“For once, we’ve the weather to match our aspirations,” said the Green Party councillor Dan Boyle, Lord Mayor of Cork, as he launched the Shandon integrated urban strategy (IUS) in glorious sunshine yesterday.

Conor McGregor represents ‘very worst of toxic masculinity’ - Tánaiste

I celebrated St Patrick’s Day with people from dozens of different countries, all peacefully getting along and trying to live good lives alongside each other in a tolerant and diverse country.

The racist visiting the White House today doesn’t represent us.

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“developer-led locations, plonking giant housing estates on fields on the edge of towns, places where it’s all about driving.. whilst brownfield sites lie unbuilt & derelict & high streets are dying”

Because govts favour speculative ~land~ developers for housing www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Unintended consequences here of some aspects of the contributions waiver that drove commencements last year ⁦‪@businessposthq‬⁩

“Property has its duties as well as its rights” good read in ⁦‪@IrishTimes‬⁩

Have you read the latest monthly climate summary by #C3S? February 2025 set an all-time record low for global sea ice extent and ranked as the third warmest February. Find out more in our summary of the February 2025 Climate Bulletin.
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/february-202...

Blog: '20 years ago I chaired the TCPA’s cross-party commission on the country's uneven economy. I noted that without a national framework to guide key projects, England would ‘drift directionless, reinforcing a belief that the winner takes all.’ And so, it is proving again.'

Can Special Economic Zones (SEZs) still attract investment in today’s economy?

📊 A new OECD article explores SEZ evolution from Shannon 🇮🇪 to Shenzhen 🇨🇳 & beyond. Read more 👇

🔗 oecdcogito.blog/2025/02/28/c...

I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

Donald Trump, a neuropsychologist’s view: Untrammelled power is making him behave like a coked-up reveller

A new visual mapping tool has been developed to give planners, policymakers and local authorities a detailed view of economic and social trends emerging across the country

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Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

Very significant High Court ruling here on the obligations imposed on public bodies by Section 15 of the Climate Act
www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

2024 set a record as the warmest in history, with the average global temperatures 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels.

Multiple global records were broken, contributing to extreme events, including floods, heatwaves and wildfires.

The impact of human-caused climate change accelerates.

Learn more about the Global Climate Highlights ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Elon Musk’s political evolution – podcast www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...