.Simon Coveney is answerable for the fact that no environmental safeguards were put in place at the time milk quotas were lifted, e.g. how his government de-funded the NPWS at the same time they put millions of public euros into Origin Green #greenwashing
independent.ie/farming/news/d…

“You should help us & let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family”

Mafia-style threats by Israel’s chief spy against family of ICC prosecutor.
Totally normal democracy.
theguardian.com/world/article/…

Probably as much as anyone needs to grasp halfway through the 2020s, as world hurtles ever faster towards the ecological abyss.

Could we have saved ourselves? Who knows. To be honest, we never even tried.

Scores butchered in latest deadly Israeli attack on civilians in refugee camp in #Rafah last night.

Irish newspaper front page report this morning 🤯

Monkeys have been dropping dead out of trees in Mexico as savage #heatwave intensifies. Risk of a mass human fatality heat event fast increasing, either in Mexico or a number of other at-risk regions.
cbc.ca/news/world/mex…

Accounts of extreme sexual violence & atrocities on October 7th gave Israel a pretext for its savage assault on #Gaza . Most have, months later, been debunked as crude IDF propaganda with zero evidence.

Tens of thousands have died as a result of lies.
apnews.com/article/israel…

4.30 Matt Cooper
🔵The real cost of a United Ireland (spoiler: not as much as you may have heard) John Doyle
🟡Revolut's new savings account
🔵Pope Francis's climate change warning John Gibbons
🟡Govt breaks sick pay promise
🔵Foldable tech Andy O'Donoghue
🟡News/sport/business

Here's some screenshots, it's even worse than you might think.

Mortified that a paper like Leinster Leader / Kildare Live would be 'reporting' #climate denial comments from random anonymous online trolls as if it somehow met the threshold of being 'news'.

To use their own phrase, this isn't journalism, it's 'absolute boll*x'.