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Dublin’s top of the class for…pollution from ferries. Dublin Port needs to speed up their plans for clean shore-to-ship power. Oh, and a shout-out to Lois Kapila of @DublinInquirer.com for her work on this. www.transportenvironment.org/articles/fer...

#speirgorm

Girl (16) killed while walking dog in Navan hit-and-run named, as road death toll surges over weekend Grim day leads to growing concern, with road deaths surpassing last year Four road deaths in three separate accidents in three counties over the weekend

The online portal to submit dashcam footage of dangerous driving is delayed again.

The gov cancelled the camera enforcement pilot last year. The draft strategy to roll out camera enforcement around the country has been sitting on Minister @darraghobrientd.bsky.social's desk since May 2025.

Flooding in Alcácer do Sal among “most worrying” problems as Portugal’s wild weather continues – Portugal Resident Flooding in Alcácer do Sal among “most worrying” problems as Portugal’s wild winter weather continues

Flooding in Alcácer do Sal among “most worrying” problems as Portugal’s wild weather continues
www.portugalresident.com/flooding-in-...

Thirty obstacles to meeting climate targets identified by all-party committee Most are ascribed to shortfalls in Government planning, policies, action and communications

"There is, it says, no clear pathway to decarbonise the heavy goods vehicle fleet." €4m of €900+m climate action fund allocated to HDVs so no surprises there. But no planning permission needed for battery electric trucks either just grid connections please.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Financing nature-based flood relief Rob Gardner, Natural Asset Investment manager argues nature-based flooding solutions give you more bang for your buck than traditional concrete and steel protection.

Nature Based Solutions are not tree hugging responses to the climate crisis. Serious people are persuading companies and utilities to spend serious money on green (grass) rather than grey (concrete) flood prevention. Rob Gardner CEO @rebalanceearth.bsky.social

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Flood Prevention Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming F...

“You don’t treat a flood where it ends up, you treat it where it starts. Upstream at the top of the catchment”

How to use the land more cleverly to adapt to changing weather and future floods.
#RTECountrywide #SpeirGorm

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Have you got a Substack? Why? This has been going on for a long time. Why associate with a site that associates with fascists?

With more rain warnings we must ensure out settlements are ready: more Nature-Based Solutions as well as concrete. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Text-based visual stating: “Big Tech doesn’t control this feed anymore. In Europe… You do!” with an underline separating the two lines, and the European Commission logo in the bottom corner.

Before, Big Tech algorithms decided what you saw.

Now you can opt out of the 'personalised' feed or make it chronological!

Ads must be transparent, and deceptive design is banned.

All because of our Digital Services Act.

Your digital life, your rules.

John Sweeney: Blaming Met Éireann for floods is a distraction. Who rezoned the floodplains? It is now over 20 years since I led the project to give the first scenario-based projections of Ireland’s future climate. We warned Ireland’s winters would become significantly wetter

Blaming Met Éireann for floods is wrong. Who rezoned the floodplains?

Why is Ireland not all at sea.
Mark Mellett, former Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, writing in todays @IrishTimes

Simpsons meme saying Let's go burn down the observatory so this'll never happen again

Ireland's approach to weather warnings

Isn’t it time we joined the Danes and got on our bikes? Driving everywhere is doing us no good

"For every kilometre travelled by bicycle, society gains 80 cent in socio-economic benefit."

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The Dublin City Council Flood Management Teams will be working over the bank holiday weekend. For urgent flooding issues outside normal working hours, the out-of-hours team can be reached at 01 222 3150.

Good shot, Give Bliphoto a (daily) try if you are not already on there.

screenshot of the very long email disclaimer being auto-added

I know the world is a proverbial dumpster fire and there are bigger things to worry about but my employers @maynoothuniversity.ie have just enforced adding a super long disclaimer to each and every email. 🧵

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.

This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

Did they tell you Dutch grid operators are slow?
So far, DSO Stedin is not :)
From application for upgrade to a three-phase 3x25A connection via acceptance, payment and start of preparations within 10 minutes, in late evening!

George Lee on @rte.ie spoke about ALL the OPW data on water levels in Irish waterways that isn’t used at all- 300+ sites!

It would at least prepare folks.

Hydrometric & Hydrological Data, Ireland
waterlevel.ie
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This could be part of local council text alerts 🚨

#spéirghorm #Chandra #Met

This is spectacular! Sales of fully battery powered trucks have shot past diesel trucks in China. Forget about hybrid and hydrogen trucks.

We can now stop calling heavy trucking a "hard to abate" sector.

Oliver Sears: One man whose family were on Schindler’s List chatted with the son of an SS officer Repair and restoration can only be achieved with meaning by embracing the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day this year, I describe the unparalleled experience of dialogue forums with the descendants of Nazis.

The unexpected acts of emotional and historical repair we achieve together forge unbreakable bonds of friendship.

bit.ly/49M5kBq

Graphic illustration on a textured blue background featuring a white clenched fist holding a wind turbine like a torch. Glowing blue and white electrical bolts spark out from behind the turbine. The text "Taking Europe's Energy Back" curves across the top in white and green lettering. In the bottom right corner, there is a white outline of the European Union flag.

Clean energy isn’t a talking point.
It’s already powering Europe.

💡 Nearly half of Europe's electricity came from renewables in 2024.
💡 We saved €120 billion through energy efficiency measures.
💡 And in June 2025, solar became the EU's largest power source for the first time in history.

Fair play France.

It's a tough decision, but for companies & individuals, I think it's a toss between switching now at your own pace, or being forced to switch in a rush, or be locked out, due to geopolitical events.

A list of EU alternatives to help:
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...

Nice piece on the struggle of directing people's attention to the horizon - climate change - when fascism is staring at you in the face.

When it all gets too much for me, I get busy trying to get rid of fossil fuels (in my own life, in society around me).

My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it

I worked alongside Steve in the Reuters Rome bureau. This is his story of hard work doesn’t protect you from hard times.
stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey...

Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the first time in 2025 | Ember We hope to add more languages in the future. But in the meantime, you can learn how to translate using Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers.

Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the first time in 2025

Striking images of Dutch bike infrastructure taken by @ModaCityLife.com

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Government of Ireland: Welcome to gov.ie gov.ie is the official website of the Government of Ireland. It serves as a central hub for accessing public services and government information

Way more than that for longer, see Georges St Dun Laoghaire. I think the test case for success / failure of Gov.ie #dereliction policy will be has Margaret rented her properties out?