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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 19

🔵An incredible evening in Brighton as 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐆𝐁 is officially launched at the Duke of York Picturehouse! Over 200 people in attendance. Just wonderful #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

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Irish Refugee Council @irishrefugeeco.bsky.social · Jun 20

Happy #WorldRefugeeDay!

This year we’re celebrating community as a superpower, because together, we build something stronger.

Follow us today for powerful stories of belonging, strength and solidarity.

#WorldRefugeeDay #WithRefugees #RefugeesWelcome #RefugeeStrong

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swalsheu.bsky.social @swalsheu.bsky.social · Jun 20

This is amazing 👇🩵

Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 20

🔵Pls take 10 minutes out of your day to watch this amazing inspirational short-film

Commissioned by London Marathon Events - made by #StoriesOfNote

It tells the story of the Brighton Sanctuary Runners team and their bid to take part in the Brighton marathon 2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh11...

Solidarity in Motion: Sanctuary Runners

YouTube video by TCS London Marathon

www.youtube.com

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Jun 20

📣 Ireland’s power system is off coal!

Converting Moneypoint to emergency oil generators is a great idea. Oil can be stored easily, unlike fossil gas that needs complex infrastructure that risks locking in long-term dependence.

Green Collective @greencollective.io · Jun 20

RTÉ reporting this morning that the coal-burning units at Moneypoint will become emergency-only oil units starting today 🙌

With Kilroot in Northern Ireland - along with all other coal plants in the UK - having shut down in 2023, it looks like the end of the coal era in these islands.

A stacked area chart of coal generation on the island of Ireland between January 2019 and June 21, 2025. The area is divided up by individual plants. There are just two: Moneypoint and Kilroot.

Footnote reads: Source: SEMO

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Irish Refugee Council @irishrefugeeco.bsky.social · Jun 20

🦸 Today we celebrate those standing up for refugees!

Groups like Grandmothers & Grandfathers Against Racism remind us of Irish values-even when it’s uncomfortable.

➡️Join the superpower community: lght.ly/7f3anfe

#WorldRefugeeDay #CommunityAsASuperpower

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Irish Refugee Council @irishrefugeeco.bsky.social · Jun 20

Refugees face many challenges yet many still rise with courage to share their stories, bridge gaps, push for change, dignity & a better Ireland for all.

Today, we honour their strength!
🔗 Learn more: www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie/Listing/Cate...

#WorldRefugeeDay #CommunityAsASuperpower

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Jun 9

🔵 Everyday this week we will be celebrating some of the hundreds of Sanctuary Runners who took part in this year's Cork City Marathon on June 1st - First up the wonderful Diavita from Angola. A gent who has been with us since 2023

#Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

EVERY.STEP.MATTERS

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · May 29

Live close to or travel along Clontarf to City Centre and the Kilmainham to Thomas Street Active Travel routes?

Please take 5 mins to tell @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social about your experience:

C2CC: eu.surveymonkey.com/r/M7HHBR8
K2TS: eu.surveymonkey.com/r/M7PBXPQ

Clontarf to City Centre Active Travel Study

This survey will gather information from people who use the the Clontarf to City Centre Cycle & Bus Priority Project (C2CC). Information will be analysed to understand how people experience and use th...

eu.surveymonkey.com

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · May 23

We have updated and re-cut Rising Tides, the series shown on Irish TV, for an international audience. Al Jazeera will screen it in July under the new title Global Warning.
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · May 13

🔵 We're so grateful to all at the Dublin Marathon for including us in this year's Marathon once again. Amazing partners over many years.

If you have a place in the marathon and would like to run with and support us email [email protected]

Let Your Feet Do The Talking #Solidarity #Respect

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · May 8

💙 So proud to have been awarded ‘Humanitarian Organisation of the Year’ at the Irish Red Cross awards tonight. An amazing evening - just wonderful. #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · May 8

🔵 Busy morning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Heads of Mission conference in Dublin castle as we plan for the #GlobalSolidarityRun 2025.

A huge thanks to the entire DFA Comms team for the support and welcome #Solidarity

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · May 4

🔵We are so grateful to be shortlisted for the 'Community Organisation of the Year Award' at next Thursday's #IrishRedCross Humanitarian Awards in Dublin

All recognition is humbly appreciated - but it means even more coming from an organisation doing such invaluable humanitarian work worldwide

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swalsheu.bsky.social @swalsheu.bsky.social · Apr 26

Join us! Saturdays at 9:30 all over Ireland 👇

Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Apr 26

🔵Beautiful pictures of our Sanctuary Runners from across Ireland coming through today!

Our growing family of blue showing each other #Solidarity #Friendship and #Respect with every step

Join us - It could change your life! PLUS ITS LOTS OF FUN!

Sanctuaryrunners.ie

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · Apr 12

2024 solar power incredible facts:
> Largest annual growth ever in absolute terms
> Fastest increase in 6 years (+29%)
> Fastest-growing power source 20th year in a row
> Doubling every 3 years

We’re going to be a ~100% renewables world by 2035

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Review 2025 | Ember

Record renewables growth led by solar helped push clean power past 40% of global electricity in 2024, but heatwave-related demand spikes led to a small increase in fossil generation.

ember-energy.org

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · Mar 2

Good climate news this week
1 UN biodiversity talks deliver $200b/year plan to protect nature
2 EU reaffirms commitment to cut emissions 90% by 2040
3 Europe’s EV sales up 37% in January
4 Planned US coal-fired power retirements to double in 2025

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · Feb 23

Good climate news this week
1 Deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest down to lowest level in a decade in 2024
2 Japan ups emissions cut to 60% by 2035 and by 73% by 2040, upping its 2030 goal of a 46% cut
3 China’s exports of wind turbines up 70% in 2024

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · Feb 17

Good climate news this week
1 US record-breaking growth in renewables in 2024, up 47% v. 2023
2 Global electric vehicle sales up 18% in January
3 China EV exports up 30% in January
4 Friends of the Earth taking court case against Shell to the Dutch Supreme Court

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · Feb 21

You can't "press delete" climate change: In every month of 2024, the the oceans experienced record surface air temperatures

“an explosion of extreme events of all sorts:” hotter ocean = more energy to feed hurricanes and cyclones = rapid intensification

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Feb 13

I wish I had some land to rewild!

Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · Feb 13

Launching! 🚀

Today I'm launching a new service for landowners in Ireland who want to rewild their land. I hope this will be the start of a network that will promote rewilding in this country - the time is right!

New social 🙋‍♂️
@rewildyourland.bsky.social

take a look 👇
www.rewildyourland.ie

HOME | Rewild!

Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency

www.rewildyourland.ie

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Feb 9

Celebrating our 7th Birthday in Cork, Abdiaziz Hassan Omar and Graham Clifford talk about what Sanctuary Runners means to them.

#RunAsOne

@irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Watch: Sanctuary Runners celebrate their 7th birthday at Marina Park

News from the Irish Examiner's team of reporters

www.irishexaminer.com

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · Feb 9

Good climate news this week
1 Wind, solar and battery storage costs to fall again globally in 2025, by 2% to 11%
2 UK January sales of EVs rose to 41% of market
3 US quarterly EV sales reach new heights
4 Investors with $6.8 trillion warn EU not to scale back bloc's ESG regulations

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · Feb 2

Good climate news this week
1 Record surge of clean energy in 2024 stops China’s CO2 rise
2 Energy transition investments hit new high in 2024 at $2 trillion for 1st time
3 China EV charging points up 49% to 12.8m in 2024
4 Jailed UK climate activists appeal against insanely harsh sentences

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Feb 7

Happy 7th birthday to us!

7 years of bringing everyone in our community together in Solidarity, Friendship & Respect regardless of nationality, skin colour, legal status, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Join a Sanctuary Runners group today-It will change your life!

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Feb 7

Our #7thbirthday throwback continues with 2022

We were delighted to be back running the Cork marathon in big numbers 🏃

Our 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 Sanctuary Run took place bringing hundreds of Sanctuary Runners together from around the country 👏

Sanctuary Swimmers was piloted in Cork (where else!)

#RunAsOne

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Feb 4

Wow! Wind energy provided more than 80% of Ireland's electricity yesterday.

Ireland has a target to provide 80% of electricity from renewables - wind and solar - across a whole year, by 2030, by growing solar PV, offshore wind, storage and electricity interconnection.

Green Collective @greencollective.io · Feb 4

🚨 A very, very rare wind energy equalling 80%+ of demand day yesterday.

This has only ever happened a handful of times, and not since as long ago as late 2022.

We may be seeing the effects of a few large wind farms that opened late last year. We'll have more analysis later today!

Green Collective @greencollective.io · Feb 4

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 85% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 99% at 05:30. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 32% of demand. 14% of generation was exported, 0% of demand was met by imports.

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Feb 4

Our 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 continue!

In 2019, Sanctuary Runners is now a multi award winning initiative with Pride of Place and Health & Wellbeing awards 🥳

Our Dublin group trains with Olympian Mick Clohisey🏃and in Cork, the group continues to grow with record numbers attending.

#Solidarity

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Sanctuary Runners Ireland @sanctuaryrunner.bsky.social · Feb 3

This week marks the 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 of Sanctuary Runners 🥳

We take a look back at how an idea became a movement!

2018, The journey begins..... 200 people, 40 different nationalities run together in the Cork Marathon for the first time.

#RunAsOne #Solidarity #Friendship #Respect

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