Brian Gormley D7

This is also worth a watch. Gave me a laugh. Nominated for live action short. 12 mins. #SpeirGorm

Geo-blocked

Hi Linda, I’m very sorry to hear of your loss. A lesson for us all.

Thank you! (But it seems to be two-blocked in Ireland where I live.)

The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List in “Retirement Plan” Dailymotion video by The New Yorker

The 7 minute Irish animation that is nominated for an Oscar. Worth a watch. #SpeirGorm

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

I think that’s a nice addition to the Venn diagram (although I might use a different graphic designer - your design looks a bit rude 😂)

I look forward to reading the resulting article. I’m in the middle of training at the moment on an ethical approach to using GenAI (or not using it).

A water trickle following a well worn path through the Burren limestone.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

I delivered workshops on Careers in Sustainability at the annual Guidance Counsellors Conference this weekend. We used the Climate Venn Diagram by @ayanaeliza.bsky.social as a model to support students seeking a career that would have a positive impact. Great event and engagement!

Puffins, frogs and here’s my cat (not her best photo! I think I caught he off-guard.)

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."

—Bill McKibben

...Roaring with laughter. (And I can just *see* the dry look on @peter.petermorwood.com's face ...as he was born, as we say, up in the Wee North. "Bit hypersensitive there," I can hear him saying. "Question kind of answers itself...") 😏

Love this! Thanks for sharing!

Last 14 months of Biden's term:

+1.74m jobs

First 14 months of Trump's term:

150,000 jobs

(total! for the whole 14 months!)

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

They let the foot passengers off first - win! But the baggage fun is stuck somewhere in 3-point turn hell so 🤷

screencap of text on details of ferry delay

Its mercifully calm but its starting to get tempers raised that we are sat outside the port for now 2 1/2 hours looking at a stranded stena line ship that has itself been loaded for the past 3 or so hours. This is going to take a loooooooong time to resolve with just 1 berth operating.

Carbury Bog At Carbury bog in Kildare, a local community group has cracked the problem of simultaneously protecting nature while allowing people who can’t afford not to – to keep cutting turf to heat their homes....

How to save nature and cut turf at the same time.

This will annoy the purists but it is also what Just Transition looks like. #RTECountrywide

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

🐻💛 S M I L E S Anyone 💛🧸

My new book Nature’s Acre — about wildlife gardening, community and biodiversity in Ireland — launches next week at Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre.
@irishtimesnews.bsky.social @irish_examiner.bsky.social @independent-ie.bsky.social
gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre

A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

On this day 8th March 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, was born in Edinburgh

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1983)

📣 Save the date! Dublin 7 Home Energy Clinic ⚡️

📍 Monday 23rd March 2026 from 6.30pm to 8.00pm

🗺️ Venue: Spark Lab – Phibsboro Tower 1st Floor D07 VXF8

✅ Do you want to save energy and money? 〽️💶💡

Register now: s.surveyplanet.com/thti63oy

@connectingcabra.bsky.social
@seai-ie.bsky.social

Duck egg blue and white decorative ceiling with stained glass windows

The beautiful ceiling at John's Lane Church. When I went in today to admire the Harry Clarke windows there was a fiddle player practising on the steps of the pulpit. He said the acoustics are good in there. It was all bit magic and a lot Ireland 💚

Italy claim historic first victory over England as Borthwick’s men are rattled in Rome * Italy 23-18 England * Azzurri stun visitors for first win in 33 meetings Even by the Six Nations’ usual standards this has been a remarkable tournament. And to the list of stunning outcomes can now be added the biggest result in the history of Italian rugby. For the first time in 33 attempts they have beaten England at rugby union and no one could possibly claim the boys in blue did not deserve their long-awaited special day. Entering the final half hour it had seemed as though England might just leave Rome with their dignity intact. Instead, not for the first time in this championship, they were the architects of their own downfall with the momentum of the game swinging decisively after two visiting forwards, including captain Maro Itoje, were sent to the sin-bin simultaneously. Continue reading...

Italy claim historic first victory over England as Borthwick’s men are rattled in Rome

#SpeirGorm

In other news, the latest NOAA data is showing that new methane continues to trend downward.

At the current rate of decline, the Glasgow Compact goal of reducing anthropogenic methane 30% by 2030 will be attained somewhere around 2037 to 2040.

Illustration of full moon rising over hillside with fungi and fairies, tree on top of hill.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Asako Eguchi

Three points, clean sheet, job done. Not convincing in the second half but the type of game Bohs used to let slip away.

Sheep are disappearing from our hills and our dinner plates Have we have passed "peak sheep" in the UK?

This is a good news story that I hope is happening in Ireland as well

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The points on the table don’t reflect that Wales team. They gave it all tonight. They’re a team on the up.