Clare O'Grady Walshe

At the Dáil yesterday, our message, the campaign message and the message from all opposition TDs is clear, the government must stop stalling and pass the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill in full, including services, and before the Christmas break.

Ireland and its view of its place in the world, discussed by Patrick Bresnihan, Niamh Ní Bhriain, and Rory Rowan.

On Ireland and its people’s view of its place in the world, discussed by Patrick Bresnihan, Niamh Ní Bhriain, and Rory Rowan. #Ireland #Neutrality #TripleLock @irishtimes.com

Exposed: 5,000+ Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Got Access to U.N. Climate Talks & Helped Block Climate Action Over 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to U.N. climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, adequate climate action and record oil an...

Climate reporter Nina Lakhani says corporations at #COP30 are "there to promote false solutions" like carbon markets that "are not going to save the planet."

Judicial reviews serve the common good Rather than castigating public-spirited ordinary people concerned by planning problems, the Government should focus on properly resourcing the planning and legal systems

Amidst Gov's attempt to hijack the common good & ur #JR rights,a contrary perspective from me on what's happening

As always the @irishexaminer.bsky.social facilitates examination 😇👏

#accesstojustice
#aarhus
#eulaw
#courts
#judicialreview
#publicinterest

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Big food's routes to influence at COP30

🚨 Big Agribusiness has come to #COP30 – and it’s not here for #ClimateJustice.

@desmog.com reveals 141 influence routes used by JBS, Nestlé, Bayer & others to greenwash their image, lobby for weak metrics & grab climate finance.

📖 Must-read: www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

#FoodSystems

Signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, Frank Aiken said it was 'a practical & vital step away from war and towards a peaceful and cooperative world that all people desire.'

Today, Fianna Fail are removing the Triple Lock so Irish troops can fight in EU/NATO wars.

Eoin Drea, senior researcher with the official think-tank of the European People’s Party (EPP) of which Fine Gael is a member, writing in today's Irish Times that the normalisation of genocide and the end of neutrality are 'necessary' for us to align with the EU.

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Book Launch for 'From The Bog To The Cloud' is in Connolly Books on Wednesday, November 26th.

Pat and I will be in conversation with Conor McCabe and Eugenia Siapera. Should be good!

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via Give A Shift About Nature

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🎶 Máirtín O’Connor - Into the New
@president.ie

GREAT presidential acceptance speech from Catherine Connolly, including a repeated focus on the threat of climate and environmental breakdown.

She's clearly announcing that she'll be an activist president: *exactly* what's needed right now.

Rain did not dampen Connolly's message of hope as she zoned in on war and climate in first speech Connolly spoke of how Ireland’s history of forced immigration and man-made famine gives us a mandate to be leaders for peace.

Catherine Connolly used her first speech as president to highlight what she sees as the existential challenges of our time: war and climate change.

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“Our experience of colonisation and resistance of a catastrophic manmade famine and forced immigration gives us lived understanding of dispossession, hunger, and war and a mandate for Ireland to lead," she said.

Misleading headline, this site has a very long backstory #Planning

🌍 As #COP30 kicks off in Belém🇧🇷, IPES-Food is on the ground – calling for urgent action on #FoodSystems.

🛑 Industrial food = 1/3 of emissions, 40% of petrochemicals
✅ #Agroecology = climate action, resilience, food justice

We’re watching. Are you?

#JustTransitionRising #ClimateJustice

Graphic featuring a quote by Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, about human rights defenders working to address climate change and achieve a just transition, which is the theme of her latest report to the UN. The quote reads: “Climate change is a global problem which States must come together to confront. The primary space created for this cooperation is the climate COP. Human rights defenders should be among the stakeholders participating in it, yet throughout the COP's history they have been systematically obstructed when trying to do so.” The image includes a photo of Mary Lawlor and mentions that her full report is available on www.srdefenders.org.

As #COP30 opens in Brazil, States must ensure that human rights defenders are not sidelined. They are key stakeholders in climate action, yet too often obstructed or excluded from the process. To achieve a just transition, we need HRDs at the table.

Magill magazine 1999!

Magill 1999

They’ve been at this a long time!

Exactly - and maybe what they foolishly want!

Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.

Whatever your view on judicial review and NIMBY-ism, this is an appalling attack on the rule-of-law —

If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?

Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.

So the new and outgoing Presidents of Ireland met yesterday and a certain book was visible on the table...

Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise).

Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum presses charges against man who groped her Mexico’s first woman to serve as president is now working to make sexual harassment a criminal offense in every state of her country.

We are better at naming it now, but the violence of misogyny is the backdrop to all our lives. #WomensRights #ViolenceAgainstWomen

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum presses charges against man who groped her www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Valuable lesson here from one-time #climate “hero” Bill Gates: never, ever trust billionaires – on any subject. Only thing they care about is themselves, as I explained to Matt Cooper yesterday.

Oh, and not sure about Micheál Martin either.

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Something really remarkable from the centre-right BTI-bro Gates-takes is that none of them want to acknowledge Gates flat-out fabricated the core, load-bearing example he uses for the entire thesis of his blog post.

That isn't a 'bad opinion', that is extremely serious malpractice and fraud

Zohran Mamdani, Catherine Collony, Zack Polanski

The carnage of the genocide has changed people. We wanted to free Palestine but it looks like Palestine will free us all...

The California Forever debate moves underground - High Country News A billionaire-backed company will continue sowing support, while residents weigh their options.

The Collison brothers were early investors in 'California Forever', a tech-utopian city project.

When the democratic process blocked the development, they threw millions of dollars into subverting it. That's the Ireland James Collison envisages.

www.hcn.org/articles/the...

@deanbaker13.bsky.social puts the numbers in striking context - The $5bn the Trump family gained in wealth since last year's election (doubling its fortunes) could be used to provide SNAP benefits to 2 million people for a full year.

There is a co-ordinated attack underway on access to justice & environmental democracy, with the Irish public being bombarded daily with anti-judicial review messaging from all sides.

This is to soften up the public before their right to access justice is removed- it's manufacturing consent.

Our planning system is far from perfect, but cutting out the public voice will benefit the rich, to the detriment to us all, and our environment.