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Irish Examiner Outdoors Editor; Assistant irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/
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‣ Quirky seal pup video
‣ Unwanted visitors on the move thanks to climate crisis
#COP30 has a significant location
‣ Some of the greenest ways to go when you go
‣ Glenary in Comeragh Mountains — poor land & rich history
#birdsofireland Sparrowhawk
📷 Torc and Muckross Lake #killarney
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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‣ Mink eradication scheme underway
‣ Will we finally do right by the right whale?
‣ Seagrass meadows & other marine marvels
‣ Scariest thing about Halloween waste
‣ Rogue star's temporary comet tail #skymatters
‣ Pine martin revival
📷Tramore surf #waterford
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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‣ Protect our living rivers' rights
‣ On the trail to Ireland's highest inland summit
‣ Deer rut season
‣ A 'green' wedding dress
‣ Pine martin revival
#birdsofireland barn owl
📷autumn colours at Fitzgerald Park #cork
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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‣ Atlantic Pond #cork reopens next month
‣ Pick up leaves... or leave them?
‣ Nature Restoration & public land
‣ A visit to all 8 of Ireland's national parks
‣ Clapper bridges & other remnants of our past @remnantsofourpast
#birdsofireland kestrel
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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‣ Mackerel in drastic decline
‣ Burren winterage tradition... how to take part
‣ Éanna Ní Lamhna's book is worth checking out
‣ Who's carbon footprint is biggest?
‣ Frog routes and polka- dot newts — Anja Murray's latest book
#birdsofireland Fulmar
October 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Not wishing to deny anyone access to electricity or telegraphs or anything but can we do something better than this? #cork #skyline #skylineclutter
October 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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‣ Charismatic waterbirds arriving
‣ Why painting zebra stripes on cows might be a good idea
‣ 7 great nature apps
‣ Could this be the most radical of all our national parks?
‣ Foraging for mushrooms — take extreme care
#skymatters orionid meteor showers
📷Killarney National Park stag
October 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I guess you could say they're working around the clock! #shandon #cork
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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‣ Nocturnal animals and Autumn equinox
‣ Paludiculture in Ireland
‣ Out-of-date meds
‣ Where to pick pumpkins in 2025
‣ Migration & aging link
#birdsofireland Gannet
📷UCC arboretum tour for National Tree Day
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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‣ Why do we accept pollution & fish kills?
‣ Swan lake not always so serene
‣ A sewer 'deep dive'
‣ Ancient fights — Boyne battle site visit
‣ Our climate targets... clock ticks and bills mount
#birdsofireland storm petrel
📷Here's who got to name the new Fota red pandas?
September 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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‣ Bumper apple crop this year
‣ Colourful or camouflaged crabs
‣ Foraging in Ireland — a feast or a fatal mistake
‣ Long working day for city birds
‣ Unique 'time capsule' museum in Tipperary
#birdsofireland Manx shearwater
📷Fab seal pup
September 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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‣ The Lie of the Land: Do we need a Ministry for the Future or a Future Generations Commissioner?
‣ Best blackberry season in years
‣ Illegally released croc
‣ Hands off Nature: Vital to defend laws protecting nature & people
‣ Quirky snail Ned
#birdsofireland Shag
📷Coal Quay pigeons
September 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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‣ Our wonderful wild seals
‣ Red moon rising — astronomy in September
‣ Food waste
‣ Drowning nations and why we should care
‣ Tipp monument to landowner who wanted to be buried upright
‣ Gorilla dating tactics
📷 Barleycove
September 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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‣ The Burren: magical but under pressure
‣ What's the story, twiggy glory — stick insects
‣ Mosquito surveillance
‣ Light pollution tricking birds into staying up later
‣ Ongoing invasive cherry laurel battle
#birdsofireland: cormorant
📷 Surf's up
August 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Yet again, feeling a bit ill at the thought of the waste involved when #schoolbooks go 'out of date'. Do all these good-condition and some perfect-condition textbooks just have to be dropped into the recycling bin? Is this the most cost effective and resource-friendly method?
August 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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‣ How we plugged the hole in the sky — & what we can learn from it
‣ Vital role of bugs
‣ A year in the woods in Montalto
‣ Nurdles polluting the ocean
‣ Unbearable heat in some newbuilds
#birdsofireland: glaucous gull
📷 Happy seal & surf, Kerry
August 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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‣ How to help stranded dolphins
‣ How are we going to tackle plastic pollution at all levels?
‣ Coastal erosion & what can be done about it
‣ Remembering Glenbower Lake in East Cork
‣ Arctic cave finds
#birdsofireland: mediterranean gull
📷 Natterjack toadlet, Kerry
August 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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‣ Close-up wildlife photography dangers
‣ Look out for Perseids — August 12 is the best time
‣ Long-eared owls (those aren't their ears, by the way)
‣ Sunscreen's environmental issues
‣ Trawler restrictions
‣ Our first marine national park
📷 Killarney National Park trail-cam images
August 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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‣ Self-seeding wild flowers
‣ Can ash trees come back from dieback?
‣ Why we have a Duke of Wellington monument in Tipperary
‣ Butterflies fluttering by
‣ The Unnatural History of Animals — Tales from a Zoological Museum by Martyn Linnie
#BirdsofIreland — black-headed gull
📷 bumble bee
July 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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‣ Wild raspberries
‣ Left- or right-handed cats — scientists investigate
‣ First sturgeon sighting in Irish waters in decades
‣ Environmental cost of Northern Ireland's bonfires
‣ Free climber Michael Reardon's anniversary
#BirdsofIreland — common gull
📷 cinnabar moth
July 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Like a little cuddly toy! #cork #bufftailedbumblebee #bumblebee
July 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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‣ How to visit great Irish grasslands near you
‣ Rising temperatures and health issues
‣ Feeding — and saving — the world
‣ Leeches suck... except when they don't
‣ Visit the Kerry Way #thekerryway
#BirdsofIreland — Moor hen
📷 #Worldsandduneday June 28 #protectourdunes
June 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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‣ Join this summer's great fossil hunt — here's how
‣ How the clouds shaped our landscape & our biology
‣ More allotments wanted
‣ Capybara are in 'rodents we love' category
‣ Ocean recovery requires radical changes
#BirdsofIreland — Water rail
📷 Fitsticks trail, Ballinacarriga, West Cork
June 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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‣ Weather folklore
‣ Sandeel & sprat scarcity impacts birds and sealife
‣ 7 days of hiking in Donegal #donegalcamino
‣ Festivals — eco-friendly or green-washed?
‣ Nature Network Ireland
‣ coot #birdsofireland
📷 Glorious Sandycove, #Cork
June 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM