Ella McSweeney
@ellamcsweeney.bsky.social
irish, journalist
ellamcsweeney@protonmail.com
ellamcsweeney@protonmail.com
“How do you build a local food community when the money is not going towards the people who are trying to do that?”
Cass & Nick on the challenges of being small-scale farmers in Ireland - www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @rteradio1.bsky.social
Cass & Nick on the challenges of being small-scale farmers in Ireland - www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @rteradio1.bsky.social
Nick and Cass McCarthy's Lúnasa Farm
In 2021, Nick and Cass McCarthy set up Lúnasa Farm on 30 acres of land in Co. Clare. Neither of them comes from a farming background. Nick’s an engineer by trade, and he met Cass while working in her ...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“How do you build a local food community when the money is not going towards the people who are trying to do that?”
Cass & Nick on the challenges of being small-scale farmers in Ireland - www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @rteradio1.bsky.social
Cass & Nick on the challenges of being small-scale farmers in Ireland - www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @rteradio1.bsky.social
Treat Lough Derg like a bin, and it will show you what that looks like.
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Ella McSweeney: Lough Derg is drifting towards the same fate as Lough Neagh
Lough Derg has been so reshaped by pollution that its original character is almost impossible to discern
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October 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Treat Lough Derg like a bin, and it will show you what that looks like.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Public records about North Cork Creameries - a company that is a "leading supplier of butter to the internationally renowned Kerrygold brand" - paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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Rules to protect Ireland’s fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached
Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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September 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Public records about North Cork Creameries - a company that is a "leading supplier of butter to the internationally renowned Kerrygold brand" - paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing
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Reposted by Ella McSweeney
25 years ago local community stood up for bog's protection for people, place and nature - celebrating community action #Abbeyleix @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social
beautiful storytelling via @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
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beautiful storytelling via @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
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Saving Abbeyleix Bog
25 years ago, 37 locals protested to save Abbeyleix Bog, now a local centre for locals, tourists and nature.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
25 years ago local community stood up for bog's protection for people, place and nature - celebrating community action #Abbeyleix @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social
beautiful storytelling via @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
beautiful storytelling via @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Reposted by Ella McSweeney
This article by Ella McSweeney covers a fish die-off in one of Ireland’s rivers like a crime story. Brilliant read.
Ecological tragedy in Clare heralds imminent water crisis in Ireland
Ballymacraven river may never recover from pollution that killed thousands of fish, an incident that highlights an even wider problem as the State’s water treatment infrastructure creaks under growing...
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March 23, 2024 at 7:18 AM
This article by Ella McSweeney covers a fish die-off in one of Ireland’s rivers like a crime story. Brilliant read.
“Using their 40-year data set and historical research as far back as 1886, Little and Sterling see the extent of the decline of life in the lake. Life is draining away. It is, says Little, “very sad”.”
#loughhyne
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#loughhyne
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October 8, 2023 at 3:49 PM
“Using their 40-year data set and historical research as far back as 1886, Little and Sterling see the extent of the decline of life in the lake. Life is draining away. It is, says Little, “very sad”.”
#loughhyne
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#loughhyne
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