Eoin Lettice
@eoinlettice.bsky.social
Plant Scientist at UCC, Ireland. Sustainable agriculture; rhizospheres; plant pathology; trees & green infrastructure.
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www.ucc.ie/en/arboretum/
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'We're all smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind'.
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'We're all smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind'.
The re-opening of the Blackpool train station is about to get re-announced, again. Going strong now for 30 years. #Cork
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Revised National Development Plan delivers €1bn for Cork rail expansion and new stations
More than €1bn will accelerate Cork’s commuter rail expansion as the updated NDP shifts transport spending towards a new 1:1 ratio
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November 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The re-opening of the Blackpool train station is about to get re-announced, again. Going strong now for 30 years. #Cork
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🌃 Night lights don’t just brighten the sky—they reshape earthworm communities and soil structure. Evidence shows that tailored management of artificial light at night, tuned to illuminance and spectrum can safeguard earthworm diversity and soil function 🪱
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌃 Night lights don’t just brighten the sky—they reshape earthworm communities and soil structure. Evidence shows that tailored management of artificial light at night, tuned to illuminance and spectrum can safeguard earthworm diversity and soil function 🪱
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
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Cop30 deal inches closer to end of fossil fuel era after bitter standoff
Cop30 deal inches closer to end of fossil fuel era after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
The world edged a small step closer to the end of the fossil fuel era on Saturday, but not by nearly enough to stave off the ravages of climate breakdown.
Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage only a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Cop30 deal inches closer to end of fossil fuel era after bitter standoff
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COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
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Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
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November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
University College Cork arboretum retains its global excellence status
www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
University College Cork arboretum retains its global excellence status
Planted at the foundation of the university in 1845, the trees at UCC chart a history of global exploration, scientific curiosity, and cultural ...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
University College Cork arboretum retains its global excellence status
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November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The Bishop Lucey Park revamp has everyone talking... here's @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social's take (including a walkaround, if you haven't seen it yet)
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Michael Moynihan: Why, unlike other European cities, is Cork adding concrete to green spaces?
Cork’s revamped Bishop Lucey Park has drawn criticism for its concrete-heavy design, lack of greenery and failure to meet climate ambitions
www.irishexaminer.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The Bishop Lucey Park revamp has everyone talking... here's @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social's take (including a walkaround, if you haven't seen it yet)
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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*sigh* newly renovated €7m park in Cork and they do this. "Where should we put the screws?". "Into the Irish text, be grand".
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
*sigh* newly renovated €7m park in Cork and they do this. "Where should we put the screws?". "Into the Irish text, be grand".
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Council never had the bottle to turn places like cornmarket street or Emmett place into city squares so they put the city square into the park instead.
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Council never had the bottle to turn places like cornmarket street or Emmett place into city squares so they put the city square into the park instead.
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Its not even original - looks like they cogged someone’s homework from 80s - at this this fits well with the Boole beyond it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Its not even original - looks like they cogged someone’s homework from 80s - at this this fits well with the Boole beyond it.
Seen before but this cropped up again this week: 1961: Frank O'Connor's Cork
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIh...
1961: Frank O'Connor's Cork | Monitor | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Seen before but this cropped up again this week: 1961: Frank O'Connor's Cork
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoIh...
I continue to oppose the principle of selling public green space for private development, the extension into Bishop Lucey Park is not even the worst thing about the whole mess. It should never have been built but the park now has so many other issues Cork will be dealing with for a generation. #Cork
I have views on the refurb of Bishop Lucey Park but will outline them another day. In the meantime, here's the extension of the masonic lodge into the park on public land sold for €1. #Cork
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I continue to oppose the principle of selling public green space for private development, the extension into Bishop Lucey Park is not even the worst thing about the whole mess. It should never have been built but the park now has so many other issues Cork will be dealing with for a generation. #Cork
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RIP Bishop Lucey Park
Only green space in city centre is no longer a green space
Seriously how did this cost €7million?
Its depressing & says Cork says f*ck biodiversity & climate
Ironically the one redeeming feature is that the railings & gates are gone to make it thoroughfare
Only green space in city centre is no longer a green space
Seriously how did this cost €7million?
Its depressing & says Cork says f*ck biodiversity & climate
Ironically the one redeeming feature is that the railings & gates are gone to make it thoroughfare
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
RIP Bishop Lucey Park
Only green space in city centre is no longer a green space
Seriously how did this cost €7million?
Its depressing & says Cork says f*ck biodiversity & climate
Ironically the one redeeming feature is that the railings & gates are gone to make it thoroughfare
Only green space in city centre is no longer a green space
Seriously how did this cost €7million?
Its depressing & says Cork says f*ck biodiversity & climate
Ironically the one redeeming feature is that the railings & gates are gone to make it thoroughfare
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Well, here we are.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Well, here we are.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
Didn't realise somebody took my photo as I was taking a closer look at the revamped Bishop Lucey Park yesterday. (📸The Echo)
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November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Didn't realise somebody took my photo as I was taking a closer look at the revamped Bishop Lucey Park yesterday. (📸The Echo)
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It's good to see Bishop Lucey Park open again and there are some nice elements but overall it's rather charmless, cluttered and over-engineered. Strap yourself in for a rollercoaster ride of a thread (1/n)🧵 #Cork
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's good to see Bishop Lucey Park open again and there are some nice elements but overall it's rather charmless, cluttered and over-engineered. Strap yourself in for a rollercoaster ride of a thread (1/n)🧵 #Cork
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Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary
I have views on the refurb of Bishop Lucey Park but will outline them another day. In the meantime, here's the extension of the masonic lodge into the park on public land sold for €1. #Cork
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I have views on the refurb of Bishop Lucey Park but will outline them another day. In the meantime, here's the extension of the masonic lodge into the park on public land sold for €1. #Cork
In a part of the city already suffering from a dearth of street trees, Cork City Council are cutting down their own. Here at the old Fire Station on Watercourse Road. Silver birch, Betula pendula, RIP.
CC @oliver.ie @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
In a part of the city already suffering from a dearth of street trees, Cork City Council are cutting down their own. Here at the old Fire Station on Watercourse Road. Silver birch, Betula pendula, RIP.
CC @oliver.ie @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social
CC @oliver.ie @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social
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Ireland's World Cup dream is alive and well after a remarkable, come-from-behind victory in Budapest, beating Hungary 3-2 at the Puskas Arena
Remarkable Parrott hat-trick earns World Cup play-off
Ireland's World Cup dream is alive and well after a remarkable, come-from-behind victory in Budapest, beating Hungary 3-2 at the Puskas Arena.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ireland's World Cup dream is alive and well after a remarkable, come-from-behind victory in Budapest, beating Hungary 3-2 at the Puskas Arena
“Are we going to get the construction of a new building and not have this shoved into an existing building that does not meet the needs of a library and is not the promised new-build library?”
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Plans for Cork City Library ‘lack transparency’ says TD
He said a total of €50m was promised and €7m had been spent on Bishop Lucey Park’s redevelopment, but he claimed there is “a huge lack of ...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“Are we going to get the construction of a new building and not have this shoved into an existing building that does not meet the needs of a library and is not the promised new-build library?”
www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
Where's the fun in completing the census online? One of the joys of looking at old census returns is enjoying the handwriting. Sticking to paper here.
The next census will be conducted on Sunday, 9 May 2027.
For the first time, people will have the option to complete the census online, while paper forms will also be available. jrnl.ie/6871555
For the first time, people will have the option to complete the census online, while paper forms will also be available. jrnl.ie/6871555
The date for Ireland's next Census in 2027 has been set (and you'll be able to fill it out online)
The last Census took place in 2022 after it was delayed by a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
jrnl.ie
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Where's the fun in completing the census online? One of the joys of looking at old census returns is enjoying the handwriting. Sticking to paper here.
We still have a small number of places left for our #ScienceWeek event in UCC, celebrating 180 years of the UCC Arboretum. See details below and to register. #Speirgorm #Cork
We will host a special event to mark Science Week and UCC180 celebrating the UCC Arboretum through history, science and music. Thursday November 13th, 7pm, UCC. Admission is free but you must register in advance. For more information, and to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/180-years-...
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We still have a small number of places left for our #ScienceWeek event in UCC, celebrating 180 years of the UCC Arboretum. See details below and to register. #Speirgorm #Cork
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(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP via Getty Images)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP via Getty Images)
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP via Getty Images)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP via Getty Images)