Alan Dunne
@aldunne.bsky.social
Arts appreciator • Bad runner • Follower of unsuccessful sports teams • Climate action, sustainable transport, unhealthy levels of Laois content
🌍 Dublin
🌍 Dublin
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Thank You Michael D
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Thank You Michael D
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New EV registrations in Ireland, January to October 2025. Tesla models are number 2 and 4 in the top 20 best-selling EVs. What is it that people here love about those awful cars?
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New EV registrations in Ireland, January to October 2025. Tesla models are number 2 and 4 in the top 20 best-selling EVs. What is it that people here love about those awful cars?
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
New EV registrations in Ireland, January to October 2025. Tesla models are number 2 and 4 in the top 20 best-selling EVs. What is it that people here love about those awful cars?
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New EV registrations in Ireland, January to October 2025. Tesla models are number 2 and 4 in the top 20 best-selling EVs. What is it that people here love about those awful cars?
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
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If auto/car advertising was banned the media would very quickly find alternative funding & no longer be complicit. Almost every ad on radio in Ireland is car related (insurance/trade/garages/tyres/etc).
“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”
Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If auto/car advertising was banned the media would very quickly find alternative funding & no longer be complicit. Almost every ad on radio in Ireland is car related (insurance/trade/garages/tyres/etc).
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Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
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in the last 3 weeks: days of riots at Citywest, attempted murder of families in Drogheda, a plot to blow up a mosque. All right-wing and anti-immigration-motivated
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
Some of us have been crying out about a campaign of far-right terror for years.
Now we have this:
"Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears"
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
#RejectTheFarRight
Now we have this:
"Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears"
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
#RejectTheFarRight
Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears
Portlaoise District Court hears gardaí discovered ‘manifesto’ and video during search
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
in the last 3 weeks: days of riots at Citywest, attempted murder of families in Drogheda, a plot to blow up a mosque. All right-wing and anti-immigration-motivated
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
How today's car advertisements are going to look to our future generations:
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
How today's car advertisements are going to look to our future generations:
Watching Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) for the umpteenth. Everyone in it is so brilliant. Dan Aykroyd steals every scene he's in
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Watching Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) for the umpteenth. Everyone in it is so brilliant. Dan Aykroyd steals every scene he's in
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So the new and outgoing Presidents of Ireland met yesterday and a certain book was visible on the table...
Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise).
Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.
Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise).
Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
So the new and outgoing Presidents of Ireland met yesterday and a certain book was visible on the table...
Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise).
Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.
Thanks @president.ie Michael D. Higgins for your great service to Ireland down the years (and for this little personal surprise).
Here's to the success of President elect Catherine Connolly.
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Funny watching Paul Murphy and John Clendennen on RTÉ the other day. Clendennen keeps saying "we need a debate about migration" to which Murphy says "okay lets have a debate", and then Clendennen just keeps saying "we need to have a debate". Its very clear what Fine Gael are trying to do here!
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Funny watching Paul Murphy and John Clendennen on RTÉ the other day. Clendennen keeps saying "we need a debate about migration" to which Murphy says "okay lets have a debate", and then Clendennen just keeps saying "we need to have a debate". Its very clear what Fine Gael are trying to do here!
in the last 3 weeks: days of riots at Citywest, attempted murder of families in Drogheda, a plot to blow up a mosque. All right-wing and anti-immigration-motivated
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
Some of us have been crying out about a campaign of far-right terror for years.
Now we have this:
"Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears"
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
#RejectTheFarRight
Now we have this:
"Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears"
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
#RejectTheFarRight
Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears
Portlaoise District Court hears gardaí discovered ‘manifesto’ and video during search
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
in the last 3 weeks: days of riots at Citywest, attempted murder of families in Drogheda, a plot to blow up a mosque. All right-wing and anti-immigration-motivated
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
Simon Harris: we need to talk about the far left
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my passion is behind-the-scenes set photos of star trek
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
my passion is behind-the-scenes set photos of star trek
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
Very entertaining thread, it's funny how millions of people apparently think Elon is Thomas Edison when he's basically Lyle Lanley
Most of the Tesla shareholder proposals are like "Tesla is an incredible company, but maybe we should make sure we have some basic accountability or make sure we aren't exploiting child labor" and the board recommends against all of them
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Very entertaining thread, it's funny how millions of people apparently think Elon is Thomas Edison when he's basically Lyle Lanley
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Why is the Government playing chicken with Europe on climate?
My latest for the Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
My latest for the Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Why is the Government playing chicken on climate with Europe?
At a time of climate crisis: Climate action is fiscal prudence
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Why is the Government playing chicken with Europe on climate?
My latest for the Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
My latest for the Irish Times.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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I'm a bit of a nerd about this - but it's hard to quantify just how popular Local Link buses have been in 'rural Ireland' - new one will link villages from Cork to Kerry that haven't had a bus service since the 1960s... www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
New Local Link rural bus link from North Cork to Kerry
Six buses a day - seven days a week
www.corkbeo.ie
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I'm a bit of a nerd about this - but it's hard to quantify just how popular Local Link buses have been in 'rural Ireland' - new one will link villages from Cork to Kerry that haven't had a bus service since the 1960s... www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
Sean Dunn, aka the Hurl of Sandwich, aka Croque Lanceur, aka Subber Lang
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sean Dunn, aka the Hurl of Sandwich, aka Croque Lanceur, aka Subber Lang
Interested to hear how Micheál squares his attendance at the UN Climate Change Conference against his recent statements about mitigation actions being business unfriendly, his govt's wish to continue breaching the EU nitrates directive, and their slowdown in focus on climate action generally
While Micheál Martin was en route to Brazil for COP30, Fianna Fáilers whose names were included on a so-called “naughty list” of rebels were speaking of their upset at being named. jrnl.ie/6865824
Fianna Fáilers vent about so-called 'naughty list' while the boss is en route to Brazil
The meeting was also told there is “serious risk” the government is taking a flawed approach to the nitrates derogation deal.
jrnl.ie
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Interested to hear how Micheál squares his attendance at the UN Climate Change Conference against his recent statements about mitigation actions being business unfriendly, his govt's wish to continue breaching the EU nitrates directive, and their slowdown in focus on climate action generally
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Who are these people telling us it's 'pro-rural' to be in favour of being allowed to keep on turning our rivers and lakes into stinking, dying, open sewers for private profit?
Oh, just a Fianna Fáil MEP.
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Oh, just a Fianna Fáil MEP.
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Cowen urges Taoiseach to seek better nitrates deal
Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Cowen has called on the Taoiseach to pursue a better deal for farmers on the nitrates derogation.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Who are these people telling us it's 'pro-rural' to be in favour of being allowed to keep on turning our rivers and lakes into stinking, dying, open sewers for private profit?
Oh, just a Fianna Fáil MEP.
share.google/tBQc70fFRQIW...
Oh, just a Fianna Fáil MEP.
share.google/tBQc70fFRQIW...
€2 in the local charity shop and one of the best things I've read in an age. You can't beat the book circular economy
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
€2 in the local charity shop and one of the best things I've read in an age. You can't beat the book circular economy
A little wish-fulfilmenty of me maybe, but I get the feeling our 'TikTok Tánaiste' is seething at the idea of a younger, more charismatic, popular politician being all over the news cycle, while he digs himself into an ever-deeper ideological hole
It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A little wish-fulfilmenty of me maybe, but I get the feeling our 'TikTok Tánaiste' is seething at the idea of a younger, more charismatic, popular politician being all over the news cycle, while he digs himself into an ever-deeper ideological hole
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why has the term Big Irish Head become so ubiquitous when 'Gael Skull' was right there all along
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
why has the term Big Irish Head become so ubiquitous when 'Gael Skull' was right there all along
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November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It's no surprise that people in Ireland have taken such an interest in the New York mayoral race; as the Dublin Citizens' Assembly showed us 3 years ago the vast majority of people here want a directly-elected mayor with executive powrrs
#spéirgorm
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The 2022 Dublin Citizens' Assembly was so overwhelmingly in favour of a directly-elected mayor for the city that a vote on the proposal wasn't even deemed necessary. All the CAs to date have very accurately reflected public opinion and eventual referendum outcomes 1/4
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It's no surprise that people in Ireland have taken such an interest in the New York mayoral race; as the Dublin Citizens' Assembly showed us 3 years ago the vast majority of people here want a directly-elected mayor with executive powrrs
#spéirgorm
#spéirgorm
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Cheney turned the wheel of the West directly towards mass murder in a very public way during the rise of new media and with only the flimsiest of justifications.
And he, the oil companies, politicians and news outlets totally got away with it.
And he, the oil companies, politicians and news outlets totally got away with it.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Cheney turned the wheel of the West directly towards mass murder in a very public way during the rise of new media and with only the flimsiest of justifications.
And he, the oil companies, politicians and news outlets totally got away with it.
And he, the oil companies, politicians and news outlets totally got away with it.