This is another fascinating thread on the lobbying power of the meat industry. Serious questions should be asked of Teagasc regarding their role in hosting this summit.

A compelling case for Land Value Tax:

If you like prehistory, then our new book on the Baltinglass landscape has it all - irelands largest causewayed enclosures, largest group of cursus monuments, earliest and largest hillforts, incredible stone circles, burials monuments…it goes on and on! Out the end of this week!

Homes can't both be affordable and great investments. But our politicians like to pretend they can.

"What Basic Income ultimately proposes is to detach livelihood from work. Its immediate effect would be to massively reduce the amount of bureaucracy in any country that implemented it." (From the book, Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber).

We should see UBI as a type of common wealth dividend. It has no cost. Rather, it's a payment to us from something we own in common, like natural resources, sovereign wealth funds, and AI dividends.

The environment, climate change & biodiversity loss have got sucked into the culture wars. We need to adopt clear & simple messaging that outlines benefits of protecting nature, the environment & taking climate action & offers a vision for a better future irishtimes.com/environment/cl…

I'm attending a UBILabArts event: Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland - What have We Learned after 8 months?. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/basic-i…

TWO PLACE-NAME EVENTS ON THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER 6.30 PM at PRONI the launch of The Townland Atlas of Ulster. 8PM in Room 02/018 of the Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB. Thomas Hughes, will talk on 'Múscailte ag an Ghaeilge,: understanding Belfast’s street names through translation

More footage of River lampreys (Lampetra fluviatilis) blocked at Annacotty weir last week. People have asked me why I don't put the camera down, net them, and move them over the weir—or why other locals don’t do this themselves with nets to ‘sort this out.’ I note that some

What a revelation, Síobhra Aiken, thank you for contributing to Sunday Miscellany, I need to read more about this!

This simple video explains the cap and share idea, a just and fair approach to climate finance ... no misleading offset, no loopholes , no tech silver bullets ... 👉 Stop Climate Chaos Irish Enviro Network Friends of the Earth

an-chraoladh, maith thú!

Christmas presents sorted! We're delighted to see a whole chapter on hedgerows & field boundaries in the new Farming For Nature handbook. It covers planting, managing, and rejuvenating hedgerows—plus creating 'bee scrapes' on sunny earth banks at their base for solitary bees 🐝

As a professional interviewer, I feel his pain.

After almost 10 years of work, my first book has finally arrived, Flora of County Monaghan, published by Wordwell - with 310+ colour images and 7 intro chapters, there are over 1,200 species accounts included, all about the many plants that make or have made Monaghan their home

Haaretz editorial 'These 2 moves by Ireland do not demonstrate antisemitism, but a diplomatic and moral stance that should be taken in full seriousness. Israel has been acting with a degree of violence and destruction in the Gaza Strip that long ago exceeded its security needs.'

Today, X has been full of people claiming that Ireland is antisemitic and that its recent statements and actions prove this. Israel's liberal newspaper disagrees.

L'Humanité du 19 décembre : Gisèle Pelicot, merci madame 📰 humanite.fr

The late, great Fred Foldvary. What this man had to say will be worth listening for a long time.