Ciarán Cuffe
@ciarancuffe.bsky.social
City dweller | #ClimateVoter | Co-chair @europeangreens.eu
Nice! The neon is back on the Ambassador Theatre. Good to see a venue built in 1764 given a new lease of life. www.theambassadortheatre.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Nice! The neon is back on the Ambassador Theatre. Good to see a venue built in 1764 given a new lease of life. www.theambassadortheatre.com
A clear message from The Lancet: the political power of the ultra-processed food industry is growing, and it’s killing us. Global Irish food companies, sadly are part of the problem. www.thelancet.com/series-do/ul...
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A clear message from The Lancet: the political power of the ultra-processed food industry is growing, and it’s killing us. Global Irish food companies, sadly are part of the problem. www.thelancet.com/series-do/ul...
Good news from the G20 in South Africa. You might dismiss climate concerns on a chilly November day, but heat records are being broken this week in Japan, Australia and Central America, and 90 are dead in Vietnam floods. g20.org/wp-content/u...
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Good news from the G20 in South Africa. You might dismiss climate concerns on a chilly November day, but heat records are being broken this week in Japan, Australia and Central America, and 90 are dead in Vietnam floods. g20.org/wp-content/u...
And the COP of trust ends in Belém, ‘resolving to keep 1.5°C within reach’. No fanfare, no fireworks, just a nauseating sense of politics increasingly distanced from scientific truth. #COP30
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November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
And the COP of trust ends in Belém, ‘resolving to keep 1.5°C within reach’. No fanfare, no fireworks, just a nauseating sense of politics increasingly distanced from scientific truth. #COP30
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Two more road deaths in urban areas in the last 24 hours. A failure to introduce default 30 km/h speed limits in Built Up Areas reflects poorly on the Irish Government. #VisionZero road deaths? A pipe-dream unless attitudes change. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
Two dead in separate collisions in Waterford and Louth
An 18-year-old man and a woman in her 70s have died in separate collisions in Waterford and Louth.
www.rte.ie
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Two more road deaths in urban areas in the last 24 hours. A failure to introduce default 30 km/h speed limits in Built Up Areas reflects poorly on the Irish Government. #VisionZero road deaths? A pipe-dream unless attitudes change. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
EU Housing Advisory Board’s report dropped today. Some solid proposals:
🏘️ Promote Cost Rental model
💶 'Site Value' Taxes
📖 Amend State aid rules
🌵 Limit speculation
🏡 Better, not less planning
Now, let’s act housing.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...
🏘️ Promote Cost Rental model
💶 'Site Value' Taxes
📖 Amend State aid rules
🌵 Limit speculation
🏡 Better, not less planning
Now, let’s act housing.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
EU Housing Advisory Board’s report dropped today. Some solid proposals:
🏘️ Promote Cost Rental model
💶 'Site Value' Taxes
📖 Amend State aid rules
🌵 Limit speculation
🏡 Better, not less planning
Now, let’s act housing.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...
🏘️ Promote Cost Rental model
💶 'Site Value' Taxes
📖 Amend State aid rules
🌵 Limit speculation
🏡 Better, not less planning
Now, let’s act housing.ec.europa.eu/news/commiss...
🚨BREAKING: Copenhagen has its first Green mayor! Delighted for @sissemariewe.bsky.social of @sf.dk who secured the post in overnight talks. Housing, integration, family policy and green development, what’s not to like? cphpost.dk/2025-10-23/n...
Meet the Mayors: Sisse Marie Welling (Socialistisk Folkeparti) Local elections special - The Copenhagen Post
Sisse Marie Welling is 39 years old and lives on Amager with her husband and their two children. She takes the metro, walks her kids to school, and swims at Amager Strand. These everyday rituals are p...
cphpost.dk
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🚨BREAKING: Copenhagen has its first Green mayor! Delighted for @sissemariewe.bsky.social of @sf.dk who secured the post in overnight talks. Housing, integration, family policy and green development, what’s not to like? cphpost.dk/2025-10-23/n...
Is the sabotage of Polish railways state-sponsored terrorism? "Russia wants our society to be afraid" says Kaja Kallas EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs to Suzanne Lynch of Bloomberg this evening.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Is the sabotage of Polish railways state-sponsored terrorism? "Russia wants our society to be afraid" says Kaja Kallas EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs to Suzanne Lynch of Bloomberg this evening.
Caught up with my @europeangreens.eu colleague @BenedettaScuderi.bsky.social MEP at #Restructura in Turin. As Italy's economy flatlines, targetted funding for renovations could provide decent jobs, improve air quality and lower energy bills. #EPBD
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Caught up with my @europeangreens.eu colleague @BenedettaScuderi.bsky.social MEP at #Restructura in Turin. As Italy's economy flatlines, targetted funding for renovations could provide decent jobs, improve air quality and lower energy bills. #EPBD
“It is a symbolic act, but a political message. The negotiators in the COP need to build the route of the road to bury and finish off the fossils once and for all" elpais.com/america-futu...
Miles de personas entierran los combustibles fósiles en una marcha en Belém durante la COP
Líderes indígenas y sociedad civil enterraron de forma simbólica al petróleo, gas y carbón en un acto paralelo a las negociaciones de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático
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November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“It is a symbolic act, but a political message. The negotiators in the COP need to build the route of the road to bury and finish off the fossils once and for all" elpais.com/america-futu...
March for climate?
March for energy you can afford, cleaner air, safer streets and an end to dependency on oligarchs, dictators and snake oil salesmen!
1pm, 15 November 2025, Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
March for energy you can afford, cleaner air, safer streets and an end to dependency on oligarchs, dictators and snake oil salesmen!
1pm, 15 November 2025, Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
March for climate?
March for energy you can afford, cleaner air, safer streets and an end to dependency on oligarchs, dictators and snake oil salesmen!
1pm, 15 November 2025, Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
March for energy you can afford, cleaner air, safer streets and an end to dependency on oligarchs, dictators and snake oil salesmen!
1pm, 15 November 2025, Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
Spare a thought for those poor souls on the Irish Ferries MV Ulysses tonight, still circling around the Irish Sea near Holyhead after leaving Dublin just after dawn this morning.
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Spare a thought for those poor souls on the Irish Ferries MV Ulysses tonight, still circling around the Irish Sea near Holyhead after leaving Dublin just after dawn this morning.
“We talk about petrostates, but something new is emerging, electrostates”. An interesting take from @chrisstark.bsky.social at the IIEA yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Cu...
Clean Power by 2030: The UK’s Path to Energy Security and Net Zero
YouTube video by IIEA
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November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“We talk about petrostates, but something new is emerging, electrostates”. An interesting take from @chrisstark.bsky.social at the IIEA yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Cu...
Child labour, deforestation? Thrown under the EU's omnibus europeangreens.eu/news/greens-...
Greens slam European People’s Party for siding with the Far Right in European Parliament
European Greens bring together national parties that share the same Green values, and who are active across the entire European continent - both within the European Union and beyond. We are striving f...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Child labour, deforestation? Thrown under the EU's omnibus europeangreens.eu/news/greens-...
Spent the morning in Naas today at a colloquium of planners. A sense that An Coimisiún Pleanála and the Regulator are doing good work, but constant legislative and regulatory changes are slowing down delivery.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Spent the morning in Naas today at a colloquium of planners. A sense that An Coimisiún Pleanála and the Regulator are doing good work, but constant legislative and regulatory changes are slowing down delivery.
Strong words from President Catherine Connolly earlier recognising "the existential threat of climate change and the threat of ongoing wars, both of course are inextricably linked." president.ie/en/media-lib...
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Strong words from President Catherine Connolly earlier recognising "the existential threat of climate change and the threat of ongoing wars, both of course are inextricably linked." president.ie/en/media-lib...
And so #COP30 kicks off today. Here’s hoping the rhetoric in Belém is met with urgency at home. news.un.org/en/story/202...
From pledges to action: Leaders push for faster climate progress at COP30
COP30 opened in Belém on Monday with a clear message: the era of half-measures is over. Climate change is here, devastating communities and driving up costs, but solutions are within reach. Clean ener...
news.un.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
And so #COP30 kicks off today. Here’s hoping the rhetoric in Belém is met with urgency at home. news.un.org/en/story/202...
On Monday COP30 climate negotiations kick off, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. Here's hoping for agreement on funding to help poorer countries that are suffering most from heatwaves and droughts. enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
On Monday COP30 climate negotiations kick off, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. Here's hoping for agreement on funding to help poorer countries that are suffering most from heatwaves and droughts. enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
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🇱🇻There is still time to fight for women's rights!
Thanks to pressure from the people of Latvia, withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention is not yet finalised.
Together with @ciarancuffe.bsky.social & @progresivie.lv we stand with the protesters.
youtube.com/shorts/xrNT9...
Thanks to pressure from the people of Latvia, withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention is not yet finalised.
Together with @ciarancuffe.bsky.social & @progresivie.lv we stand with the protesters.
youtube.com/shorts/xrNT9...
There is still time to fight for women’s rights in Latvia & we will fight with you!
YouTube video by European Greens
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November 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🇱🇻There is still time to fight for women's rights!
Thanks to pressure from the people of Latvia, withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention is not yet finalised.
Together with @ciarancuffe.bsky.social & @progresivie.lv we stand with the protesters.
youtube.com/shorts/xrNT9...
Thanks to pressure from the people of Latvia, withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention is not yet finalised.
Together with @ciarancuffe.bsky.social & @progresivie.lv we stand with the protesters.
youtube.com/shorts/xrNT9...
😋 Good climate news: European Council agreed on a 90% emissions reduction target for 2040 yesterday.
😳 Bad climate news? Kicking the can down the road by purchasing 5% carbon credits overseas.
europeangreens.eu/news/council...
😳 Bad climate news? Kicking the can down the road by purchasing 5% carbon credits overseas.
europeangreens.eu/news/council...
Council agreement ahead of COP30 kicks the can down the road
European Greens bring together national parties that share the same Green values, and who are active across the entire European continent - both within the European Union and beyond. We are striving f...
europeangreens.eu
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
😋 Good climate news: European Council agreed on a 90% emissions reduction target for 2040 yesterday.
😳 Bad climate news? Kicking the can down the road by purchasing 5% carbon credits overseas.
europeangreens.eu/news/council...
😳 Bad climate news? Kicking the can down the road by purchasing 5% carbon credits overseas.
europeangreens.eu/news/council...
Sun is shining brightly in New York this morning. Congratulations Mayor Zohran Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Sun is shining brightly in New York this morning. Congratulations Mayor Zohran Mamdani!
Climate talks kick off in Brazil next week, and EU Ministers meet today to crunch the numbers. We need a loophole-free domestic 90% target, and fudging the numbers will come back to haunt us. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
EU states gather for emergency emissions targets meeting
Officials have said the prospects of EU environment ministers agreeing ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions by 2040 will go down to the wire when they gather for an emergency meeting in Brusse...
www.rte.ie
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Climate talks kick off in Brazil next week, and EU Ministers meet today to crunch the numbers. We need a loophole-free domestic 90% target, and fudging the numbers will come back to haunt us. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Delighted for Roisín Heneghan and Heneghan Peng architects on the opening of their Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. What an achievement more than twenty years after they won the design competition. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Irish architect behind $1bn Egypt museum 'very excited'
More than two decades in the making and finally one of the world's largest and most anticipated museums has opened its doors.
www.rte.ie
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Delighted for Roisín Heneghan and Heneghan Peng architects on the opening of their Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. What an achievement more than twenty years after they won the design competition. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Looking forward to reviewing the papers with @AntonSavage.bsky.social, Matt Cooper and Lise Hand at 10 on Newstalk. Anything catch your eye?
November 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Looking forward to reviewing the papers with @AntonSavage.bsky.social, Matt Cooper and Lise Hand at 10 on Newstalk. Anything catch your eye?
Busy week for Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Here's hoping he bats it out of the ballpark. www.zohranfornyc.com
Zohran for NYC
Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.
www.zohranfornyc.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Busy week for Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Here's hoping he bats it out of the ballpark. www.zohranfornyc.com