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Angela Deegan
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Climate Activist, cyclist, Gaeilgeoir
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"What we do in Ireland has global impact and one of the main drivers of the climate crisis that we're experiencing is the burning of fossil fuels...[We]...want to phase out fossil fuels because it's impacting our future and future generations".

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Thousands attend rally calling for climate action policy
Thousands of people gathered in Dublin today to demand that the Government delivers a "just climate action policy" and an end to fossil fuel power.
www.rte.ie
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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In Dublin this Thu 20th? RSVP now so you don't miss out on this event designed to inspire and empower you to take action on the climate and biodiversity crisis in community with others. www.eventbrite.com/e/1916199396...
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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IRELAND has dropped 4 places in the 2025 global Climate Change Performance Index.
Alarm bells are blaring on the new coalition's attitude to LNG (liquified natural gas - which often comes from fracking in the USA) and data centre expansion...
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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In Dublin this Thu 20th? RSVP now so you don't miss out on this event designed to inspire and empower you to take action on the climate and biodiversity crisis in community with others. www.eventbrite.com/e/1916199396...
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Emissions will not drop significantly unless herd sizes do & society-wide pivot to a plant-based foods. "Ultimately, we need a more diversified agricultural model, with fewer cattle, more horticulture, organics & tillage".

Am quoted in AFP report on France24 today.

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Ireland's climate battle is being fought in its fields
On a windswept Irish farm, high-tech cow collars track animal health and solar panels glint on the milking parlour's roof, as a country famed for its lush green pastures tries to reduce its agricultur...
www.france24.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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One planet. Two 'realities'.

The Irish government may talk the talk — but their actions speak louder than any promises.

Amid climate-driven suffering, they continue to prioritise profit over people, the planet, and public health.

It really is that simple.
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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All welcome to join us at the "End Fossil Power" March on Sat, 15th Nov. Your RSVP will help us plan banners and flags. We'll gather outside the Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Sq North (around corner from Garden of Remembrance) from 12:45 holding XRI flags. actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...
National Climate Demonstration. Saturday 15th Nov @ 1PM Garden of Remembrance. End Fossil Power
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Letter in today's Irish Times highlighting the contradiction that travel is "responsible" if it is based on flying
Responsible travel? Sir, - Saturday’s article, “Lessons learned from visiting 59 countries”, is an echo-chamber of encouragement to those who continue to fly despite the climate crisis (Magazine, October 26th). Flying is a highly greenhouse gas-emitting activity. With so much disinformation and misinformation around climate change on social media, we badly need newspapers that are truly “in- formed and responsible”. - Yours, etc, CO’REILLY, Dublin 18.
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Children's Rights Over Flights is a signatory to this complaint by the climate movement in Ireland re lack of questions on climate in the Presidential debates www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
RTÉ receives formal complaint over ‘exclusion’ of climate issues from presidential debates
Letter signed by academics, NGOs and medics alleges breach of public service obligations
www.irishtimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Come and stand up for kids with us! We'll be at the National Climate Demo, Sat 15th Nov 1pm. We'll be marching for the climate action kids need NOW. ALL sectors must act - INCLUDING aviation. Join us! #EndFossilPower #ForEveryChild
Come and stand up for kids with us! We'll be at the National Climate Demo, Sat 15th Nov 1pm. We'll be matching for the climate action kids need NOW. ALL sectors must act - INCLUDING aviation. Join us! #EndFossilPower #ForEveryChild
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Link to email template: tinyurl.com/LNGFreeCork

Link to list of Cork city councillors: tinyurl.com/CorkCouncillors
October 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Funding deficits for essential rural public transport services and affordable public transport fares? There is a simple and just solution: impose taxes on polluting flights. Excellent letter from Friends of the Irish Environment in today's Irish Times.
Sir , – Minister Darragh O’Brien’s Department of Transport has identified a “funding gap” for Public Service Obligations (PSO) of €250 million. The PSO imposes an obligation on the Government to shore up routes that might not be commercially successful, but are nonetheless considered essential, especially in rural areas. These include BusConnects and the “connecting Ireland rural mobility plan,” the Young Adult Card and the 90-minute fare free child fares inclusion of those aged five to eight-years old. Acknowledging that it is not “fiscally responsible” to maintain such a deficit, the Department proposed a new “sustainable funding model” to “plug the gap”. The alternatives offered are an increase in public transport fares, cutting public transport services or taking €250 million a year away from National Development Plan infrastructure projects. An alternative would be for Mr O’Brien to reinstate the €10 tax on airline tickets imposed by minister for transport Noel Dempsey in 2009 but cancelled by his successor Leo Varadkar in 2014. Ireland is in a minority worldwide in not imposing any airline tax. Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands maintain airport taxes ranging from €29 to €42 per passenger, while even the United States imposes a passenger facility charge (PFC) which averages €37. All increase according to distance. The UK’s short-haul tax is a modest €15 air passenger duty (APD) for short-haul economy class fares, with an increase in taxes in April 2025 and again in April 2026 which will include a 50 per cent increase on private jets – from €673 to €1,141. A flight from Dublin to Rome attracts no tax. Returning you will contribute to another country’s climate efforts. Restoring the air travel tax could meet the funding gap required to maintain our Government’s commitment to public transport – and would also be a step towards climate justice. – Yours, etc, TONY LOWES, Friends of the Irish Environment, Co Cork.
October 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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From Columbia to Ireland.

Documentary premiere. Discussion on human rights and indigenous farmers fight for land and life, and Irish corporate responsibility.

16 October 6pm
Trinity College Dublin (exact venue TBC)

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October 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Supporting this call from Friends of the Irish Environment to reinstate air travel tax to support public transport www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org/press-releas...
Call on Minister to reinstate Air Travel Tax to support public transport - Friends of the Irish Environment
www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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"In Denmark, well-established heat planning mandates that gas and district heating networks do not overlap. The country has a decommissioning fund to cover the costs of removing gas supplies from homes and offers a scheme for free disconnections for private residences."

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Managed decline: Regulating gas grids when gas ends
The transition to a climate-neutral future is happening, and with it, the era of fossil gas consumption is coming to an end. This is a…
medium.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Minister for Climate Darragh O’Brien: we can grow Dublin Airport ‘sustainably’ from 36m to 60m passengers.
Mary Wilson: What about climate, have you run the numbers on emissions?
Minister: No question there will be an increase, SAF exists, planes more technologically advanced now…

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September 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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This Government is apparently willing to sacrifice a livable future for short term profit. In just the last 3 decades, Ireland's aviation emissions have grown by 500% & this Government seems hell-bent on increasing them more. We must contact our TDs & Senators & tell them to keep the passenger cap!
rightoverflight.bsky.social Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · Sep 14
Appalled to hear that Minister O’Brien is attempting to push through the removal of the passenger cap at Dublin airport. It's shocking that a minister tasked with tackling climate crisis is taking steps that would massively increase the pollution causing it. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
Legislation to end Dublin Airport passenger cap due soon
The process of drafting legislation that will remove Dublin Airport's 32 million a year passenger cap is expected to happen soon.
www.rte.ie
September 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Ban night flights, stop airport expansions.
We stand with communities in Ireland impacted by harmful night flights. Kids need adequate rest for their well-being.
They also need urgent climate action from aviation, to help protect their futures.🌎
#RedLinesForAirports
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International day to BAN NIGHT FLIGHTS at airports. Families no longer having a peaceful home... Communities not getting enough rest... Children not being able to get enought sleep... Even MORE harmful aviation pollution... should be #RedLinesForAirports
September 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Just finished reading @thinkorswim.bsky.social 's book "The Lie of The Land" - a must-read for anyone in Ireland who cares about doing what needs doing to try to ensure a habitable planet for ourselves & future generations. Also a valuable reference for any activist - which we all need to be now.
September 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan, Minister of State Niall Collins, and the Taoiseach demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Please do this also
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Stop EU Chat Control
I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan, Minister of State Niall Collins, and the Taoiseach demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your W...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Good to see launch of John Gibbons @sinkorswim.bsky.social book The Lie of the Land, including a section on aviation www.thejournal.ie/readme/john-...
John Gibbons: Ireland had a 'Goldilocks' climate - but we've been killing Goldilocks
Climate writer John Gibbons shares an extract from his new book about how Ireland risks ruining our ‘climatic sweet spot’.
www.thejournal.ie
September 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Great to see this video of July @staygroundednet.bsky.social gathering in Barcelona of activists on the destructive impact of aviation on the climate and communities. I represented @rightoverflight.bsky.social. I, and everyone there, travelled there by land and sea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNkX...
Beyond Aviation, Tourism, and Capitalism Conference
YouTube video by Stay Grounded
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August 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Holocaust Survivor's Final WARNING to Israel
YouTube video by Double Down News
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August 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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There's really thought-provoking commentary on AI in this article. It seems to me we're way too accepting of the seeming inevitability of AI.
www.independent.ie/opinion/decl...
Declan Lynch: Hey, tech bros, leave our books alone — they’re not fodder for your AI machine
The headline naturally drew me in: ‘AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified.’ Written by Ashley Belanger in Ars Technica magazine, the story covered a lawsuit raise...
www.independent.ie
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM