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✅ More public transport for everyone.
⬆️ 2023 investment in public transport and active travel was 3️⃣ times greater than before the Greens entered government, and is on the rise again in 2024.
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Shane Coleman: ‘Farmers hate them, the working class think they’re shite’ – it’s tough being a Green
But the reality is that, unpalatable though it may be, the logic of their agenda is inarguable
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A ban on cars and commercial vehicles travelling through Dublin city centre will be in place by August, Eamon Ryan has said.
Eamon Ryan said the change will radically transform the capital and predicted other cities would follow suit
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"We need younger councillors, female councillors, minority group councillors in national and local politics because, at the moment, we are not reflective of our society."
- Green Party councillor Hazel Chu
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A sea of people on the Grand Parade for the
#ClimateStrike
(📸 Green Party Rep for Kanturk Ted Bradley)
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“In my mind, the polluter has to pay. If Saudi Arabia can afford €875m spent in soccer players in the last three months, it can afford to contribute towards the climate crisis we have,” - Environment Minister Eamon Ryan
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Some big European cities are cycling into the future. Cork should not be left behind.
BIG NEWS: Milan has approved a £200 million plan to create a new 750km network of bike paths linking 80% of the city to bike paths, & connect the city to surrounding areas. The goal is to achieve a 20% modal shift to biking by 2035.
Strategy & leadership.
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Do it.
Cork-Midleton-Youghal train line reopening not ruled out by Irish Rail
Iarnród Éireann project manager says land set aside for the greenway is wide enough to accommodate a railway line or bus corridor
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THERE ARE “TOO many cars” on our roads and Dublin needs to “go on a car diet”, the CEO of Dublin Bus will tell the Oireachtas Transport Committee today.
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The Fine Gael leader’s comments sparked a backlash in the Green ranks, with one source asking: “do these f***ers not read the news? Do they not see that the world is burning?”
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Cork County Council's first ever Green Party councillors,
@LiamQuaide
and
@AlanOC_Green
, take their seats ahead of roll call in the Council Chamber at County Hall. 👏👏👏
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“We face a choice in the elections coming up: do you keep going green or do you stop?”
- Minister Eamon Ryan
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Our motion to
#CorkCC
declaring a
#ClimateEmergency
and
#Biodiversity
Emergency in the City of Cork.
🌍 Establish a
#ClimateAction
committee within 3 months, including civil society.
🐝 Prepare a Trees and Biodiversity Policy for Cork within 6 month.
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Green Party candidate, HARRIET Burgess, from Inniscarra in mid Cork is one of the first-time candidates in the race to be elected to Cork County Council in the Macroom Municipal District.
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"I despair at the bottle deposit whingers, do you LIKE plastic?"
When it comes to the environment, a war on plastic should be the lowest of low-hanging fruit, welcomed by us all, so says John Dolan in his weekly column
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Minister Eamon Ryan is seeking a change in Government policy that would block any future data centres that did not have their own carbon-neutral sources of energy.
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'Ireland will be unrecognisable if we fail to reduce emissions'
University College Cork professor Brian Ó Gallachóir described the changes needed as “unprecedented and wide-ranging”, requiring significant political will, investment and societal capacity.
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"When car use is limited on certain roads, the cars don’t relocate, clogging up other roads; they disappear. Yes: disappear. People choose other options – public transport, walking, cycling, taxi, car share."
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81% of respondents supported reducing the amount of road space for private vehicles in Dublin city centre, including 56% of individuals who normally travel by car.
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More enlightened times in 2019.
"The United Nations are not wrong in urging people eat less meat and dairy, president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) Joe Healy has said."
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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has said he will insist spending on public transport is twice that of funding for roads in government formation talks after the next general election.
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Former president Mary Robinson and Environment Minister Eamon Ryan are among those in Ireland calling for aviation to pay more in taxation in response to the climate crisis.
Aviation accounts for about 2% of total global emissions every year.
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Green Party fielding new candidate in Macroom area for local elections next year
Trinity College and Oxford University alumni
@Harriet_Burgess
is the first candidate in over a decade to run for the Green Party in her local electoral area of Macroom.
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Wonderful coverage of Ireland's newest citizens in the Examiner today. Congratulations to all of you.
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"It is astonishing that in the middle of a climate & biodiversity crisis we in Ireland are importing more than 80 per cent of all the fruit & vegetables that we eat, & from regions now experiencing climate-induced extreme temperatures & water scarcity."
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"Fresh off the plane from Cop 28 in Dubai on Wednesday evening, Eamon Ryan arrived into the Dáil bar to a round of applause from parliamentarians and staff from across the political divide."
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Systemic change needed.
The Green Party is to push for cuts in public transport fares to be extended in the upcoming Budget.
The Government last year cut public transport fares by 20pc as part of a cost-of-living package.
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'Utter nonsense'
Mr Ryan said that certain stories about him, including an online rumour that a Garda had been dispatched to Limerick solely to bring his bike, were part of a misinformation ecosystem around climate action
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Percentage support for measures to reduce car usage in cities and towns :
Age %
18-34 74%
35-54 63%
55+ 62%
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Political reform activist
@oliver_moran
is elected in Cork City North East, becoming the first ever
@greenparty_ie
councillor on the northside of the city.
#LE19
#GreenWave
#CorkCity
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Green Party MEP
@GraceOSllvn
says land will not be 'stolen' from farmers and that failure to usher in this game changing law will have a major impact on food security and the nature we rely on for life.
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Second railway line between Midleton and Glounthaune approved
At present, 31 trains operate between Cork City and Midleton, Monday to Friday each week. The new development will eventually see that upgraded to a service every 10 minutes
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Dunkettle upgrade.
€215 million.
Traffic queues from East Cork into tunnel 'getting worse'
"That's mad, Ted."
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Congratulations to our colleague Cllr
@ColetteFinnCork
on her election as Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork City! Our very best wishes to Colette for her term of office.
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“My sympathy with distress is not confined within the narrow bounds of my own green island. No – it extends to every corner of the earth."
That is what Daniel O'Connell would say. No need to wonder.
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Green Party members in Cork have nominated Councillor
@oliver_moran
to contest the Dáil by-election for Cork North Central
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Ireland’s new Deposit Return Scheme starts on 01/02/2024.
Internationally, these Schemes have proven very successful. By placing a monetary value on these drinks containers, there is more incentive for consumers to return them, rather than littering our environment.
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This is just brutal. Solidarity and best wishes to
@JanetPHorner
. No one should experience this.
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Cork city councillor and our colleague of 6 years,
@LornaBogue
, has announced her resignation from the party.
Thank you, Lorna, for your years of energy and commitment. We'll continue to work together in Cork.
The statement attached was issued by our elected reps this morning.
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"The rain we’re seeing is simply the truth of what we’ve been warned about — climate change. We’re facing wetter springs and summer droughts."
- Hannah Quinn-Mulligan, journalist and an organic beef and dairy farmer.
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We've launched a series of special posters to campaign for a Yes in the referendum on a directly-elected
@CorkMayor
!
We've highlighted five Cork issues an elected mayor could make a difference on: 🚴♀️ Cycle lanes 🌳 Trees policy 💩 Dog fouling 🌬️ Climate strikes 🌊
@SaveCorkCity
.
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#Repealthe8th
activist
@LornaBogue
is the first
#Cork
Green across the line in Cork City South East 🎉
#LE19
#CorkCity
#GreenWave
#repealedthe8th
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Best of luck to
@savecorkcity
🏛️on 13th July. We can do better here and in Blackpool.
#CorkCity
#LoveTheLee
🕯️
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The EU should not buckle in the face of farmer protests and give up on the Nature Restoration Law, Environment Minister Eamon Ryan told his EU colleagues at a meeting in Brussels yesterday.
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Is it time for Ireland to recognise and protect the rights of nature in our Constitution?
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Green Party TD, Minister Malcolm Noonan is now Ireland’s first ‘Minister for Nature’.
Minister Noonan’s official title change is to Minister of State with responsibility for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform.
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Greens push for lower travel and childcare fees in upcoming budget
Party aims to encourage more people on to public transport and distribute fare reductions evenly across country
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GREEN Party candidate for Macroom, Harriet Burgess, said that her election material would be bilingual, in Irish and English, as her electoral area included the Gaeltacht community of Múscraí.
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All schools to get free solar panels to help tackle energy bills
Solar energy will cut carbon emissions and feed national grid when up to 4,000 schools are closed during summer months
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🥇Deposit Return Scheme
Ireland benchmarks itself against the Slovakian scheme, which went live in 2022
In the first month of the Slovakian scheme, they took back 264,000 items, while Irish customers have returned around 2.9m units since February 1st
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WOMEN IN POLITICS:
@greenparty_ie
councillor
@ColetteFinnCork
writes for
@echolivecork
today on the recent Seanad elections, and how the next Taoiseach needs to consider this gender disparity when using their 11 nominees to the Seanad
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Included in your bus fare...
No petrol/diesel costs
No car insurance costs
No car maintenance costs
No car tax
More for you to spend
Less emissions
Less pollution
Less congestion
For many people, not needing a car will be a good future.
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‘We can’t accept this’ – Eamon Ryan says proposed Cop28 agreement needs to be ‘radically’ improved
Text makes no reference to key demand of fossil fuel phase-out
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Green Party policy. We might be small but we will connect everyone to sustainable transport.
The overarching aim of the plan is to put 70% of people in rural communities within reach of 3 return bus journeys each day, to and from the nearest large town.
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In a major win for the Green Party, the new €14 billion Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund will act exclusively as a reserve for environmental spending unless economy crashes
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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has vowed to face down Ireland’s most prominent climate change sceptics – the Healy-Rae brothers – on their own Kerry turf in the local elections.
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€280million for 17 minutes.
Looking forward to the day that we get excited about spending €280million on reducing wait times on a bus or train route.
Did public consultation dilute this project?
Probably not at all.
A lot has to change yet.
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Withdrawal of EU pesticide law is ‘act of insanity’ – MEP
Ireland South Green Party MEP Grace O’Sullivan said the decision is “bitter blow for biodiversity and human health and a big win for agrochemical lobby”.
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The National Transport Authority (NTA) will announce details of the new Cork Metropolitan bus network this morning - a huge transformation to public transport in Cork!
#Cork
#PublicTransport
#BusConnects
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Are we ready to curb our air journeys, to save the planet?
The climate impact of flying is huge, so says Catherine Conlon
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Deposit return scheme has collected over 5.6 million drinks containers since 1 February
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Mick Clifford: Ryanair's O’Leary on a flight of fancy
People will look back unkindly on Michael O'Leary who seems to think aviation only plays an insignificant role in the climate crisis
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"It was no contest in that cllrs from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Féin all spoke against the motion argued by the Green Party councillors.
Issues were raised such as the impact on obesity levels of children who would be sofa bound...."
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Lidl told to install electric car charging and cycle stands at Cork Churchfield store after intervention from
@greenparty_ie
Cllr
@oliver_moran
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Cork showed out today for the global
#ExtinctionRebellion
! Thank you everyone who came and took part. You made an impressive show! 👏👏👏
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Well worth watching. Many key aspects of our current road design highlighted. No cyclists. One heart in mouth stop. So much space for cars. We really have to do better than this.
A huge thanks to
@DanielCFleming
of
@ApertureMediaIE
for capturing the key aspects of the 'Coolroe Meadows Active Travel Scheme" - a great video tells a much bigger story
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No denying what Europeans think....
93% - Climate Change is a serious problem
58% - Green Transition should be sped up
88% - Greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced to a minimum
73% - Cost of climate damage is much higher than the investment needed for a green transition
What do Europeans think about climate change? 🇪🇺🤔
Over 𝟮𝟲,𝟬𝟬𝟬 EU citizens were asked about their views on climate change and what we should do to tackle it, and the results are now out! 📊
Read about them in our latest
#EurobarometerEU
survey ⤵️
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"We will have to pay people to do what we need to have done with our land to improve our water quality, reduce emissions, and improve our biodiversity."
- Environment Minister Eamon Ryan.
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It was great to attend the
@RebelsForPeace
#CorkRally4Peace
earlier today.
The
@greenparty_ie
stands united with allies on the left against bigotry, hatred, fascism & the far-right in Ireland
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After a long deliberation, we've had to make a decision about whether to march under the
@GreenParty_IE
banner at
#CorkPride
this year.
We've decided to forego marching under our banner. Instead, we will donate the entry fee to LGBT charities in Cork. Read here why.
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“I believe it was a criminal act, it was dangerous, it resulted in severe damage to private property. But I also think it was designed to intimidate people seeking international protection here in Ireland,” - Minister Roderic O’Gorman said.
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THE MARINA:
@GreenParty_ie
Cllr
@LornaBogue
is quoted in
@EchoLiveCork
today on her call to restrict vehicle access to the Marina Road on Sundays during the daytime to provide a ‘safe, pollution-free and accessible space’ for people to enjoy, and to encourage exercise
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Kerry's Conor Pass to form part of new national park to be unveiled today
Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara Ciarraí will incorporate lakes, islands, marine reefs, and the iconic Conor Pass which the State has purchased
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Why is the air we breathe in Ireland so polluted?
The open fire is deeply embedded in Irish life and culture, but because of that, our air is significantly polluted on winter evenings. Affecting people's health both inside and outside of the home.
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Pope Francis warned that the warming planet is fast reaching a “point of no return”.
“We are now unable to halt the enormous damage we have caused. We barely have time to prevent even more tragic damage."
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Cork City's response to COVID19 to overly favour cars goes against World Health Organisation guidelines – Cllr.
@oliver_moran
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"Every local person interviewed for their reaction to the big flooding events in Cork, Galway and Newry over the past month have all said the same thing.
They have never seen the likes of it during their own lifetime & climate change is here & it is now"
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‘We tax what we eat and earn but not jet fuel; that is bizarre’ – Europe’s new climate commissioner
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Green Party show greatest increase in vote in the Cork North Central bye-election – doubling its vote since 2016 GE
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"Nearly two thirds of people want Cork to become a more sustainable place to live and work, 86% wanted more pedestrianised streets and 92% want more parks, biodiversity, and green spaces.”
- Cork City Chief Executive, Ann Doherty
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The big star of the Green Party in government has to be Roderic O’Gorman, who as a first time TD and minister, has managed huge increases in childcare funding and also coped with the daunting challenge of supporting the huge influx of migrants.
#GPAC23
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"I like your manifesto, put it to the testo!" Our
#LE19
manifesto for Cork City Council and Cork County Council is downloadable now ...
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Cork Greens elected officials at the start of the decade* vs the end of the decade
Thank you all for an amazing 2019, let’s hope 2020 can be another good year to be Green!
Happy New Years everyone!
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"The weather conditions"
How do you say what you don't want to say?
The weather conditions are playing havoc on farms. The tillage sector urgently needs a support package if we are to deliver on targets to increase the amount of crops sown.
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Lower speed limits on roads will be put in place by the end of this year, with all local authorities being told to review the streets in their area by the end of the summer to ensure the measures can be enforced.
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Mick Clifford: Greens the only honest party on climate
At the moment, the only party that is being honest and willing to face up to tackling the transformative change required is the Greens. Everybody else is looking towards the sky...
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"Target of one million EVs dropped in favour of more public transport."
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
@greenparty_ie
candidate for Cork South Central Cllr
@LornaBogue
is quoted in
@echolivecork
today calling for expansion of key bus routes in the city in light of the success of the extension of the 220 route
Read online:
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Those with the longest to live see the bigger picture in latest poll.
18-34 year olds put climate (37 per cent) ahead of migration (30 per cent) as their most important issue.
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New cycling network to connect 200 cities, towns and villages across Ireland launched by Eamon Ryan
It will connect more than 200 cities, towns and villages of over 5,000 population around the island — meaning more than 2.8 million people will benefit
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Green Party councillor Dan Boyle proposed a motion that the council acquire the former government buildings site on Sullivan's Quay to be developed as a city park.
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Watch the
#ExtinctionRebellion
demonstration on Oliver Plunkett Street in
#Cork
. 200 people took part in reading out the fate of species extinct because of humankind.
60% of animal populations have been killed since 1970. We must rise to stop the destruction of our planet!
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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan was seen to be the most committed leader on the climate crisis.
Among current political party leaders, respondents were most sceptical of Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald’s commitment to tackling climate change.
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Some questions for
@CUH_Cork
:
1. Did a qualified arborist, independent of the 'tree care' specialists who removed the trees, assess them all as "end of life."
2. What was the cost of the works?
3. Were the tree care specialists also gifted the valuable timber to take away?
Wholesale tree felling outside
@CUH_Cork
today. I counted 6 gone earlier but they are all coming down as they have "reached end of life". I'm sure the trees might disagree. Very dissapointing decision and no mention of any replacements.
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“The Greens are doing exactly what they said they would do. They are actually doing more than they said they would do."
- Michael Healy-Rae
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Irish Rail is to halve its carbon emissions by 2030 and decarbonise completely its diesel locomotive fleet while scaling up electrification and introducing green hydrogen fuel.
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IRELAND will be building bypasses in the future rather than new motorways, Transport Minister
@EamonRyan
has declared.
“The switch has been made and it’s agreed in Government,” the leader of the
@greenparty_ie
insisted.
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Elaine Byrne: Environmentalists are the key to flood management
The state is wrong to blame 'climate zealots’ for delays in construction of flood defence schemes, and should instead be looking to nature-based solutions
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🚴Bike-to-work scheme now extended to €3000
⭐️A new limit of €3,000 applies to both electric assisted and regular cargo bikes from January 1, 2023.
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Eamon Ryan: plans to reduce car use in urban areas ‘will move quickly’
The minister for transport said the new strategy would go to public consultation and quickly move to ‘implementation’
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Our Climate is Changing
If a person who lived in Midleton, Co Cork, in 1850 emerged today, they would find an unfamiliar climate in their locality.
That is what climate experts at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre in Maynooth University have concluded.
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