Helen Shaw - Athena Media
@athenamediaie.bsky.social
Climate Solutions Storyteller : people, places and nature #bogs
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Data Stories, Maynooth
#housing & #climate-just city #Ireland
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Data Stories, Maynooth
#housing & #climate-just city #Ireland
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“We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel—‘yes, that is the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’” #storytelling
—John Steinbeck
—John Steinbeck
'Yes, there's some difficulties there' - Alan Shatter on Gaza today while UN investigation says Israel is conducting genocide and torturing prisoners. He continues to deny any reality of the two years of genocide against Palestinians and ten of thousands dead, particularly children. #Spéirghorm
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
'Yes, there's some difficulties there' - Alan Shatter on Gaza today while UN investigation says Israel is conducting genocide and torturing prisoners. He continues to deny any reality of the two years of genocide against Palestinians and ten of thousands dead, particularly children. #Spéirghorm
Trampy's Nero complex growing ...
www.bbc.com/news/article... the ego project that chimes with Nazis as White House demolition and out-scaled "ballroom" over-shadowing heritage means architect walks
www.bbc.com/news/article... the ego project that chimes with Nazis as White House demolition and out-scaled "ballroom" over-shadowing heritage means architect walks
Trump hires new architect for White House ballroom
It follows reports Trump clashed with the previous architect over the size and scope of the addition.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Trampy's Nero complex growing ...
www.bbc.com/news/article... the ego project that chimes with Nazis as White House demolition and out-scaled "ballroom" over-shadowing heritage means architect walks
www.bbc.com/news/article... the ego project that chimes with Nazis as White House demolition and out-scaled "ballroom" over-shadowing heritage means architect walks
Nothing happens when a river is destroyed and biggest fish kill - Inland Fisheries Ireland wash their hand of responsibility - no changes proposed or implemented - we need a polluter pays regulation and ability to ensure this can't happen again #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/munster...
IFI grilled about River Blackwater fish kill at PAC
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has said it could not find out who was responsible for a pollution incident on the River Blackwater in Co Cork earlier this year, because it is required to catch perpetr...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Nothing happens when a river is destroyed and biggest fish kill - Inland Fisheries Ireland wash their hand of responsibility - no changes proposed or implemented - we need a polluter pays regulation and ability to ensure this can't happen again #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Bravo @news.rte.ie - @ebu.ch is ensuring the death of the contest by allowing Israel to participate - its quick action against Russia compared to that against Israel when UN has stated it is conducting genocide shows its double standards. Any nation participating becomes complicit.
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part
RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Bravo @news.rte.ie - @ebu.ch is ensuring the death of the contest by allowing Israel to participate - its quick action against Russia compared to that against Israel when UN has stated it is conducting genocide shows its double standards. Any nation participating becomes complicit.
The crazy nights and days as T spends a night screaming into the void on his own megaphone and is the joke of empowered late night comedians www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a... #giftarticle
Late Night on Trump’s ‘Social Media Blitzkrieg’
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December 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The crazy nights and days as T spends a night screaming into the void on his own megaphone and is the joke of empowered late night comedians www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a... #giftarticle
fascists be fascists - classic move to look for scapegoats and label them as 'gargage' 'non humans' - the Nazi vibe in US is in ugly plain sight www.rte.ie/news/us/2025...
'We don't want them': Trump attacks Somali immigrants
US President Donald Trump has attacked Somali immigrants, saying they should be unwelcome in the United States.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
fascists be fascists - classic move to look for scapegoats and label them as 'gargage' 'non humans' - the Nazi vibe in US is in ugly plain sight www.rte.ie/news/us/2025...
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We've been collecting stories, songs and memories in the Mountbellew Men's Shed, Galway - just beside the Galway Living Bog - a great group of men - with stories of growing up at the bog and working on it #LoveBogs
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We've been collecting stories, songs and memories in the Mountbellew Men's Shed, Galway - just beside the Galway Living Bog - a great group of men - with stories of growing up at the bog and working on it #LoveBogs
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Here's the GoFundMe page: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-br...
Donate to Help Us Bring Papi’s Back!, organized by Jose Roa nino
We are an immigrant family who left our home country, Venezuela, due to the difficult situati… Jose Roa nino needs your support for Help Us Bring Papi’s Back!
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December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Here's the GoFundMe page: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-br...
The low lifers who did this to a working migrant family #spéirghorm - who were providing a service in the community - deserved to be handed up by that community ....https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/12/01/familys-food-truck-destroyed-by-arson-attack-in-dublin-nothing-is-left/
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The low lifers who did this to a working migrant family #spéirghorm - who were providing a service in the community - deserved to be handed up by that community ....https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/12/01/familys-food-truck-destroyed-by-arson-attack-in-dublin-nothing-is-left/
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"Climate breakdown can be seen in the data"
Large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#water
#climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#water
#climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Climate breakdown can be seen in the data"
Large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#water
#climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
#water
#climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
how many have to die before we take road deaths seriously ? We need all island plan to focus on changing behaviour - particularly with men and driving #spéirghorm - I get blasted by male motorists for driving at just below the speed limit and then overtaken at speed in rain on double yellow lines ..
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
how many have to die before we take road deaths seriously ? We need all island plan to focus on changing behaviour - particularly with men and driving #spéirghorm - I get blasted by male motorists for driving at just below the speed limit and then overtaken at speed in rain on double yellow lines ..
UN review says Israel has a 'de facto policy of torture' - goes hand in hand with genocide www.bbc.com/news/article...
UN panel says Israel operating 'de facto policy of torture'
Rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres. Israel has not responded but has previously denied allegations of torture.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
UN review says Israel has a 'de facto policy of torture' - goes hand in hand with genocide www.bbc.com/news/article...
The small landlords who have evicted tenants and put houses up for sale in my old Dublin estate were ('cos I checked) not registered with tenancy board - didn't maintain their properties - so not so sure this is a loss to rental market. www.rte.ie/news/analysi... #spéirghorm
Early blow for rent reforms by exodus of small landlords
The Government's rental reforms have been dealt an early blow by news this week of an exodus of small landlords, writes Sandra Hurley.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The small landlords who have evicted tenants and put houses up for sale in my old Dublin estate were ('cos I checked) not registered with tenancy board - didn't maintain their properties - so not so sure this is a loss to rental market. www.rte.ie/news/analysi... #spéirghorm
Sally Rooney's books may become 'banned' in UK - due to her support of a pro-palestinian UK advocacy group. Madness #Spéirghorm
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Sally Rooney books may be pulled from UK, court told
Normal People author Sally Rooney's books may have to be withdrawn from sale and none of her new works published in the UK due to "uncertainty" caused by the ban on Palestine Action, the British High ...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Sally Rooney's books may become 'banned' in UK - due to her support of a pro-palestinian UK advocacy group. Madness #Spéirghorm
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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This is corporate manslaughter!
Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people.
Recent cutting-edge work by #climate scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people.
Recent cutting-edge work by #climate scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Shell ready to invest more in Italy if drilling permits unlocked
Shell is ready to invest more in Italy to boost hydrocarbon production, the head of the energy group's Italian unit said on Wednesday, urging the government to allow new drilling.
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is corporate manslaughter!
Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people.
Recent cutting-edge work by #climate scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people.
Recent cutting-edge work by #climate scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
What appalling savagery in a public park - people in area must know who did this - and should be reported - it's a beautiful parkland www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
'Huge shock' after stag beheaded in Dublin parklands
Fingal County Council has said it is shocked and concerned after a stag in one of its parklands in north county Dublin was beheaded yesterday morning.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
What appalling savagery in a public park - people in area must know who did this - and should be reported - it's a beautiful parkland www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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A must-listen piece that does an excellent job of teasing out the psychology, science, and politics of the Nitrates Derogation.
As Dr. Elaine McGoff says, “We have a phosphorus solution to a nitrates problem.” Maybe it’s time we started working on the nitrates solution? @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
As Dr. Elaine McGoff says, “We have a phosphorus solution to a nitrates problem.” Maybe it’s time we started working on the nitrates solution? @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
Over the 19 years Ireland has had a derogation from the nitrates directive we have backed ourselves in to a corner. Which now leaves us having productive and economically viable farms or cleaner rivers and lakes, but not both.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Nitrates derogation
Back in the early nineties all across the EU a rule was introduced to protect rivers and streams from agricultural run off. At the last count 7,000 out of 137,000 farms in Ireland had received a derog...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A must-listen piece that does an excellent job of teasing out the psychology, science, and politics of the Nitrates Derogation.
As Dr. Elaine McGoff says, “We have a phosphorus solution to a nitrates problem.” Maybe it’s time we started working on the nitrates solution? @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
As Dr. Elaine McGoff says, “We have a phosphorus solution to a nitrates problem.” Maybe it’s time we started working on the nitrates solution? @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
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You may have heard about Ireland looking for a "nitrates derogation" in the news. But what does it mean? Why are nitrates a problem? Why does the government want Ireland to be allowed to use more than the normal limits?🤔
Read our explainer and take the action. 💙💦🙌
swanireland.ie/nitrates-pol...
Read our explainer and take the action. 💙💦🙌
swanireland.ie/nitrates-pol...
Nitrates Pollution - Sustainable Water Network
Here’s what’s happening with nitrates in Ireland and what you can do to help stop this pollutant. Nearly half (44%) of our rivers have nitrate concentrations that are too high. The biggest cause is a...
swanireland.ie
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
You may have heard about Ireland looking for a "nitrates derogation" in the news. But what does it mean? Why are nitrates a problem? Why does the government want Ireland to be allowed to use more than the normal limits?🤔
Read our explainer and take the action. 💙💦🙌
swanireland.ie/nitrates-pol...
Read our explainer and take the action. 💙💦🙌
swanireland.ie/nitrates-pol...
For anyone wondering what the public price - in water and ecological quality -of the nitrates derogation is - and how Irish farming is being poorly led for the future - read the EPA report; www.epa.ie/news-release...
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
For anyone wondering what the public price - in water and ecological quality -of the nitrates derogation is - and how Irish farming is being poorly led for the future - read the EPA report; www.epa.ie/news-release...
When an 'honour" becomes a "dishonour" www.rte.ie/news/connach... #spéirghorm
Third person refuses doctorate from University of Galway
A third person has turned down an honorary doctorate that was due to be conferred by the University of Galway, at a ceremony tomorrow.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
When an 'honour" becomes a "dishonour" www.rte.ie/news/connach... #spéirghorm
The endless delay and deflect Govt policy on nitrates - declining to plan an end to derogation - while our water quality, ecology and climate crisis worsens. Farmers are being poorly served in leadership - where's the plan for the future? #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Commission recommends extension of nitrates derogation
Ireland's EU Commissioner Michael McGrath has said the European Commission has recommended to extend the nitrates derogation for Ireland.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The endless delay and deflect Govt policy on nitrates - declining to plan an end to derogation - while our water quality, ecology and climate crisis worsens. Farmers are being poorly served in leadership - where's the plan for the future? #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
wet, wet, wet - the sign of a healthy bog! @tocharstories.bsky.social @katiesmirnova.bsky.social
One word to describe the bog - what the children of Camcloon NS said to @katiesmirnova.bsky.social #Roscommon #LoveBogs
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
wet, wet, wet - the sign of a healthy bog! @tocharstories.bsky.social @katiesmirnova.bsky.social
Talk about moving the deck chairs on the Titanic - www.rte.ie/news/2025/11... - Ireland failing in reducing GHG emissions - pretending aviation is somehow carbon neutral is Govt policy - but hey let's put a bill forward to change the name to a FF leader #spéirghorm
Bill introduced to rename Dublin Airport after Lemass
A bill to officially rename Dublin Airport after former taoiseach Seán Lemass has been moved to a second stage.
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Talk about moving the deck chairs on the Titanic - www.rte.ie/news/2025/11... - Ireland failing in reducing GHG emissions - pretending aviation is somehow carbon neutral is Govt policy - but hey let's put a bill forward to change the name to a FF leader #spéirghorm
compounds - remarkably like concentration camps as per the British use in Boer War -enforced removal of Palestinian people concentrated in Israeli-controlled camps www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
U.S. Plans Compounds to House Palestinians in Israeli-Held Half of Gaza
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
compounds - remarkably like concentration camps as per the British use in Boer War -enforced removal of Palestinian people concentrated in Israeli-controlled camps www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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