Antóin McDermott

Environmental breakdown isn’t a distant possibility – it’s a threat to world stability The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one

“‘Nature is the foundation of national security.’”

“The most cost-effective and impactful way to protect our collective future is through large-scale restoration, which can only happen with a truly steadfast commitment of long-term funding”

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All Hands on Deck Needed to Respond to the Latest Attack on Access to Justice The Government is seeking to dramatically erode the public right of access to justice via the courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on eNGOs and members of civil society who seek to challen...

The Government is seeking to dramatically erode public right of access to justice via courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on those challenging unlawful planning or policy.

Please consider making a submission before 15 January.

Explainer, links & help:
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Wild cold water swimming may be good for your health but how do you know the water’s not polluted? - Sustainable Water Network This time of year, we start thinking about getting back to or starting up healthy routines. Often it is a major part of our new year resolutions. One that more people are choosing to add to their list...

Wild cold water swimming may be good for your health but how do you know the water’s not polluted?

Read our blog piece to find out 👇

swanireland.ie/2026/01/wild...

Picture of Laytown beach in County Meath Ireland showing a cloudy sky with sunlight streaming through to light up a beach with some horse riders in the far distance.

Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.

The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment

Please read and take action 👇

What's Degrowth? And Why If We Don't Choose It, Collapse Will Choose Us I’ve been thinking about a word that can make otherwise reasonable people flinch: degrowth. Say it at a dinner party and you can feel the temperature change. Someone will hear “recession”. Someone els...

‘Degrowth, at its best, is not “less”. It’s “less rubbish and more life”.

Who couldn’t do with that right now?

“it offers us a choice that won’t stay open forever: planned change, rather than forced change.

I know which one I’d rather live through. ”’

www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/degrowt...

Nitrates Pollution - Sustainable Water Network Here’s what’s happening with nitrates in Ireland and what you can do to help stop this pollutant. Nearly half (44%) of our rivers have nitrate concentrations that are too high.  The biggest cause is a...

You may have heard about Ireland looking for a "nitrates derogation" in the news. But what does it mean? Why are nitrates a problem? Why does the government want Ireland to be allowed to use more than the normal limits?🤔

Read our explainer and take the action. 💙💦🙌
swanireland.ie/nitrates-pol...

There is a co-ordinated attack underway on access to justice & environmental democracy, with the Irish public being bombarded daily with anti-judicial review messaging from all sides.

This is to soften up the public before their right to access justice is removed- it's manufacturing consent.

Money Talks, Bullshit Walks Money is is talking us into autocracy - we shouldn't let it Money is talking us into autocracy by appropriating the common good to serve the 1%, but the common good isn't promoted by squashing people'...

Money talks, bullshit walks

We shouldn't let the money talk us into autocracy, a 🧵

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Climate expert: We weren't hearing about the candidates' stances on climate action, so I asked them directly Here’s what Heather Humphreys and Catherine Connolly said about climate action and what it means for the election, writes Dr Cara Augustenborg.

Please email primetime@rte.ie to ask them to break the #ClimateSilence & ask the 2 candidates "How will you integrate climate change into your Presidency?” in the last TV debate on Tuesday

I've done the research to make this easy @thejournal.ie
www.thejournal.ie/readme/clima...

#Aras25

Oh lordy. No, these are not "heat pumps". They are *water* pumps installed in conventional fossil-fuel heating systems. 🤦‍♂️

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

‘Israel’s daily cruelty in Gaza that we’re witnessing, and the political class in most of the Western world just cheering it on, is the darkest thing I've seen in my whole life.’

-Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté

Call on Ireland’s Government to Protect its Seas Join us by signing the petition today and telling the Irish government that they cannot delay any longer. Sign the petition at only.one/30x30ireland. #30x30Ireland #FairSeas

If you've been watching Prime Time & you want to do something to get marine protected areas into law, then sign the @fairseas.ie petition to the Irish Govt asking to get a move on.

Join over 80,000 people who have already signed. Let's get it to 100,000! 🌊✊#rtept

The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide.

The German state is a disgrace.

It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide.

It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects

Israel -(and US who are complicit )- determined to kill those reporting the genocide - what does it take for the international community to act?

At least 66 children dead of malnutrition in Gaza as Israel tightens siege The deaths come as UNICEF warns of an ‘alarming’ increase in the number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip.

The deaths come as UNICEF warns of an ‘alarming’ increase in the number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip.

Opinion: Why don't we regulate farms like we do pharmaceuticals? Environmental campaigner Pádraic Fogarty says farming is the elephant in Ireland’s climate room, and we should therefore be better regulating it.

We should stop looking at farming like it was something out of a children's story book and regulate it, just like we do the pharmaceutical industry

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Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

Israeli fire kills 23 people in Gaza, many at aid site Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 23 people across Gaza, most of them near an aid distribution site operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, local health authorities said.

No rest for the wicked: despite having just launched an all-out war on #Iran, Israel continues to simultaneously slaughter civilians in #Gaza.

The only language they understand is violence.

www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Ireland is Israel's second biggest trading partner - we need to look at why Ireland's dependency on the US is embedded in the State's DNA, and now makes us complicit in Israel's war crimes

A lot of questions raised by Al Jazeera last week when it was revealed that Ireland is Israel's second largest trading partner. Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie explain why, in today's Irish Examiner

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

The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.

Woman in March in Cork holds large hand written poster reading Strip search the fucking war planes NOT the mothers

How environmentally sustainable is Irish aquaculture? - Sustainable Water Network At Thursday’s IFA Aquaculture Conference, Minister Timmy Dooley reiterated the government’s commitment to continuing to support the development of the aquaculture sector and streamlining aquaculture l...

How environmentally sustainable is Irish aquaculture? As the government promotes aquaculture growth here, this #WorldWaterDay we explore some of the claims made around its sustainability, and the effects certain aspects of it are having on water quality & biodiversity swanireland.ie/2025/03/how-...

If You Eat Meat You Should Know This YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Putting this out today as don't want to dampen the parade on Monday.

We need to look after this beautiful country we have and the wonderful lakes that are so important to our heritage.

We'll have much more to celebrate if we do. 🎉☘️🐟

#StPatricksDay #RestoreOurWaters

Can anyone look at this graphic and say that we do not urgently need rewilding on a massive scale?

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
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HOME | Rewild! Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency

Launching! 🚀

Today I'm launching a new service for landowners in Ireland who want to rewild their land. I hope this will be the start of a network that will promote rewilding in this country - the time is right!

New social 🙋‍♂️
@rewildyourland.bsky.social

take a look 👇
www.rewildyourland.ie

Prolonged Storm Éowyn power cuts highlight the dire need to build our electricity resilience If this storm erodes public confidence in electrification, it could lead to backtracking

Storm Eowyn exposed the lack of resilience in our energy infrastructure. Further fueling climate breakdown isnt the answer. Now is the time to accelerate the transition to clean, smart & resilient rural energy systems.
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Short presentation (< 15mins) on just how vanishingly small are our remaining carbon budgets for 1.5 & 2°C - both globally & when downscaled to wealthy industrialised nations. In a handful of years our Paris 2°C commitment will go the way same way as has 1.5°C.
climateuncensored.com/irelands-cli...