Nuala Ní Chonghaile

Environmental breakdown isn’t a distant possibility – it’s a threat to world stability The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one

Nature and climate funding must now be articulated as infrastructure: as essential to food systems, public health, energy stability and geopolitical resilience. In security terms, biodiversity is not sentimental, it is strategic.

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Ireland in the storms: Flood barriers won't save us if we keep draining the land After flooding in the past, successive governments promised protections, but instead, doubled down on dredging and delayed land-use reform, leaving communities exposed, writes Pádraic Fogarty.

After Midelton was flooded in 2023 Leo Varadkar said we needed a Land Use Plan. The Plan is ready but @micheal-martin.bsky.social won't publish it.

Instead, he's legally designating rivers as "highly modified"

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The @irishexaminer.bsky.social view on tangle netting: "a shameful matter that needs to be addressed urgently"

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourv...

An ceart uilig agat.

Trathnóna álainn i gConamara

Last week a UK national security assessment warned that collapsing ecosystems around the world will trigger conflict and food shortages

Seosamh Mac Donncha ag moladh go mbunófaí ‘ionad taighde cuimsitheach’ a dhireóidh ar an bpleanáil teanga, ar Adhmhaidin. #pleanailteanga #gaeilge

Na gealáin thuaidh i gConamara

Bhí cnoic Mhám Tuirc draoíochtúil inniu.

Denmark’s plan for a greener country offers ideas worth Ireland’s attention Carbon tax on farming and taking land out of agricultural production among bold moves by the Danes

If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland?

www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

My mother (90) and many other older women here in Conamara had never had this tradition.

Lá seaca ag spaisteoireacht cois locha.

Conamara ar an chéad lá don bhliain nua.

Mé fhéin agus mo mhac ag snámh ar lá Nollag. Nollaig shona

In a very confusing press event with journalists, Heather Humphreys has denied ever saying Catherine Connolly made money from people’s misfortune

Quote from Sunday and today below:

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

In case you're wondering, the EPP is the EU parliamentary group co-founded and adhered to by Fine Gael, Heather Humphrey's party.

Be in no doubt: a vote for her on Friday is a vote against nature.

Per the Sunday Independent poll earlier: Humphreys would have taken 60% of Gavin’s first preferences, Connolly 24%, the remainder non-transferrable.

Reworking the poll accordingly:

Catherine Connolly 36
Heather Humphreys 32
Undecided 33

#aras25

Bhí neart le rá aige inniu! Ní aon rud dearfach!

🚨 Jim Gavin has withdrawn from the Presidential Election. #aras25 @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Jim Gavin théis tarraingt amach as an toghchán.

Ach ní bheinn ag brath an iomarca ar na pobalbhreitheanna. Teastaíonn uaidh Chatherine a bheith go mór chun tosaigh ar HH le bheith cinnte.

Catherine Connolly chun tosaigh sa bpobalbhreith is deireanaí.

Séasúr na misiriúin linn 🍄‍🟫

Aimeréal dearg sa ngrian inniu.

Sionnach ag ithe plumaí ón talamh inniu

Is breá liom an bláithín seo - Odhrach bhallach agus an bheach ag soláthar air.

Beithígh Bhaile na hAbhann ar a sáibhín só ar an trá.

Bhí Rúibín sásta a bheith ar shráid na Céibhe inniu i nGaillimh.

Thanks to @npwsireland.bsky.social for inviting me to witness the spectacular release of white-tailed eagles in Galway last week 🦅

Leamhain é seo ní féileacán.