Ciarán Nevin

Ireland's councils only applied to CPO one derelict building last month A national slowdown on tackling dereliction continued in January.

A national slowdown on tackling dereliction continued in January

SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?”

Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov

Photo of an article in the 25th January 2025 Sunday Times by Ciarán Nevin titled "How is our basic infrastructure so poor"

Thought provoking piece on the causes of our stumbling infrastructure by @ciarannevin.bsky.social in today's Sunday Times.

. This is the playbook used by Trump and the other pseudo-populist strongmen the world over: throw some minor economic concessions to the base (or at least claim to do so), unleash the dogs of race and gender-based hatreds, and preside over a rapid upward transfer of wealth, alongside an authoritarian concentration of power.

Well put by Naomi Klein in Doppelgänger. (Even before Trump 2)

If they don’t say “one for everyone in the audience” after this there will be riots in the audience #LateLateToyShow #Orlando

If Trump is watching this Patrick Kielty will be made education secretary. #LateLateToyShow

Strong start there. They should make this into a musical. #LateLateToyShow

Look forward to a chat about your experience with this.

The @social-democrats.bsky.social predicted result is impressive if the exit poll is accurate.

Especially as they didn’t run a large number of candidates.

For compassion and vision. For a republic that cherishes all the children of the nation equally. #GE24

Three times zero credibility on climate is still zero. #rtept

If you’re in Wicklow please consider giving your No 1 to #jenniferwhitmore #socdems #wicklow #ge24

Andrew Marr recollecting the late John Prescott.

a cartoon with two panels panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there" The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

Junior transport minister criticised for private jet conference address Fianna Fáil accused of 'talking out of both sides of their mouth' on climate action after James Lawless gave opening address to aviation conference

“While often perceived as symbols of luxury, business aviation also serves critical functions in terms of efficiency and flexibility"

– so says FF junior minister James Lawless on #climate destroying private jets, the toys of the ultra rich.

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Two Baltic subsea cables damaged within a day Speculations rise as two subsea cables between Finland and Germany, and Lithuania and Sweden have been damaged within a day of each other.

The damaged Finnish-German cable could take 15 days to repair, according to Finnish telecom Cinia Oy. www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/subsea...

Spreading too much fertiliser an issue on #RTEUpfront

These things are so handy. Fair play for pulling it together.

Not sure I’ll last. Everyone’s a bit… nice.

Experienced the austerity at the hands of…? #RTEUpfront

Who will be the Weakest Link? #RTEUpfront

Scary

Don’t listen to the dinosaurs – heat pumps are fantastic You may have some vague understanding of heat pumps as a new and expensive alternative to burning dead dinosaurs. But heat pumps aren’t new and they’re not necessarily all that expensiv…

Don’t listen to the dinosaurs – heat pumps are fantastic

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