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It's 0.36% of the population of England and Wales
And 0.07% in Ireland

As percentage of population would be interesting!!

Membership by Green Parties in Europe:

Green Party (EW & Scotland) - over 225,000
GRÜNE (German Greens) - 166,000
GroenLinks (Netherlands) - 46,508
The Ecologists (French Greens) - 11,106
Groen (Belgium) - 10,000

2/3

Green Party of England and Wales is the largest Green Party in Europe.

From the RTÉ Archives: Anti-Apartheid Protest takes place in Dublin.

WATCH: RTÉ News reports #OnThisDay in 1981 https://rte.ie/b/1558786

The enthusiasm of most billionaire media outlets in the US and UK for Trump’s illegal assault on Iran is another reminder of how deranged, perverse and frankly psychopathic these organisations are.

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war https://aje.news/7hx1jp

On March 11th, groups across the country will be taking action on data centres

Want to get involved? Join @foeireland.bsky.social's phone bank and let your TD know how you feel about the Government handing over even more resources to Big Tech

www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/stop-...

Starmer ‘in wrong place’ on trans rights, says Thornberry Labour MP says party has been pushed into a place ‘that doesn’t come naturally to us’ and blames Morgan McSweeney (L-R) Anneliese Dodds, Angela Rayner, Sir Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan and Emily Thornberry head the LGBT Labour group at the Pride in London parade, Park Lane, London, Great Britain 2 July 2022 Sir Keir Starmer, seen with senior Labour figures at a Pride march in 2022, has changed the party’s public stance on trans peopleCredit: Elliott Franks

Let's hope this opens up space for change within the Labour Party. There is not a fascist, or misogynist, political leader in the world whose position on trans rights differs from Labour's.

Israel strikes eastern Lebanon, killing dozens, after raid to recover IDF pilot’s remains fails Commandos started digging up grave thought to be of Ron Arad, leading to gun fight with local residents and Hezbollah fighters * Middle East crisis – live updates An Israeli operation in eastern Lebanon to locate the remains of a famous IDF pilot ended in failure overnight, when the commandoes were caught in a gunfight with Hezbollah and local residents, leading Israeli jets to pummel the area with airstrikes that killed dozens of people. The fighting left three Lebanese soldiers and 41 residents of the Bekaa valley dead, according to the Lebanese army and ministry of health. No injuries were reported among the Israeli soldiers. Continue reading...

Israel strikes eastern Lebanon, killing dozens, after raid to recover IDF pilot’s remains fails

Thinking like a Mountain Professor John Feehan, Geologist and Botanist, argues that the rewetting of bogs may prove to be a major missed opportunity for nature, and that we need to adjust our timeframes to think like mountain...

What if rewetting wasn’t actually the best thing to do on cutaway bogs.

Geologist and Botanist Prof John Feehan argues we will get a better bang for our climate and nature restoration buck by allowing natural ecological succession instead.
#RTECountrywide

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Up in Smoke? 26 years ago, a team of archaeologists followed in the wake of Bord Na Mona’s peat harvesting machinery to rescue artefacts revealed by the milling. It raises the possibility of bog bodies having bein...

Did we burn Bog Bodies to create electricity?

The gruesome answer seems to be, we did. Albeit not on purpose. #RTECountrywide

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols

Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London

Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sheep are disappearing from our hills and our dinner plates Have we have passed "peak sheep" in the UK?

Great!!

Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel launches new wave of 'broad-scale' strikes on Iran Israel has announced a new wave of "broad-scale" strikes on Tehran as US President Donald Trump said only Iran's unconditional surrender would bring an end to the escalating Middle East war.

Israel has announced a new wave of "broad-scale" strikes on Tehran as US President Donald Trump said only Iran's unconditional surrender would bring an end to the escalating Middle East war.

Almost 100 jobs at risk as North Cork Creameries stops processing Staff at North Cork Creameries have been informed that their jobs at the plant are at risk, with almost 100 jobs to be impacted.

All business owners have a responsibility to their staff, clients and community to ensure they are operating within the law. It's a tragedy that some businesses behave as if they have the right to pollute with impunity. share.google/G8yR2OmIqpl4...

Fishermen are right to oppose a ban on tangle netting in the absence of a wider plan for fisheries recovery.

I think there is agreement that these areas need proper management that could allow both fish and fishermen to flourish...

CCTV video showing the moment a missile struck next to a boys’ school in Iran’s Qazvin, causing panic amongst students and staff, has been released by IRGC-affiliated media.

Iran blamed the attack, which reportedly took place during the first day of the war, on the US and Israel.

“Your optic nerve is anti-Zionist”!!!

Bassem is brilliant! #Speirgorm

Farage and Polanski are exact opposites but the center-right are desperate to position them as friends.
Well, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so shouldn't Starmer be in Polanski's place?

In the depths of a housing crisis, Dublin needs homes, not AirBnBs.

Managed to get an application for a full-time AirBnB in the Liberties rejected so that it'll be a home instead.

If you know of an illegal AirBnB in your area, drop me a message and we'll get on it.

#Speirgorm

Ireland urged to assist Cyprus if it invokes EU mutual defence clause Ahead of the Irish presidency of the Council of the European Union, experts say Ireland should be ready to defend a fellow EU state under attack

The Triple Lock has never been more important - without it we could easily be drawn into a military conflict created by the US-Israel.

And Cyprus should be an example to us - 'militarily neutral' means nothing when you host British military bases.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

🚨 A historic double-header for the Irish grid today with two major records broken:
- this morning, battery discharge reached almost 500MW, or roughly 8% of electricity demand 🔋
- just after 12pm, solar output exceeded 1GW (roughly 20% of demand) for the very first time ☀️

Much more to come!

I got sick of seeing this mess of fly tipping & littering at a local woodland. You can wait & hope someone else will sort it,,but that rarely happens. This lot now at the local council refuse centre & the woodland is looking beautiful.

Wait, *another* one?

This attempt to blame feminists for Trump’s war in Iran is really bizarre to me.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

A bulldozer and an excavator clear rubble as emergency personnel search for victims at the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential compound in Baalbek, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. [Nidal Solh/AFP]

Families displaced by Israeli strikes from southern Lebanon seek refuge at a school transformed into a shelter in Sidon. [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP]

An ambulance is parked near a sweeping blaze following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre. [Kawnat Haju/AFP]

A man passes by a destroyed car and shop on a commercial street that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

Israel kills more than 100 Lebanese as it commands Beirut residents to flee https://aje.news/bauwid