Irish Doctors for the Environment

‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics

This is not an accident.

This is what happens after decades upon decades of treating our waterways as an open sewage paired with a forever expanding meat and dairy industry.

We should all be terrified of this.

Peace, come closer War is bad for health; this is undeniable. What about preventing wars of choice? Hard to do when the Board of Peace simply gets bored of peace, as international correspondent Mark MacKinnon put it. Or...

A redoubled counter movement from civil society and global health communities is needed to make health the fight of our lives.

Health is a bridge to peace, and peace a prerequisite for health—come closer.

Read and share this with your family, friends and colleagues!

Something like that.

Cars are kings in Ireland.

Another perfect example of our dysfunctional, unhealthy, car-centric transport system, where cars and drivers are prioritised above all else.

Londonbridge Rd vs Irishtown Rd

From policy to practice: why Ireland must treat clean air as a public good Analysis, insights and commentary on population health issues from the RCSI School of Population Health.

Poignant read on air quality and air pollution in Ireland.

Cars are kings in Ireland.

Another perfect example of our dysfunctional, unhealthy, car-centric transport system, where cars and drivers are prioritised above all else.

Public consultation for Chapelizod Rd and Conyngham Rd Active Travel Scheme.

Please make your views known to the council. As is, the scheme fails to match (even) minimum standards from the Cycle Design Manual.

The plans are not good enough and need to be dramatically improved.

Ah yes, nothing says global empathy like worrying about flight prices while wars rage, genocides unfold, and the planet literally melts.

How will the Iran war affect prices of flights from Ireland? Shorter-haul flights see little impact so far, with Ryanair hedging summer fuel costs in advance

Great to see the Irish Times focusing on the important issues.

(sarcasm).

Excellent work et bien fait to the French government in sanctioning fossil fuel providers who abuse the price volatility 🙌 C'est ça la courage!

#EndFossilSociety

Oil prices are rising. Our food, transport and energy shouldn’t depend on fossil fuel politics.

🚫 Reject Fossil Society
🚲 Demand Active Travel

Post a photo walking, cycling, or taking public transport with #TravelFossilFree and join the movement! 🌍

Richard Curran: If there is gas off the Irish coast we’re shooting ourselves in the foot not licensing explorers to go and find it Things are bad when the British energy minister says the UK is “exposed” to rising energy prices.

The world is literally on fire.

The Irish Media: more fossil fuels please.

This isn’t about being a “purist”. It’s about public health.
There is no safe level of air pollution.

Promoting continued turf burning, even on a small scale, is the opposite of a just transition.

Turf cutting damages fragile ecosystems and burning it creates serious air pollution.

A just transition isn’t letting people keep burning it, allowing the status quo to continue.

It’s about making sure they have affordable, accessible, cleaner, and healthier alternatives.

David McWilliams: Disruption to gas rather than oil might hit Ireland most dramatically We are fixated on tech and AI, but forget how the economy is mostly still heavy, dirty and smelly

David McWilliams: Without any oil production of our own, we are exposed to fallout from Middle East conflict (original headline).

There will always be another conflict and another excuse to continue our harmful relationship with fossil fuels...

A key aim of the DCC's Active Travel Programme is decluttering footpaths. Yet along the Fitzwilliam Quay to Londonbridge Rd scheme, they've managed to install a forest of signage for just 500m of cycle path.

Good cycling infrastructure should be intuitive & legible, not need constant instructions.

Great, positive news, terrible headline.

The use of the word 'dramatic' sends the wrong message.

Nature loss can cost the British economy more than the NHS in 2030. That is in FOUR years.

This is pretty much 100% applicable to Ireland.

This is not some distant threat. This is happening right now while the Irish government is busy expanding Dublin Airport and building more data centres.

Dublin advisory board risks repeating mistakes of the past If we are serious about creating a fairer, healthier and greener Dublin for all, then those guiding its future should reflect that ambition

We have to stop running Dublin as a for-profit business.

My letter in The Irish Times this morning.
#ReimagineDublin

Ryanair traffic rises to more than 207m on rolling 12-month basis Airline carried more than 13m passengers in February

Irresponsible, head-in-the-sand journalism at its finest.

Not a single mention of the emissions involved, nor of the very real damage this scale of air travel inflicts on human health and the planet.

😂👏

Our sincerest apologies - we absolutely want to be as inclusive as possible! We'll post this to our website with a link to the pdf, as well as the alt-text, would that be helpful

US airlines fear EU-wide impact of likely ruling on Dublin Airport passenger cap The Government must enact legislation to remove the passenger cap at Dublin Airport by the end of April or risk seeing a decision by the EU’s top court that would give planning authorities across the ...

Does this article mention:

Emissions? No.
Climate change? No.
Human health? No.

More free pro-aviation PR from the Irish media.

The health case for a fossil fuel advertising ban Key points An estimated 8.7 million premature deaths occur globally each year from air pollution attributable to fossil fuel combustion alone.[1][1] Climate change, which is primarily caused by the bu...

The health care for a fossil fuel advertising ban is obvious.

The question is: will our government act?
#BanFossilAds

The College Green plans are not perfect, far from it, but they are a step in the right direction!

So please, put in a submission in support of the plans!

But remember, do include everything you want to see improved!

Let's create a healthier, greener, and fairer Dublin. Together!

No @antonsavage.bsky.social!

A misleading RSA statistic claiming “98% of pedestrians killed weren’t wearing hi-vis” does not show that pedestrians are safer wearing hi-vis.

Making that claim is A) wrong because it’s based on flawed statistics, and B) I’ll keep saying it — correlation ≠ causation.

The statistic you used does NOT show that pedestrians are safer if they wear hi-vis.

Even if we ignore all the issues with the statistic itself, that still leaves our main point (statistics 101): correlation ≠ causation.

Emissions fall but due to falling herd numbers as nitrogen usage rises Any reduction in emissions from the agricultural sector last year will be mainly due to reduced cattle numbers as nitrogen usage continues to increase.

Latest figures show a total failure of policy to deal with agriculture emissions

www.independent.ie/farming/fore...