse for publicity.

Shannon Airport and ICE deportation flights raise fresh questions over Irish neutrality ICE deportation stopovers at Shannon Airport reignite debate about neutrality, accountability and Ireland’s complicity in US removals

Link www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Maria Steen on RTE radio and Hillary "Andrew Wakefield" Cass* on RTE website is a reminder that forces of hate and oppression need to be constantly defeated...

*Cass report has been so massively shredded by actual science only the ignorant or the malevolent refer to it with any credence

The role of Ronnie Whelan in the downfall of the Soviet Union is understudied....https://youtu.be/z3l5zUw8vGM?si=cQ5A-rlDC9XceQkw

On the one hand I think there are several structural factors that have brought Orbán to a reckoning; on the other, I choose to believe the prospect of a re-democratisation of Hungary is down to Troy Parrott.

The #M1 is currently closed at J4 Southbound as we respond to a road traffic collision.

Please use an alternative route.

Would you support or oppose your country increasing national defence spending at the current time? In %

Would you support or oppose your country developing an alternative European nuclear deterrent that does not rely on the US at the current time? In %

Winds of change, Zeitenwende, etc:
Europe has changed.
Poll finds clear majorities for increasing defence spending and a European nuclear deterrent.

Source ecfr.eu/publication/...

Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday

Someone please do this for newspapers!

Study: Kids twice as likely to die if hit by SUV than car Pedestrians and cyclists are 44% more likely to die if they are hit by an SUV or similar-sized vehicle rather than a traditional car, a study has found.

Just a reminder about how dangerous SUVs are.

Interesting that XL Bully dogs have been banned, actual living beings, but SUVs have not.

www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Russia is not winning this war.
Its casualty rates are surging, and its economy is struggling.

Today, Ministers will discuss how we can further support Ukraine.

On the table are proposals to establish two training facilities inside Ukraine and to mobilise additional private capital.

Woodpeckers knock out power in Sixmilebridge, Co Clare Power cuts in a Co Clare town have been caused by woodpeckers pecking electricity poles and not a faulty transformer or storms.

Power cuts in a Co Clare town have been caused by woodpeckers pecking electricity poles and not a faulty transformer or storms

it is an active choice by the press to frame this overt white supremacist (who literally just bought an autocratic government and killed hundreds of thousands of people) as a serious and credible person making serious and credible promises

Prof Eugene McNulty

Why did a riot happen at the Abbey Theatre 100 years ago today?
Piece by DCU's Prof Eugene McNulty @yesthewholebook.bsky.social for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.
Read more: launch.dcu.ie/45XlaGX
#RTEBrainstorm

A person I share an employer with is being vile on the internet today, so I think it's important that I (& hopefully other @dublincityuni.bsky.social colleagues) state loudly & clearly that our trans colleagues & students are welcome & supported in DCU. Those views do not represent the DCU community

Poster

Panel discussion next Wednesday (18th Feb) at 14.00 in @dublincityuni.bsky.social looking at US intervention in Venezuela and Greenland. Room CG04. Speakers include Dr Eleanor Williams, @drandrewforde.bsky.social, @kenmcdonagh.bsky.social, Prof Gary Murphy, and @waltkilroy.bsky.social

Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service

It’s that time of year. One of the most useful annual reviews of Russia.

www.valisluureamet.ee/en.html

Typical, if you win a Oscar, you're an Irishman in the papers, but if you are a key member of the downfall of the British Prime Minster, suddenly it's Corkman this, Corkman that!

Finally got around to writing a convenient summary of our article 'Creating certainty where there is none'. If the short version just isn't doing it for you, you can find the full article in all its glory here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Friends! Do you teach/ design assessments in humanities subjects that tend to engage writing as a form of assessment? Have you been exploring new ways of doing this in an age of ChatGPT rather than returning to exams? If you would like to share your experiences in UL in April, please let me know!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Having lived in the Netherlands for 7 years - cycling close to every single day of that - what keeps cyclists safe is great cycle path design, the fact that every driver also cycled and the fact that if a car hits a cyclist the fault lies with the driver.

"Governments can buy into the zero-sum thinking of the far-right and retreat into isolation, scarcity, selfishness and decline. Or they can harness the very same forces that, not without difficulties, have allowed our societies to thrive for centuries."

Go Spain! 🇪🇸🇪🇺👏

The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.