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nearly there … Manus Crowley

traded some Wicklow sika for Boyne Moiled beef 🥩

one steak takes up entire grill… looking forward to dinner

dividend of conservation grazing
irishmoiledcattlesociety.com

deer o’clock, Wicklow

one of the issues we’re going to have to resolve is deer hunter access on state/semi state land

other side of that wall is public land, so no hunting allowed

guess where the deer are at 🦌

“55 prosecutions brought by the IFI had to be withdrawn due to the same problem”

enforcement authorities here rarely take any prosecutions, so 55 is a lot of cases
irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

Our film on eating disorders and the lack of care in Ireland is available to watch in full online here: rte.ie/news/primetime…

Sincerest thanks to Lauren, Amy, Joyce, Daniella and the Crotty family for trusting us to tell their stories. And everyone else who spoke to us. #rtept

those two Cork licenses are always on the EPA naughty step, yet never get their licences revoked

hard to understand, particularly with plans for more AD, we need to sort the existing non compliant plants

OCEI decision on EDEN, LEAP and LEMA systems

worth a read if you are interested in how EPA disclosure systems work in terms of getting data from licensees into EPA system, and then into public domain

irishriverproject.com/2024/04/26/epa…

I don’t know why we don’t dispense with Internal Review in FOI/AIE

It’s just a ‘wait a month’ stage before Appeal

Same at other end, if Appeal has been successful and public body doesn’t appeal to High Court. Just release the records, same day, don’t add more weeks 🤦‍♂️

drove through Newtown protest camp yesterday. there were palisades of timber at both ends of the road. seemed designed to block in cars

camp layout planned as intimidating, almost like a para military checkpoint. weird that it wasn’t dismantled by Garda, part blocking road

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at least it’s not tarmac

can’t condone it, someone needs to take a snipe to cut wildlife corridors through all these ‘blueways’ … nothing apart from deer can pass double chainlink

company abstracting fresh water from a lake in Galway, to bathe diseased salmon and to get rid of amoebic gill disease / sea lice

judgment here:

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…

EPA FOI disclosure log

in line with most govt agencies, EPA don't publish an AIE disclosure log, so you need to ask for it via FOI !

epa.ie/publications/c…

Rats causing havoc on offshore islands, which provide an all-you-can-eat buffet for the invaders irishtimes.com/science/2024/0…