My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris

Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”

Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris

*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

Connolly’s landslide buries political myths about Ireland’s presidential process - how the establishment's attempts to explain #Aras25 are fatally flawed from the outset, and who really matters in the aftermath.

philipoconnor.com/connollys-la...

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

Next week UEFA is expected to meet and vote on banning Israel from International Football.

Like if they need to be banned.
RT if it is time to ban Israel from all international events.

A United Airlines flight illegally transported ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning.

They’re being delivered to the IDF’s largest weapons supplier.

www.ontheditch.com/united-airli...

To be clear, it doesn’t make you a visionary or genius to want to discard the incredibly complex and special planet we have, in favour of a staggeringly less habitable planet that only the mega-rich could hope to get to. It takes a superhuman level of lazy, toddler-like selfishness and squandering.

The World should be invading Israel and Netanyahu should be hiding in a bunker.

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.
Pass it on.

This is a nice illustration of how it works.

Spare a thought for the retail workers, between the Christmas shoping, and New Year's sales, they are working flat out throughout the holidays - usually on precarious contracts, and for low wages.

Workers's deserve a break. It's time to raise the minimum wage to a living wage for all.

A homeless person doesn't cost you anything, that's why they are there with nothing.

It is the billionaire with everything, who still won't pay your wages or pay tax, who is costing you everything.