Paul Waldron

The grotesque spectacle of those who have waged and financed genocide gathering to engage in sycophancy and backslapping is nauseating.
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Photo of Lauren Tuite, Rob Jones and Oisín O'Connor (Green Party councillors) with a poster of Catherine Connolly

Greens for Connolly left right and centre

Police office pull over and ticket working ebikers

Toronto Friday: woman killed by motorist in crosswalk: share.google/V8MvWH8QDm28...

Toronto Police Monday:

“Politically correct” cycle lane plans would put “economic vitality” of town at “serious risk”, warns Labour MP – due to loss of six car parking spaces According to the MP, building the bike lane would cause "serious challenges" for local businesses, “erode public trust, and squander valuable public funds

Once again, you can't trust Labour with active travel and keeping anyone other than drivers safe and prioritised.
If a town is so dependent on 6 parking spaces then you have to wonder about the place
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Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

Half of Ireland's waterways in bad shape despite years of hand-wringing and intensive meetings... what's going wrong?

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"calls into question, why are the Government not doing something about it?"
Unfortunately the answer is easy. Managing floods like this would need landscape scale action including rewilding rivers and rewetting land and the government are fundamentally opposed to anything positive for nature

Buried at the back of an article - current Director of the Irish Car Park Association; David Cullen admits they were wrong about the #TransportPlan

“We’ve been embarrassed to say we got it wrong… some of our car parks are busier than ever”

Energy firms accused of ‘price gouging’ as international report shows they fail to pass on lower costs Electricity companies in Ireland are failing to pass on falls in the cost of wholesale energy to consumers and businesses, a new report has found.

The International Energy Agency "found that the gap between what it costs to produce energy in this country and what it is sold for is one of the largest in the world". 1/

Connolly: “In voting ‘no’ we had to vote a second time on Nice and on Lisbon and we were given absolute, solemn promises in relation to our neutrality that seem to mean nothing at the moment.

Because we are now going down a road of saying that the Triple Lock is not a core part of our neutrality.”

Convictions for wildlife crimes in single digits despite high number of complaints In the absence of ‘real deterrents’, penalties amount only to ‘slap on the wrist’, says Sinn Féin MEP

Data given to @lnbdublin.bsky.social show very low levels of prosecutions for wildlife crime. "these figures expose a system that’s simply not delivering”

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

The UK Green Party is surging in popularity, breaking the 100,000 member mark over the weekend.

Amazing what happens when you take a clear moral and political stance on genocide.

Catherine Connolly calls out ‘shocking’ FG tactics as race for Áras enters final full week Connolly and Humphreys clash on the EU, the triple lock and election campaign ‘smears’ in Sunday debate

Catherine Connolly calls out ‘shocking’ FG tactics as race for Áras enters final full week

To “add to the noise”, a designer creates new, welcoming flags As the council considers whether to take down the tricolours proliferating across the city, Dan Eames is aiming to add to them.

To “add to the noise”, a designer creates new, welcoming flags. As the council considers whether to take down the tricolours proliferating across the city, Dan Eames is aiming to add to them.

You mentioned “Yes Minister” to Timmy Dooley in your question and he answered by going full-on “Yes Minister” in his reply!
A shocking indictment of the system but outstanding journalism.
Thank you!

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1 The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Excellent but deeply frustrating listen, defined by hand-washing, back-watching by the guys leading agencies and a very long-fingering (I've sent a letter to IFI Chair) denial of urgency by Minister. It can absolutely happen again as nothing has changed to ensure it couldn't. #Spéirghorm

Clashes over triple lock, Europe in Áras radio debate Presidential candidates Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly have clashed on their position on the Triple Lock and relations with European nations during the latest presidential debate.

As @catherinegalway.bsky.social says in the first short clip here, HH is now all about the politics of fear and smear, to avoid substantive debate on issues.

Comment: We deserve better.

#Áras25

#SmearTheBejaysis

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I did not think this would make waves but the leader of the county basically just said climate action is pointless and it's only featured in one newspaper with the lead buried.

Is he seen as such a lame duck after last week? Or does no TD and noone else in the media think it's worth highlighting?

Kilkenny landowner ordered to pay €2,400 for damaging a tributary of the River Barrow A landowner in Co Kilkenny has been convicted for habitat damage after he was found to have damaged a tributary of the River Barrow.

€2,400 for excavating 750m of river leading to a Special Area of Conservation. This is not a fine, it's simply a cost associated with the works (no mention of remediation)

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Notable from listening back to the This Week debate that Heather Humphreys no longer seems to be interested in making a positive case for voting for her. It's all just attacks on Connolly.

The full quote as reported:

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change,” he said.
“This might be controversial, because I believe in addressing climate change....

Given a choice between
1. Honouring commitments on fighting one of (if not THE) greatest ever threats to humanity - climate breakdown
2. Cute hoor politics

Fianna Fáil opt for ... Cute hoor politics.

Leopards, spots, and all that.

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien. The changes range from giving legislative backing to relatively minor details, such as square cycle lane markings called "elephant's feet", to more radical changes which will allow for the trialling of a French-style yielding system for people cycling at traffic lights.

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law

A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien. The changes range from giving legislative backing to relatively…

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel. Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was abducted and detained after her aid flotilla was intercepted by the IDF.

Here’s a problem. We need DAs who file CRIMINAL charges against masked thugs who commit assaults and kidnappings.

Violent criminals need to be ARRESTED and JAILED. Civil charges with taxpayers paying fines is ridiculous.

Noonan: No new money for Nature Restoration in Budget 2026 | Green Party Noonan: No new money for Nature Restoration in Budget 2026

No new money for nature restoration, a static heritage budget and nothing meaningful to fix our rivers, lakes and estuaries.

My response to heritage, nature, water measures in the FFG/Ind. first budget. #budget26

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Rep. Jason Crow is a former Army Ranger who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and the elite 75th Ranger Regiment.

Opinion: Between lifting the cap and new Derry flights, is Darragh O'Brien minister for climate, or just transport? Darragh O’Brien needs to make sure that his transport portfolio isn’t making things harder for his climate portfolio, Dr Catherine Conlon

My ideas around rationing of air travel, as explored in THE LIE OF THE LAND are quoted in an article on @thejournal.ie today, by Dr Catherine Conlon.

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Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Coillte insisted on using access arrangements that are poor for cycling and disability access to some points of our local woods which are not at risk yet they didn't know when large machines were using their lands to cause mass destruction to adjoining lands.. you couldn't make this up...