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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 1h

Another significant environmental crime

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

jrnl.ie/6805578

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

jrnl.ie

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 2h

Spoil your vote or strike a blow against the establishment?

The choice is there.

Either put an establishment candidate into the Áras, or someone who has stood against government and crises their policies have created for decades.

#SpoilTheVote
#SmearTheBejaysus

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2h

"The European Union remains Israel’s largest trading partner.

"The EU-Israel trade agreement should have been fully suspended long ago, yet von der Leyen has chosen complicity over intervention."

- Kathleen Funchion MEP, Ireland South.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, the only punishment many of them would understand is forfeiture of the lands to be replanted and re-headged or similar restoration.

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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 2h

You could well be right , I looked it up as I thought it was 5 not 10. In many cases, even 10k is a win for some businesses

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 2d

Heather Humphreys won’t say if she paid an anti-vacancy tax on her unused residential property.

Humphreys has left the property unoccupied for the last 14 years, during which time the vacant homes tax was introduced.

www.ontheditch.com/humphreys-wo...

Humpheys won’t say if she paid vacant homes tax

She’s left the property unoccupied for more than a decade.

www.ontheditch.com

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 3h

This is ecocide.

And what’s with the ‘alleged’ removal of trees? Surely it’s clear they are gone.

Seems that Coillte knows who did it. We need consequences for crimes like this.

#SpeirGorm

Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 3h

Will this be like #Blackwater fish kill where"an investigation"is held but no accountability for wanton destruction of nature? What is needed for an Irish government to implement Citizens’ Assembly recs & enshrine protection of nature in our constitution? #speirgorm
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 3h

#aras35

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3h

Assuming that half the undecideds don't vote at all and the other half vote along these lines... Gavin's transfers could swing it.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Independent Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post/Red C poll suggests www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3h

Assuming that half the undecideds don't vote at all and the other half vote along these lines... Gavin's transfers could swing it.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Independent Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post/Red C poll suggests www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Substantial lead for Connolly in Áras race, poll suggests

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post/Red C poll suggests.

www.rte.ie

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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 3h

Worse still, the max fine for a class A offence , the highest, in the district court is 5k, you can have multiple offences mind
www.iprt.ie/sentencing/e...

Explainer: Fines

www.iprt.ie

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eatyourflag @eatyourflag.bsky.social · 6h

Am I correct in thinking that Heather Humphries defamed Paul Murphy twice in the This Week debate? I presume it’s defamatory for someone to state on the public airwaves that you did something you were found innocent of in court?

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 6h

We're sticking it for the establishment by... *checks notes*... voting for their failed candidate so they can recoup their election expenses? #spéirgorm

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KP McDonnell @wildecard.bsky.social · 7h

In other, other words: they lied.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21h

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Dublin South-West PBP @pbpdublinsouthwest.bsky.social · 13h

Michael Healy-Rae, the Dáil’s largest landlord, is backing Heather Humphreys.

Fine Gael have brought together coalition of crisis:
A coalition of the housing crisis,
of the cost-of-living crisis,
and made up of politicians whose contribution to Ireland has been to make life harder and more expensiv

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Philip Beattie @pbeattie.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a lot of talk about ‘the views that Catherine Connolly holds’, and not a lot of actual explanation of how her speaking of things like peace, compassion, housing rights, health rights or the Irish language is so ridiculous.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 3d

Really minor in the grand scheme of things, but Heather Humphreys claiming credit for hot school meals must come as news to Pauline O'Reilly and the Green Party

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Lisa Fitz @lisafitz.bsky.social · 8h

Good God, CC is just in another league. Must be nice for HH to have David McCullogh in her corner. If only he held HH to account as much as CC.. #speirgorm #aras25 ##connellyforpresident

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 7h

Oh great here’s Daniel McConnell to tell us how well HH did in the debate and how Catherine’s lead in the poll is not as impressive as it really is. #Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 8h

On RTÉ Radio 1, CC says it's clear that there is no difference now between FF & FG leadership because MM is going to vote for HH.

CC asks FF voters to look back to the peace values of Frank Aiken, which she now represents.

#Áras25 #IrishPol

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Lee caluan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @leecaluan.bsky.social · 10h

The level of ineptitude and complacency within our government bodies and especially regarding nature is truly shocking. This must have taken weeks to be done and yet nobody noticed, ffs 🤦

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 8h

Nope - and because to identify a specific site could leave the news org reporting it open to a defamation case by the land owner - if u want to know how fecked the law is in this country

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11h

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 8h

How does removal of 31 acres of trees go unnoticed? It would be easier to steal a bridge

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 8h

Coillte insisted on using access arrangements that are poor for cycling and disability access to some points of our local woods which are not at risk yet they didn't know when large machines were using their lands to cause mass destruction to adjoining lands.. you couldn't make this up...

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11h

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 9h

An investigation has been launched after more than 30 acres of native trees over 200 years old were alleged to have been illegally felled in Co Cork.

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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