Daniel’s bail hearing is on this Wednesday at 1.30pm Irish time. There will be a gathering outside the German Embassy to let them know what we think of the German state’s repression of anti-genocide activism

German prosecutors have charged the five with being part of a ‘criminal organisation’ an offence created to target organised crime recently been used instead to prosecute climate and Palestine activists.

Look Gaeilge Uladh isn't for the feint of heart on a good day

I also recommend having TG4 on or an Irish podcast, even if it's above your level a bit. Your ears start to get it and your brain will catch up

It always sounds more confusing explained in grammar terms. You don't really sit and think about it like that most of the time, anymore than you would with English, once you get used to the rhythm. I just had to learn English and Irish like this so it sticks around 😅

I will say that online translators over use cuid because it means they don't have to restructure the sentence as much. Irish uses pronouns differently and it's easier for a computer to change my homework to mo chuid obair bhaile then to an obair bhail a bhfuil agam

"Dance change"

It's to do with the nouns in use. If the noun describes a concept or something that there's lots of, Irish grammar tends to want you to specify. You could say "an obair bhaile a bhfuil agam anocht" and it flows better than "m'obair bhaile" though the second isn't technically wrong.

What a time to be alive

Need to get a "Critique of powerful institutions is good actually" sign to tap now that people can't differentiate between that and conspiracy nonsense

I did.

I remain incredibly sceptical about how positive their influence was. Most of the climate policies brought in in the last five years were either mandated by EU or UN agreements, more press release than reality, or some combination.

Text version on my website as always with my sources and some further reading. Really excited for the next few episodes and if there's anything you'd like covered you can ask

"But Heather Humphreys was the minister who saw the heritage Bill ammendments that increased scrub burning and hedge destruction how could Brian Leddin side with that over left wing economics...?"

Because plenty of green TDs never cared about the environment either

Also I noticed when I was editing that all three of the environmental crimes/incidents I discussed from the last few months were in Cork. Wasn't intentional, but what's going on down there?