Ruaidhri O'Boyle

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

There seems to be a blindness to what has been done to the hills. The places in these photos are part of a 'Special Area of Conservation' and are acknowledged to be in terrible condition and yet nothing is done, even when downstream flooding affects people's lives

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I spoke to the Irish Times earlier about the situation on Old Cabra Road where a petrol station owned by Lissan Coal Company is preventing the delivery of safe pedestrian and cycle infrastructure and faster bus journey times because it affects their commercial profits.

Experts express ‘extreme concern’ over delay to climate action plan Minister says plan is coming, but academics say there is no justification for holdup

“We wish to state plainly and unequivocally that, in our informed view, there is no basis in science and no discernible basis in law for [the Minister's] assertion."
– Experts' “extreme concern” over the delay in publishing an updated national Climate Action Plan.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

You'll be shocked to hear that (AFAIK), Ireland is still the only EU country to exempt industrial quantities of chemical fertiliser from VAT.
Domestic users pay VAT.
www.revenue.ie/en/vat/vat-r...

Like the arterial drainage segment on the show recently, it's illuminating to hear how one's own anecdotal experience counteracts (for them) the science and evidence base for how bad things are.

Tangle Net Fishing Tangle Net Fishing for Crayfish is sweeping up other critically endangered species as “by-catch”. How do we save Angel Sharks from extinction while preserving fishermen incomes and coastal communities...

Good overview of the tangle net issue from @philipb-h.bsky.social this morning with input from fishermen and scientists.

Dept. of Ag. officials will appear at the Joint Oireachtas Committee next week to answer for their inaction.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I just asked the same thing, should've looked through the comments first!

I guess the Sound Sack channel has been retired?

Pod of this week's Last Word on the environment with Matt Cooper on Today FM is now available.

We discussed initiative to arrest decline in hedgehog numbers, plus we looked at how councillors are still trying to rezone land on flood plains

www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...

Join us this Saturday as we stand together for safe cycling paths and safe crossings for our children and our community.

Let’s make Cabra safer for all.

Saturday 21 February 2026
11am–12pm

Outside Go Petrol Station, Old Cabra Road

#SaferStreets #ConnectingCabra #Cabra #CommunityAction

Do you have the full text available (not behind a paywall)?

Air travel cannot expand indefinitely The catastrophic environmental and public health impacts of aviation must be considered

Just like Icarus, we are indeed flying too close to the sun, driven by Government policy and uncritical media coverage.

My letter in The Irish Times this morning.

Be interested to know if you use/make seitan Annie... we always put at bit into our stews, it has great texture.

'Bid to buy Rothbury Estate as divisive as Brexit' Funds are being raised to buy the Northumberland estate - but the plans have split opinion.

Fixed that headline for you:

‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance.

PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This Valentine’s Day, we can all only dream of one day finding someone who is as obsessed by and devoted to us as the Business Post is to… Dublin Airport.

a woman is standing in front of an orange background with the words surprise suprise written on the bottom . ALT: a woman is standing in front of an orange background with the words surprise suprise written on the bottom .

They have not. Individually, our elected representatives that have made any comments at all seem to be persuaded by the arguments of the IFA et al.

It's depressing stuff. Garden centers still selling rhododendron & Laurel. Organizations with large campuses still planting things like Laurel. The authorities doing nothing to regulate the import of invasive species & pathogens. But when 5 wild boar show up, it's DEFCON 1 & all hands on deck.

It's hard to keep up with the destruction of America's institutions, but this is a big one.

Read our open letter to the Taoiseach and Climate Minister, arguing that there is no legal or scientific justification for delaying Ireland's Climate Action Plan. It's urgently needed to close the carbon budget delivery gap this decade, and further delays will increase overall costs.

Open letter to IE govt: protesting the continuing delays in issuing the 2026 update to the Climate Action Plan (CAP26), and the spurious grounds being offered for that. www.postcarbonireland.org/etc/2026/Let...

Bualadh bos le gach duine!

We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad

As Ireland secures Nitrates derogation, scraps airport limits and tries to scupper Mercosur trade deal, what a GREAT time to go to the EU with the béal bocht routine, begging to be saved from our own greed & stupidity yet again.

4 stories in the @irishtimes.com highlight the crazy approach to climate action by the government. 3 articles detailing the heavy financial & social cost of climate breakdown, and 1 where the govt celebrates increasing climate emissions for the airport by lifting the passenger cap. 🤯 #SpeirGorm

Cabinet to sign off on plans to lift passenger cap at Dublin Airport Elsewhere, the Government will also sign off on plans to extend the ‘Living City’ initiative in a bid to tackle urban vacancy.

The Minister for Climate to seek Cabinet approval this morning to lift the passenger cap that is in place at Dublin Airport.

A move that will dramatically increase emissions, worsen climate change, and harm human health.

Exclusive: Dublin Airport passenger cap to be permanently removed under new laws

Weeks of severe storms and catastrophic flooding across the country — all made worse and more frequent by climate change.

Our politicians’ response?
Our Minister for Climate Action’s response?!

More emissions.

"We're for the jobs the comet will bring..." #DontLookUp