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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 16h

While we approve more data centres, expand aviation and long-finger tackling systems solutions in agriculture, construction and transport - we see our ability to decarbonise and reduce emissions decline. Government burying the long-term consequences for people #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Ireland significantly off track on 2030 climate targets

Ireland has made progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) but the rate of reduction remains insufficient to meet the targets established.

www.rte.ie

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 14h

FFG just not serious about #ClimateCrisis as they head for 'growth' at any cost to future generations. Lift Cap at DAA/Retain nitrates derogation/Transport modal-shift paltry/sea fish stocks decimated/rivers polluted/

Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 15h

These aren’t offhand remarks. They’re a pattern.

They minimise. Mock. Downplay. Delay. Ignore.

The climate crisis is here. The question is: will our leaders wake up before it’s too late.

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 17h

But in #Ireland, how many drivers both understand and accept this?

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 21h

Councillors were told crashes in Falmouth and Penryn, where the scheme was piloted, had reduced by 17% while road casualties had dropped by 21%, which included an elimination of fatalities.

Cornwall 20mph zones supported by most residents, report says

A report says all but one area in Cornwall is in favour of the lower speed limit zones.

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 1d

Taxpayers will spend a stunning €157 million next year on dealing with the failure of the livestock industry to control TB

www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Funding for TB eradication programme doubled in Budget

A total of €2.3bn has been allocated to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for 2026.

www.rte.ie

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 1d

With leaf fall well underway & twigs/branches from storm damage lying near the edge of the road it’s time to remind drivers that bike users will be taking the lanes.
This is national #roadsafety week but our road safety agencies are silent on this hazard.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 2d

1. I've had a surprising number of conversations about Covid-19 over the past week or so, all sparked by the fact that I was, as always, wearing an FFP2 respirator. People in healthcare facilities, taxi drivers, people on trains and buses.

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 3d

Life knows how to keep going - even if it’s freezing -15 degrees C 🥶 outside. AGU just covered our discovery of ultra resistant ice diatoms gliding into a world record! 🧪🔬Enjoy the story here:

eos.org/articles/ice...

Ice Diatoms Glide at Record-Low Temperatures - Eos

New observations reveal how microscopic organisms move through polar ice and illustrate how they may have evolved to thrive in extreme environments.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 2d

These perspectives exist within ni and have more support than ppl think. I think we have to learn to live with each other, understand why believe this and understand why violence happened. Still difficult tho.Ppl who supported violence need to get why people vehemently disagree.

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 3d

Join us for our October public meeting!

We’ll be celebrating the many ways that cycling can help volunteers to get involved in their communities. All welcome!

📆 This Thursday Oct 9
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Academy Plaza Hotel, 10-14 Findlater Pl, off O'Connell St. D01 X2X0

www.dublincycling.com/events/octob...

October public meeting: Celebrating pedal-powered volunteers

Join us for our October public meeting where we’ll be celebrating the many ways that cycling can help volunteers to get involved in their communities.

www.dublincycling.com

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, not forggetting #SeatBeltSheriff!

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 4d

National #roadsafetyweek so one might expect messaging from RSA & @garda.ie to have some focus on driver behaviour with #ActiveTravel users, considering that 40 of us did not return home so far in 2025.
Today it's tyres. Seatbelts later. Child-seats soon.
#ZeroVision
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Irish Road Safety Week 2025

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 6d

Teachers & health care workers showing high rates of sickness leave.

Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 6d

Where is public health? The data in the plot represents only those who were hospitalised as @hselive.bsky.social & CMO not interested in community prevalence, even though it remains a notifiable disease.
Besides Tess Finch-Lees why no health journos writing about it? #LongCOVID blighting lives.

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 6d

We have been in a steadily increasing wave of #COVID19 over the summer/autumn months as reported by @hspc.bsky.social respiratorydisease-hpscireland.hub.arcgis.com/pages/covid-19
Chart covers 26 May - 22 September.
Lots of folks in my circle ill with it (66% knew someone who had it recently).

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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 7d

'The real scandal here is not “bike shed groundhog day.” It’s the groundhog day of car dependency, subsidised at vast public expense, locking us into congestion, pollution, poor health and missed climate targets.'

Great piece from @ciarancannon.bsky.social

www.thejournal.ie/readme/bike-...

Opinion: Those outraged by a €100k bike shed should look at the annual cost of renting out car park spaces

We have completely normalised investment in congestion, pollution and the continuation of car-first planning, writes Ciarán Cannon.

www.thejournal.ie

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 7d

about risks and precautions – like ventilation, HEPA filters, masking, isolating and vaccination."
Where is our public health? Is it fit for purpose?

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 7d

with hand sanitiser and Calpol as their only protections against the dangerous airborne disease."
"The studies cited here advise policy makers to conduct research, provide paediatric long-Covid clinics (none exist in Ireland) and monitor and prevent infections in children by educating the public

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 7d

Just getting to read this report about #COVID19 in young people by Tess Finch-Lees in @independent.ie (25/09/25).
"Instead, children have returned again to overcrowded, under-ventilated classrooms amid yet another coronavirus wave,
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Tess Finch-Lees: Forever-Covid hurts young people’s health – and their futures

Two years ago, I reported on a study finding that the coronavirus contributed to the 2022 surge of paediatric RSV cases “through the large build-up of Covid-19-infected children and the potential lon...

www.independent.ie

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 7d

The science is clear: a default 30km/h speed limit in all urban areas will save lives!

Any further delay in implementing this long overdue change is unforgivable.
#Love30

Campaigners heap pressure on government to rollout 30km speed limit

The Love30 campaign is stepping up the pressure - calling on the government to stop delaying and deliver a default 30km speed limit in towns and cities.

www.fm104.ie

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

In cities, street space is a really scarce (and under-valued) commodity. Increasing vehicle size costs everyone.

And vehicle weight determines your impact on the wear-and-tear of cities.

So this kind of public policy is really just common sense.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 10d

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 7d

air quality safe.
Needless to say I was wearing a respirator throughout the flight (FFP2), but no one else was masked.
@ukhadds.bsky.social @nousaerons.bsky.social

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 7d

The 2,700 ppm represents approximately 6% re-breathed air in the cabin.
In Irish health and safety law an employer has to ensure that the workplace air is safe according to statutory guidelines from our Health and Safety Authority: tinyurl.com/mtw9yksp
Airlines seem to be exempt from keeping cabin

Code of Practice for Indoor Air Quality

The Code of Practice is implemented through S.I. No. 255/2023 - Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 7d

in #ireland and worldwide.
High CO₂ concentrations indicate the extent of re-breathed air.
The plot below shows how the carbon dioxide concentration varied during the flight (3h:30 min), with a peak value of c. 2,700 ppm, and a steady-state of c. 1,600 ppm for most of the journey.

Code of Practice for Indoor Air Quality

The Code of Practice is implemented through S.I. No. 255/2023 - Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 7d

cabin using an Aranet portable detector.
Carbon dioxide levels are an accepted proxy measure for air quality (akin to the canary in a coal mine). A concentration >1,000 ppm is a cause for concern, particularly when we are in a period of increased infection incidence caused by #SARSCoV2

Code of Practice for Indoor Air Quality

The Code of Practice is implemented through S.I. No. 255/2023 - Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.

tinyurl.com

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