@dub8lady.bsky.social
The impact of the high cost of housing.
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White
We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The impact of the high cost of housing.
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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💬 In a continent as rich as Europe, nobody should be poor - says our MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
💼 Quality jobs for all
🏠 Ending homelessness
✊ Fighting discrimination
🫂 Eradicating stigma
📊 Progressive taxation
That’s what we want to see from the first EU Anti-Poverty Strategy
💼 Quality jobs for all
🏠 Ending homelessness
✊ Fighting discrimination
🫂 Eradicating stigma
📊 Progressive taxation
That’s what we want to see from the first EU Anti-Poverty Strategy
June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
💬 In a continent as rich as Europe, nobody should be poor - says our MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
💼 Quality jobs for all
🏠 Ending homelessness
✊ Fighting discrimination
🫂 Eradicating stigma
📊 Progressive taxation
That’s what we want to see from the first EU Anti-Poverty Strategy
💼 Quality jobs for all
🏠 Ending homelessness
✊ Fighting discrimination
🫂 Eradicating stigma
📊 Progressive taxation
That’s what we want to see from the first EU Anti-Poverty Strategy
We're stuffed.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Warning signs on climate flashing bright red: top scientists
From carbon pollution to sea-level rise to global heating, the pace and level of key climate change indicators are all in uncharted territory, more than 60 top scientists warned Thursday.
www.france24.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We're stuffed.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
The state of dereliction in Dublin & around the country.
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/readme/derel...
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/readme/derel...
Dereliction in Ireland: 'Something is rotten in the Irish property industry'
Taking a look at dangerous, derelict buildings around the country, Jude Sherry and Dr Frank O’Connor say it’s time the government grasped the nettle.
www.thejournal.ie
June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The state of dereliction in Dublin & around the country.
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/readme/derel...
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/readme/derel...
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“Destroy Creation and Creation will destroy us”. It’s almost exactly 10 years since I wrote this piece for @thejournal.ie on Francis the #climate champion and fierce critic of neoliberalism.
He wasn’t wrong.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/pope-...
He wasn’t wrong.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/pope-...
Pope Francis will make powerful enemies tomorrow by releasing a radical new document
The pontiff is to issue a scathing papal encyclical directly linking rampant capitalism with irreversible environmental catastrophe and rising global inequality.
www.thejournal.ie
April 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“Destroy Creation and Creation will destroy us”. It’s almost exactly 10 years since I wrote this piece for @thejournal.ie on Francis the #climate champion and fierce critic of neoliberalism.
He wasn’t wrong.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/pope-...
He wasn’t wrong.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/pope-...
The anti-science madness in the US continues. Cuts to NOAA research & forecasting planned.
A life saving service in the country that regularly has tornados, storms, wild fires, snow storms. #ClimateChange won't happen if there's no warning g about it, apparently 🙄
blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...
A life saving service in the country that regularly has tornados, storms, wild fires, snow storms. #ClimateChange won't happen if there's no warning g about it, apparently 🙄
blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...
5 Reasons NOAA and NASA Cuts Will Be Disastrous for Everyone in the US
The Trump Administration plan to cut research on climate change and extreme weather events, including tornadoes and hurricanes, puts us in peril.
blog.ucs.org
April 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The anti-science madness in the US continues. Cuts to NOAA research & forecasting planned.
A life saving service in the country that regularly has tornados, storms, wild fires, snow storms. #ClimateChange won't happen if there's no warning g about it, apparently 🙄
blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...
A life saving service in the country that regularly has tornados, storms, wild fires, snow storms. #ClimateChange won't happen if there's no warning g about it, apparently 🙄
blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...
Good to see. 🌹
GREAT NEWS 🌹
Delighted we have achieved representation for the SDLP within the S&D family in the European Parliament.
It is vital that a Northern Irish presence is secured in Brussels & I'm thrilled that our lobbying to have a standing invitation for SDLP reps to attend S&D meetings has succeeded!
Delighted we have achieved representation for the SDLP within the S&D family in the European Parliament.
It is vital that a Northern Irish presence is secured in Brussels & I'm thrilled that our lobbying to have a standing invitation for SDLP reps to attend S&D meetings has succeeded!
March 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Good to see. 🌹
I don't know how any US citizen can stand by while the world's richest man is taking food from the hungry, healthcare from children, elderly, veterans.
Still a way to go before #Tesla stock hits rock bottom.
#TeslaStockCrash #TeslaTakeDown
Still a way to go before #Tesla stock hits rock bottom.
#TeslaStockCrash #TeslaTakeDown
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I don't know how any US citizen can stand by while the world's richest man is taking food from the hungry, healthcare from children, elderly, veterans.
Still a way to go before #Tesla stock hits rock bottom.
#TeslaStockCrash #TeslaTakeDown
Still a way to go before #Tesla stock hits rock bottom.
#TeslaStockCrash #TeslaTakeDown
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#HousingHousingHousing
Delighted to meet Threshold & Simon this morning ahead of Monday’s first meeting of the European Parliament Housing Committee.
#ForTheLoveOfDublin
Delighted to meet Threshold & Simon this morning ahead of Monday’s first meeting of the European Parliament Housing Committee.
#ForTheLoveOfDublin
February 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#HousingHousingHousing
Delighted to meet Threshold & Simon this morning ahead of Monday’s first meeting of the European Parliament Housing Committee.
#ForTheLoveOfDublin
Delighted to meet Threshold & Simon this morning ahead of Monday’s first meeting of the European Parliament Housing Committee.
#ForTheLoveOfDublin
February 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Met Éireann has said Ireland can expect to see strong winds, heavy rain and potential localised flooding as Storm Éowyn passes over the country later in the week
Storm Éowyn to bring heavy rain, damaging gusts possible
Met Éireann has said Ireland can expect to see strong winds, heavy rain and potential localised flooding as Storm Éowyn passes over the country later in the week.
www.rte.ie
January 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
300 visits, 6 overdoses medically dealt with.
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Over 300 visits made to first medically supervised injecting facility in three weeks of opening
There have been more than 300 visits to the country’s first medically supervised injecting facility since it opened last month, with four in five people accessing the service to use heroin.
m.independent.ie
January 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
300 visits, 6 overdoses medically dealt with.
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
@aodhanoriordain.bsky.social
m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
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If you only followed Irish media reporting, you’d assume farmers here were 100% behind high-pollution nitrates derogation.
This is absolutely not the case, as @phoebecooke.bsky.social reports for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/11/28/n...
This is absolutely not the case, as @phoebecooke.bsky.social reports for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/11/28/n...
Nitrates Derogation is a 'Con', Says Ireland's Farmers
Smallholders are calling on the EU to scrap Ireland’s nitrates derogation, arguing that pollution of the air, waterways and soil is causing havoc to the land and their livelihoods. Ahead of a snap gen...
www.desmog.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:50 PM
If you only followed Irish media reporting, you’d assume farmers here were 100% behind high-pollution nitrates derogation.
This is absolutely not the case, as @phoebecooke.bsky.social reports for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/11/28/n...
This is absolutely not the case, as @phoebecooke.bsky.social reports for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/11/28/n...
Readiness checklist:
💧Water & 🍞 Food for 72 hours
📲 Fully charge phone / devices
🔋Power Bank
📻 Battery radio
💊Prescription meds
🔦 Torch / Alternative lighting
🩹 First Aid Kit
🧻 Personal Hygiene
🧣 Keep warm 🧥
#BePrepared #BíUllamh #StormBert
💧Water & 🍞 Food for 72 hours
📲 Fully charge phone / devices
🔋Power Bank
📻 Battery radio
💊Prescription meds
🔦 Torch / Alternative lighting
🩹 First Aid Kit
🧻 Personal Hygiene
🧣 Keep warm 🧥
#BePrepared #BíUllamh #StormBert
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Readiness checklist:
💧Water & 🍞 Food for 72 hours
📲 Fully charge phone / devices
🔋Power Bank
📻 Battery radio
💊Prescription meds
🔦 Torch / Alternative lighting
🩹 First Aid Kit
🧻 Personal Hygiene
🧣 Keep warm 🧥
#BePrepared #BíUllamh #StormBert
💧Water & 🍞 Food for 72 hours
📲 Fully charge phone / devices
🔋Power Bank
📻 Battery radio
💊Prescription meds
🔦 Torch / Alternative lighting
🩹 First Aid Kit
🧻 Personal Hygiene
🧣 Keep warm 🧥
#BePrepared #BíUllamh #StormBert
Howaya Blue Sky, What's the story?
November 21, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Howaya Blue Sky, What's the story?