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Head of Sustainability Education in TU Dublin. Chairperson of Connecting Cabra. Birder, book-lover, #andacyclist. Views expressed are personal.

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“Please Outbid Our Own Citizens For Homes,” Government Tells International Property Conference THE MINISTER for Housing James Browne has assembled a crack team of delegates to join him at the MIPIM property investment conference on the French Riviera, where he is expected to encourage institutional investors to …

“Please Outbid Our Own Citizens For Homes,” Government Tells International Property Conference https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/03/10/please-outbid-our-own-citizens-for-homes-government-tells-international-property-conference/

10.03.2026 06:05 👍 41 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 1
Poster calling for ban on chat gpt on tcd wifi

Poster calling for ban on chat gpt on tcd wifi

Delighted to see this student led campaign to remove chat gpt from College WiFi today on environmental and ethical grounds. Hope it succeeds

10.03.2026 13:51 👍 26 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
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A coastal Burren wall - built to stop cattle but to allow wind to pass through. You only rebuild walls, knocked by strong Atlantic storms, so many times before you start adapting.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

10.03.2026 14:01 👍 35 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
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Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.

09.03.2026 22:41 👍 3698 🔁 1338 💬 830 📌 622
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EU monitor: World logged fifth hottest February on record The world logged its fifth hottest February on record, with western Europe drenched by extreme rainfall and widespread flooding, the European Union's climate monitor has said.

The world logged its fifth hottest February on record, with western Europe drenched by extreme rainfall and widespread flooding, according to the European Union's climate monitor

10.03.2026 06:37 👍 13 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 07:52 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Geo-blocked

10.03.2026 07:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 07:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 07:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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

10.03.2026 00:11 👍 1386 🔁 345 💬 64 📌 40

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

09.03.2026 11:51 👍 2160 🔁 519 💬 7 📌 6

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 😂)

09.03.2026 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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).

09.03.2026 13:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A water trickle following a well worn path through the Burren limestone.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

09.03.2026 12:11 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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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!

09.03.2026 07:42 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Puffins, frogs and here’s my cat (not her best photo! I think I caught he off-guard.)

08.03.2026 23:58 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

—Bill McKibben

08.03.2026 22:49 👍 381 🔁 124 💬 0 📌 3

...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...") 😏

08.03.2026 20:18 👍 95 🔁 10 💬 7 📌 0

Love this! Thanks for sharing!

08.03.2026 18:46 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

06.03.2026 19:43 👍 4193 🔁 1844 💬 158 📌 90

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

08.03.2026 18:22 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
screencap of text on details of ferry delay

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.

08.03.2026 13:18 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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...

07.03.2026 15:16 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 2
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🐻💛 S M I L E S Anyone 💛🧸

30.01.2026 00:49 👍 1344 🔁 430 💬 92 📌 0
Nature’s Acre Nature’s Acre is an Irish wildlife‑gardening memoir by Ciarán De Buitléar — a story of recovery, community, and learning to live with nature. Read excerpts, praise, and order the book at GardeningWell

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

08.03.2026 18:33 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

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)

08.03.2026 08:12 👍 491 🔁 96 💬 2 📌 6
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📣 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

02.03.2026 16:35 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Duck egg blue and white decorative ceiling with stained glass windows

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 💚

07.03.2026 21:17 👍 76 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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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

07.03.2026 18:57 👍 81 🔁 13 💬 6 📌 6

#SpeirGorm

07.03.2026 22:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0