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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 17h

She has blue LED headlights on her car so nobody coming towards her cam see a bloody thing

Reposted by Saoirse McHugh

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 18h

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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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, they have some unreal contract where if less people want to use their gammy toll they get the money anyways

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

The fucking toll operators have lost the run of themselves. It seems to have gone up several times in the last year. 3.50 to a private company to drive on a public road wheres my bloody pitchfork

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Reposted by Saoirse McHugh

Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 1d

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1

The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

www.rte.ie

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know but a large amount of everything produced is not consumed, clothes, food, things, chemicals, etc what would happen all those emissions?

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

The Irish state doesn't want lower consumption of cattle products, if it did it wouldn't be trying to increase consumption of them all over the world and aggressively marketing it

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

What would happen with the emissions of everything produced and not consumed? How could final consumption even be measured? What about clothes? Machines made of multiple parts in multiple countries? Ireland would still have huge nature loss and water pollution from the cattle industry

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

But every country has different emissions profiles? We need to reduce it cause it is our largest sector, it'd make more sense for other countries to focus on other things

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

But you don't know if would have the same effect as doing nothing? You're just guessing? Supply and demand are not as simply related as that. Often extra supply creates demand, like with energy for example. Also, we have multinational agreements to reduce emissions?

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Catherine Connolly label a pan au chocolat as a plain croissant in the self checkout

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

As an untalented person myself I have great sympathy for Heather with this question. Id probably have panicked and said 'holding grudges'

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

Well if that's the argument that you'd hinge doing nothing on, it'd be worth checking out if it were true or not

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

Also, there's no proof that other countries will fill the gap, why are you so certain that they will?

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

So are you suggesting that Ireland waits until every other country reduces emissions? Lots already have and Ireland is way way behind many or should we be the very last country on the planet?

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

Well the goal would be that every country reduces emissions? not just Ireland? Otherwise with literally everything why bother? Why have labour laws if companies will just move to other countries with worse labour laws?

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

If the Catherine Connolly campaign keep doing this the Humphries campaign is going to have show us how good Heather is at digging a terrified fox out of a hole and throwing it to be ripped apart by savage dogs

🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 2d

Ah here. Hurling n all??

#Áras25

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

You can't have it both ways, either it'd be just a rounding error or Brazil would ramp up production

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

But weren't you just saying that Ireland produces so little anyways that if we stopped it wouldn't make a difference? So why would Brazil increase if it made no difference if Ireland stopped?

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

The emissions are counted in the country they are released in. The emissions from extracting oil and gas are counted in Norway. Why would you change it to where things are consumed? As opposed to where the emissions are released? Is it just to change the Irish ag numbers?

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

And also, meat was never cheap, the costs were just heavily subsidized and the effects - poor drinking water, habitat loss etc was paid by other sectors

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

If Ireland stopped spending millions on trade missions and trying to increase consumption of meat &milk in other countries that would have an effect. And if there was a global reduction in the amount of meat&milk in the market then manufacturers would stop trying to shoehorn milk powder into stuff

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

It already is affecting farming. We have so much more rain than we used do and growing seasons aren't as reliable as they were.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

But most of the milk and meat and meat is for export. Ireland only eats a teeny percentage of what is produced here

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 2d

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

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