Lynn O'K

Green Party cllr Alastair McKinstry tried to get the county development plan to increase the minimum distance from the sea for planning permissions by a few meters to prevent new buildings flooding or eroding away.... he was voted down.
FFG have their heads in the sand re climate change.

€10m Bettystown centre ‘at direct risk of erosion’ less than a year after opening A Meath councillor has raised concerns over the recently opened Bettystown Civic Centre, warning that the €10m facility is now at “direct risk of coastal e...

€10m Bettystown centre ‘at direct risk of erosion’ less than a year after opening www.independent.ie/r... #bettystown Google streetview www.google.com/maps/... #mastodaoine #speirghorm

The officials who granted planning permission for this foolish project should be paying the bills. If that involves garnishing all their cushty civil service pay, and pension, so be it.

288 planning permissions granted on floodplains in the last 5 years… no lessons have been learned.

Criminal waste of much needed buildings 👇

Criminal waste of much needed buildings
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Criminal is right. It’s obscene even in good times, & let’s face it, these are not good times. 15k homeless, all local Govts neglect to impose Dereliction taxes, #VacantIreland & #DerelictIreland are all around us, & our Govt of landlords lead us all a merry dance. The Pied Piper wouldn’t be in it!

Know what people use to help find missing pets?
That's right.
Drones.
And it works.
Dedicated volunteer drone operators working with local rescues have saved many lost dogs and trapped cats in Cork City.

#Cork #SpéirGhorm

Puppy farms, sulky racing, fox hunting and hare coursing: Ireland has a major animal cruelty crisis While the public demands change, Ireland’s weak laws, poor enforcement and Government inaction are allowing puppy farms, blood sports and racing abuses to flourish, writes Jennifer Whitmore.

Ireland's animal cruelty crisis: From puppy farms to sulky racing, hunting and coursing... Despite the changing public opinion, Ireland's weak laws, poor enforcement and Government inaction are allowing gross abuse of animals, writes Jennifer Whitmore...
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“The most effective way to undermine a democracy today is to purchase it”
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The Rape of Epstein Island Since most of us are intuitively familiar with only one definition of rape, let’s not forget the type of rape that always falls by the wayside: in late 2022 the Epstein estate was forced to pay half a...

“One of the environmental fines Epstein payed was for demolishing old historic slave-era buildings on Great St James Island. To be fair though, he did replace those buildings with modern brothels that housed sex slaves, so in a way he had exchanged like-for-like”
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Epstein partner financed Dublin housing developments Entrepreneur and investor Nicole Junkermann used to “go out with Epstein”.

A business partner of Jeffrey Epstein – who once asked the paedophile “will you have a baby with me?” – financed two Dublin housing developments and an Irish tech company. One of the housing developments charges students more than €1,600 a month for a studio flat.

www.ontheditch.com/epstein-part...

Ender A 12-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 60 days “More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.”

“More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.”

- 12 year-old imprisoned for 60+ days in Texas concentration camp

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party.

The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.

Yes, politicians make people homeless through their policies
Doing nothing about 65,000 homes empty in a housing emergency is scandalous
How many Children walk past empty homes every day as they move between their homeless shelter & school
Its criminal behaviour by those in power

#speirgorm

Reform plans to scrap up Equality Act – what it would mean for Britain

Trans people were the canary in the coal mine.

Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.

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Relearn.org • • Follow 2d • G ... We will repeal the 19th amendment within ten years. X Dale Partridge • @dalepartridge Women vote with emotions National policy is feminized Immigrants flood in Sexual immorality is legalized Multiculturalism is celebrated Feelings become the arbiter of morality Justice is labeled as "harsh" Western nations collapse Women blame men Repeal the 19th. X.com B 5.4K Q 5.3K ~ 590

I’ve seen this person get retweeted by MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson. He’s not kidding. This is a real political goal he is pursuing. He has 425,000 followers on Facebook.

What I hear in this interview is fishermen at the end of the line. They are not against conservation measures but the State has yet to put anything on the table.

“It’s All Cut, Cut, Cut!”: Claim That Tangle-Net Fishing Ban Would End Inshore Fishing – February 16th, 2026 | RadioKerry.ie Breda Forrest spoke to Michael Hennessy, a crayfisherman out of Dingle since 1983, who uses tangle-nets, in response to an interview ecologist Pádraic Fogarty d...

"There's nothing left really"

A Kerry tangle net fisherman responds to the Marine Institute report that thousands of protected and endangered species are dying in the fishery

www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/ker...

In fact, inshore fishermen are now lobbying for a basic payment scheme so they can stay on their boats but participate in conservation projects (from the latest @marinetimes.bsky.social )

Trying to get ChatGPT to count to one hundred.

Bearing in mind, this technology is being forcefully pushed into education.

Last chance to join our team - deadline to apply for our Diversity Officer role is tomorrow!

"You can’t have 'great replacement' without the failure of women to fulfill their role as childbearers. White women are at the center of right-wing concerns about demographic change because their reproductive capacity is seen as a key bulwark against the browning of America."

People sometimes praise Farage for taking lots of questions from the press.
That seems irrelevant when he regularly responds to reasonable questions in insulting and Trump-like terms, often attacking individual journalists and their outlets. Collectively, the lobby shouldn’t stand for it.

“The cunning disguise this time is soothing words such as simplification and competitiveness.”

@ciaranbrennan.bsky.social of @envpillar.bsky.social writes on the dangerous undoing of environmental (and human rights) laws at national and EU level.

The change in how the rules on eligibility for citizenship are being applied is desperately unfair on people who've spent years in the asylum system. Like many other measures being taken by government now, it makes newcomers feel unwelcome, adds to their stress & trauma, and serves no useful purpose

It's already happened. Two cases so far. This MP and a police man.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gisèle Pelicot: The Newsnight Interview In an exclusive UK interview, Victoria Derbyshire talks to Gisèle Pelicot in Paris about the 2024 trial of her husband and 50 other men, the public's support and her future.

Important interview with Gisele Pelicot and the bravery she has shown in her determination that 'shame has to change sides.'

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

UK politics: Farage insults female reporter as Braverman says Reform UK wants to scrap Equality Act – as it happened Party leader tells FT journalist she should ‘write some silly story’ after press conference revealing roles for his top team

Another leaf from the Trump playbook?

'Farage insults female reporter as Braverman says Reform UK wants to scrap Equality Act'

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