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The animal cruelty the EU-Mercosur deal will be importing to Europe Without meaningful safeguards, the EU-Mercosur agreement – as it stands – risks locking the EU into a system that expands imports of meat produced under conditions that fall far below EU regulations. ...

The animal cruelty the EU-Mercosur deal will be importing to Europe
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Thks Joe💥

With a small "c"

Mighti Mide .. @socialmide@bsky.social ... a really excellent candidate, genuinely empathetic, informed, politically astute, wise and experienced beyond her years, and ...trustworthy... The race is surely on...
Lets hope a divided field doesn't defeat good candidates .

An Athrú Abú

CETA: a free trade agreement that is anti-constitutional and waters down our rights and protections so mega-corporations make more money. But we all win.

Míde Nic Fhionnlaoich, Selected for Galway West

🟣 CANDIDATE SELECTED / IARRTHÓIR ROGHNAITHE 🟣

Massive congratulations to @socialmide.bsky.social who has been selected as the Social Democrats candidate for the Galway West by-election!

Ireland’s Food systems have a huge impact on climate and biodiversity. Join @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social and GFI on 17 Feb in TUS Athlone for a day of discussion and sharing on how Universities can help shape better food systems. More details here: greenfoundationireland.ie/in-person-co...

When we have never needed it more .. UN being starved and emasculated ... led by #POTUS Trump administration.
Will Ireland show leadership on a world stage heading into its Presidency of EU Council Taioseach, Tanaiste, Minister Darragh O'Brien?
#Peace #Diplomacy #UnitedNations #Aarhus #HumanRights

UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.

The United Nations is at risk of imminent financial collapse due to member states not paying their fees.

- Sec Gen António Guterres.

When people voted No to the EU Nice treaty changes 25 years ago the Govt. said it thought we were worried about EU military entanglements.
So to reassure us, they pledged to keep that law in place.
A pledge they repeated after the next EU treaty No in 2008.
They've decided to break their word.

Patron Exclusive: Another Accidental Journalist 10 hours ago Hassan Abo Qamar is a journalist and writer from Gaza. He's also a first-year engineering student at the Islamic University of Gaza. His work has been published in outlets such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Nation,

Sat down with Hassan Abo Qamar who is a Gaza-based journalist, writer, engineering student and small business owner. He’s fabulous. You should listen: www.patreon.com/posts/149482...

It is beyond naive for Democrats – and Europe – to think Trump’s retreats are real. He never backs down for long | Jonathan Freedland Whether it’s Minneapolis or Greenland, the US president will do just enough to get through a damaging news cycle, then carry on as before, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

It is beyond naive for Democrats – and Europe – to think Trump’s retreats are real. He never backs down for long | Jonathan Freedland

Weak af

NHNA objects to: 1. The idea an LNG terminal would increase Ireland’s energy security 2. Lack of assurance the terminal will operate within carbon budgets 3. Giving the Minister, rather than An Coimisiún Pleanála, decision-making power over a dangerous, expensive and unnecessary fossil fuel project

<1/3> Deadline for submissions: 30 January

Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve Bill 2025: tinyurl.com/SGERBill2025
Submission page: tinyurl.com/SGERPLSSubmission

Highlights include:

<2/3> Head 20: ‘...the designated development is deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015’

'Deeming' it so does not make it true!

NHNA objects to:

1. The idea a LNG terminal would increase Ireland’s energy security
2. Lack of assurance the terminal will operate within carbon budgets (Head 20)
3. Giving one Minister, rather than ACP, decision-making power over a dangerous, expensive and unnecessary fossil fuel project (Head 5)

Irish media and social media is awash with accounts of people who have taken action to raise awareness of what is happening in Gaza since Oct 7th. But only the tortoise shack has brought the stories of hundreds of people directly from Gaza.
Refaat, I love you. I miss you. Please don’t haunt me.

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/climate-environment-and-energy/

Open call for submissions on Gov's Heads of bill for the Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve - closes Fri 30th Jan 2026

This is the State's development not the commercial #SLNG facility

www.oireachtas.ie/en/committee...

Heads here: tinyurl.com/3b36rkcd

#Climate #ClimateJustice #EULaw #Energy #Gas

A Major Agreement to Protect the Amazon Is Falling Apart After 20 Years Amid changing political headwinds, the moratorium on soy-driven deforestation is in danger. What now?

A major agreement to protect the Amazon is falling apart after 20yrs. One of the world’s most effective zero-deforestation policies is hanging by a thread as Big Ag lobbyists and soy giants are walking away to protect profits....

sentientmedia.org/major-agreem...

Enniscorthy ‘devastated’ by flooding

Shame the economics of seriously tackling climate breakdown don't stack up.

Guess we'll just have to let things keep on getting worse and worse.
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Unbelievable. You know this was either the Russians, the corkonians or both.

WE HEREBY ANNOUNCE A LIVE SHOW IN DUBLIN. March 3rd, baby. On sale now. Tickets on sale now: www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/56740...

In case it wasn’t already abundantly clear, America is a fascist state.

I will be so there ..

Kneecap are going to do a gig in Greenland, aren’t they.

Don't forget why we have MLK day...

Important to point out that people do not become homeless. They are MADE homeless. And with homelessness rising from a few hundred people to over 17k in the last decade it’s clear that the government are in the homelessness business.

As days go by reports from Gaza are dwindling. There are plenty of distractions distancing us from the pain and misery in Gaza and the West Bank. Just please remember this is Palestinian land being robbed by izreel. Each and every one of them deserves to be remembered and treated with dignity. 🇵🇸🤍

Cheers in Greek court as Kerry humanitarian Sean Binder found not guilty after eight-year ordeal A packed Greek court erupts as Seán Binder and fellow volunteers are cleared after years of legal uncertainty

www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan...

Some good news ..
Thanks @irishexaminer.bsky.social for covering this
#SeanBinder
#compassion