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Catherine Coxon
@catherinecoxon.bsky.social
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Environmental scientist with an interest in groundwater quality and a love of Connemara - posts on environmental matters and photos of Connemara landscapes (grianghraif de thírdhreacha Chonamara ag @duichechonamara.bsky.social freisin)
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foeireland.bsky.social
🔊One day to go until the National Climate March!

Will you join us tomorrow to march for climate justice?🌍✊

www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
Join the National Climate March
It's time to put People before Big Polluters!
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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savethehellfire.bsky.social
Stunning shots captured by Stephen Murtagh in Massy’s Wood. #Autumn #photography
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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ccacireland.bsky.social
Council has published its final Annual Review 2025 chapter today, warning that Ireland remains substantially off-track to meet its EU and national emissions reduction targets for 2030.
Read the full report here: shorturl.at/EVCus
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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elainemcgoff.bsky.social
Spot on here by @orlakelleher.bsky.social

'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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whittledaway.bsky.social
Hoping to see lots of people on the streets of Dublin this Saturday!
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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apremrov.bsky.social
📣Want to pursue PhD in environmental modelling? Interested in CO2 fluxes in peatland ecosystems, handling large datasets, using R, Python, GIS ...? 📣🤩
🤩Discover this exciting opportunity!
#AIMINGPEAT is @epaireland.bsky.social
funded research project
👉 www.egu.eu/jobs/7552/
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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catherinecoxon.bsky.social
Bohernabreena reservoir, Glenasmole, constructed in the 1880s - River Dodder tributaries were segregated into those with clear water feeding the upper reservoir for drinking water supply and those with peaty water which were diverted around it to the lower reservoir to supply mills downstream
Bohernabreena upper reservoir Bohernabreena upper reservoir and dam Peaty waters conducted in an artificial channel around the upper reservoir The peaty water spillway around the edge of the dam
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
catherinecoxon.bsky.social
Bohernabreena reservoir, Glenasmole, constructed in the 1880s - River Dodder tributaries were segregated into those with clear water feeding the upper reservoir for drinking water supply and those with peaty water which were diverted around it to the lower reservoir to supply mills downstream
Bohernabreena upper reservoir Bohernabreena upper reservoir and dam Peaty waters conducted in an artificial channel around the upper reservoir The peaty water spillway around the edge of the dam
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
catherinecoxon.bsky.social
Autumn at Kilmacurragh
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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antaisce.bsky.social
Join us at the National Climate March
Saturday 15 November at 1pm
Garden of Remembrance, Dublin

We’ll be marching for climate justice to urge the Government to put people before big polluters

@stopclimatechaos.bsky.social
#stopclimatechaos
#climateactionnow
#endfossilfuels
#climatejustice
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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jamierohu.bsky.social
“The EU could fairly ask why one of its wealthiest members, and one of its biggest per-capita polluters, should be granted exceptions, when poorer countries are making greater efforts to cut emissions?”

Ouch!! 😝

Scathing analysis by @hannahdaly.ie here 👌🏻

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Why is the Government playing chicken on climate with Europe?
At a time of climate crisis: Climate action is fiscal prudence
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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swimsure.bsky.social
"Will the 🇮🇪Government use its financial and political capital now to secure a cleaner, cheaper, fairer future, or will it keep betting that Europe won’t enforce its own climate law?
If the latter, then we’ll not only have lost time and money, but also the opportunity to build a sustainable country."
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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hannahdaly.ie
Why is the Government playing chicken with Europe on climate?

My latest for the Irish Times.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Why is the Government playing chicken on climate with Europe?
At a time of climate crisis: Climate action is fiscal prudence
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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eeb.org
The #ClimateCrisis doesn't wait, nor doesn’t care about accounting tricks!

Yet today, national governments took aim at the #2040Target, choosing short-term political convenience over scientific integrity, environmental safety, and societal responsibility👎

Read on for more👉 eeb.org/2040-climate...
To support global climate action, the EU must lead by example. Today, national governments failed to do so, instead pushing for a watered-down climate target, riddled with debilitating flexibilities and not grounded in scientific advice.
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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codohertynews.bsky.social
Politicians must wake up to Ireland’s duty to act on climate, says leading scientist #Cop30

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Politicians must wake up to Ireland’s duty to act on climate, says leading scientist
Prof John Sweeney: Cop30 summit will struggle to make progress
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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zenbuffy.bsky.social
79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords.

This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.
tonightvmtv.bsky.social The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 11d
🗣️ "The one thing that there is a problem with is housing right across the state, and the more that come to seek asylum, the more pressure it puts on that system.” - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Timmy Dooley
#TonightVMTV
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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unamullally.bsky.social
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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antaisce.bsky.social
@saveladyislandlake.bsky.social hosting important public meeting at 7pm on Nov 17 at Lady’s Island Community Centre on nitrate pollution.

An Taisce's Head of Advocacy & freshwater expert @elainemcgoff.bsky.social will be speaking on the science behind this ecological crisis.

#SaveLadysIslandLake
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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elainemcgoff.bsky.social
Urban wastewater treatment is the 4th greatest pressure on Irish water quality. Some of that could be fixed by infrastructure, but almost half of the pollution is due to poor operational management.

The solution is not less environmental scrutiny.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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foeireland.bsky.social
Join us at the National Climate March!

We’ll be marching for climate justice, urging the Government to put people before big polluters ✊

Learn more ➡️https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/lets-march-to-put-people-before-polluters/

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Join the National Climate March
It's time to put People before Big Polluters!
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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foeireland.bsky.social
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres.

People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated

www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres | Friends of the Earth
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres  People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and …
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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swimsure.bsky.social
In their Letter to the Editor published in the Irish Times @irishtimes.com, the scientists set the record straight by rebutting multiple errors in John FitzGerald's opinion piece last week:
"Framing the debate as a false dichotomy...distracts from the real choices"
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
Screenshot of the first half of a letter published in the Irish Times – Letters to the Editor, October 26th, 2025. Text reads: "Climate change and farming Sir, – In his recent article “Cutting the entire cattle herd to reduce emissions makes no economic sense,” Prof John FitzGerald usefully acknowledges the scale of change required in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector. However, his article misrepresents our recent study, National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system. First, FitzGerald writes that “some of these scientists also argue that Ireland should essentially end all livestock production”, and implies that this is advocated in our study. That is incorrect. Our study does not call for ending livestock farming. Nor does it make any recommendations about its future structure or scale. Second, FitzGerald suggests our work advocates a per-capita methane quota. It does not. We presented per-capita methane as a diagnostic to illustrate disparities in methane emissions across countries. The study does not propose a quota or trading scheme. Our study highlights the risks and uncertainties created for Irish society by the Climate Change Advisory Council’s (CCAC) proposed “temperature neutrality” approach to carbon budgets, which defines climate ambition around a moving target that depends on uncertain future global emissions. It also exposes the underlying value judgments embedded in this framing, which undermine climate ambition, global fairness, food security and land use policy. Arguments that hide the scale of the climate challenge behind a flawed national “temperature neutrality” target, and the false premise that Ireland’s agricultural sector is economically optimised and feeding the world, have become increasingly common. However, they avoid the clear-headed, strategic decisions needed to set Irish farmers up for success in a rapidly changing world. 2 Text: "From a global food security perspective, Ireland exports around 90 per cent of its animal-sourced food products, yet less than 1 per cent of those exports reach low-income, food-insecure countries. Domestically, fewer than half of Irish farms are economically viable, despite the sector receiving billions in public subsidies. Post-2030, Irish taxpayers will be paying billions of euro to purchase carbon credits from overseas to compensate for missing EU climate targets. Continuation of business-as-usual sells both Irish farmers & society short by failing to invest in our land’s potential to deliver healthy & sustainable food, bio-based materials, energy, carbon removals & ecosystem services. Our study does not present an extreme position. Instead, it calls for ambitious, Paris Agreement-aligned land use policy with clear targets, enabling Irish society to steer the AFOLU sector toward a sustainable transition pathway. The potential for a positive, resilient, & diversified AFOLU sector is clearly shown in scenario modelling contained in the yet-to-be-released Land Use Review Phase 2 report completed in May this year. The question is not whether farming will dramatically change over the coming decades, but how that change can be managed to deliver the most robust, sustainable, & secure outcomes for Irish society. Framing the debate as a false dichotomy between a flawed climate target and an “end to livestock farming” distracts from the real choices involved in shaping a more sustainable, resilient, & vibrant AFOLU sector. The climate, Ireland’s farmers, & society as a whole, are best served by ambition, scientific rigour & robust debate on real choices, not by shifting goalposts, or the mischaracterisation of legitimate research & researchers as extreme or anti-farming. – Yours, etc, Dr COLM DUFFY University of Galway, Dr RÓISÍN MORIARTY University College Cork, Prof HANNAH DALY, University College Cork DAVID STYLES associate professor, University of Galway
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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peterthorne.bsky.social
The commission may well acquiesce. Sadly physics doesn’t do discounts or bargains and it keeps receipts. If we want a liveable future for future generations on a world that has a climate even recognisably like ours our energy should be being spent on doubling down on climate action…
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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thinkorswim.bsky.social
Negotiating or trying to cut a deal with physics really is a mug’s game, as our children will find out soon enough.

www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
Ireland hopes for a discount for missing EU climate goals
Ireland will miss its EU climate targets on agriculture, transport and buildings and likely face financial penalties, but can it secure concessions?
www.rte.ie
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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thinkorswim.bsky.social
Astounding that the first substantive mention of #climate in entire Presidential election campaign should occur during Catherine Connolly’s acceptance speech, which she rightly labelled an “existential crisis”.

Neither the main political parties nor our national media seem remotely interested.
October 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM