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Asking consumers (already paying the highest prices for energy in Europe) to pay for network expansion when data centres are hoovering up electricity in Ireland) is unsustainable and is going to be *deeply unpopular*

Darragh O'Brien needs to be asked a direct question: will hyperscale energy consumers like Data Centres (which consume at least 1/4 of all electricity in Ireland) also face price hikes and other measures to offset the burden citizens are being asked to shoulder?

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

Big Oil getting laws passed to make it immune from prosecution Imagine if ordinary people wielded that power to kill hundreds of thousands and make themselves immune from prosecution www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Three people found dead on small boat in Channel crossing attempt

In a new poll, half of Americans want Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested on US soil. I couldn’t agree more, I would pay see the genocidal war criminal behind bars.

Instead of using a photo of the current conflagrations caused by climate breakdown, the Telegraph uses a pic of a wind turbine burning ... in February 2025. Because that's the important thing: 17 months ago a turbine ignited. Caption: "It’s time to cease building wind turbines". #FossilFuelStooges

Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.

Deciduous trees are less flammable than conifers because they don't have the resin conifers do. Lower branches on conifers die out and stay on the tree as dry timber ready to burn. Deciduous trees don't do that. Deciduous native woodland is a damper environment and generally less flammable.

Just 6 or 7 years ago, this was a clear-felled Sitka plantation. NONE of these native trees were planted, they all self-seeded. And, in contrast to Sitka, this is a natural ecosystem that WON'T burn, and WILL be fantastic habitat for 1,000s of native species. Nature knows what to do, if we let it.

🚨Pearl Mussel Kill on the Owenriff river in Co. Galway! Devastating news shared with us by our member organisation, Carra Mask Corrib Water Protection Group! Much more needs to be done to protect freshwater pearl mussels and the clean, free-flowing rivers on which they depend.

Please keep signing 💚 Open for people outside Ireland too. my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi...

Tomorrow in Dublin, be there if you can 💚✊️

Shame on you Canada The last stand for old growth: As the chainsaws close in, land defenders refuse to look away Ancient trees, hundreds of years old to be chopped down with wildlife and entire ecosystem written off as ‘collateral damage’ ricochet.media/indigenous/t...

Na, its not to do with tax. Some farmers I spoke to thought it was meant only for contractors not us, big chunk just buy as they need so had no receipts or idea how much they bought so wasn't worth their time. I've good records so was easy but I got a whopping 400€ so for smaller guys not worth it.

View of my dairy farming father is there were far more contractors and assorted others than farmers. One of his suppliers said he sent a branded van to the Galway one “just to be seen not to be against it” which is a whole other can of sh*t to be unpacked. Most real farmers can’t walk off farms.

The majority weren't farmers; they were hauliers, agricultural contractors, and people in related automotive industries (garages, suppliers, repair trucks etc). Many were small or even medium-sized business owners...

I wonder if part of this is that these protests were labelled as farmers protests because that's a magic labelling in ireland, but were full of people who weren't farmers at all. Like there were some there of course but I dont think it was the majority

Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst

And it is time that manufacturing things with built in obsolescence became a crime.