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The last time this happened was about 12,000 years ago and Ireland became uninhabitable. This is the reality of the climate crisis
New research finds a 70% chance the AMOC collapses under current emissions…37% under moderate cuts, 25% even under low ones.
That collapse would upend rainfall, chill Europe, wreck crops, and raise seas.
We blame fossil fuel billionaires because mirrors are awkward.
cleantechnica.com/2025/10/25/r...
Risk of Atlantic Current Collapsing Much Higher Than Previously Expected - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Unsurprisingly, climate risks keep growing. However, it’s not great to hear that one of the possibilities that has concerned ...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Recent Aras elections saw multiple candidates get through process via Oireachtas or local authority support - 1997 had 5 candidates, 2011 had 7 and 2018 had 6. There is no need to change the system because the 2025 motley crew were late to process, poor quality or not serious about running at all.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the Oireachtas may have to look at changing the process by which a person gets on the ballot in presidential elections, which he described as "restrictive".
jrnl.ie/6856687
Taoiseach suggests referendum on changing 'restrictive' process for getting on presidential ballot
One in eighter people spoiled their votes.
jrnl.ie
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Top line here is exactly it.
The spoiled vote segment is an issue for FF and FG to contend with, not the left. It's not our problem.

I doubt that the government will change its handling of the far right.

Today we celebrate!
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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So despite knowing full well that Connolly had to take the clients assigned to her as a barrister and trailing massively in the polls, Humphries doubles down with an attack in the Sindo.
What an awful, petty, snide person she is - completely unfit to be Ireland's president.
#SpeirGorm #Aras25
October 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I'm so sad to read this. Manchán was one of a kind. An incredible writer and storyteller.

A warm and fascinating person with a great sense of adventure, brilliant mind, and a deep ghrá for our landscape, folklore, and language.

He had so much more to give. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55
The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.
www.rte.ie
October 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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New Gist: A Presidential Trio

"Jim Gavin (or Don Uachtaránacht as he's also known to the less observant poster reader) ...can't wait to visit some community groups, he explains in his interviews with the zeal of a man eating a slice of waterlogged bread"
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-p...
The Gist: A Presidental Trio
After a campaign lead up where every head-the-ball in Ireland suggested they'd like to be President, we're left with the bare minimum of three choices. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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"Delehanty is just a guy who used to work for Arthur Cox or something. Now he owns a daycare for dogs. I have absolutely no idea why he gets to be on TV, or why we should be hearing from him, other than he wants to be president."

This week's column is about the presidential election.
Surrealing in the Years: The vibes of this presidential election are badly off
Why do we have to hear so much from so many unserious people?
www.thejournal.ie
September 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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a....camera?
August 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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US, EU and UK policy on Gaza in a photograph. #genocide
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
August 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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We are all busy. Life is hectic. Days pass by in a blur. But you can always find a minute or two to say FUCK CONOR MCGREGOR
July 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Whenever public opinion and international pressure becomes unignorable, offer a token concession that will diffuse momentum and act as a fig leaf, while maintaining the mass death and expulsion. It’s a playbook.
Israel said Friday that it will allow other countries to drop aid from the air into the Gaza Strip, where children have died of malnutrition and nearly one in three people is coping with food insecurity, according to the UN's World Food Program.
Israel to Allow Aid Airdrops Over Gaza During Starvation Crisis
Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.
trib.al
July 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
July 16, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Think for a minute that European leaders have voluntarily immolated their own credibility in order to allow impunity for this.
The article is full of details like these:
June 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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May 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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charging an Irish republican musician with a terror offence for waving a flag is some real "the Brits are never not at it" shit
May 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die.

“This is an abomination.”

(🎥 Middle East Eye)
May 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.

Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
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April 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Reality is just absurd now. Tathony house, where the former tenants were fighting eviction (Jack Power & I wrote articles about it at the time) is now being set up as homeless accommodation under the new owners (great reporting from Dub Inquirer team) www.dublininquirer.com/time-and-aga...
Time and again, long-term tenants evicted and their homes turned into homeless accommodation
A spokesperson for the Dublin Region Homeless Executive said its priority was “to ensure there is an adequate provision of accommodation for people experiencing homelessness”.
www.dublininquirer.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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This is Summit. He doesn't know why he would simply sit when he can boing instead. 13/10
March 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Data centres are forecast to use a staggering 30% of Ireland’s electricity by 2030, a trend reflected across Europe.
Explainer video from @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social

#BeyondFossilFuels #FossilGas #Wind #Solar #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #JustTransition |
February 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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I have signed this #EU initiative to propose a ban on #LGBTQ+ conversion "therapy" which every EU citizen above the age of 16 should be able to sign.

#Ireland needs maybe 5,000 more signatures to reach the threshold #Spéirghorm #Spéirgorm

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public . Sign it and share it!
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The deadline to register for the new Higher Education Seanad Éireann constituency is January 23rd 🗓️

Calling all alumni of the below designated institutions; YOU could be eligible to vote!

Head to seanadvoter.ie to register now 🗳️
January 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM