Saoirse McHugh

When people look at Connemara and other areas in Ireland, they see them as bare.

But they don't have to be like that, we just need to stop the sheep grazing and they could look very, very different!

A friend of mine adopted a sick stray old cat and her roommate is allergic to cats but loves them and just dealt with it

Stooooopppp😭😭

Building data centres to house the AI that picks targets for war crimes that cause spikes in prices for the fossil fuels we burn to power the data centres that we keep building so the war criminals will give us tax money to build data centres to house the AI that....

Everytime I learn anything new about Charlie haughey Im in disbelief that this man was a minister and taoiseach for so long

I don't watch it much but I've been waiting for the Larry Goodman program like it's the toy show

Again

😭😭😭Knowing they feel fear and try to protect themselves makes seeing thousands of them smashed on the roads so much worse

I'm so sorry, it was the hopes that sharing that information would somehow make me feel better but it didnt

I've spent the last few days moving frogs off the road and about 1 in 5 of them cover their head with their hands when you go to pick them up 😭

‘He’s feeling at home’: School rallies around boy (5) with special needs facing deportation Ona’s principal and guardian fear progress he has made in Ireland will be halted if he is returned to South Africa

What sort of dump of a country deports kids with special needs? Fair play to the school rallying around him and fighting his deportation www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Turn off the Toxic Algorithms For ourselves, for our children, we must get rid of these toxic algorithms on social media platforms that push harmful content at people, all for the sake of their profits. The First Interim Report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence published last month recommended that: "Recommender systems should be switched off by default and social media companies should be banned from turning on recommender algorithms for accounts used by children." Numerous studies have shown...

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We need to turn off the toxic algorithms that effect all of us, but especially children.
Our bill will be brought to the next stage of the Dáil on Wednesday March 4th, with TDs likely voting on it THAT NIGHT.

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Last chance to contact Councillors from Donegal, Kerry and Mayo and tell them to say no the corporate takeover of Irish Seaweed.

Email tool is set and ready to go

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#SpeirGorm

I also think it's worth mentioning that in Dublin data centers consume 50% of the electricity used

A minor point but this should be a picture of a data center, not a household plug

Trailer Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars YouTube video by Harley Boo Productions

I had the opportunity to contribute to @immikesheridan.bsky.social's brilliant doc Amplified, on how US culture wars and extreme ideas are influencing Ireland. It's now available to watch on Apple TV, Amazon, and Google Play.
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A really important piece of writing that exposes the inherent racism at the core of our Dept of Justice.

No other journalist in this country writes about the migration system - particularly its byzantine inhumanity - like Shamim does.

If we had more people who did, I think the public would be better informed and have a VERY different view of it

Funny how the Minister and Department keep telling us their own process is too slow and opaque, but will happily drag out cases for years trying to find cause to refuse, then need to be taken to court to reveal why. Almost as if they have another goal entirely 🤔

Those pictures of you, your family and friends won't nudify themselves! I for one am happy to subsidize such a service 🫡

‘It’s a slap in the face’ – Irish households are paying twice as much for electricity as data centres Households in Ireland are paying almost twice as much for their electricity as data centres.

Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹
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end the witch hunt

The most recent Epstein cancellation was a few hours ago of the influential medical doctor Peter Attia

While many might view the behavior and comments of those individuals as ugly, nothing has yet emerged to suggest they did anything sufficiently wrong or criminal to merit losing their jobs. There is no clear evidence to conclude that any of them were complicit in Epstein’s crimes.

Get in loser, we're doing the cancel culture panic again
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Clarity on today's email tool!

Only Councillors in Donegal, Mayo, Galway and Kerry have the opportunity to share their opinions with MARA in relation to the corporate takeover over of Seaweed harvesting. But ANYONE can email them ✊️

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Please email Donegal, mayo, Kerry and galway councillors and tell them to stand against corporate seaweed harvesting
Nothing like a ton of emails to light a fire under some councillors!

Thanks Joe! It feels like we're firefighting on every front. Can corporations not leave anything alone

Communities fight 'corporate' bid for seaweed rights Communities on Ireland's west coast say they will fight to safeguard their traditional seaweed rights against what they describe as a "corporate takeover "of their livelihoods.

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

SLOPTU

There seems to be a blindness to what has been done to the hills. The places in these photos are part of a 'Special Area of Conservation' and are acknowledged to be in terrible condition and yet nothing is done, even when downstream flooding affects people's lives

‘The water will take a car and sweep it away’: Connemara river at centre of flooding row Locals near Kylemore Bridge in Co Galway have faced the problem for years, which they say is partly due to environmental rules

The Connemara hills suffer some of the worst overgrazing in Ireland. Protect the bogs, restore the forests, you'll see peak flooding decrease...

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