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Important story on the horrors of #woodburning by my excellent colleague @dpcarrington.bsky.social a must-read and must-follow:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds
Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Important story on the horrors of #woodburning by my excellent colleague @dpcarrington.bsky.social a must-read and must-follow:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Yet another study linking air pollution to adverse health outcomes.
There is no safe level of air pollution.
There is no safe level of air pollution.
Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants
Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...
www.science.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Yet another study linking air pollution to adverse health outcomes.
There is no safe level of air pollution.
There is no safe level of air pollution.
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
For cars in Ireland: build and they will come.
For bikes: build something, tick a box.
In my latest Substack, I look at Dublin’s new cycle routes and why "better than nothing" is not nearly good enough!
If we built for bikes the way we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed.
#ReimagineDublin
For bikes: build something, tick a box.
In my latest Substack, I look at Dublin’s new cycle routes and why "better than nothing" is not nearly good enough!
If we built for bikes the way we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed.
#ReimagineDublin
For cyclists it is build something and tick a box
If we built for bikes like we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
For cars in Ireland: build and they will come.
For bikes: build something, tick a box.
In my latest Substack, I look at Dublin’s new cycle routes and why "better than nothing" is not nearly good enough!
If we built for bikes the way we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed.
#ReimagineDublin
For bikes: build something, tick a box.
In my latest Substack, I look at Dublin’s new cycle routes and why "better than nothing" is not nearly good enough!
If we built for bikes the way we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed.
#ReimagineDublin
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
www.latimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
This is everything wrong with Ireland.
So homelessness is Irelands fastest growing industry
How f*cked up is this #DerelictIreland
How f*cked up is this #DerelictIreland
August 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is everything wrong with Ireland.
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Homeless figures are f*cking disgrace
As is industry that has grown around it
Homelessness should not be money making opportunity but it is
While enough homes for all lay empty
@judesherry.bsky.social & I updated our register on Lower John St, Cork
🎵 @jimicullenmusic.bsky.social
#DerelictIreland
As is industry that has grown around it
Homelessness should not be money making opportunity but it is
While enough homes for all lay empty
@judesherry.bsky.social & I updated our register on Lower John St, Cork
🎵 @jimicullenmusic.bsky.social
#DerelictIreland
July 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Homeless figures are f*cking disgrace
As is industry that has grown around it
Homelessness should not be money making opportunity but it is
While enough homes for all lay empty
@judesherry.bsky.social & I updated our register on Lower John St, Cork
🎵 @jimicullenmusic.bsky.social
#DerelictIreland
As is industry that has grown around it
Homelessness should not be money making opportunity but it is
While enough homes for all lay empty
@judesherry.bsky.social & I updated our register on Lower John St, Cork
🎵 @jimicullenmusic.bsky.social
#DerelictIreland
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
🔥 Wood stoves: romantic, rustic, and deadly.
Wood burning is the EU’s top source of fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from energy.
A new EEB study shows that mandatory filters on new stoves could slash toxic emissions by 70% – at a cost of less than 0.5% of annual household income.
🧵
Wood burning is the EU’s top source of fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from energy.
A new EEB study shows that mandatory filters on new stoves could slash toxic emissions by 70% – at a cost of less than 0.5% of annual household income.
🧵
Wood stoves without filters? EU study warns of high health costs
New evidence shows that mandating filters in wood-burning heaters could cut harmful particle emissions by 70%, reducing the health burden.
www.coolproducts.eu
June 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🔥 Wood stoves: romantic, rustic, and deadly.
Wood burning is the EU’s top source of fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from energy.
A new EEB study shows that mandatory filters on new stoves could slash toxic emissions by 70% – at a cost of less than 0.5% of annual household income.
🧵
Wood burning is the EU’s top source of fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from energy.
A new EEB study shows that mandatory filters on new stoves could slash toxic emissions by 70% – at a cost of less than 0.5% of annual household income.
🧵
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Confirmed. Immigrants kidnapped by the US and trafficked through Shannon.
(Gift Article) #speirgorm
(Gift Article) #speirgorm
Judge Finds U.S. Violated Court Order With Sudden Deportation Flight to Africa
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Confirmed. Immigrants kidnapped by the US and trafficked through Shannon.
(Gift Article) #speirgorm
(Gift Article) #speirgorm
The British government are enabling genocide, this is a deflection. Something they're spectacularly good at.
British police have charged Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known as 'Mo Chara', with a terrorism offence over the display of a flag supporting Hezbollah at a gig in London
Police charge Kneecap's 'Mo Chara' with terrorism offence
A member of Northern Irish hip-hop group Kneecap has been charged with a terrorism offence for displaying a flag in support of Iran-backed group Hezbollah, British police have said.
www.rte.ie
May 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The British government are enabling genocide, this is a deflection. Something they're spectacularly good at.
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
May 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months
Dublin City Council won its legal case after years of Court battles. We cannot listen to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share!
Dublin City Council won its legal case after years of Court battles. We cannot listen to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share!
Trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months
I've just signed this petition calling on the council to trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
April 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months
Dublin City Council won its legal case after years of Court battles. We cannot listen to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share!
Dublin City Council won its legal case after years of Court battles. We cannot listen to those who are trying to block quick action on climate change, road safety, and increasing mobility options.
Please sign and share!
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
One of our members has developed this handy site for people opting for alternatives to air-travel.
🚢🛳🚈🚎
Of course she's identified the options if you are bringing a bike! 🚴♂️
Well done and thank you @elaineactivism.bsky.social
bylandandsea.ie/bringing-a-b...
🚢🛳🚈🚎
Of course she's identified the options if you are bringing a bike! 🚴♂️
Well done and thank you @elaineactivism.bsky.social
bylandandsea.ie/bringing-a-b...
Bringing a bike
Bicycles and ferries If you are travelling with a normal bike or a folding bike on a ferry, you can select that option when booking the ferry. When you arrive at the ferry terminal, you check…
bylandandsea.ie
April 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
One of our members has developed this handy site for people opting for alternatives to air-travel.
🚢🛳🚈🚎
Of course she's identified the options if you are bringing a bike! 🚴♂️
Well done and thank you @elaineactivism.bsky.social
bylandandsea.ie/bringing-a-b...
🚢🛳🚈🚎
Of course she's identified the options if you are bringing a bike! 🚴♂️
Well done and thank you @elaineactivism.bsky.social
bylandandsea.ie/bringing-a-b...
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Thank you to the amazing @tomflood.bsky.social for making an Irish language version of his classic Auto Freedom graphic available for download! You can get it here: www.creativebyrovelo.com/product-page...
Auto Freedom Irish - Download | rovélo creative
TUGANN ROTHAIR AN tSAOIRSE A GHEALLANN FÓGRAÍ GLUAISTEÁIN 8.5x11 If need another size or an update, just let me know. For large format and commercial purposes, please email me at tom@rovelocreative.c...
www.creativebyrovelo.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Thank you to the amazing @tomflood.bsky.social for making an Irish language version of his classic Auto Freedom graphic available for download! You can get it here: www.creativebyrovelo.com/product-page...
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Wood burning is "a luxury we cannot afford". At the @globalactionplan.bsky.social event on domestic wood burning today. 200,000 #woodburners are installed every year. Every single one pumps #PM2.5 into the wider community, with devastating consequences. Thanks to @mumsforlungs.bsky.social 🫶
March 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Wood burning is "a luxury we cannot afford". At the @globalactionplan.bsky.social event on domestic wood burning today. 200,000 #woodburners are installed every year. Every single one pumps #PM2.5 into the wider community, with devastating consequences. Thanks to @mumsforlungs.bsky.social 🫶
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
With news of Amazon, please try and remember to support your local independent shops, Irish online shops like us.
Don't let the big boys win.
Here is our list of some fab Irish designers. Please pick one and buy something.
#speirgorm
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
Don't let the big boys win.
Here is our list of some fab Irish designers. Please pick one and buy something.
#speirgorm
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
March 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
With news of Amazon, please try and remember to support your local independent shops, Irish online shops like us.
Don't let the big boys win.
Here is our list of some fab Irish designers. Please pick one and buy something.
#speirgorm
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
Don't let the big boys win.
Here is our list of some fab Irish designers. Please pick one and buy something.
#speirgorm
#SLATED
#IrishDesign
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
@davidmccullough.bsky.social Florida Dave, you need a collab with Florida John #fuckmusk
Good turnout of ~50 at the Tesla dealership right around the corner from where I live. I'm including a picture of the counter protest across the street, which were Trumpers, all six of them. I'm really stoked that we're getting a little bit of momentum in this deep red area of the state. #protests
March 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
@davidmccullough.bsky.social Florida Dave, you need a collab with Florida John #fuckmusk
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Get Together. Get Inspired.
From #IWD to #EarthDay, @projdandelion.bsky.social has partnered with Doc Society and Kinema to offer free screenings of MRS ROBINSON around the world. Join us and sign up to host a watch party for your community. Learn more + plan a party: kinema.com/films/mrs-ro...
From #IWD to #EarthDay, @projdandelion.bsky.social has partnered with Doc Society and Kinema to offer free screenings of MRS ROBINSON around the world. Join us and sign up to host a watch party for your community. Learn more + plan a party: kinema.com/films/mrs-ro...
March 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Get Together. Get Inspired.
From #IWD to #EarthDay, @projdandelion.bsky.social has partnered with Doc Society and Kinema to offer free screenings of MRS ROBINSON around the world. Join us and sign up to host a watch party for your community. Learn more + plan a party: kinema.com/films/mrs-ro...
From #IWD to #EarthDay, @projdandelion.bsky.social has partnered with Doc Society and Kinema to offer free screenings of MRS ROBINSON around the world. Join us and sign up to host a watch party for your community. Learn more + plan a party: kinema.com/films/mrs-ro...
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
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
February 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
The 'world-class' Clontarf Cycle Route.
Designed and built by someone who’s never seen a bike.
Companies like Tesco can block it when they want.
Not even 6 months old, but already being dug up, and the poor surfacing is being replaced with something even worse.
You despair.
Designed and built by someone who’s never seen a bike.
Companies like Tesco can block it when they want.
Not even 6 months old, but already being dug up, and the poor surfacing is being replaced with something even worse.
You despair.
February 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The 'world-class' Clontarf Cycle Route.
Designed and built by someone who’s never seen a bike.
Companies like Tesco can block it when they want.
Not even 6 months old, but already being dug up, and the poor surfacing is being replaced with something even worse.
You despair.
Designed and built by someone who’s never seen a bike.
Companies like Tesco can block it when they want.
Not even 6 months old, but already being dug up, and the poor surfacing is being replaced with something even worse.
You despair.
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
The penny is dropping. 82% of Dublin business group members want more investment in public and active travel.
(thanks to @irishcycle.bsky.social)
irishcycle.com/2025/01/08/8...
(thanks to @irishcycle.bsky.social)
irishcycle.com/2025/01/08/8...
82% of Dublin Chamber members want new Government to “prioritise investment in public transport and active travel”
82% of respondents to a member survey conducted by one of Dublin’s leading business lobby groups want the next Government to “prioritise investment in public transport and active travel…
irishcycle.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The penny is dropping. 82% of Dublin business group members want more investment in public and active travel.
(thanks to @irishcycle.bsky.social)
irishcycle.com/2025/01/08/8...
(thanks to @irishcycle.bsky.social)
irishcycle.com/2025/01/08/8...
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
My head hurts reading the Israeli interpretations of Irish history. It’s disturbing to see so much pseudohistory deployed in order to [as our president noted] declare everyone Irish, everywhere, ‘antisemitic’.
December 22, 2024 at 12:23 PM
My head hurts reading the Israeli interpretations of Irish history. It’s disturbing to see so much pseudohistory deployed in order to [as our president noted] declare everyone Irish, everywhere, ‘antisemitic’.
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
Don't be fooled into believing that dereliction and vacancy is only about individual buildings.
#DerelictIreland hashtag#VacantIreland is a system failure with system wide impacts.
There is only one owner but everyone is impacted
#RestPlayWork
#DerelictIreland hashtag#VacantIreland is a system failure with system wide impacts.
There is only one owner but everyone is impacted
#RestPlayWork
December 19, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Don't be fooled into believing that dereliction and vacancy is only about individual buildings.
#DerelictIreland hashtag#VacantIreland is a system failure with system wide impacts.
There is only one owner but everyone is impacted
#RestPlayWork
#DerelictIreland hashtag#VacantIreland is a system failure with system wide impacts.
There is only one owner but everyone is impacted
#RestPlayWork
Reposted by Lorraine O'Sullivan
We're delighted to introduce the new Fingal Pass, which gives Fingal residents the first 30 minutes of every #Bleeper trip for FREE!
This initiative is possible thanks to the support & cooperation of @fingal.ie.
For more info about the #FingalPass please visit:
bleeperactive.com/pages/fingal...
This initiative is possible thanks to the support & cooperation of @fingal.ie.
For more info about the #FingalPass please visit:
bleeperactive.com/pages/fingal...
December 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
We're delighted to introduce the new Fingal Pass, which gives Fingal residents the first 30 minutes of every #Bleeper trip for FREE!
This initiative is possible thanks to the support & cooperation of @fingal.ie.
For more info about the #FingalPass please visit:
bleeperactive.com/pages/fingal...
This initiative is possible thanks to the support & cooperation of @fingal.ie.
For more info about the #FingalPass please visit:
bleeperactive.com/pages/fingal...