Justin Byrne
@justinbyrne.bsky.social
Irish Environmentalist. #Aarhus #SDGs #CircularEconomy #FBPE #Cyclist, Wannabe good guy
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HH choking trying to avoid answering whether the US enabled genocide in Gaza. Can’t bring herself to say anything other than US bringing peace.
For that alone, vote @catherinegalway.bsky.social
#Aras25 #SpeirGorm
For that alone, vote @catherinegalway.bsky.social
#Aras25 #SpeirGorm
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
HH choking trying to avoid answering whether the US enabled genocide in Gaza. Can’t bring herself to say anything other than US bringing peace.
For that alone, vote @catherinegalway.bsky.social
#Aras25 #SpeirGorm
For that alone, vote @catherinegalway.bsky.social
#Aras25 #SpeirGorm
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🏮Once more for evening voters in Cork North Central who normally vote in Trinity Presbyterian Church polling station 🏮
🔺️ ⚠️ Heads up for Cork Nth Central voters who normally vote at the Hall at Trinity Church, end of Summerhill: works there mean your polling station has moved to City Hall.
That is stated on your polling card, but the change is not well flagged.
Reposts appreciated. People may miss out. #aras25
That is stated on your polling card, but the change is not well flagged.
Reposts appreciated. People may miss out. #aras25
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🏮Once more for evening voters in Cork North Central who normally vote in Trinity Presbyterian Church polling station 🏮
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In the last few minutes of #Aras25 election I just want to say a huge GRMA to #TeamConnolly
U all know who u are - ordinary folk but there's also a tiny core fab 😇 All inspired by #CatherineConnolly who's worked so hard not just in this campaign but 4 decades 4 #fairness #justice #respect 🥰
U all know who u are - ordinary folk but there's also a tiny core fab 😇 All inspired by #CatherineConnolly who's worked so hard not just in this campaign but 4 decades 4 #fairness #justice #respect 🥰
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In the last few minutes of #Aras25 election I just want to say a huge GRMA to #TeamConnolly
U all know who u are - ordinary folk but there's also a tiny core fab 😇 All inspired by #CatherineConnolly who's worked so hard not just in this campaign but 4 decades 4 #fairness #justice #respect 🥰
U all know who u are - ordinary folk but there's also a tiny core fab 😇 All inspired by #CatherineConnolly who's worked so hard not just in this campaign but 4 decades 4 #fairness #justice #respect 🥰
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Great points.
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![Sir, - Former TD Brian Leddin argues (“I resigned from the Greens over its backing of Connolly”, Opinion October 15th) that the Green Party’s support of Catherine Connolly signals that it has become “less concerned with the environment and more focused on broader social issues”.
He states that “I hope that, in time, [the Green Party] will once again focus on the greatest challenge of all – safeguarding our environment and addressing climate change.
This week we have learned of the destruction of 30 acres of centuries old forest in Co Cork, including almost 2km of what the National Parks and Wildlife Service described as “ancient, long established” hedgerows, possessing “high biodiversity value” for local wildlife.
This is the second reported such incident this week, and one of many similar acts in recent years. A direct line can be traced from this destruction to the cultural and political climate cultivated by the Heritage Bill brought in by Heather Humphreys as minister for arts, heritage and Gaeltacht affairs in 2016. The Bill allowed for a two-year pilot law that would permit hedge-cutting in August and burning in March during nesting season.
The Bill was vociferously opposed across the spectrum of environmental organisations.As Green Party Senator Grace O’Sullivan stated in opposition at the time, “You cannot slash and burn for two years and call it scientific data collection. That’s not how science works.” Despite widespread and vocal opposition, the Act was bulldozed through the Oireachtas in 2018. A noteworthy investigation by Niall Sargent found that 3,000km of hedgerows, many of them ancient, were cut or removed in just three years, from 2018 to 2021.
In contrast, Connolly’s votes, speeches and actions are evidence of someone focused, as Leddin asks, “on the greatest challenge of all – safeguarding our environment and addressing climate change”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b7ou2gv5kwbbcxdacxrfjbtd/bafkreicuxucl3bn2g5q7hmag46vcrly45ghn5ir3fcfngxfszexu6rp4uq@jpeg)
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Great points.
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Who's the greenest Connolly or Humphreys?
Doh! It seems only Brian Leddin doesn't know.
I'm in no doubt: Connolly rocks on #Aarhus; #ClimateChange; #Nature; on fairness & in listening.
Great Letter to the Editor in the @IrishTimes.com by @sineadmercier.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2db5kr7m
#Aras25
Doh! It seems only Brian Leddin doesn't know.
I'm in no doubt: Connolly rocks on #Aarhus; #ClimateChange; #Nature; on fairness & in listening.
Great Letter to the Editor in the @IrishTimes.com by @sineadmercier.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2db5kr7m
#Aras25
October 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Who's the greenest Connolly or Humphreys?
Doh! It seems only Brian Leddin doesn't know.
I'm in no doubt: Connolly rocks on #Aarhus; #ClimateChange; #Nature; on fairness & in listening.
Great Letter to the Editor in the @IrishTimes.com by @sineadmercier.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2db5kr7m
#Aras25
Doh! It seems only Brian Leddin doesn't know.
I'm in no doubt: Connolly rocks on #Aarhus; #ClimateChange; #Nature; on fairness & in listening.
Great Letter to the Editor in the @IrishTimes.com by @sineadmercier.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2db5kr7m
#Aras25
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Today is Super Saturday, say the volunteers at catherineconnollyforpresident.ie.
Turnout is everything, and nothing improves turnout more than the personal request.
Turnout is everything, and nothing improves turnout more than the personal request.
October 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Today is Super Saturday, say the volunteers at catherineconnollyforpresident.ie.
Turnout is everything, and nothing improves turnout more than the personal request.
Turnout is everything, and nothing improves turnout more than the personal request.
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Happy #Caturday lovely phone family. How's everyone doing?
An important reminder for those in the UK. Our little hoggy friends are already struggling and need all the help they can get 🦔🦔🦔
Have a beautiful day 🌷
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ♥️
An important reminder for those in the UK. Our little hoggy friends are already struggling and need all the help they can get 🦔🦔🦔
Have a beautiful day 🌷
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ♥️
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Happy #Caturday lovely phone family. How's everyone doing?
An important reminder for those in the UK. Our little hoggy friends are already struggling and need all the help they can get 🦔🦔🦔
Have a beautiful day 🌷
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ♥️
An important reminder for those in the UK. Our little hoggy friends are already struggling and need all the help they can get 🦔🦔🦔
Have a beautiful day 🌷
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ♥️
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When hope and history rhyme, Catherine Connolly a woman for our time
"Calm can be radical, listening can be revolutionary"
A voice who will be a moral compass for Ireland - and on a world stage
#CatherineConnollyNo1 mar Uachtarán na hÉireann
Laura nails it
www.hotpress.com/opinion/when...
"Calm can be radical, listening can be revolutionary"
A voice who will be a moral compass for Ireland - and on a world stage
#CatherineConnollyNo1 mar Uachtarán na hÉireann
Laura nails it
www.hotpress.com/opinion/when...
When Hope and History Rhyme: Why Connolly Speaks for Our Time (Op-ed by Laura Murphy) | Hotpress
As the world faces moral collapse and deep division, there is a wave of conscience and culture rising in Ireland. Laura Murphy argues that Catherine Connolly...
www.hotpress.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
When hope and history rhyme, Catherine Connolly a woman for our time
"Calm can be radical, listening can be revolutionary"
A voice who will be a moral compass for Ireland - and on a world stage
#CatherineConnollyNo1 mar Uachtarán na hÉireann
Laura nails it
www.hotpress.com/opinion/when...
"Calm can be radical, listening can be revolutionary"
A voice who will be a moral compass for Ireland - and on a world stage
#CatherineConnollyNo1 mar Uachtarán na hÉireann
Laura nails it
www.hotpress.com/opinion/when...
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We waited 20 years for John Bolton to be punished for telling lies about Iraq.
Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.
Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We waited 20 years for John Bolton to be punished for telling lies about Iraq.
Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.
Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.
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Connolly is winning this easily going by a totally random poll on Gav Reilly’s page #Aras25 #TonightVMTV #Áras25
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Connolly is winning this easily going by a totally random poll on Gav Reilly’s page #Aras25 #TonightVMTV #Áras25
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“If we accept genocide as it’s unfolding in Palestine where does it go next?”
@catherinegalway.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #Áras25
@catherinegalway.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #Áras25
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“If we accept genocide as it’s unfolding in Palestine where does it go next?”
@catherinegalway.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #Áras25
@catherinegalway.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #Áras25
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The Gardai have no complaint of an assault but that’s not stopping stories and asbos and curfews getting a run out …. #TonightVMTV
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Gardai have no complaint of an assault but that’s not stopping stories and asbos and curfews getting a run out …. #TonightVMTV
His posters make him look even more like Putin.
Jim Gavin is the spitting image of Putin
Someone had to say it.
#Áras25 #aras25 #TonightVMTV #Speirgorm
Someone had to say it.
#Áras25 #aras25 #TonightVMTV #Speirgorm
September 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
His posters make him look even more like Putin.
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🗣️ "We are a neutral country and we should be using our voice, as small as we are." – Catherine Connolly
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
September 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🗣️ "We are a neutral country and we should be using our voice, as small as we are." – Catherine Connolly
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
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FF candidate defends self-proclaimed Irish Nationalist xenophobes putting flag of our country wherever they want. Wow.
FG candidate says “we should speak to them.”
No.
#Tonightvmtv #Áras25
FG candidate says “we should speak to them.”
No.
#Tonightvmtv #Áras25
September 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
FF candidate defends self-proclaimed Irish Nationalist xenophobes putting flag of our country wherever they want. Wow.
FG candidate says “we should speak to them.”
No.
#Tonightvmtv #Áras25
FG candidate says “we should speak to them.”
No.
#Tonightvmtv #Áras25
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It will be interesting to see if there are any arrests for Malicious communications this time🤔
Musicians call on Keir Starmer to accept that genocide is taking place in Gaza in a video projected onto the entrance of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool
September 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It will be interesting to see if there are any arrests for Malicious communications this time🤔
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Musicians call on Keir Starmer to accept that genocide is taking place in Gaza in a video projected onto the entrance of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool
September 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Musicians call on Keir Starmer to accept that genocide is taking place in Gaza in a video projected onto the entrance of the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool
Never let details get in the way of a good story.
Speaking to Sky News ahead of his appearance before the US Houe Judiciary Committee, Nigel Farage talks about worries about the Online Safety Act and links it to the arrest of Graham Linehan. Linehan was arrested under the Public Order Act.
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Never let details get in the way of a good story.
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My FOI of Government memo confirms more data centres means higher electricity bills for all.
"The expansion of data centres has raised security of supply concerns and leads to associated costs to taxpayers and electricity bill payers," the memo stated.
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
"The expansion of data centres has raised security of supply concerns and leads to associated costs to taxpayers and electricity bill payers," the memo stated.
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
www.rte.ie
August 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My FOI of Government memo confirms more data centres means higher electricity bills for all.
"The expansion of data centres has raised security of supply concerns and leads to associated costs to taxpayers and electricity bill payers," the memo stated.
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
"The expansion of data centres has raised security of supply concerns and leads to associated costs to taxpayers and electricity bill payers," the memo stated.
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
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On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza.
Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.
These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸
Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.
These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸
September 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza.
Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.
These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸
Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.
These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸
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It's commitment & leadership to: Human Rights; international law; rule of law, the values of the EU Treaties; to humanity, compassion & action for justice that makes me proud to have voted for @lnbdublin.bsky.social as an MEP and now on the Legal Observer Contingent for the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza.
Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.
These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸
Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel.
These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸
September 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It's commitment & leadership to: Human Rights; international law; rule of law, the values of the EU Treaties; to humanity, compassion & action for justice that makes me proud to have voted for @lnbdublin.bsky.social as an MEP and now on the Legal Observer Contingent for the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
A positive move on environmental protection from Ireland
(For a change)
www.thejournal.ie/sprat-fishin...
(For a change)
www.thejournal.ie/sprat-fishin...
Crackdown announced on mass fishing of sprat in bid to protect whales and birds
Government ministers have said the move is a “clear signal that Ireland is serious” about protecting marine life.
www.thejournal.ie
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A positive move on environmental protection from Ireland
(For a change)
www.thejournal.ie/sprat-fishin...
(For a change)
www.thejournal.ie/sprat-fishin...